Q Marks the Spot 203 (April 2026 Treasure Map)

Sacred Treasure

Russell Moore is so helpful so often. Here he is great on Thomas Moore’s prayer for the lost and confused (ie all of us)
Jemar Tisby is always stimulating and insightful: this is hard to argue with: Why White Christians love James Talarico
Ian Paul puts this out most years, so it’s worth checking out if you’ve not done: Do the gospels contradict each other on Holy Week?
Philip Jenkins on a fascinatingly Christian short story, The Man, by the great Ray Bradbury from the 40s.
Much was made of the ‘Quiet Revival’ in the UK and now because of inaccurate YouGov data, much has been made of its non-existence. Robin Ham brings some wisdom and good sense to the whole business here.
Tolkien’s Guide to Re-enchantment from The Culturist.
The Palm Donkey tradition in Germany (c/o Art & Theology)

Timothy Snyder speaking at the No Kings protest in Cincinnati (appropriately enough) last week.
- and while we’re at it, Snyder on the USA and the Oligarchal Corridor
- Can’t remember if I posted this before but here he is again on Tolkien’s Dragons and ours.
Andrew Roycroft is so good at helping people get into poetry. Here he is on Simon Armitage (UK Poet Laureate)

da Vinci said: “Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship”. These are some marvellous perspective studies by the Dutch artist Hans Vredeman de Vries in 1609.
When Charles Darwin’s own children doodled on his Origin of Species!
Christopher Nolan’s movie Memento was discombobulatingly brilliant. This graphic helps to unencombobulate it v helpfully…
In case you’d forgotten how utterly bonkers the 1980s were on New York’s Wall St, here is a bunch of bankers with cars in their offices. Because that was a thing… (c/o WallStMemoir)