We observe two great and related phenomena in the global South: the fastest rate of cultural extinction in history, as well as the fastest rate of Christian evangelisation in history. I do not mean to minimize the tragedy of declining cultures, but it is only because of the terrible depth of that tragedy that hundreds …
Apple’s Jobs Sorry for iPhone Price Cut
Apple's Jobs Sorry for iPhone Price Cut. So are we. But at least we got to show off this site's HP-35 calculator on it.
The Sad End of Randy and Paula White
Randy and Paula White's breakup is a very sad business, not only for them and the Without Walls Church but for American Christianity in general. The really sad thing is that this is with precedent. Randy was the evangelism director of the National Church of God outside of Washington, DC when he met and married …
Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre
These towers and this World Trade Centre, however, are in Bahrain, and include some wind turbines. Photo by Fuad Enaya, available at Stock Exchange.
Military Golf
While trolling for new material for companion site vulcanhammer.net, I ran across the military document UFC 4-750-01NF, Golf Clubhouses. The U.S. Military doesn't leave anything to chance, and this includes the design of the clubhouses for the golf facilities it operates. Below are a few photographs of these structures, taken directly from the document. Vandenberg …
The One Thing They Forgot to Tell Us
The death of Tammy Faye Bakker Messner--and her tumultuous life and career--is a reminder that the greatest weakness of "prosperity teaching" is that it never tells you how to handle the success it brings. Two years ago I discussed the whole business of unrealistic expectations wrapped in defective methodologies, another weakness of this kind of …
Science for all? Maybe not…
The recent bombing (and attempting bombings) by physicians and engineers in the UK may have a greater casualty than just snarled airport security and throwing more people in jail. The fact that most of the current round of bombers are physicians, engineers and others with scientific training should put to rest the secularist lie that, …
Keeping Portland, Oregon Awake
The Internet is a wonderful place to read about all the things you have either done or been connected to that which others dislike, as we noted in our last posting. Now, in addition to what's here, our companion site's subject--pile driving equipment, and specifically Vulcan pile driving equipment--has found its way onto the blog …
Travolta and Scientology vs. the BBC: Revenge of the Bologna Club
There needs to be little surprise at John Travolta spearheading Scientology's counterattack against John Sweeney's BBC documentary on the subject. No organisation uses the legal system to grind down its opponents the way that the Church of Scientology does. In the past they have ruined opponents, institutional and individual, using the legal system that is …
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Turning Murdoch Out: The Church Can’t Win
The call by the Christian Research Network for Rick Warren to "turn out" (to use the old expression) Rupert Murdoch from Saddleback Church is a great idea. In theory. The basic problem is that churches in the U.S. have become adverse to expelling anyone from the membership, and not entirely for reasons of their own …
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