Christianity

AWS, News at Ten, in Church

22nd September 2020 Always Worth Saying 4781 Comments

Dong! Puffin reads in church. Dong! Puffin makes a mess of it. Dong! Puffin advised not to look at the comments. As the rules for such things changed yet again, and as such a thing [more…]

Hydroxychloroquine and Abortion – Helen Whately, Minister of State for Care

20th August 2020 James Dalton 3216 Comments

“Two weeks…” was the refrain back in March when the world’s media got hold of the COVID-19 story following the outbreaks of the virus in China, then Italy, at the beginning of what was soon [more…]

The Conques Tympanum Decoded

10th August 2020 Tom Pudding 3243 Comments

Introduction Back in the 1990s while returning from a jaunt into Cathar Country in our VW camper, quite by chance we made an overnight stop in the ancient village of Conques in the Aveyron region [more…]

Lent & the 40 Days in the Old and New Testaments

22nd March 2020 1642again 2702 Comments

In continuing my series of articles on the striking consistencies of theme and message within the Old and New Testaments, it seems apt not to discuss Lent and Jesus’ Forty Days in the Wilderness which [more…]

The Old Testament Prophets in Retrospect

19th January 2020 1642again 2113 Comments

The Major Old Testament Prophets – Making Sense of Them We have now reviewed in some detail the major Old Testament Prophets: Elijah, Elisha, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel, the ostensibly minor prophet Jonah, and [more…]

Daniel – a Prophetic Vision Part 5

12th January 2020 1642again 2042 Comments

Nebuchadnezzar’s Madness, Belshazzar’s Feast and the Fall of Babylon In a prophetic book of such striking imagery and dramatic scenes as that of Daniel, the accounts of Nebuchadnezzar’s madness, Belshazzar’s Feast and the Fall of [more…]

The Grand Siege of Malta 1565 – Part 4

9th January 2020 Blown Periphery 3331 Comments

Senglea and Birgu On the day St Elmo fell La Valette received news that a relief force had landed in the north of the island. Under pressure from the Order, the Viceroy had sent two [more…]

Shepherds, Kings and Angels – Some Thoughts on the Nativity

29th December 2019 1642again 1745 Comments

We are all familiar with the ingredients of the nativity story: the birth of Jesus foretold. The Census of Caesar Augustus (tax censuses were a regular feature of the Roman Empire and a Quirinus was [more…]