Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
It's been a busy time this year, and blogging has been a little harder than usual. But I'm pleased to announce that Positive Infinity is now listed in the "Around the Web" blog roundup of Stand Firm in Faith, which is in many ways the conservative Anglican blogosphere's "anchor" blog. Thanks so much to Greg …
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Songs For The Masses (Bradley BRC 4165/NALR 35178, 1974) Liberation Theology buffs will recognise the clever double meaning of the album's title. But this album, which ended up as part of North American Liturgy Resources' offerings, has some very strange aspects to it. To begin with, the albums performers are only designated as "students of …
They all with one accord began to ask to be excused. The first man said to the servant 'I have bought a field and am obliged to go and look at it. I must ask you to consider me excused.' The next said 'I have bought five pairs of bullocks, and I am on my …
It's set forth in detail by Syed Saleem Shahzad, perhaps the most knowledgeable correspondent of Islamicist groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan: International Islamic militancy that had its roots in the decade-long war against the Soviets in the 1980s was broadly divided into two main schools of thought; both considered themselves righteous despite embodying contradictory themes. …
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As I had predicted earlier, we now have this: Apple has pulled the Exodus International app from their iTunes App Store. Recently, Jeff Buchanan, Exodus International’s Senior Director of Church Equipping & Student Ministries, told The Christian Post, “In no way shape or form is our message about trying to cure or do we try …
Meet the Press host David Gregory lays it out for Palm Beachers at the Colony: The United Nations-sanctioned military action against Libya is dangerous because no one knows what will happen there if the rebels gain the upper hand, television journalist David Gregory told a Palm Beach audience on Monday. There also is the threat …
World Library FR-1953-SM (1970) This pre-Novus Ordo Missae work (an important consideration if you're planning on using it liturgically) displays something that you don't see very often in this type of music: some classical training amongst the writers and performers. Leo Nestor is the Justine Bayard Ward Professor of Music at the Catholic University of …
"We do not know where you are going, Master," said Thomas; "so how can we know the way?" Jesus answered: "I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one ever comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:5-6) Mohammed’s father had tried everything to bring his son back to Islam. Mohammed, …
As if things at NPR weren't hard enough, we have this going on: A Maine man has been jailed on federal charges that he threatened to kill or harm two of the hosts of “All Things Considered,” the popular National Public Radio news program, The Smoking Gun has learned. The defendant in custody, John Crosby, …
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A few years back I featured some maps of what was then referred to as "Modern Palestine" but was in reality the region under the Ottoman Empire. Below is another map from another Bible from the same era, showing both Galilee and Judea. (You can see a higher resolution image by clicking on the map.)
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