Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
The secularists have done their best to decouple "God and Country" but obviously the anti-war group Code Pink knows better: Code Pink is now resorting to witchcraft to beef up the number of its supporters protesting Berkeley's controversial Marine Corps Recruiting Center. The women's anti-war group has told ralliers to come equipped with spells and …
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Evidently Spengler doesn't think so: How, then, should one make sense of the joint statement signed April 30 between the Vatican and a group of visiting Iranian clerics, attesting to the benefits of reason? According the May 1 L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI and the Iranians agreed that "Faith and reason do not contradict each …
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 …
