Nick Page

Here’s another presentation. OK, it’s slick and very funny, and full of pop psychology, but it shows how the use of just two simple props – here, two dummy heads – adds immeasurably to the presentation. The heads don’t do anything clever, they just add two focal points so that the ‘differences’ that the presenter [...]

Claire and I are writing a book on preaching. (Or maybe a book about not preaching.) Anyway, in thinking about this, I wondered why it is that every book you read about preaching talks about other preachers. Every course I’ve ever seen on preaching is taught by preachers. So I got to thinking why don’t [...]

Taken delivery of three new Bibles over the past couple of weeks. The first is the Good News Bible New Life Edition which has rather funky little characters.they remind me of Japanese toys. Adam and Eve make me laugh. not so sure about the Holy Spirit character though. The Bible contains some material I wrote [...]

One of the most surprising things about the discovery of Susan Boyle is, well, the surprise. The background noise to all this is the sheer shock in the media that someone who looked like her could sing like an angel. This is pure 21st century physiognomics – the idea that the exterior appearance reflects the [...]

I remember when I first became aware of Clement Freud – he was doing dog-food adverts on TV which relied for their effect on the similarity between his face, and that of the blood-hound, Henry. But, for me, what turned him from a TV personality into a full-blown hero, was hearing him read Grimble on [...]

Back from Jerusalymington which went very well. A week spent exploring the last days of the historical Jesus on the streets of an English south coast town. It was a week for all the senses – we smelt nard, we shared a passover meal, we listened to music. One of the resources I discovered and [...]

I’m off to Lymington at the weekend to lead a whole series of events for Holy Week. Based on the Jerusaleynsham event I did in the village a couple of years ago. The idea is to imaginatively ‘relive’ the events of the last week of Jesus’ life in the streets of your town or village. [...]