AFRICA
Q Marks the Spot 183 (January 2024 Treasure Map)
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Hoping that 2024 is a cracker! Sacred Treasure Paul Kingsnorth: Our Godless Era Is Dead Paul Windsor has written up our LP
1st January 2024
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Gospels
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Advent
Q Marks the Spot 182 (December 2023 Treasure Map)
Sacred Treasure African Christianity thrived LONG before white men arrived Mary Harrington on Why the Fairies disappeared Michael Kruger on the wonders of Manuscript P66.
3rd December 2023
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21st Century
Q Marks the Spot 175 (May 2023 Treasure Map)
Sacred Treasure It’s important to keep an eye on the annual Open Doors persecution list, the World Watch List. It’s much more extensive than you
1st May 2023
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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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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
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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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art & painting
Echoes from Eternity 12. Two for Palm Sunday
So apologies are due; a daily echo was proving a little too much to manage, especially because we’ve been beset by various challenges in the
5th April 2020
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apologetics
Echoes from Eternity 8. Steve Turner
Apologies for being lax yesterday. Normal transmission can now be resumed. I’m hoping to be daily but it’s funny how busy things are even during
26th 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: Treasure Map 127 (May 2019)
Sacred Treasure This is great – a constantly updated list – Biblical references in U2 lyrics! Tom Holland is on cracking form here – Thank
3rd May 2019
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21st Century
Q Marks The Spot – Treasure Map 110 (October 2017)
Sacred Treasure Good stuff: 7 Differences between Judaea and Galilee – Jesus was Jesus of Nazareth… from Dick France. Chris Green offers a rather unexpected
1st October 2017
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Ancient History
The woman at the well: 5-times married… but with what significance?
It’s a much-loved story. It’s midday, baking hot, and deserted. Nobody in their right mind goes out then. Except a Samaritan woman. And Jesus. It
13th July 2017
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