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There's a very interesting up-and-coming streaming platform called Loor.tv, slowly growing in the background overshadowed by everything else, but well worth supporting. Their tagline is "TV & Movies unfiltered by Hollywood or church ladies." Basically, the secular streaming services hate...

The most important event on the Christian calendar is the death and resurrection of our Lord. Various different calendars are used to calculate the correct date - some follow the Catholic dating, some the Jewish, some the Orthodox, and others follow less well established versions of the...

I was thinking further about Dune last night, and realised that the story has one major difference with basically every other story - there are no "good guys". Try and think of one group who are the "good guys". There is a good individual here and there, but even most individuals have very...

I'm just trying to figure out what people are seeing when people post links to Twitter / X. Please give the page 20 seconds or so to ensure it's fully loaded, then look at the following (without clicking on it, just look at it) and vote in the poll to say what you can see. Did you see: An...

This forum has been running for many years, and over that time many topics have been discussed. This can make it difficult for a newcomer looking for information on plural marriage or patriarchy to find what they are looking for, particularly because there's only so much you can say about...

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/slow-genocide-120000-armenian-christians-happening-under-azerbaijan-occupation-report Armenia is so desperate for assistance that they try to work with both Russia and the USA - Russian peacekeepers are supposed to be controlling this area following the...

I have just taken over management of my elderly grandfather's farm, and am now farming in loose collaboration with both him and my father. This is a fantastic development for myself personally, my family, and our extended family. It is exactly where God wants me to be at this stage of life...

Short notice, but we're having a casual Passover meal at our place in Canterbury, New Zealand, this Wednesday night (5 April). @frederick and one of his wives will be there. It would be great to see more of you and put faces to your names. If you'd like to know more send me a private message, or...

There is a rapidly accelerating pattern in international events this year. Peace efforts led by China - and yielding successful results. So far this year: China is pushing for a peace settlement in Ukraine. Both Russia and Ukraine have cautiously welcomed their suggestions - but the USA has...

To avoid waylaying another discussion, I thought I should make a separate thread for this, so I can write more freely. It is common for Christians to assume that Muslims are worshipping a different God to the one Christians worship - and to see "Allah" as the name of this different God. I do...

Occasionally we have enquiries about the lower age limit for participation in the forum, and I feel I need to clarify this, as the policy we use behind the scenes is not clearly stated on the forum. A person needs to be at least 13 years old to have an account on the forum. This is a legal...

This is an incredible book, and does not fit into any standard category. It is a history of the Napoleonic wars in 1805 - 1813, but told from the perspective of the common man (the soldier in the thick of the action), with the ultimate aim of answering the very difficult question "why did...

This is something that is commonly stated as a fact, but a recent discussion has shown it is not universally accepted as such. I think this would be profitable to tease out. To briefly summarise the points made in that discussion: At this point, one problem may be that the word "covered" is...

At key times in the history of the world and the church, a Church council of some form will come out with a statement that lays a line in the sand and states the Church's scriptural views in a way that people can cite and refer to for generations to come. The Frankfurt Declaration may be the...

As Charles III ascends to the throne, the words of the National Anthem of the UK and New Zealand* take on a new meaning. Charles is an inauspicious name. Charles I was pro-Catholic, married a Catholic wife, and steered the Anglican church towards catholicism. He also levied taxes without...

Some of you may have heard of Avi Yemini, the Australian journalist for Rebel News who has been covering protests in Australia extensively throughout the covid era. Last week he planned to come to New Zealand to cover a protest here, and was blocked at the border. Incidentally, the day of this...

This graphic is a great illustration of how people can be too wedded to a theory. From Zerohedge. So, 68 + 27 = 95% of the universe is comprised of theoretical components - dark energy and dark matter - which nobody has ever observed? Only 0.5% of the universe is comprised of stars - the...

My favourite uncle passed away yesterday evening. Sudden heart attack... He was one of the most Christian men I ever knew, in the most real practical sense of loving others as Jesus would. He was the most generous man I have ever known, and I have been a willing recipient of that generosity all...

With Xenforo 2.2, there are new thread types available, which are designed to make the platform far more customisable for different uses. We can now (if I permit it in specific forums) post: Long-form articles With comments on them that work the same as usual forum posts. Questions These...

Occasionally people for various reasons wish to remove content they have posted here, and/or leave the forum entirely. When this occurs for a reason that is stressful, I tend to get contacted by people asking me to urgently do something about it. I then have to have a detailed conversation with...