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Posted 23 hours 9 min ago
According to the eighth-century Muslim historian Ibn Ishaq, Ubayd Allah ibn Jahsh ibn Ri'ab, cousin to Muhammad, abandoned Islam and converted to Christianity in Abyssinia (Ethiopia). His former comrades would say to him:
“We see clearly, but your eyes are only half open”.
He saw more in Jesus Christ than all others see who try to look past Him.
Posted 1 day 23 hours ago
Capel Salem, Pwllheli, has the same name as Martin Top Chapel, but for its Welsh. It was originally built in 1862 for the Calvinistic Methodists, though it was expanded in 1893 and then rebuilt in 1915 after a thief in 1913 discovered nothing worth stealing so decided he would become an arsonist instead.
Posted 3 days 23 hours ago
Justice delayed is justice denied.
Posted 3 days 23 hours ago
The Parish Church of St. Peter, in Pwllheli, Gwynedd. There was some function taking place within, so the externals only I was able to observe. It seemed fairly ordinary but for the number of gables it seemed to possess. With hindsight, this is unremarkable, but at the time I pondered it. A gable is the triangular ‘end’ of a building, formed by two intersecting roof slopes.
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