This blog is subtitled “the blog of Veith.” It doesn’t say which Veith. So I feel no qualms about letting my brother Jimmy do some guest blogging. He has started reading this blog and you may recall some of his comments, some of which I
This blog is subtitled “the blog of Veith.” It doesn’t say which Veith. So I feel no qualms about letting my brother Jimmy do some guest blogging. He has started reading this blog and you may recall some of his comments, some of which I
by Jimmy Veith Have you ever been freaked out by a piece of music that sounded evil? Have you heard combinations of notes that were so dissonant that it made you tense and restless, but yet was strangely alluring? Well, you may have been placed
by Jimmy Veith For many, the word “compromise” has negative connotations. People who “compromise” are viewed as people who lack moral courage to live up to high ethical standards. We admire most those individuals who stand up against the system and do the right thing
Reformed baptist Kevin DeYoung raise a question on his blog asking where are the Lutherans in the contemporary evangelical scene. It provoked quite a conversation, both on his blog and here. As a follow-up, Kevin interviewed Paul McCain of Concordia Publishing House. Paul did a
Now that New York state has legalized gay marriage, the Right Reverend Lawrence C. Provenzano, Bishop of Long Island in the Episcopalian church, is requiring homosexual priests to either get married or stop living together out of wedlock. From his official pronouncement: For the gay and lesbian
Rock chanteuse Amy Winehouse died at the age of 27. That’s the same age that Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison died. Also Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones. Also Pigpen McKernan of the Grateful dead. Also blues legend Robert Johnson. And
Last Thursday, July 21, the Space Shuttle Atlantis landed, ending the United States’ Space Shuttle program. And it may mark the end of manned flight, at least as far as the United States is concerned. Russia will still be able to send people into orbit,
I am going to make you cry. To mark the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Bull Run, a.k.a. The Battle of Manassas, the Washington Post wrote a story about and reprinted the letter written by Maj. Sullivan Ballou to his wife a week before
A 32-year-old Norwegian described as “a Christian fundamentalist with right-wing connections” bombed a government building in Oslo, killing seven, and then went to a Labor Party youth camp and shot to death 84 young people! See Norway Shooting and Bomb Attack Leaves at Least 91 Dead –
You have GOT to read Mollie Hemingway’s column in the Wall Street Journal, which should definitively put to rest the media’s shocked discovery that Lutherans believe that the papacy is the antichrist. The piece has the best lede (journalese for opening paragraph) that I’ve read
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