Two farmers were leaning against a fence staring intensely at the horizon of a field where you could just make out the sheep, and there seemed to be a problem, but they couldn't quite see it, so one famer said to the other, "I'm going to go over there and 'ave a proper ganda!" A... Continue Reading →
History and Truth (greatness and brokenness)
History is always told from a certain angle or perspective. We're told that history is written by the winners; and that the only thing we ever learn from history is that we never learn from history or that we are condemned to repeat the history we do not know! Even good history is offered from... Continue Reading →
The Great Illusion
The potential, indeed, for evil and for disaster is immeasurably extended [by the secular optimism of mankind]. The Christian will witness to this with a realism that measures both 'the greatness and the wretchedness of man.' A self-confidence is still as deceiving and as dangerous as ever. To base one's hope, to ground one's eschatology, in... Continue Reading →
Fashionable Justice Murders Embarrassing Truth
I have recently started to enjoy reading more of Malcolm Muggeridge, a former journalist with a truly remarkable way with words. And I say truly quite deliberately, because I would like to share what he says about truth.