This week we cover a range of subjects and questions:
The United Methodists defend biblical teaching – thanks to our African brothers and sisters. India and Pakistan fight over Kashmir and terrorism; The Politicians prepare to ditch Brexit
Why should take back Samima Begum but will struggle to do so. Listen to the whole cast on the link underneath.
We also look at:
The strange cases of Justin Smollett and the Detroit Transactivist demonstrate where the hate speech madness is taking us.
The sad case of Cardinal Pell.
And the madness of cultural gender dysphoria continues – Schools are to be compelled to teach SSM; Former evangelical Jayne Ozanne continues to mislead on conversion therapy.
A director of the Tavistock Transgender clinic resigns. A university in New South Wales orders complusory Trans training to ensure that the correct Queer Theory doctrine is enforced. University challenge on the BBC is told they should have gender neutral questions. The Ontario government passes a law which allows for children to be taken away from parents who don’t accept Transgender. And men should breastfeed!
US Democrats refuse to support bill banning infanticide.
Happy birthday to James Macmillan – Scotland’s greatest living composer….Here he is speaking about faith and music.
Finally – the story of the snake on a plane!
Quote of the week:
“On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside of the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of conditions … Why do people in church seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute? … Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladies’ straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping god may wake someday and take offense, or the waking god may draw us to where we can never return.” Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), pp. 40-41.
And we finish with death of Peter Tork
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