Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
While the building was quiet and empty,
And my soul was needing a break,
I gat me o’er to the edifice so dainty,
And, lo, a verse to my heart did spake.
OK, so quick rhymery it is but hardly wholly sensible poetry. But, hey, you’re getting your money’s worth, so don’t fuss at me. Just scroll on and enjoy the scenery.
I was so blessed to read that verse! I took it just for me! (I also thought of several of my troubled friends…) Read it all
I wonder what I would do if this happened to me:
The Protestants were forcibly displaced in early 2010 after village authorities destroyed their church and issued an ultimatum to the Protestants to convert to Catholicism.
I wonder what side of this story is offered by the village authorities.
I wonder what the Protestants did or didn’t do to trigger this action.
I wonder what the Pope’s stance is on this. Read it all
I’m not here to report on the news. You don’t need that.
I’m here to let you know how you can help, if seeing and hearing about the unfolding collapse in Iraq makes you wish you could help the suffering ones somehow.
You know about Christian Aid Ministries, right?
Here are some excerpts of what they have to say about ISIS in Iraq and the crisis going on right now: Read it all
Tsar Nicholas II wanted to spring a little surprise on the evangelical Christians. So he did. In 1905.
But he was a weak man who began to take back his concessions almost as soon as he made them. But if he hadn’t… Read it all
Have you ever watched families at a fast food joint? Some folks from Boston Medical Center got curious about such social events. We’ve got a problem, Houson.
Before illuminating the problem, though, I offer you an attainable solution:
Parents, put down your electronics and take up your own flesh and blood! Disconnect from you mobile devices and connect with your children.
That’s my short response to this unscientific-but-telling study: Read it all
Last week I wrote a Quick Draft of an idea for a blog post on my ebooks blog. But it vanished without a trace when I clicked Save Draft the first time! 🙁
After searching for it high and low, I gave it up as a loss to a program quirk. It wasn’t much and I didn’t figure it would take me long to reconstruct it. Sometime. 🙄
Well, this evening I saw that WordPress 6.8.3 had been released. I checked to see what it was about and learned…
The “Quick Draft” tool on the dashboard screen was broken in the 3.8.2 update. If you tried to use it, your draft would disappear and it wouldn’t save.
Sooo…that’s what my “misfortune” had been about! I was glad to see the problem had been discovered and fixed.
But I was very impressed by this: Read it all
Do you know how odd it is to hear the Sunday School teacher…and realize that nobody else realizes they are hearing your thoughts? I do.
Have you ever grown suspicious of a visiting minister’s phrasing…and later learned from Google that he was reading straight out of another’s book? I have.
I don’t mind public speakers reading or otherwise using material that isn’t their own. Provided they do it in moderation and with attribution.
But it’s a breach of integrity, ethics, and public trust to do so without letting the audience know they are doing so! Read it all