Steve Hayhow

Our new introduction to Emmanuel Church video…

Song of Songs youtube.com/playlist?list=… via @YouTube

This is illuminating and important. How did we develop from oral to literate, what is lost and gained. How does it change us? Orality and Literacy by Walter J. Ong goodreads.com/book/show/1645…

A Hungarian novel… #Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb goodreads.com/book/show/1582…

@jamesrwoodtheo Any weather is good for reading… surely you know that??

ideal weather for reading and writing (and grading…)

Good article. newpolity.com/blog/solid-gro…

2026 D.C. Lecture: Our Crisis is Metaphysical youtu.be/_hbSLkjdFt4?si… via @YouTube

Absolutely great. Rich, theological and pastoral. Reformed Ethics : Volume 1: Created, Fallen, and Converted Humanity by Herman Bavinck goodreads.com/book/show/3930…

Dystopia novel on the internal weakness of the West. The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail goodreads.com/book/show/2407…

New from Polly Gribben: "In the steps of Patrick, Slemish" pollygribben.com/products/irish…

"Religion is a healthy interaction between objective God-consciousness and subjective self-consciousness. ...Mystics want to submerge themselves in God, sacrifice themselves, their "I", to contemplation of God, and lose their own self-consciousness." Bavinck Reformed Ethics 1.281

Particularly helpful on the background history and the errors of Zionism. Christ in the Rubble: Faith, the Bible, and the Genocide in Gaza by Munther Isaac goodreads.com/book/show/2205…

@jamesrwoodtheo God and the City is marvellous isn’t it.

These works are some of the most stimulating in the postliberal space:

It boggles my mind that I can read multiple volumes on postliberalism that never once mention the scholarship of DC Schindler

@jamesrwoodtheo A tough read though. Read it as part of a reading group. Very fruitful.

Worth a listen . Especially Mary Harrington. youtube.com/live/Gz2eMe6p3…

4:8-5:1 Union and Desire Northlondonchurch.org

Something sane.

Rereading this, l noticed how unsatisfying the ending is, - it’s a crash ending, and so unrealistic and hurried. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen goodreads.com/book/show/1599…

Quite a stimulating discussion of key aspects of sin and atonement, in a neglected reformed theologian of a 19th century. An American Augustinian: Sin and Salvation in the Dogmatic Theology of William G. T. Shedd by Oliver D. Crisp goodreads.com/book/show/7682…