Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Sometimes this man amazes me: Suppose, for example, you're a voter, and you have candidate X and you have candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything but you don't think that person can deliver on anything. Candidate Y disagrees with you on half the issues, but you believe that, on the other half, …
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The day after I posted Brian McLaren's Learning How to Love, now this: Hat tip to Stand Firm in Faith for this.
Nancy Pelosi hasn't quite thought this through just yet: "I think that women, we have to get away from the politics of victim. This is about you go out there and you fight," she said. "I think that what Hillary Clinton did was tremendous for the country. She has kicked open many doors, which now …
I was honoured to receive the following comment from my piece Rowan Williams and the High Price of Riding the Fence: I have been catching up with stuff on the Web concerning the letters the Archbishop of Canterbury wrote me. My reply to Dr. Williams’ first letter ran to more than six pages, and I …
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This seems to be my topic these days, now this from the BBC: Dr Aune, co-author of Women and Religion in the West, said: "In short, women are abandoning the church. "Young women tend to express egalitarian values and dislike the traditionalism and hierarchies they imagine are integral to the church." She said many women …
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This is a "blast from the past," originally written 20 July 2006 between the Episcopal Church's General Convention in Columbus, OH and the Church of God General Assembly in Indianapolis, IN. I'm reproducing it to make it more accessible; thanks to Jonathan Stone for his interest in this; Jonathan Martin also made a strong statement …
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I found this entry in Nick Park's blog (also here) very interesting: My thinking about this was sparked by a meeting I attended while in the US recently. The preacher was a fairly young guy (younger then me anyway!) but his preaching was of a style that seemed to belong to an older generation. It …
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Barack Obama's choice of Joe Biden as his VP running mate may make good "policy wonk" sense (Biden is supposedly an ace with foreign policy) but strikes me as weak. (In fact, I found myself hard pressed to find anyone to be an Obama running mate who really struck me as being helpful to his …
There are some in (well, maybe) the Roman Catholic Church who are taking matters into their own hands: A few weeks ago, a group called Roman Catholic Womenpriests staged what it called an ordination, vesting three Boston-area women in white chasubles and red stoles. It told the local papers that the ordinations were valid, despite …
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Recently, I commented on MissionalCOG that the greatest opportunity for the Church of God was the planting of 1,000 new Hispanic churches. Below is information on this program, in English and Spanish.
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