Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Table of Contents and Overview for At the Inlet | Information and ordering instructions for all of our fiction Julian wasted no time ploughing into her catechisation; he started during dinner the following evening. There was method in his madness though: the catechism began with the subject of Terry’s sponsors in baptism, so they spent …
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In the course of the back and forth over the "failure" (technically at least, but there's dispute over that) of Mark Lawrence to obtain the necessary consents for his election as Bishop of South Carolina, I brought up SC's last legal miscalculation: attempting to block All Saints Pawley's Island's departure, which I originally commented on …
Ruth Gledhill's piece about former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey calling for the disestablishment of the Church of England is an intriguing one, if a little disorienting for Americans. (Not this one, as you can see for yourself!) The best practical argument for disestablishment, however, is that it would give more freedom to the church …
This is the thirk installment in the video series More Than Dreams. This week's story is that of Khalil, from Egypt. Click here for the trailer for the series.
The flap over General Pace's remarks about homosexuals in the military makes us think of our own closing remarks in our 2004 piece Gay Marriage? What Marriage? Such moves (Christians withdrawing from the mainstream of society as a result of enshrining gay marriage into law) would have the long term effect of strengthening the Christian …
While thinking about the volleys of insults last week (both Ann Coulter's and Bill Maher's about the Vice President) we keep being haunted by the following: Above: A St. Andrew's School sophmore points out the obvious Confederate flag on the wall of a dorm room while his classmates (one American and one Bahamian) have a …
Table of Contents and Overview for At the Inlet | Information and ordering instructions for all of our fiction The next morning’s Bible studies with Darlene went well enough; Darlene had had a nice day with her mother the day before. Getting into the chartering paperwork, however, was another matter; Terry was listless and distracted, …
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This is the second in the series, the story of Dini, from Indonesia. Having spent many years writing fiction centred around women, this is as powerful of a story as one could imagine. Click here for the trailer for the series.
Although liberals are doubtless dancing in the streets over the conviction of Scooter Libby, the truth is that our plethora of laws insures that, if those in authority want to put us away, they can do so one way or the other, even when there's no crime to start with. Just grind down someone long …
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The film Amazing Grace--or at least the life of William Wilberforce--highlights something that most people have forgotten: many of the "social justice movements" had their roots in the evangelical Christianity that emerged towards the end of the "Age of Reason," and specifically Wesleyan Methodism. (The French proved that the "reasonable" didn't need any help from …
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