Better late than never I suppose! Here’s the first Treasure Map of 2025!
Sacred Treasure
- Some highlights from Art & Theology over the last month or so:
- A roundup of Bolivian Christian art – glad to have played a tiny part in highlighting two friends’ work
- We once queued for ages to get a glimpse of the Book of Kells at Trinity College Dublin. You don’t see much. But here is a wonderful intro to it…
- A Mughal Indian Nativity scene!
- The Vigil of Joseph, a poem by Elsa Barker
- A Luo (a substantial people group in Kenya) Christmas
- I was first struck by this amazing sculpture by Kiki Smith – and then noticed that Jo Forbes L’Estrange composed the post’s musical offering. I knew her and her husband Alex a bit at uni.
- Stuart Henderson’s modern Magnificat
- The Russian Orthodox iconography of John the Baptist bearing witness to Christ is extraordinary. Had no idea.
- Fret ye not, little heart…
- If you’ve not yet discovered my friend Andrew Roycroft’s substack, then you’re missing out. He’s writing regularly now and there be gold. A published poet with a pastor’s heart with particular focus on Irish literature. What’s not to like…
Topical Treasure
- This is interesting: Visualising the world’s busiest migration corridors.
- How wrong (but just occasionally right) they were: a beautiful infographic of predictions 15 years ago
- Always worth checking in on Google’s Year in Search.
- I do love a good typeface. Occasionally they can speak greater volumes than the words they print. Like these: Typographies to explain mental disorders.
Quirky Treasure
- These sorts of lists can be pretty random and dubious historically. But if even half of those here are true, it just shows that reality is invariably more amazing than fiction.
- Another of those compilations of amazing historic photographs.
- Need a new 2025 Calendar: here’s just the thing. Taxidermy Fails for the year
- And some fun Comedy Wildlife photo winners
