It certainly looks that way: Under pressure to increase their numbers, the Army and Marine Corps are sharply raising the number of recruits with felony convictions they are admitting to the services. Data released by a congressional committee shows that the number of soldiers admitted to the Army with felony records jumped from 249 in …
With Environmentalists, It’s Always the Wrong Cause
Muhammad Cohen's article No Friends of the Earth highlights the backward priorities that so often plague the environmental movement: Within days of the Bali breakthrough, activists from environmental group Greenpeace were speeding toward Antarctica, ground zero for global warming, with an embedded BBC reporter aboard. The polar ice caps are melting at accelerating rates, and …
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Ben Stein’s Expelled and Marxism
Ben Stein's Expelled is a brilliant (and long overdue) shot at dogmatic evolutionism in the scientific community. This is a subject that I hit every now and then, and his documentary confirms a lot of what I said in Circling the Wagons Around Evolution. One thing he doesn't spend as much time as I would …
The Chinese Discover “Certainly Not Neutral”
The Chinese are discovering what many in the U.S. have known for a long time: that much of the "mainstream" media is biased, and especially CNN, which G. Gordon Liddy humourously referred to one time as "Certainly Not Neutral." This has been brought home to them by the remarks of Jack Cafferty. Some Chinese have …
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Why the New Madrid Fault is the Most Dangerous
The earthquake near New Salem, Illinois--on an extension of the New Madrid fault--is a reminder that, for all of the publicity that earthquakes in California get, the fault system that caused this quake is the most dangerous in the continental United States. The reason is twofold. First, California has an extensive system of faults. While …
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The Example of Ambrose
Travis Johnson's proposal concerning the election of state Administrative Bishops in the Church of God is an interesting one. From its start the Church of God has appointed its state and regional (diocesan, for you Anglicans and Roman Catholics) prelates centrally at the biennial General Assembly. It's easy to draw from this (and current Roman …
Miami-Dade County and Beach Baptisms: An Update
Lifepointe Pastor Travis Johnson got to meet with Frank Faragalli of the Miami-Dade Parks and Recreation Department about their unceremonious ejection of Lifepointe's beach baptism last Sunday. This is part of Travis' account of that meeting. (You can click here for the rest.) It was a pleasant meeting that did not achieve our desired result. …
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More Thoughts on Eastern Orthodoxy
Catherine Tremper has brought up some interesting (and well documented) points about my post Why People Shouldn't Become Orthodox. So let me make some response, citing her first: Taking the long view, Avvakum wasn’t very representative of Orthodoxy. In a long ago Russian history class I was told that early Orthodoxy in Russia focussed on …
Barna and Tithing
It's inevitable that George Barna would chime in on the subject of the tithe: "Born again adults remain the most generous givers in a country acknowledged to be the most generous on the planet," said the veteran researcher. "But their donation decisions must be seen in the larger context of the changes occurring in a …
Focusing on What’s Important in Christianity
Recently received the following response from my post Is Evangelism unAnglican?: I just discovered your blog this afternoon. Haven't explored it much yet, but I feel comfortable here already. Currently, I remain a traditional Anglican (Episcopal Missionary Church) who came to Canterbury by way of Constantinople (altough brought up as a vaguely Protestant Army brat). …
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Positive Infinity 