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In part, today’s Treasure Map will be brought to you by men with bushy, grey beards… Sacred Treasure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gdbRdtNq9k Tim Cooper has a fascinating insight
So here is a brief rundown of my favourite books from 2023. There were others I could have chosen too, but you have to draw
Sacred Treasure Everything I’ve picked up over recent years confirms this. An extraordinary religious revolution underway in Iran. In the Guardian of all places: God-given
Sacred Treasure Unherd is a site full of slightly outside-the-box or non-PC writing with some fascinating contributors like Douglas Murray, Giles Fraser and Tom Holland.
Something Hugh said at that meeting in Sheffield has been etched on my memory every since. I’d only been in ordained ministry perhaps 2 or 3 years and we were having our normal post-Summer catchup and planning session.
We would habitually begin with a short devotional, but that day, Hugh was in reflective mood. Only a few weeks before, he’d celebrated his 50th birthday, and now he openly described how affecting that milestone had been. If memory serves, it was on the lines of “I now realize that I have more years of formal ministry behind me than ahead of me.”
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).
We had a week beside the sea, last week. Nothing quite like the North Sea in October! Blustery Norfolk skies and coastal walks are the
Lockdown, at last, is easing in the UK – after over 100 days. So I’m winding up this little series of poetry readings. But if
The 2020 VE day is the 75th. We can’t witness great spectacles and commemoration events because of the virus. Everything is much more low-key, necessarily.
I got rather carried away after I saw the latest Sam Mendes film (in the cinema with friends in the States last October… who’d have
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.
Tom Stoppard is one of the greatest living playwrights. End of. His output has been remarkable so I’ve always been excited when news of new