Nick Page

The Independent newspaper has an announcement today about changes to its comment section: Websites have been encouraging cowardice. They allow users to hide behind virtual anonymity to make hasty, ill-researched and often intemperate comments regardless of any consideration for personal hurt or corporate damage. There is a certain irony here, in a newspaper accusing others [...]

OK, we’re back. It’s been a very busy month – trying to finish a book on preaching, trying to start a book on the history of the Bible, trying, in fact, to run just that little bit quicker than the avalanche of work which is forever chasing me… Anyway, a welcome respite from this was [...]

Anyone who knows me, or has heard me talk, knows of my deep, abiding admiration for the writer and, indeed, scholar, Dan Brown. Now the Telegraph has brought together a collection of twenty of his finest moments. I like this one: Five months ago, the kaleidoscope of power had been shaken, and Aringarosa was still [...]

We don’t get out to the movies much; too little time mainly, so most of the time I catch up with them on DVD. (Ah, the joys of a Home Cinema system!) Anyway, the latest selection for the coveted Page Family ‘Movie Night’ is Stardust, a film based on Neil Gaiman’s book. (Gaiman is a [...]

I’ve started watching the Oliver Stone epic Alexander. I say ‘started’ because the version I have (the Alexander Revisisted’ version which, strangely is the Director’s revision of his own ‘Director’s Cut’) is over 3 and a half hours long. I don’t have time to watch a four hour film. So I’t more of a mini-series [...]

As a Christmas present to myself I bought the biography of H.V. Morton, the travel writer. I love Morton’s books. A battered copy of In the Steps of St Paul accompanied me on a trip round Turkey (it wasn’t battered before the trip, incidentally). Morton is a great writer, and his description of Paul in [...]

A bit of a ‘film’ weekend, with, unusually for me, a trip to the cinema (most of my film watching occurs on DVD with the surround system up as high as Claire lets me get away with). The Science of Sleep is by Michele Gondry who directed Eternal Sunshine. It shows all the Gondry flair [...]

I’ve just finished reading The Last Week by Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan. It’s an interesting book, based on a very close reading of the account in Mark’s gospel of Jesus’s last week. The book brings out, rather brilliantly, the conflict between Jesus and the political ‘domination system’ of the time (that’s academic speak [...]

I’ve taken advantage of the various DVD sales that are on at the moment. Top of the list is the three-disc, digitally remastered Wizard of Oz (a criminally cheap six quid at HMV, also showing in certain cinemas). But I’ve also spent all my Christmas money on the 2 disc 30th anniversary edition of Jaws, [...]

I’ve revamped our online bookshop. You can now find all of our books there as well as a load of recommended reading and my favourite DVDs and CDs. Just in case you’ve got any money left after Christmas…