Rowland Croucher
And and and and and :-)
Can you come up with a grammatically correct sentence that includes the word “and” five times in a row? **** A signwriter had written a sign for a FishandChips shop. When the owner saw the sign, he said: “I want you to leave a bigger space between ‘Fish’ and ‘and’ and ‘and’ and ‘Chips’. ***** […]
Marriage Blues
A married man left work early one Friday, but instead of going home, he spent the weekend partying with the boys. When he finally returned home on Sunday night, his wife really got on his case and stayed on it. After 30 minutes of swearing and screaming, his wife paused and pointed at him and […]
G. K. Chesterton
*Sightings* 6/3/10 Saint Gilbert of Battersea — Ian Gerdon You ¢â‚¬â„¢ve never seen a blockbuster movie based on a book by G.K. Chesterton. Perhaps you ¢â‚¬â„¢ve stumbled across one of the many television adaptations of his Father Brown mysteries; and if you ¢â‚¬â„¢re fortunate enough to live in Chicago, maybe you saw last fall ¢â‚¬â„¢s staging of *The Man […]
The ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments that Don’t Hold Water
The ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments that Don’t Hold Water (Michael Poole, Lion, 2009) Somewhere in Surprised by Joy, before he became ‘the most reluctant convert in all England’, C S Lewis wrote that he did not believe God existed, and that he was very angry at God for not existing. Two contemporary atheists who do […]
The New Atheists (April 2010)
2 April 2010 SCOTT STEPHENS It’s been three weeks now since the Global Atheist Convention (GAC) was held in Melbourne (12-14 March). Apart from the frequently mediocre coverage on the ABC’s Questions of Faith blog, and a couple pandering interviews with the most prominent speakers, I’ve yet to see any serious engagement with the ideas […]
The Differential Feature of Christianity
“Without the hypothesis that Jesus is God-incarnate it is hard to make sense of any part of the New Testament. These claims by Jesus and the apostles, taken together, have led Christians to conclude that the valid beginning point for understanding this particular man is plainly and simply that he is truly God while not […]
29 UNIVERSAL TRUTHS :-)
1. I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die. [See this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9gnexnnIDc ] 2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong. 3. I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was […]
Proverbs
1stgrade school teacher had twenty-six students in her class. She presented each child in her classroom the 1st half of a well-known proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb. It’s hard to believe these were actually done by first graders. Their insight may surprise you. While reading, keep in […]
Jihadists and the Khaybar Chant
The Khaybar Chant and the Gaza flotilla Posted: 02 Jun 2010 In these days, the Israel Defense Force’s fatal engagement with Islamists on the Marmara has been drawing intense criticism from far and wide. However of particular interest to me was an Al-Jazeera report on the flotilla, showing interviews with an international collection of Muslim […]
MILITANT HINDUISM’S FEAR CAMPAIGN
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin Wed 02 June 2010 —————————————————- INDIA: HINDUTVA AND PERSECUTION ADVANCE UNCHALLENGED —————————————————- Hindu elites in the Sangh Parivar (Hindu nationalist forces) are striving to attain Hindu power in a Hindu State, primarily to perpetuate their own caste privilege. The strategy of the Sangh Parivar is to convert the indigenous, traditionally animist, […]
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