Daily Proverb
Proverbs 7 26 Many are the victims she has brought down; her slain are a mighty throng.
Religion
Theological Tuesday
Fraidy Reiss, Executive Director of Unchained At Last, is fighting to end forced and child marriage in the United States after her own harrowing escape from an “arranged” marriage in an Orthodox Jewish community. https://www.unchainedatlast.or g/ Bio: Fraidy Reiss was 19 when her family arranged her marriage
Daily Proverb
Proverbs 6 5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
Those Firing People For Their Beliefs ‘Need to Be Careful’
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Daily Proverb
Proverbs 5 10 lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich the house of another.
Daily Proverb
Proverbs 4 13 Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; guard it well, for it is your life.
New Twist as the Folau Saga Continues
The Israel Folau saga just keeps rolling on: on the very day that Folau’s claim against his former employers was lodged with Australia’s Federal Court, it was revealed that his cousin, Josiah Folau, has also lost his job over his religious views. Just to thicken the plot, Josiah
Religious Freedom Update from Australia
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Daily Proverb
Proverbs 2 12 Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,
Local Govt Wins ‘Biggest Idiots of All’ Prize
Sky News host Andrew Bolt says there is “idiocy” at every level of government, but local administrations are currently “taking the prize for the biggest idiots of all”. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz
Mahvash Ali is Correct, the ‘Burkini’ Incident is 100% Sexist
Mahvash Ali from The Project is 100% correct that the West Auckland Burkini incident is sexist but not for the reasons that she claims. To set the scene let me share an incident that happened last night as we celebrated our daughter’s 21st birthday at a restaurant in Stanmore
NZ Street Preacher Threatened with Arrest for Quoting Bible Verses
By LesleyNZ The video below popped up in my FB Messenger. It happened in Whangarei recently. Grant Edwards from NZ Street Preachers calls a spade a spade, mentions sin, sinners, different sins and Hell; and he mentioned different religions, saying that Mohammed was a paedophile and associating the Catholic Church
Theological Tuesday
Executive Director at the Institute of Public Affairs John Roskam says Australia needs ‘less laws that restrict’ freedom of religion and free speech.
Map of the Day: Primary Religious Affiliation
To answer a few questions I got on the last one, the reason Islam is not separated is that there are many many Muslim nations, but I can count the Shia nations on one hand and it was too difficult to make the color scheme work. The same is true
Daily Proverb
Proverbs 20 11 Even small children are known by their actions, so is their conduct really pure and upright?