An Education Cert 12/96 mins This was the film that got Carey Mulligan an Oscar nomination. Although she missed out on the coveted award, her film offers much to think about. The story is set in the 1960s as clever Jenny (Mulligan) prepares for Oxford University. But life could take a different turn as she […]
Lent 5 – Passion Sunday – Year C Isaiah 43:16-21 Philippians 3:4b – 14 John 12:1-8 There could be no more effective sign of the power of almighty God than to demonstrate his authority over the forces of nature, by comparison with which all our human efforts are less than puny. Even in our highly […]
Chris Gidney Canterbury Press, pb, £?.?? ISBN 978-1-85311-970-5 Chris Gidney is the founder of a charity that supports Christians working in the entertainment industry, hence this book, which is full of interesting data on major players in the world of acting and magic, and some amusing anecdotes, including some of his own by way of […]
John Cottingham Continuum, hb, £14.99 Getting the tone right in apologetics is not easy. Many apologists are too concerned to score debating points at the expense of the likes of Richard Dawkins (admittedly a tempting target). Others claim too much for their argument and come across as overconfident and lacking in subtlety. It is not […]
Vaughan Roberts IVP, pb, £5.99 Roberts, the vicar of St Ebbe’s in Oxford, has produced a book that will fill in the blanks for those who struggle with Bible reading. The concept behind the book is that the Bible is really a library of 66 books, with 40 authors and written in many different genres. […]
Cally Hammond SPCK, pb, £8.99 A useful book at this time of year, Cally Hammond has written a devotional work focusing on the annunciation, the visitation and the nativity of Jesus before going on to the presentation in the temple and the finding in the temple. Hammond, the Dean of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, […]
David G Firth Apollos, hb, £24.99 While the Apollos series on the New Testament (see above) bases itself on the Greek text, the Old Testament series takes a slightly different approach. Each part of the biblical text is translated from the Hebrew, and this is followed on notes on the text, for example, where a […]
David G Peterson Apollos, hb, £44.99 A massive work, that has taken 15 years of research and study, this new study gets to the heart of the book of the Bible that depicts the birth of the Christian church. The author, until recently the principal of Oak Hill theological college in London, is however referred […]
Shimon Gibson Lion, pb, £12.99 This new book comes from an archaeologist who works in Jerusalem with the WF Albright Institute of Archaeological Research. Drawing on 20 years of research, he has put together a book outlining the archaeological evidence for the events in the final weeks of the earthly life of Christ. A fascinating […]
Eds: Pat and David Alexander Lion, flexiback, £20.00 The old favourite has been updated and is now in its fourth edition. The original version of this Handbook broke the moulds when it first came out. The concise articles were accompanied by stunning full-colour photographs making it a sort of a cross between a coffee-table book […]