A relatively peaceful Ramadan this year.
I suppose we should be thankful for some small-ish mercies. The Islamic festival of Ramadan is ending and it has a remarkably low death…
Religion
Housekeeping: Back to what passes as normality.
Well, Passover, or as I tend to call it ‘wine week’ is now over and Fahrenheit Towers is beginning to get back to some…
A confluence of festivals but only one has a death toll attached to it.
This year is somewhat unusual. It’s one of those years that come around every now and again where three religions have their major and…
Happy Passover to all this blog’s Jewish readers. Also with additional funny story.
I’d like to take this opportunity to wish all this blog’s Jewish readers a very happy and kosher Pesach. We’ve had a couple of…
Happy Easter to all this blog’s Christian readers.
I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my Christian readers a very happy and meaningful Easter. May your celebrations be good…
From Elsewhere: This is an amusing thread about how not to end up marrying your cousin.
Pakistani cousin marriage is a big big problem. It’s a problem not just for Pakistan where consanguinity is a massive issue with more than…
Premature Exclamation
The recent case of a madman going mad in Hamburg with a handgun in a Jehovah’s Witness (JW) meeting hall killing six people, whilst…
From Elsewhere: Christians in public life hammered by the secular Left for their personal private beliefs.
The secular Left hates Christians and it seems that they hate Christians with a passion. Recently we’ve seen Kate Forbes the contender for the…
I told you this would happen – Liverpool edition.
For a number of years now this blog has run an occasional feature entitled ‘I told you this would happen’. This feature is primarily…
Now this is what I call a major lifestyle change.
From Aish (an Orthodox Jewish website) is a piece from a Rabbi, Rabbi Yaakov Sinclair, who in a video is discussing the origins of…
