AMERICAS
Q Marks the Spot 140 (June 2020)
Sacred Treasure George Floyd left a Gospel legacy in Houston: tragedy piles on tragedy, but this is just one tiny glimmer of light. Having God
31st May 2020
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Photography
AMERICAS
Echoes from Eternity: 28. Jane Kenyon has it out with Melancholy
It feels relentless. We are in the 8th week of our family’s experience of Lockdown/Quarantine and while there are hints of change, there is nothing
15th May 2020
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21st Century
Q Marks the Spot 139 (May 2020)
Sacred Treasure Comparing COVID-19 and the Chernobyl disaster? Here is a literature academic living in Turkey who grew up in Kyiv at the time of
1st May 2020
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AMERICAS
Echoes from Eternity 14: Maya Angelou
Today, the voice of an angel. Nope, I don’t have delusions of celestial proportions. I’m referring to the great African-American writer, Maya Angelou (1928-2014) who
7th April 2020
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18th Century
Echoes from Eternity 9. Thomas Gray’s Elegy
Time to get out of the house. We’re allowed out for up to an hour a day, which is just as well as we’d lose
29th March 2020
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18th Century
Echoes from Eternity 6. William Cowper
Q regulars will know that William Cowper has been a personal favourite for years. He had to navigate the storms of mental illness throughout his
23rd March 2020
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ARTS
Precious Moments in Little Gidding
There’s a special quality to the landscape at Little Gidding. It’s not spectacular, nor is it especially unusual. It’s archetypally English: undulating, Midlands farmland, broken
11th March 2020
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19th Century
Q Marks the Spot 137 (March 2020)
Sacred Treasure There has been much heat and hurt recently about power abuse and church ministry. It is something that I’ve been working on and
1st March 2020
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Q Marks the Spot 136 (February 2020)
Sacred Treasure This is an extraordinary story that reads like a whodunnit: the stolen early manuscript of Mark? (long read but worth it) I’m an
2nd February 2020
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20th Century
Q Marks the Spot 135 (January 2020)
Sacred Treasure If you’ve not come across it, “The Saint John’s Bible is the first handwritten, hand-illuminated Bible to be commissioned by a Benedictine Abbey in over
3rd January 2020
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AMERICAS
Q Marks the Spot 132 (October 2019)
Sacred Treasure A friend who pastors in Hong Kong tackles the church’s divisions in the face of political turmoil and social unrest. We would do
2nd October 2019
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abuse
Q Marks the Spot 131 (September 2019)
Sacred Treasure The Josh Harris ‘deconversion’ story (for those who are aware) is very sad and my heart goes out to him and his family.
1st September 2019
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