20th Century
Q Marks the Spot 187 (June 2024)
So a bit of a bumper list this month because I somehow managed to forget to offer one last month. Oops! Sacred Treasure Graham Tomlin
1st June 2024
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preaching
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Will you support my work? You can simply BUY me a COFFEE!
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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20th Century
Q Marks the Spot 174 (April 2023 Treasure Map)
Sacred Treasure My boss, Paul, has done a superb job joining various dots between the Empire podcast, the Kohinoor diamond, and an Egyptian Christian seminary.
1st April 2023
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BIBLE
The Disarming Compassion of God
Earlier this month, I had the honour of giving the Bible Readings at Week 3 of the Keswick Convention. In part because my day job
31st August 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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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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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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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
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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
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CHURCH
“O Tempora! O Mores Evangelici!” 2. He’s BEHIND You!
“He’s BEHIND you!” resound the shrill cries of 500 families. All part of the Christmas ritual of that peculiar British staple; undoubtedly one of the
2nd October 2020
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CHRISTIAN LIFE
“O Tempora! O Mores Evangelici!” Concerns from within 1. Application Reduction
That exclamation—O Tempora! O Mores! (Oh the times, the customs!)—is one of Cicero’s few linguistic legacies extant today, propped up by those with a classical
18th September 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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