Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
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 …
In the early 1980's, I visited Hong Kong while on the way back from the third and last in a series of business trips to China. While reading the South China Morning Post, I noted that an Anglican church was conducting a street service at the Star Ferry terminal on the Kowloon side. I was …
Johnathan Stone has picked another hot topic on buildings and churches. We see so many churches putting so much of their resources into physical plant these days, only to struggle with payments. My response from a business standpoint is as follows: You sure know how to pick sore subjects! For me, this is high on …
I recently got myself into a debate I never thought I would: the veneration of icons. It seems that Abu Daoud got himself into a dispute with one JMW over the veneration/worhsip of icons. So he threw it out to the rest of us for discussion. One of Abu Daoud's respondents wondered why a dialogue …
Continue reading "A Matter of Priority, and a Challenge to Eastern Orthodoxy"
Evidently someone at Mexican ad agency Teran|TBWA was consuming some of their client Absolut's product when they produced this: Reminds me of something my Russian representative told me one time. He confidently declared that "In Russia, there is a saying that, 'There is no agreement without vodka.'" He paused, thought, then added, "And that's why …
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The UK's Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks makes a plea for tolerance: The real question, which has echoed time and again through the corridors of history, is whether we can find ways of living together, despite the fact that we can't find ways of believing or worshipping together. That is what the Bible teaches in its …
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Abu Daoud, in his reflections on Pope Paul VI's encyclical Evangelii Nuntiandi, makes the following observations: The name of this strategy that I have heard is "training the trainer," though though are other names. The traditional model in missions was to send out a pastor-missioner or a group of missionaries who would start a church …
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Ted Turner thinks that there are too many people in the world: "We're too many people; that's why we have global warming," he said. "Too many people are using too much stuff." So is he prepared to volunteer himself and his family to bail out first? That's always the tricky part for advocates of things …
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