Wisdom From the Desert

"A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, 'You are mad, you are not like us'." --- St Antony of Egypt

Blog Author

Scott Gilbreath,
Falmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

More info here

I also blog at Anglican Essentials Canada Blog, and formerly blogged at Magic Statistics.

Subscribe to my feed

 

November 2008
S M T W T F S
« Oct   Dec »
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
30  

Archives

Collapsible Archive Widget

Essential Links

CaNN

Biblical Art on the WWW

Recommended

Get Firefox!

Made on a Mac

Apple, the Apple logo, and Mac are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. The Made on a Mac Badge is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc., used with permission.

Services




Archive for November 20th, 2008

Last Yugo rolls off the assembly line

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

It’s the end of an era as the vehicle voted worst car of the millennium has gone out of production.
The Yugo, the car everyone — or almost everyone — loved to hate, is no more.
The last one has rolled of the production line at the Zastava factory in the Serbian town of Kragujevac.
Since it first [...]

Marijuana grower convicted of child endangerment

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

In a precedent-setting court case in Labrador, a man who ran a marijuana grow-op in his house has been convicted, not only of drug offences, but also of child endangerment. Two children were living with him in the home.
RCMP seized 37 marijuana plants from the Happy Valley-Goose Bay resident Corey Saunders in November 2007.
[…]
Saunders [...]

Religious freedom does not apply to Muslims in Malaysia

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

So says Datuk Faiza Tamby Chik, a retired high court judge, speaking to an international symposium on comparative law.
Citing the case of Lina Joy’s renunciation of Islam, Faiza said the high court in its decision ruled that a Malay under Article 160(2) of the Federal Constitution remained in the Islamic faith until his or her [...]

Saint Edmund of East Anglia

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

The collect for today, the Feast Day of Saint Edmund (841-869), King of the East Angles, Martyr (source);
O eternal God,
whose servant Edmund kept faith to the end,
both with thee and with his people,
and glorified thee by his death:
grant us the same steadfast faith,
that, together with the noble army of martyrs,
we may come to the perfect [...]