James Paul

Dr James Paul is director of the English branch of L'Abri Fellowship, a community-based apologetics ministry started by Francis and Edith Schaeffer in Switzerland in 1955. He and his wife have lived and worked at L'Abri for the past 17 years. L'Abri is French for "shelter" as the L'Abri communities aim to provide people with a warm and very human shelter within which they can ask and find honest answers to their questions about the truth and relevance of Christian faith.

Before that James trained and practised as a medical doctor in London, specialising in hospice and home care for the terminally ill. Many of the questions in 'What on earth is heaven?' come from his encounters with dying patients.

As well as his medical qualifications James has a BA in sociology as applied to medicine, a MA in bioethics, and studied biblical theology for two years at the Cornhill Training Course, London. He has also worked as a student staff worker with Christian Medical Fellowship.

James has been a speaker at Word Alive and European Leadership Forum, and regularly addresses university Christian Unions and the Christian Medical Fellowship students' conference, as well as speaking at L'Abri conferences globally.

To find out more about L'Abri Fellowship visit http://labri.org

There is a study guide to accompany 'What on earth is heaven?' which you can access for free at https://homegroups.org.uk/series/what-on-earth-is-heaven/

and a YouTube page with videos related to the book launch at

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3j91X_WwxHL-r2Oj9xLzww

To view a short interview with the author about his book What on earth is heaven? go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvDIhIdP_QQ&t=12s

To get a further taste of what James' book on heaven and earth is about, here is an audio lecture James gave 10 years ago, which was the embryonic form of the book: https://www.labriideaslibrary.org/IdeasLibraryDatabase/What-on-Earth-is-Heaven%3F

And for a podcast of spin-off discussion of some of the material in the book go to: https://anchor.fm/englishlabri/episodes/Plato--the-Professor-and-the-Real-Narnia-Exploring-the-Relationship-of-Heaven-and-Earth-in-CS-Lewis-Narnia-Chronicles--Jim-Paul-ep9307/a-a4dk0jq