April's Synchroblog asks how we'd be affected if part (or all) of the Bible was myth. I chose to consider the creation accounts in G...

Adam and Eve appear in Genesis 2, but there's a different account of creation in chapter 1. Does it make sense to take the first man an...

Here is a stunning piece of colour movie film from 1939 showing some of my local landmarks, The Crown Inn and the Akbar Tandoori in Eaton So...

The book 'Britain Begins' tells the story of the landscape and people who lived in these islands from the end of the last great ice-...

Sometimes it's fun to look back. Here's what I was blogging in February in previous years. From trouble in the Middle East to ancien...

Recent archaeological work suggests the Jerusalem Temple's Western Wall was built at least twenty years after the death of Herod the Gre...

< Thorpeness walk | Index | Garden, castle, film > We headed a little further south today, visiting the Sutton Hoo Saxon burial and ...

A pottery shard found in 2008 may be the earliest known text in an early form of Hebrew and dates to the 10th century BC. This is around th...

There have been many movements in the world's long history. Political movements - philosophical, art, and literature movements - scienti...

I love maps and plans. I always have. Most likely I always will. They encapsulate a place, a landscape, an idea, a society, politics, histor...

Prayeramedic just posted an item to his blog about a 'coincidence'. Everyone will draw their own conclusions of course, but whateve...

There's a delightful little story going around as one of those email circulars, a friend sent me a copy of it recently. The story goes t...

The heavily corroded remains of an intricate and strange looking mechanism were found in 1901 in a Mediterranean shipwreck. Sixty years late...

A delicate and rather tricky subject came up recently on a mailing list I belong to. It was the topic of Islam and the meaning of the term &...

What, you may ask, is ' Fomalhaut b '? If you are interested in astronomy you will already know. Fomalhaut b is a planet circling on...

Maybe, just maybe, it's time to pick ourselves up and get to work. The banking system has been dealt a heavy blow and will never be the...

Over the last few weeks I've been reading 'Biblical Church' by Beresford Job who lives north-east of London and meets with the C...

I've just read a post on the Koinonia Life Discussion Forum (KLDF). Someone has recently heard this wonderful Welsh hymn for the first ...

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