"Revolting from God by the instigation of the devil, and abusing the freedom of his own will, he forfeited these excellent gifts; and on the contrary entailed on himself blindness of mind, horrible darkness, vanity and perverseness of judgment, became wicked, rebellious, and obdurate in heart and will, and impure in his affections" (Canons of …
Tag: Freedom
Snakes Alive!
Snakes alive! I’m nearly seventy-five; I’ll soon be gone, It won’t be long. The year I was born, in ’44, We’d just done won the war; Rule Britannia we sang wi’ lust, An under wur breath, the Gerries we’d cuss. Our hearts were filled wi’ wonderful glee, Now we can live and be really free; …
Freedom Come & Freedom Go!
"The English Church shall be free and shall have its rights undiminished, and its liberties unimpaired." So says the very clause of the Magna Carta, the "great charter" signed by King John and the Barons of England on 15 June 1215. Only four of the Magna Carta's 63 clauses have remained a part of English …
Home-born Slaves!
I've talked to a lot of people in a lot of places in my travels. A guy in Ocho Rios, in Jamaica, collared me one day. He asked if I thought that what we, the Brits, that is, had done to Jamaicans in the past was wrong. He was taken aback when I agreed with …
