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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Nonsense

By and others ⋅ April 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Scientists once bet they could get a postmodernist journal to accept a paper deliberately salted with total nonsense, and succeeded. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

Viewpoints

By and others ⋅ April 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

A Brit, a Frenchman and a Russian are viewing a painting of Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden. “Look at their reserve, their calm,” muses the Brit. “They must be British.” “Nonsense,” the Frenchman disagrees. “They’re naked, and so beautiful. Clearly, they are French.” “No clothes, no shelter,” the Russian points out, […]

Grandparents

By and others ⋅ April 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

1. She was in the bathroom, putting on her makeup, under the watchful eyes of her young granddaughter, as she’d done many times before. After she applied her lipstick and started to leave, the little one said, “But Gramma, you forgot to kiss the toilet paper good-bye!” I will probably never put lipstick on again […]

Deaf Wife?

By and others ⋅ April 27, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

A man feared his wife wasn’t hearing as well as she used to and he thought she might need a hearing aid. Not quite sure how to approach her, he called the family Doctor to discuss the problem. The Doctor told him there is a simple informal test the husband could perform to give the […]

Why do baby ducks walk softly?

By and others ⋅ April 24, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

‘Cos they can’t walk hardly…

Doughnuts and creativity: did you know this important piece of information?

By and others ⋅ April 24, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Hansen Gregory, an American, claimed to have invented the ring-shaped doughnut in 1847 aboard a lime-trading ship when he was only sixteen years old. Gregory was dissatisfied with the greasiness of doughnuts twisted into various shapes and with the raw center of regular doughnuts. He claimed to have punched a hole in the center of […]

Differing Perspectives

By and others ⋅ April 20, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Two guys were discussing popular family trends on sex, marriage, and family values. Bill said, ‘I didn’t sleep with my wife before we got married, what about you?’ Larry replied, ‘I’m not sure, what was her maiden name?’ ——————————————————— A little boy went up to his father and asked: ‘Dad, where did my intelligence come […]

Every pastor has a crazy baptism story :-)

By and others ⋅ April 20, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

http://www.videovat.com/videos/3292/crazy-baptising-kid.aspx Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher

Barack Obama Visits a Hospital in Scotland…..

By and others ⋅ April 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Barack Obama is visiting an Edinburgh hospital. He enters a ward full of patients with no obvious sign of injury or illness. He greets one. The patient replies: “Fair fa your honest sonsie face,/ Great chieftain o’ the puddin race,/ Aboon them a ye tak’ yer place,/ Painch, tripe or thairm,/ Weel are ye worthy […]

The Irish Bagpiper

By and others ⋅ April 7, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

A bagpiper was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man who had no family or friends. The burial was to be at cemetery in the remote countryside and this man would be the first to be laid to rest there. He was not familiar with the backwoods […]

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