Evendays

Switzerland voted yesterday not to allow the construction of any more minarets on its territory. Here are my observations:
The polls before the vote showed that only 37% of the voters were for the ban. Someone had to be lying, for 57.5% ended up voting yes.
The media had declared that the initiative would be [...]

Mark 11:11ff brings us the quick, action parable of Jesus cursing a fig tree that was naturally unable to give fruit. The riding-on-a-donkey King, the one who comes “in peace”, then goes to the temple and turns over tables and chairs, chases out sellers AND buyers, merchants and worshippers, and forbids city-dwellers to cross the [...]

From Lamin Sanneh, Whose Religion is Christianity?, pages 59-60:
The Maasai of East Africa… speak in their so-named African Creed of believing as a community rather than as individuals, and instead of casting their creed in cognitive abstract terms of the seen and unseen, of Christ as eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, light [...]

No elections here in Switzerland, so I’ll have to look elsewhere to give you news about life and what’s going on…
What’s going on? Sister 3 is in labor or is finishing labor or is sleeping off the labor. Yes, her first little boy was supposed to be provoked into coming last night. (Editor’s note: The [...]

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