by Peter Barfoot | Oct 24, 2025 | Blog
I had an appointment with my doctor yesterday, to assess various reports following tests on my body after my recent serious illness — 13 pages in all. The word “normal” came up a number of times, but “no” [this, that or whatever other...
by Peter Barfoot | Oct 24, 2025 | Blog
The Valley of Hinnom outside Jerusalem was the scene of gross, unspeakable human sacrifices, made by many idolatrous Jews to the god Molech. It was a place that righteous Jews shunned and detested. The Gate of Broken Pottery was so named because the potters who...
by Peter Barfoot | Oct 24, 2025 | Blog
The British began it with their House of Lords (“our betters” as our tour bus driver in London called them), which literally lords over the House of Commons (which represents “commoners”). Such terms repel nowadays, but the two Houses...
by Peter Barfoot | Oct 24, 2025 | Blog
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the Big Thing at the moment, but since it’s just the sum of human knowledge gained over thousands of years, it can at best be likened to the sum of things learned in Grade 1 Primary School. In comparison, that is, with what many...
by Peter Barfoot | Oct 24, 2025 | Blog
The King James Version translation of James 2:19 reads: “Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well…” The New King James Version reads much the same. A more accurate translation, however, is: “You believe that God is one; you do...
by Peter Barfoot | Oct 23, 2025 | Blog
In the 13th chapter of his first letter to the church at Corinth, the apostle Paul writes that if he could speak the languages of both earth and heaven, it would mean nothing without love — more like the tinkling sound of wind chimes. So much for noisy...