Some posts are more enjoyable to write than others. Not always sure why. Probably a bit more creativity and cultural exegesis at work. I love working in that world. Juxtaposition flips my switch. Often the wave is building in my mind for some months and when it crashes to shore in a post which is…

I don’t review every book that I read – but still this blog has accumulated 79 book reviews. I’ve settled on choosing ones in which I have lived the most – and then influenced the most. So, for example, there is no room for Stuart Lange’s A Rising Tide which within ten hours of being…

Eight years of blogging. This is my 400th post. I love blogging. My friend, Mike Crudge, was the one who suggested it to me. [NB: Mike has recently followed that advice himself, with his own blog here]. Mike was right. It suits me. It is the most energizing thing I do, often early on a Sunday…

A new year offers the opportunity for a new look. The rather lame ‘nice chatting’ was only ever meant to be a transitional name for my blog while I thought of something that captured the essence of why I am blogging. That name lasted three years – UGH! While it is a technical term that…

The final course in Carey’s BAppTheol is the Integrative Seminar. We choose a theme. The students select a specific topic. Then in their 6000 word piece of research they are required to move FROM some kind of social scientific analysis of the topic THROUGH a biblical-theological lens and then ONTO a missional outcome of some…

As I anticipate watching an advance screening (tonight) of the Wilberforce movie – Amazing Grace – I thought this might be an opportune time to share my first and last efforts in song-writing. It goes like this: Innocuous Grace, how dull the sound that saved a nice guy like me. nice chatting Paul [later ……