Archive for July, 2019
“MINAHASA: an Indonesian people inhabiting the Minahasa Peninsula of northeast Sulawesi” — Merriam-Webster Do you ever get really grossed out when you see or hear what certain other cultures eat? Certainly, missionaries and other visitors from one part of the world to another will encounter some “delicacies” that seem awfully strange, even disgusting. Why is […]
I didn’t post one in June, but this week I’d like to continue my series of excerpts from Hugh Ross’s book A Matter of Days, 2nd ed., about scientific measurements for distance and, especially, time (e.g., the age of the Earth and certain things on it). Whereas in May we looked at radiometric dating, this […]
“Forty years ago, Liam Neeson roamed in Black neighbourhoods across Northern Ireland looking for an innocent Black man to attack—a Black man like me….” — Samuel Sey I have recently become aware of the writings of Samuel Sey at the Slow To Write blog. Sey is a Ghanaian-born Canadian who writes with brutal honesty — […]
“It seems anything this president does or tries to do, Democrats object and go after him for — and that’s just wrong. It’s gotten so tiresome.” — a New York-based attendee, father of four and a military veteran No sooner had Trump announced the “A Salute to America” event in Washington, D.C. and that he […]