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Dealing With Flaws in PHP and the Vulcanhammer Sites

https://wordpress.com/blog/2026/10/21/php2shell-vulnerabilities/?page_id=89327 About a decade ago the "vulcanhammer" family of sites (which includes chet-aero.com and The Bossuet Project) began a long migration from commercial hosting to wordpress.com. Being a webmaster for many years (and that included webstore sites) convinced me that the long-term viability of the sites depended upon someone staying on top of the hackers …

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Blaming the Jews Still Means You’re a Failure, and That Includes You, Tucker Carlson

Back in 2011 I wrote a piece entitled If You Believe That Everything in Life That Goes Wrong is Someone Else’s Fault, You’re a Failure, which started with this: A few years back I was involved in an extraordinarily complex business transaction.  It was complex not only because our legal system makes even the simplest transaction …

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The Realm of the Unseen

Joshua Ferris' post on the North American Anglican entitled Part I: Have Christians Forgotten How to See a Mysterious World? was a surprise, but one which Christians in general and Anglicans in particular need to address. For me it really hits home because much of the core of my Christian life has been driven by …

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Account of Pentagon Attack, 11 September 2001

https://vulcanhammer.org/2025/09/08/account-of-pentagon-attack-11-september-2001/

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The Missed Opportunities: My Thoughts on 9/11

This week is here: it's the week we commemorate the twenty-fifty anniversary of the jihadi attacks of September 11, 2001. That event, coming in the wake of my mother's death the preceding December, put me in a funk for a good long while. Some of that funk was relieved when the Church of God Chaplains …

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Coming Home from Heathrow

In 1976 I made a month-long trip to the UK.  At the end of this I headed to Heathrow Airport for the flight back to Miami and from there home just up the coast.  Originally written in 2006, I'm reposting this with a few modifications on the fiftieth anniversary of the flight and of the …

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Advice to Graduates: The Two Promises I Made to Myself

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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The Methods and Effects of the Oxford Movement on Missions in Victorian England — North American Anglican

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 …

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Some Thoughts on the General Council Agenda for the 2026 Church of God General Assembly

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 …

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How Some Aggie Catholics Celebrated America’s Bicentennial

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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