Archive > April 2008

we’ve never had it so good

Continuing our short, impromptu series focused around the Zimbabwean elections I thought it might be timely to consider our own financial blessings, as a nation. While this clearly flies in the face of an economic downturn the blessings  we experience  are no less  dramatic.
We are fickle creatures relying on a pretty finely tuned environment before [...]

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when good men do nothing

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)
This is a reflection of a biblical truth
Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.
James 4 : 7 
It is beyond credibility that any thinking person, let alone politician, genuinely believes that Robert [...]

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when is it right to be angry?

5 Is this the kind of fast I have chosen,
only a day for a man to humble himself?
Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed
and for lying on sackcloth and ashes?
Is that what you call a fast,
a day acceptable to the LORD ?
6 “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to [...]

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