Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
The place that defined coffee bumps up the price, for some of us at least: The Seattle-based coffee company says it's hiking prices on average by 1 percent nationally starting on Tuesday. But it says the price for many drinks, such as medium and large brewed coffees and Frappuccinos, won't change in most its 11,000 …
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...their motto would be "all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid". This, of course, is from the opening Collect of the Holy Communion in the 1662 and 1928 Books of Common Prayer, which is why we jettison Cranmer's lovely prose at our peril. Since, at least for now, …
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Back in 2011 I posted (or more accurately reposted) the unique "Jesus Music" album A City Set Upon a Hill Cannot Be Hid. At the time I characterised it as "the mystery album of 1970′s Christian music". That mystery is now at an end, thanks to Paul Griffo, who was a member of the group. …
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Since the ACNA is dickering with the Creed re the "filioque" clause, it's informative to look at Thomas Aquinas' analysis of the problem. I reproduce same below, but the upshot of his argument is that, if the Holy Spirit does not proceed through the Son from the Father, it would be impossible to differentiate the …
Now that we know that Edward Snowden has blown the NSA's cover on its secret operations, the thoughts of some of us turn back to the days of Daniel Ellsberg, the victim of some of Richard Nixon's dirty tricks after he outed the Pentagon Papers over the Vietnam War. Like our current security apparatus isn't …
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Tom Engelhardt has obviously been reading this blog, as he too is composing graduation speeches he won't deliver in person. In his case, it isn't just popularity lack: he addressed his own Class of 1966: The answer, class of 1966, is: just begin. Just believe that for every measure, there is still a potential countermeasure. …
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I've run a good number of "I told you so" pieces on this blog. This time, however, it's more like "It used to be this way, but..." and the subject is national security. Barack Obama has, at least, cut the left's Gordian Knot on the issue. Let me go back to 2006 with this pre-election …
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Every now and then I will do a series about a theological topic or work. One of those series was on the Catechetical Lectures of St. Cyril of Jerusalem. It turned into an interesting exploration of Patristic doctrine and practice as opposed to what we have today in all parts of Christianity. Following are the …
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I think we've finally pulled one liberal's chain hard enough so he screams: Here it is. The NRA advocates armed rebellion against the duly elected government of the United States of America. That's treason, and it's worthy of the firing squad. The B.S. needs a serious gut check. We are not a tin pot banana …
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New concept? Hardly, New York City allowed it in the late 1940's: Many objected to the rich subsidies offered Metropolitan Life, then the largest private corporation in the nation, as well as the firm’s refusal to rent to minorities. Others criticized the complex’s design and layout. Metropolitan Life wouldn’t allow schools, churches, libraries, or other …
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