The flap over Wheaton's process to dismiss Larycia Hawkins from her position makes me stop and think about a few things, especially since I am beginning yet another semester of teaching Civil Engineering at UTC. Lord willing, sometime this year I will complete my PhD pursuit. It's been a long process, not without excitement; hopefully …
Evangelicals Having "Buyers Remorse" on Being Pro-Life?
Sure looks that way, at least for the organisers of Urbana15: In an op-ed published on Monday, Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life (SFL), revealed the Urbana15 team denied her group’s exhibitor application. SFL received an email from Urbana’s Exhibits Manager thanking the pro-life youth organization for applying, but denied their application because, "… …
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Consistency, Convergence and Stability of Lax-Wendroff Scheme Applied to Convection Equation
The purpose of this project is to examine the Lax-Wendroff scheme to solve the convection (or one-way wave) equation and to determine its consistency, convergence and stability. Overview of Taylor Series Expansions The case examined utilized a Taylor Series expansion, so some explanation common to both is in order. The general expression for a Taylor …
The Ottoman Way of Dealing with the House of Saud
First, the "I told you so": I have been dealing with the Sunni-Shi'a divide since 2005, now everyone knows how important it is. Now for something different: this, from Andrew Wheatcroft's The Ottomans: Deep in the heart of Arabia, the desert warriors of the Wahabi sect, fanatical in hatred for the wickedness of the world, …
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Why Evangelicals Don't Read Philo Judaeus
It's the New Year again, time to look at something substantive. This topic may seem a little arcane, but rest assured there's a grenade with a pin waiting to be pulled. Evangelicals are generally suspicious of the whole concept of relating the Bible to the ancient world around it, except archaeologically. But there are two …
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The Silly, Masonic Debate on Whether We Worship the Same God
It seems that some things never go away, and the running battle over whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God is one of those. The day I picked to take on this subject is deliberate: it's the feast of St. John the Evangelist, which is also one of the great holidays of Masonry. As …
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The Place Which Watches the Grass Grow Gets a Pass on Shari’a
Brunei slides past our sybaritic elites: The sultan of Brunei has issued an edict that threatens Muslims with five years in prison if they celebrate Christmas. Christians are told that their celebrations must remain secret or they can be jailed as well. One of my family business' customers was Brunei Shell, as the state sanctioned …
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Anglicanism Without Canterbury
The Most Rev. Eliud Wabukala, Kenya's Anglican primate, lays it out: It has been suggested that the way forward is for the Anglican Communion to abandon the idea that there should be mutual recognition between the provinces and that it should instead find its unity simply in a common relationship with the Archbishop of Canterbury. …
The Non-Nestorian Theology of "Mary Did You Know"
Jordan Smith's stunning performance of "Mary Did You Know" on "The Voice" is a reminder of the fact that this song--written by Baptist comedian Mark Lowry--is American Evangelicalism's "official" Christmas carol. What Evangelicals probably don't know is that, for all of their reputation for sloppy theology, Lowry nailed it on this one: Did you know …
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Home is Where the Heart Is, But the Wallet Cannot Go
Christmas is the time of year when we think of "home". Home for many Americans generates warm fuzzy feelings of a place where things were simpler and life was, somehow, better. It brings memories of places we've left, assuming we've left them behind at all. And it's a place where, for all the saccharine sentiment, …
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Positive Infinity 