Sacred Treasure African Christianity thrived LONG before white men arrived Mary Harrington on Why the Fairies disappeared Michael Kruger on the wonders of Manuscript P66. It's becoming a Christmas tradition all by itself: Ian Paul on why Jesus was NOT…
Sacred Treasure Glen Scrivener on No to Trans, Yes to Gay Marriage: New Normal? This has done the rounds since Brad East wrote it in 2018, but it's spot on: An honest preface to contemporary academic biblical scholarship. Alan Jacobs…
Sacred Treasure This is an extensive and helpful survey: Why did Jonathan Edwards think that Slavery was morally right. Chris Green has been on sabbatical and has started a little series of wisdom gleaned; part 2 here John Wyatt is…
Sacred Treasure Ian Paul digests the recent Times poll of clergy re whether UK is a Christian country etc etc etc He also offers an extensive 4-post review of Charlie Bell's new book Queer Holiness I've found that Jared Stacey…
Half a day can radically transform one’s perceptions.Act 1Time: Night, Monday 10th July.Place: Norman Manley International Airport, Kingston; small, windowless room; a few plastic chairs; boxes of files (identified by marker-pen scribbled years from 2011 onwards) piled high along two…
Sacred Treasure Gray Sutanto is an Indonesian theologian now working in USA: has fascinating insights into Christianity & Western culture (HT Chris Howles) On saying goodbye to a beloved church: sometimes churches actually do function well! Chris Yokel on the…
Sacred Treasure Phil Whittall has picked up some important points made by Harvey Kwiyani about 2nd generation diaspora believers in Europe He has also picked up 3 really important questions for the church today from NS Lyons Chris Yokel has…
Sacred Treasure Philip Jenkins in cracking form on the legacy of Byzantium's fall in Europe, somehow managing to draw on Blackadder and M. R. James as well. Ian Paul on how disagreement is resolved in the Acts 15 Council of…
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…