abuse
Q Marks the Spot 156 (October 2021)
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,
1st October 2021
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culture
biblical theology
I Am A Leader (a thought experiment)
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
11th September 2021
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21st Century
Q Marks the Spot 152 (June 2021 Treasure Map)
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
1st June 2021
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architecture
Q Marks the Spot 153 (July 2021 Treasure Map)
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
18th May 2021
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20th Century
Q Marks The Spot 151 (May 2021 Treasure Map)
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.
1st May 2021
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18th Century
‘O Tempora! O Mores Evangelici’: now an e-book!
The clamour was simply whelming and resistible. The crowds beating down the front door were truly singular. So I capitulated and gave the fan what
26th March 2021
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abuse
“O Tempora! O Mores Evangelici!” 13. Online cries of the wounded
Why don’t you just try to win them over…? A complaint that I’ve heard frequently goes something like this. If you have a grievance against
26th February 2021
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18th Century
“O Tempora! O Mores Evangelici!” 12. The power of the Imago Dei & the Imago Dei in power
Last summer, I was a contributor at Oak Hill Theological College’s annual School of Theology day. It was a real privilege to be involved and
17th February 2021
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Ancient History
Q Marks the Spot 148 (February 2021 Treasure Map)
Sacred Treasure If you haven’t yet come across her or her work, then the time has come, Ruth Naomi Floyd is a precious friend and
1st February 2021
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18th Century
“O Tempora! O Mores Evangelici!” 11. When gurus get outed as ogres
This is the 11th post in a short series trying to grapple with today’s sense of malaise in British evangelicalism. One of The West Wing’s big
31st January 2021
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20th Century
“O Tempora! O Mores Evangelici!” 10. A milestone and a decision
Something Hugh said at that meeting in Sheffield has been etched on my memory every since. I’d only been in ordained ministry perhaps 2 or 3 years and we were having our normal post-Summer catchup and planning session.
We would habitually begin with a short devotional, but that day, Hugh was in reflective mood. Only a few weeks before, he’d celebrated his 50th birthday, and now he openly described how affecting that milestone had been. If memory serves, it was on the lines of “I now realize that I have more years of formal ministry behind me than ahead of me.”
20th January 2021
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20th Century
“O Tempora! O Mores Evangelici!” 9. Believing the propaganda
You will know of Godwin’s law, I’m sure, whereby the longer an internet discussion countinues, “the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.” So, I’m afraid, the time has come.
One of the most gripping if chilling works of history that I’ve read is one that I find myself returning to a lot these days, despite the fact that it is well over 10 years since I first encountered it (in early research for Wilderness of Mirrors). Sir Ian Kershaw has spent a lifetime researching 20th Century German history and has brought all kinds of profound insights to the anglophone world (including through his mammoth two-volume biography of Hitler).
14th January 2021
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