The Right to Destruction

Legislation in Iowa permits different organisations to put up displays at the Capitol, and Evangelical Christians are among the groups to have erected displays. The 1st Amendment renders this perfectly normal, and anyone of any faith can provide displays… or can they? It seems that some Evangelicals think differently. One of them, one Michael Cassidy, […]

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Writing Prompts: Christmas Clothes

I peel back the door of the 20th day, and the Meery Christmas Advent Calendar reveals to me… Christmas clothing! It is virtually a tradition of many a UK workplace to have a ‘Christmas Jumper Day’, irrespective of the line of work. Be it office work, be it retail, virtually everywhere has such a thing. […]

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Writing Prompts: Christmas Crackers

The 19th door of the Meery Christmas Advent Calendar gives us a fun little element of a Christmas celebration: the humble Christmas cracker! Christmas crackers provide a little theatre to proceedings. They are interactive, because they require two people to pull on either end, and they grant the victor little prizes, which are admittedly pretty […]

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Writing Prompts: Christmas at School

Behind the 18th door of the Meery Christmas Advent Calendar is something that can chill me to the bone, even more than 20 years after the fact: school memories! To be fair, these are not actually that bad, and to be equally fair, my memory of Christmas at school is quite hazy. Much of what […]

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Writing Prompts: Christmas Dinner (Polish Edition)

Underneath the 17th door of the Meery Christmas Advent Calendar lies a fish, and this symbolises one of the traditional Christmas dishes of Poland. You may be wondering why I’m writing about Polish Christmas food. Well, some of my neighbours are Polish, and they have spoken of Polish Christmas foods, so I thought I would […]

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Writing Prompts: Christmas Snowmen

A chilly breeze blasts out of the 16th door of the Meery Christmas Advent Calendar! It’s time to talk about snowmen! Snowmen, whilst not automatically a Christmas thing, have certainly become synonymous with the season. Snowmen, often decorated with Christmas-themed items, appear on Christmas cards and in Christmas stories. One such story, simply called The […]

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No More

Eagle-eyed readers of both Meerkat Musings and The Coalition of the Brave may have noticed that I posted something earlier this evening, and then removed the posts. Whilst I unfortunately deal with a few individuals who are less than honest in their behaviour, I aim to be transparent, and offer my reasons. Frankly, I am […]

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Writing Prompts: Christmas Down Under

For the 15th entry of our Meery Christmas Advent Calendar, let’s flip everything upside-down, and journey to Australia! Australian Christmases aren’t something I have directly experienced, though my brother has. Australia has the strange situation of having inherited a lot of traditional British Christmas notions, half of which are horribly inappropriate for the climate. After […]

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A Wise Rebuttal

The following was written by one John S, in the comments of a post over at The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, and is reproduced with permission. Where John is quoting David Thiessen of Theology Archaeology, the text shall be in purple, for clarity. “The secular world does not have a solution for the […]

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Writing Prompts: Christmas Movies

Ahem! Day 14 of the Meery Christmas Advent Calendar brings Christmas Movies, and with the movies comes the eternal question of whether the 80s classic Die Hard is a Christmas Movie. My wife would say, unequivocally, yes. I would have to agree. After all, the film is about a man trying to get home for […]

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