The Grauniad asked 21 of its opinion writers to make predictions for 2009. As a service, and to force Daniel Davies' hand into starting his planned Predictions-L mailing list, I've shorterised each one and reflected briefly on it. The full texts are here. 1) Jackie Ashley thinks the Lib Dems may be ...

Astonishing story around today about how a member of the Archbishop of Canterbury's staff referred to the Bishop of Rochester Dr Michael Nazir-Ali as an 'a***hole' in a private memo. Anglican Mainstream has the details. Besides all the obvious things I could say about this crude, incredible and outr...

Astonishing story around today about how a member of the Archbishop of Canterbury's staff referred to the Bishop of Rochester Dr Michael Nazir-Ali as an 'a***hole' in a private memo. Anglican Mainstream has the details. Besides all the obvious things I could say about this crude, incredible and outr...

If this is true, it explains a lot. But of course, everything is just fine (see video below this post). A senior aide to the Archbishop of Canterbury has been sacked for calling Britain's most senior Asian Anglican an [expletive]. The worker's insult was aimed at The Bishop of Rochester, the Rt Rev ...

The current issue of First Things includes an excellent Jody Bottum essay, "Abortion After Obama," which won't be on-line for a month, but offers this observation:On abortion, Obama is the complete man, his support so ingrained that even his carefully controlled public speaking can't help revealing ...

    Hey everyone! How is it going? Well today I have my embryology test and I woke up early today so that I could be at school at 6:00 to study embryology. I ended up studying for an hour before my math class and I felt pretty confident on the material, however the test was a...

    Hey everyone! How is it going? Its going good here, well I took my math test yesterday and I think I did pretty well on it, I will know Friday how I did. Then after that I went to my history class, and we got our test back and I ended up getting a A- on the test, which mo...

    Hey everyone! How is it going? Well it is going here, today begins the first day of hell week. It is going to suck I have a test in math today, then after that I have to start studying for my embryology test, then after that I have to do some field biology homework, which...

Caltech scientists used a method called two-photon excited fluorescence to image large number of cells during gastrulation and how they divided and moved around. From a Caltech press release: The Caltech team observed the vast reorganization and migration of cells that occurs during gastrulation in ...

[image source] This article from The Wilson Quarterly is very interesting for what it might suggest about the evolution of Protestant religion. Mary has long been venerated among the Catholic sects, but this hasn't been the case among the various and many Protestant groups. Will Evangelicals Hail Ma...