Beauty for Ashes

Dr Denis Mugwabe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfY3QD1aKBA

Brexit - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001hww

Dennis Skinner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=79&v=3LSI53T-OHU

Censorship and Hate Speech –

https://unherd.com/2018/12/twitters-dangerous-approach-to-hate-speech/

https://www.christianconcern.com/our-issues/church-and-state/government-refuses-to-say-evangelism-isnt-hate-speech?fbclid=IwAR0DFgEGAoqAVX3XS0vdVYTqPIYsxLaUdcrO6SmYHtvXVcAtmF2jfkZY_v8

 Trans and the Church - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001hvq

 Abortion – https://www.lifenews.com/2018/12/05/ireland-votes-to-allow-girls-under-16-to-have-abortions-without-parental-consent/?fbclid=IwAR3ERtZAp2cAkNn824YLDsNPFS4TxE9VN4-CKE4KbEdcjdGhLbKlYoj74dA

https://freedomproject.com/the-newman-report/920-yale-to-get-vending-machine-for-abortion-drugs

Christmas Carols – https://www.premierchristianity.com/Blog/Keith-Kristyn-Getty-reveal-their-10-favourite-Christmas-carols?utm_source=Premier%20Christian%20Media&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10107783_Ignite%2011%2F12%2F18&utm_content=Keith%20%26%20Kristyn&dm_i=16DQ,60N7R,619D6D,NLA1W,1

Fairy Tale of New York - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8

Veggie Tales - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbw4nsNpqzA

Tyson Fury - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LamGWNy4kg (from 21 min_)

 Claire Fox - https://www.facebook.com/167658653645162/posts/527641830980174/

 Quote “ I am told quite frequently that a failure to leave will lead to riots on the streets. No it won’t. It will lead only to a sullen acceptance that once again, you can’t beat the establishment. It will always win in the end” (Rod Liddle) .

Rom. 8:37    No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. (Paul)

1) France and the Macron Riots - https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/12/emmanuel-macron-has-united-france-against-him/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Evening%20_Blend_03122018&utm_campaign=Evening_Blend

2) The EU – Andalusia and Italy - The EU in the UK –

. https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-b6gka-51d2627

 3) UN Migration Compact and Vegans and Islamaphobia Goging to Scottish Parliament https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAl2onqFLMs&feature=youtu.be&t=70&fbclid=IwAR1oZoGxtfjfiy-4nOj6AcrxKOdJ1pr38rO6kowyDPKnSYQcC8wp90x9CKE

4) Apple Censorship - https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1069783830033162240

5) Chick Fil – A - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/new-jersey-university-blacklists-chick-fil-a-over-christian-corporate-value?utm_content=buffer6993c&utm_medium=WCDM%2BBuffer&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=WCDM

 6) Veganophobia - https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/bringing-home-bacon-vegan-offensive-idom-shareena-hamzah-phrases-animals-a8664796.html

 7) Orcs – Lord of the Rings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up9nJLkxzlk

 8)  George Bush - https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/12/mourn-bush-sr-but-dont-celebrate-him-for-what-he-did-to-america-and-the-world/

9)  Point of View – Sunday – Roger Scruton - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001ccq (from 3 min doubts about Islam – and labels)

10) Sex, Gender and Sport - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001f05

£80,000 on Trans prisoner - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/19/trans-murderer-serving-life-will-receive-80k-gender-reassignment/?fbclid=IwAR0_IT18ODqmpFL_UPM605VDM3ESpcTn59X-MDa1enG_Kxg9ERx7CWT1SEE

John Mason - https://www.christian.org.uk/news/snp-criticised-from-within-over-push-for-gender-self-declaration/?fbclid=IwAR1_oGA9AKklFmAgXbs_AxCishi8f-Tup-nF0QQQzPT12hGxoF9QX7xCkEc

11) The Holocaust - https://www.cufi.org.uk/news/shocking-new-poll-shows-a-third-of-europeans-know-nothing-or-little-about-holocaust/

12) Fury and Wilder - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WORU4neE3hg

Quote of the week – GK Chesterton “At least five times the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. In each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.”

• China - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-21/beijing-to-judge-every-resident-based-on-behavior-by-end-of-2020

  Taiwan – Rejects SSM - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46329877

• Christmas – a)Brunei - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/brunei-cancels-christmas-sultan-warns-those-celebrating-could-face-up-to-five-years-in-jail-a6782561.html?fbclid=IwAR0W6Sef4Tp1AacdVeCe8wUCB6mxX3_TiMTNQjPS3yXI_vDumVbsA1dmSdw

 Martyn Lewis - https://www.facebook.com/mrmartinlewis/videos/10155478443616540/

• Censorship

1. Derby Cathedral –-

https://youtu.be/rzdyRSV3Ago

https://www.premier.org.uk/News/UK/Cathedral-denies-banning-vicar-from-preaching-at-carol-service

 Glasgow and Aberdeen Unis - https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/11/the-real-reason-pro-life-students-arent-welcome-at-glasgow-university/

Vagina Monologues - https://nypost.com/2018/11/20/now-the-pc-police-have-come-for-the-vagina-monologues/

 Jean Hackett - https://twitter.com/jeanhatchet/status/1067784361225924609?s=12

• Transamania – Piers Morgan - https://twitter.com/i/status/1067390060977418240 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00018qp (first wee bit from 1:45 min)….Memorial. Russia and Ukraine today.

https://www.dispropaganda.com/single-post/2016/12/18/Joseph-Stalin-the-greatest-mass-murderer-of-all-time?fbclid=IwAR0kbEY6tSWkWZKW_kZBaYzsrjpLGGMSLg44Y7l3w9stMe8juvmTT9KrLas

• John Allen Chau - https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/11/it-is-time-we-civilised-the-sentinelese-people/

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00017z6 from 37 minutes – Neil DM Macleod

"Give me Scotland or I die" - John Knox

St Helens Bishopgates and Bible studies in the City with William Taylor - https://www.facebook.com/501565301/posts/10161149698290302/

Pastor Michael Vitch in Scottish Parliament. - https://www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/time-for-reflection-october-30-2018?fbclid=IwAR1zNPc8VxWe0TzdL2c5aXA470lnOVPmlyUIHF2Py77VZtXrB6vUKj93o5g

Islamic Prayer in Blackburn Cathedral 

https://www.julesgomes.com/single-post/Blackburn-Cathedral-is-Muslim-territory-after-Islamic-call-to-prayer?fbclid=IwAR3GqGrtzm1g_5E3l3v-8uIxwabxYqlQmjz2dKvGGXlnD0WBgdtYSA-AmQ8

IS religion good for children – Richard Dawkins - https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/is-religion-good-for-children-1.3674350

Transgender rights – Channel 4 –

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/11/dozens-major-companies-just-warned-trump-not-mess-transgender-rights/

https://www.ft.com/content/d1c4c06c-e6a2-11e8-8a85-04b8afea6ea3

https://theweeflea.com/2018/11/19/gender-and-trauma-the-dark-side-of-transgender-part-2/

 Spiritism - https://nypost.com/2018/10/30/woman-who-had-sex-with-20-ghosts-is-now-engaged-to-a-spirit/

“It is more rational to believe in God than to believe there is no God. Belief in God is much more rationally appealing than atheism. The resting place of the mind, its natural equilibrium, as it were, is belief” Greg Sheridan God is Good for You.

• Brexit –  - https://twitter.com/spikedonline/status/1062837927682732034?s=12

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/11/mays-deal-proves-one-thing-the-establishment-always-wins/

• Asia Bibi – The UK and Australia - https://www.spiked-online.com/2018/11/05/the-abandonment-of-asia-bibi/#.W-BZT939QRg.facebook 

https://www.spectator.com.au/2018/11/asia-bibi-refused-entry-to-australia/?fbclid=IwAR3-WCX7hr1dRtKbGQz-rA6dj3BRdTF6B-7ywElOVe5KJ0oKOFLKZWBtLwo

• Radio 4 –https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001282

  Dame Jenny Murray - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-46139085

 Stephen Jardine…TIE… https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00011zw

 BBC Questiontime –  https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0brf9v7/question-time-2018-08112018

 Jordan Peterson - https://www.facebook.com/BBCQuestionTime/videos/288995188387580/UzpfSTE1NTMzNTk1MDA6MTAyMTc0NTUyNDUxMjM3MjM/?comment_id=10217455969101822

 Instagram and Hate Speech - http://caldronpool.com/instagram-deems-bible-as-hate-speech-seize-the-moment-and-share-it-with-the-whole-globe-unless-it-is-christian/

  Planned Parenthood - https://twitter.com/obianuju/status/1061024938042290177?s=12And Alabama - https://www.lifenews.com/2018/11/07/alabama-approves-amendment-saying-unborn-babies-have-a-right-to-life/?fbclid=IwAR0wu-AZzTZFjA9IBZq_H41yAD2EiKTZ5axVUNPB4gxuBOMeZ2hwQzWqroA

FIEC - https://fiec.org.uk/news/article/whats-new-for-2018

https://patron.podbean.com/theweeflea

‪“I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.”

• US Elections - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46120373

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-45978590

• It’s a Mad, Mad World

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46119393

https://yournewswire.com/finnish-court-sex-children/

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/first-uk-university-divest-israeli-apartheid-leeds

• It’s a Gospel World – IFES in Barcelona –

“Speaking the truth in love’ is the substance of our Christian profession. Pray, brethren, let us labour to love the truth; and to take off all prejudices from our minds, that we may do so.” John Owen – Perilous Times. Works Vol9 p.328

 Asia Bibi - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/31/asia-bibi-verdict-pakistan-court-overturns-blasphemy-death-sentence?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 Defamation of Mohammed - https://www.theosthinktank.co.uk/comment/2018/10/26/q-have-european-judges-just-banned-defamation-of-the-prophet-muhammad-a-no

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/europe/the-day-free-speech-died-in-europe/

  Sinead O’Connor - https://www.spectator.com.au/2018/10/ten-things-sinead-oconnor-will-learn-from-her-new-religion/

 Pittsburgh Massacre

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wall-street-journal/we-jews-punch-above-our-weight-but-we-also-attract-evil-people/news-story/57a5b57242bc0f8a12784eef5668f6e0?utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=TodaySHeadlines

 Charlotte Chapel – Red Dead Redemption 2

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/fabulous/3397843/edinburgh-church-red-dead-redemption-2-poster/?fbclid=IwAR2AmCyds5Bn9LnOwv-u6Tf2H6LMC4SedgDB9RVdmuVovTtsxrbttd7mons

 Brazilian President.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/world/americas/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-election.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes&login=email&auth=login-email 

Northern Ireland – and taking the Church to Court

 The Chief Mammie - https://www.facebook.com/BeReasonableScotland/videos/vb.34292308613

 Corporate parenting - http://www.corporateparenting.org.uk/corporate-parenting/difinition/

 Quote of the week - Sir Robert Menzies said that “democracy is more than a machine; it is a spirit. It is based upon the Christian conception that there is in every human soul a spark of the divine.” For Menzies, democracy could work only if we remember that “with all their inequalities of mind and body, the souls of men stand equal in the sight of God”.

From John Anderson’s brilliant article in the Australian – former deputy PM of Australia. - https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/we-cant-let-the-aggressive-secularists-drive-out-religion/news-story/98492c4117c5d2fc1d55a1864268d257?utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=TodaySHeadlines

This is an interview I did with him - https://theweeflea.com/2018/07/05/john-anderson-interview-where-is-the-west-heading/

Quantum 13

1) Sex definition

US -  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/us/politics/transgender-trump-administration-sex-definition.html?nl=top-stories&nlid=57717561ries&ref=headline

 Australia – Tasmania - https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/tasmania-on-verge-of-removing-gender-from-birth-certificates/news-story/22e558f7dea37b3d2723036f9e628ee2?utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=TodaySHeadlines

UK – https://theweeflea.com/2018/10/23/two-messages-two-different-kingdoms-one-answer/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/12/bbc-will-have-gay-characters-shows-combat-heteronormative-culture/

 2) Abortion….Diana Johnson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce8Xe3eWCww&feature=youtu.be

Death from illegal abortion - https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/think-10k-women-died-from-illegal-abortions-before-roe-think-again?utm_content=buffer43c0d&utm_medium=WCDM+Buffer&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=WCDM

Queensland - https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-17/abortion-legal-in-queensland-after-historic-vote/10382538?fbclid=IwAR2YmIV4hsWn-3afNXFQ4VGZSJuUbL_avI3AC37ZdTN0mFrE7Bx_ZKUJitY&pfmredir=sm

3) State Pimps–

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/10/how-was-the-pimping-out-of-an-autistic-girl-allowed-to-happen/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Evening%20Blend%2018102018&utm_campaign=Evening_Blend

4) Yemen -

5) Brexit - https://theweeflea.com/2018/10/25/the-great-deception-part-6-the-rocky-road-to-rome/

6)  History is too white – 

7) Eugene Peterson - https://www.premierchristianity.com/Blog/Remembering-Eugene-Peterson-The-man-behind-The-Message 

8) Harry and Meghan - https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/duke-and-duchess-of-sussex-separate-for-70km-crossing-to-queenslands-fraser-island/news-story/d835cb0b4624cd741d2e358aed477d4b?utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=TodaySHeadlines

Quote of the Week - "The chief misery of the church lies in the fact that there are too many ministers who are ministers before they are Christians”.  

1) Andrew Brunson - https://www.facebook.com/FoxNews/videos/vb.15704546335/685752688463078/?type=2&theater

2) Ashers. https://www.christiantoday.com/article/ashers-bakery-the-500k-cost-of-this-supreme-court-case-isnt-the-only-price-to-pay/130666.htm

3) Is Socialism the only way to beat climate change - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0000pwx

4) University declines Rememberance Service - https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/12/cambridge-students-reject-remembrance-day-as-imperialist-propaganda-8030829/

5) Bavarian Elections - https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/bavarian-voters-punish-merkel-allies/news-story/e29776e0710b0a1477df10c0aa54e971?utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=TodaySHeadlines

6) More hate crimes – https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/review-of-uk-hate-crime-law-to-consider-misogyny-and-ageism/ar-BBOqZxe?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=mailsignout

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/16/review-of-uk-hate-law-to-consider-misogyny-and-ageism?CMP=share_btn_tw 

7) The Decline of the Church of Scotland - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0000q1f

|1|  Christians Against Poverty.

|2| Grievance studies.

|3|  John Nicholson, SNP MP.

|4|  Children writing gay love letters.

|5|  Church of Scotland - Rev Peter Nimmo.

|6|  Tim Keller & Crosspolitic.

|7|  Banksy Auction Stunt.

BBC - The Debt Saviours, Ronnie, Part 1

|2| Grievance studies.

Premier Christianity - How these 3 academics inspired a powerful Emperor’s Clothes moment for our culture

 |4|  Children writing gay love letters.

You Tube - BBC video shows 6-year-old schoolkids being made to write 'gay' love letters

|5|  Church of Scotland - Rev Peter Nimmo.

You Tube - Proud Ness 2018: Reverend Peter Nimmo

|6|  Tim Keller & CrossPolitic.

The Wee Flea - CrossPolitic and Keller the Cultural Communist

|7|  Banksy Auction Stunt.

The Guardian - Banksy publishes video detailing auction stunt plan

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"And while the life which we present before them is brighter than the sun, yet if any one will speak evil of us, let us not grieve at being defamed, but only if we be defamed with justice."

Chrysostom - Homily 15 on the Gospel of Matthew.