Category: Books

  Remodelling Medicine Jeremy Swayne Saltire Books £39.98 (978-1-908127-00-6) THERE are consultations in UK general practice every day. Many of us will be grateful for our doctor’s skill and humanity in diagnosis and treatment. As patients, we present an extraordinary mixture of symptoms, which are shaped by many factors, not least our religious lives and […]

  The essay was originally published in 1933. The English translation was published in 1977. Much shorter than the author’s novels, this book is a small meditative work of 73 pages, of which 59 are the essay itself. The essay consists of 16 sections that discuss traditional Japanese aesthetics in contrast with change. Comparisons of […]

This is a very good book!  We know our homes and make choices in relation to them but this book will change how you think about almost every aspect of your home!  “Our houses and homes,” Heathcote writes, “no matter what style they are realised in, no matter how modest or seemingly ill-considered their architecture, […]

Everybody matters– how do we  live up to those words.? That precept is not only the title of Mary Robinson’s  autobiography, but also the core conviction that has guided virtually every step of her life on the world stage. By any measure, Mary Robinson is a remarkable public servant and humanitarian.  She was the first woman president […]

Doug Gay, Remixing The Church: Towards an Emerging Ecclesiology, London (SCM Press) 2011, 133 pp., ISBN 9780334043966, £17.99   There can be little doubt that church attendance is in decline and over the past two decades in the UK significant resources have been invested in attempts to reverse this steady loss of people and indeed […]

I don’t know what you take away on holiday to read – if anything at all? I enjoy a bit of politics (more of that later) and always at some history.I have had Wilsons the Elizabethans on the shelf for some time and it was one of those books that I had picked up but […]

  Christian Theology in Practice   Discovering a Discipline   Bonnie J. Miller –McLemore   Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan 2012       I have had a rather frustrating time of late due, in part, to a paucity of stimulating reading in the area of the theory of pastoral and practical theology. Most of the […]

It was a pleasure to travel up to London last night to Downing Street for a Reception, hosted by Samantha Cameron, in support of Maggie’s and by way of launching Gemma Levine’s ‘Go with the Flow’. It is, of course, always interesting to step inside and see something of a famous building but more interesting […]

  William Rees-Mogg is one of the pivotal figures of post-war Britain. In this memoir he recounts the story of a colourful life, and reflects on the key figures and events of his time. As editor of The Times (his glory years), journalist, commentator, Chairman of the Arts Council, and, later, Chairman of the Broadcasting […]

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