Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Well, it's official: the product of a Catholic Charismatic covenant community, Amy Coney Barrett, is the nominee to be a Supreme Court Justice. My regular readers know that I've dealt with this subject over the years, from this piece in 2011 (where I document why I turned down the invitation to join one) to the …
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The recent normalisation of relations between Israel on the one hand and the United Arab Emirates on the other hand has been billed as a major foreign policy triumph of the Trump administration. It is that, to the extent that at least a little of the American foreign policy establishment was forced to conform with …
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She's definitely been busted: Across the pond, a few days later, a woman waved a white flag. The historian Jessica A. Krug, then an associate professor at George Washington University, posted a confession on the publishing platform Medium, last Thursday, explaining that she is not who she’d been claiming to be. “To an escalating degree …
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A blast from the past from Barack Obama's old press secretary Robert Gibbs in 2010: During an interview with The Hill in his West Wing office, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs blasted liberal naysayers, whom he said would never regard anything the president did as good enough. “I hear these people saying he’s like …
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In view of California Governor Gavin Newsom's signing into law the lightening of penalties for pedophilia, this prediction, from 2016, bears repeating: What I am about to say will probably make some people blow their stack.  That isn’t hard to do these days. But I think this is the time to say it. We …
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John Law is possibly the most important man in history you’ve never heard of. He’s also the sort of character you’d find implausible if you read about him in a novel. A gambler who killed a man in a duel in Bloomsbury Square then escaped from jail and fled Britain. A Scottish economist who helped …
As we come up on another anniversary of September 11, we present this, prepared for the Church of God Chaplains Commission: https://youtu.be/HINdOGSe68k This is a video version of the PowerPoint presentation first shown at the Church of God Chaplains Commission Honors Dinner and Awards Ceremony, Marriott Ball Room, Indianapolis, Indiana, 10 August 2002. This was …
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Alexander Vazakas (1873-1965) began life in the Ottoman Empire, where his family suffered persecution on account of their evangelical faith. In 1902 he immigrated to America, where he became a linguist and philosopher. During the last years of his life, he served as a professor at Evangel College (now Evangel University) in Springfield, Missouri, and …
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...is shown in the map above. It's a map from the London Geographical Institute in 1920, showing the extent of the Ukraine in the time of the Russian Civil War. It's probably the outline of the independent Ukraine that the likes of Symon Petliura fought unsuccessfully for, a holdover (as the map shows) from Tsarist …
The Church of England is on its knees, and not in a good way. Before the pandemic, physical congregations were already sparse, and getting sparser: in 2019, estimates put the average Sunday service attendance at just 27 people. When Covid-19 reached these shores, the Anglican leadership responded by closing churches even for private prayer, and they’ve …
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