Good Friday – Quaerentia

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AFRICA

Scriptural Quirks: the colour(s) of sin?

I think it was in the very first draft of Cross-Examined, way back in around 1999, when I used an illustration for facing up to

7th April 2023 No Comments

21st Century

Q Marks the Spot 163 (May 2022)

Sacred Treasure When Christianity and Nationalism mix… no I’m not talking about Trump… but Patriarch Kiril – this is terrifying. The wake-up calls that helped

1st May 2022 1 Comment

AMERICAS

Q Marks the Spot 160 (February 2022 Treasure Map)

Sacred Treasure Malcolm Guite’s poem for Candlemas It’s not every day that (albeit unusual) theological perspectives on the atonement and human nature become common currency amongst

3rd February 2022 No Comments

abuse

‘O Tempora! O Mores Evangelici!’ 18. Reasons for the new Cross-Examined chapters

Twenty years ago, Cross-Examined came out. It was my first and, as the result of UCCF keeping the pot simmering through staffworkers’ distribution and Relay

23rd April 2021 2 Comments

art & painting

Echoes from Eternity 18. John Donne

John Donne’s poetry is often difficult, sometimes perplexing and troubling, but always rewarding if closely attended to. He completely loses me quite often. But I

14th April 2020 No Comments

20th Century

Echoes from Eternity 16: John Stott’s Cross of Christ

It is Good Friday so the subject matter for the day’s reading presented itself easily enough. Choosing what to read, however, was a very different

10th April 2020 1 Comment

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

20th Century

Echoes from Eternity 3. Alan Paton

Alan Paton (1903-1988) was a South African who spent decades fighting against the apartheid system. He was a founding member of the Liberal Party of

20th March 2020 1 Comment

culture

Some Holy Week thoughts and provocations

Ongoing writing means lack of ongoing blogging, as ever. But the end is in sight. On the home straight for getting full draft editor by 1st Jun.

17th April 2014 No Comments

21st Century

Q Conversations 5: Politician Elizabeth, Baroness Berridge

Elizabeth Berridge, until very recently, was the youngest woman in the House of Lords, the UK’s upper house in Parliament. Raised to the peerage in the

29th January 2014 No Comments

All Souls Langham Place

God, Gethsemane and Grace: How can God allow Suffering?

Again as part of our Uncover apologetics series, I looked at the issue of God and suffering on Sunday (my previous in the series was

22nd October 2013 1 Comment