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Quaerentia – Quaerentia

Mark Meynell, Joel Bain, Sophie Killingley

Mark Meynell"s jottings and musings about a world that gets stranger by the day

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Q Marks the Spot 200 (December 2025 Treasure Map)

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2025/12/03

Crikey – here we are at TWO HUNDRED TREASURE MAPS… Can’t quite believe it. But there you go… misspent idling does have some benefits… Sacred Treasure Ben Palpant rereleases his conversation with Anglo-American poet Luci Shaw who has apparently just died at the age of 96. (Her official website is here) Why is the Book of […]

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Q Marks the Spot 199 (November 2025 Treasure Map)

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2025/11/01

The last couple of months have been nuts so I’ve not even had the chance to crack on with new treasure maps. Various links have been piling up so here’s a mega-bumper stash… Sacred Treasure Philip Yancey tells the story of Ernest Gordon, a British officer a Japanese POW camp in Miracle on the River […]

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Q Marks the Spot 198 (August 2025 Treasure Map)

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2025/08/01

Sacred Treasure Jeremy Begbie on cracking form on what makes JSBach’s music so revolutionary: the feeling of life in this world as a believer Remarkable letter from Albert Einstein to his 11 year old son about the secret to learning. Jessie Tang on why ‘colourblindness’ doesn’t help the church. (HT Chris Howles) Just love this: practical missiological applications […]

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Q Marks the Spot 197 (June 2025 Treasure Map)

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2025/06/02

In the air; on the ground; under the water - some sights, wonders, joys and fascinations of the world in the June Treasure Map

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Q Marks the Spot 196 (May 2025 Treasure Map)

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2025/05/01

Sacred Treasure Harvey Kwiyani is always worth reading. He’s on a roll; perhaps start here: We have a new Constantine in Town; and then US Imperialism, Evangelicalism and Christian Mission (pt1) What a breathtaking testimony: 40 days in God’s Dojo with a Nagasaki Survivor Michael Kruger on whether the Resurrection of Jesus is likely or […]

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5&1 #37: If ever there were a spring day so perfect…

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2025/04/25

Billy Collins, former US poet laureate, captured the joy at spring’s arrival perfectly in his poem Today. With beaming concision, he lists his garden’s wonders that make him want to “throw / open all the windows in the house” and even liberate the organism encased in his glass paperweight with a hammer.

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Q Marks the Spot 195 (April 2025 Treasure Map)

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2025/04/01

Sacred Treasure Iintriguing: obviously guesstimates but a fascinating exercise. How much did Paul’s Missionary Journeys cost? (HT Chris Howles) Speaking trade languages when working cross-culturally? Why Tolkien hated Frank Herbert’s Dune Ian Paul offers a good overview of why there is growing consensus that Jesus regularly taught in Greek Speaking of language, my friend and […]

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Q Marks the Spot 194 (March 2025 Treasure Map)

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2025/03/02

Bit of a bumper list this month, having dropped last month’s (oops). Sacred Treasure This will be of interest only to a few, but Ian Paul’s analysis of Justin Welby’s legacy as Archbishop of Canterbury is hard-hitting and (from my rather remote perspective) convincing. Caitlin Flanagan on Seamus Heaney and her father Tom’s close friendship. […]

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5&1 #36: Shtetl: Jewish Europe’s Eradicated East

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2025/02/08

On 27th January 1945, the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated. Nobody could have had any illusions about Nazi anti-semitism because its policies had been explicit about it long before attaining power in 1933.

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War Changes Everything… and Nothing

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2025/02/03

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is ongoing. We're almost 3 years in, unbelievably. And Ukraine is still holding on... just. Who knows what the impact of Trump's election will be?

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My Top Reads of 2024

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2025/01/10

The newspapers and magazines that invite such lists tend to publish them in November or early December, presumably to encourage frantic Christmas shoppers to max out publishers’ sales. It seems that bloggers follow suit. Call me old-fashioned, but I feel that if it’s my best reads of the year, it needs to include the whole […]

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Q Marks the Spot 193 (January 2025 Treasure Map)

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2025/01/09

Better late than never I suppose! Here’s the first Treasure Map of 2025! Sacred Treasure Some highlights from Art & Theology over the last month or so: A roundup of Bolivian Christian art – glad to have played a tiny part in highlighting two friends’ work We once queued for ages to get a glimpse […]

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