Mayday Notes Sacrificing your Son According to George Frazer in The Golden Bough (1922): ‘Among the Semites of Western Asia the king, in a time of national danger, sometimes gave his own son to die...
Mayday Notes Not Kingdom Come It would be myopic and complacent to say that justice and peace reigns on Earth and the West is Kingdom Come, which, in any event, in a globalised world has...
Current Affair Comment by Owl ‘I’m going to tell Sofia readers a Christmas story,’ says Owl to an Other. ‘Leave a warm glow, like Dickens or O. Henry.’ ‘O Who?’ ‘You know – The Gifts...
At the lowest end of the scale there are the ‘Have Your Say’ emails posted on news websites such as that of Virgin Media. When Owl flew past the other day there were already more...
At the lowest end of the scale there are the ‘Have Your Say’ emails posted on news websites such as that of Virgin Media. When Owl flew past the other day there were already more...
Current Affair Comment by Owl Owl was pecking around for something light-hearted to spring us into the new year when the stark news of the serial suicides of young people in a Welsh town made...
Nicholas Smith Maussane Les Alpilles, France For copies and more information about THE FOUR GOSPELS AND OTHER TEXTS A Critical Handbook of the New Testament by Sea of Faith member Dick Butler published by the...
Comment by Owl Do you have a Swiss Card? Owl was presented with one by a student after joking that he, being Swiss, must be carrying a Swiss Army knife. He was. The gift, a...
A Don’t-Know-What that They Keep Stammering s so of fi ia a 84 July 2007 18 Now here’s a new twist to the euthanasia debate that we maybe thought had nowhere else to run. It’s...
‘Having met with you, great happiness happened.’ That’s what I should have said (in Hindi) when my Muslim auto-rickshaw driver friend introduced me to two teenage nieces in an Indian street. Instead I came up...
