Q Marks the Spot – Treasure Map 108 (August 2017)

Sacred Treasure

• These are spectacular – ancient monasteries in Armenia: definitely on my bucket list.
• Chris Green on the cons and pros of pastors using social media
• And while I’m on his blog, great news about the volume of Mike Ovey essays that he’s been editing.
• 6 books for Small Groups wanting to think about Art from a Christian perspective.
• Emma has gathered some lovely promises to help when the head is not thinking straight.
• Philip Yancey on the battle to keep reading in a distracting world – important stuff

Topical Treasure

• This is a powerful site – the Legacies of British Slave-owners is an online database of British families who benefited from the slave trade… did your family…?
• Remarkable – 1.5 million volunteers planted 66 million trees in 12 hours – only in India – a great visualisation of the families of languages
• The western world’s political landscape is shifting at great speed. This is a helpful insight in the FT – the rise of the political fan
• These are beautiful: Nobuhiro Nakanishi is a Japanese artist who has produced these astonishing Layered Landscapes (eg above)
• This is stunning – massively slowed down footage of a hummingbird drinking (from NatGeo)

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Quirky Treasure

• Don Maclean’s American Pie has been endlessly analysed – this is one of the better, more convincing stabs at the day the music died.
• China introduces ‘husband storage pods’ in shopping centres. Makes perfect sense
• Some playful but stunning photographic engagements with architecture around the world
• If you’re going to use English on clothes, it’s not difficult to get such an international language checked out – or so you’d think