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How it Began
When I first met Ronald Pearse, I was very envious of his drainpipes. Not his trousers, I hasten to add – I cannot imagine Ronald ever wearing tight trousers – but his Rectory downpipes. High...
When I first met Ronald Pearse, I was very envious of his drainpipes. Not his trousers, I hasten to add – I cannot imagine Ronald ever wearing tight trousers – but his Rectory downpipes. High...
Hope’s Work: Facing the future in an age of crisis by David Gee. Darton Longman and Todd (London 2021). Pbk. 159 pages. £7.75. Facing the future in an age of crisis – there couldn’t be...
Church Going Gone: A biography of religion, doubt, and faith by Brian Mountford. Christian Alternative Books (Winchester 2021). Pbk. 328 pages. £14.99. I enjoyed this book enormously. Brian Mountford is a good raconteur and many...
Stephen Mitchell reviews And Did those Feet: The Story and Character of the English Church AD 200–2020 by Patrick Whitworth. Sacristy Press, Durham 2019. Hbk. 662 pages. £40.
Faith after Doubt: Why your beliefs stopped working and what to do about it by Brian D. McLaren. Hodder and Stoughton (2021). Pbk. 335 pages. £12.15. My sister-in-law often admonishes me for ‘bigging things up’....
Bloomsbury Continuum (London 2019). Pbk. 432 pages. £12.99. In 1983, Matthew Fox published what was later described as one of the ’20 books that changed the world’. Original Blessing was remarkable not only for turning...
A Spiritual Voyage through Christian History by Edward Newell. Darton, Longman & Todd (London). 2019. Pbk. 240 pages. £14.99. A book entitled The Sacramental Sea has, surely, to be required reading for members of the...
Our Shadowed World: Reflections on Civilization, Conflict, and Belief by Dominic Kirkham (Westar Studies Series, Cascade Books, Eugene OR, 2019). Pbk. 216 pages. £15.99. Back in the late 1980s, when I was teaching ethics to...
Stephen Mitchell reviews The Last Testament by Don Cupitt. SCM Press, London 2012. Pbk. 146 pages. £17.99. Forget you’ve heard of Don Cupitt. Pretend you don’t know who he is and have never heard him...