Yes, it’s musterbation again! No, no, no, NOT masturbation, but MUSTerbation! I’ve written about MUSTerbation before (though judging from my blog search stats, thousands of people think masturbation is spelt with a ‘must’.)
Quite simply, MUSTerbation is when human beings decide that something has to be done or stopped at all costs. It is [...]
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Would you do it today? I suspect you probably wouldn’t.
Around 25 years ago I left a small, sleepy village in mid-Norfolk, UK, just after midnight, with 45 young teenagers and two other colleagues, and headed for Gatwick airport. We tried to sleep on the journey, and failed miserably. At some point in [...]
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Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Religion, Society on Nov 22nd, 2007
It’s not just the extremist Muslims. It seems to be happening all over the place.
An American-Israeli woman visiting Jerusalem used to take a daily bus journey to the Old City to pray at sunrise.
“Every two or three days, someone would tell me to sit in the back, sometimes politely and sometimes not. I was always polite [...]
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I recently read a true account of some appalling goings-on - at least, appalling by my standards, though to the people involved they seemed ‘normal’ and justified. Here’s what happened.
A group of people were going about their ordinary lives, looking after their houses and land, bringing up families, when along comes
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