In Adam Fould's novel The Truth About these Strange Times we meet Howard McNamee, an everyman of the heart. On nearly every page lies the contention that heart is at the centre of our humanity. The questions: what is the heart? how do we judge the heart? and how do we repair it? are eloquently approached.
Even though Paul may not have been the writer of Ephesians, I read a description of him in a recent book that intrigued and inspired me. The apostle we are used to is pretty much a nose-to- the-grindstone kind of guy, a genuinely balanced person on a mission from God. Listen to this different description of him from a recent book by Canadian scholar Donald Akenson: Notice the man coming up the street, you've seen him before, lots of times, on different streets, various cities, other continents. He's the nearest thing we have to a witness so keep your eye