J.R.R. Tolkien famously wrote in his “On Fairy Stories” I will now turn to children, and so come to the last and most important of the three questions: what, if any, are the values and functions of fairy-stories now? It…
God’s Grandeur is a collection of essays from the 2006 annual conference of the College Theology Society (CTS) and National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion (NABPR). David Robinson has collected a fine variety from the overwhelming wealth of presentations…
Why do you read what you read? Is it because a teacher tells you or because a friend hands you a stack of books when he or she is done? Is it because you’re friendly with a local librarian who…
When I moved from Texas to Scotland two years ago, the Bible I had read almost daily for 8 years and had used for most of my studies somehow got lost along the way. I still miss the feel of…
As I looked around my cottage-by-the-sea this week, I counted no less than five different English translations of the Bible with a German translation and Greek Interlinear thrown in for good measure. Those were just the hard copy versions. I’ve…
Describing Greenbelt and its vast spectrum of acts, talks, moments of reflection and worship, musical and artistic spaces, meeting places, performances and comedy is a difficult proposition. Add in 5 nights of camping in the inner of Cheltenham race course…
A review of: Aaron Belz. Lovely, Raspberry. New York: Persea, 2010. (70 pages; ISBN: 978-0-89255-359-4) His first collection, The Bird Hoverer, was described by the Boston Review as “masterfully strange.” A poetic compliment indeed for Belz (b.1971) who has been…
In the heart of London, by Trafalgar Square and the National Galleries, sits the Notre Dame University London Center. From the 14-16 July 2011, the centre, located in the iconic building which once housed the Combined Cambridge and Oxford Universities…
I’m heading to London today with two of my colleagues at ITIA (Institute of Theology, Imagination and the Arts) to present papers at The Hospitable Text: New Approaches to Religion and Literature. I have been looking forward to this conference…