Tag: Books
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Off to Greenbelt | Heretic’s Guide to Eternity
I’m off towards Greenbelt tomorrow, via a stop with some friends in Devon, so probably won’t be blogging. Before I go, I promised to post a review of Spencer Burke and Barry Taylor’s book ‘A Heretic’s Guide to Eternity‘. First, an apparent paradox in the book, which I think helps unlock its position quite well.…
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The 3rd Economy: Gift, Market and Plunder [1] | Christian Leadership and the Leisure Class
As some of you may know, I’ve been working on a novel for the past few months, playing with themes, among others, of the links between identity and consumption. One of the books I’ve picked up to feed the furnace has been Thorstein Veblen’s 1899 satire Conspicuous Consumption (an excerpt from his longer work The…
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Surface Tension | Lost Worlds
“One of the great losses of the Information Age is texture. Consider the pre-computer desk: a litter of papers, large and small, handwritten, printed and typed, course and fine; letters in varying hands, envelopes of various sizes bearing stamps from all over the world. Here are books, annotated and bookmarked; here is a typewriter with…
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Contemplative Youth Ministry | Being Present to ‘The Other’
I volunteered to be part of the ‘grid blog’ flagging up Mark Yaconelli’s book ‘Contemplative Youth Ministry’, and duly received a copy to read from the publisher. It’s very good. We were traveling up to Iona with some friends, one of whom was also reading it, and she was also very positive. A quote I’d…
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Coal | Does Urban Development Require Exploitation?
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I’ve been reading ‘Coal – A Human History‘ recently. It’s a fascinating look at the profound impact coal has – and is still going to have – on our history. Used as a soft jewelry stone by the romans, it was only later taken up as fuel in London because of the rapidly retreating forests…
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A Message From My Publishers
Save the SPCK! So say’s Dave at CartoonChurch. Their shops are threatened apparently. So don’t buy Pete’s book online. Get down your local SPCK and make the men in sandals happy.