Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
The movie is out and with it the fearmongering: God & Country, a documentary released over the weekend, explores fears that the growing force of Christian nationalism could replace democracy with theocratic rule in the US. It features footage of religious leaders expressing negative views of DEI and immigration, alongside commentary from prominent anti-Trump Christians concerned about …
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It’s a New Year, and the beginning of another year when the “smart set” (to use an old expression) goes after Evangelical Christianity. They even have a movie waiting in the wings as we gear up for yet another grueling Presidential election year. The spectre of Evangelical Churches “taking America back for God” with all …
Back in my prog days, one of my favourite groups was Emerson Lake and Palmer. For my Anglican/Episcopal readers, this was the group that, while Episcopal churches fought over the prayer book and the organ committee was in gridlock over the blasphemous suggestion that the church buy an Allen, introduced a new generation to the …
Last Wednesday, several dozen pro-Palestinian activists, their faces obscured by keffiyehs and Covid masks, attempted to block the entrance to the …The Democratic oligarchs funding pro-Hamas nonprofits
She's crossed the line of eternity: That is why I no longer consider myself a Muslim apostate, but a lapsed atheist. Of course, I still have a great deal to learn about Christianity. I discover a little more at church each Sunday. But I have recognised, in my own long journey through a wilderness of …
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A recent edition of The Tehran Times carried a warning: “If the Zionist regime’s war crimes and genocidal attacks against civilians in Gaza do not come to an end, the region will move towards making a big and decisive decision...” How America can stop Iran -- Unherd
The Nagorno-Karabakh region, between Azerbaijan and Armenia, has been the source of repeated, bitter fighting since the Nineties. A few weeks ago, following nine months of Azeri blockade of the majority-Armenian civilian population, Azerbaijan launched an offensive against the region. Some 100,000 Armenian refugees fled for Armenia. It was, in effect, an ethnic cleansing of… …
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He's gone woke to cover his past sins: The critical consensus in certain corners is that this is the result of King having gone woke — perhaps in an attempt to stave off cancellation for work that hasn’t aged well. There may be something to this — King’s pre-Y2K oeuvre makes heavy use of the Magical Negro …
When my father was going through the process of becoming an Elder in the United Methodist Church, he was required to take courses on Diversity, … Immigration is religion’s only hope
Now that New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has suspended open firearm carry laws in certain places as a "public health emergency," the whole concept of the suspension of rights under our constitutional system comes up. One case that comes up regarding that is Ex Parte Milligan, which dates from the Civil War. During the …
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