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)
Topical Treasure
- 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)
Quirky Treasure
- 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)
