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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creation
21st Century
Q Marks The Spot – Treasure Map 114 (February 2018)
Sacred Treasure David Robertson is often uncomfortably provocative – but he’s probably on the money here: 10 ‘prophecies’ for the church in 2018 An inspiring
1st February 2018
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creation
Revisiting the arable parable woods
A couple of years ago, I reposted a little thing I had written 5 years before, An Arable Parable. Now that I’m back at my
22nd July 2017
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ARTS
Francis Spufford on Childhood books 4: Why Narnia matters
For me, though, the standout of Francis Spufford’s reading memoir The Child That Books Built is the chapter entitled The Island. For it is here that he
15th January 2013
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apologetics
The Pop-Culture Game-Changer: Ted Turnau’s Popologetics
Every now and then a book comes along which demands serious attention. Ted Turnau’s Popologetics is just such a book. I should be up front
4th July 2012
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animation
BananaMationMan is back: The Creation as you’ve never seen it before
Well, the boy’s done good again. For most of the weekend, Joshua (aka Bananamationman) worked on a very ambitious white-board stopmotion narrating the story of
3rd April 2012
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BOOKS/WRITING
Friday Fun 19: Steve Turner’s MY DAD
All is not what it at first seems. It starts out like the classic boast of the school playground. But the playground is certainly not
30th March 2012
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art & painting
Forget Avatar: David Hockney’s ‘bigger’ vision is the one to relish
When Avatar came out, I couldn’t help but get swept up in James Cameron’s astonishing conception. This is because a hopelessly bad movie was redeemed only
27th January 2012
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BBC
A natural cantata for a frozen planet: Rautavaara’s Cantus Arcticus
I’d guess that only the most hardened petrol-heads and urbanites will fail to be moved to awestruck wonder by episodes in the BBC’s latest natural
14th November 2011
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A courageous nod to God in a Soviet-era show-trial
Came across this fascinating morsel in a short New Yorker article by David Remnick from the run up to the recent Mikhail Khordorkovsky trial in Moscow.
7th January 2011
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16th Century
Rehabilitating the Medieval Scientific Mind and why it matters
Sir Isaac Newton is a titan in world science, so it’s no surprise that he features on the very first, and the penultimate page of
21st December 2010
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Inconsistencies and Impositions in Victorian New York: the dangers of Christian presumptions
I didn’t quite know what to expect having picked this book up in the States last year. I think I assumed it would be something on
10th November 2010
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