December 2014 – Quaerentia

A very Happy Christmas to all Q readers

Some wonderfully apt lines from Eliot’s Gerontion

Signs are taken for wonders. “We would see a sign”:
The word within a word, unable to speak a word,
Swaddled with darkness

I know a number of the people involved in making this doc on Jesus’ claims to be the Son of God – made in Turkey for those from that part of the world. Looks great!
The Pope draws in Tom Wright, Rick Warren, Michael Nazir-Ali and others to the discussion about family. Unprecedented?
In particular, here is fmr UK Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks’ remarkable speech in full.
Ros Clarke is an old friend who recently completed a PhD on the interpretation of the Song of Songs – she’s set up a great website to offer the fruit of all her labours more widely.