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…
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)
- But this takes the biscuit for awesomeness
