Bishop Salmon Plays Colonel Nicholson. Again.

He's really stepped in it this time: An invitation by Dean Edward Salmon to Katharine Jefferts Schori to be the guest preacher at Nashotah House's historic seminary chapel has resulted in at least two resignations from that seminary's board. A memo from Bishop Jack Iker of the Diocese of Ft. Worth (confirmed by his staff) …

Head and Heart Knowedge: Doing What They Said Couldn't Be Done

Dale Coulter's moving piece on adoption, image and God's love (including extensive reference to St. Thomas Aquinas) brought back a more prosaic incident that happened to me while working in the family business. About thirty years ago, between trips to China, I had to make a trip to Holland for an offshore hammer repair.ย  With …

What Do You Expect? This is the Global North!

I guess a blog which at least claims to be in the Anglican/Episcopal blogosphere should have something to say in the wake of all the "fun" going on around Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.ย  That includes his sycophantic press release re Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts-Schori's upcoming honourary doctorate at Oxford and his address to …

When the Government Denies You Serving Sunday Brunch

In Palm Beach, where else: Harvey Oyer, attorney for Del Friscoโ€™s Grille: Royal Poinciana Plaza restaurant originally wanted to serve Saturday lunch and Sunday brunch. Council approved Saturday lunch service, asked restaurant to meet conditions to open: No live music, approved operating hours, priority reservation system for residents, no happy hour, refuse stored indoors, employee …

The Best Selling Aggie Author: A Controversial Christian

It's Forrest Mims: Forrest M. Mims III '66, "the Country Scientist,"ย has written more than 60 books, mostly technical tomes on electronics, some in various editions and in two or more languages. His total sales exceed 7 million copies. He is probably best known for hisย hand-lettered and illustrated Getting Started in Electronics, published byย Radio Shack in …

America in Blue Suede Shoes: Obama vs. the Work Ethic

Our strange government is at it again: It began when the head of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reported that the interplay of taxes and subsidies in the law โ€œcreates a disincentive for people to work.โ€ The report predicted the mix would lead to fewer hours worked, costing the equivalent of nearly 2.5 million jobs. …

Granville Sewell on the Weaknesses of Darwinism

In view of yesterday's debate on the subject, this, which is the postscript for University of Texas at El Paso math professor Granville Sewell's book Analysis of a Finite Element Method: PDE/PROTRAN: As I begin my 12th year of work on TWODEPEP (now PDE/PROTRAN ), I am intrigued by the analogy between the 11 year …

Our Insane "Civilisation": John Kerry and Justin Welby

There are two threads in the news these days that illustrate where our "Western civilisation" (which at this stage is neither) is going.ย  As is usually the case, "God, gays and guns" are at the centre of the problem, but not in the venues they're normally associated with. Let's start with Archbishop of Canterbury Justin …

The Scots-Irish Cause Trouble…

...in William Penn's Philadelphia.ย  This, from Robert Carse's Ports of Call: But the Scottish Presbyterians who came in from North Ireland were the worst.ย  They knew their rights, they said, and they would have those satisfied before they stepped foot out of Penn's town of brotherly love.ย  Most of the Scots were big, rangy men, …

The Ancient Star Song is Back

One of the features of this blog is the Music Pages, where some music of the "Jesus Music" era is featured, a good deal of it to the delight of the artists.ย  I can't take the credit for starting this; that must go to "Diakoneo" of the Ancient Star-Song, whose blog started in 2006 and …

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