Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Abu Daoud is absolutely correct in his response concerning the impact of the falling US Dollar on American missions: The weakening dollar will have a bad effect on world missions, by the way. It will become more difficult for the US to send out as many missionaries as it does today. Working as I do …
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The news report put out by the Carolina Week staff (video below) and the attempt by John Edwards' campaign to get it pulled shows the dilemma that every candidate that runs on the left has in dealing with the "contradictions" (as Mao Dun would put it) in advancing their cause. Conventional wisdom would have us …
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Oral Roberts says that the Devil won't steal ORU. Just don't give it away...
My friend Robert Easter at Sanctifusion has thrown me some very deep questions in the course of a discussion: I was talking about you to a young man who is in the process of shifting form Church of God to Anglican. Something about the ancient ties and the Nicene writers. When we look at it, …
Sami Moubayed's article Unveiling men in the Arab world is one of those rare admissions from a (presumably) Muslim source that things are not quite in the altogether within Islam. It makes me think of the following, in this case relative to the Jews: For, if there was a glory in the religion that involved …
There is something about being human that craves a “comfort zone.” We all just naturally want to be able to say, “I understand this,” or “I can handle that.” To be ablaze with the Holy Spirit brings us very quickly to say, “I can't, Lord, but You can!” This violates our pride, and, while pride …
The Blogging Parson's piece on Rowan Williams and hermeneutics goes a long way to explain the Archbishop of Canterbury's position--or more precisely his lack of one--in the current Anglican Communion row over homosexuals in the episcopate. But it also is an opportunity to stop and think about one of the most important issues in Christianity--the …
The idea of the Anglican Archdiocese of Sydney (Australia) to empower the laity raises the ire of many churches. It's an issue that has some peculiarly Anglican implications, but it's also interesting for many of the rest of us. The "empowerment" they're proposing is allowing lay people to celebrate the Holy Communion, which traditionally is …
Jim Workman's piece in The Living Church Foundation on "Turning Away from God" is a good treatment on the subject of institutions and God, and certainly relevant for the present state of the Episcopal Church. But it's also a reminder to everyone that institutionalism isn't God's original plan for his people. God established the proper …
The passing of D. James Kennedy is a loss for Christianity. Kennedy literally revolutionised personal evangelism with his Evangelism Explosion course of study. And he lived his own course, taking the initiative to share the Gospel when the opportunity presented itself. Well, most of the time. I used to be very active in the deep …
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