HAPPY NEW YEAR! to one and all! Spiritual Treasure Malcolm Guite on the astonishing Thomas Hardy poem, The Darkling Thrush.With gorgeous image by Linda Richardson. Fascinating take on the late, extraordinary Desmond Tutu from Giles Fraser. Still chewing on the…
Lockdown has caused the proliferation of podcasts, with every Tom, Dick and Harriet taking to the pod waves. And, slightly awkwardly, I'm no exception. But here are some of the favourites that have kept me going (usually when I'm doing…
Here's a brief rundown of my favourite books from 2021: essentially those I awarded 5* on my Goodreads page. But just to be clear, it's been an abnormally intense reading year because of my DMin research (in the area of…
A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS! Here is one of my favourite sculptures anywhere. A whacking great 4.5 tonne block of Portland Stone, with a new born baby boy on its surface and John 1:1 carved into its side. In the Beginning by…
Sacred Treasure Advent is upon us - do follow Malcolm Guite's meditations through the season (taken from his book). Here's the first from George Herbert's The Glance.Ed Shaw and the CEEC folks have published a healthy, honest and real response…
GOOD NEWS! Regulars here will have read of my nightmare of being massively overcharged for a flight cancellation by BA last month. Well, a few friends retweeted. I was even on BBC Radio Berkshire to talk about it. But it…
Sacred Treasure The ever trusty Malcolm Guite reclaims All Hallows Eve in a sonnet. Thanks to the great Art & Theology page, I've discovered that there's a TV series available online called Closer To Truth, which includes several hours engaging…
Many of us have been waiting for Andrew Graystone's book about the John Smyth abuses and Iwerne camp culture for a while now. Well, it's out; and it is dividing people along perhaps predictable lines. But my fear is that…
Sacred Treasure David Taylor has a really helpful and constructive piece out: 10 Beatitudes for the use of Social Media Eddie Arthur is excellent here, with Kwame Bediako's great line that we are living through “the revival of a non-Western…
I've been very fortunate indeed because, as a doctoral student in St Louis, I've had a USA student visa throughout the pandemic. Which has meant that once total travel-bans were lifted, I've been one of the very few non-residential Europeans…
Here is something I've been playing around with for a bit, a tangent to the O Tempora O Mores series. I'll just post it here and see what you make of it https://www.markmeynell.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thought-Experiment-I-am-a-leader-FINAL.pdf
Sacred Treasure Where is good and evil in Afghanistan by Tom Bowring (c/o Psephizo) For important historical background, one can't do much better than William Dalrymple's brilliant account of Afghan history Are Foreigners Still Needed in the age of indigenous…