The Bible and Culture

(This picture, courtesy of the Guardian, is of CKB at the dedication of the lecture hall in his name in the new Bryson building at Durham University, in 2007. It is one of the last pictures of him in public before he died in 2011).I am proud to say, I knew Charles Kingsley Barrett pretty well for half my life, for 34 years from 1977-2011. I have of late been working on transcribing his sermons, some of which I was privileged enough to hear in person along the way, both in Durham, and here … [Read more...]

The ax man cometh.... and no one can sleep. Don't fear the riffer.... fear the shredder:) … [Read more...]

One thing we know for sure about Edinburgh resident J.K. Rowling--- she knows how to right long novels which keep people's attention right to the end. This is no small feat in the age of short attention spans, and twittering and tweating. If you mention 140 characters to Rowling she'd laugh and say--- "yes that's how many interesting characters had roles in my last novel". The Cormoran Strike series of detective fiction is now in its third installment, entitled 'Career of Evil' (512 pages) … [Read more...]

So I'm flying back from Bellingham Wash. where I was doing some filming, and lo and behold, I'm sitting next to a fellow older Christian and minister named Mark Frontczak. Turns out he is also a Christian cartoonist who told me--- 'grab what you need from my site' and so I told him I'd take him up on that one since I'm always looking for blog-worthy material. We talked about the off beat humor in one of our favorite cartoonists--- Gary Larson, and lo and behold, Mark seems to have that same … [Read more...]