AMERICAS
Q Marks the Spot 142 (August 2020)
Sacred Treasure Steve Guthrie has a fascinating series on Music and the Holy Spirit over at Rabbit Room. In 4 parts, with this the first:
1st August 2020
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globalisation
CHRISTIAN LIFE
Healthy Faith in the Coronavirus crisis
I meant to post a fortnight ago, but it kept slipping my mind. Ironic really because this project completely commandeered my headspace for 10 whole
21st May 2020
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20th Century
Q Marks the Spot 135 (January 2020)
Sacred Treasure If you’ve not come across it, “The Saint John’s Bible is the first handwritten, hand-illuminated Bible to be commissioned by a Benedictine Abbey in over
3rd January 2020
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AMERICAS
Q Marks the Spot 132 (October 2019)
Sacred Treasure A friend who pastors in Hong Kong tackles the church’s divisions in the face of political turmoil and social unrest. We would do
2nd October 2019
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20th Century
Q Marks The Spot: Treasure Map 127 (May 2019)
Sacred Treasure This is great – a constantly updated list – Biblical references in U2 lyrics! Tom Holland is on cracking form here – Thank
3rd May 2019
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20th Century
When Uncle John wrote a letter that actually did change the world
Regulars will know that John Stott is a frequent focus here. I’ve just finished reading Alister Chapman’s excellent, scholarly engagement with John Stott’s legacy: Godly Ambition.
6th January 2019
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21st Century
Q Marks The Spot – Treasure Map 112 (December 2017)
Sacred Treasure Former LibDem leader, Tim Farron has been saying some really important things in the last week about the state and nature of western
1st December 2017
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BOOKS/WRITING
Some thoughts on leaving BookFace
I wouldn’t call it panic or even alarm, exactly. But we could call it mild perturbation. Nearly a fortnight ago, I finally departed the life
30th September 2017
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21st Century
Faith under fire in Bethlehem: Mitri Raheb’s FAITH IN THE FACE OF EMPIRE
At last year’s launch of veteran travel writer Dervla Murphy’s remarkable book, A Month by the Sea – Encounters in Gaza, she made a simple
30th September 2014
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apologetics
Why getting popcultured is no bad thing: thoughts on Steve Turner’s latest
Regular Q readers will know that matters pop-cultural are regularly considered here. And one of my favourite books of recent years on any subject is the
6th September 2013
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BIBLE
Modernist Ministry’s Dehumanising Metrics – consolidated
Last summer, I wrote a series of posts on the highly pretentious sounding ‘dehumanising metrics of modernist ministry’. Don’t be put off (although in fairness,
9th July 2013
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20th Century
Q Conversations 3: Spy novelist Charles Cumming
He ate my toast and drank my beer. But that seemed sufficient to put him at his ease and get him talking (good cop routine).
25th April 2013
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