Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 69 (June 2014)
Sacred Treasure God raises the dead – even for preachers like Chris! Why Emily Letts filmed her own abortion… The Twitter Disconnect: Why Christians are more loving in real life… some good stuff here A Nick Cave service??! Looks a lot of fun (H/T Maggi)
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to spying… Charles Cumming’s A Colder War
It hardly needs saying, but spying did not stop with the collapse of Communism. But if spying continued, it naturally follows that so did betrayal. The haunting question provoked by every betrayal is, “Why?” Perhaps it was easier to understand during the Cold War. The globe’s ideological map was drawn all too clearly. However flawed the enemy might […]
Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 68 (May 2014)
Sacred Treasure This is good: John Piper gives 10 lessons from a hospital bed I’m not busy… so says Ian Paul apparently Larry Hurtado deftly sorts out the whole Jesus Wife document farrago here and then a follow-up here
Some Holy Week thoughts and provocations
Ongoing writing means lack of ongoing blogging, as ever. But the end is in sight. On the home straight for getting full draft editor by 1st Jun. But here are a few links for this Holy Week
Facing up to the UK Adoption crisis
For some reason, the British church has been very slow to take up the challenge of adoption. This is a tragedy. As things stand at the moment, there are apparently 5000 children awaiting adoption, and around 9000 needing fostering. The Evangelical Alliance’s Krish Kandiah is an old friend who has not only taken up the gauntlet […]
Help, please, with the Jesus conspiracy behind Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code
Work on my book on suspicion, spies, conspiracies and the like continues apace (hence minimal blog posting) – but I’m wondering if some of you can help me a little bit. I’m currently working on some of the conspiracy theories that float around Christianity and the church. Perhaps the most notorious is the one popularised by Dan Brown […]
Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 67 (April 2014)
Sacred Treasure Giles Fraser nails it on euthanasia Kevin de Young on celebrity pastors etc Andrew Brown writes an inspiring obituary of Margaret Spufford (mother of one of my literary heroes, Francis)
5-a-Day I: Detested & Loved words
Hate is a strong word. In fact, one of my favourite aphorisms of Graham Greene (taken from his astonishing The Power and the Glory) is that “Hate was just a failure of the imagination.” It is precisely because we are all such conflicted and complex people that the hatred of individuals is such a blight […]
Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 66 (March 2014)
Sacred Treasure Why Benedict Rogers, a Christian, opposes the very idea of a Christian political party So a mural artist in Montenegro considers Tito, Marx and Engels deserves to be depicted in hell… what do you think? Some good news from Cranmer: highlighting all the UCCF outreach efforts this term
Diving into the OT deep end with Joshua’s Conquest
Well, I feel I rather drew the short straw at ASLP on Sunday with Joshua 11-12 as my passage – but then actually, each of the sections in the series has had its moments, so I realise I wasn’t alone! But this section provides a summary of Israel’s conquest of the Land in the preceding 10 chapters, […]
A Cambridge wander
Have been spending this week in Cambridge for the CICCU main events. It’s been a really encouraging time. But I had a lovely time on Tuesday afternoon wandering around with my camera, revisiting old haunts and generally taking it easy. Marvellous. Even more marvellous was the fact that the sun actually came out. Hard to […]
Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 65 (February 2014)
Sacred Treasure Mikhail Kalashnikov was apparently in ‘spiritual pain’ over his (in)famous invention Dave Criddle has some wisdom about engaging with the likes of Ricky Gervais on Twitter Andrew Brown is pretty good here, at least in what he affirms (if not in what he denies).
