apologetics
Q Marks the Spot 171 (January 2023)
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
1st January 2023
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21st Century
Best Reads of 2022
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
4th December 2022
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21st Century
Q Marks the Spot 169 (November 2022 Treasure Map)
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
1st November 2022
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21st Century
Q Marks the Spot 168 (October 2022 Treasure Map)
QEII Treasure There has obviously been gallons of ink spilled in recent weeks about the death of the Queen. Here are some of the more
1st October 2022
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21st Century
Q Marks the Spot 167 (September 2022 Treasure Map)
Sacred Treasure Ian Paul has reposted a very helpful piece on what we do when we think the bible is wrong (in response to this
1st September 2022
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21st Century
Q Marks the Spot 166 (August 2022 Treasure Map)
Sacred Treasure Change is in the air (in biblical studies): consensus on the dating of the NT is shifting The Jubilee Centre has produced a
1st August 2022
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apologetics
“A Wild Whisper of Something Originally Wise”
Roughly a third way through Orthodoxy, the idiosyncratic but great G K Chesterton describes some of the factors in his coming to faith. And then followed
29th May 2022
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21st Century
Q Marks the Spot 163 (May 2022)
Sacred Treasure When Christianity and Nationalism mix… no I’m not talking about Trump… but Patriarch Kiril – this is terrifying. The wake-up calls that helped
1st May 2022
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21st Century
Q Marks the Spot 162 (April 2022 Treasure Map)
Sacred Treasure Trying to understand Putin’s religious faith – Theos’ Ben Ryan gives a helpful intro And then Cranmer on praying for Putin’s Downfall When New
1st April 2022
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AMERICAS
Q Marks the Spot 160 (February 2022 Treasure Map)
Sacred Treasure Malcolm Guite’s poem for Candlemas It’s not every day that (albeit unusual) theological perspectives on the atonement and human nature become common currency amongst
3rd February 2022
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21st Century
Best Pods of 2021
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
30th December 2021
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beauty
Twas Much That Man Was Made Like God
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
25th December 2021
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