King Arthur and the Liturgical Year
I’ve been giving some lectures on medieval literature this term, and it has required the enjoyable process of rereading bits …
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Shakespeare and the King James Bible – Some Tentative Conclusions
A couple of years ago I published Shakespeare and the Psalms Mystery, a book which examines (and debunks) the legend …
How do you read the Bible?
Some recent discussions online about how we read the Bible made me remember a question a friend asked me a …
Shakespeare and the Psalms Mystery: Did Shakespeare Help Write the King James Bible?
Today sees the launch of my new book, Shakespeare and the Psalms Mystery. Despite the sound of the title, I …
“in men, in places, in homely customs”: The Victorian Clergman E. I. Fripp and his Pastoral Genesis
One of the research projects I’m working on at the moment is an investigation of the work of Edgar Innes …
Words of Power – Reviews and Ruminations
Words of Power, my book on Shakespeare and the Bible, has been out for about eight months now. After the …
Words of Power: The Book on Tour
It’s been about two months since Words of Power was published, and I’ve been visiting a few places with the …
Can We Read the Bible?
The scholar James Barr was once asked which of the English translations of the Bible gave the best account of …
God Is Interesting: A Mild Manifesto for Mission
“God is interesting.” It sounds like the most tepid theological declaration ever. A creed for hesitant Anglicans, perhaps; “We believe …
Mammon and the Magnificat: More on E.F. Benson’s Biblical References
I’ve been reading E. F. Benson’s Mammon and Co., one of his less famous novels, which concerns a young aristocratic …
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