Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
If our political chaos isn't enough to upset everyone, now we have the film version of William Taylor's The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity. It's created a great deal of controversy over its implied universalism, it's decidedly LDS portrayal of God as three embodied beings, etc. Personally the heart of the matter centres around the …
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A pithy summary from R. de la Broise, Bossuet and the Bible, 1890, pp. 160-1: "To preach the word of God, to go hear the word of God," these are the expressive words of the Christian language. They neatly outline one of the distinct characteristics of preaching, one of the points which make the genre …
World Library WLSM-36-SM (1968) Jack Miffleton started out at St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore. That shouldn't be strange to regulars on this blog: it was also the starting point of the trio who produced Songs for the Masses. It's a pedigree that has largely been forgotten. And that's sad; this is a good folk production …
It’s official: the construction management textbook Soils in Construction, Fifth Edition by W.L. Schroeder, S.E. Dickenson and D.C. Warrington is now at Waveland Press. As someone who has dealt with contractors for his entire working career, I know that an understanding of the essentials of soil mechanics and foundations is crucial for successful–and profitable–completion of […] …
Those of you who are regular followers know that I have followed/participated in what I call the "Anglican Revolt," a term which comes from a North American perspective. Brewing for years, in 2003 it was detonated in full force by the ordination of V. Gene Robinson, an openly gay man who subsequently went into and …
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This is one in a series from Bossuet’s Elevations on the Mysteries. The previous post is here. More information on the Bossuet Project is here. We no longer count the admirable singularities of the creation of man, so great are the number. But the last is immortality. O God, what a marvel! All the animals …
One thing that comes up for those of us who "swim the Tiber" is the idea that anyone who becomes a Roman Catholic must agree with "everything" that the Church teaches. This issue came up when Greg Griffith stunned the Anglican blogosphere with his conversion.  "Does he really agree with all that?" people asked. The …
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One can understand that God had produced from the earth every tree beautiful to see and agreeable to taste; And in the midst of paradise he also set the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God could annex to plants certain natural virtues in relation to our bodies. …
This is one in a series from Bossuet’s Elevations on the Mysteries. The previous post is here. More information on the Bossuet Project is here. You will eat of all the fruits of heaven, but you will not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day you eat …
Washington Post columnist and fellow Palm Beach Day Academy alum Catherine Rampell hits on the "facts" during her hometown address: Rampell, who focuses on data-driven journalism, said she is worried about Trump’s stance on federal agencies such as the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Economic Analysis. She said his attitude toward …
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