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…
Earlier this month, I had the honour of giving the Bible Readings at Week 3 of the Keswick Convention. In part because my day job is no longer serving a local congregation, and in part because the last couple of…
Sacred Treasure Everything I've picked up over recent years confirms this. An extraordinary religious revolution underway in Iran. In the Guardian of all places: God-given talent: Saka, Rashford and Sterling blaze a trail for black British Christians Are foreigners still…
Sacred Treasure There's just so much going on these days, so much that is discombobulating, disturbing, and downright dysfunctional. Trying to get one's head around it all is hard. We need helpful voices in the midst, such as these... Johana…
Sacred Treasure Foundational to my DMin work at the moment is Charles Taylor's monumental A SECULAR AGE. One of its central elements is his distinction between 3 different types/phases of secularism. Justin Taylor (no relation as far as I know!)…
This post is a little different from normal Q fare and is written by MJ, a friend who has been involved in various ways in UK politics (working for parliamentarians and also as a civil servant). It's based on a…
Sacred Treasure Unherd is a site full of slightly outside-the-box or non-PC writing with some fascinating contributors like Douglas Murray, Giles Fraser and Tom Holland. Here the unique Prof Terry Eagleton is fascinating on the modern problem of Evil (part of…
Twenty years ago, Cross-Examined came out. It was my first and, as the result of UCCF keeping the pot simmering through staffworkers' distribution and Relay Workers' reading lists, it has stayed in print remarkably. It even went through a slight…
Not so long ago, the first anniversary of the UK's Covid lockdowns starting was marked. 'Celebrated' is obviously not the word. And we've all gone a bit stir-crazy. The fact that this blog series appears neverending is a case in…
Some of you will know that the combination of Healthy + Power + Exercise is not one that crosses my lips often. I'm rubbish at taking exercise properly (whether in its healthy or power forms). Give me a book about…
Sacred Treasure This short video speaks for itself and features MPs and Peers from all political persuasions in the UK Parliament. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcLPAF7TLAU Tim Challies lost his 20-year-old son very suddenly last year. His tribute on what would have been his…