Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Publix Market's plans to expand/replace the venerable Palm Beach store is testament to the fact that the original opening of the store was The Event of the Season, as I documented in a Christmas 2006 post. No doubt that Publix has a long way to go in satifying everyone before they start, but there's no doubt …
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This week's podcast features Rev. Tim Hill, Second Assistant General Overseer of the Church of God, address the Tennessee State Campmeeting on Tuesday, 17 June 2008. For those of you not in the Church of God, it will give you a look at what a Pentecostal campmeeting actually looks like. (The award for the 55-year …
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Following up on an earlier posting, Travis Johnson's church conducted its baptismal service without interference from the Miami-Dade County Parksand Recreation Department. You can see his account of it here. Kudos to Travis for his handling of this situation.
I have to say that the back and forth between James Dobson and Barack Obama on the Bible is one of the least edifying discussions we have going this election year. So Obama says that Leviticus tells us we can't eat shellfish? Evidently Jeremiah Wright, like many of his counterparts on the right, never bothered …
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Dick Morris is doubtless correct on Obama's position to revert to treating terrorism as a law enforcement problem: “In previous terrorist attacks - for example, the first attack against the World Trade Center, we were able to arrest those responsible, put them on trial. They are currently in US prisons, incapacitated.” This is big - …
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There's no question Christians and Christianity face many challengers these days. But how do you answer them? What do you say when people ask, “Where does the Bible come from?” Or, “How do you know that God exists?” Or, “Isn’t Christ just a myth?” It is important not only to know what you believe, but …
The 700 Club had a nice piece (video here) on the emergence of African-allied Orthodox Anglicanism in North America, including interviews with Bishops Robert Duncan and Martyn Minns.
The current controversy over expanding offshore oil exploration and production includes an important consideration: during Katrina and the other hurricanes that hit the Gulf coast during the middle of the decade, there were no oil spills. One important reason for this was that none of the platform foundations failed. (Right: one of those pile foundations …
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Remarks like this (coming from U.S. Representative Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), member of the House Appropriations Committee,) are why I don't even believe that our government can do socialism properly, at least not today: We (the government) should own the refineries. Then we can control how much gets out into the market. I've done business with …
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