Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Teaching at Lee University makes me take a greater interest in who's going there, whether they're going into the field I teach in (Engineering) or not. One day at church I found out that one of our young people is planning to start at Lee next fall in Nursing. That school is, in reality, the …
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The North American Anglican has not included me (wisely, some would say) in the official responders' list to the above referenced post. But I would like to do so, and since I have this forum (and have commented on many of their posts in the past) I will do so on this one. I only …
Why preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons must be a higher priority than international law The world’s modern legal order, embodied in …Iran must not have nuclear weapons
Jeffrey Epstein, the crimes he committed and the people he involved are topics that simply will not go away in our news cycle, and that's saying something in a news cycle with a notoriously short memory. It transcends the political spectrum (no mean feat either) and sticks in the craw of a significant portion of …
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The whole subject of the Eucharist is one which has occupied this site for a long time. Probably my most read--and infamous--post on the subject was my 2015 piece Bill Clinton's Eucharistic Theology: It Depends on What 'Is' Is, where I tried to use the legal woes of our last Scots-Irish president to make a point …
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You can see them here: https://youtu.be/7OLz2CDOw0Q The songs: A1 Allelu!A2 Alleluia, Sons Of God AriseA3 The Angel Of The LordA4 Away They Went With WeepingA5 Balm In GileadA6 Bless The Lord, O My SoulA7 The Breath Of GodA8 Canticle Of The GiftB1 Canticle Of The Three Young MenB2 Come, Follow MeB3 Come, Go With Me …
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The failure of of the ice maker in our refrigerator--which we thought premature--has led us to videos like this, where we found out we were blessed: https://youtu.be/iP1JwoRSTDs?si=YqFzkoXg_NRuffpz One of the brands mentioned as "not what they used to be" was Frigidaire. Fundie and fundie-adjacent types will recall the days when preachers--sweating, bawling and thumping the …
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The Baptist News, of all places, makes this observation: Beneath the salacious headlines from the Anglican Church in North America lies a high-stakes battle about military chaplaincy. Although one of the nation’s smaller Christian denominations, the ACNA endorses a disproportionately massive share of United States military chaplains. And that has been a profit center for the Jurisdiction …
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As we careen from one year of artificial intelligence combined with (and to some extent born out of) real stupidity, it's time to stop and take a look at the Anglican Church in North America, that rickety chandelier of an organisation mired with serious problems with its bishops, and three in particular. The matter of …
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https://ifphc.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/pentecostalism-in-puerto-rico-a-movement-birthed-by-refugees-in-1916-now-includes-25-percent-of-island-residents/ It's not just the Assemblies of God either; the Church of God has also been enriched by its Puerto Rican people, who on the island organise themselves as the "Mission Board." Many have come to the continental U.S., where they have been a part of my local church and my classes at the University …
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