Daily Proverb
Proverbs 10 30 The righteous will never be uprooted, but the wicked will not remain in the land.
Religion
Daily Proverb
Proverbs 9 11 For through wisdom[b] your days will be many, and years will be added to your life.
Whangarei Council Attempts to Silence Unpopular Speech
Free Speech Coalition The use of bylaws to prohibit a Whangarei street preacher from pamphleteering sends a dark message to religious New Zealanders. “Preachers have the right to share views in public squares, as they have done for thousands of years,” says Rachel Poulain, spokesperson for the Free Speech Coalition.
Daily Proverb
Proverbs 8 12 “I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence; I possess knowledge and discretion.
Daily Proverb
Proverbs 7 26 Many are the victims she has brought down; her slain are a mighty throng.
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