Holm Spun Musings

1 Samuel 8:1 When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel... 3 Yet his sons did not follow in his ways but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice. 4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah 5 and said to him, “You are old, and your sons do not follow in your ways; appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations.” 6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to govern

I leave soon for a short-term excursion away from winter Manitoba to a warmer climate. It is only for a week. It is also during the Lenten season, but while I will not fast from the foods of the resort, I will attempt to fast for a week from the news cycle. So I need to post this before I go. It has been 16 days since, the USA "Department of War" began Operation Epic Fury , a war cry to invade Iran in what Donald Trump has called a short-term excursion that will last as “lo

Recently a reporter stopped Mike Johnson the speaker of the US House of Congress and asked Johnson how he would would respond in scripture to Pope Leo’s citing Matthew 25:35 in critique of Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda ( “I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.”) [1] Perhaps not a little bit surprising, Johnson gave a brief on the spot response to the unnamed reporters question with a

Walrus columnist, Wesley Wark writes “Canada was Zelenskyyed.”

Eutychus: mostly dead but partly alive.