Author Archives: Bert Hielema

December 27 2022 WHEN WILL THE LORD RETURN?  I have a curious habit. When I see a number, such as 2022, the year gone by like a shadow, then, to train my mental arithmetic, I add up the digits, 2+0+2+2, … Continue reading →

December 21 2022 THE RISE AND FALL OF CHRISTIANITY. Paul writes that there were few of noble birth and rich among the converts, still, quite early, Christianity penetrated into the higher stratus of society, even the imperial court.  They were … Continue reading →

December 14 2022. HOLY BODY; HOLY EARTH.             Don’t you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own? (1 Corinthians 6: 19-20) We, … Continue reading →

December 7 2022. OUR MARCH OF FOLLY Then you better start swimmin’Or you’ll sink like a stoneFor the times they are a-changin’ —Bob Dylan, “The Times They Are A-Changin’” I have this book, bought in 1985, The March of Folly, by Barbara W. … Continue reading →

November 30 2022 DOOM HAS GONE MAINSTREAM I subscribe to the New Yorker. Each week a 90 pages issue arrives in my mailbox on the highway where I live, some 5 km – 3 miles – from the hub of … Continue reading →

November 23 2022 SOCCER: THE SELECT FEW.  When I was in elementary school in Groningen, an old University City, I played soccer in two ways. We played a game called, ‘putje’, where the street on which I lived, was the … Continue reading →