It's Thursday. On Saturday I travel. To Rhodes House, Oxford: there is a seminar held there. The house was bought for those who obtain a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the that place.
Which I have never visited. I live in the Antipodes: although I…
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It's Thursday. On Saturday I travel. To Rhodes House, Oxford: there is a seminar held there. The house was bought for those who obtain a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the that place.
Which I have never visited. I live in the Antipodes: although I…
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The issues that the apostles faced as the church grew related in part to providing for those who could not provide for themselves. There is an assumption in the text -- that there is a "daily distribution" to primarily the widows in the region.…
Calvin went to Geneva not by choice. He was French, a Protestant: if he had remained he would have died, or had to, like the Huguenots, eventually flee. Because he was clear, plain and blunt. We in this age are mere shadows of the polemic of the…
Beware of the leaven. Beware of those who add to the gospel, who seek extra things, who move to bring secular philosophy into the church and call it Christian. Far better these things remain secular. Including our poets. This is Oliver describing…
I quoted a Messianic Jew a few days back who has written much about prophecy using various technical terms from the Rabbinical and mystical literature that I don't understand. He talks about the destruction of America and how it fits into a prophetic…
I associate the name Ichabod with bad Disney movies and a moderately good book about a whale. (On the set reading list in the USA only: it is a bit like reading Baxter: if you are a Kiwi it is a patriotic duty.
Haere Ra is Maori: it means…