Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Nothing Baptistic on this blog: (Don't ask me why, they don't allow embedding on this video, but you can click to go to it on YouTube anyway). The lyrics are very old, going back to the end of the Western Roman Empire. The tune is by Ralph Vaughan Williams. One of the advantages of this …
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Wrapping it up for this elevation in Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, 2,9: When God made me in his image and likeness, he made me to be happy like him, as much as a creature can be; and, this is why he placed in me these three things, in me who was made to be …
Again with Bossuet in Elevations on the Mysteries, 2,8: God has possessed me, said Wisdom (Proverbs 8): that is to say, God has generated me in conformance to that word of Eve, when she gave birth to Cain and said: I have possessed a man by the grace of God. He has generated me, before …
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It's a little controversial, but I'll say it anyway: I'm wishing my Iranian friends a Happy Nowruz. How Nowruz came about, and how I came to know my Iranian friends, are two interesting matters. Let's start with the first: Nowruz, the celebration of the Vernal (Spring) Equinox, goes back to pre-Islamic times when Persia ruled …
OUTA1 (Fall 1993) The coffee-house ministry was the gathering par excellence of the Jesus Music era. Although there are live recordings out there of concerts, coffee-house recordings are few and far between. This site features only two, both from Texas: the Answer (and that was a rehearsal) and the Latter Rain. And both of those …
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Once more with Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, 2,7: I am a painter, a sculptor, an architect: I have my art, I have my design or my idea, I have the choice and the preference which I give to this idea by a particular love. I have my art, I have my rules, my principles, …
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Once again in Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, 2,6: Let us now return to ourselves. We are, we understand, we want. At first, to understand and to want, if it is something, it is not absolutely the same thing: if it is not something, it would not be anything, and there will be neither understanding …
Coming to the third person of the Trinity in Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, 2,5: God is thus fertile, God has a Son: but where is the Holy Spirit here, and where is the holy and perfect Trinity which we serve from our baptism onwards? Does not God love this Son and is he not …
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Although it's been out there for a long time, these days the clash between religion and science has been especially heated. The simplest way to solve the problem would be to cancel elections and let the self-proclaimed know-it-alls run the show. In this way they could ignore the religious "masses" and insure the continuity of …
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It's official:  I felt drawn to the Episcopal church because it offered some practices I felt were missing in my evangelical experience, like space for silence and reflection, a focus on Christ’s presence at the communion table as the climax and center of every worship service, opportunities for women in leadership, and the inclusion of …
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Positive Infinity 