Monthly Archives: September 2024

The Syro-Phoenician sister’s lived experience

Posted on 08/09/2024 by Jon Garvey

(The woke answer to Matthew 15:21-28 and Mark 7:24-30) So, I heard this faith-healer was speaking in Tyre, and I went to hear him because of my daughter’s mental health issues. If I’d realised he was Jewish, of course, I’d have been there with my “Death to Zionists” banners rather than thinking about my daughter, who always stays at home for protests because they trigger her. In fact, the only time I took her to one she was arrested for decking a policeman and screaming “Why don’t you arrest my demons instead, Pig?”. That’s where NHS child psychiatry gets you! Anyway, not realising at the time this healer was a … Continue reading →

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Understanding the Cult Wars (or trying to)

Posted on 05/09/2024 by Jon Garvey

Toby Young (of the Free Speech Union – join!) reports that he had a moment of revelation recently when he realised that England’s current ruling class is, in fact, a “technocratic theocracy,” acting in effect as a secular State Religion, its own beliefs being unchallengable truths, and its opponents irredeemably evil.

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Helping Starmer build my internet footprint

Posted on 02/09/2024 by Jon Garvey

Yesterday, the fifty-ninth anniversary of my new birth in Christ happened to coincide with my being asked to preach on one of the parables of Jesus. I chose “the labourers in the vineyard” from Matthew 20, and it seemed natural to include some testimony to my six decades of being one.

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