by Nick
Thinking again about the story of scripture There are lots of us out there: people who know what they should think about the Bible, but who actually think something quite different. We’re told the Bible is the inspired word of God; then we read bits which are violent, disgusting, or utterly weird. We’re told it […]
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by Nick
The heroes and the villains, the saints and the sinners, the winners and the Luthers, the bad Popes and the even worse Popes, the good, the bad and the Zwingli. Everything you need to know about the Reformation – with a fair few bits you didn’t need to know thrown in for good measure.
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by Nick
The Dark Night of the Shed is a book about Men, the midlife crisis, spirituality and sheds. There comes a point in life when men realise that things have changed. They have spent years climbing the corporate ladder only to find it was leaning against the wrong wall. The odds of being chosen as the […]
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by Nick
ABOUT THE BOOK To the rest of the world they were fools. Rebels. Ignorant peasants. People who shunned wealth and power and welcomed the poor and uneducated. These first followers were persecuted and their leaders killed, yet this ragged collection of lowly tradesmen, women, and slaves created a movement that changed the world. How did […]
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by Nick
The Wrong Messiah – a historical look at the life of Jesus. He came from the wrong social class, the wrong place and the wrong profession. He ate with the wrong people, championed the wrong causes and attracted the wrong kind of supporters. He even spoke with the wrong accent. In fact everything about Jesus […]
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by Nick
Accessible, informative, provocative and very, very funny, A Nearly Infallible History of Christianity is a history of the church for the rest of us. Why do Christians believe the things they do? Who wrote all those creeds? Who invented excommunication? Why is Christmas on the 25th December? What does the invention of trousers have to […]
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by Nick
What really happened during Jesus’ final days? It was, historically speaking, nothing much; a death in Jerusalem, a routine execution at the edge of an empire. Yet that execution – and the events surrounding it – were to have a profound effect on the history of the world. The last week of Jesus’ life on […]
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by Nick
A highly inventive, user-friendly Atlas, with lively and entertaining commentary, and peppered with little-known facts. Nick Page applies the features of contemporary mapping styles to journeys and locations: logging Paul’s journeys on a Roman Road map complete with distance chart; linking Biblical sites to the panorama of Jerusalem today with 3D relief mapping; and locating […]
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by Nick
A completely revised edition of this best-selling Bible resource with new ideas, diagrams and illustrations Uniquely presented, this handbook uses modern language, humour and ingenious diagrams to bring the Bible to life. The Bible Book is a unique kind of guide to the Bible. Informative, though-provoking and very, very readable, this is a book that […]
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by Nick
An examination of the lyrics of worship songs, how they could and should be better, in Nick Page’s trademark humorous style. Have you ever felt frustrated with the words of the worship songs that we sing? Why are they so forgettable? Why are they filled with such weird language? Where have all the writers gone? […]
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by Nick
Dragging preaching, teaching and communication into the 21st century. This book is for everyone who has to stand up and talk to others and those who have to sit and listen. Packed full of creative ideas, hints and tips for improving talks and sermons, from voice control to effective sermon planning. The Pages take a […]
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by Nick
God’s Dangerous Book is a history of the Bible. It’s a book about how the Bible was put together, where it came from and who decided what went in there in the first place. More, its a book about how the Bible has always been a dangerous, incendiary text. The Bible is more than just […]
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by Nick
Heaven, hell, the four horsemen of the apocalypse, and why the end of the world never does turn up when it’s supposed to. If you’re reading this, we’re still alive. The end of the world has not occurred. But it can’t be long now, can it? For two thousand years, the Book of Revelation has […]
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by Nick
A ‘first-steps’ introduction to a topic – simple, easy to access, and clearly designed.
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by Nick
Instant Experts are a series of short, small-format books covering the core religious issues of the day. Each book is designed to give the reader all the essential information they need in an hour’s read. Instant Expert: The Bible explains all you need to know to pass as an immediate expert on the Bible: What […]
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by Nick
Israeli paleographer Ada Yardeni has recently identified 50 Dead Sea scrolls found near Qumran in Israel as having been penned by the same scribe. What is more work by the same scribe was also found at the Herodian mountain-top fortress of Masada, where Jewish rebel zealots made their last suicidal stand against the Romans. The […]
Categories: Bible
by Nick
A team of archaeologists from Tel Aviv University has unearthed ruins of a 3,100-year-old temple at the site of Tel Beth-Shemesh. According to the story, the archaeologists, “This temple complex is unparalleled, possibly connected to an early Israelite cult – and provides remarkable new evidence of the deliberate desecration of a sacred site.” The desecration in […]
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by Nick
Retronaut has wonderful photos of the Middle East taken by Félix Bonfils in the late nineteenth century. Below, a fab panorama of Jerusalem. And there are photos of the church of the Holy Sepulchre, complete with ladder (which is still standing there today). And I love this one of the road to Bethlehem from the Jaffa gate. […]
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by Nick
Sounds like the Brazilian football team of the 80s, but we’re talking a wall painting in Pompeii. Painted some time before 79 AD (the date when Pompeii had that little run-in with Vesuvius) the painting is the earliest known painting of a biblical scene, and it shows Solomon sitting in judgment. But according to this […]
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by Nick
I really enjoyed, Scorsese’s Hugo. One of the few 3D films which are genuinely worth paying to see in 3D. And in part that’s because the film is a celebration of a film-maker who loved experimental effects and techniques: Georges Melies. Here are some tasters of his work for those who haven’t come across him: Voyage […]
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