Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
The North American Anglican has given Colletti his opportunity to respond and he does so with Colletti: A Response to My Critics. His response mostly stuck with those who were given an opportunity in the North American Anglican itself. I've said most of what I want to say in my pieces The Cattle Have Already …
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I was intrigued to read Jordan Cooper's Substack post on this topic. As someone who did a Tiber swim back in the day and then left it behind, the renewed interest in Roman Catholicism is certainly familiar. My years as a Roman Catholic left a deep imprint on my life and the way I look …
The recent "there and back again" of Artemis II is an achievement, even if it only beat the previous record by a small proportion. It's tempting to say that "we've done this before" but that should be tempered by two facts: the fact that we did it after a half century gap when the learned …
The Chinese novel Dreaming of Red Mansions (or Dreaming of the Red Chamber) by Tsao Hsieh-chin is considered a classic in Chinese literature. The title though has nothing to do with the fact that it's the colour of the Chinese Communist Party (it was written during the Ch'ing Dynasty.) Red in China is traditionally the …
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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