HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Wishing all Q readers a very good 2019!

Sacred Treasure

• Phil Whittall has done a remarkable job amassing various links under several banners. Here is his trio of Church and Gender articles, plus a whole load of others. Good work Phil!
  • 1: Debates on Women in the Church.
  • 2: Men & Women in society
  • 3: The fastmoving Transgender Movement
• Then there’s also these:
  • On Christianity & Homosexuality
  • On Technology
  • On the Spirit & Spiritual Gifts
  • On Atheism
  • On Secularism
  • On Religion
  • On Christianity & Islam
  • On Hospitality
• 4 ‘Promotions to Glory’ in 2018
• Carl Trueman engages theologically with what looks like a very important book: Johann Chapoutot’s The Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a Nazi
• In China, a reformed pastor issues his Declaration of Faithful Disobedience

Topical Treasure

• 2018 summarised: in photos
• Taking a longer view: how the world has changed over time
• Beautiful images of 21 indigenous people groups from around the world in their home environments
• But what happens when people are displaced from those homes and end up as refugees? Here are some powerful engagements with the pain:
  • UNPACKED: Refugee Baggage a project by Mohamad and Ahmed Badr
  • Gilly Szego: Mother & Child a meditation from ArtWay
• Fed up with having deliveries stolen? Mark Rober has the perfect retribution
• 10 of the best Architectural projects of 2018. Fantastic
• With the appalling reemergence of anti-Semitism in recent times proves the urgent need for revisiting these horrors: I had no idea about this. But as was their wont, the Nazis had a whole system for selling off looted treasures in their territories – here is the Levitan in Paris.
• Here is a 100-year old Holocaust survivor on the importance of books

Quirky Treasure

• People-watching is endlessly fascinating – Turkish photographer Mustafa Çankaya has turned it into an art form: Passengers passing through Ataturk Airport, Istanbul.
• And while we’re at it, here’s another take: but this time we’re transported back to Amsterdam in the 1890s.
• Very silly: Victorian portraits become superheroes
• Very surreal: The Other Place, an Escher-themed hotel in Shenzen, China
• NASA Astronauts with a sense of humour
• Think you’re original on Instagram? Think again.

• A lot of fun: Dr Seuss taxidermy!
• It takes 92 minutes 32 seconds for the International Space Station to orbit the earth. Now that journey has been reconstructed in real-time