Living in the cinema

“Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for ‘In him we live and move and have our being’” (Acts 17:28). My wife and I went to the cinema last Monday. We used to go to the…

Who decides?

Alister McGrath’s book is titled ‘Christianity’s Dangerous Idea’ (see last post). Here’s why as he explains in his introduction: “The idea that lay at the heart of the sixteenth-century Reformation, which brought Anglicanism and the other Protestant churches into being,…

It just happened no 6

After writing about Luke’s description of Jesus entering Jericho yesterday, today I was reading Alister McGrath’s book ‘Christianity’s Dangerous Idea’. A completely different genre and topic but suddenly I found McGrath referring to the city himself as I read:  “For…

Shut up John

I was browsing Marcus Loane’s book ‘Mark These Men’ which provides 25 very short biographies of men who influenced the Anglican Diocese of Sydney in the 20th century. I’ve had a bit of a chuckle over these lines about Richard Bradley…