Q Marks The Spot: Treasure Map 127 (May 2019)

Sacred Treasure

• This is great – a constantly updated list – Biblical references in U2 lyrics!
  
• Tom Holland is on cracking form here – Thank God For Western Values
• Ian Paul outlines the issues well for the perennial questions at this time of year:
  • Can we resolve the Holy Week accounts in the gospels?
  • Are there contradictory accounts of the Resurrection in the gospels?
• The Welsh Baptist who transformed China.
• Emma Scrivener on form as ever: 10 ways to spoil an apology.
• Indigenous Jesus: an occasional blog gathering Majority World depictions of Christian themes/people
  • On that note: If Jesus had been Korean… a series of beautiful ink paintings from the time of the Korean War
  • And how NOT to engage theologically with the arts!

Topical Treasure

• The reasons behind the 2 Boeing 737Max crashes
• The Wrong Side Of History? Experts predict the features of our own era that will be unthinkable in 50 years’ time.
• How to remember the unspeakable – a simple but potent tactic to remember those lost in the Holocaust is the stolperstein (lit: stumbling stone)
• This summarises the Brexit problem neatly – the Brexit Trilemma
• Very powerful and salutary – to fight victim blaming, people exhibit the clothes they were wearing when sexually assorted.

• A train shed becomes a beautiful library
• A real ‘enchanted’ forest – in Dartmoor
• I love this: a Brazilian couple replanted a forest with 2 million trees. And 20 years later…

Quirky Treasure

• I actually like podcasts quite a lot (and I have a few regulars) – but I did enjoy this anti-podcast rant by WaPo music critic Chris Richards
• Definitely is the Selfie of the Year 2019 – Virunga NP Rangers with their imitating gorillas (in DR Congo)
• Languages fascinate me, especially when they’re utterly different from European languages. Like Ubang from Nigeria – brings gender questions to a WHOLE new level!
• This takes real perseverance and dedication: An Artist who travels to paint in beauty spots – but with subjects that are not quite what one might expect
• Running with wild horses through the Camargue
• This is stunning – a giant optical illusion at the Louvre
• This is also stunning – a giant, natural water chandelier in a forest!