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Eating for death vs. eating for life
December 26, 2011 By Gene Veith 38 Comments
Our church was not one of the 10% of American churches that cancelled Sunday services on Christmas day, I’m happy to say. We had a wonderful service. Pastor Douthwaite’s sermon was on the “great reversal” of the Fall of Adam and Eve that God worked through the gift of His Son. Especially striking was something that I had never thought about: Our fall took place when mankind ate the fruit of the forbidden Tree of the Knowledge of Good &… Read more
Why I can’t vote for Gingrich or Perry
December 26, 2011 By Gene Veith 112 Comments
Because they weren’t organized enough to get the petitions signed to get on the Virginia primary ballot! Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has failed to qualify for Virginia’s March 6 Republican primary, a development that complicates his bid to win the GOP presidential nomination. “After verification, RPV has determined that Newt Gingrich did not submit required 10K signatures and has not qualified for the VA primary,” the Republican Party of Virginia announced early Saturday on its Twitter website. Perry also… Read more
The multiple universe theory
December 26, 2011 By Gene Veith 40 Comments
An interesting article in Harper’s Magazine by MIT physicist Alan Lightman on how the “multiverse” theory–which cosmologists are embracing apparently as their only alternative to Intelligent Design–is throwing down the very foundations of the scientific enterprise: The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles. One can add to the list of the fully explained: the hue… Read more
God bless us, every one!
December 23, 2011 By Gene Veith 54 Comments
I would like to wish all of you readers–conservatives and liberals, Lutherans and non-Lutherans and anti-Lutherans, Christians and other religionists and atheists, moralists and libertarians, Tea Partiers and Occupy Wall Streeters, experts and textperts and choking smokers, and all of the other varied souls who frequent this blog–a merry, merry celebration of the Incarnation of our God and Savior (whether you believe in Him or not)! Read more
Keep the “mass” in Christmas
December 23, 2011 By Gene Veith 74 Comments
Last time Christmas fell on Sunday it came out that a number of churches had decided to cancel services, which provoked some controversy. I haven’t heard of churches doing that this year, whether because they have all come to their senses or because it has become no big deal. (Does anyone know of churches that have cancelled Sunday services?) The reason given was that if people don’t have to go to church they can spend more time with their families,… Read more
“Upon Christ’s Nativity”
December 23, 2011 By Gene Veith 14 Comments
I continue my custom of offering you a Christmas poem, poetry being “a trap for meditation.” Here is one that I just discovered by the Welsh Anglican cleric Rowland Watkyns (1662): Upon Christ’s Nativity, or Christmas From three dark places Christ came forth this day; From first His Father’s bosom, where He lay, Concealed till now; then from the typic law, Where we His manhood but by figures saw; And lastly from His mother’s womb He came To us, a… Read more
Sacred Christmas music marathon
December 23, 2011 By Gene Veith 8 Comments
The online radio program Issues, Etc., is planning a marathon of sacred Christmas music beginning on Christmas Eve. You’ve got to love their promo: Read more
Vocation & economic productivity
December 22, 2011 By Gene Veith 40 Comments
Greg Forster, in the context of a discussion about Europe’s economic woes, makes some fascinating connections between the doctrine of vocation and economic productivity: A historically unprecedented phenomenon has been unfolding—in Europe for the past five centuries, in America for the past two, and more recently everywhere across the globe except sub-Sarahan Africa. That phenomenon is explosive economic growth. After millennia of basically stagnant wealth levels from the earliest recorded history forward, God’s world is at last beginning to flourish… Read more
Newt and the courts
December 22, 2011 By Gene Veith 60 Comments
What do you think of Newt Gingrich’s expressed plan, if he is elected president, to ignore court rulings that he disagrees with, to legislate judicial districts out of existence, to arrest judges in order to haul them before legislators to explain their rulings, to over-rule the Supreme Court with the agreement of the other two branches of government, and to attach riders to some laws that make them unreviewable by the courts? What I think is that this would be… Read more
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