Sacred Treasure
- Perpetua & Felicity: two remarkable 3rd Century women… and martyrs. Nadya Williams on how they show Christianity was radically pro-women in a misogynistic Roman world.
- Chris Green is spot on on ‘The soul-poison of the little word “should”‘.
- How did Crucifixion really work? A British discovery offers clues
- Two remarkable Art & Theology pieces about motherhood:
- Hildegard of Bingen meditation on Mary newly translated into English
- Kay Nielsen’s illustration for a Hans Christian Anderson story
- And while we’re there, a wonderful post about an exhibition called Ethiopia at the Crossroads
- I hope you follow Nick Cave’s Red Hand Files – they’ve been a weekly read for several years now. I love em. Here are a few absolute crackers:
- on ‘Having said that’ (Dec 2023)
- on Arguing with Friends (Dec 2023)
- on What is Joy (Jan 2023)
- on ‘What is the point of life‘ (Sept 2022)
Topical Treasure
- I have linked to Timothy Snyder before I’m sure. He is a historian of 20th Century Europe at Yale and Vienna. This piece is a timely but chilling read: The Strongman Fantasy. It must be shared. Its logic is unassailable.
- This is extraordinary, and if it succeeds it will be breathtaking: What Africa’s Great Green Wall looks like (HT Simple Pastor)
- Some crazy things here: 25 declassified CIA files
