It’s that time of the year. To make lists. Lots of lists. So here’s another one.

Strangest event this year: stopping at a pedestrian crossing to let Santa cross.

Best blog this year: once again, Paul Windsor demonstrates why he is the foremost evangelical thinker in New Zealand at www.carey.ac.nz/pauls_blog

Best book this year: Confessing God, by Scotland-based theologian John Webster, who I heard in Dunedin earlier in the year.

Worst service this year: Harvey Norman in Porirua. They’ve never heard of good customer service.

The list continues… Watch this space…. And add your own.

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New publication:

Butcher, A., “Handmaiden or Collaborator? Research in the Public Space” in Curtis, B., Matthewman, S., & McIntosh, T. (eds.), Public Sociologies: Lessons and Trans-Tasman Comparisons, TASA/SAANZ 2007 Joint Conference Proceedings, Department of Sociology, University of Auckland

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New Zealand is so small that I happen to know each and every person who has said they will review my latest book ‘Walking the Emmaus Journey’. But there is one review I didn’t know about until I came upon it. Yes, it’s by a very good friend of mine, but no I didn’t send him a cheque to write nice things about my book or anything like that. You can read what he said here.

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This Guide for Consumers of Theology really has to be read to be believed and even then there’s a small part of me that doesn’t believe it.

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