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Do You Believe in Fairies?

You  may remember that episode in Peter Pan when Tinkerbell is about to perish and all the children in the audience are asked to clap their hands if they believe in fairies. Their clapping makes Tinkerbell come back to life. Tinkerbell seems to have invaded the mindset of modern man. That is to say, too [...]

Protestant Pastor Dies Handling Snakes

Snake handling is still going on in the United States. This article reports the recent death of a pastor who was bitten by a timber rattlesnake. Apparently the pastor witnessed his own father’s death after a rattlesnake bite, but continued with the practice. I commented on the theological implications of snake handling a few days [...]

Thank Heaven for Little Girls? Not.

“Thank heaven for leetle girls. They grow up in the most delightful way…” Or maybe not. Two pieces of information came out today which make for a sickening, irrational and frightening clash. On the one hand a quote from the President speaking in Illinois about his “healthcare” plan: We don’t need another political fight about [...]

The Vicar is Rural Dean

Guest blogger, The Rev’d Humphrey Blytherington is Vicar of St Hilda’s, Little Snoring with All Saints, Great Snoring. He is a graduate of Plymouth University. He completed his studies for the ministry at Latimer Hall, Durham. He is married to Daphne and enjoys home brewing, model railroading and is an avid member of the Great [...]

Sorry Not Much Blogging…

…I took the day off yesterday and took the wife down on a special outing to the lake for Memorial Day.

Rapture or Rupture?

A year after Rev Harold Camping’s followers messed up on doomsday and the rapture didn’t happen Patrick Archbold links to a sympathetic article on the followers who were ”left behind” when Jesus didn’t turn up in glory. They didn’t experience the rapture, but they did experience a rupture–in their belief system. Matt notices that this article [...]

Pentecost!

Help this Struggling School!

An appeal from a reader is going out to help this new Catholic school in Louisiana. John Paul the Great Academy, a lay run Catholic school in Lafayette, Louisiana is in dire straights. The school moved to a new campus last year, after having secured commitments from a few key donors to help the school [...]

Another Angle on Infallibility

The other day I was visiting with a Protestant minister who is about to leave his ministry and join the Catholic Church. He said he ended up in this situation because he had a seminary professor who kept challenging his students to “Think it through.” He tried to think through his opposition to Catholicism because [...]

Abortion Helps Women?

I don’t think so. Read this horrible story of how female fetuses are fed to dogs in India–but go on to read the whole piece to see how selective abortion in Asia has turned women into commodities and made their lives miserable and degraded.