20th Century
Processing a Week in Wartorn Ukraine
Getting Back I returned home last week from a week in Ukraine. I’d been before several times and have longed to get back after my
26th September 2024
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Russia
My Ko-fi button
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20th Century
Q Marks the Spot 178 (August 2023 Treasure Map)
Sacred Treasure Gray Sutanto is an Indonesian theologian now working in USA: has fascinating insights into Christianity & Western culture (HT Chris Howles) On saying
1st August 2023
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20th Century
Q Marks the Spot 173 (March 2023 Treasure Map)
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
1st March 2023
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21st Century
Ukraine: One Year On and Praying
Today is the exact anniversary of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, the day when the horrors of war returned to the continent of Europe. A
24th February 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 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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christian social action
2022 Ukraine Crisis: links in the chain
Each time an international crisis comes, we feel helpless. Unstoppable forces at work, trampling and grinding heartlessly on. There’s nothing we can do that will
8th March 2022
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injustice
Q Marks the Spot 161 (March 2022)
It’s a bit late this month – been a crazy few weeks. Just back from Hungary – and constant contact with precious Ukrainian friends trying
5th March 2022
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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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BOOKS/WRITING
Echoes from Eternity: 35. Irina Ratushinskaya from the Gulag
Irina Ratushinskaya was an inspiration. I’ve mentioned her here before, having had a fluke encounter in a bookshop. She proved remarkably resilient in the most
28th June 2020
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art & painting
Q Combinations 18: Shishkin’s Wild North and Rossetti’s Christmas Eve
Happy Christmas one and all! This Christmas Combo is only 2 days late, but the meanings and wonder it points us to are by no
26th December 2017
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21st Century
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to spying… Charles Cumming’s A Colder War
It hardly needs saying, but spying did not stop with the collapse of Communism. But if spying continued, it naturally follows that so did betrayal. The
12th May 2014
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