Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
The world's largest democracy has swept Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) into power, and they're trying to figure out what he's going to do to change India: The new composition of parliament is significant, as are a number of other factoids about this election. The BJP has returned at least 279 seats in the …
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Are more and more non-white: “What I see among Millennials are African Americans, and Asians Americans, and Latinos who are vibrantly growing in faith and leading the future of what the church will become,” says Gray. About a third of young (18-29 year old) Americans — and more than half of younger Christians — are …
In response to one of my pieces related to climate change, my persistent commenter had this to say: My impression is that “you people think science is a religion” is an accusation made against the secular by a small segment of the religious, that tiny sub-group who think of themselves as “the religious.” I’d think …
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Those diversity people are at it again, this time at The Place Where Future Presidents go: The administration at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government has agreed to work with a student group to implement a “mandatory power and privilege training” as part of its orientation, according to several reports by the group. “We have exciting …
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Getting the boot as a commencement speaker is becoming quite fashionable these days: The head of the International Monetary Fund on Monday joined an élite group—those whose plans to give commencement addresses this graduation season were derailed by student or faculty protests. Christine Lagarde, managing director of the IMF, was scheduled to speak this coming …
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It's not quite a follow-up to this earlier post, but this interesting nugget from St. Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologiae, 3 q. 72 a. 2) puts the issue in an interesting light: Christ, by the power which He exercises in the sacraments, bestowed on the apostles the reality of this sacrament, i.e. the fulness of theHoly Ghost, without the sacrament itself, because they …
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For the entire work and an interactive table of contents, click here. When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of …
But as East Carolina University, that's not necessarily the case: In an email obtained by Campus Reform, Assistant Professor Eli Hvastkovs, who teaches chemistry at East Carolina University (ECU), instructed his students to prepare a “family friendly” 35 word personal statement that mentions future plans or “thanks someone.” The students, however, were explicitly forbidden from thanking …
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And his own "marriage" is on the rocks: The former Bishop of New Hampshire, the Rt Rev. V. Gene Robinson, announced today that he is divorcing his spouse and partner of 25 years, Mark Andrew. Writing in the Daily Beast on 3 Mary 2014, Bishop Robinson stated: “All of us sincerely intend, when we take our wedding …
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