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Friday Fun 13: Beware men with Guns and Megaphones
The US cop show has immersed us all into the clichés of American gun culture. It is one aspect of American life which most of
7th October 2011
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crossing cultures
21st Century
Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 37 (October 2011)
Sacred Treasure Sinclair Ferguson has some great preaching tips in his Preacher’s Decalogue A friend of mine who works in Sarajevo, Bosnia has researched a
1st October 2011
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20th Century
Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 36 (September 2011)
Sorry for the delay and somewhat truncated list this time – just back from holiday. But Q is due back on track v soon! Sacred
4th September 2011
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crossing cultures
“Our Flag is a union of Black and Blue” – Daljit Nagra’s Black History
Any walk along the Thames Embankment or the South Bank is bound to conjure up memories and evocations. This ancient river is observed/guarded/ignored by countless
4th August 2011
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20th Century
Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 35 (August 2011)
Sacred Treasure Carl Trueman is his trenchant, swashbuckling self in his corrective about current obsessions with all things urban Jason Ramsami has remarkable graphic gifts.
1st August 2011
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AFRICA
Hackgate, Corruption and African perceptions of the West
During the 4 years we worked in Uganda, I would have this conversation with students all too often. They would despairingly deprecate African states for
18th July 2011
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20th Century
Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 34 (July 2011)
Sacred Treasure Pete Saunders very helpfully lists 20 things that the Pratchett BBC2 doc on assisted suicide doesn’t tell you Krish Kandiah does a great
1st July 2011
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AFRICA
Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 33 (June 2011)
Sacred Treasure This is a truly remarkable testimony of forgiveness from the wife of one of the hijacked co-pilots on 9/11 (HT Nancy) Very interesting comment
1st June 2011
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AFRICA
Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 32 (May 2011)
Sacred Treasure Tyndale House has come up trumps with these really helpful little Easter videos ASBO Jesus has a nice Prodigal Son overview:
1st May 2011
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16th Century
15 questions to ask of popular history
Having come up with a couple of other similar lists for Lars Dahle’s online culture project (20 Questions for Novels & 12 Questions for Albums),
25th April 2011
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How churches argued when “men were men” & other mediaeval nuggets
Ian Mortimer’s Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England is a lot of a fun. It’s a very refreshing take the social history of a time
11th April 2011
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Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 31 (April 2011)
Sacred Treasure Martin Bashir is interviewed about his interview of Rob Bell. I was particularly struck by his perception of what C S Lewis called
1st April 2011
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