Month: October 2021

29th October 2021 In Ragaris books By Penelope Wallace

Q and A: for fans of Dorac and the Guardian Weekend magazine (Apologies to anyone else)

The story of “We Do Not Kill Children” runs basically from 26th September to 15th November, but reaches its climax on Hallowe’en. Organising the dates was a complicated business when writing it, and so I always think of October as Dorac’s month. The following therefore...

15th October 2021 In Christianity By Penelope Wallace

The Ten Commandments in the modern world (2): Number Five

The Fifth Commandment is to honour one’s parents (notably both parents.) “Honour” is not the same thing as either “love” or “obey.” Paul perhaps is extrapolating, when he says (Ephesians 6: 1-3) “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ‘Honour your father and...

1st October 2021 In Christianity By Penelope Wallace

Praying for COP 26

We all know, we’ve known for months, that something called COP26 is happening in November in Glasgow. (The Pre-COP conference is happening NOW in Milan.) How much more do we know? Until writing this post I didn’t even know what COP stands for ("Conference of the...