Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
The earthquake near New Salem, Illinois--on an extension of the New Madrid fault--is a reminder that, for all of the publicity that earthquakes in California get, the fault system that caused this quake is the most dangerous in the continental United States. The reason is twofold. First, California has an extensive system of faults. While …
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Travis Johnson's proposal concerning the election of state Administrative Bishops in the Church of God is an interesting one. From its start the Church of God has appointed its state and regional (diocesan, for you Anglicans and Roman Catholics) prelates centrally at the biennial General Assembly. It's easy to draw from this (and current Roman …
Lifepointe Pastor Travis Johnson got to meet with Frank Faragalli of the Miami-Dade Parks and Recreation Department about their unceremonious ejection of Lifepointe's beach baptism last Sunday. This is part of Travis' account of that meeting. (You can click here for the rest.) It was a pleasant meeting that did not achieve our desired result. …
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Catherine Tremper has brought up some interesting (and well documented) points about my post Why People Shouldn't Become Orthodox. So let me make some response, citing her first: Taking the long view, Avvakum wasn’t very representative of Orthodoxy. In a long ago Russian history class I was told that early Orthodoxy in Russia focussed on …
It's inevitable that George Barna would chime in on the subject of the tithe: "Born again adults remain the most generous givers in a country acknowledged to be the most generous on the planet," said the veteran researcher. "But their donation decisions must be seen in the larger context of the changes occurring in a …
Recently received the following response from my post Is Evangelism unAnglican?: I just discovered your blog this afternoon. Haven't explored it much yet, but I feel comfortable here already. Currently, I remain a traditional Anglican (Episcopal Missionary Church) who came to Canterbury by way of Constantinople (altough brought up as a vaguely Protestant Army brat). …
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Barack Obama fights back from the reaction to his statements that people turned to their guns and their God in the face of economic adversity. To be honest, he's right. People have turned to other sources of help than the government. What were we supposed to do, anyway? In many respects Mike Huckabee's populist campaign …
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The authorities in the land "where the animals are tame and the people run wild" (South Florida) have struck again, this time by blocking the beach baptisms of LifePointe Church in Homestead. Travis Johnson is the pastor of this church; you can see his link in the blogroll on the left. You'd think that the …
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Many years ago, I heard an Indian Anglican minister who told a long (and not always easy to understand, due to his accent) story about how it took several long trips over the Himalayas to take the Bible in the “Tibetan tongue” to that storied land. The obvious objective of this was to win Tibetans …
This week's feature is one of our favourites: the Eyes of Jesus/Jesus, I Love You/Psalm 23 medley, from Emmanuel's first album God, You Are My Refuge. Much beloved by the youth that came to Steubenville for the Young People and Youth Ministers Conferences in the early 1980's. Click here for more information on this album …
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