30 August 2018 My review of Joel Green on conversion in Luke-Acts The latest issue of the journal Themelios has appeared online, and contains my review of Joel B. Green’s fine book, Conversion in Luke-Acts. Well worth reading—the book, as well as my review! Categories Books and articles/Reviews Comments: 0
29 August 2018 Offer: Bible reading notes for Sept to Dec this year I’ve had the fun of writing daily Bible reading notes on Luke for Bible Reading Fellowship’s Guidelines notes, and the first chunk, covering the infancy narratives in Luke 1–2, appears in the edition just published. The whole set of readings looks great, and includes notes by my doctoral supervisor Andrew Lincoln, my former colleagues Steve Motyer and Miriam Hinksman (née... Categories Articles and papers/Study/Writing Comments: 3
25 July 2018 My Morning Routine: reflections on reading this book Benjamin Spall & Michael Xander, My Morning Routine London: Portfolio Penguin, 2018 This is a fascinating and easy-to-read book which has caused me to reflect carefully on what I do in the mornings. In the last few months I’ve been working with Michael Hyatt’s ideas on ordering your life so that you achieve the things you believe to be important to... Categories Books and articles/Research/Reviews/Study/Writing Comment: 1
11 July 2018 Reflecting on Rest I’ve recently read the very thought-provoking and helpful book Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang (Penguin, 2016). Pang is building on much work that’s recently shown that, beyond 40-50 hours, we become less productive during the time we work. It’s not just that we are less productive in the extra hours—we’re actually less productive... Categories Books and articles/Reviews/Study/Writing Comments: 0
22 June 2018 Closing the Gap: a very worthwhile conference in Durham (3) This is the third (and final) post about this conference in Durham. The first two are here and here. Many thanks to Tavis Bohlinger for his excellent photographs of the second day of the conference, reproduced above and below with his kind permission. Day two started with Dr Wesley (Wes) Hill... Categories Conferences/Research Comment: 1
21 June 2018 Closing the Gap: a very worthwhile conference in Durham (2) This is the second of three posts about this conference in Durham; the first is here. Prof. David Ford (University of Cambridge) gave us a swashbuckling paper, delivered with enthusiasm and panache, coming out of his own work over some years on a commentary on John’s Gospel. This was fascinating, for Ford is... Categories Conferences/People/Research Comment: 1