Category Religion
Third Sunday In Advent
Christmas is getting closer, and the theme for this Sunday is joy. With that in mind, I thought we’d go with some a couple of humorous images of the season.
Second Sunday
Today is the second Sunday of the Advent season, the day we light the peace candle. Not that there’s much peace in the world today, especially in the Middle East. The absence of peace is a reminder of why we need Advent and Christmas. Jesus came to bring peace. Left on our own, we humans […]
Another Munster Visit
It is one of those iconic churches, a huge draw for tourists in downtown Freiburg. I hadn’t planned on going inside, but the organ music drew me in. The Munster is a dark place – you really shouid visit it on a sunny day. I don’t think i have ever managed that, but this particular […]
The Word
When I was a teenager I used to carry a Bible in my back pocket. It was great to have it available to read at a moment’s notice. It was the King James Translation. Back then it was the only full Bible available in the appropriate size, and I wanted more than just a New […]
Culture War Flashback
On Fridays in 2024 we are revisiting posts from the same date in the early years of this blog. I had forgotten this one from September 13, 2015. The case was huge on Twitter and Facebook. Depending on your slant, either a Christian was jailed for her faith or a scoff-law was put in her […]
Remembering The Dead
On this Flashback Friday we go back to a post from September 6, 2014. At the time I visited this German war cemetery I never dreamed that three years later I would be living in Germany. It is a solemn place and a stark reminder that there were no winners in the First World War. […]
Flashback To The Beginning
Our Flashback Friday feature today is from August 23, 2015. Hard to believe we have been sharing this space for so long! My wife from time to time reminds me that I have a problem with procrastination. I don’t really agree, but I keep putting off telling her that. But that explains today’s post. I […]
A Movie Flashback
Our Friday Flashback today is from August 16, 2017, when I reviewed The Case For Christ. I think I watched it on my computer, which isn’t as good as seeing it on the big screen. I did see the movie a few months later in a church though – dubbed in German. Since I had […]
Order From Chaos
What a lovely job title. One I am sure is very appropriate. I saw this sign when I was visiting a church in the Toronto area last week, a larger one with a whole wing for children’s ministries. It was sitting on the reception counter, where I presume parents sign their children in on Sundays […]
A U2 Flashback
On Fridays this year I have been reposting material rom the early days of this blog to fit whatever day it is. This one, for example, is from June 14, 2017, but was written several years before that. My friend Bruce, who first published this, died while I was living in Germany. I never got […]
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