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If you were a real man, she said, you wouldn’t have tolerated me talking to you like that. She thought it would be her final knock-out blow — victory hers — drumming her point home; feeble loser. And by your definition, he replied, if you were the real deal you wouldn’t have talked to me [...]

Life is filled with trials and tests, but somehow we never recognise half of them in the mundane encounters of daily life. ‘Do you think you will be left to say, “We believe”, and will not be tested?’ we remind ourselves as calamities unfold on our television screens. Tornados rip a town to pieces, and [...]

How easily we plant the seed of enmity in our hearts, fostering contempt of our own brothers, and how quickly it grows into a tree bearing bitter fruit. Most days I receive an email from across the Atlantic ocean reminding me of higher wisdom. The last one I read imparted these gems: Wise Quote of [...]