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Lesser Things

6 May 2021 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

Lesser Things - Sermo Humilis

Little arms like to wrap themselves around big things. There's the Matchbox car, which is fine, and then there's the combine harvester. There's playing with a doll in a bucket of water, and then there's putting on a wedding dress. We were five, and though our bodies were … [Read more...] about Lesser Things

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Thor's Oak

Around 723 AD, a missionary named Boniface entered Hesse in Germany. Upon finding a sacred tree named Thor’s Oak, he took an axe to it, cut it down and built a church. Many in the town, believing that the God of Boniface must be greater than Thor, left their paganism behind converted to Christianity.