Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
...or at least one of them: the burial of Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron", on 22 April 1918, at Bertangles, France. He was buried by the Australians, as is clear from the uniforms. I don't know whether the chaplain, doubtless holding the 1662 BCP, was English or Australian, but the Anglican Church in Australia …
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From J. Herbert Kane's A Concise History of the Christian World Mission: One would naturally expect that the spiritual forces released by the Reformation would have prompted the Protestant churches of Europe to take the gospel to the ends of the earth during the period of world exploration and colonisation which began about 1500. But …
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Federal agencies such as NOAA and the Social Security administration are trying to contain the excitement over their substantial ammunition purchases: Obscure federal agencies triggered a firestorm of conspiracy theories this week after they put out orders for thousands of rounds of deadly hollow-point bullets. But the agencies, most recently the Social Security Administration, are …
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In perusing much Evangelical and Charismatic literature, one gets the impression that the "mantic" theory of the inspiration of the Scriptures is the "correct" theory and anything else is the product of "liberals". I dealt with this in the book I co-authored with Leonard Albert, Apologetics for the Rest of Us. A very cogent presentation …
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Temple Emanu-El hangs tough: In an Aug. 10 letter to lead code enforcement officer Rob Walton, attorney Marvin Rosen - a past president of the synagogue - stated: “any attempt by the town to limit, through its zoning code, the number of worshippers that can be accommodated in a house of worship would constitute an …
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My parting attempt at humour notwithstanding, the long and involved debate with Anglican Ablaze's Robin Jordan isn't as "over" as one would like. For his part he has sounded the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Charles Finney. For mine, I'd like to take this another direction, because, as I said, I don't think the …
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Those of you who have followed my recent posts on Calvinism (this and this) and even my exposition on Origen and the literal sense of Scripture know that these have elicited a vigorous rejoinder by Robin Jordan of Anglicans Ablaze. With the responses from same and now his own blog post on the "slippery slope" …
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As a follow-up to my earlier post on Calvinism—and a partial response to Anglicans Ablaze’s Robin Jordan—I wanted to supply more details on my contention that Calvinism “…is the fastest road to universalism in Christianity.” Following is a part of Robert Morey’s Death and the Afterlife, where he discusses and ultimately refutes universalism. I heartily …
Some once part of the U.S. military are, to put it mildly, delusional about a possible internal rebellion: At issue is an article in the respected Small Wars Journal titled “Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A ‘Vision’ of the Future.” It was written by retired Army Col. Kevin Benson of the Army's University of …
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Fr. Victor Novak's recent article in VirtueOnline about Calvinism, Catholicism and the Thirty-Nine Articles opens an interesting subject for disparate groups such as Anglicans, Baptists and Pentecostals: why is there so much attraction these days for Calvinism in places where it was either non-existent or not well represented? Let's start with Fr. Novak's article. He …
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