Many years ago, when I was running an advertising agency, a very wise client of mine in the pest control business gave me a wonderful lesson in the vagaries of human nature. “Never,” he said, “show a picture of a cockroach in a pest control advertisement.” The reason, he explained, was that because human beings [...]
Archive | August, 2009
His, hers and theirs
No, I am not talking of blended or reconstituted families with his children, her children and their children making a home together, but I am taking a narrower look at him, her and them, or what is sometimes called the gender issue.
Preventing abortion – how you can help
Abortion, so abhorrent to many, is seen as part of the liberation of women in many parts of the world. Though we should keep protesting, I fear it is unlikely to be removed soon from the statute books.
A new translation of the Old Testament
THE OLD TESTAMENT: A Translation of the Septuagint. Volume 3: The Wisdom Literature. By Nicholas King. Kevin Mayhew, Suffolk. 2008. 388pp. Reviewed by Michael Shackleton
A walk through a full life
MEANDERING, by Petal Mary O’Hea. Self-published. 2008. 141pp. Reviewed by Michael Shackleton
The rape of South Africa
A nation in which one in four women can expect to be raped in her lifetime is desperately failing its female population, and society in general.
Seeing God in Kenya’s wild
At a dinner party recently, talk turned to what sort of experience could make an atheist believe in God. It brought to mind a trip my wife and I made to East Africa a few years ago, and the number of times we recognised the greatness of God in what we saw.
What were the gospel writers up to?
Why did the writers of the gospels choose to publish the many insults hurled at Jesus Christ? Why did they give publicity to those who contradicted him? Didn’t they see that negative publicity would ruin Jesus’ image and cripple his mission? Were the evangelists not aware that their reporting could unwittingly promote unbelief?
Pilgrimage 2013
The Digital Southern Cross
