Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
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 …
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 …
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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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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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 …
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.
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 …
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