Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
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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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 …
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 …
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.
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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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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The "Exponential Conference" makes me, the author of this, needing to say a few things about all of the math that gets thrown around in the church world. Obviously, on the face of it, exponential growth is what you want out of your "exponential church." But you need to think clearly about which exponent you …
Staying ahead of Dick Morris isn't easy, but it's doable. On the subject of Hillary Clinton's real intention of staying in the race: From my piece a month ago Hillary Clinton has Nothing to Lose by Ploughing On: Hillary has no good reason to quit. If she wins the nomination, she has a shot at …
Archbishop Greg Venables of the Southern Cone gave a difficult commissioning address to those in the Anglican Network in Canada, departing as they are from their original church: God is presenting us with an opportunity to say to an old and sad world with all its sense of nowhere to go, we have got to …
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Quark founder Tim Gill is making quite a splash, funding in a big way state legislative candidates who support same-sex civil marriage. This was reported on the 700 Club a couple of days ago, and; you can see the video by clicking here. Gill tells us he wants equality. That should constitute progress. I've dealt …
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