Bad news for King Duncan.

The good news: it was much the best of the three performances I’ve seen. Dazzlingly good. The bad news: sitting with my teenage son, while Hamilton loses his teenage son, may have been a mistake 😭 😭 😭

Stephen’s death: “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” Jesus’s death: “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” Stephen: “I see the heavens opened!” Jesus: “Today you’ll be with me in paradise.” Stephen: “Lord, don’t hold this against them.” Jesus: “Father forgive them.”

Dresden. Every building pictured dates from the last twenty years, the result of a 2002 municipal referendum in which the city decisively voted in favour of reconstructing its historic centre.

If you buy one Christian book this year…

The goal of education in each century. 753 BC - The cultivation of virtue 33 AD - The cultivation of virtue 313 AD - The cultivation of virtue 800 AD - The cultivation of virtue 1517 - The cultivation of virtue 1865 - The cultivation of virtue 2025 - College and career readiness

When Luke introduces Stephen, he highlights what (and who) he is full of: —the Spirit and wisdom (6:3) —faith and the Holy Spirit (6:5) —grace and power (6:8) May our leaders be too.

Two interesting facts here about the V2 bombers: • The V stands for Vergeltung (“retribution”), which is pretty revealing • More people were killed making them than were killed by them I’m guessing those two facts are connected.

Fact of the day: the term “iron curtain” was originally coined not by Churchill but by Josef Goebbels, on 25 February 1945.

Astonished to learn that over a third of all German troops were killed in the last four and a half months of the war. What a macabre demonstration of the sunk costs fallacy.

Half way up Skiddaw with my two favourite boys 🏔️

This astonishing punchline from Richard Evans’s Third Reich trilogy is much more powerful when you realise he wrote it in 2008 😳

Stopped in Lichfield to see the cathedral, although the boys were more impressed with the cafes: “Why don’t they have banana and peanut milkshakes in Eastbourne?”

I love that this is happening: a zoom prayer meeting open to all for every morning of Newday. What a great idea! vimeo.com/1103816491/4cb…

"For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world" (1 John 2:16). Desires of the flesh: the stomach. Desires of the eyes: the stare. Pride in possessions: the stuff.

“And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them.” —Acts 2:3 The disciples become fiery lampstands as the flame of the Spirit descends on their heads.

I was today years old when I realised that Ecuador is simply the Spanish word for "equator." 🙄

"Yes, America is on stolen land—as is all of Central America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and beyond. If the logic of land restitution were applied universally, we’d have to redraw every border, dissolve every legal system, and force entire populations to relocate indefinitely." 🧵

Sam (9) just had his first encounter with an American called Firstname Lastname III. He said quite innocently, “Is that a king?”

Here goes.