Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
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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I decided to have the good taste to wait until after Holy Week to respond to the North American Anglican's two posts on this subject: Lee Nelson's Credobaptism and Anglicanism and Alexander Wilgus' The Baptist Sacrament. Both of these were in response to Matthew Joss' The Case for Baptist Anglicans. Evidently this eminent site could …
As is probably the case with most website/blog maintainers, the statistics get checked on a fairly regular basis. One of the driest pages on the site (although some of you will argue there are drier) is Terms and Conditions of this Website, Privacy Policy and Information About Endorsements. It's one of those things you just about …
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http://thechristiannerd.tech.blog/2024/03/22/gods-answer-to-overthinking If there's one thing that frequently drives me crazy in my teaching engineering students, it's their tendency to overthink problems and get lost in the process. This is good advice.
https://youtu.be/VorCZ8UXoTQ The previous video in this series (there are only two) is found at the link Lent 2024 Series: I Am The Bread of Life: What Is the Eucharist? In posting this originally I neglected to included the video; my apologies for any inconvenience. The second in two sessions on this topic. In this video we …
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https://youtu.be/Ne4CHt1ITTU?si=Nk6RThObu6p1rCD9 A series for Lent 2024 in two parts: What is the Eucharist? (this video) How Do We Celebrate the Eucharist? (next video) Eucharistic theology and practice have long been a favourite topic of mine, from posts like Bill Clinton's Eucharistic Theology: It Depends on What 'Is' Is to Don’t Tell People to “Come to the …
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