Psalm One: Type / Mood: Wisdom Psalm. Sets the tone for the Psalter by contrasting the way of the righteous with the way of the wicked. Theme: meditation on God’s law leads to life; wickedness leads to ruin.
Month: September 2025
Psalm 73. Type / Mood: Wisdom Psalm. The psalmist wrestles with envy at the prosperity of the wicked, but finds resolution in trusting God. Tone: reflective, moving from doubt to renewed confidence.
Chad Scheifele’s Natural Selection (2016) is a tense teen drama that probes manipulation, belonging, and despair. Though flawed in execution, its chilling portrayal of Indrid as a manipulative psychopath leaves a disturbing impression.
The Great Pyramid still defies explanation. Orthodox accounts of ramps, chisels, and manpower are possible, but hardly convincing. Transporting granite from Aswan, aligning to near-perfect north, and placing millions of blocks with uncanny precision raise questions that demand imagination as well as evidence. The pyramids remain monuments of wonder — challenging us to balance fact and mystery.
This essay traces the fragile roots of the Western debt crisis from the collapse of the Gold Standard to today’s unrestrained borrowing. It recalls how Weimar Germany’s monetary collapse bred scapegoats and extremism, and warns that similar patterns echo in modern populism. The choice ahead is stark: repeat history’s destructive reset through conflict, or seek renewal — perhaps with AI — under human moral oversight.
It is a paradox that in Britain, after thirteen years of compulsory schooling, many young people emerge without a secure grasp of either English grammar or basic arithmetic, while at the same time official figures tell us that one in five schoolchildren suffers from a “probable mental disorder.” Adults fare little better: rates of anxiety, depression, and mixed emotional disorders are climbing steadily, particularly in the working class.
From the fall of Rome to the Inquisition, from Nazi Germany to today’s populist tensions, the same dynamics emerge: fear, conformity, and the abuse of authority. My aim is not only to trace these echoes in history but to ask what they reveal about our present age—and about ourselves.
Stonehenge, Giza, the Bible, and Atlantis point to a lost civilisation. Were we shaped by superior beings — escapees of a forgotten age?
Jesus teaches by embodied example and image; Paul recasts that ethic conceptually: “in Christ,” by the Spirit, for life together.
The Gospels distilled into ten principles of agápē—mercy, humility, forgiveness, generosity, and justice—beyond fear and superstition.