Writer. Photographer. Scholar. Theology. Arts
Today is St Nicholas Day. I’m glad to welcome back Dr Rose Bexar, who has been a semi-regular contributor to Goannatree for the past couple of years. Here is a full list of her posts. ___________________________ Johnny wants a pair of spurs, Susie wants a sled, Nelly wants a picture book, yellow, blue, and red. [...]
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I don’t usually post on Sundays, but given my commitment to NaBloPoMo, I thought I would share a passage which has challenge me anew this week. John 5: 30-47: 30 “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but [...]
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The lecture theatre was full to overflowing for Professor N.T. Wright’s inaugural lecture as a University of St Andrews Professor. Many people have asked whether a copy of the text is available or whether it was recorded. Unfortunately, it wasn’t recorded – it was delivered in a wonderfully fluid oratorical style – which is a [...]
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Youversion just became my go-to bible application on my android. I’ve been playing around with it for a couple of months but i wasn’t sold on it. Mainly because i wasn’t able to access it offline and because it was very slow – i’d try to access a passage in church and the reader would [...]
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It’s not just my guiding principle for engaging with the arts and culture, it is how I determine what to surround myself with.It’s not some work of philosophy or pithy 19th c saying, though i do love William Morris’ rule about everything in one’s home being beautiful and useful, this is more intrinsic. It’s also [...]
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So, I’ve made no bones about my suspicion of the label “christian books” to describe any books, especially novels; mainly because it speaks to a set of assumptions about a moral code that may or may not be what the book is about or may lead a reader to overstretch and read into a text [...]
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I’m beyond excited to be able to point you towards a guest contribution by Makoto Fujimura on Transpositions today. It’s the final post in the symposium in honour of the 400th anniversary of the KJV Bible. I’m pretty proud of the collection of posts for this symposium. It’s satisfying to see something like this come [...]
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Yeah, I know. That title is all kind of pun-tastic. But, hey, comparing the Viral Bible Project which is one of the projects I’m talking about in my post today on Transpositions to the bout of post-viral fatigue I’m still dealing with just didn’t seem like something I wanted to do…. Thanking me yet? See, [...]
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