Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
We cannot resist saying something about Washington state's "Defence of Marriage Alliance" and their petition to require hetrosexual couples to have children within three years after marriage or be subject to annulment. To start with, we never based our opposition to gay marriage solely on the ability of heterosexual couples to procreate. Our idea of …
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The recent story about the woes that Christliche Gemeinde Köln has had with the German government brings up a lot deeper memories than just of a Christian church under persecution of a godless government (although this certainly is a problem here.) It is worth noting that modernity--the thing that comes before post-modernity everybody talks about …
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Table of Contents and Overview for At the Inlet | Information and ordering instructions for all of our fiction It began as it had before, by the lake in Barlin, only now it was June, and felt like it. It was still morning, though, so it was neither so hot as to bring things to …
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Dick Morris informs us of the following: “Hillary will be the next president, and she’ll be the worst president we’ve ever seen.” No matter what happens, the situation in Iraq will “assure that the GOP gets massacred in 2008 congressional elections.” In 2010, the Republicans will take back the Congress — “Hillary will give Republicans …
As the orthodox Anglican alternatives to the TEC grow in strength, it has become pretty clear that the #1 division--in addition to the proliferation of purple shirts--that looms is the Anglo/Catholic vs. Evangelical divide. A little history needs to be told to put this in perspective. When Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy, the control …
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There's a good deal going on these days, and we're tempted to comment on a lot of it. Problem is, we already have in many cases. So, just to make sure you know we haven't fallen asleep at the switch--or for those who didn't read it the first time--our idea is as follows: Barack Obama's …
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Table of Contents and Overview for At the Inlet | Information and ordering instructions for all of our fiction Introduction At The Inlet is the immediate sequel to Paludavia, “the swamp road,” which takes place on the semi-tropical Island. It is a sequel to that adventure only in the broadest sense of the word. In …
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In our posting on the "contract on the Episcopalians," we referenced a comment by the new Presiding Bishop about her disparagement of the importance of eternal life. It's probably worthwhile to reproduce that particular dialogue (ADG is the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; KJS is of course Katherine Jefferts-Schori): ADG: That reminds me of something else you said. …
The decidedly trashy outbursts--and frankly I can't think of another word to describe them--that some Brits have blurted out on their reality shows about non-white people are illuminating in two respects. First, it should put paid to the idea that Europeans are innately more "enlightened" on issues of race or any of the other politically …
In the agony that the slow separation of the Anglican Communion has become, one issue that has come up has been the business of the "baptismal covenant" that appears in TEC's 1979 prayer book. This problem was discussed in an excellent article by Peter Toon, but it seems that there are broader issues here to …
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