
Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 70 (July 2014)
Sacred Treasure We refuse to be enemies. This is an astonishing story from a family of Palestinian Christians living in Bethlehem. Dominic Lawson (son of
Sacred Treasure We refuse to be enemies. This is an astonishing story from a family of Palestinian Christians living in Bethlehem. Dominic Lawson (son of
Well, the book’s first draft is done and sent off – the initial editors’ comments are awaited with trepidation. But the good news (I hear
Sacred Treasure God raises the dead – even for preachers like Chris! Why Emily Letts filmed her own abortion… The Twitter Disconnect: Why Christians are
Sacred Treasure This is good: John Piper gives 10 lessons from a hospital bed I’m not busy… so says Ian Paul apparently Larry Hurtado deftly sorts
Sacred Treasure Giles Fraser nails it on euthanasia Kevin de Young on celebrity pastors etc Andrew Brown writes an inspiring obituary of Margaret Spufford (mother
Sacred Treasure Why Benedict Rogers, a Christian, opposes the very idea of a Christian political party So a mural artist in Montenegro considers Tito, Marx
Sacred Treasure Mikhail Kalashnikov was apparently in ‘spiritual pain’ over his (in)famous invention Dave Criddle has some wisdom about engaging with the likes of Ricky Gervais
Iain Banks (known as Iain M Banks when he’s writing science fiction) had the most extraordinarily fertile imagination. It was one of the reasons his
This is one of my favourite short, and true, stories. It comes from the pen of the wondrous Douglas Adams, he of Hitchhiker’s Guide to
Operation Fortitude was a crucial, bold, almost insane, factor in the success of D-Day in 1944. It was a hugely elaborate hoax, to make the
My mind is steeped in the mad and self-referential world of conspiracy theories at the moment, as I try to make a way through to
It has its gainsayers (eg Steven Poole is pretty disparaging, though unfairly in my view) but George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language (the whole