About

For what I’m currently working on, visit my ‘Now’ page.

But for a more general picture:

I’m the author of over 80 books. These days I mainly work in the fields of history and spirituality. But I also do stuff for children.

I am the co-host of the Mid-faith Crisis Podcast. Currently 300+ episodes and counting. New episodes drop most Saturday mornings.

I live in Oxfordshire, UK. Near the Ridgeway and just a few minutes from where Alfred the Great was born. In an old pub, which satisfies my need for history, while also giving me hypothermia.

I used to do a lot of speaking at churches, church weekends, retreats, book festivals and other events. Nowadays, not so much. But still open to interesting offers.

Latest books include Christmas: Truth, Tradition and Total Baubles, The Badly Behaved Bible, and The Dark Night of the Shed, a look at men, midlife, spirituality and sheds. I’m currently working on a book about old churches.

A lot of my work has focused on church history – particularly the early church. Books include A Nearly Infallible History of Christianity, A Nearly Infallible History of the Reformation, Revelation Road, and The Longest Week trilogy (Kingdom of Fools, The Wrong Messiah, The Longest Week).

This is the best site to follow me on. But you can find me on Mastodon as well. Posts from this site automatically cross-post to my Mastodon feed and to BlueSky. I have left Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for ethical, as well as self-care reasons.

You can send me an email as well. I can’t guarantee a reply, because I am terrible at dealing with emails, but I’ll do my best.