Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
This week's podcast is a departure; it's a speech given on 6 September 2007 by Paul Speltz, former U.S. Ambassador to the Asian Development Bank, now President of Kissinger Associates (as in Henry Kissinger, Nixon's Secretary of State.) Paul's address is actually two speeches in one: An analysis of the 1997 Asian bank crisis and …
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I was saddened to hear the following news from my home church: James "Jimmy" Heyman spent the last Sunday of his life doing what he loved best — serving God. Mr. Heyman, a longtime acolyte at The Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, served as crucifer at the May 4 service. Clad in the red acolyte's robe, …
CBN's David Brody always has a nose for a good story, and this, as my grandfather (the Duesenberg dealer in Washington) would say, is a "doozy:" I have been telling Brody File readers for months that if Barack Obama becomes the Democratic nominee he will make a pitch to win over independent/moderate Evangelicals. Well, we …
The present flap in Lebanon is one more example of this: The crises was sparked last week in Beirut when the government of Prime Minister Fouad al-Siniora ordered the communication and surveillance network at Runway 17 of Beirut Airport be dismantled, claiming it was "illegal and unconstitutional"... Hezbollah cried foul, claiming the network had been …
Jonathan Stone explores the issue of "Primal Church:" When I speak of primal church I am not speaking of some sort of neanderthal church, but rather those primitive elements that still serve as the basic building blocks of the church. For example, geometrically speaking, we can think of the primitive shapes such as cones, spheres, …
Back in the 1960's, the Armenian-American Demos Sharkarian wrote The Happiest People on Earth, about the Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship International and full-Gospel Christians in general. Now Spengler--who I feature frequently--tells us that Israel, celebrating its 60th anniversary, is in fact the happiest nation on earth: In a world given over to morbidity, the state …
From the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: ...according to whose most true promise, the Holy Ghost came down as at this time from heaven with a sudden great sound, as it had been a mighty wind in the likeness of fiery tongues, lighting upon the Apostles, to teach them, and to lead them to all …
Travis Johnson gives his congregation a lesson from the great Chinese author Sun Tzu: Sometimes you just have to break things and burn things down to get people where they need to go. Have you ever had someone tell you that you shouldn’t burn bridges? Me too. It is good advice…sometimes. In the case of …
The secularists have done their best to decouple "God and Country" but obviously the anti-war group Code Pink knows better: Code Pink is now resorting to witchcraft to beef up the number of its supporters protesting Berkeley's controversial Marine Corps Recruiting Center. The women's anti-war group has told ralliers to come equipped with spells and …
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It wasn't supposed to happen this way: On Tuesday night, we mentioned the dustup between two Democratic pundits, Ms. Brazile and Mr. Begala, who engaged in a prime-time debate about the coalitions being built by Mr. Obama or Mrs. Clinton. Mr. Begala, a Clinton supporter, said the party could not win in November with just …
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