Politics at the Bottom of a Cliff
If all we consume is cynical, shallow and smutty rubbish, our politics will end up mirroring that. But if we’re immersed in heroic stories and finer ideas that ponder on what’s real, right, good and true – we’ll start to demand more from ourselves and our leaders.
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One officer can be heard asking Nowak: “You’ve been stabbed, whereabouts?” before adding: “Don’t think you have, mate.”
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… interdict (noun, verb) - noun 1: a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district 2: a prohibitory decree verb 1: to lay under or prohibit by an interdict 2: to forbid in a usually formal or authoritative
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.