Arts
In Praise of Mono-Culturalism
What is “monoculturalism”? Take a trip around the internet and you’ll find out that monoculturalism is defined as “the cultivation of a single crop in a given area”. That’s all well and good and the [more…]
Christianity
Christianity
Daniel – a Prophetic Vision Part 2
Daniel – Life & Times Before addressing some of the prophecies and major events of Daniel’s book – in some ways the most densely packed book in the entire OT – in future articles, it [more…]
Arts
Daniel – a Prophetic Vision Part 1
Life and Times in a Time of Tribulation I have purposefully left off addressing the Book of Daniel – can its central character even be regarded as a Jewish prophet who even existed at all? [more…]
Christianity
Elisha – Picking up the Baton
We have finally got to the subject of the Elisha in my series of the prophets of the Old Testament, who I had meant to cover after addressing Elijah, but then got distracted by Isaiah, [more…]
Authoritarianism
From Draft to Bookshop – A Journey
Almost two years ago this weekend my wife and I, rather nervously, drove into a small Devon village on our way to visit a family that I had only met through Going Postal but who [more…]
Christianity
Ezekiel the Mystical Prophet Part 2 – the Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones
I wrote these articles at the prompting of Goodnight Vienna who became very interested in the Old Testament prophets at the end of her life, and the pair on Ezekiel were the last ones she [more…]
Christianity
Ezekiel – The Mystical Prophet Part 1
The Old Testament prophet Ezekiel is regarded as one of the three major prophetic books of the Old Testament, behind Isaiah and Jeremiah. After a period in the middle 20th century when scholars tended to [more…]
20th Century
Emmet Dalton and the raid on Mountjoy Prison
This is a story about one of the rebels against British rule over Ireland and about one incident in that rebellion in the early 20th century. Emmet Dalton was born in the United States in [more…]
Christianity
Moses Gives a Warning
I was reading my bible before bed the other day (I know, I’m a wild man) when I came across a few passages in Deuteronomy which caught my eye. Deuteronomy is the book where Moses [more…]