Adam Thomas
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Writes about Jesus, books, mental health and pork pies. Pastor of Litchard Mission, Bridgend
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For the past few years, I've run a fairly niche awards ceremony on Twitter, the Christian Book Endorsement Awards. This year's awards are coming soon, and will also be available on Substack for non-Twitter users. Here's a quick promo video to whet your appetite:
youtu.be/KYvao0KTyrU
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Christian Book Endorsement Awards 2025 promo
YouTube video by Pork Pie Pastor
https://youtu.be/KYvao0KTyrU
about 1 year ago
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This week on Murder at the Manse, I’m sharing some of my crime fiction reading plans for this year. I’d love to hear about your reading plans too!
murderatthemanse.substack.com/p/2026-readi...
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2026 Reading Plans
A preview of the year to come
https://murderatthemanse.substack.com/p/2026-reading-plans
6 days ago
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Happy New Year! Today on Murder at the Manse, you'll find a summing up of my favourite crime fiction reads of 2025. I'd love to hear about your favourite 2025 reads too!
open.substack.com/pub/murderat...
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2025: The Summing Up
Including the obligatory Top Ten
https://open.substack.com/pub/murderatthemanse/p/2025-the-summing-up?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&shareImageVariant=overlay&r=kvo59
13 days ago
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“In a detective story, no person is above suspicion. But there are several types who are below it.” After a short festive hiatus, Murder on the Manse is back, continuing my Dr Gideon Fell readthrough:
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Archons of Athens
Three more Dr Fell Mysteries
https://murderatthemanse.substack.com/p/archons-of-athens
17 days ago
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Essential Christmas Eve viewing
21 days ago
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Christmas isn't always the most wonderful time of the year. If you're struggling, please remember there are always people ready to listen - even on Christmas Day đź’š
23 days ago
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Mary, did you know the muffin man who lives in Drury Lane?
about 1 month ago
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Mary, did you know the muffin man who lives in Drury Lane?
about 1 month ago
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Why aren't more people talking about the fact that you can sing "Once in Royal David's City" to the tune of Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You"?
about 1 month ago
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas on Murder at the Manse today, with some festive fatalities from 1947 and 2024:
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about 1 month ago
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Every year at Litchard Mission, we produce our own Christmas booklet. This year's is called "Christmas Old and New" - 6 people sharing their memories of Christmas growing up, all the way back to the 1930s. Visit us in December to get your copy!
about 2 months ago
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Every year at Litchard Mission, we produce our own Christmas booklet. This year's is called "Christmas Old and New" - 6 people sharing their memories of Christmas growing up, all the way back to the 1930s. Visit us in December to get your copy!
about 2 months ago
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This week on Murder at the Manse, two tales from the Yorkshire town of Gunnarshaw:
murderatthemanse.substack.com/p/double-cluff
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Double Cluff
Two tales from Gunnarshaw
https://murderatthemanse.substack.com/p/double-cluff
about 2 months ago
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Every year I add a new Christmas jumper to my collection. Here's this year's addition:
about 2 months ago
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Delighted to discover that this is the title for the first Danish edition of Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel:
2 months ago
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Earlier this year, I won some books in a competition. This week on Murder at the Manse, I'm reviewing two of them:
murderatthemanse.substack.com/p/across-the...
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Across the Pond
Two American Mystery Classics
https://murderatthemanse.substack.com/p/across-the-pond
2 months ago
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This week on Murder at the Manse, some of my favourite stories from a 1940s mystery-writing contest, including one of the greatest short stories ever written and an entry from a former editor of Good Housekeeping:
murderatthemanse.substack.com/p/queens-hon...
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Queen's Honours
A 1940s mystery-writing contest
https://murderatthemanse.substack.com/p/queens-honours
3 months ago
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It's my 18th birthday today! No, that's not a typo. It's 18 years ago today that I took the first step of following Jesus and my new life with God began. 10/10 would recommend "Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home"
3 months ago
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It's my 18th birthday today! No, that's not a typo. It's 18 years ago today that I took the first step of following Jesus and my new life with God began. 10/10 would recommend "Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home"
3 months ago
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Last month, I had the privilege of joining the Itinerant Preachers Network to talk about my experiences of depression in ministry. I shared four Bible verses that have helped me in my own struggles with depression. You can listen in here:
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Preaching To and Through Depression
YouTube video by Itinerant Preachers Network
https://youtu.be/kPut4SijOwI?si=NqXbne0nIIJsM22J
3 months ago
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Last month, I had the privilege of joining the Itinerant Preachers Network to talk about my experiences of depression in ministry. I shared four Bible verses that have helped me in my own struggles with depression. You can listen in here:
youtu.be/kPut4SijOwI?...
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Preaching To and Through Depression
YouTube video by Itinerant Preachers Network
https://youtu.be/kPut4SijOwI?si=NqXbne0nIIJsM22J
3 months ago
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The Psalm we'll be singing at Litchard Mission this week
3 months ago
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O what peace we often forfeit O what needless pain we bear All because we use an AI app Instead of going to the Lord in prayer
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
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A comic summary of 2 Kings by Reuben (10), drawn for our Reading the Bible Together plan at church "The message is clear: Never Underestimate God."
4 months ago
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Every so often, I remember that for my 9th birthday, I was given a cassette of "Children's Party Time Favourites", where the 8th track on side two is "Gangsta's Paradise", and I wonder if other children had very different kinds of parties
4 months ago
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This week on Murder at the Manse, we’ve reached 1917 in my goal of reading one crime novel for every year of the 20th century, with mysteries involving a banker, a postmaster and an abbot:
murderatthemanse.substack.com/p/a-banker-a...
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A banker, a postmaster and an abbot
A Century of Crime, Part 6
https://murderatthemanse.substack.com/p/a-banker-a-postmaster-and-an-abbot
4 months ago
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It was a really emotional day at the National Eye Drops Convention yesterday. Not a dry eye in the house
4 months ago
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It was a really emotional day at the National Eye Drops Convention yesterday. Not a dry eye in the house
4 months ago
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“They may have their microscopes and their post-mortems—he has his knowledge of the people concerned, ordinary human knowledge, which is sometimes worth all their scientific theories put together.” Today on Murder at the Manse, 28 stories in 246 pages:
murderatthemanse.substack.com/p/murder-in-...
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Murder in Miniature
28 stories in 246 pages
https://murderatthemanse.substack.com/p/murder-in-miniature
4 months ago
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“They may have their microscopes and their post-mortems—he has his knowledge of the people concerned, ordinary human knowledge, which is sometimes worth all their scientific theories put together.” Today on Murder at the Manse, 28 stories in 246 pages:
murderatthemanse.substack.com/p/murder-in-...
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Murder in Miniature
28 stories in 246 pages
https://murderatthemanse.substack.com/p/murder-in-miniature
4 months ago
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You don't mess with Austrian nuns
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
4 months ago
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This week on Murder at the Manse, I’m sharing my list of favourite 1920s mysteries. What do you think of my choices? What would be on your list?
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A 1920s Top Five
A Top Five from the 1920s
https://murderatthemanse.substack.com/p/a-1920s-top-five
4 months ago
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This week on Murder at the Manse, I’m sharing my list of favourite 1920s mysteries. What do you think of my choices? What would be on your list?
murderatthemanse.substack.com/p/a-1920s-to...
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A 1920s Top Five
A Top Five from the 1920s
https://murderatthemanse.substack.com/p/a-1920s-top-five
4 months ago
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Dale Ralph Davis, on the danger of allegorising:
4 months ago
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So, what new songs about Jesus have you been enjoying recently?
4 months ago
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Yes, we did sing "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" at our church members' meeting this afternoon
4 months ago
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees. - William Cowper
4 months ago
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Great celebrations on that final day When out of the heavens You come. Darkness will vanish, all sorrow will end, And rulers will bow at Your throne. Our great commission complete, Then face to face we shall meet
5 months ago
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This weekend is the 5th anniversary of the Litchard Mission livestream! We still broadcast our services live every Sunday at 11am, and you're still welcome to join us:
YouTube.com/litchardmission
5 months ago
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A man is so committed to rescuing something lost that he digs through piles of rubbish to find it. Remind you of anyone?
5 months ago
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HIVEMIND I'm looking for UK evangelical churches that have preached through the whole of 2 Kings where all the sermons are available in some form online This is for a list of recommended resources for our church. Thanks in advance!
5 months ago
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It’s the one-year anniversary of Murder At The Manse! To celebrate, today I’m sharing my “Origin Story” - how I fell in love with vintage crime fiction:
murderatthemanse.substack.com/p/origin-story
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Origin Story
How I fell in love with vintage crime fiction
https://murderatthemanse.substack.com/p/origin-story
5 months ago
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This week on Murder at the Manse, I've written the first ever (I think) online review for the 1948 book “Murder in the First Person” by Shipley Adams
open.substack.com/pub/murderat...
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Murder in the First Person
Forgotten Book #3
https://open.substack.com/pub/murderatthemanse/p/murder-in-the-first-person?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=kvo59
5 months ago
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PREACHERS! Have you preached through the Sermon on the Mount? I'd be interested to know your breakdown, and how many messages you did. (Part of me is tempted to have a Sunday where I just read the Sermon in full and then announce the final hymn)
5 months ago
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Our family memory verse for the week 🍞🍷
5 months ago
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One year ago today:
5 months ago
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Holiday time = reading time. Here are two of the books I read on my non-work week last week:
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From the Avon to the Teifi
On holiday with Peter Lovesey and Alis Hawkins
https://murderatthemanse.substack.com/p/from-the-avon-to-the-teifi
5 months ago
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Holiday time = reading time. Here are two of the books I read on my non-work week last week:
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From the Avon to the Teifi
On holiday with Peter Lovesey and Alis Hawkins
https://murderatthemanse.substack.com/p/from-the-avon-to-the-teifi
5 months ago
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Things churches should do more often #387: Encourage children to join prayer meetings
5 months ago
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Just a quick picture of our family culinary project from Saturday:
5 months ago
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Today on Murder at the Manse, we explore some of the correspondence of Dorothy L. Sayers, including her advice on the correct way to pick up a snake:
murderatthemanse.substack.com/p/letters-fr...
6 months ago
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