There was once a vixen who wanted to eat some grapes she saw hanging over the wall of a vineyard. She couldn’t get at the grapes by herself, so she got a fox to help her, but even so she couldn’t reach them. Finally, unable to fulfil her desire, she bit the tail of the… Continue reading The Vixen and the Grapes
Category: Stories
Your Bible
I. Lots of Bibles On a bookshelf in my house is An American Bible, edited by Alice Hubbard. It contains an Introduction and the Gospels according to Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Robert Ingersoll, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Elbert Hubbard. You have probably heard of most of these evangelists.… Continue reading Your Bible
New Jersey Adventure
This is an extract from my book Albatross, about which you can read more via the navigation bar above. There is in Stirling, on the borders of the Scottish Highlands and Lowlands, a firm hight IT-MacS, owned by the Begg-Lorimer family. The top person in the firm is Carole, and her main deputy is her… Continue reading New Jersey Adventure
Osama at Heaven’s Gate
I dreamed that Bill Clinton died. At Heaven’s gate there was some difficulty due to his history. He had committed grave sins against sexuality (cf. Sixth Commandment); more serious, for what I could see, were certain sins against property (cf. Seventh Commandment) and gross lies told to gain political advantage (cf. Eighth Commandment); worst of… Continue reading Osama at Heaven’s Gate
The Nature of Israel
Throughout this tract we translate ‘am and laos as “people”, goy and ethnos as “nation”, qahal and ekklesia as “church”. Israel is a people which does not count itself among the nations (Nm 23:9). Israel is a church (Nm 20:10-12). The word gentile, “non-Israelite”, comes from Latin gens, “nation”. Israel did indeed go… Continue reading The Nature of Israel