A couple of these I’d read before — skip or enjoy. Then again, remember when we could all just enjoy skipping? 🙂 1. A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small. The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could... Read more

Herod Antipas, son of the Herod who slew the young children in Bethlehem at the time of the birth of the Lord Jesus, was ruler of Galilee when John the Baptist was preaching. This Herod was married to the daughter of Aretas, an Arabian prince. But Herod, an evil branch of evil stock, put away his lawful wife and took Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, to live with him while Philip was still alive. John the Baptist stood up against... Read more

Today is believed to be the date in 474 A.D. when the Western Roman Empire, which had lasted for almost five hundred years, came to an end … Historians have been theorizing about the causes of the fall of Rome ever since. The most famous theory was one put forth in Edward Gibbon’s multivolume work The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), which argued that the Christian Church was to blame. After Christianity became the... Read more

Here’s a story. Here’s a video. Here’s your sign. (Forgive me.) Read more

The Church within the context of forgiveness, from the Gospel according to St Matthew. Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven. Therefore the kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. And when he had... Read more

Anglicans in shock as a leading C of E cleric affirms one of those Christian thingies … The Archbishop of Canterbury has told homosexuals that they need to change their behaviour if they are to be welcomed into the church, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal: “Rowan Williams has distanced himself from his one-time liberal support of gay relationships and stressed that the tradition and teaching of the Church has in no way been altered by the Anglican Communion’s consecration of... Read more

Another blog reg sent me an email concerning, ultimately, these ( 1 ) postings ( 2 ). First, Chesterton — followed by a word from the sender: GK Chesterton … in the profound opening to Chapter 6 or Orthodoxy: The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not... Read more

From Wittenberg to Athens and All Stops in Between … A bole weevil Lutheran finds the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church in Orthodoxy. A site all about Flannery O’Connor. Finally, a bit of refreshment from a “Confessional Lutheran Homemaker in the Midwest” at Favorite Apron. Read more

A counselor at a rescue mission once told me of their intake interview wherein they asked each man about his history. The stories, with little variation, involved mostly drinking and drugging, coupled with promiscuity. Later, when asked, “How’s your relationship with God?” – almost 100% of the interviewees answered along the lines of, “Oh! Me and God are tight! Yep. God and I are close.” It happens to all of us: our “old man” [Eph.4:22] plays tricks on us, leading... Read more

Rowan Williams says he doesn’t want Anglicans to resemble the Orthodox … “I don’t especially want to see the Anglican Church becoming like the Orthodox Church – where in some American cities you see the Greek Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church and the Romanian Orthodox Church,” he said. “I don’t want to see in the cities of America the American Anglican Church, the Nigerian Anglican Church, the Egyptian Anglican Church and the English Anglican Church on the same street.”... Read more