Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Back when I was growing up, we'd descend from Palm Beach and venture to the Florida Keys for vacation, navigating waters such as shown at the right. One of the more memorable side trips we took was a visit to a museum where artefacts from sunken Spanish galleons were on display. The Spanish were most …
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This, from his Homilies on the Gospel 28, is just too much like our own time: There was long life and health, material prosperity, growth of population and the tranquillity of daily peace, yet while the world was flourishing in itself, in their hearts it had withered away. Our epitaph also? Translation from Donald Dudley's …
Continue reading "Gregory the Great on Rome (and Perhaps Us) Prepared to Decline"
Creedal Christian's post on the meltdown of the Anglican Communion (HT to Stand Firm) got me thinking about many things. One reaction to this is that the "middle" is AWOL in this discussion. But I think that view overlooks some things that have been at work both in TEC and our society in general. One …
Continue reading "The Episcopal Church and the Soviet Restaurant"
It's hard for some of us to contemplate, but any "traditional" student wandering around today's college campus--to say nothing of those coming up behind them--has no living memory of the Cold War. For Boomers, it's a different story: the Cold War, and its hot portions such as Vietnam, basically framed the world view of an …
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This, from a comment on the Oil Drum: So you have to ask WHY? Why make it worse?...there really can only be one answer and that answer does not bode well for all of us. It's really an inescapable conclusion at this point, unless you want to believe that every Oil and Gas professional involved …
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This is the last part of this magnificent sermon. The introduction is here, and the first point is here. Basically, Christians, in this oblivion of both God and herself into which she is plunged, the great God knows where to find her. He has heard her voice, at his pleasure, amid the noise of the …
Tina Brown thinks that Barack Obama should move from father figure to raw politics: Tomorrow he’s announcing something concrete—an escrow account out of BP to get the cash to all the Gulf workers whose livelihoods have been trashed. But will this be deemed leaderly enough to assuage the angst among his supporters that the oil …
The beginning of the sermon, with an introduction and links to the second point, is here. Man, which you see bonded to himself by his self-esteem, was not created with this defect. In the beginning, God made him in his image, and the name of the image that was proclaimed was not for himself. An …
There is simply no preacher of the Word who has the stature in English literature that Jaques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704) has in French. Although he is best known for his funeral orations and some of his polemical works, IMHO his best works are his devotional books such as Elevations on the Mysteries and the magnificent Meditations …
Or, more accurately, what it did look like... I've posted this before, but in view of recent events (i.e., the sea fight between the Israelis and the Turks/Palestinians) it bears repeating. I think it's fair to say that the recent changes in Turkey have as their long-term objective the recapturing of Ottoman glory, caliphate included. …
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