14 Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. 15 Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.” [16]17 After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. 18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? 19 For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)20 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. 21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
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Grapes are NOT Sour | Thoughts from Soviet Britain
In this episode of "Thoughts from Soviet Britain", I give my reflections on the recent local elections in UK and talk about the future of politics.
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"On Secrecy" by Sir Henry Taylor | Weekly Wisdom
A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret.Taylor was son of a gentleman farmer in County Durham. After being at sea for some months and in the Naval Stores Department, he became a clerk in the Colonial Office, and remained there for 48 years, during which he exercised considerable influence on the colonial policy of the British Empire. He advocated the melioration, as opposed to the abolition, of the slave trade.In 1872 he was made K.C.M.G. He wrote four tragedies — Isaac Comnenus (1827), Philip van Artevelde (1834), Edwin the Fair (1842), and St. Clement's Eve (1862); also a romantic comedy, The Virgin Widow, which he renamed A Sicilian Summer, The Eve of the Conquest and other Poems (1847). In prose he published The Statesman (1836), Notes from Life (1847), Notes from Books (1849), and an autobiography.This is a reading of a short essay by Sir Henry Taylor, "Of Secrecy". Source: The Oxford Book of Essays
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Local Elections & Podcast Update | The World of Momus
In this episode of Reflections & Reactions, I discuss the local elections and the importance of voting, and then a bit of update about the direction of the podcast.
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Political Future of British Youth | Adam Williams | #91
In this episode I have a conversation with Adam Williams who is the Young Social Democrat Chair for Social Democratic Party (SDP)about the political future of the young people in Britain. Adam joined the SDP in April 2024 and campaigned in Coventry South for Alastair Mellon during the 2024 General Election. He joined the YSD executive as Deputy Chair in August 2024, then was elected Chair in January 2025.He’s been involved in politics since 2017 and comes from a Red Tory and Catholic background.He holds an MA in Crusader Studies and a BA in Medieval and Early Modern History with a particular interest in 13th Century Crusading. He currently works in administration, and has hobbies such as model making, athletics and archery. He is based in the West Midlands.
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