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.)Â 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 …
Davis Mac-Iyalla: Living What He Advocates
Just when I thought I'd seen everything on the Internet, we have this: I am pleased to note that the United Kingdom has granted the asylum petition of Davis Mac-Iyalla, the Nigerian Anglican Gay activist, with whom I’ve had frequent dealings... I know Mr. Mac-Iyalla better than anyone else in the United States, having served …
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Beating Lenders at Their Own Shell Game
Lance Wiggs has hit up on yet another twist in the debt crisis: It turns out that because of the mortgages being sold and sliced and sold, the ownership of the original mortgage is often in doubt. It took Mamie Ruth Palmer in Atlanta, Georgia to bust this one open, in a court case that …
Obama Redefines Patriotism
The Politico's piece on the attempt--and the risk--of John McCain's campaign to paint Barack Obama as "unpatriotic" needs a little clarification. I've taken heat for demonstrating that Obama's relationship with the U.S. is not in sync with what many Americans regard as "patriotic."Â But that begs the obvious question: what is patriotism? I've noted before …
A Strange Way of Selling Accidental Death Insurance
Well, I think that's what's being sold here: this come from my family business archives. Why it was there I don't know. I think it dates from the 1950's but am not sure.
Internationalisation with a Vengeance
From this piece on Virtue Online: While the members of St. Timothy's originally joined AMiA as what Hassett describe as "a lifeboat" away from an Episcopal Church they perceived to be increasingly errant in its leftward drift while still maintaining their connection to the larger Anglican Communion through the archbishop of Rwanda, she found that …
Positive Infinity 