Malcolm Martin
@malmar27.bsky.social
Pondering faith and culture, with sidebars of teaching biblical studies and editing books. Salvation Army officer in South London.
‘That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
December 16, 2025 at 8:23 AM
‘That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
‘My soul magnifies the Lord
and I dance with God who liberates me, for she has remembered with love
the whispered song of her shadow … the One who is Love has cradled my life in her arms and beautiful is her name. Her tenderness enfolds our brokenness through all generations.’ #bookoftheday #Advent
and I dance with God who liberates me, for she has remembered with love
the whispered song of her shadow … the One who is Love has cradled my life in her arms and beautiful is her name. Her tenderness enfolds our brokenness through all generations.’ #bookoftheday #Advent
December 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
‘My soul magnifies the Lord
and I dance with God who liberates me, for she has remembered with love
the whispered song of her shadow … the One who is Love has cradled my life in her arms and beautiful is her name. Her tenderness enfolds our brokenness through all generations.’ #bookoftheday #Advent
and I dance with God who liberates me, for she has remembered with love
the whispered song of her shadow … the One who is Love has cradled my life in her arms and beautiful is her name. Her tenderness enfolds our brokenness through all generations.’ #bookoftheday #Advent
‘He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperone.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
December 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
‘He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperone.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
'None of us know what tomorrow will bring, none of us truly know the road marked out for us, but we can choose to be like Mary, following where God leads, being unafraid and trusting in a God who has calmed the seas, healed the lame and brought wise men to their knees.' #booksky #Advent
December 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
‘those who administer or possess sovereignty always try to surround their highhanded actions with an aspect of legality and to persuade the people that they act from good motives; this they are easily able to effect when they are the sole interpreters of the law.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
November 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
‘those who administer or possess sovereignty always try to surround their highhanded actions with an aspect of legality and to persuade the people that they act from good motives; this they are easily able to effect when they are the sole interpreters of the law.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
‘In the reception of Isaiah's message of justice by the Church, we are invited to consider Jesus' experiences of injustice, our own guilt in injustice, our call to seek justice right now, and the hope Isaiah offers to weary pilgrims who long for a just world.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
‘In the reception of Isaiah's message of justice by the Church, we are invited to consider Jesus' experiences of injustice, our own guilt in injustice, our call to seek justice right now, and the hope Isaiah offers to weary pilgrims who long for a just world.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
‘I've learned one thing as a soldier … which is that the sensible thing never gets done.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books #Sharpe
November 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
‘I've learned one thing as a soldier … which is that the sensible thing never gets done.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books #Sharpe
‘Learners need to be encouraged to be honest with each other, to challenge each other's knowledge and to admit when they are wrong or don't know the answer … facts are approached on many occasions from different directions and in different contexts.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
‘Learners need to be encouraged to be honest with each other, to challenge each other's knowledge and to admit when they are wrong or don't know the answer … facts are approached on many occasions from different directions and in different contexts.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
‘I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
‘I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
‘The trinitarian mystery beckons us toward social forms in which all relations between persons and institutions are valued, in an egalitarian way, one of kinship and respect for differences. Only thus will oppression be overcome and life and freedom triumph.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
November 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
‘The trinitarian mystery beckons us toward social forms in which all relations between persons and institutions are valued, in an egalitarian way, one of kinship and respect for differences. Only thus will oppression be overcome and life and freedom triumph.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
‘the last thing the Church exists to be is an organization for the religious. Its charter is to be the servant of the world.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
November 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
‘the last thing the Church exists to be is an organization for the religious. Its charter is to be the servant of the world.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
‘If none of us ever fell short, or put a foot astray, everything would be good in this great world, but we stumble and fall, every one. We must deal with what we have.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books #Cadfael
October 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
‘If none of us ever fell short, or put a foot astray, everything would be good in this great world, but we stumble and fall, every one. We must deal with what we have.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books #Cadfael
‘To keep the prophetic light shining, attending to the biblical accounts of the prophets and to the biographies of modern people who embraced the struggle for justice is a good start - a good start on a journey that has us walking in the prophetic tradition.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
October 24, 2025 at 8:14 AM
‘To keep the prophetic light shining, attending to the biblical accounts of the prophets and to the biographies of modern people who embraced the struggle for justice is a good start - a good start on a journey that has us walking in the prophetic tradition.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
‘Beauty takes the pursuit of goodness past mere personal ethical conduct to the work of intentionally doing good to and for others. Beauty takes the pursuit of truth past the accumulation of knowledge to the proclamation and application of truth in the name of caring for others.’ #booksky
October 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
‘Beauty takes the pursuit of goodness past mere personal ethical conduct to the work of intentionally doing good to and for others. Beauty takes the pursuit of truth past the accumulation of knowledge to the proclamation and application of truth in the name of caring for others.’ #booksky
‘We don’t need to show we’re patriotic, sir. I mean, this is Ankh-Morpork. We don’t have to make a big fuss about being the best, sir. We just know.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books #Pratchett
October 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
‘We don’t need to show we’re patriotic, sir. I mean, this is Ankh-Morpork. We don’t have to make a big fuss about being the best, sir. We just know.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books #Pratchett
‘Western culture came to separate the world of work from the world of home and to imply that the world of work is more important, and it thus devalued motherhood. Genesis counters all that.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
October 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
‘Western culture came to separate the world of work from the world of home and to imply that the world of work is more important, and it thus devalued motherhood. Genesis counters all that.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
‘I get to be a person for a living. A person who every morning thinks about her quirky little church and prays, Oh God, it's so beautiful. Help me not f**k it up.’ #bookofthday #booksky #books
October 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
‘I get to be a person for a living. A person who every morning thinks about her quirky little church and prays, Oh God, it's so beautiful. Help me not f**k it up.’ #bookofthday #booksky #books
‘You are either an idiot or a saint, and I am not in the mood at present to have much patience with either.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books #Cadfael
October 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
‘You are either an idiot or a saint, and I am not in the mood at present to have much patience with either.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books #Cadfael
‘There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear
in the water.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
in the water.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
October 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
‘There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear
in the water.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
in the water.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
‘But what have either of them ever done except learn Latin? Have they ever planted a field of wheat? Set up a factory? Dug a canal? They were born, Sharpe, that's all that ever happened to them, they were born.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books #Sharpe
September 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
‘But what have either of them ever done except learn Latin? Have they ever planted a field of wheat? Set up a factory? Dug a canal? They were born, Sharpe, that's all that ever happened to them, they were born.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books #Sharpe
‘God invites us, entices us, provokes us and waits for us to share himself … so in our life, pilgrimage and ministry now he is inviting us to share in discovery, developing and showing partial and temporary outcomes of and preprations for his love, beauty, joy, purpose and peace.’ #booksky #books
September 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
‘Whenever you feel like criticising any one, just remember that all of the people in the world haven't had the advantages that you've had.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books #Gatsby
September 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
‘Whenever you feel like criticising any one, just remember that all of the people in the world haven't had the advantages that you've had.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books #Gatsby
‘This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books #Barth
September 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
‘This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books #Barth
‘We are all called to take new steps of faith that involve leaving our comfort zones - whether that is by choice, or more often than not, being forced out of the safety of the nest we have known.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books
September 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
‘We are all called to take new steps of faith that involve leaving our comfort zones - whether that is by choice, or more often than not, being forced out of the safety of the nest we have known.’ #bookoftheday #booksky #books