Sacred Treasure
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Love this poem by Bethany Besteman: In The Belly (HT Victoria Emily Jones)
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Ian Paul gives historical background to the business of clerical robes
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Want to learn ancient Greek through classic texts (including Koine Greek through the NT), then this looks like a great website: Kevilex
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Fascinating piece about being a Polyvocal Church (and I had no idea about that thing about birdsong!) And while we’re on that kind of subject:
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How to help a church becomore interculturally aware from EA’s Israel Olofinjana
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Does contemporary missiology need an adversary? Harvey Kwiani on characteristically insightful form
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Bet you can’t guess which continent’s donors are the most and least generous? Quite shocking…
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These 4 conversations from the Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts are fascinating (esp with Christopher le Brun, whom I interviewed for my DMin).
Topical Treasure
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As my 25s prove, I love reading around the world. This website is a brilliant aid to that: just click on the country and see the books. Epic (HT Chris Howles)
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Fascinating but long read about J-P Sartre’s ground-breaking 1945 lecture in war-shattered Paris, ‘Existentialism is a Humanism’
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A devastating poem: 82 final sentences from people executed in Texas, by Joe Kloc
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A huge archive of negatives from the Idi Amin era was discovered a decade ago in Uganda Broadcasting Company
Quirky Treasure
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Life in a bygone age: Edward Bawden’s English Village prints, evocative of holidays in my grandparents’ village as a child
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Robin Williams, the master improviser: lines that made it into his movies
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Love street art, and murals in particular. This is particularly spectacular from Fene, Galicia:
And finally, here’s another type of street art: drop in on the views from windows all around the world.