Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Many people don't like big oil, but we're paying the price... Oil production has begun falling at all of the major Western oil companies, and they are finding it harder than ever to find new prospects even though they are awash in profits and eager to expand. Part of the reason is political. From the …
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The Russians are back in our news again. Our media is manic-depressive: it careens from supine pacifism to hyperventilating bellicosity, and these days the invasion of Georgia is inspiring the latter. Our government isn't much better: it can't seem to know whether to send the troops, send the diplomats, or just hide. I have a …
On the other hand, Edwards, the greatest Reformed theologian between Calvin and Barth, systematically integrates justification and sanctification, faith and works, election and perseverance, forensic righteousness and mystical participation. This is significant not only for relations between Reformed and Catholic theology, but also for evangelicals and Catholics. Evangelicals have had their own problems putting asunder …
For more than a century, Bible translators have laboured to translate God’s Word into modern English. The Twentieth Century New Testament was the work of a committee of lay people and clergy alike who were products of the same educational system that produced some of the giants of English literature. It was a pioneering effort …
This week, Kendall Harmon featured two pieces on the Roman Catholic Church that caught my attention: one which made more formal some of the language used in the Mass, and another which forbids the use of "Yahweh" as the divine name. A few notes for the uninitiated: all Catholic liturgies are composed in Latin as …
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I'm back on the podcast trail this week with Little Children, from Cookin' Mama's New Day album. This group was very progressive and the music is still fresh and moves after all these years. I've featured this album before, but now it's hosted on this site, and you can find it here.
This from George Barna: George Barna, who has managed various political campaigns and been involved in polling for many candidates, directed the study. He believes the faith community may yet emerge as the deciding factor in what many analysts consider to be a certain victory for Barack Obama. "It is unusual to see such significant …
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Robert Easter (who is sorely dissappointed that I'm not planning on formally reverting to Anglicanism any time soon) made a very good point in his comment on my piece Is Charismatic Culture African? Your source on the “Sola Panel” scares the bejabbers out of me. A parallel statement would be, “This whole business of an …
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Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is back in trouble again, this time for his "real" position on same sex relations: However, in an exchange of letters with an evangelical Christian, written eight years ago when he was Archbishop of Wales, he described his belief that biblical passages criticising homosexual sex were not aimed at people …
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Another Church of God General Assembly is, as I like to say, “in the can.” The “preachers' watering hole” in the lobby at the Marriott Rivercentre (the bar, for my Anglican friends, was Starbucks) is quiet now, having been the place to be for much of the Assembly. All you had to do was to …
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