Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Evidently there's not much funny on the Upper West Side these days, as outrage turned to laughter at Ahmadinejad's speech at Columbia. After having had the bad taste to invite him, Columbia's president Lee Bollinger proceeded to trash Ahmadinejad, which was rude to do. That kind of "bait and switch" will not go down well …
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One recurring issue in Episcopal/Anglican life is the "Baptismal Covenant" that appears in the 1979 BCP. (For a look at it, click here.) This has been Peter Toon's cause célèbre for a long time, and now it's been picked up by Gary L'Hommedieu. Now it seems that Rowan Williams has joined in the chorus. As …
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We observe two great and related phenomena in the global South: the fastest rate of cultural extinction in history, as well as the fastest rate of Christian evangelisation in history. I do not mean to minimize the tragedy of declining cultures, but it is only because of the terrible depth of that tragedy that hundreds …
The transgender community works to gain protections in South Florida. Let's see, in "GLBT", "G" and "L" are protected, now we're working on "T," so that leaves "B." And the only reason why B doesn't get much respect is because the existence of B muddies the identity of G and L. Where the animals are …
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Kendall Harmon's radical solution for the Episcopal Church, i.e., the bishops absent themselves from Lambeth, is an interesting proposal. But it's unlikely to get much traction where it counts. Let me look at this from a more political standpoint. First, any kind of withdrawal from Lambeth--voluntary and temporary though it might be--would be interpreted as …
Richard Kew's piece After half a lifetime... confirms one of the things I mentioned in my email to the elf, specifically the problem of the seminaries: It was when I started travelling around the church that I got to visit the seminaries that I started to discover how they functioned and what they perceived their …
Recently I was contacted by one of the "elves" at Titusonenine, the weblog of the Rev. Canon Dr. Kendall Harmon (which I reviewed back in May.) Same first child of Iluvatar inquired about my idea concerning the Episcopal Church and its Anglican alternatives. My response should not surprise readers of this blog: What I am …
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I would have commented on the Fed's drop in the interest rates, but the stupidity of a 50 basis points drop both ways (any drop, really, but 25 would at least have been tolerable) was so total that it left me speechless. The subsequent course of the currency bears this out (although sterling is having …
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Emmanuel proclaims the most important thing in Only You Are God. Click here for more information on Yahweh in the Morning.
Dan Rather Files $70 Million Lawsuit Against CBS, Parent Company Viacom. My only regret is that I wasn't blogging at the time of the Bush National Guard fiasco. I had plenty of samples of IBM typewriter produced documents, a legacy of my family business.
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