I’m currently browsing my way through a review copy of Michael Bird’s recently released Evangelical Theology. At over 850 pages I’ll strive to provide my impressions next week. It contains characteristic expressions of humour, some of them in special boxes marked ‘comic belief’. Here’s an example: A Calvinist arrives at St. Peter’s gates and sees …

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Actor Patrick Stewart (of Picard and Xavier fame, among others) in a very, very relaxed and candid mood provides an acting master class, with examples of the take, the double-take, the triple-take, along with the related yet stylistically different quadruple-take. His demonstration actually exceeds what is promised. Dads, you need to know all of these.