There will be no podcast this week. Lord, willing, I'll be back with something different (I would say new, but most of what I podcast has been around for a while) next week. In the meanwhile, check out the Music Pages. I've uploaded several albums to the site lately, and will be featuring some of …
Oh, Just Put the Big Engine Sound Through the Speakers
Auto manufacturers such as Lamborghini, Aston Martin and Ferrari face extinction through the EU's proposed regulations on CO2 emissions: As giant European carmakers battle environmentalists and lawmakers over emissions curbs, makers of classic European sports cars like the Aston Martin DB9, Ferrari F430 and Porsche 911 are concerned the new laws will destroy their lifeblood. Environmentalists …
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Looking Smarter About Barack Obama Every Day
Spengler was widely trashed for his article Obama's Women Reveal his Secret back in February (as was I for agreeing with it.) But compare this passage from a piece by David Brooks: Last week Jodi Kantor of The New York Times described Obama's 12 years at the University of Chicago Law School. "The young law …
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Mission of Jesus Resurgence Meeting
I've been posting (especially this) recently in concert on some interesting discussions that my church has been having in anticipation of our General Assembly. Well, this is the culmination of that: the Mission of Jesus Resurgence Meeting at same General Assembly. You can watch below, or click here and interact with the meeting (if it's …
Mission of Jesus Resurgence Meeting Tonight
Tonight at 2130 CDT will be the Mission of Jesus Resurgence Meeting, sponsored by MissionalCOG. For those of you who follow this blog, the church I'm in is having its General Assembly this week, and you can get to see for yourself what dissenters look like in a Pentecostal church.
Is Obama Running for “Dominus et Deus?”
For my Christian visitors who may not be aware: the Roman Emperor Domitian was the first to demand that he be called "Dominus et Deus" (Lord and God.) The refusal of Christians to call him that was a source of persecution, and may well have caused John's exile at Patmos, from where he wrote the …
Phil Bredesen is Wrong About the Ford-Corker Race
Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen is simply wrong about "race-baiting" and the 2006 senatorial race between Harold Ford and Bob Corker: In a meeting with Politico reporters, Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen referred to a commercial aired against then-Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.) in his unsuccessful bid for the Senate in 2006 as an example of the …
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The Revolution of the Gospel
From John McKenzie's The Power and the Wisdom: Yet the gospel is in some ways revolutionary, and no other word seems to do it justice. Efforts to conventionalise the gospel and to curb its dynamism take away much of its effect...The world, we said, both of men at large and the individual person, is irreparably …
Seek Ye First
This week's podcast is an classic "Jesus Music" song with a very well known verse of Scripture: "Seek Ye First," from Matthew 6:33. It's performed by the group Maranatha. The rest of the album can be found at Heavenly Grooves.
A Problem of America: For what fills the heart will rise to the lips, and Is Charismatic Culture African?
Some interesting tidbits from Lambeth. Let's start with the following comment from the Rt Rev Catherine Roskam, Suffragan Bishop of New York: She said some of the 670 Anglican bishops gathered in Canterbury for the once-a-decade Lambeth Conference probably beat their wives, and added that it is difficult to discuss it with them because they …
Positive Infinity 