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When the Laughter Dies

16 May 2019 By David Trounce 1 Comment

The End of Joy - sermo humilis

The joy of the Lord is our strength; and laughter, as the wise man said, is the best medicine. This may go a long way to explaining why western culture has become so weak and sick. In his book, A Study of History, Historian Arnold Toynbee studied 28 great civilizations … [Read more...] about When the Laughter Dies

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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.