Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
I've spent some time on this blog talking about the present crisis Evangelical Christianity faces in the U.S., and what might be done about it. There are a lot of explanations of why this is so, but one of the most intriguing comes from David Murrow. In his book Why Men Hate Going to Church, …
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The fracas between Bush and Congress over pending national security legislation brings back some thoughts from the last election cycle: ...we must first realise that the Democrat party today is the party of the 60’s radical. That includes just about every major player in the party. At the heart of sixties radicalism is rebellion against …
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In all of the furor over Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams' remarks on Shar'ia law in the UK, one backwash many people in the West forget is the impact it will have on Christian-Muslim relations in places such as Nigeria. As David Virtue points out in his most recent newsletter: Most British pundits viewed Williams' …
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This week's podcast is Never Be Alone Again, performed by the Outpouring, the group of the Community of the Cross in Danbury, CT. This is an extraordinary piece; not only does its lead female vocalist, Fran Novelli, sound a lot like Carole King, but its expression of longing for God is almost mystical. (Some explanation …
One of the toughest nuts to crack in our civilisation (or what passes for one) has been Scientology, which has succeeded in bullying many of its critics into silent oblivion. (I refer to this crew as the "Bologna Club," a term going back to the 1930's and referring to a time when my family and …
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It took Jack Crooks of Black Swan Trading to point out this quote from C.S. Lewis: “Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his …
I was a little surprised to discover that our government has opted to fund LORAN for a little longer. LORAN, or LOng RAnge Navigation, is a system whereby ships, airplanes or other travelling vehicles or people determine their position by comparing the time difference in receipt of radio signals from multiple sources. It has been …
Recently I attended a conference on men's ministries put on by Man in the Mirror, and had the privilege of being there with a very diverse group of people. Part of that group included two Englishmen from East London, where they're building the largest mosque in Europe for the 2012 Olympic Village. (No, they didn't …
Daniel Finkelstein's post on the ten worst mistakes in British history is one of the most fascinating things I've seen on the Web in some time. But he (and, unless I've overlooked something, all but one of his respondents) have overlooked a big one: Vortigern's bright idea of bringing the Saxons over to defend post-Roman …
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Susan Estrich brings up the unspeakable issue for the Democrats: But, the fact is that there is a long pattern of what we in California call the “Bradley problem” in polling, after the former Los Angeles mayor who was elected governor in every poll, including the exits, except that he lost at the ballot box. …
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