apologetics
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
1st January 2023
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MUSIC
My Ko-fi button
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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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21st Century
Q Marks the Spot 169 (November 2022 Treasure Map)
Sacred Treasure TGC has made a new, full Bible commentary available online for FREE. When you live in a country that makes religion dangerous… life
1st November 2022
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apologetics
“A Wild Whisper of Something Originally Wise”
Roughly a third way through Orthodoxy, the idiosyncratic but great G K Chesterton describes some of the factors in his coming to faith. And then followed
29th May 2022
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21st Century
Best Pods of 2021
Lockdown has caused the proliferation of podcasts, with every Tom, Dick and Harriet taking to the pod waves. And, slightly awkwardly, I’m no exception. But
30th December 2021
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beauty
Twas Much That Man Was Made Like God
A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS! Here is one of my favourite sculptures anywhere. A whacking great 4.5 tonne block of Portland Stone, with a new born
25th December 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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Ancient History
repost: I believed in Father Christmas… But I believe in the Israelite.
This is a repost from 15 years ago on my old blog – I needed to refer to it from something but it can’t have
27th January 2021
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apologetics
Poetry: Imagination’s Wake Up Call – a conversation
Regulars will know that I’ve been doing increasing amounts with the fair friends of the Rabbit Room in Nashville. So today, a couple more bits
14th November 2020
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ARTS
5&1 Classical Playlists over at the Rabbit Room
In recent weeks, I’ve started a weekly column over at The Rabbit Room to share tiny corners of the classical music world with other corners
17th October 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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18th Century
Echoes from Eternity 13. Christopher Smart’s Cat Jeoffry
I know little about Christopher Smart (1722-1771), apart from the fact that the suffered the torments, like his almost contemporary William Cowper, of an eighteenth-century
6th April 2020
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