Why?
Copies of The Times of India and The Hindu started being thrown up our stairs once again, complete with wrinkles. I did think about getting out the iron, but then decided against it…
This morning. The second page in The Times of India. Look at it. Do you know another newspaper that does this kind of thing – regularly?
Just look at the graphics and information so carefully prepared for me. “A set of facts to clear the most common misperceptions about migration.” I’ve poured over them. So fascinating.
Having offered such praise, is the heading next to #2 correct? I am a bit confused by this one.
“Eat your heart out, The New Zealand Herald. I saw one of you at the airport in Singapore on Saturday. Dear, oh dear. What have you done to yourself?!”
nice chatting
Paul
About Me

the art of unpacking
After a childhood in India, a theological training in the USA and a pastoral ministry in Southland (New Zealand), I spent twenty years in theological education in New Zealand — first at Laidlaw College and then at Carey Baptist College, where I served as principal. In 2009 I began working with Langham Partnership and since 2013 I have been the Programme Director (Langham Preaching). Through it all I've cherished the experience of the 'gracious hand of God upon me' and I've relished the opportunity to 'unpack', or exegete, all that I encounter in my walk through life with Jesus.
Recent Posts
Just when I thought that it could not be possible to have another first-hand account of the impact of John Stott’s life (d. 2011), along comes this book by his close friend, John Wyatt. I am always ready to learn more about John Stott, but also about friendship. It fascinates me. It keeps coming up…
Reading stories to grandchildren over Christmas reminded me again of how powerful they can be. They are so compact and simple in presentation, and yet so clever in construction. There are just so many features at work in an effective story. It is some years since I taught narrative preaching, but when I did I’d…
Apart from the eight years in which we were based overseas, Barby has been working at the Refugee Resettlement Center in Auckland since 2002. This year she is a ‘release teacher’, spending one day each week in three different classrooms, with three different age groups. Impressive—and demanding. One day is spent with 11-13 year olds—from…
Hi Paul,
We'd like to use an photo we found on your blog that you took of John Stott's grave for a powerpoint in a sermon on Psalm 49 at Jesmond Parish Church to be shown on Clayton.TV, a Christian TV Internet site. Would it be OK for us to use it?
Many thanks Zoe Earnshaw
No worries – thanks for asking, Zoe
Paul