Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 24 (September 2010)

Sacred Treasure

• Having mentioned last month that a chapter from Don Carson’s new book The God Who Is There is available online, it now transpires that you can download the 14 original talks on which the book is based (each is an hour – accompanied by a 10 min video preview).
• I’ve loved the recent BBC series REV. – and here’s a great, all too brief, interview with James Wood, co-creator with Tom Hollander of the series, on Ship of Fools.
• Paxman issues national appeal: Read the classics and the bible!
• The lengths to go to translate the bible! A very old friend of ours is an MAF pilot in Uganda – check out this Sudanese ‘international airport’ that he had to land at the other day.

Topical Treasure

• I’d not spotted this until the other day – the Telegraph has produced an interactive timeline of the House of Commons from 1885 to the present day. Really interesting – especially to see how many Irish Nationalist/Sinn Fein members there were in the years before Irish partition.
• The power of philanthropic billionaires in The Giving Pledge. Remarkable (HT Simple Pastor)

Quirky Treasure

• Now I want one of these… draw a straight line every time.
• Well, here’s a thing. In the west, for every text sent by adults, teenage boys send 3 and teenage girls send 10! So no surprises there, I guess
• I’ve no intention of seeing the movie – but i quite enjoyed this:

• Check out what remains of Hobbiton in New Zealand (HT 22Words)
• In case you missed it, one of the best newspaper photo captions of all time (click for full article in Metro):