This speaks for itself: (You'll need to get about 4 1/2 minutes into the video to get to that particular question and response.) I've been predicting this kind of thing since before the election. I've also observed that, as President, Barack Obama is caught in the middle on this. As a liberal, putting these people …
A Fistful of Yuan Takes a Step Closer to Reality for Everyone
In putting together my series on doing business in China in the early 1980's, I adopted the title A Fistful of Yuan, turning a business tale into a spaghetti Western (or, more properly, an Eastern.) Well, it looks like the Chinese are working up towards making the yuan a real hard currency, as this indicates: …
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Civil Marriage: Let’s Take This to the Next Level, Gene
Bishop of New Hampshire V. Gene Robinson is at it again: The first openly gay Episcopal bishop told a Los Angeles gathering yesterday that the church should begin mending divisions over the issue of same-sex marriage by getting out of the civil marriage business altogether. During a visit to St. Michael and All Angels Church, …
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David Martin’s Preface to the New Testament
One cannot be happy without knowing God, and one can only know him well by the divine Scriptures. The world is, in truth, like a great open book where one can see the brilliant handiwork of an infinite power and a wisdom worthy of worship. The heavens declare, said the Prophet King, the glory of …
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State Secrets: Maybe It’s a Setback for the Obama Administration, and Maybe It Isn’t
The Atlantic tells us that a recent court decision in California is a setback for the Obama Administration: The Obama administration suffered a bit of a legal setback this afternoon: a federal judge in California rejected the administration's assertion of the state secrets privilege in the civil suit brought by an Islamic charity that was …
First the Celebration of Life. Then the Cocktail Party.
One of the oldest pieces on this site (around ten years, I think) is A State of Being, which concerns the prominent and gracious Palm Beach socialite Helene Tuchbreiter (right.) She and my mother were friends, and they worked together to found Palm Beach's first (I think) resale shop: the Church Mouse. Helene's charitable work …
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Tea Parties: The Winners Count Their Money, and the Losers Cry Deal
Looking around at all of the "tea parties" today, the first thing that strikes me is one of my father's old favourite experessions: "the winners count their money and the losers cry deal." It's an old poker player's expression, not something you'd expect from an "Evangelical." But unfortunately the losers cried deal all across the …
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Book Review: Unchristian America
I’ve regularly lamented on this blog the failure of the “Religious Right” to “bring America back to God.” It seems that not only has our President proclaimed to the world that we are not a Christian nation, but also the likes of James Dobson has admitted that the whole effort has ended in failure. How …
Special to Jethro Tull Fans: When Prayers for Souls in Kentish Town Get Answered
Tull fans may remember this line from A Passion Play: We pray for souls in Kentish Town. Evidently someone's prayers along these lines got answered, as the former well-known sceptic A.N. Wilson attests: A week ago, there were Palm Sunday processions all over the world. Near my house in North London is a parish with …
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Some More Thoughts on Same Sex Civil Marriage
I thought I'd get past Holy Week before delving into this in detail, now more timely that Vermont has legislated same sex civil marriage. In response to my last post on Iowa's Supreme Court decision, I received the following response from a friend on Facebook: Living in the bible belt, and being very much a …
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