
Q Marks the Spot 171 (January 2023)
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here’s to 2023! Sacred Treasure Brian Eno in a fascinating interview with the great Martin Wroe. Unherd shares an excerpt from Nick
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here’s to 2023! Sacred Treasure Brian Eno in a fascinating interview with the great Martin Wroe. Unherd shares an excerpt from Nick
Sacred Treasure Ian Paul with another gem – HOW NOT TO BE ANTI-SEMITIC – 12 incredibly helpful points to weigh and consider. And while we’re
Sacred Treasure Malcolm Guite’s poem for Candlemas It’s not every day that (albeit unusual) theological perspectives on the atonement and human nature become common currency amongst
Here’s a brief rundown of my favourite books from 2021: essentially those I awarded 5* on my Goodreads page. But just to be clear, it’s
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.
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
I love the British Museum. It’s a treasure house and a marvel. It covers the entire world and even just a few minutes within its
Very excited to announce that the first two episodes of our new podcast THE STOTT LEGACY have aired. I meant to do this last week
Last summer, I was a contributor at Oak Hill Theological College’s annual School of Theology day. It was a real privilege to be involved and
This is the 11th post in a short series trying to grapple with today’s sense of malaise in British evangelicalism. One of The West Wing’s big
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).