Facinating histories = our heritage

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Date: 23 April 2006 20:31:33

Well the latest essay is written and ready to be given in. Now I can actually enjoy the histories I purchased for it, which describe part of the heritage I/ we have as evangelicals, (and yes I have decided to use that term in relation to myself for once, but would like to make clear that I use it loosely).

Paul Northup's Thirty, the history of Greenbelt is an excellent read which I would recommend to anybody who has ever been to the festival. Besides being excellently written, humourous and honest it explains where Greenbelt came from and the debt it owes to evangelicalism.

Steven Barabas book So Great Salvation The History and Message of the Keswick Convention also makes interesting reading, although alot more heavy going. I've never been to Keswick, but it was still a really interesting book.

Sometimes where you are now makes alot more sense when you learn a little about what came before.