Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
One, at least: Confidence is not something the 22-year-old Parker lacks. She’s the only student at UTC with Down syndrome, but its limitations are simply things for her to overcome, not hold her back. Although she usually has someone with her while she’s on campus, she’s unafraid to go it alone. Friends, family and teachers …
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One of the things that makes writing this blog tricky is the simple fact that being a product of the Anglican and Catholic world on the one hand and being in the Pentecostal world on the other forces one to live in many "tensions" to borrow a term from the seminary academics. Some of those …
Continue reading "Book Review: Thomas Reeves’ Was Jesus an Evangelical?"
Some readers of the blog are doubtless buffaloed at my blasé attitude regarding what Anglicans call WO (women's ordination.) I explain some of my rationale here but some of that comes from being a product of the Palm Beach social system. That system--exclusivistic and highly non-industrial--moulds everyone who lives there in ways that aren't obvious …
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Just about everyone who is a content generator on the internet has been affected by the EU's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR.) It didn't come suddenly, but you'd never know that by the scramble many American organisations have been doing to become compliant (or at least try) with these regulations. It's not easy; they're …
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The board of Southwestern Baptistic Theological Seminary's volte face is stunning: After midnight in Germany, while Patterson was sleeping, the chairman of the board of trustees, Kevin Ueckert, ordered Scott Colter to wake Patterson for a phone call. On the call, Ueckert told Patterson he was fired effective immediately, with no salary, no health insurance …
He's back in the saddle in Iraq, or at least working on it: On May 12, when Iraqis voted in the country’s latest parliamentary elections 15 years after the U.S. invasion, a new image of Sadr emerged: a smiling cleric with a snowy beard, holding up his ink-stained index finger after casting his ballot in …
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This is Memorial Day weekend, when we as Americans remember those who gave their lives for our country. For me that turns back to my uncle, Don Gaston Shofner, and his sacrifice even before he could get to enemy skies. But that brings up another point: Gaston (as he was called in good Southern tradition) …
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He did the "Jericho March" around the White House last night: The Holy Spirit came a knocking for President Trump Thursday night ... in the form of royal wedding preacher Bishop Michael Curry. The standout star of Prince Harry and Meghan's big day was part of a candlelight vigil in the Capitol that included prayer …
But, when Christ came, he appeared as High Priest of that Better System which was established; and he entered through that nobler and more perfect 'Tabernacle,' not made by human hands--that is to say, not a part of this present creation. (Hebrews 9:11 TCNT) For the structures that are made by human hands (with a …
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All of the blather we've been hearing about Presiding Bishop (not Archbishop) Michael Curry's sermon at the royal wedding last weekend obviously focuses attention not only on Curry and the duplicitous Justin Welby but on the Episcopal Church in general. I don't doubt that same church, faced with years of declining membership and self-inflicted litigation …
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