by Portnoy On Taiwan’s TV screens there is a commercial about drawing lots of cars. In this commercial, a woman with south-east Asia look is driving a car, and the subtitle says:”How can she own a car?” Is this a question? How cannot a south-east Asia woman own a car in Taiwan? When you see […]
Have a Beer Pilgrim
If you’ve always thought of the Puritans who disembarked from the Mayflower in 1620 as dour teetotalers, think again. Dour, they may have been, but teetotalers they weren’t. Their alcoholic beverage was so important to them that their dependence on it probably determined more than anything why they docked in rocky, wintry Massachusetts instead of […]
The Violence Falls But the Sewage Continues to Rise
At the sight of an American soldier the mothers, holding on to their restless children, rose up as one. When was the rubbish and raw sewage going to be cleared off the streets, they wanted to know. The germs and the stench were posing a health hazard to their sons and daughters, they said. After […]
Should men have the right to opt out on fatherhood?
Should men have the right to opt out on fatherhood? Everyone has a father but not everyone is a father. There are reasons why a person is not a father. Well, half of the world’s populations are female and not able to be fathers. Then there are quite a number of males who prefer to […]
the truth about life after death
ARGUMENTS FOR THE RESURRECTION Universal wisdom proves the Resurrection God is absolutely free in His acts; He does whatever He wills and no one can call Him to account for what He does. However, He is the All-Wise and acts with absolute purposiveness and wisdom. He never exerts Himself in vain and never does […]
Can disaster related deaths be avoided?
A recent world report revealed that many people died of water borne diseases as a result of floods in 2007. According to Concern, one of the organisations involved in relief operations in Bangladesh , devastating floods in August 2007 affected up to 28 million people in India , Nepal and Bangladesh […]