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Yearly Archives: 2017

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Q Combinations 18: Shishkin’s Wild North and Rossetti’s Christmas Eve

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  • Post published:26th December 2017
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Q Combinations 18: Shishkin’s Wild North and Rossetti’s Christmas Eve

Happy Christmas one and all! This Christmas Combo is only 2 days late, but the meanings and wonder it points us to are by no means time-sensitive, nor do they have an expiry date! I saw this painting at the…

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Power 2: The miasma of power abuse

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  • Post published:9th December 2017
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Power 2: The miasma of power abuse

To assume that what is going on with Trump, Weinstein, Spacey et al is 'merely' about transgressing sexual boundaries is woefully inadequate and patronising. Is not good enough to head off for some therapy at a health spa either, as…

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Singing into the Light: U2’s Songs of Experience wordle

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  • Post published:4th December 2017
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Singing into the Light: U2’s Songs of Experience wordle

I'm not quite sure why I first did this, but started making wordles for U2 albums a while back. So naturally, with a new album out this week, I wanted to do another. I've had all kinds of things buzzing…

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Q Marks The Spot – Treasure Map 112 (December 2017)

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  • Post published:1st December 2017
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Q Marks The Spot – Treasure Map 112 (December 2017)

Sacred Treasure Former LibDem leader, Tim Farron has been saying some really important things in the last week about the state and nature of western liberalism. Here is his original Theos lecture: What Kind of Liberalism do we want? Then…

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Power 1: Power. Abuse. Men. Get real

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  • Post published:30th November 2017
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Power 1: Power. Abuse. Men. Get real

I've felt overwhelmed in recent weeks. I've started posting about it on at least 5 occasions and then each time deleted my meagre thoughts. There really are no words. But there need to be words. The presenting issue has of…

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Time in the company of an artful hymn writer

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  • Post published:20th November 2017
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Time in the company of an artful hymn writer

A few hours in Timothy Dudley-Smith’s company, through the medium of his recent A Functional Art: Reflections of a Hymn Writer, is extremely well spent. Now in his 90s, it is wonderful to find that his acuity, humanity and insight are…

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On the short stories of Cemeteries

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  • Post published:16th November 2017
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On the short stories of Cemeteries

Moving to a new town means having to discover convenient new dog-walking areas. There's a great little park near us - but there's a limit to the route variations one can take in it, so it is already getting a…

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Conversations on Engaging with Pop Culture

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  • Post published:14th November 2017
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Conversations on Engaging with Pop Culture

A month or two ago, I was involved in a number of conversations with the good folks at TWR who have put out a few programmes on Pop Culture. Eddie Bridle facilitated and brought it all together, inspired by Ted…

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Q Marks The Spot – Treasure Map 111 (November 2017)

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  • Post published:1st November 2017
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Q Marks The Spot – Treasure Map 111 (November 2017)

Sacred Treasure A lovely tribute to my late friend Tom Chapman, a Norwich pastor who died after a 10-year battle with a brain tumour Phil Whittall offers an excellent summary of Justin Taylor's thoughts on diversity in the church. Stimulating…

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Breath and Bone: A festschrift for Chris Wright’s 70th

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  • Post published:25th October 2017
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Breath and Bone: A festschrift for Chris Wright’s 70th

STOP PRESS: It is now available here from Langham Literature, and will be on all usual distributors soon. It came as a complete surprise to him, thankfully. But under the guise of a Langham supporters' evening, a number of us…

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Q Combinations 17: Hardy’s During Wind and Rain and Spencer’s Resurrection reunion

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  • Post published:13th October 2017
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Q Combinations 17: Hardy’s During Wind and Rain and Spencer’s Resurrection reunion

We moved house this summer - so this poem is apt: the 'clocks and carpets and chairs on the lawn all day'. We moved to Maidenhead in Berkshire, so the painting is apt: Stanley Spencer lived and worked most of…

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The Catch22 of modern journalism summed up in one ad

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  • Post published:11th October 2017
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The Catch22 of modern journalism summed up in one ad

I saw this advert the other day. It sums it all up really. People in power are up to no good. They have ulterior motives. Journalists are crusaders for truth. They will uncover those motives. Seems perfectly reasonable. And indeed,…

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I have faith, I always seek, I occasionally understand.

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