Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Ten years ago, I received my PhD and published this. I don't do much "practical life advice" but this was an exception. I trust it will be helpful. It may seem an odd time to do a pseudo-graduation piece. Obviously the University of Tennessee thinks so: this weekend I am supposed to officially receive my …
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https://northamanglican.com/the-methods-and-effects-of-the-oxford-movement-on-missions-in-victorian-england/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-methods-and-effects-of-the-oxford-movement-on-missions-in-victorian-england This is an excellent post and I commend it to my readers. The way Anglo-Catholicism has gone--especially on this side of the Atlantic--one wouldn't normally associate it with missions but here we are. I have a couple of comments to make: It was not enough, Pusey argued, based on Romans 10:14, for Bibles to …
Well, it's that time again: at the end of the month the Church of God (at least some of it) meets in Orlando for our General Assembly. From a formal procedural standpoint it's a two stage process: first the General Council of ordained bishops meet to debate and pass on appointments and resolutions/changes to the …
This weekend is the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It is a divisive event this time because we are not in agreement about what kind of country we should have. It's not the first time we've celebrated such a milestone under duress: the Bicentennial in 1976 took place in a …
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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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