apologetics
Q Marks the Spot 171 (January 2023)
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here’s to 2023! Sacred Treasure Brian Eno in a fascinating interview with the great Martin Wroe. Unherd shares an excerpt from Nick
1st January 2023
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Best Reads of 2022
A brief rundown of my favourite books from 2022: essentially those I awarded 5* on my Goodreads page. Fiction (no particular order) I’ve always loved
4th December 2022
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Q Marks the Spot 170 (Treasure Map December 2022)
Sacred Treasure Billy Graham, the evangelist who united America, and the son who doesn’t. Some responses to the recent UK Census figures (those professing to
1st December 2022
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21st Century
Q Marks the Spot 169 (November 2022 Treasure Map)
Sacred Treasure TGC has made a new, full Bible commentary available online for FREE. When you live in a country that makes religion dangerous… life
1st November 2022
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Q Marks the Spot 166 (August 2022 Treasure Map)
Sacred Treasure Change is in the air (in biblical studies): consensus on the dating of the NT is shifting The Jubilee Centre has produced a
1st August 2022
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apologetics
“A Wild Whisper of Something Originally Wise”
Roughly a third way through Orthodoxy, the idiosyncratic but great G K Chesterton describes some of the factors in his coming to faith. And then followed
29th May 2022
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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
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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
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21st Century
Best Pods of 2021
Lockdown has caused the proliferation of podcasts, with every Tom, Dick and Harriet taking to the pod waves. And, slightly awkwardly, I’m no exception. But
30th December 2021
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abuse
Q Marks the Spot 158 (December 2021 Treasure Map)
Sacred Treasure Advent is upon us – do follow Malcolm Guite’s meditations through the season (taken from his book). Here’s the first from George Herbert’s
1st December 2021
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AFRICA
Q Marks the Spot 157 (November 2021 Treasure Map)
Sacred Treasure The ever trusty Malcolm Guite reclaims All Hallows Eve in a sonnet. Thanks to the great Art & Theology page, I’ve discovered that
1st November 2021
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21st Century
Q Marks the Spot 155 (September 2021 Treasure Map)
Sacred Treasure Where is good and evil in Afghanistan by Tom Bowring (c/o Psephizo) For important historical background, one can’t do much better than William
3rd September 2021
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