I watched a National Geographic program yesterday entitled Explorer: The Cult of Mary. The program was about people who had travelled to Medjugorje in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where six visionaries had seen an apparition of Mother Mary regularly since 1981. One lady travelled to Medjugorje in the hopes of finding a cure for her terminal brain cancer. Although she died five months later, her mother said she had become more
We were watching a program last night about the Klu Klux Klan in North Carolina in the 1960s. It amazed me how easily it seemed that so many ‘good’ ‘God-fearing’ people were persuaded to join. But then the program went into a bit more detail about how recruitment was undertaken, and it all seemed to make a lot more sense. First of all, the KKK provided entertainment at huge rallies,
This time of year is always busy with present buying and organising everything for Christmas. There is usually so much to do for other people, it is easy to forget to look after yourself. Apart from buying yourself a physical present, there are many ways that you can give yourself a gift. One is to follow your feelings. By only doing what you feel like doing when you feel like
You may have noticed that I haven’t posted any blogs in the last couple of weeks. I have been away on holidays to a place described by many as the most beautiful place on Earth – Aitutaki in the Cook Islands. This small island, with an area of 17 square kilometres and a population of just over 2,000 people, is set in a beautiful turquoise lagoon, surrounded by a coral