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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Christmas
My Ko-fi button
Will you support my work? You can simply BUY me a COFFEE!
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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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BOOKS/WRITING
Q’s Christmas Competition 2012: RESULTS
At long last – after literally hours and hours of speculation, I can now at last announce the winners of the Q Christmas competition. Each
30th December 2012
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18th Century
Christmas realism and keeping dying faith alive
It is rather a tired Christmas cliché for preachers to go on about how we need to get beyond the tinsel and trimmings to the heart
30th December 2012
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BOOKS/WRITING
Q’s Christmas Competition 2012: 4 x Cross-Examined e-Books to win!
Well, this is a first: a Quaerentia competition with REAL prizes (rather than the virtual Crunchie bars which I’ve so generously offered in the past!
24th December 2012
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