Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Church of England Bishop Alan Wilson was impressed by emerging church guru Brian McLaren: I am impressed by the logic of Brian’s argument. It sheds light on why the fastest growing Church of England congregations, by and large, are Cathedrals. Following it up would involve reimaging our context in a more realistic, low-key, creative and …
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From First Things: Among conservative Christians, much attention is devoted to the question of whether the hole in public life can be filled by either Catholicism or the evangelical churches. I have my doubts. The evangelicals may have too little church organization, and the Catholics may have too much. Besides, both are minorities in the …
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A few years back, I sat at a prayer breakfast next to a "continuing Anglican" bishop who stated that the liberals in TEC were actually glad that so many "reasserters" had left the church during the 1970's and 1980's (TEC had a substantial loss in membership in the wake of the 1960's.) Evidently the sentiment …
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A few years back I saw a skit entitled "This is Not Your Life." The skit had one young guy who had just died. An "angel" was showing him the things he did not do in his life. I was taking this in until he showed him one of those undone things: stealing a baby …
Robert Easter at Sanctifusion asks this question, and answers as follows: Our world view is all wrong. "Be holy as I am holy" is not a core conviction. We prefer the things that are "more exciting" - like worship, harvesting tithes, building buildings, getting on the latest trendy movement of evangelicalism. Not intentional enough. We …
Back in May, Steve Sailer quoted the following from Barack Obama's autobiography, Dreams From My Father: As we walked back to the car, we passed a small clothing store full of cheap dresses and brightly colored sweaters, two aging white mannequins now painted black in the window. The store was poorly lit, but toward the …
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Around the time of the 2006 Church of God General Assembly in Indianapolis, I began writing my last novel, The Ten Weeks. At the core of the plot is the story of one French Catholic high school senior, Madeleine des Cieux, who performs a series of miracles. This generates a number of reactions, but her …
I recently received a message from +Alan Munday regarding both the recent decision by the Church of England to ordain women bishops, the Traditional Anglican Communion's ongoing discussions with the Vatican, and my article Think Before You Convert. I'll reproduce this in its entirety (it was broadcast in a couple of newsgroups) along with some …
Things in "Big D" have made a strange turn with this: County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts. Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections "has become a black …
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An Atlanta magazine editor has managed, in one place at least, to eliminate the "Men Working" signs that warn of construction: Public Works officials are replacing 50 "Men Working" with signs that say "Workers Ahead." It will cost $22 to cover over some of the old signs and $144 to buy new signs, said Public …
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