An Obadiah Slope Column
A treat not a trick: Christian Author and travelling Bible reader, Simon Camilleri, provides a note on Halloween to hand out with treats for visitors if you take part in that American day. It is a nice idea of how to turn a commercialised festival to good use.
So here is his text for you to copy and re-use. (Never say this Column is not useful!)
Trick or Treat from The <Surname> Family!
Halloween can be a fun time to dress up in scary costumes and eat some lollies.
It also gets some people thinking about scary things
like death, evil spirits, and what happens after death.
We are Christians, so we believe that spiritual things are real, but we don’t have to be afraid.
We believe that God loves us dearly and sent Jesus to save us
from the evil that is both around us and inside us.
He lived, died and came back to life so that we can be freed from the fear of death
and to reconcile us with God, both now and forever.
With Jesus there is nothing to be scared about!
So enjoy your lollies, thank you for your amazing costume
and if you want to learn more about Jesus
read about him in the Bible and feel free to email us at:
<email>
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
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Good spelling mistake: The Other Cheek is a glass house when it comes to spelling but Obadiah can’t resist this one…
This house is around the block from Obadiah’s much more modest dwelling. “Holloween” seems a perfect rebuke to a commercial Halloween. “Hallow” comes from the church calendar – it is the night or evening before All Hallows’ Day or All Saints Day and was originally intended to commemorate Christian martyrs. The commercialised Halloween has been stripped of that meaning so Obadiah thinks the spelling “Holloween” seems just about right.
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Fixing Hell: An engineer finds himself in Hell. The Devil welcomes him and sends him to his spot. After a while he starts to feel hot. “Its damn hot in here,” he says. So he looks around and finds an air-conditioning box. After a few minutes, he manages to fix it so he now has air conditioning.
Satisfied, he checks his phone only to discover there is no mobile phone service or internet connection down there. He looks around and finds an antenna. He proceeds to fix it and other stuff in Hell.
A week later God comes down to check on Hell, and he can’t believe his eyes.
“What is going on here,” he asks. The Devil appears. “You wouldn’t believe it,” the Devil says. “We’ve got an engineer down here.
“He’s been fixing things down here and everything works great.”
” Wait, what? How can this be,” says God. “All engineers go to Heaven. It is in their contract.If you don’y give him back, i’ll sue you.”
The Devil responds… “Good luck finding a lawyer.”
(Nicked from the internet)
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Stan Grants risks the wrath of the young: Not the most consequential part of Grant’s Richard Johnson lecture (which The Other Cheek reported as “Stan Grant on liquid modernism, identity politics, and critical theory“) but possibly the part guaranteed to get a reaction was his description of a “A performer with all the emotional depth of a holograph and whose … writing of betrayed love and vengeance could actually be improved by Chat GPT”.
He did say ” “sorry to all the Tay Tay fans out there,” but Obadiah did not think he was very sorry at all ./..