Yeah, I had to check the numbers because we all know a year has 52 weeks but my calendar had week one starting 29th December 2019 and so week 53 started 27th December 2020. Week 1 starts next week! And as it makes for an unusual headline, I thought I’d keep it. Anyway, here are things I’ve read, watched and discovered as my curiosity got the better of me this week.
The Week’s Postings
Tuesday: My films of 2020
Wednesday: My books of 2020
Related Reading
- Reading, That Strange and Uniquely Human Thing
- How Pixar’s Soul captures the essence of the afterlife
From the archives
Why do we pray? Seven reasons: “I’m the sort of person that likes to know why I am doing what I’m doing or why I should do something. Motivation matters to me. So does understanding the power and possibilities of the activity I’m engaged in. So what does the Bible say about why we should pray?”
Some interesting things (to me)
Seven posts that caught my eye – there seems to be a bit of an apologetics theme this week
- Biblical Archaeology’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2020
- As Virus Resurges in Africa, Doctors Fear the Worst Is Yet to Come – and who will get the vaccine last?
- How to Biblically Defend the Sanctity of Life
- Does the Bible teach that slaves can be beaten and mistreated?
- The Argument From Moral Corruption – Responding to Defenses of the Canaanite Genocide – having used (some of) this argument myself, I found this article thought-provoking.
- Stockholm’s ugliest buildings – the article is in Swedish but you don’t need to speak the language to see that most of these monstrosities are well deserving of their place on the list.
- How to Make a Swedish Torch – totally going to try this next time I’m in the woods (need to remember a saw though)
Eye-catching stuff
The world is a magical place. 20 Incredible Winning Images From the 2020 International Landscape Photographer of the Year Contest
Moon goes down, Ijen volcano, Java island, Indonesia by Miller Yao. Top 100 Photos, International Landscape Photographer of the Year! 
Ibex Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California, USA by Evan Will (Canada). Winner, Incredible Horizon Award
Seven Twitter highlights
- Children of Shanghai a documentary coming soon to SKY TV
- Time’s up for Pornhub
- “The story of His life is therefore pure theology”
- This amazing little tool simply draws all streets in any city you want
- Whoever made this has some serious skills
- The StarWars timeline
- A simple self-screening tool
Something to watch
It’s an that makes the left go faint at the knees for sure but it’s still a fascinating insight into the past year.
Have a great weekend.
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