The New Place

When it comes to social conservatism, the question is very present in today's mainline protestant denominations in the U.S. As we discussed, the Episcopal Church has effectively schismed. My sister is a Methodist minister, and tells me that her denomination is now wrestling with the same issues (es...

Democrat voters. I've never voted for a Democrat in my life. You may not have but plenty of others have obviously done so. Now (ignoring your attempted, unhelpful, follow-up canard): I have done some research and discovered the following: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/05/2...

Meantime (back on topic): http://www.atimes.com/article/turkey-sees-long-term-partner-in-china/ Asian Times correspondent ALTAY ATLI seems convinced, almost complaiscent, that mutual interests with the West will win out in Turkey. But former Indian veteran diplomat, M.K. BHADRAKUMAR warns us- The se...

Thanks for the lengthy reply from which I learned new things. My comment is that whatever the reason that is making Ramphosa to appropriate the land without compensation, the end result will be the same. Economic decline. I've thought about this a lot because I'm not unsympathetic to arguments that...

But with the so-called "Continuing Anglican" movement, nowadays it may be the former, as socially conservative Anglican parishes look for an ecclesiastical home more in line with their beliefs. So within the Anglican communion there is a body of opinion that holds that the duty of the Church is to ...

I know about those bills PC. Have known about them for some time. The fact remains that discrimination under state law remained endemic throughout most of the former confederacy right into the 1960's. Why did it take them a full century to win this final battle of the American Civil War? BECAUSE OF...

https://www.smh.com.au/world/central-america/pirates-of-the-caribbean-a-grim-reality-as-venezuela-disintegrates-20180813-p4zx79.html Where are you, captain Jack Sparrow? This new generation of Caribbean pirates all speak Spanish. Joining Venezuela soon will be South Africa, the predicted next Socia...

This authoritarian club of Erdogan, Trump and Putin (and junior partner Duterte) is rather scary to me. I just hope some uppance comes for Trump before his supporters let him pass his 'enabling act'! :lol: I doubt whether Trump could ever persuade even a Republican controlled Congress to give him s...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1866 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1875 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement_(1865%E2%80%931896) I know about those bills PC. Have known about them for some time. The fact remains that discrimination under state la...

https://www.smh.com.au/world/central-america/pirates-of-the-caribbean-a-grim-reality-as-venezuela-disintegrates-20180813-p4zx79.html Where are you, captain Jack Sparrow? This new generation of Caribbean pirates all speak Spanish. Joining Venezuela soon will be South Africa, the predicted next Socia...