Judg 9:50-59 A few weeks ago, I mentioned a man who encouraged relatives and friends to put their money into his bank and then made off with the funds to build a comfortable life in the US (read it here).…

Judg 9:30-49 In the wake of jubilation over the Allied victory in the Second World War came fear in the West in the late 1940s as people faced the economic hardship of re-building and the potential new threat from Soviet…

Judg 9:22-29 We tend to think of God as by definition good, and many, in fact, abandon Him because He does not live up to their idea of goodness. They cry for help and there is no answer. Their loved…

Judg 9:16-21 During a gap year that I spent in Israel, a Jewish woman at a café struck up a conversation with me. She came from Poland and her father was a well-known rabbi in Eastern Europe who translated the…

Judg 9:7-15 I often wonder why certain things hold such an attraction for people that they cannot dispense with them. For each person who clings to activities or things, there will be another who feels no pull towards them. Thus,…

Judg 9:1-6 After WWII a man whose family was known to my father opened a bank in Hungary. The man convinced his siblings of the scheme, and they encouraged their relatives and friends in good faith to put their money…