Viewing 150 posts by Jennie Hart

  • Book Review: Celebration of Discipline

    I love books I have to read with a pencil in my hand. Well, that's not 100% true: some books I have to read with a pencil in my hand because they are so poorly written... Read more
  • The Gift of Weak Leaders

    Last Sunday I played hooky from both the church I’m a member of and the church I work for, and visited a young church plant in central London. Its leader, Andrew... Read more
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    What’s the Point of Freedom?

    In August last year, I visited the Tower of London, where scores of volunteers were 'planting' the ceramic poppies that formed the World War I commemoration 'Blood-Swept... Read more
  • Lesson of the Year: Faith, Hope and Love

    I was so looking forward to the usual end-of-year review posts this year, because I actually had a book worthy of the 'best of' category. Usually I get to this point and... Read more
  • A Much More Boring Inspiration

    Alissa Wilkinson is chief film critic for Christianity Today, and her reviews are always well-written and enjoyable reads, and I've found her perspective on the... Read more
  • Freed for Submission

    Where has Richard Foster's Celebration of Discipline been all my life? We're reading through it in my small group at the moment and it's by far my best read of 2014. The... Read more
  • The Dangers of Thingification

    Around this time last year, I discovered Glen Scrivener. It's not like Columbus discovering America or anything - plenty of other people were well aware of him before me... Read more
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    Dovecotes and Devotionals

    Last weekend I visited the lovely town of Eastbourne. Wending our way through town to the sea front, my friend and I noticed a notice on a park gate. 'Dovecote open... Read more
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    Knock, knock, knocking

    Do you ever get the feeling God is trying to tell you something? Read more
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    As the Deer

    Water. It's something we in the West so easily take for granted, isn't it? In my home city of London it flows through the very heart of the metropolis, giving shape and... Read more