I will go through the house and turn on all the lights.Then I will go and turn them off one by one.When I come to yours. I know the tears will fall.I will sadly turn it off and say, “I love you” and say, “good night.” (The Empty Nest, p. 18) Tabitha Edwards-Walton, Poetic Life…
Similar to Thurman, Whitehead asserted that value and experience are coextensive with reality and that each creature has value apart from their use to others. Disregard and diminishment of another’s value goes against the grain of metaphysics and morality in an experiential universe. Bruce Epperly, The God of the Growing Edge, 21 (emphasis added) Discover…
Today, March 10, 2025, is Commonwealth day. The Commonwealth of Nations includes 56 countries with 2.7 billion citizens. You can find a list of members here. Read about the celebration, with the theme, “Together we thrive,” here. Not at all a bad theme! (Featured image credit: ID 361335081 @ Prakash Shaw | Dreamstime.com)
Brunei’s national day is February 23, commemorating independence from the United Kingdom in 1984, which actually occurred on 1 January.
February 23 is Mashramani in Guyana, commemorating the declaration of the republic. Because I lived in Guyana during my teen years, I want to include a couple more pictures. Featured image: General Panorama of Georgetown with the St George’s Cathedral centered. The Cathedral is the world’s tallest freestanding wooden structure. Photo taken in 2007. Photo…
Things would get worse for the serpent. In Genesis 3:15 we have the protoevangelium, or the first piece of the “good news,” which has come to be known as the gospel. God told the serpent, although ultimately speaking to Satan, that he “will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and…
Quite a list with national days today. It’s the anniversary of victory in the 1979 revolution in Iran, commemoration of the coronation of the first emperor in Japan, and of the Lateran Treaty establishing Vatican City. Iran Japan Vatican City
Spectrum Magazine, an independent Seventh-day Adventist publication, has published a list of articles and interviews celebrating black voices in the Seventh-day Adventist traidtion. Energion Publications publishes a number of Seventh-day Adventist authors, and as part of our celebration of Black History Month we want to celebrate these historical figures. For more on SDA authors at…
Today is Grenada’s independence day. They became independence from the United Kingdom in 1974. Featured image: A view over St Georges from the Fort above the town in Grenada By Nicola. Licensed from Adobe Stock. Not public domain.
Unfortunately I missed posting this yesterday. Yesterday was Waitangi Day in New Zealand, the commemoration of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. I’ll leave it to the Wikipedia article to explain. Featured image: Mirror lake Mount Taranaki New Zealand By M. Licensed from Adobe Stock. Not public domain.
