Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Some people evidently work under that assumption, as this ugly event in New York attests: New Yorkers woke up Thursday morning to find colorful new street art popping up on trash cans along the Lower East Side. Their message is clear – Trump and his supporters are "trash." The controversial posters feature images of “Trump …
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In Randal Rouser's post on village atheism, after he lists the characteristics of village atheists, he makes the following observation: As I already noted, there are also many village Christians who exhibit similar traits. (But the way, it should not surprise us that when village Christians leave the church, they typically become village atheist.) To …
Recently Duane Alexander Miller, a long-time friend of this blog, wrote Two Stories of Everything: The Competing Metanarratives of Islam and Christianity. My review of this excellent book is here at Global MIssology.
Well, it's that time of the biennium again, when our ministers and their church pack up and spend several million dollars on the gathering called the General Assembly. I've made it my habit to comment on the agenda, which can be found here. The last time, OurCoG copied my comments in serial format (guys, next …
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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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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 …
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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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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Atlanta's Christian management guru is at it again, this time with the Old Testament: North Point Community Church Senior Pastor Andy Stanley has stated that Christians need to "unhitch" the Old Testament from their faith. In the final part of a recent sermon series, Stanley explained that while he believes that the Old Testament is "divinely …
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Some people will complain about anything: Recently some critics of prominent Trump-supporting Dallas Baptist pastor Robert Jeffress have disapprovingly identified him as a supporter of “Two Kingdoms” theology, an historic Protestant belief about the division of duties between spiritual & earthly rule. Jeffress in public pronouncements has stressed that civil government is called to provide …
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