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Principles, Not Rules

29 April 2021 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

Principles, Not Rules - Sermo Humilis

Children love the edges of things and so they build their castles on the shore. It's the lines, the edges, that bring definition and beauty. Without the lines, life is a formless void. The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful … [Read more...] about Principles, Not Rules

Filed Under: Life in Christendom Tagged With: Charity, Principles, Rules

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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.