The Curiosity Index: Week 39


Here are things I’ve read, watched and discovered as my curiosity got the better of me this week.

The Week’s Postings

Too many blog posts went unwritten again this week. Still be grateful for small mercies.

Sunday: Itching ears and sober-minds
Wednesday: Are these answers really any better?
Friday: It could get worse when we have a vaccine

Related Reading


From the archives

The rise and decline of faith: “The church, of whatever flavour, that offers strong community with strong bonds of common life, faith and praxis will thrive while churches that fail to offer that (or at least are perceived as not to offer that) will continue to wither and die.”


Some interesting things (to me)

Seven posts that caught my eye.

  1. How Do Christians Fit Into the Two-Party System? They Don’t – not just for Americans.
  2. Should Christians Mock Muslims in Apologetics?: The Case of David Wood and ‘Islamicize Me’ – My answer is simple, no.
  3. Why German Evangelicals Are Praising God in English
  4. Putting the Talmud online
  5. This Is What Happens to Your Body When You Drink Enough Water – it is a foundational habit for me
  6. Helsinki’s daring bid to rethink the future of urban heating
  7. Michael Kiwanuka wins 2020 Mercury prize – well worth a listen

Eye-catching stuff

Gallery of Winners and Finalists 2020 Finalists


Seven Twitter highlights

  1. Waste not want not
  2. No, they haven’t.
  3. Rush hour in Öland
  4. Academia here I come!
  5. For IKEA fans
  6. Bubble tents?
  7. The colour of the sky – I know it’s blue but which blue!

Something to watch

Have a great weekend.


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