Nothing, as far as I can see, from a conservative point of view. He is under no suspicion of being a closet liberal. He is a devout Christian, a Catholic but one who seem evangelical. He agrees with the social conservative agenda. He has been a champion of the pro-life cause. He has no skeletons in his closet, as far as I know. He is also intelligent and articulate. And yet Christian conservatives–who have been floundering for a candidate–have not… Read more
“How Luther went viral”
December 28, 2011 By Gene Veith 8 Comments
The Economist tells how Luther, in effect, used social media: Although they were written in Latin, the “95 Theses” caused an immediate stir, first within academic circles in Wittenberg and then farther afield. In December 1517 printed editions of the theses, in the form of pamphlets and broadsheets, appeared simultaneously in Leipzig, Nuremberg and Basel, paid for by Luther’s friends to whom he had sent copies. German translations, which could be read by a wider public than Latin-speaking academics and… Read more
Postmodernism & pedophilia
December 28, 2011 By Gene Veith 82 Comments
Anne Hendershott traces a significant stream of postmodernist scholarship over the last decade that amounts to an academic defense of pedophilia. After all, so say these scholars, both childhood and sexual morality are nothing more than social constructions. A sample, though you’ll want to read the whole thing: The publication of Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex [2003] promised readers a “radical, refreshing, and long overdue reassessment of how we think and act about children’s and… Read more
A blogging hero?
December 27, 2011 By Gene Veith 76 Comments
I don’t like to blow my own horn. I don’t even like to call attention to when someone else is blowing it. Still, since you readers and commenters are a big part of what makes this blog work, I can’t resist passing this along. Tim Challies has a BIG blog, with like a million-reads-per-month. Whenever he links to something I post, my readership statistics shoot up into the stratosphere. So it’s gratifying that he listed me as one of his seven… Read more
Newt wasn’t married after all!
December 27, 2011 By Gene Veith 83 Comments
Newt Gingrich is on his third marriage, but the Roman Catholic church, which does not believe in divorce, has granted him at least one and maybe two annulments! According to canon law, annulled marriages were never marriages at all. So if there was no marriage, there was no adultery, no divorces, and Newt is a once-married paragon of family values. From the New York Times: In 1980, Mr. Gingrich left his wife of nearly 20 years, the former Jackie Battley,… Read more
The Hobbit trailer
December 27, 2011 By Gene Veith 4 Comments
To be released this time next year! HT: Paul McCain Read more
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
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