It’s been a week of clarity. Most literally the sky across London was stunningly clear today. From my work place near the top of the Gherkin it was possible to see for miles and miles and not think that London was choking in a cloud of mutation creating poison.
On other fronts I’ve been doing ‘productivity’ in work most days, visiting potential flats, following up leads and even going to (a new) church for the first time in ages.
A quick book review must be inserted here - since I keep meaning to do a round-up and it will not happen for a while. So… A Short History of Christianity by Stephen Tomkins. Given how long, convoluted and damn-right silly the church and Christianity has been, this book is remarkably short and concise. Following in the footsteps of the Bryson book from which the title has been adapted it is similarly careful in the events that are picked out and also sarcastic, witty and very observant. This was a book on Christianity that makes no assumptions and is, by all accounts, objective in it’s telling of the story. It covers approximately eight years on each page which takes us through the early church, the repeated adoptions by Rome, the Renaissance and Reformation, various revivals and the decline of the western church. I’ve learnt much about history in general and both the good and bad parts of the faith that I naturally profess.
Very interesting and my last fortnights commute would have been the worse without it.