Monthly Archives: June 2009

I hadn’t realised just how old I am…

… but this review from a 13 year old on the BBC site confirms it. Scott Campbell was handed a Walkman to review, and compared it to his iPod. As soon as I read this line, I felt like a senior citizen: “It took me three days to figure out that there was another side [...]

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Erwin McManus on the gospel narrative

Erwin McManus has a fantastic post up at that blog of The Origins Project: Recently, I was having dinner with one of Hollywood’s gifted cinematographers and directors. In the course of the conversation, he asked me what my newest book, Wide Awake, was about. At first, I simply said it is about finding a dream [...]

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Hottest 100 of all time

Hi – if you’ve googled here hoping to find the list of Triple J’s Hottest 100, you’re only likely to find my votes. I’d suggest checking out the Triple J twitter stream (@triplej) Voted in the Triple J Hottest 100 of all time tonight: which was quite an arduous task. The 10 I ended up [...]

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On Staying Married

One of my favourite “people-I-don’t-know-personally” is Scot McKnight (which lots of you will have picked up on already). He’s guest-posted over at Out of Ur, on staying married. It’s a beautiful read, and I was struck particularly by this quote: One pragmatic argument on which I have reflected is the value of memory. Kris and [...]

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Required Reading

I always feel that when I don’t post for a while, I should at least share other places around the internet with worthwhile content. So with that in mind, I give you a couple of suggestions: Off Air Tony Eastley, Mark Colvin and Leigh Sales have started blogging at the ABC site on a blog [...]

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