Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Lisa Severine Noland's article about the perils of going to Lambeth this summer has galvanised me to draft the letter I'd write if I were an Anglican primate in a predominantly "reasserter" province: Esteemed ++Rowan Williams! It is with the deepest regret that I find myself compelled to write this letter to you. At this …
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Barack Obama's speech on race and Jeremiah Wright yesterday is part of an issue that, should Obama do as expected and win the Democrat nomination, will certainly come up over and over again in the fall, like the YouTube videos he referred to yesterday. Jeremiah Wright and his Liberation Theology is something that no American …
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Frankie Schaeffer evidently doesn't like some of the things some of us have been saying about Obama and patriotism: Dad and I were amongst the founders of the Religious right. In the 1970s and 1980s, while Dad and I crisscrossed America denouncing our nation's sins instead of getting in trouble we became darlings of the …
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Alan Greenspan tells us the obvious: "The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War," Greenspan said in a Financial Times commentary. "It will end eventually when home prices stabilise and with them the value of …
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Planned Parenthood assures us that the following was a mistake: Planned Parenthood of Idaho officials apologized Wednesday for what they called an employee's "serious mistake" in encouraging a donation aimed at aborting black babies. But such "eugenics" were the original intent of Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood's founder.
MissionalCOG has posted a video clip from a recent conference for emerging leaders by Dr. Raymond Culpepper, First Assistant General Overseer of the Church of God. I think that Dr. Culpepper is absolutely correct. Hopefully Leonard Sweet (whom he quotes) will touch on issues like this when he comes to the General Assembly in August. …
The more I watch Barack Obama's campaign, the more I'm coming to realise that the basic problem that his opponents have is that he is beyond the normal "rules" of American politics. Let's start with the Jeremiah Wright business: people go back and forth on his video clips as to whether they're representative of his …
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Steve Wright has posed an interesting question on MissionalCOG: can the "haves" and "have-nots" get together at church? And, of more import to him, can they do so at his new church? IMHO, the class stratification of American Protestant and Evangelical Christianity is one of the sorriest aspects of what has been otherwise represented as …
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From the hadith: Al Bukhari Volume 4, Book 54, Number 506: Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, "When any human being is born. Satan touches him at both sides of the body with his two fingers, except Jesus, the son of Mary, whom Satan tried to touch but failed, for he touched the placenta-cover instead." …
I usually post stuff like this on my companion site vulcanhammer.net or vulcanhammer.info, but I cannot resist this here. The abstract (summary) of this paper is below; click here to download the whole thing. Running a red light can cause severe traffic crashes especially when one vehicle runs into the side of another. Red light …
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