Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
As some of you know, I teach at Lee University in their new Engineering program. Recently I reserved a computer lab to administer a test, and was regaled with the above, from St. John Chrystostom's Pascal Homily. It was written on the white board (the students were amazed it was in cursive, I guess I …
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It's done: In the absence of such repentance, we have been prayerfully advancing towards a future for faithful Anglicans, where the Bible is restored to the heart of the Communion. Today, that future has arrived. Our Gafcon Primates gathered this hour to fulfil our mandate to reform the Anglican Communion, as expressed in the Jerusalem Statement of 2008. …
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And more acrimonious too: It’s getting downright nasty and legal. ACNA bishops led by Bishop Phil Ashey contend that the charges of misconduct (but not of a sexual nature) laid at the feet of Bishop Derek Jones of the Special Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy (SJAFC) are grounds for an inhibition. The complaints …
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There's been quite a lot of pushback to the election (?) of Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury, much of which concentrates of the fact that she's a woman (at least that's defined, no mean feat these days) and this breaks with the rest of the Anglican Communion, with Rome, with Constantinople, Moscow, and many …
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In a recent post by the North American Anglican entitled "The Drama of Confession," the author goes into a long Anglican description of the importance and benefits of confession, with emphasis (justified) on the Anglican "general confessions" that we see in traditional Anglican prayer books. For all of the detail he goes into, he misses …
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It's been a while since I've been actively posting to this site, and in looking at my stats an old favourite page has been active again: Think Before You Convert. It's an overview of why you should (or shouldn't) convert to Roman Catholicism or, if you're there why you might want to take your leave. As …
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This is an eyewitness account of the attack on the Pentagon on 11 September 2001. The following summer, its author and eyewitness, Church of God Chaplain Col. Robert Jenkins, was honored at the Church of God General Assembly in Indianapolis, IN. The video below was presented at the Chaplains Honors Banquet on 10 August 2002 …
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If you’ve read The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams, you’ll immediately recognise what happened to the Europeans last month. … Europe’s summer of submission
http://thechristiannerd.tech.blog/2025/08/12/is-forgiveness-the-hardest-gift-for-christians/ It may be hard, but it is not optional. I've dealt with this topic in my post The Important Difference Between Inexcusable and Unforgivable, a point which confuses many people.
And not a moment too soon: The rise and fall of John Brennan has the makings of an all-too-familiar Beltway tragedy. People do not lose their idealism in this city in grand moments of corruption. It starts with small lies that steadily reduce your resistance until the biggest lies become happenstance. It can create a …
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