Many thousands have died or are missing in Gaza and Israel, causing untold suffering and grief. The ceasefire provides a rare glimmer of hope.

What’s religion got to do with this? Absolutely nothing you’ll be thinking. After all, Muslims and Jews are almost identical in their beliefs.

This is where throwing a large can of Christianity on the fire is bound to make things better. We know how to grieve properly. In fact, despite believing in a happy, eternal, invisible magic afterlife, we still seem to grieve for the dead just like everybody else.

https://mega.nz/file/9jNmgQaT#fPWxnaxrB8C9Du24xor6cMnEqyqv6SJaoM1Cl8yBUJ4

And in the Big News today from a Faith Perspective, Happy Maha Kumbh Mela everybody!

OK, it’s not technically a Sikh festival, but a Hindu one, but it’s still a Holy Faith Thing from India so it’ll do. Ah India, where the Gurus were from. So you see I still get to mention the Gurus, even when discussing a Holy Faith Thing from one the wrong religions, which I still deeply respect.

https://mega.nz/file/1uFwFYLD#gVAAX-gaZ9PQ2XEBG5BusEWpGMfXUfkF7xlMdLMCO08

Poetry, it’s great! There are poems in the Big Book of Magic Stuff. Yes, poetry is THAT important. Listening to the entries in the TS Eliot prize competition makes a very pleasant alternative to doom scrolling.

https://mega.nz/file/gr9REA6J#-XDibtR_n8v-AnHLx-w2THuKh_7IhcwjF1kXhgWha-0

Christians believe that farmers should be free of the inheritance tax that everyone else pays. Jesus says so.

https://mega.nz/file/Zq0RADBD#fPI5cxeTrbp92uujU9544MAv6kUNFC6Js2L_YjVJHQE

If you look due south after midnight just now, you’ll see the constellation of Leo.

In the bottom left hand corner there are some galaxies called the Leo Triplet. 35m ly away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Triplet

I managed to take a long exposure of those a few nights ago using my Seestar S50.

294 x 10″ exposures.