Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Thorston Pattberg at Asia Times Online thinks he's found something novel: There is a cult of Western evangelists and self-righteous crusaders who are determined to dislodge non-Western nations and usurp their governments. Unfortunately, Western "experts" have hung around China for a long time. In the years immediately after the start of the People's Republic, same …
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Last Friday evening my wife and I got to do something that doesn't happen very often around here: go to a movie première, in this case that of the documentary Harriet's Secret. The film is produced and narrated by Dean Arnold, who is a well-known figure in this community. As the trailer conveys, it's an …
Evidently Justin Welby stirred up more than this blog by his backhanded comments regarding the ACNA and the Anglican Communion. It's unsurprising that some of the provinces at least have taken offence to them. In Australia, with their interesting system of provinces, dioceses and extraprovincial diocese (Tasmania) we have the Diocese of Northwest Australia warmly …
That's apparently what Justin Welby is doing, or trying to do: At the start of his 3 October 2014 interview with the Church of Ireland Gazette Archbishop Welby noted that he was surprised to learn that “virtually everywhere I have gone the analysis is that the definition of being part of the Anglican Communion is …
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In France, no less: At today's rally, Zohra Bouchiba, a French Muslim, was handing out fliers for a prevention group for youngsters tempted by jihadism. “We should have been out here a long time ago,” she says. No kidding...in any case, a couple of weeks ago I reposted my piece They Feel the Shame, about Muslims …
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This evening I attended the dedication and consecration of this ACNA congregation in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Archbishop Foley Beach presided along with the Rector, the Rev. Brice Ullman. The "new" building is an old Presbyterian church. The congregation is about ten years old; it is not a parish type of secession that has occupied this blog, …
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There was a time with the writings of "Karl and Fred" (Marx and Engels) were prominent on my reading list. During my growing up years, their followers controlled a third of the world's population and most of its nuclear weapons. During my career in the family business I spent a great deal of time in …
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And some will admit it: Many more in the Republican Party love using this line, "I'm not a scientist." Marco Rubio, John Boehner, and Rick Scott, have all used versions of this line to dismiss climate change science or promote creationism. In 2012, asked how old Earth is, Rubio repeated, "I'm not a scientist," twice. …
From St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theolgiae, Suppl., 89, 7: The judgment as regards the sentencing to punishment for sin concerns all the wicked, whereas the judgment as regards the discussion of merits concerns only believers. Because in unbelievers the foundation of faith is lacking, without which all subsequent works are deprived of the perfection of …
When Joseph was put in charge of Egypt by Pharaoh, the following happened: He had him ride in the chariot of the second-in-command. Men ran ahead of him and shouted, "Make way!" Pharaoh put Joseph in charge of Egypt. (Genesis 41:43 GW) This reminds me of the Canadian journalist John Fraser's account of the departure …
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