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I cannot claim the following observation as my own, but it is well worth passing on:
I was most pleased to read 1 Peter 3:3 in the ESV. It has done wonders for our marriage. All other Bible versions have been banned from our house.
1 Peter 3:3: [Wives,] [d]o not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair, the wearing of gold, or the putting on of clothing—
Here's an interesting opinion piece on how Hollywood tends to handle the abortion issue (with particular reference to three recent or upcoming movies: Alfie, Vera Drake, and Palindrome).
To quote:
There is really only one kind of abortion drama that post-Roe v. Wade Hollywood permits, and that is one that ultimately endorses use of the procedure.
The current state of the rail network in Sydney makes that august organisation, British Rail, look as efficient as a Swiss watch. So here's a letter I wrote to the Sydney Morning Herald. Once again it was railroaded into the the editor's junk file...
Dear editor,
Once again current affairs—this time the trains fiasco—reveal that the Bible gets it right. Ecclesiastes 10:18 says “Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through indolence the house leaks.” This is our rail network.
Interestingly, the next verse provides the solution: “Money answers everything”. Spend more on the rail network, Mr Costa. More drivers, more trains, more maintenance. Problem solved! The Bible has the answers to all life's hard questions.
Yours etc.
I realise that I am stating the obvious, but I can't help noticing (especially lately) how often the Sydney Morning Herald prints a story and then prints a subsequent letter from someone correcting the factual errors in the SMH story.
Gone, it seems, are the days of publicly retracting statements which are subsequently proven to be factually wrong. The SMH seems unable to simply say, “Sorry. We got our facts wrong. We made a mistake.”
Sigh.
Abortion. Unpublished.
Dear editor,
The current re-opening of the political debate on abortion is shameful in what it reveals. Not because the law doesn't need fixing ? of course it does. The debate is shameful because it shows something of the paucity of the moral thinking underlying it. If abortion is a woman's right, it is so universally and at all times, and no sentimental ultrasounds ought to make us think otherwise.
If on the other hand abortion is wrong, then how pathetic that it takes a bunch of photos taken by boffins, rather than a reasoned argument, before we revisit the issue.
Yours etc...
As a CHN PS, it is a great work of God that this debate is being re-opened in Australia and elsewhere. A matter for ongoing prayer.