Christmas – Quaerentia

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AFRICA

Q Marks the Spot 183 (January 2024 Treasure Map)

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Hoping that 2024 is a cracker! Sacred Treasure Paul Kingsnorth: Our Godless Era Is Dead Paul Windsor has written up our LP

1st January 2024 No Comments

Advent

Q Marks the Spot 182 (December 2023 Treasure Map)

Sacred Treasure African Christianity thrived LONG before white men arrived Mary Harrington on Why the Fairies disappeared Michael Kruger on the wonders of Manuscript P66.

3rd December 2023 No Comments

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 1 Comment

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 No Comments

apologetics

Echoes from Eternity 8. Steve Turner

Apologies for being lax yesterday. Normal transmission can now be resumed. I’m hoping to be daily but it’s funny how busy things are even during

26th March 2020 No Comments

ARTS

Q Combinations 19: Angélica Dass’s HUMANAE & Luci Shaw’s DESCENT

Jeepers – it’s been a whole year since I last did a Q Combo – need to get back into the habit. But this is

24th December 2018 2 Comments

BOOKS/WRITING

Managing Depression during the Christmas holiday

Last week I was interviewed for the IVP blog about the holiday season, a time that is often fraught and a particular challenge for those

26th November 2018 No Comments

art & painting

Q Combinations 18: Shishkin’s Wild North and Rossetti’s Christmas Eve

Happy Christmas one and all! This Christmas Combo is only 2 days late, but the meanings and wonder it points us to are by no

26th December 2017 No Comments

16th Century

Q Combinations 6: Auden and Brueghel (a bit of a cheat, this time)

So I should be upfront about this one. It’s a cheat – because I’m not the instigator of this particular combination – the poet was.

18th September 2015 No Comments

All Souls Langham Place

The Glory that Dreams are Made of: HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS to all Q readers and a wonderful 2014

25th December 2013 No Comments

atheism

The humiliation of incarnation… Iain Banks somehow, surprisingly, gets it… sort of

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

30th September 2013 5 Comments