Monthly Archives: December 2008

Africa Needs Christianity

By Malgwyn | December 31, 2008

What a stunning rebuke is Matthew Parris to the aggressive and unreasoned atheist attacks taking place on Christians and Christianity.  An article worth keeping in mind for what we might expect with Darwin’s bicentenary in 2009. The original article in The Times is followed by 193 mixed comments, mostly it seems to me acknowledging Matthew Parris’ [...]

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If Only I Could Be A Bird

By Malgwyn | December 25, 2008

If Only I Could Be A Bird is a Christmas parable by Louis Cassels who was for many years the religion editor of United Press International. His column “Religion in America” appeared in over four hundred newspapers during the mid-nineteenth century
Once upon a time, there was a man who looked upon Christmas as a lot of humbug. He [...]

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Dawkins and Charles Colson

By Malgwyn | December 24, 2008

Disgraced and imprisoned by the Watergate affair Wikepedia reports that ‘Colson was known as President Nixon’s hatchet man. Slate magazine writer David Plotz described Colson as “Richard Nixon’s hard man, the ‘evil genius’ of an evil administration.”[4] Colson has written that he was “valuable to the President … because I was willing … to be [...]

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Family Justice Concerns UK Campaign Successful

By Malgwyn | December 24, 2008

In a post on October 20, 2008, I published my first encounter with Family Justice Concerns  that went back to last July where I read a couple of Camilla Cavendish’s articles. They made for very disturbing reading of what can be decided behind the closed doors of officialdom. There is another side to the coin [...]

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Poverty and the UK Nanny State #2

By Malgwyn | December 14, 2008

Melanie Phillip’s article on child poverty and dysfunctional families in the Daily Mail (8 Dec 08), sends me back to the tough times for my younger days. Four years after the death of my mother my father remarried when I was ten. Going on 16 my sister left home - to fend for herself in the big wide world. [...]

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Poverty and the UK Nanny State #1

By Malgwyn | December 14, 2008

Harriet Sergeant’s comment in The Times (7 Dec 08), is a worrying view of the society in which we live in the UK. I consider myself very privileged to have been raised in a previous generation, even though they were tough times. For a few of my formative years I was one of three children with a [...]

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Religious Freedoms Threat By EU?

By Malgwyn | December 3, 2008

“Firebrand cleric Abu Qatada returned to jail after plotting to leave the country” reported James Slack in the December 3rd Daily Mail.  ”MI5 told the Special Immigration Appeals Commission there were fears the man known as Osama Bin Laden’s ambassador in Europe would go into hiding with underground extremist networks. But he could be out [...]

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Charlton Heston’s Speech

By Malgwyn | December 3, 2008

On February 16, 1999, Charlton Heston was the honoured guest speaker at Harvard Law School Forum. His speech was called Winning the Cultural War. It might not have gone far beyond the hallowed halls of Harvard if one radio presenter had not chosen to read the full speech on his show. He did not expect [...]

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