29 October 2018 Making Sense of Luke—slides Here are the slides from my two talks on Luke’s Gospel at St John’s, Waterbeach on Sunday evening. Thanks to Paul Butler for his kind invitation and warm hospitality! Overview of Luke Luke 23 Categories Speaking Comment: 1
26 September 2018 Chris Green on the excellent Full Focus Planner I could write my own enthusiastic review of Michael Hyatt’s Full Focus Planner, a planning/diary tool developed from his limpidly clear thinking on how to organise your life to achieve the things which are important (rather than trying to cram even more into the limited time you have)—but Chris Green has done such a good job that I refer you to... Categories Study/Writing Comment: 1
12 September 2018 Editio Critica Maior Acts: my ‘exegete’s view’ slides Here are the slides from my brief talk in the Book of Acts seminar session on the new Editio Critica Maior (major critical edition) of Acts at the British New Testament Conference last week. The whole session was fascinating with talks by four major textual critics including (from left to right) Dirk Jongkind (an editor of the Tyndale House Greek NT project), Tommy... Categories Articles and papers/Books and articles/Conferences/People/Research/Reviews/Speaking Comments: 0
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
