Sacred Treasure
- Karen Swallow Prior is spot on in her piece on learning how to deal with pastors who abuse.
- Andrew Roycroft on one of his (few!) heroes: the great Charles Spurgeon
- Ascension Day has just gone. And Malcolm Guite has a sonnet for it…
- Chris Green has an important post on the 7 Deadly Mistakes of the Defensive Pastor. Just this week I’ve heard of yet another gruesome example of this.
- The great church historian Philip Jenkins currently has a fascinating little blog series on the go about 1893 in the USA:
- James Cary has a fun post on Royal Oak Day I never knew that.
- Something from yours truly for a change: The Divine Gift of Music.
Topical Treasure
Quirky Treasure
- I love Wendy Cope’s poetry. Andrew Roycroft helps you get what makes it so great.
- “Someone in the Netherlands has a sense of humour“: hahahaha
- Doesn’t quite match up to reality, but here is one artist’s 1950s vision of homes of the future
- Some very striking sculptures from Hong Kong artist Johnson Tsang in the long tradition of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt.
- 20 world-changing mistakes
- Winners of 2025 Underwater Photographer of the Year
- Some weird spots on Google Earth!
- Famous not least for beating Captain Scott – photos from Roald Amundsens’ South Pole expedition…
