A VERY Happy Christmas to all my readers. Thanks for checking in from time to time. I will endeavour to be a better poster in 2017! But in the meantime, here is some food for sight and thought. Christ Child,…
The Blackstar This album is as elusive as it is angular. But then isn't Bowie always like that? Never has popular music witnessed such a relentlessly innovative and shape-shifting creator as David Bowie. He was ahead of the curve throughout,…
2016 has been a grotty year by any reckoning. But somehow, amidst the watersheds and chaos, in the course of the annual obit list, there were two rays of light. Though they were both rays tinged with grief and loss.…
Well, who'd have thought it?! I never quite expected to reach 100 (yes, that's right - ONE HUNDRED) Quaerentia Treasure Maps. But here we are. Amazing. This calls for an extra special list, don't you think!? Sacred Treasure Evangelicalism post-Drumpf…
So in the light of the last 3 posts, what can we do? This is inevitably going to be very inadequate but one has to start somewhere. Some of the issues are to do with cultures and communities with which…
I've actually been mulling how to follow up on the last two posts for a while. And then the US Presidential Election happened. I'm not going to get into all of cultural and political aspects of that at this stage.…
The big picture is relentlessly gruesome, as we have just seen from Elaine Storkey's Scars across humanity. But the problem with big picture surveys is invariably the difficulty of personal connection. This is why it is vital to read Storkey's book…
Sometimes, the only thing that will rouse us from torpor is having our nostrils immersed in the stench of excrement. That's the only thing that will force us to acknowledge its presence... and thus to do something about it. Two…
Sacred Treasure Interesting - Evangelicals' favourite heresies, in the USA at least! My friend David Moore in the US has an interesting thought about Tim Keller's latest book which prompts some interaction from him! A mysterious celtic cross appears in Ireland,…
It's been a while since I blogged book reviews - but I've got the bug again, and have had a number of things sent my way recently for review. So here's the first. Vaughan Roberts is a past master of…
Why haven't I done this before?! I've had the odd day and the odd group time away, but this is the first time I've gone away on my own to a retreat place for 4 nights. There have been other…
Sacred Treasure Fascinating Theos ThinkTank blogpost: The West's Secular liberalism has become a religion What mental illness feels like... in cartoon form. Alec Motyer (who died a few days ago) was a giant - whom I had the privilege of…