The importance and value of right thinking is today more than ever pressed upon people’s attention. Books, newspaper articles, and advertisements all show that there is a great interest in the working of the human mind and the rules of behaviour. Know your own mind, we are constantly told;…
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Speaking during a ceremony at the Vel d’Hiv Holocaust memorial monument in Paris, President of France, Emmanuel Macron, confronted the record of French complicity in the Holocaust. Macron acknowledged France’s collaboration with the Nazis and its direct role in the roundup and deportatio…
This earthquake was the reign of Julian the Apostate, a crucial figure in the story of religion, being the last of the pagan Roman emperors. Born in Constantinople (the then capital of the Roman Empire) in AD332, Julian was noted for his power and his genius as a writer, scholar, philosoph…
Julian the Apostate, Tagh-e Bostan, Iran Read More »
In the previous article, we began by considering the Roman dragon as it developed in the region of modern Turkey. We examined, in broad terms, the beginning of the Byzantine Empire, tracing the development of the various powers that impacted on the purpose of God. We concluded our considerat…
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One hundred years ago the British Government issued a document which would change the face of Middle East politics for ever. On 2 November 1917 the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, Lord Arthur Balfour wrote to Lord Walter Rothschild, a leader of the Jewish community in Britain and annou…
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“The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. And he said unto …
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Just as a brick is the basic building block of a wall, the human cell is the basic functioning unit of the human body. Our body has about a hundred trillion of them and each one is a living organism protected by its own membrane. The main substance of the cell, which fills up the space with…
The Sodium-Potassium Pump Read More »
These four watch-words of encouragement are found in some of the final verses of Jude’s epistle. He writes: “But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unt…
Building, Praying, Keeping, Looking Read More »
As it is now 100 years since the taking of the land of Palestine from the Turks, I thought you may be interested in a few facts regarding the capture of Beersheba by the Allied forces in 1917.
My grandfather was one of the Light Horsemen during that period, and also, at some stage of the …
Letters to the Editor – Vol. 23.5 Read More »
The intent of the Lord’s parable of the ‘Unjust Judge’ in Luke 18 is clear: “men ought always to pray and not to faint” (v1). This command was given in a context that considers what our world will be like at Jesus’ return, notably that it will be similar to Noah’s and Lot’s a…
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