Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
But you wouldn't know that from Allison Benedikt's "blame and shame" piece on why people who send their kids to private school are bad people: Reading Walt Whitman in ninth grade changed the way you see the world? Well, getting drunk before basketball games with kids who lived at the trailer park near my house …
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I said a couple of weeks ago that I was shifting away from commenting on things Anglican, but my past has caught up with me again. As I have mentioned more than once, I am an alumnus of the St. Andrew's School in Boca Raton, FL, and same school is now caught up in a …
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Amidst the tragedy of the Orlando massacre earlier this week, we have yet another major event facing us: the "Brexit" vote on 23 June, where the UK's voters express their wish to stay in the European Union or leave. The "Establishment" in the UK (and that, sad to say, includes the Church of England) have …
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In the nearly nineteen years this site has been active, I’ve had the opportunity to skewer Anglican and Episcopal “divines” for their strange and unBiblical positions. My most recent efforts have related to my prep school’s chaplain and John Shelby Spong. One of the irritating things I’ve run across in the Anglican/Episcopal blogosphere is the …
Every so often I begin a reading of the Bible through. I try to vary the translation I use, so I've read translations such as the Vulgate, Louis Segond, Reina-Valera, New American Bible, Douay-Rheims, CCD and of course the Positive Infinity New Testament. This time I had a copy of the original TEV New Testament …
From The World of Mathematics, this quotation from the British mathematician Augustus de Morgan: I commend my future with hope and confidence to Almighty God; to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, whom I believe in my heart to be the Son of God but whom I have not confessed with my lips, …
Recently my wife and I ventured to Regent University for me to deliver a paper. While there we got the chance to view one of the University's new acquisitions, namely a Torah scroll from Yemen.The fact that a Christian university could acquire such a donation is a sign of the times: Evangelicals are about the …
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While searching out the web, I ran across an interesting article in the Lodi (CA) News-Sentinel dated 25 May 1995. The issue at hand was harvesting the organs of anencephalic babies (not fetuses) for their organ parts, by killing the baby first. Fr. William A. Sassman, his photo in the 1973 Tartan (St. Andrew's yearbook.) …
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If I had to pick a favourite Bible verse or passage, it would be this: The bodies of those animals whose blood is brought by the High Priest into the Sanctuary, as an offering for sin, are burnt outside the camp. And so Jesus, also, to purify the People by his own blood, suffered outside …
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We're coming up on Holy Week. Churches will be rolling out their Easter musicals. Because people don't go to church on Good Friday like they used to, churches will also put the Passion narrative on Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday...what's that all about? It is, strictly speaking, the celebration of Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem, beginning …
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