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    A Look Ahead to 2025

    Blogs were originally "web logs": places online where you could tell other people about what you were doing. Social media has largely rendered that function obsolete,... Read more
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    It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

    One title which I did not put on my "books of the year" list, for obvious reasons, is my latest book, It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas. It is a short, light... Read more
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    Books of the Year 2024

    This year I was particularly struck by how far we read books for different reasons, and at different times. There are books I find delightful at night, or on holiday,... Read more
  • THINK Conference 2025: Isaiah image

    THINK Conference 2025: Isaiah

    The book of Isaiah has been referred to as the “fifth gospel” since at least the time of Jerome and Augustine. Rightly so. In soaring poetry and often dramatic... Read more
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    Newday Turns Twenty

    Twenty years ago last week, a young woman was sitting in a leisure centre near Nottingham, wrapped in tin foil. Her clothing and bedding were drenched. So were the... Read more
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    The Negative World is the Internet

    Aaron Renn's concept of the "negative world" has never sat right with me, although that may just be because I'm not American. If you're new to it, the idea is that there... Read more
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    Nihilism Without Nihilists

    "The first thing one must know about nihilism as a philosophical and cultural reality," says James Davison Hunter in Democracy and Solidarity, "is that it is not one... Read more
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    Why Identity Politics Flourishes in Late Modern Society

    "Identity groups are, in effect, compensatory," explains James Davison Hunter in his fascinating (if somewhat depressing) book Democracy and Solidarity. In the context... Read more
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    Joshua, Judgment, Genocide and Justice

    Gavin Ortlund has a superb YouTube video here on the conquest of Canaan. One of our strongest moral intuitions, he begins, is that killing innocent children is always... Read more
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    Wine in Communion: Questions and Responses

    Following on from Wednesday's post on wine in communion, here are some questions, objections and answers to it, again by Alastair Roberts. Whatever your current... Read more