Day Off Week 46 2024

It was a more conventional day off last Tuesday after a little lay off. I found it hard to get up and going at first but once I had my jeans and my oldest rainers on and was out in the sunshine all was fine. Unsually, I had a coffee near the beginning of my walk rather than near the end as it was quite late by the time I got out. I also had lunch out and through the rest of the day I read most of the slave story (see quotes below) I became aware of through the Magnus Magnusson book and worked on the latest issue of In Writing. In the evening we watched two episodes of Show Trial on BBC iplayer.

Quotations

A judge says to a woman

Margaret Douglass, stand up. You are guilty of one of the vilest crimes that ever disgraced society; and the jury have found you so. You have taught a slave girl to read in the Bible. No enlightened society can exist where such offences go unpunished. (Craft, William; Craft, Ellen. Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: African American Slave History (Annotated) p 28. Kindle Edition.)

This was the first act of great and disinterested kindness we had ever received from a white person. (Craft, William; Craft, Ellen. Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: African American Slave History (Annotated) p 61. Kindle Edition.)

It is very sad to see Gardiner Spring quoted as declaring from the pulpit that, "if by one prayer he could liberate every slave in the world he would not dare to offer it." (Craft, William; Craft, Ellen. Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: African American Slave History (Annotated) p 68. Kindle Edition.)

Craft seems on safer ground when he quotes the Old Testament thus

In the 23rd chapter of Deuteronomy, 15th and 16th verses, it is thus written:—"Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is es- caped from his master unto thee. He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him."

"Hide the outcast. Bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee. Be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler." (Isa. xvi. 3, 4.)

(Craft, William; Craft, Ellen. Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: African American Slave History (Annotated) p. 71. Kindle Edition. 

Day off Week 11 2019

So it was back to the day off this Tuesday. I got up early and dressed in jeans and trainers eager to make the most of the day. It was the usual mix of dog walking, coffee, newspaper quiizzes, reading adn TV. I managed to read Peter J Williams Can we trust the Gospels? picked up at kast week's conference. It is is not only an excellent apologetics book but is full fo all sorts of others good things too. I enjoyed, for example the brief chapter on contradictions, where he lists any number from John. His quotation from sceptic Bart Ehrman make the latter look pretty shallow in the light of what is said in the rest of the chapter. Not that this is a points scoring exercise. Williams simply wants us to see that there is every good reason to trust the Gospels. In the evening I enjoyed the last episode of Shetland with my wife who had been out working. Yes, it is not ideal for her to be out when I'm having my day off but it hard to see a way round it. No-one else is at home at the moment. The rest of the day I was busy catching up on the blogging front.

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Reeboks on a balcony