Since liberal black, inner city churches seem to be the rage (and the enrage, in the case of Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama) this week's podcast features one of the more long-running ones, namely Glide Memorial in San Francisco. Bobby Kent hits the ground running with My Soul is Satisfied. If Jeremiah Wright had stuck …
They Were Both Radicalised by Their Pastors
Hillary Clinton's statement about Barack Obama's pastor is just a little disingenuous: Hillary Clinton stoked up the row over Barack Obama's fiery pastor today when she claimed she would have left any church where such intemperate remarks had been made. "He would not have been my pastor," Clinton said, in her first public comments since …
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Is Palm Beach Really the Centre of the Universe?
I know it sounds conceited, but now I have support for this idea: At Metro, M.D. Bashar, a very helpful and engaging salesman, saw me looking at a display for the magicJack, invented by Palm Beacher and telecom wiz Dan Borislow. Yet more proof that Palm Beach is still the center of the universe. My …
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The AMiA Prayer Book: Maybe I Shouldn’t Have Said That
Sometimes, as a blogger, you come up with what you think is a great idea only to have doubts about it later. Consider this posting: One thing that the various groups, such as CANA, AMiA, and the like, could be working on is a new prayer book for themselves. We can hear the sigh of …
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When “Beauty” Isn’t Worth It
The death of West Boca Raton High School cheerleader captain Stephanie Kuleba during breat augmentation surgery strikes me as singularly sad. To start with, I went to prep school in Boca Raton, and her love for the Beatles' "Hey Jude" only takes me back to the world that inspired The Ten Weeks. My heart and …
The Unobvious Problem with Shari’a
Muhammad 'Abd Al-Muttalib Al-Houni has hit up one something that most people don't think about in the whole debate about whether Shari'a should be allowed in the UK (or anywhere else in the West) or not: The concept of citizenship in Europe will change. There will be [different] classes of citizenship and of citizens, with …
Was Benedict’s Baptism of a Muslim Convert a Good Idea?
Pope Benedict XVI's rather spectacular baptism of a Muslim convert has generated a good deal of discussion amongst Christians and Muslims alike. Rather than adding unnecessary heat to the subject, I commend the dialogue between Abu Daoud and Sister Sherry--Anglican and Roman Catholic respectively working in the Middle East--on this subject. On this, I am …
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Resurrection Power
Rising from the dead was not an ordinary occurrence before or during Jesus time on the earth; it is still not. In order to accomplish such a thing, it takes power, lots of it. Jesus Christ was able to rise from the dead because, being God, he had the power within him to do so. …
Richard Russell and Tribal Wisdom
Some good stuff to think about from 1964, during the Vietnam era: Redolent of the late 1940's, (U.S. Ambassador) Henry Cabot Lodge cabled Washington that South Vietnam might have to be run by a U.S. "High Commissioner," having himself in mind. Georgia's Richard Russell was still chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and had …
Rowan Williams: Old Earth Creationists Still Hung Out to Dry
It seems that the Archbishop of Canterbury has a talent for leaving people who just might help solve problems hanging out to dry, as he blithely ignores the existence of "old earth creationism" in the debate over evolution: Dr Rowan Williams, said "Neo Darwinism and Creationist science deserve each other. Creationism is a version of …
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Positive Infinity 