Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
The breathtaking story of Jeanne Assam's quick termination of the massacre at New Life Church illustrates something that most people--Christian and non-Christian alike--don't think about, and that's the vital role of support personnel in the life of any church or parachurch organisation. The people "up front"--pastors, preachers, music leaders and the like--get all of the …
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It's unsurprising but monumental all the same: the Diocese of San Joaquin in central California finally votes to leave the Episcopal Church (also covered here.) Although both sides (especially the orthodox) have had a lot to say, a few observations are in order. First, it's not quite a done deal yet. TEC will surely fight …
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The best way to deal with the miserable Penn State Halloween mockings of the Virginia Tech shootings is for the Texas Aggies to beat them in the Alamo Bowl December 29. At this year's Aggie Muster, a letter of condolence to Virginia Tech was read. (It was, actually, a joint letter from both Texas A&M …
Academics Shawn Christianson and Jeffrey Stueve wrote about the importance of a father's love for their children. The majority of social science research, they maintained, does not recognize sufficiently the bond parents form with children in their loving and caring of them. Not only is there little mention of love in family theory, but many …
The New York Times assures us of the following concerning Mitt Romney's speech in College Station: Still, there was no escaping the reality of the moment. Mr. Romney was not there to defend freedom of religion, or to champion the indisputable notion that belief in God and religious observance are longstanding parts of American life. …
During a recent ministry conference I was attending, I was listening to a well-known (and one I respect) leader in men's ministries. He was explaining to a pastor why women leading Sunday School classes didn't work. His explanation? "Men won't accept the authority of a woman." He went on to extend this argument, saying that …
After a hiatus of some weeks, the podcast is resumed with the video testimony of Jennifer Wood, healed of Erythropoetic Proto-Porphyria. (If you haven't heard of this, don't feel bad, many of her doctors hadn't either!) Click here to view her moving testimony. Note: in the interest of keeping the download time to a minimum, …
Environmentalists are up to their old tricks again, this time trying to block a wind farm south of Corpus Christi, Texas. Wind farms aren't the most efficient things out there, but the power they generate does not produce greenhouse gases. Neither did nuclear power. But environmentalists, not willing to bend on their rigid aesthetic, are …
At least one electorate in the Western Hemisphere is showing some common sense, namely Venezeula's as Hugh Chavez loses constitutional vote: Opposition activists were ecstatic as the results were announced shortly after midnight - with 88 percent of the vote counted, the trend was declared irreversible by elections council chief Tibisay Lucena. Some shed tears. …
ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his …
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