Nick Page

An article in last week's Guardian reminded me of the many happy hours we used to spend playing board games with friends. So I bought a couple which the article recommended, the first of which is Carcassonne, which Claire and I have just started playing. It’s a brilliant little game; especially good for two players. [...]

There’s an excellent and thought-provoking exchange of letters on the Christianity Today website about the current conflict in Lebanon. The two correspondents — Dr. Martin Accad and Professor David P. Gushee — are eloquent, gracious and perceptive. A couple of quotes from both correspondents: Because the Bible says so, I believe that one day Christ [...]

In January I had the privilege of visiting Jerusalem and I was completely overwhelmed by the city. I had hopes that through my writing I could encourage other people to visit Israel — and to talk to people on both sides of the conflict. Now those hopes seem naive to say the least. The Palestinians [...]

Learnt an intriguing new word yesterday — ‘dooced’. To be dooced is to be sacked because of what you have written in a blog. There’s a woman in France who has just been sacked because her employers believed that, despite the fact they were never identified, she was bringing them into disrepute by portraying them [...]

My new book is on its way. Explorers Notes:the Bible started off with me imagining what a book on the Bible would look like written by Alfred Wainwright, the great writer/illustrator who wrote his guides to the lakes. So, lots of hand-drawn graphics, lots of ‘stuck down’ scrap-book style pages, the whole thing has a [...]

Hi there. As usual I find myself apologising for the recent lack of posting, but I hope to make up for it with this new looks site. (I’ve migrated from Radio to WordPress.) I’ll carry on updating over the next few days — at the moment I’ve managed to import all the old posts, but [...]