Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
The release of Eritrean Gospel singer Helen Berhane after two years of imprisonment is a great relief, although being incarcerated in a shipping container--with its extremes of heat and cold--has broken her health. Such a stand puts to shame a lot of what passes for Christianity in the West. It's also a reminder that such …
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We cannot resist saying something about the problems that Ann Coulter is having in establishing her proper precinct to vote in in Palm Beach. First, I find the whole concept of voting at either St. Edward's Catholic Church or Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church--where I grew up--to be an entirely fascinating concept. Second, I think that the …
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The situation in Colorado with Ted Haggard is an illustration that homosexuals--well, at least some of them--will stop at nothing to try to sway the public to allow gay marriage, even when others among them know they have blown it on the issue. First, a word about people like Ted Haggard from someone who actually …
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As the U.S. heads into the last weekend of campaigning (and television ads) before the election, we'd like to remind everyone of some of the pieces you can see about this election: The Democrats and National Security: Dzerzhinskii’s Dilemma, which discusses the whole problem that Democrats have with effective security for our country Electing the …
John Kerry's shot that those who don't study will end up in Iraq betrays one of the central problems we have in this country: those from its upper reaches don't end up in the military any more.When we had Selective Service, people from all walks of life ended up in the military and in combat. …
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We were rather displeased to stumble on a decision by the UK's Employment Appeal Tribunal that basically allows ministers to fight dismissal because they are employees of the church. This decision is especially disconcerting when it takes place in one's own church. Putting ministers into this category--especially in Europe--will insure that it is impossible to …
Continue reading "The End of Employment at Will for Ministers"
We have ringside seats to what is without a doubt the ugliest race this election cycle: the race between Harold Ford and Bob Corker for the U.S. Senate seat from Tennessee. It doesn't surprise us that Harold Ford has tried to play to religious voters. In Tennessee, it's almost a necessity; there aren't enough secularists …
In a recent digest, Virtue Online says the following about LifeBuilders Essentials: LIFEBUILDERS ESSENTIALS. A discipleship course for men, co-authored with Patrick Morley, author of The Man in the Mirror. Wrote Don C. Warrington: "We use the 39 Articles as part of our instruction on the church and on its doctrine. The relationship between Anglican …
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While most Americans are focused on Iraq, the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan is just as critical and, in some ways, more important. Little known to many is the fact that Pakistani President Pevez Musharraf has been playing both ends against the middle since 11 September 2001, and that he may be about to get …
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The whole flap over the revelations that Virgina Democrat Senate Candidate Jim Webb's fiction contains some things that don't sit well in a political campaign may seem at first glance bizzare, but they are not. This is something that I, although certainly not comparable on a circulation level, took into consideration when writing The Island …
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