That's StandFirm's Matt Kennedy for you, reacting to Ridgecrest's dry policy for the upcoming ACNA Provincial Synod: No scotch, no sherry, no cigars? It’s bad enough for the laity and the presbyterate…but the bishops. How shall the bishops endure this deprivation? This may be the first North American Anglican gathering in which the bishops are …
Another Try at Minimising Eternity
From (where else?) The Lead: The most popular immortality narrative is Soul. Most Christians now believe that their souls, which persist after death, will be reunited with their resurrected bodies. Souls thus solve a lot of the identity problems associated with the earlier Resurrection narrative. Cave argues that Soul narrative resolves the Mortality Paradox by …
Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change: An Old View
This, from A.W. Grabau's 1913 classic Principles of Stratigraphy: The chief agents in retaining the sun's heat within the earth's atmosphere are the carbon dioxide and the water vapor, which act as thermal blankets. It has been estimated by Arrhenius (2) that if the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere were increased 2.5 to 3 …
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Abortion, Infanticide and the "War on Women": A Lesson From China
There has been a great deal of discussion these days about gender selective abortions, which, when done, usually go against girls. We've been presented stories of nations where the ratio of men to women in the population is rising to "unprecedented" proportions because families are doing away with their baby girls through abortion. And, of …
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The Most Potent Virus on Iranian Computers
It isn't Stuxnet or even Flame, but... The malware known as 'Flame,' that was described by the analysts who discovered it as a super-cyberweapon, is actually a tool for cyberespionage that has been running inside Iranian data centers and labs for as long as five years without being discovered or causing significant damage. Contrast that …
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Ten Things She Doesn't Get About Christians: My Reply to Emily Stone
I found Emily Stone's list of ten things she doesn't get about Christians intriguing. So I set myself to answer these as follows: The Tipping Business. That goes back to Finney, who made a very big deal about Christians tallying every monetary transaction they made to be exact to the penny, which has given rise …
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Book Review: Barbara Tuchman's Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
When we think of China today, we think of a nation growing very fast economically and taking its place as one of the great powers of the world. Getting to that point--or getting to that point again, if one takes a long view of history--took a course of great suffering and several unexpected turns (how …
Yes, it Can be Proven Whether Elizabeth Warren is Cherokee or Not
Michael Tomsky of the Guardian is simply wrong about this: So if Warren’s mother told her there was Cherokee blood, and if one little rivulet of Cherokee blood going back generations makes one a Cherokee, which legally it does, then she’s Cherokee, at least as far she knows. Now she has to prove this? You …
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The Unabomber Only Did What The Rest Wish They Had
Old Ivy is a little chagrined over the career accomplishments of this Class of '62 member: Harvard University alumni attending their 50th class reunion this week are getting updates on classmates, but one person stands out among those sharing news about career moves, retirements and grandkids — Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. Kaczynski graduated in 1962 and …
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If We Had Been a German Colony, We Would Have Been Further Down the Road
I've mentioned on occasion that, where I teach, the full-time faculty in my discipline is entirely African. We recently had a faculty retreat and, before we got underway with the matters at hand, we discussed various items. One of them was the subject of Americans keeping lions as pets, which the Africans found understandably unbelievable. …
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