Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 60 (September 2013)

Sacred Treasure

• Why a Rabbi went to Saddleback – very moving
• 10 things a vicar needs to hear often… hint hint….
• Cranmer is trenchant as ever: Christians may be bombed but Muslims can’t be gassed.

• A searching question for young preachers’ preparation
• Emma Scrivener gives some characteristically sage advice when with friends struggling with infertility

Topical Treasure

• 50 years on: Martin Luther King’s dream revisited
• Very interesting and subversive of popular assumptions: 40 maps that show the world in a new light (HT Kouya)
• Is the pricing of airline tickets a form of socialist redistribution of wealth?!
• Was Abraham Maslow right about the hierarchy of human needs?

Quirky Treasure

• Beautiful photographs from cruelly forgotten African American Louis H Draper
• 17 problems only a book-lover will understand – too true
• Through the Language Glass is one of the most extraordinary books I’ve ever read. Drawn from it, here are various key foreign words without English equivalents.
• Reflections from an American on living in the UK for 18 years
• The great Mad Man himself, David Ogilvy, writing to his great nephew about whether to go to University.
• A gargoyle from Alien?!
• This is a very powerful and poignant ad (HT Ads of the World)