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God gives grace in dark times:

OK, I begin with a confession. I always thought of myself as being basically cerebral in nature, and hardly emotional at all. But the longer I live, the more emotional I seem to be getting. Whereas I might have cried very little decades ago, now the tears seem to flow so very easily and so very often.

While my intellect is likely still my...

This life goes by so fast, but the next life lasts forever:

Two quite recent experiences have got me thinking about eternity. This morning I was out walking my dog and I saw a middle-aged couple (presumably husband and wife) walking and talking. I thought to myself, ‘That used to be me’. In just over a week it will be three years since my wife passed and went on into eternity...

Trans activists in bed with the secular left state:

Anyone concerned about the trans tsunami destroying everything in its path – especially here in Australia – will know about the brave women’s rights campaigner Sall Grover. I have written about her often on this site, with this piece posted just last month discussing how she had lost her Federal Court appeal:

The end of Starmer. Where to now for the UK?

The British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has just announced his resignation. In office for less than two years, he will soon be replaced. Andy Burnham, the former Manchester mayor, has challenged Starmer to become his replacement. That follows on from Burnham winning the Makerfield by-election of 18 June. That return to Parliament m...

Islam and the West by the numbers:

Europe today seems to be slowly but surely turning into a Muslim continent. Both legal and illegal immigration are contributing to this. If present trends continue, things will be all rather bleak there. Precise numbers are always difficult to come by, and it depends on how we define ‘Europe’: numbers go up when we add the Slavic states and ...