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Yes to deaconesses
There is no satisfactory answer to rejecting women's callings. Rejecting them is like telling God to keep quiet! I think that refutation is taken as implying that the women are making a mistake.
frankbeswick, on 01/21/2021
Flora of the Tides: edible seaweeds
I don't know salt from sea lettuce. We use sea salt. Halen Mon [Anglesey sea salt] is my preferred type.
frankbeswick, on 01/21/2021
Gardening in Difficult Conditions
The old men told me that I would never succeed, but I did. One sweet potato out of five produced a small crop.
frankbeswick, on 01/21/2021
The living soil: encouraging soil fungi
Mainly compost and chicken manure pellets, but I also use leaf mould and seaweed [meal and liquid]. I have used worm compost in the past. I have used horse manure, but at 70 I find it now a bit heavy. Liquid feed for tomatoes at times
frankbeswick, on 01/21/2021
The living soil: encouraging soil fungi
frankbeswick, Thank you for the practical information, pretty picture and product line.
What do you put mostly into your garden as compost, and have you done vermicomposting?
Not one of my gardens, starting with my popcorn garden before going ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/20/2021
Gardening in Difficult Conditions
frankbeswick, Thank you for practical informations, pretty pictures and product lines.
What has happened about your daughter-in-law's sweet potatoes?
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/20/2021
Flora of the Tides: edible seaweeds
frankbeswick, Thank you for all the fine practicalities and products.
What with seaweed desserts as a possibility, I'm looking forward to coming up with an all-seaweed, multi-course meal.
Do you prefer sea salt from seawater or sea salt from sea ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/20/2021
Yes to deaconesses
frankbeswick, Thank you for the practical information, pretty picture and product line.
What is the location in the image left of your title?
If a man hears a calling that he is allowed to follow, what has been the answer to why a woman hears ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/20/2021
Hugel Culture: raised beds German style
frankbeswick, Thank you for the practicalities and products. I have the permaculture books but the two Hugelkulture books were unknown to me.
Does one in the beginning cover the mound with plastic or textile to keep the lightweight materials, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/20/2021
Jesus:the Hidden Years
frankbeswick, Thank you for the practical information and the product line.
Your theory makes fine sense, particularly with pointing out how cousin-ship and Qumran-ship account for the convergence of Jesus and John at the baptismal waters. Also, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/20/2021
The Philosopher and the Gospels: a review
frankbeswick, Thank you for the practicalities and products.
It's incomprehensible to me why anyone would want to stay in Hell upon getting there. Is it that the worse people ever never have any appreciation of beauteous good or any empathy for ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/20/2021
The Gathering Tide: a review
frankbeswick, Thank you for the practicalities, picture and product lines. (The t-shirt is hilarious.)
Do you have a way of explaining brobs? I do not understand what is on the internet and find no good pictures.
Does Ulpha Farm have an ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/20/2021
Pandemic and Religion
Certainly He does intend for us to knw much about His plan, but you are correct it that it does exceed our ability to understand. Faith is the requirement He places for such things that are beyond us as humans.
Perhaps the best analogy is ...
blackspanielgallery, on 01/20/2021
The Role of the papacy
frankbeswick, Thank you for the practical information, pretty picture and product line. In particular, I appreciate the coverage of Vatican artworks.
What is the location in the image next to your title?
Was there nothing that could have been ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/20/2021
Review of the Battle of the Five Armies
I was too young to be able to deal with Tolkien's voice range, as I was under ten years old at the time. Sorry!
frankbeswick, on 01/20/2021