Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Although it's been out there for a long time, these days the clash between religion and science has been especially heated. The simplest way to solve the problem would be to cancel elections and let the self-proclaimed know-it-alls run the show. In this way they could ignore the religious "masses" and insure the continuity of …
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It's official:  I felt drawn to the Episcopal church because it offered some practices I felt were missing in my evangelical experience, like space for silence and reflection, a focus on Christ’s presence at the communion table as the climax and center of every worship service, opportunities for women in leadership, and the inclusion of …
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Reasoning on in Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, 2, 4: All of this is dead: the sun, its rays, its heat: a seal, its expression, an image either sculpted or painted. A mirror and the resemblances which object produce are dead things: God made an image most alive from his eternal and pure generation; and, …
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New Wine/Wine Skin LP 259-08 (1973) I've said more than once--too many times, perhaps--that South Florida is one of the toughest places in the U.S. to be a Christian. So it's good to see that someone was trying to make a dent in the situation, just down the road from where I grew up and …
There are some anniversaries that are harder to note than others. Â For me, this is one of them. Twenty years ago today, my father, Henry G. Warrington, passed into eternity in a South Florida hospital. Â He was the first of my immediate family to do, but certainly not the last: my brother followed suit six …
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It's hard to be surprised these days at anything, but I must admit that I was surprised at the posting by one Paul A. Holloway, Professor of New Testament at the School of Theology at The University of the South, Sewanee, TN.  He is evidently upset that a) his institution gave N.T. Wright an honourary doctorate, without …
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Moving along in Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, 1,3: See this delicate vapour which the sea, sweetly touched by the sun, and as impregnated with its heat, sent day and night as of its own power to the heavens, without lessening of its vast womb. It is however the purest of its substance and something …
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Daystar DS 1001 (1975) Arizona was the birthplace of God Unlimited, probably the best college-based group of the "Jesus Music" era (although this group did the same kind of ministry). Â God Unlimited was an Episcopal group; this Arizona gathering was Roman Catholic, connected with the Spiritual Life Institute and Fr. William McNamara. This is a …
Continuing in Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, 2,2: A God, can a God come from him? A God, can he bring into existence a being other than himself? Yes, if this God is son. It is repugnant to God to come from another creator who pulls him from nothing; but it is not repugnant to …
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Starting a new Elevations on the Mysteries by Bossuet, 2,1: Â Why should God not have had a Son? Why should this happy nature lack this perfect fecundity that she gives to her creatures? The name of Father, is it so dishonouring and so unworthy of the first being, that he cannot arrange according to his …
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Positive Infinity 