Christmas and literature
Felicity Carswell
Date posted: 1 Dec 2019
Felicity Carswell highlights the great opportunity that Christmas brings to put good material into the hands of our non-Christian friends
I love Christmas – the tunes, the smells, the tastes, even the cold weather that brings with it cosy evenings by the fire.
Increase in use of puberty blockers to be investigated
The Times / en staff
Date posted: 1 Sep 2019
Paediatricians are to investigate the controversial drugs used to halt puberty in children who want to change sex, it was reported in late July.
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health asked its ethics and law advisory committee to look at the ethics surrounding the rapid increase in the use of hormone blockers to treat under 16s. The drugs are currently only licensed for use in children under this age who start puberty early, before the age of nine, not for children who present as having ‘gender dysphoria’.
USA: eugenics targets African-Americans
Christianheadlines.com
Date posted: 1 Mar 2019
Dr Martin Luther King’s niece stated in January, on Martin Luther King day, that Planned Parenthood (PP), the US abortion provider, targets African-Americans.
Dr Alveda King, the Director of Civil Rights for the Unborn said: ‘The leading cause of death in the African-American community is not gang violence … it’s abortion. [With] 60 million-plus abortions legal in America since 1973 [and] about a third of those in the African-American community [who make up] 13% or less of America’s population, that means we are having more abortions.’
Day of Prayer
Lee Emerson
Date posted: 1 Jan 2019
Dear en,
I was encouraged to read in the November
edition about the ‘Day of Prayer for Britain:
Brexit, Unity and Reformation’…until
I
came
to
the concluding
remarks:
‘Brexit
was likened to the Children of Israel leaving
Egypt. Moses persisted. It was God who
hardened Pharaoh’s heart. Finally, everyone
was set free.’
Brexit pursued by a bear?
The House of Commons became a bear pit.
The Prime Minister’s proroguing of Parliament was deemed unlawful by the Supreme Court at the end of September. Mayhem ensued as MPs were recalled. Boris Johnson wants a General Election. The opposition parties do not want one until a no-deal separation from the European Union is avoided. But it was the incandescent rage and abuse voiced by both sides in the chamber which caused alarm. The country is already divided and such staggering levels of unbridled fury can only make things worse – as this winter’s tale of bruising politics unfolds.