Sacred Treasure
- William Lane Craig certainly made waves during his October visit to the UK. Here one person testifies to how Richard Dawkins had led him to Christ (!), and an interesting if rather provocative article in the Telegraph.
- I like this – a Periodic Table of the Bible from Visual Unit
- Woody Allen and the Evangelicals?!
- And the influence of John Stott on American Evangelicalism at Huffington Post
- Whatever you think of his theology Pastor Robert Jeffress does an impressively unflappable job facing Jeremy Paxman (HT Paul Levy) – which many a church leader could learn from…
- The meaning of happiness – some public figures have a stab but Hitchens (Peter not Christopher) goes for the bullseye!
- This is a VERY scary epitaph – but i guess it sounds like an entirely deserved one…
- A rather lovely stroll in T S Eliot’s 4 Quartets
Topical Treasure
- The end of an extraordinary, terrifying chapter – the tragic and unhappy life of Stalin’s daughter comes to an end
- What a beautiful world we inhabit: time-lapse from the International Space Station (complete with Aurora Borealis and lightning storms)
- CS Lewis offers some helpful advice for those writing for children; it’s pretty helpful for those writing for adults too, I’d say
- Wonderlust – follow the route of some of the most epic human journeys and explorations (unfortunately, they were unable to bring any pictures from the centre of the earth)
- 10 Ways to save water (brought to you courtesy of… er… Levis Jeans… obviously)
Quirky Treasure
- The beauty of neon – check it out
- A world that looks like neon? A fun map of the global languages of twitter (here’s the original on Flickr)
- To my mind this makes the perfect case for the hereditary principle for the House of Lords. Just think of the time it would save…
John Allister
1 Dec 2011On the periodic table, Jo for both Joshua and Jonah isn’t ideal. And Lamentations as wisdom? And I struggle to see the point of the periodicity to it… But nice idea.
Kip' Chelashaw
2 Dec 2011John,
Like every illustration this has it’s limitations/weakness but it is a brilliant simple tool which can help geeky types (Chemistry students?) and those that love pictorial summaries – I love it and thanks Rev’d Meynell for spotting these resources.
K
quaesitor
2 Dec 2011happy days, my friends!!
Jeremy Myers
2 Dec 2011Thanks for the mention about those CS Lewis tips. He was a great writer, and we can all learn from him!
quaesitor
3 Dec 2011thanks jeremy – he was indeed
Brigid of Kildare
4 Dec 2011thanks for that gem – working with the bible and on biblical topics (SU you know) I’m always in search for things like that (and one can always adjust it) – here’s another amazing idea put into graphs:
http://www.chrisharrison.net/index.php/Visualizations/BibleViz
but maybe you know it already. just in case you do another ‘Bible in 4 hours’ 🙂 would be great as a 3D model…
quaesitor
5 Dec 2011yes – that’s a great one – i’ve been meaning to blog about it for ages, because i want to compare it with an atheist equivalent which shows all the bible’s apparent contradictions.
John
7 Jan 2012Re Peter Hitchens and happiness
Happiness is the Conscious Light of the world.
Happiness is the now-and-forever Mystery that IS the Real Heart and the Only Real God of every one.
ALWAYS remember that your inherent heart-disposition wants and needs Infinite, Absolute, True, Eternal Happiness.
Which is also to say that if Peter was really Happy with a capital H his essentially benighted politics would be altogether different.