Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
David Brooks' piece on Ward Three Morality has me thinking: The essence of the problem is this: Rich people used to set their own norms. For example, if one rich person wanted to use the company helicopter to aerate the ponds on his properties, and the other rich people on his board of directors thought …
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N.T. Wright thinks that the Bible can put a new zest into ecumenism, in part because of this: The synod (of Catholic bishops in Rome) was, in effect, inhabiting more fully the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, particularly the document Dei Verbum. Many bishops at the Synod spoke excitedly of the effect of Bible …
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From the Episcopal News Service: An Episcopal priest who proposed rewriting Texas law to favor dissident congregations in property disputes said January 30 he considers it "the next natural step" in an attempt to halt lawsuits within the church. "It's shameful we're spending so much money suing one another when we could be using that …
Those of us who were confronted back in the 1960's and 1970's with books like Paul Erlich's The Population Bomb have heard this whining before: Jonathon Porritt, who chairs the government’s Sustainable Development Commission, says curbing population growth through contraception and abortion must be at the heart of policies to fight global warming. He says …
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