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My wife and I talked to a young woman with the whole of John 3.16 tattooed on her wrist area; it was her favorite Bible verse and mine also. I'm sure that other conversations have also arisen as a result of her willingness to endure the ink injecting needles. (I guess for faith based ink, the...

The Scriptures are indeed most searching as they illuminate human frailties. Sometimes able journalists - such as Laura Kuenssberg, for example, of the BBC, can as a matter of public service incisively see through politicians - of all shades of opinion. Wikipedia says this of her: "Charles...

I come back to the very apt comment of Laura Kuenssberg of the BBC: "The Tories' performance is historically dreadful. This is not just a little embarrassment or hiccup. In these elections the governing party has been completely smashed." Main parties punished for Brexit contortions

Or, similarly: "When in that House MPs divide If they've a brain and cerebellum, too They've got to leave that brain outside And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to." W. S. Gilbert, of Gilbert & Sullivan, 'The Savoy Operas'. (Except that in the case of the hard left of the Labour Party...

Remember the Abba song: 'I'm a marionette'?

Maybe so! Seems anyway that 18 has become an especially popular age to do it for the first (and sometimes the only) time. I guess for those who do it then, it's all to do with coming of age. Even though some states allow it at 16, it's probably far wiser to wait until 18, and I guess there is...

Maybe it makes him feel really good. (Even more so than it did to you?)

Yes, I'm sure it felt good. I'm sure you don't regret it. Anyway, don't be surprised if he gets more.

And this is something the secularist politicians just won't acknowledge, of course.

It can be so easy to slip into untruth, unless one's conscience is strong, by God's grace.

In some ways Mrs May belongs to the finest traditions of ambiguity mastered by former British Prime Ministers such as Harold Wilson. With Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand — and of course Sir Winston Churchill — one knew where one stood. To Howard Hunt, the Watergate plumber-in-chief, is...

Good to see you participating on the forums! :)

I think the 1 Corinthians 1.21 context is rather specific. Clearly a chapter such as the mighty Romans 8 does show that Christians do grapple with indwelling sin, which however, does not have the final victory: far from it.

John the Baptist said: "He must increase, but I must decrease" (John 3.30).

Yes, for young women the tattoo parlor - not unlike a hairdresser's - is a natural environment now. An instinct for getting skin injected upon reaching adulthood seems to be natural and on the whole benign, so what your daughters wanted is hardly surprising or unusual.

Exactly. "Saved for glory, saved by Jesus, All our meetness His alone, Meetness which the Father pleases Ours should be in Christ the Son."

Well, with so many young women today keen to get inked after 18, I guess it certainly pays wisely for your wife to be tolerant about your daughters' tattoos.

Ephesians 2.9, indeed...

Romans 3 and Romans 5 give a very strong sense of the imputed righteousness of God reckoned by faith to the sinner's account.

Yes, now even more than with men, it seems that for women getting tattooed has long become established as an instinctively well preferred way of self-expression. (In the final analysis, I suppose, not too different from ear piercing.)