2005 highlights
Here are some of my personal highlights from the past year:
Travel highlight: visiting Calvin’s Geneva in July
Dining highlight: eating a perfect wood-fired pizza in a cosy little Italian restaurant in northern France
Movie: the Aussie film Look Both Ways
Documentary: the Martin Scorsese film about Bob Dylan, No Direction Home
Music: the release of Bob Dylan’s Live at the Gaslight 1962
Fiction: reading Susanna Clarke’s fantasy novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Poetry: reading Kevin Hart’s Flame Tree: Selected Poems
Theology: reading the new translations of Eberhard Busch’s The Great Passion: An Introduction to Karl Barth’s Theology and Wolf Krötke’s Sin and Nothingness in the Theology of Karl Barth.
New Testament: reading the special issue on the resurrection in the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus
Old Testament: reading John Goldingay’s Old Testament Theology, Vol. 1
Autobiographies: reading Bob Dylan’s Chronicles and Hans Küng’s My Struggle for Freedom
Thanks to all of you who have been reading this blog throughout 2005. I wish you a very happy New Year.