Lebanon was in mourning on October 15, 2021, for seven victims of armed clashes in Beirut, including a 24-year-old woman who was hit by a stray bullet while sitting at home. The hours of sustained gunfire between rival militias raised the spectre of a new civil war and prompted Michel Aoun, the president, to say […]
Already some decades now, people are confronted with unpredictable weather situations and getting to see how glaciers melt, countries have to battle either droughts or floods. This year, Belgium and Germany got so hard hit, thousands of people have lost their houses and private goods. Also, this summer we could witness, with brutal clarity, a […]
A song about taking refuge in God when you feel like running away from God or the situation you find yourself in. Today many people all over the world are in difficulties. In the East, there are lots of brothers and sisters in Christ who have to keep their faith quiet or have to be […]
17 jaar na de publicatie van de Nieuwe Bijbelvertaling van 2004 werd vorige woensdag een herwerkte versie ‘gedoopt’ in de Grote- of St Jacobskerk in Den Haag. Er is ook een luxe cultuurhistorische uitgave van gemaakt die alle Bijbelboeken die door joden, protestanten, katholieken én lutheranen als gezaghebbend worden beschouwd voor legt, terwijl het het […]
Originally posted on A Day Dreamer's Diary:
How do you describe a grief for a person you haven’t met in 10 years or weren’t best friends with, but it just sits heavy and hurt in the middle of your chest for more than a week now but you do know they meant the world…
Originally posted on EUROPE DIPLOMATIC:
Brussels 13.10.2021 The UK Brexit Minister Lord Frost has proposed plans for an entirely new protocol to replace the existing Northern Ireland Protocol. In a speech to diplomats in Portugal on Tuesday, October 12, he described his new legal text as “a better way forward”. https://twitter.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1447951700053176337?s=20 The protocol is the…
Originally posted on In the Past and the Present:
How much interaction was there between Nazi foreign policy and appeasement? Did Adolph Hitler pursue ideological goals with such determination that nothing could deflect him from a programme of conflict? This article compares the ‘intentionalist’ perspective with the ‘structuralist’ view to ascertain the role played by…
Originally posted on Ryan Buesnel:
From: Ryan Buesnel, The German Christian Rally at Berlin’s Sportspalast, 28 February 1934: Reich Bishop Ludwig Müller, Dr. Christian Kinder Respond to the Kirchenkampf, Journal of Church and State, , csaa103, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csaa103 On February 28, 1934, about twenty thousand members of the various German Christian movements and their supporters gathered at Berlin’s…
Originally posted on Ryan Buesnel:
A question was recently put to me by a reader who was curious to hear my thoughts on whether Hitler should be considered a “Christian” or an “atheist.” What had spurred this on was this reader’s consideration of the somewhat ambiguous topic of “Positive Christianity” — the allegedly Aryanized form…
Vreugde is het geschenk van de liefde. Verdriet is de prijs van liefde. Woede beschermt dat wat geliefd is. En wanneer we denken dat we onze grens bereikt hebben, is verwondering de daad die ons terugbrengt naar de liefde. ~Valarie Kaur, in See No Stranger Engels origineel / English original:Joy is the gift of love
