Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 102 (February 2017)

Sacred Treasure

• In the wake of the shocking and untimely death of Mike Ovey (Principal of Oak Hill), here are some of the best tributes:
  • Dan Strange (vice-Principal) – By faith we let them go
  • The Australian perspective – Moore College pays tribute
  • Lee got in quick with this – A tribute
• Prince Charles made important points in his Christmas 2016 Thought for the Day on Radio 4.
• Scot McKnight helpfully defends Tim Keller from online critics after a recent NYT interview
• Michael Kruger on form for how to teach Romans (part 1 here)
• Powerful tribute to the late Jill Saward by Elaine Storkey
• Andrew Garfield was profoundly affected by his preparation for Silence
• Babylon Bee has produced some corkers recently:
  • 8 Practical tips for church growth
  • Woman unsure why she needs Jesus after being told how amazing she is
  • 7 Awesome names for new church plants
  • (then from a few months back) Local woman grilled in Church interrogation room for missing church
  • Man unsure if he’s persecuted because he’s a Christian or because he’s a massive jerk

Topical Treasure

• Friends from the region have let me know that this from Robert Fisk gives a genuinely reliable take on what is really going on in Syria – a vital perspective at least that is getting lost.
• Extraordinary Petrification: Lake Natron in Kenya is lethal – and here local birds get calcified and now photographed by Nick Brandt – but here are some very alive bird-feeder closeups to counteract the effect of Lethe
• Immigration a bad idea… not for America (see right)
• A President who reads books… who’d have thought it these days
• 50 of the best signs from the women’s global marches
  • And more on the Donald Drumpf bin
• So what is Amazon’s game plan? Nerdwriter (WELL worth subscribing to by the way) has an idea. Quite scary in a way…

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Quirky Treasure

• Love this: Actors show their private and public faces
• Great – birthmarks ingeniously recreated with tattoos
• How special effects were achieved in the glory days of Hollywood’s silent era
• Some epic trees from around the world
• A Belfast chippy finds itself going viral after this unusual request…
• Breathtaking work: 16th Century miniature boxwood carvings, with details only visible by x-ray!
• Can’t get enough of these: long exposure traffic lights. And while we’re on the subject, a New York City driver manages 236 consecutive green lights (for such as these was the internet made)

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