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No room at the Inns in the little town of Bethlehem

Posted in Faith, tagged , , , on December 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Palestinians had reason to be joyful this Christmas, with all the hotels booked inside what has been turned into a big prison by the Israeli wall of separation. Robert Berger reports for the VOA News from the little town mentioned by the prophets and later recorded by the Gospels as the place of Christ’s birth. [...]

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Merry Annapolis and a Surreptitious New Year

Posted in Socio-politik, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »

When one hears the word settlement, does one think of 30,000 people? Or when one hears the words negotiating table, do you have an image of people trying their utmost to appear respectful between uneasy stares across a long conference table? Such mixed notions of trust and mistrust in a world desperately crying out for [...]

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Don’t give me that Happy Holidays Tripe!

Posted in Faith, tagged , , , , , , , , , on December 17, 2007 | 7 Comments »

A facebook friend did me a wonderful favour this Christmas. She wished me a “Happy [freaking] Holidays” [my exclamation] and threatened to greet me for “The Season” too. Which got me started on this beautiful post, which I present to the faithful (believers, non-believers and simply, the faithful readers of this most humble blog). I [...]

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Gospel Truth – Part I – Romans

Posted in Faith, Socio-politik, tagged , , , , , , , on December 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

St Paul is often maligned by those who oppose Godliness as we see it. Some consider his words to be confusing and at times they seem to contradict portions of the Gospel and even other epistles.
Having started a reading of the New Testament Apocrypha and the so called infancy Gospels, I am coming to [...]

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