Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Most of the attention these days on Congress (the opposite of progress) has centred on the Senate's inability to pass a replacement for the misnamed Affordable Care Act. Let me make my first stipulation: the "repeal and replace" business is pure political theatre, has been from the start, and in a sense Donald Trump has …
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A editorial from the University of Maryland lays it out: Colleges should “screen” speakers to ensure that they are not giving a platform to “intolerant perspectives,” a University of Maryland student argues in a recent op-ed. “There is nothing inherently wrong with screening speakers, teachers and even students on the campus,” sophomore Moshe Klein declares …
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Archbishop Cranmer relates the following rather odd exchange at the Church of England synod: A few other Synod questions relate to the diversity obsession: Miss Prudence Dailey (Oxford) to ask the Chair of the House of Bishops: Q21 Is the House of Bishops aware of evidence that unconscious bias training is ineffective in increasing the …
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Yogi Berra used to talk about "déjà vu all over again," and for those of us with any sense of history, we're seeing it big time with the current Jesuit Pontiff Francis and his henchman, James Martin SJ. That led me to tweet the "reverend père Jesuite" in this way: My reply to @JamesMartinSJ We've …
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A little while back I posted How Did We Get from Scanlan to #straightouttairondale?, which posed the obvious (for me at least) question: how did Michael Scanlan, who (when I was going to the Steubenville conferences in the early 1980's) was promoting a Charismatic type of spirituality, end up at the conservative Catholic type which I …
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Dovetail DOVE 1 (1973) Inaugural album on the UK's premier Christian music label of the 1970's. As Ken Scott observes, by the time it was released the music is a little behind the times; it's more of a 1960's "British Invasion" kind of record in an era when the country was putting out albums that …
Emmanuel L.P. 3000 (1975) Most rock groups were pretty compact: four or five members, but they put out the defining sound of the era. Large groups with choral leanings were exceptional, even among Christian groups. We've featured large groups like Cloud, with their ethereal sound and very Anglican harmonies. At the opposite end of the …
It really won't: Brutus is a commanding figure in the Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of “Julius Caesar.” The wily Mark Antony also looms large. But the most fearsome character in the show isn’t standing on stage — not even in the person of a Donald Trump-like Caesar — but instead storming …
Mayim MM 1001 (1976) Texas Catholicism made some magnificent contributions to the "Jesus Music" era, including this, this and this. These Days is yet another contribution to that roster. From the Community Of The Well in Austin, this delight is a well produced, well instrumented production with excellent vocals and a variety of styles, from …
As Nick Park points out in his letter to Ireland's Foreign Minister about the EU's actions about Christian refugees from Eritrea: We are alarmed at report recently from contacts in Brussels that the EU is in the process of signing Compact Agreements with third countries which will mean that members states can send back asylum …
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