I’ve written a lot of books over the past thirty-five years or so (my first was published in 1990). Here’s a selection of the ones which have hung around.
Why is Christmas the way it is? How did we get from the birth of Jesus to a big old man in a red suit, a Yule log and an obsession with the John Lewis advert? This book explores those traditions, and rummages through the sleigh-full of festive fake news that gets passed around each year.
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There are lots of us out there: people who know what they should think about the Bible, but who actually think something quite different. Honest, challenging, yet also encouraging, this book looks at what scripture actually is, and how we should read it. It’s about reframing scripture: not as a textbook of theology, or a list of holy rules, but as a place of encounter: a place we come to be transformed by God.
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Why do so many men have so much and yet feel as though they have failed? Why do some men start wearing Lycra and running up mountains, while others don a toupée and run off with another woman? The Dark Night of the Shed shows how we can emerge from the Dark Night of midlife with a new vision of God, a fresh sense of purpose and, most importantly, a really good shed.
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Accessible, informative, provocative and very, very funny, A Nearly Infallible History of Christianity is a history of the church for the rest of us. Combining in-depth research, searing historical analysis, and cutting-edge guesswork, this is the story of how the church survived, despite the people who led it.
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A Nearly Infallible History of the Reformation. Everything you need to know about the Reformation - with a fair few bits you didn’t need to know thrown in for good measure. Meet the heroes and the villains, the saints and the sinners, the winners and the Luthers, the bad Popes and the even worse Popes, the good, the bad and the Zwingli.
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A revised edition of this best-selling Bible resource with new ideas, diagrams and illustrations. The Bible Book is a unique kind of guide to the Bible. Informal, but informed, simple but never simplistic, The Bible Book tackles the Bible with honesty, humour and inventiveness. Nick Page maps out the way the Bible works, showing you the route through and the places of interest along the way. An indispensable handbook for anyone setting out to explore the exciting world of the Bible.
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He came from the wrong social class, the wrong place and the wrong profession. He ate with the wrong people, championed the wrong causes and attracted the wrong kind of supporters. He even spoke with the wrong accent. Challenging and thought provoking, The Wrong Messiah is a biography which will change the way you view Jesus: the man who in so many ways seemed utterly wrong, but who history has proved triumphantly to be right.
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It was, historically speaking, nothing much; a death in Jerusalem, a routine execution at the edge of an empire. Yet that execution - and the events surrounding it - were to have a profound effect on the history of the world. This book aims to reconstruct the events of those days, taking the week day by day, exploring the claims and exploding the myths.
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Fools. Rebels. Ignorant peasants. That’s how the Roman world saw the first Christians. Yet this ragged collection of lowly tradesmen, women, slaves created a movement that changed the world. How did this happen? How did the kingdom of fools conquer the mighty empire that was Rome?
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For two thousand years, the Book of Revelation has inspired countless conspiracy theorists, film-makers, writers and artists, as well as theologians and teachers. In this book I went on a journey through the seven cities of Revelation and on to Patmos itself, to explore the culture behind Revelation, who wrote it, why they wrote it, and what it means for us today.
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Nick Page’s bestselling Tabloid Bible is back by popular demand, and now in full colour and complete with sidebars of shame. The Tabloid Bible tells both well-known and obscure Bible stories as the newspapers and websites of the day might have covered them.
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Written many, many years ago, but still, I think, valid today, this is a critique of the words of worship songs. In particular, I wanted to ask why the lyrics of so many worship songs were banal, clichéd and, above all, utter nonsense. I don’t think it is in print today, but there are a few copies still floating around.
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