Obviously not being able to hug family, felt very strange meeting on the patio at a distance this morning to exchange gifts. First Christmas ever we haven't spent the holidays at their house. Also we...
Just DONT get it. My home town of Stoke on Trent was in danger of been put into tier 4, thankfully that hasnt happened. BUT can someone please explain the following rationale behind this... I can go...
Just opened a Christmas card from a couple who were my juniors back in 1974. They met whilst working for me and subsequently married and had children and grandchildren. She wanted to be surgeon but I...
Is there any sense in which theology could be considered a science? I mean, I know it uses the suffix 'ology' but is that a valid claim for it to be considered a branch of knowledge, any more than...
Im not an anti-vaxer or Covid denier, so lets get that one out of the way. If legislation...wearing masks, social distancing, lockdowns, tiers, restrictions, bubbles etc ...hasnt reduced the risk of...
Similar to my love/insanity post last night I suppose... But from my early years, I never understood the point of making a legal arrangement for an emotional attachment with another person? I'm now 54...
He recommended helping the weak, the meek, the ones who lay injured by the roadside. He commended a Samaritan who helped someone even though the Samaritan was of a tribe disliked by the Jews. He...
I cant be the only person that dislikes body hair? Men shave their face Women shave their armpits/legs (I shave my head but thats irrelevant) Some of us shave other body bits. Why? I find hairy...
I was reading about an elderly gent who on being asked by his daughter what he’d like for Christmas replied “I could do with a new ball of string”. That’s him sorted, said daughter. It got me...
So. Many stories of supernatural phenomena are apparent on Answerbank. So, keeping an open mind, and helping each other understand, let's try and discuss this really interesting subject. My...
Couldn't a little respect for our opinions, as Christians, be appropriate? Why do atheists and agnostics continually knock our churches. It is to justify their opinions, that is to say that they feel...
Sorry, but just trying to help my mum. She was discharged from hospital yesterday into my sisters care. She's been assigned carers again twice a day but she's deterioated so much in the last couple of...
Called Christmas? Even as a young evangelical, I never understood why Christians, of whatever flavour, celebrated what is essentialy a mid-winter festival that has jack to do with Jesus? Nowhere in...
Mum was hospitalised nearly 2 weeks ago with a broken hip (caused by terminal bone cancer) Its been a bit of a fight to get her home ( Or at least to my sister's where she can be cared for 24/7) Dont...
