“Don’t Leave It as a Book”

“Don’t Leave It as a Book”

In preparation for our upcoming Sexual Assault Conference, I thought I would do well to revisit all that we had packed into the 344 pages of the book we published in 2023 on this very topic of Sexual Assault in the Church. I was humbled by the honesty of the...
Anger is Easy

Anger is Easy

This morning I woke up to learn that Charlie Kirk, a 31-year-old conservative Christian activist and commentator, had been fatally shot. (1) This should provoke horror and grief from all, whatever your political and theological leanings. A few days ago I read the...
Slower Information

Slower Information

Too busy to read books? Maybe that’s why you should. Most of us can empathise with Hugh McGuire when he writes: … I found myself drowning in a flood of easy information. The internet — and all the lovely things on it … — provides...
Frederick Buechner, 1926–2022

Frederick Buechner, 1926–2022

This is how Frederick Buechner begins his book Speak What We Feel: It is Red Smith who is reported to have said that it’s really very easy to be a writer — all you have to do is sit down at the typewriter and open a vein. (Speak What We Feel [New York, NY:...