21st Century
Q Marks the Spot 181 (November 2023 Treasure Map)
Sacred Treasure Glen Scrivener on No to Trans, Yes to Gay Marriage: New Normal? This has done the rounds since Brad East wrote it in
1st November 2023
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ETHICS
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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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Q Marks the Spot 177 (July 2023 Treasure Map)
Sacred Treasure Phil Whittall has picked up some important points made by Harvey Kwiyani about 2nd generation diaspora believers in Europe He has also picked
3rd July 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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AFRICA
Scriptural Quirks: the colour(s) of sin?
I think it was in the very first draft of Cross-Examined, way back in around 1999, when I used an illustration for facing up to
7th April 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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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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abuse
The Good Nurse Phenomenon
In a way I was annoyed that I already knew the general premise of the recent Netflix film, The Good Nurse. But that’s the catch-22
16th February 2023
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19th Century
Q Marks the Spot 172 (Feb 2023 Treasure Map)
Sacred Treasure Malcolm Guite: a Poet for Bruised Evangelicals a really good piece. If you want more on him, check out my extended conversation with him
1st February 2023
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abuse
Cracking under the Strain
Back in September, I was involved in a small discussion in Bristol of Anglican leaders who are feeling pretty disillusioned. There were many reasons for
20th December 2022
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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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