An extraordinary ministry by someone I had the chance to meet last weekend: http://downloads.cbn.com/cbnplayer/cbnPlayer.swf?s=/vod/SUS124_ShaneenClarke_060209_WS Shaneen attends Holy Trinity Brompton (of Nicky Gumbel and "Alpha" fame) with her husband Martin. She was also influenced by my superior at Laity Ministries, Leonard Albert. Hopefully, Palm Beach is next...
Health Care Reform: Our Past is Your Future
This past Sunday's passage of the "health care reform" has brought something I heard a long time ago back to mind, and it seems appropriate to repeat it in the wake of this monumental legislation. In the wake of the collapse of the old Soviet Union, many American churches attempted to establish a viable presence …
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John Shelby Spong, Surrender Monkey
That's the opinion of Bayard Taylor in The Late Great Ape Debate: John Shelby Spong, retired Episcopal Bishop of Newark, is a surrender monkey. His "Call for a New Reformation" is really a call to wave the white flag, throw in the towel, and give up on the God revealed in both Jewish and Christian …
Offshore Wind Energy Makes a Splash
An interesting site called Offshore Wind shows the advances in wind technology and its application to power generation in the North Sea. It is a German effort, and it illustrates some major differences between Europe and the US in energy policy (or lack thereof.) Locating wind turbines offshore is a logical type of effort, especially …
The Old Colonies are Really an Improvement After All
A retired British diplomat finally breaks down and admits it: On Sunday I got up and went to church. I can’t really call myself a regular churchgoer, but for some reason I am getting up about three hours earlier than normal while on holiday in the Bahamas, so it involved no real overcoming of sloth... …
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Rowan Williams and Evangelist "Bullies:" Save the Whining for the Atheists
Rowan Williams is at it again: The Archbishop of Canterbury has condemned evangelist "bullies" who attempt to convert people of other faiths to Christianity. Dr Rowan Williams said it was right to be suspicious of proselytism that involves "bullying, insensitive approaches" to other faiths. In a speech at Guildford cathedral, Dr Williams criticised those who …
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Asylum Seeking in the Country Which Everyone Wanted to Leave
In this case, the United Kingdom: The image of three young Kosovans, found dead, roped together, at the foot of a Glasgow high-rise, deserves to go down in the annals of British shame alongside the pictures of the Chinese cockle-pickers who drowned in Morecambe Bay. In their detail, of course, the tragedies are quite different. …
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The Changing Priority on Religious Freedom
Thomas Farr at the Washington Post thinks that the Obama Administration is side-lining both American law and policy on this subject: Religious freedom advocates were encouraged by the President's stated views and allowed themselves to hope that America's international religious freedom policy, long isolated at the State Department, would be strengthened under the new administration. …
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The "Scientific" Administration Takes the Heat for NASA Cutbacks
It surely does: U.S. President Barack Obama is trying to tamp down an uprising in politically vital Florida against a new strategy for NASA that has rankled space veterans and lawmakers and sparked fears of job losses. Obama's decision to kill NASA's Constellation program to launch astronauts into orbit and return Americans to the moon …
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Book Review: The Late Great Ape Debate
The subjects of evolution and creation are explosive ones, not only because of their scientific implications, but for their social and political ones as well. That's been the case since Darwin first set forth the theory.  It is certainly true today; for all of their protestations about the desire to be "scientific," implementing whatever can …
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