Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
John Kerry's endorsement of Obama is based on one of three things: Conviction he's the best. Anticipation he'll get the nomination, and thus reward Kerry for his endorsement. Revenge against some offence the Clinton's committed (and there are many Democrats who have grievances against them.) It would be foolish to assume that Hillary is down …
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The unpredictable state of the 2008 election means that every day is a new one, which makes "New Day," the title track to Cookin' Mama's dynamic album, a good anthem for these strange times (although the new day they sing about is vastly different than a political one) and our podcast this week. The whole …
Hillary Clinton's victory in New Hampshire is perhaps the result of the following: "I listened to you. And in the process, I found my own voice," Clinton told her victory rally. "Now, let's give America the kind of comeback New Hampshire has just given me." Or, put another way, she told the story like it …
One of the more interesting adventures my family business got itself into was my brother's two attempts to sell our pile driving equipment to an Indian shipyard. As he cruised the streets of Mumbai in the early 1980's, he inhaled the fumes of the Tata manufactured trucks, which were cleverly aimed at the level of …
Pentecostal or charismatic Christianity is viewed by some Americans as an emotional, theologically suspect form of the Christian faith. It is widely thought to be a very vocal and visible, but numerically small slice of the grand religious pie in the United States. Two new surveys from The Barna Group, however, indicate that things are …
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Hillary says that Vladimir Putin "doesn't have a soul:" Speaking in Hampton this evening, Hillary Rodham Clinton said the president of Russia "doesn't have a soul." She was riffing on the danger of inexperience, and reliance on personal relationships, in foreign affairs, indirectly comparing Obama to George W. Bush, who notoriously looked into Vladimir Putin's …
“For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.” Malachi 1:11. From …
In 1997 Episcopal Rev. Marty Davis, a leader in the TEC GLBT group Integrity, was murdered. Recently a tape surfaced made by Judge John Hagler (who had known Rev. Davis at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Cleveland, TN) has led to the re-examination of the case: The former secretary to Judge John Hagler testified Thursday …
Some times you hear the idea that we as Christians, when out and about in the world, can draw the people around us to Christ by our conversation with each other. There's some Biblical justification for this: Let your conversation always be kindly, and seasoned, as it were, with salt; that you may know in …
It's indicative of the sad state of what is conventionally termed Christianity (but I have my doubts) when an avowed atheist calls our bluff, as Brendan O'Neill does in his article Mankind is more than the janitor of planet Earth: In his Christmas sermon, delivered at Canterbury Cathedral, Dr Williams finally completed his journey from …
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