The author of another blog asked several of us a question. “What is the way to go to be the church Jesus is building: Sacramental, Attractional or Missional? And in what mixture? For what reasons?” I answered as follows: In the last book of the Chronicles of Narnia, The Last Battle, the Pevensie children, after […]
A small victory for religious expression
The Associated Press just recently published an article titled Rastafarian can sue over Jiffy Lube hair policy. You can read it here. The gist of the article is that Jiffy Lube had already in its employ a person who follows the Rastafarian religion. He had been allowed to follow the Rastafarian hair regulations previously, then […]
Follow-up on the Three Laws of Robotics
When I wrote about the Three Laws of Robotics, I wrote about it as a fond memory of a series of books that I began to read as a child and continued to read through adulthood, as Isaac Asimov kept writing more books. His I, Robot series, his Foundation and Empire series, and his later developments of […]
And the bishop cried
Have you ever heard a bishop cry? I do not mean the crocodile tears that some pastors seem to be able to drop on cue. I mean, the honest release of emotion that expresses our deep inner feelings. No, most of us have not. The last two days have again delayed my planned blogging, but given […]
Black teenage church attendance rises
Over the last 30 years, a quiet revolution has been taking place. Among black teenagers, the rate of church attendance has been steadily rising since the mid 1990’s while white teenage church attendance has been very flat. Almost one out of two black teenagers is attending church regularly whle slightly less than one out of […]
St. Augustine on numbers
“Numbers are the universal language given to us by the deity as confirmation of the truth.” ~ St. Augustine Numbers are interesting. Provided that you know the base number, you can do an infinite number of calculations. Much of reality can be described by a set of mathematical equations. There is an inherent beauty in […]
St. Andrew, Apostle and First-Called
Feast: November 30 Â [The acts of this apostle’s martyrdom, though rejected by Tillemont, &c., are maintained to be genuine by Nat. Alexander, Hist. t. i. and by Mr. Woog, professor of history and antiquities in Leipsic, in learned dissertations, published in 1748 and 1751. The authority of this piece being contested, little stress is laid […]
The Three Laws of Robotics, answers
Here are the answers to my “Three Laws of Robotics” quizz in a previous post. I have not forgotten or ignored some of the questions yet to be answered, however, Thanksgiving, heading into the weekend have kept me quite well occupied. I should be able to get back to them this coming week. They deserve […]
The Three Laws of Robotics
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection […]
2008 Thanksgiving Proclamation
Today is not a day to discuss theology or politics or disagreements, but a day to give thanks and to acknowledge that what we have we have in spite of ourselves (see earlier posts). In that spirit, let me simply post President Bush’s Thanksgiving proclamation for this year. May God forgive us of our manifold […]
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