A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ONE AND ALL!!
Sacred Treasure
- Very helpful article by Scot McKnight cutting a dash through the apparent problems harmonising the teaching of
Jesus & Paul. - Victoria Coren does a fab and witty job on believing in God in the face of the new atheist
onslaught. - In case you missed it, Great stuff to accompany the new Narnia film.
- Fascinating article by Philip Yancey about the church in the middle east, taken from his new book
- Glen Scrivener has come up with a great idea for the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible: a website dedicated to its influence called The King’s English
Topical Treasure
- The ever insightful John Naughton on Wikileaks
- What the Internet killed (HT Challies)
Quirky Treasure
- This is wonderful – different actors acting. Which reminds me of
one of my favourite coffee table books, In Character, Howard Schatz’s
photographs of actors recreating frozen moments. - What if one man had been washed overboard on
the Mayflower…? - The 10
most remarkable
sculptures… - Trace the development
of ideas in books over the last 500 years – thanks to Google Books NGram viewer (HT Murray
Wright) - How long can you last? It at least
saves time. All of Billy Joel’s songs AT THE SAME TIME. - Wonderful photo of Leonard
Bernstein after conducting Mahler - Handling the challenge of writer’s block (HT 22 Words):
written Star Wars (RT 22 Words)