Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
There are times in life when some of the buried past comes up, and last week was one of them. Last Thursday, we said goodbye to the matriarch of the family that lead the Catholic Charismatic prayer group I was a part of in the late 1970's and early 1980's. We've stayed connected with the …
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https://yandoo.wordpress.com/2024/05/11/appeal-to-novelty/ Probably the most egregious use of this fallacy in recent times was in selling the public on the mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. These had not been tried on such a wide scale, and doing so was, IMHO, scientifically irresponsible. At the time I was suspicious of this and stuck with a more traditional adenovirus …
Things are not going well on the Continent: For years they’ve been painting Brussels as a beacon of progressivism, peace and democracy, as opposed to the far-Right, racist and economically suicidal project of Brexit. Yet, ironically, it is the European Parliament, not the British one, that is about to swing firmly to the Right, as several …
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These days the exvangelicals get a great deal of attention, both from those who are glad they're "ex-", those who aren't, and those who aren't sure there is an "ex-" from Evangelicalism. I fall into the last group, and a big reason for that was my own mother. Since next Sunday is Mother's Day, it's …
This Week in AG History — May 3, 1970 By Darrin J. RodgersOriginally published on AG-News, 02 May 2024 Dr. Howard Thomas (1927-2016) had a promising career as a physician, but a drug addiction almost destroyed his marriage and professional life in the early 1960s. After hitting rock bottom and ending up in a private …
I was heartened to see Tim Hill's piece (reproduced by ourCOG) on this topic. As many of you know, I worked in the Department of Lay Ministries from 1996 to 2010, which came out of the Department of Evangelism and Home Missions in the early 1990's (something that Tim Hill mentions.) What many of you …
The cardinals are already meeting to discuss who should be the next pope. Some of the liberal ones, who feel safe because they’re in favour with the ailing Pope Francis, can be seen comparing notes in a bar near the gates of the Vatican. The conservative cardinals are more nervous: they gather at suppers in …
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https://ourcog.wordpress.com/2024/04/16/textual-variants-and-isopsephy-in-the-new-testament-by-randy-nettles-ourcog After my post yesterday Why I’m Not Sold on Modern Biblical Scholarship/Criticism ourCOG posted this interesting treatment on the New Testament manuscripts, their variants and the significance (or lack thereof) of those variants. There's no question that the Bible--Old and New Testaments--is the best attested book to come out of classical antiquity, a point …
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In a post on another one of my sites I announce a transition: this fall, Lord willing, I will begin teaching engineering at Lee University, which is my church's undergraduate institution. It is the first time since haunted the halls of the St. Andrew's School in Boca Raton, FL, that I have been either a …
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Mere Orthodoxy has gone to meddling once again, this time in an article by Gillis Harp: Yet fixing old problems can open the door to new ones. A singular focus on holy communion can occasionally overshadow other crucial elements in worship, especially the ministry of the Word. Preoccupation with the eucharist may prompt evangelicals to overlook …
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