Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
As a follow-up to my earlier post, an interesting parallel to Barth's situation, with Luther's solution, from The Reformation: A Narrative History Related by Contemporary Observers and Participants: None the less the Lutheran territories suffered an incisive setback, foreshadowing worse things to come. In 1540 the political bulwark of Protestantism, Langrave Philipp of Hesse, became …
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A live-in mistress with their family, Barth first: I just read a disturbing, I mean for me personally, earth-shatteringly disturbing essay by Christiane Tietz about Karl Barth entitled: Karl Barth and Charlotte von Kirschbaum. As most of us know, who have spent any amount of time with Barth’s theology, his “secretary”, Kirschbaum was rumored to …
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It never ends: now we have a stink over NFL (and other) players "taking the knee" during the National Anthem. Our President and just above everybody else is involved. It's another way to fill up Twitter with vitriol, as if we don't have enough. My attitude towards the traditional respect given towards the National Anthem …
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Given the hatred the left feels for Trump and that former FBI Director James Comey is a career martyr to the cause, you'd think he'd be welcome on campuses. But no... Students at Howard University loudly protested former FBI Director James Comey Friday as he delivered a convocation address. As Comey, making a rare public …
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With the major hurricanes done for the moment and a debt crisis averted by Trump's deal with the Democrats, Congress must turn to the issues in front of it. Tax reform code is at the top of the list, although I'm not holding my breath. Behind that is the DACA program, or the "Dreamers," where …
I could not pass up this gem from Philo Judaeus, in his Life of a Man Occupied with Affairs of State, or on Joseph, I: Now, this man (Joseph) began from the time he was seventeen years of age to be occupied with the consideration of the business of a shepherd, which corresponds to political …
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I've not done much posting re the Anglican Communion these days. That's because, to be honest, it's not an improving story. Predictably the Church of England is going the way of its Episcopal counterpart, having learned nothing from their experience. The orthodox Anglicans have appointed a former tank commander to lead the charge; they're going …
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A little over twenty years ago I received the following notification from Geocities, the free website provider: Sat Aug 23 13:59:46 1997... Welcome, DON, to GeoCities Personal Home Page Program! Please write down or save the following information for future use. Your Member Name is: penlay. Your Neighborhood is: Athens/Parthenon. Your Address is: 4799. Your …
Millennials' legendary capacity for diversity may be just that: A recent study conducted by a Grand Valley State University professor suggests that political correctness, at least among millennials, is little more than a charade. In an August 16 study, Professor Karen Pezzetti explains that millennials pursuing careers in education “position themselves as good, non-racist people,” …
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One of the most popular posts I have on this site is Trump Opens the Club to Blacks and Jews? Not Quite, which is about two years old. It's gotten a good deal of traffic and the gamut of reactions. I'm glad to inject a little Palm Beach perspective to this question, because both what …
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