Sacred Treasure It's important to keep an eye on the annual Open Doors persecution list, the World Watch List. It's much more extensive than you might think. 5 lies that global (ie all Christian) workers believe The Cognitive Distortions of…
I think it was in the very first draft of Cross-Examined, way back in around 1999, when I used an illustration for facing up to the hardest things in life (such as guilt and condemnation) of of a jeweller showing…
Sacred Treasure My boss, Paul, has done a superb job joining various dots between the Empire podcast, the Kohinoor diamond, and an Egyptian Christian seminary. Ian Paul has an interesting piece about the ideal size of churches Fascinating: acclaimed church…
Sacred Treasure Malcolm Guite's sonnet to honour the great George Herbert Rick Barry at Christian Civics in the US has recently put out a video about Christian Nationalism: America is Not the Hero of God's Story Nay Dawson has raised…
Today is the exact anniversary of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, the day when the horrors of war returned to the continent of Europe. A terrible anniversary. The only cause for celebration is the calibre of the Ukrainian resistance, defying…
In a way I was annoyed that I already knew the general premise of the recent Netflix film, The Good Nurse.But that’s the catch-22 of film promotion, I guess. How do you know what you want to watch until you…
Sacred Treasure Malcolm Guite: a Poet for Bruised Evangelicals a really good piece. If you want more on him, check out my extended conversation with him here. French novelist and general enfant terrible Michel Houellebecq finds himself as an agnostic among…
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here's to 2023! Sacred Treasure Brian Eno in a fascinating interview with the great Martin Wroe. Unherd shares an excerpt from Nick Cave's conversation with Sean O'Hagan in their recent book: How Grief Made me a Person…
Back in September, I was involved in a small discussion in Bristol of Anglican leaders who are feeling pretty disillusioned. There were many reasons for this sense of bleakness, but my task was to try and figure out what some…
A brief rundown of my favourite books from 2022: essentially those I awarded 5* on my Goodreads page. Fiction (no particular order) I've always loved Chaim Potok's (1928-2006) My Name is Asher Lev, so had been keen to read more. The…
Sacred Treasure Billy Graham, the evangelist who united America, and the son who doesn't. Some responses to the recent UK Census figures (those professing to be Christian now below 50% for the first time): From Ian Paul From John Stevens…
Sacred Treasure TGC has made a new, full Bible commentary available online for FREE. When you live in a country that makes religion dangerous... life in Nigeria today (BBC) Chris Watkin did a great job on John Dickson's podcast recently,…