How good would it be if everyone used LibraryThing?

Here’s my catalogue.

Generally, we Christians buy a lot of books—let’s share.

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There’s a first for everything. I just found out I’ve already read the 90 pages of reading required for today’s ethics lectures, from Marriage: Sex in the Service of God by Christopher Ash.

Of course, I didn’t just find out I’ve read it - I found out it’s required. I haven’t ‘accidentally’ read something for [...]

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A short story.

The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.

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I’m doing an essay on Psalms over the next couple of months, which hopefully I’ll get to posting about at some stage.

In the mean time, I’d like to recommend two books. The first is the sequel to one of the best books on the Bible I’ve ever read. The first one was The Art of [...]

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Jono gives us a glimpse into a book he’s reading at the moment, which is about the influence of Burma’s police state politics on George Orwell.

I’ve read Burmese Days by Orwell, which is a fictional novel based on his experiences as a colonial policeman in Burma. I loved it, but I don’t remember seeing [...]

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Just near our house in Newtown is a massive secondhand bookstore, possibly the biggest in Sydney. Someone estimated that there’s more than a million books in there.

It’s also possibly the most frustrating bookstore in the southern hemisphere. There’s very little order, the owner only gives you the vaguest of directions when you ask for [...]

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Elizabeth and David (Sally’s parents) gave Cordie this Bible for her baptism. It’s easily the best young kids’ Bible I’ve seen, mainly because the Biblical Theology is outrageously clear. Take this for example, from the end of ‘Part 1: A Very Good Beginning’: So God’s people, Adam and Even, lived in God’s place, the Garden [...]

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