Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
The Boston Globe's report that poverty is the key theme for Democrats is a combination of wishful thinking and a blind faith in the success of past programs. The thinking is wishful for one simple reason: the Democrat party is largely controlled by elites who have no concept of what poverty means or how to …
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The death of Tammy Faye Bakker Messner--and her tumultuous life and career--is a reminder that the greatest weakness of "prosperity teaching" is that it never tells you how to handle the success it brings. Two years ago I discussed the whole business of unrealistic expectations wrapped in defective methodologies, another weakness of this kind of …
People who attended any of the conferences--youth and leaders---at the Catholic Charismatic (and Franciscan) University of Steubenville in the early 1980's will remember the group Emmanuel. Our podcast this week kicks off Emmanuel's second album, Yahweh in the Morning, with the track Our God is Our King. Yahweh in the Morning (EM002) was released in …
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I suspected this for some time, but now this from Jack Crooks, Black Swan Trading: In the chart below it shows the Dow Jones Industrial Average (black line) compared to the Dow Jones Industrial Average Multiplied by the US$ Index (red line), both are a monthly price series. What we noticed is despite the very …
One of the more popular features of this site is the Anglican Calendar Script, which announces the current liturgical event (Sunday, saint's day, etc.) according to the traditional Anglican liturgical scheme. I've gotten requests to expand it to include other liturgical calendars (TEC, RCC, etc.) Well, it looks like another has risen to the challenge. …
Kevin McCollough's piece "Why Liberals Lie About Sex" is only news in that we're still wondering why they lie about it. As a rule, liberals operate under the assumption that a fulfilled life is a sexually active life, be they married or (for many the preferred state) not. It's been that way as long as …
Pope Benedict XVI has certainly been "on a roll" lately with his pronouncements. For one thing, he reminded everyone that it is the considered opinion of the Roman Catholic Church that many--if not most--non-Catholic Christian churches cannot be properly called a church. This kind of thing is not new; I dealt with this a long …
Dr. Peter Toon's long discussion of the organisation of various churches and their relationships to holding their property is a great idea but, as is the case with many things about our legal system, is also easier said than done. He is correct that congregational churches (Baptists, Assemblies of God, etc.) tend to have their …
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This week's podcast takes us to the testimony of Sir Lionel Luckhoo, the Guyanese lawyer and diplomat. He held the Guinness Book of World Records place for the largest number of successive murder acquittals (245). He accepted Christ as his Saviour in the midst of his defence of Jim Jones before the Jonestown massacre in …
Although I can't claim I saw Jesus in a dream as our friends in the More Than Dreams videos did, my saving encounter with Our Lord was a "direct divine intervention." That being the case, my early Christian formation didn't get as much help from family and church as one would like. But one of …
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