Or, as the New York Times magazine put it, anti-ambitional: But those top-line numbers obscure a muddier truth. After the latest employment numbers were released in February (which seemed to show remarkable job growth and an unemployment rate of 4 percent), one B.L.S. economist took to his Substack to call it the “most complicated job …
Those Needy Pentecostals
One of the things I heard frequently as a NOM (Novus Ordo Missae, as opposed to a Trad or Rad Trad) Catholic was the phrase "your needy people." This was generally rolled out when same needy people were about to "come to the table" (which they really didn't.) And yet...somehow, the whole concept of "needy …
The Passage from Jerome that Landed @bethallisonbarr in a Mess
It's this one, from Jerome's Letter 108, his panegyric to Paula at the time of her death: Inflamed by their virtues she thought more and more each moment of forsaking her home. Disregarding her house, her children, her servants, her property, and in a word everything connected with the world, she was eager — alone …
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Back in the Day, They All Hated Science
Another one of those "inconvenient truths:" Embracing the science he hated until a year ago means that like a whole lot of partisan people, he only pretends to accept it because the issue is political. Writing in The Daily Beast, Louis Anslow reminds the public that just a few years ago Young released a whole …
The Left Pushes Back Against Vaccine Mandates
Yes, they do: As writers from the Left, we are disturbed by this turn of events. We don’t think there is anything progressive about the current move towards compelled — and in places mandatory — Covid vaccinations. These are discriminatory against minority communities, many of whom for historical reasons are suspicious of medicine and the …
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“Getting to Know You”: My Profile for UTC’s College of Engineering and Computer Science
It's not often that someone else does a write-up about me, but where I teach (at the University of Chattanooga's College of Engineering and Computer Science) they did a profile of me in their series "Getting to Know You." You can read it all here.
Leaked Emails, Leaked Viruses: The Sad Trail of Fauci, Collins and COVID-19
It's not easy, but we're getting closer to the truth: Now a string of unearthed emails—the most recent being a batch viewed by the House Oversight and Reform Committee and referred to in its January 11, 2022 letter—is making it seem increasingly likely that there was, in fact, a conspiracy, its aim being to suppress …
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Beginning of the Persecutions of the Child Jesus
These elevations concern Jesus’ escape into Egypt from Herod’s clutches, the massacre of the Innocents, and his return to Galilee. In the process …Beginning of the Persecutions of the Child Jesus
Reaching the Turning Point
I've done many posts on this site over the years. If I look back, say ten years ago, many of those deal with the same issues that we fight over today. Our media on both sides of the political divide are, as my mother used to say, like geese: they get up in a new …
Further Thoughts on the Elizabethan Settlement
Being a bishop and a parish clergyman, I basically do not have that much time for systematic research, so many of the things that I find out come to me accidentally. For example, earlier this week I was looking for something on the Württemberg Confession and Google produced an article entitled “Lutheran Influences on the…Further …
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