Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Ping, the well-known manufacturer of golf equipment, has earned a place in Golf Digest's "Bomb and Gouge" (Mike Johnson and Mike Stachura) blog for an unusual reason: Just prior to last week's Safeway International, Stacy Prammanasudh and her equipment sponsor, Ping, parted ways and Prammanasudh played the event with just one Ping club in her …
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The "Exponential Conference" makes me, the author of this, needing to say a few things about all of the math that gets thrown around in the church world. Obviously, on the face of it, exponential growth is what you want out of your "exponential church." But you need to think clearly about which exponent you …
This is not a good time to run out of gas: A review by federal authorities has revealed a sharp increase in planes, particularly from Continental Airlines, flying into the New York area with so little fuel that they demand an emergency landing. In a report on minimum and emergency fuel declarations into Newark airport …
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M.D. McMullin lets it out about Positive Infinity on Jonathan Stone's blog: I think Don has already blogged on every issue known to man. And, if God gives me life, I'll keep it up. I think that a lot of the problem Evangelical Christianity is facing these days is that its focus (or life view) …
It certainly looks that way: Under pressure to increase their numbers, the Army and Marine Corps are sharply raising the number of recruits with felony convictions they are admitting to the services. Data released by a congressional committee shows that the number of soldiers admitted to the Army with felony records jumped from 249 in …
Evidently someone at Mexican ad agency Teran|TBWA was consuming some of their client Absolut's product when they produced this: Reminds me of something my Russian representative told me one time. He confidently declared that "In Russia, there is a saying that, 'There is no agreement without vodka.'" He paused, thought, then added, "And that's why …
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The UK's Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks makes a plea for tolerance: The real question, which has echoed time and again through the corridors of history, is whether we can find ways of living together, despite the fact that we can't find ways of believing or worshipping together. That is what the Bible teaches in its …
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Every now and then, I get inquires (especially from Anglicans) on whether they should become Orthodox. My usual response is to refer them to this, the Life of the Archpriest Avvakum by Himself. I've missed it on this one: the Mystificator from Romania has 275 reasons why one shouldn't become Orthodox. The remaining time, amounting …
Some coffee musings: It used to be that high-income, left-wing people were referred to as "limousine liberals." Now they're referred to as "latte liberals," and Barack Obama wouldn't be where he is without them. The difference? Global warming perhaps? But part of the reason is the expense, and that leads us to... Starbucks is trying …
From the hadith: Al Bukhari Volume 4, Book 54, Number 506: Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, "When any human being is born. Satan touches him at both sides of the body with his two fingers, except Jesus, the son of Mary, whom Satan tried to touch but failed, for he touched the placenta-cover instead." …
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