BIBLE – Quaerentia

My Ko-fi button

Will you support my work? You can simply BUY me a COFFEE!

21st Century

Q Marks the Spot 149 (March 2021 Treasure Map)

Sacred Treasure There will be more to come in 2021 about John Stott, I’ve no doubt, since this is his centenary year. This post by

2nd March 2021 No Comments

abuse

“O Tempora! O Mores Evangelicii!” 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 No Comments

18th Century

“O Tempora! O Mores Evangelicii!” 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 No Comments

abuse

“O Tempora! O Mores Evangelici!” 8. Circumnavigating Church ‘Inner-Rings’

This one’s been a struggle, strangely. Hence the delay. I keep returning to the fact that Lewis’ original essay is entirely sufficient on the matter.

18th December 2020 1 Comment

apologetics

“O Tempora! O Mores Evangelici!” 6. Who needs a hero?

This is the 6th post in a short series trying to grapple with today’s sense of malaise in British evangelicalism. One of my favourite novels

4th November 2020 1 Comment

AFRICA

“O Tempora! O Mores Evangelici!” 3. All In It Together?

There is a fine line between global-sized passion and totalizing imperial zeal. When that fact goes unacknowledged by Christian movers and shakers, we have a

10th October 2020 No Comments

art & painting

Echoes from Eternity 18. John Donne

John Donne’s poetry is often difficult, sometimes perplexing and troubling, but always rewarding if closely attended to. He completely loses me quite often. But I

14th April 2020 No Comments

20th Century

Echoes from Eternity 17. Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s prison poems

This is Holy Saturday. It’s an in-between day, a limbo. It is deeply unsettling, especially if you need your world to be categorisable, identifiable, graspable.

11th April 2020 2 Comments

beauty

Echoes from Eternity 15: John Bunyan’s Doubting Castle

For this Maundy Thursday, here’s a favourite purple passage. If I’d been on the ball, I would have obviously put the Alan Paton passage tonight.

9th April 2020 No Comments

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 No Comments

18th Century

Echoes from Eternity 13. Christopher Smart’s Cat Jeoffry

I know little about Christopher Smart (1722-1771), apart from the fact that the suffered the torments, like his almost contemporary William Cowper, of an eighteenth-century

6th April 2020 2 Comments