Note: this article was mangled during a site platform transition; however, it was duplicated a while back and you can see it properly here. And now for something completely different... The equations of motion for linear vibrating systems are well known and widely used in both mechanical and electrical devices. However, when students are introduced …
A Church to Believe In, A Country to Believe In
Two events this past weekend ran together to illustrate what is, for me, the central dilemma of living in this world--the fact that authority no longer reflects what we know to be true. Let's start with the church. In reaction to my posting of George Conger and Kevin Kallsen Put a Wrap on the Anglican …
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George Conger and Kevin Kallsen Put a Wrap on the Anglican Consultative Council’s Process About the Covenant
http://blip.tv/play/AYGAtzOUogk This is about a succinct take on the failure of the Covenant (for which few tears are shed here, for this reason) as I've seen. In addition to the subject matter, I'm posting this for two reasons. The first is that I find myself lost in many of the parliamentary and procedural reports I …
Book Review: Todd Starnes’ They Popped My Hood And Found Gravy On the Dipstick
One of the running "legends" in American life and art (yes, snobs, I know that "American art" is held by the cognoscenti to be an oxymoron) is that of what I'd call the "rube moving to town," or better the big city. He or she leaves the farm or other small places and goes through …
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Blessed are the Merciful
My first semester at Texas A&M University, I was required to take Analytical Geometry. My teacher was a former seminary student (come to think of it, so was my Calculus teacher!) Generally it wasn't a difficult course but it had its moments. One of them came with a particularly difficult problem we had for homework. …
Newsflash to Fundamentalists: You Are the Counterculture Now
Buried in the middle of a story of how an Ohio Christian school is punishing one of its students for attending a public school prom is this: The handbook for the 84-student Christian school says rock music "is part of the counterculture which seeks to implant seeds of rebellion in young people's hearts and minds." …
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Our Revised Pledge: “And to the Banana Republic for Which It Stands…”
It's sad but true. We owe an apology to our Central American bretheren: Political risk is becoming a growing concern for investors in the United States as the government plays a larger and more controversial role in private enterprise because of the financial crisis. State intervention in economic affairs is always closely watched by investors …
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Getting Rid of TEC Money Favouring, and Apologising to Ridiculed Persons
Mark Harris transmits a splendid proposed resolution for GC 2009 about TEC's participation in the Anglican Communion: Given our current relation to the Anglican Communion, a proper application of PAP (Principle of Anglican Progress) would require that The Episcopal Church declare a moratorium on funding the Anglican Communion until such time as the mind of …
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David Petraeus for President?
In the middle of his rant (and I'd recommend this for a more intelligent assessment of the Afghan situation) Pepe Escobar lets this out: As for the "Pak" (Pakistan) component of AfPak, it is pure counter-insurgency (COIN). As such, His Master's Voice has got to be Central Command commander and surging General David "I'm always …
Book Review: John Stott’s Basic Christianity, and Where Was I When This Was Being Passed Out?
This book review is a little different than some of the other's I've done lately. Not only is Basic Christianity well known (it was first published in 1958, I read the 50th anniversary edition) but reading it brought up some thoughts and emotions that I'd like to spend time on. But first the book itself: …
Positive Infinity 