Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
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.
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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