Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
I've dealt with the issue of Catholic Charismatic covenant communities--and why I avoided them--at length on this blog. Now my friend John Flaherty has started a Facebook group on the subject entitled Covenant Community: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. It's a road that is potentially painful for some, but it's time for some …
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Looks like it: But despite the Lockean tenor of much of the constitution, the inescapable clause lies right in Part 1, Article 1: “Islam is the Religion of the State, and the principal source of legislation is Islamic Jurisprudence (Sharia).” Under this constitution, in other words, Islam is law. That makes other phrases such as …
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But I appeal to you, Brothers, by the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree in what you profess, and not to allow divisions to exist among you, but to be united-of one mind and of one opinion. (1 Corinthians 1:10) Like many liberal churches, the Unity congregation found itself far too small for …
That great Socialist Bernie Sanders evidently does: Senator Bernie Sanders, a staunch critic of oil speculators, leaked the information to a major newspaper in a move that has unsettled both regulators and Wall Street alike. In a June 16 e-mail reviewed by Reuters, a senior policy adviser to Sanders discusses how his office received private …
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Being unprepared for major change isn't new in Roman Catholicism, and it's about to happen again: Since changes were approved by the Vatican in December, U.S. bishops have been preparing priests and lay Catholics for the first use of the revised missal on Nov. 27, the first Sunday of Advent. But despite an aggressive effort …
The recent death of John Stott has given people who are normally hostile to Evangelical Christianity an opportunity to say some good things about an individual whose high place in the movement is deserved. Such praise is generally joined with criticism of those who had the bad taste to carry the movement into the political …
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Even the Black Caucus has just about had enough: The problem, Waters said, is that Obama is not paying enough attention to the problems of some black Americans. The unemployment rate for African-Americans nationally is a little over 16 percent, and almost twice that in Detroit. And yet, Waters said, the president is on a …
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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 a mess, but also due to the nature of both sides of the transaction. On my side, I was set as the chief negotiator of a group of …
The conventional wisdom out there is that Michele Bachmann (who won the Ames straw poll) and Rick Perry (who spoiled her victory by entering the race on the same day) are competing for the same religious conservative voters. That masks some important differences between the two, differences that will become more evident as the campaign …
On coming into the neighborhood of Caesarea Philippi, Jesus asked his disciples this question--“Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” “Some say John the Baptist,” they answered, “Others, however, say that he is Elijah, while others again say Jeremiah, or one of the Prophets.” “But you,” he said, “who do you say …
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