This weeks link list is simplifying slightly more into the format of my good friend Brandon Jones who runs his own link list, but more true to the sense of list! Enjoy links, with less commentary from yours truly this week!

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What I posted here recently

• Why Christ centredness might be the very reason we can’t grow

Theology & Christianity

• I met Steve recently in Switzerland; This post he wrote and the one’s which came before completely opened my awareness up to the ancient presence of Christianity in China.

• McKnight interviews JDG Dunn (one of the first proponents of what is called the New perspective) on the completion of his magnus opus – Neither Jew or Greek : A contested Identity

• People to be loved – A short think theology review on Preston Sprinkles work on the hotly contested homosexuality debate. Here is a summary of 9 arguments for the ‘non-affirming’ position on same-sex relationships from Preston’s book and the best arguments for the ‘affirming’ position.

• Sealed for resurrection: Baptism and the objectivity of the body – I’m increasingly appreciating the voice of Alistair Roberts, read more of him here

• Why follow a liturgical christian calendar?

• At Eternity’s gate by Skye Jethani – Van Gogh, Daniel, and Nouwen on prayer

• Review of “God’s battalions: The Case for the crusades

• Greg Boyd on living between the now and the not-yet of the Kingdom of God.

• Liam Thatcher – Jesus; the terrorist symphathiser?

• Interesting ongoing summary of Stackhouse’s book on gender – Partners in Christ

• Moral Sentimentalism and the Mechanised society at Mere Orthodoxy

• You know it’s Advent when.. Andy Goodliff

• God came to the wrong place – Liam Thatcher on the Christmas Story

• My friend Calvin Hanson on overcoming evil with Good in relation to the rhetoric and activity surrounding muslims, paris and immigration.

• Graham Tomlin on Wealth disparity and IS

• An accesible review for Divine Sex: A compelling vision of christian relationships in a hypersexualised age by Alastair Roberts.

• Kim Fabricus on the stages of grief following a terrorist attack

• Interview with John walton on genesis, origins and all other foundational worldview things

• Professor Michael Hanby on his new book – No God, No Science: Theology, Cosmology, Biology An interesting new bent on religion and science

• Andrew Walker has an extraorindary unique personal history, I’d be fascinated to read him more extensively. Andy Goodliff offers a way in with this review.

• Vinoth Ramachandra on the self-righteous parochialism demonstrated by western leaders comments after the Paris attacks

• If brands have become religions, could the opposite be true? – Skye Jethani on Apple

• “The Son is not merely greater than us, but is entirely different to us. The good news of the gospel is that he becomes one of us. Salvation rests in the blessed union of difference and solidarity in the person of Christ.” – Faith and Theology on Arius, Athanasius and the otherness of the Son

• Ben Sternke on Why it’s impossible to experience salvation by yourself

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Images

• Extraordinary photos of Mount Etna’s eruption from the Flickr Blog

• Incredible macro style shots of space using tilt shift making galaxies seem like you could hold them in your hand.

• Flickr’s top 25 photos of 2015

• National Geographic photo contest 2015 entries

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Gift Ideas

• Nice gift ideas for kids here if you are feeling stuck. Only available in the US, but I like the idea of pley.com like netflix for toys!

• Not a big-user of paper notebooks (see my collection of un-used moleskines!) but these TrekNotes notebooks look great.

• The Bag maker Tom Bihn just released a series of new products on their site here – I recently posted a couple of lengthy review posts of my Tom Bihn bag which are still the highest read posts on this blog.

• Here’s another worthwhile gift guide from the Cool Tools blog

• Here’s tools and toys guide to Christmas stocking fillers

• Review of Garageio door opener – smart phone apps for everything!

Miscellany

• Short answers to hard questions about climate change at NYTimes

• Prioritise your life before your manager / leader does – HT: Brandon Jones

• Lest We forget – Giles Fraser at the Guardian remember the death of the poor in London.

• Read a new book every day – Jeff Goins thinks its possible if you stretch your definition of read and invest in multiple formats, read more here

• After my own foray into short form non-fiction story telling from our time in Istanbul, I appreciated our friend Chloe writing about ‘soho moments’ here

• Stephen Colbert attempts to convert Bill Maher and Mere Orthodoxy says he’s a more loving fool.

• Going on a long walk with a backpack? Read this for simple weight distribution tips from Tom Bihn

• The complications of not having a birthday 0/0/1969

• Adele’s music video gets narrated by David Attenborough