It's hard to know where to begin in responding to Carl Hiaasen's latest rant in the Miami Herald White politicos have their own pulpit gasbags, but let me begin by making a few observations: Jeremiah Wright has certainly prospered financially off of his ministry activities, as his US$10,000,000 house will attest. (And he's done it …
Opening Sentence for Ascensiontide
From the opening sentences from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, the one for the Ascension season: Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God...Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to …
They May Bomb and Gouge, But At Least They’re Sober
Ping, the well-known manufacturer of golf equipment, has earned a place in Golf Digest's "Bomb and Gouge" (Mike Johnson and Mike Stachura) blog for an unusual reason: Just prior to last week's Safeway International, Stacy Prammanasudh and her equipment sponsor, Ping, parted ways and Prammanasudh played the event with just one Ping club in her …
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Book Review: Sex God
Rob Bell has become a major voice in "post-modern" Evangelicalism with books such as Velvet Elvis and the NOOMA series of videos. He likes to travel on the edge, and so when he came out with a book entitled Sex God, it's tempting to think that he's gone over it. But before I explore the …
Another Step Downward for Dollar Hegemony
The Gulf states' trend towards floating their own currencies relative to the U.S. dollar is a major step downward for the U.S.: On Thursday (May 1), the finance minister of Kuwait, Mustafa al-Shiwali, suggested that Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries were considering an idea to abandon their long-standing US dollar pegs. This is a minor …
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I Feel I Want to Fly
Today is Ascension Day, when we celebrate Our Lord's bodily rise to heaven after his resurrection from the dead. For this one wants something ethereal and light, and this week's podcast is certainly that: I Feel I Want to Fly, from the British group Cloud and their album Free to Fly. This album is a …
The Other Sheep of Jeremiah Wright
Now we can discuss something really important about Jeremiah Wright: On Monday, Pastor Jeremiah Wright had the following exchange with the moderator at the National Press Club (transcript): MODERATOR: “Jesus said, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the father but through me.’ Do you believe this? And do …
Life in the Fast Lane
It's probably more interesting to readers of my other sites vulcanhammer.net and vulcanhammer.info, but this is a welcome to the blogosphere for Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters' blog The Fast Lane. Above: Secretary Peters on a Harley.
Women Bishops in the Church of England: It’s a Little Late to Stop Them
The fuss surrounding the "Manchester Report" on how to achieve women bishops in the Church of England overlooks a significant weakness in the argument against them: who really is the head of the Church of England? Everybody knows the answer to that question (well, almost:) the Queen, who is the "Lady and Governor" of the …
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Jeremiah Wright: Ego Inflatable to Any Size
My church has a humourist who does an "Inflatable Campmeeting" routine, where he features a blow-up campmeeting with an inflatable campground, organ, pulpit, etc. But no campmeeting is complete without general and state church officials, so they're inflatable too. For good measure, he throws in an additional remark about the officials: "egos inflatable to any …
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