Sandy Hook and the Right to Bear Arms

Like most Brits, there was a time I would have been bemused at the importance attached by many Americans, especially those of a more fundamentalist ilk, with protecting the “Second Amendment” with its “Right to Bear Arms”. Like many, I would have gone along with the official version of events of what took place in mass school shootings, typically that alleged to have taken place at Sandy Hook.

Living with disability – a personal journey

I suppose, I was well into middle age before I found that I was living with a disability. Prior to that, as with most folk, whenever I came across someone who had an obvious disability, e.g. in a wheelchair or blind, I would have made allowances, but would have been less responsive if the disability was hidden or not obvious.

My lifelong love affair with the Bible and, more importantly, the God of the Bible

Earlier in the week, I attended a helpful presentation along the lines: how we got our Bible, and this is what has triggered me to write thus …

Trumpwatch (56) – Trump, a Cyrus or a Jehu?

My last Trumpwatch episode was only two weeks ago: “Trumpwatch (55) – Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home raided”, but such is the influence of the man, despite not being (officially) the President these past 20 months, that there is always significant things going on, where he is somewhere near the centre of.

The C***d and V*x shebang revisited

Toward the end of February 2020, when news about Covid-19 was being reported, and it was to dominate the headlines for many months after, like many, I did not know what had hit us. I saw it like another flu variant that would soon blow over. Little did I predict the lockdowns, to be followed by the roll out of “vaccines”, along with the monumental collateral damage that would take place.

My Brethren roots and a history of the Brethren in Scotland

I was recently passed a link (by the author, Neil Dickson) to an article he wrote recently, titled: “The Brethren in Scotland: A Historical Overview during the Long Twentieth-Century”.

Bible Genealogies and Family Trees

I am NOT someone much into family trees (personally speaking)!

Climate Emergency – The Great Con

This is a mere update concerning my views on the “climate emergency”, in response to being taken to task on the subject.

Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony, Satan and Baal

This is not going to be an easy article to write, especially as I hardly know what I am talking about. But sometimes one is alerted to things that give rise to concerns such that one needs to share them.

Thoughts on the Book of Ruth

We come to the third of our “Book of” series, the Book of Ruth.