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2026-05-07T11:04:25-04:00

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The Priesthood of All Believers & Vocation

Last updated on: May 7, 2026 at 11:04 am By Gene Veith

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There are many misconceptions about the doctrine of the Priesthood of All Believers. It isn't that everybody gets to be a pastor, or that we don't need pastors. It's that you don't need to be a pastor to be a priest. Read more

Priesthood of All Believers

priests

2026-05-06T08:17:51-04:00

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Owen Barfield on Resurrecting Language & the World

Last updated on: May 6, 2026 at 8:17 am By Gene Veith

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A key member of the Inklings profoundly shaped both Lewis's faith and Tolkien's fantasies: the philosopher, poet, critic, and lawyer Owen Barfield, "one of the most neglected important thinkers of the 20th Century." A summary of his thought, with the help of K. R. Queen's video. Read more

History of Consciousness

2026-04-27T12:38:44-04:00

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The Problem of Skepticism

Last updated on: April 27, 2026 at 12:38 pm By Gene Veith

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[Free post] Excerpts from Christopher Beha's "Why I Am Not an Atheist" on the limits of skepticism and the necessity of faith. And how his memoir accords with the apologetics of J. G. Hamann. Read more

conversion narratives

2026-04-30T16:09:46-04:00

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Monday Miscellany, 5/4/26

Last updated on: April 30, 2026 at 4:09 pm By Gene Veith

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Supremes overturn gerrymandering on the basis of race. "The most pro-drug administration in our history"? And mixed messages from the AI tycoons. Read more

Supreme Court on racial gerrymandering

2026-04-26T20:04:06-04:00

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The Heresies of Today’s Technology

Last updated on: April 26, 2026 at 8:04 pm By Gene Veith

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The Vatican's International Theological Commission has identified two specific heresies associated with many of the assumptions and goals of the high-tech industry. These are transhumanism and posthumanism. Read more

Philosophy

technology

Theology

Anthropological heresies

2026-04-25T16:53:04-04:00

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Lutheran Artist (& Cranach Reader) Wins National Honor

Last updated on: April 25, 2026 at 4:53 pm By Gene Veith

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[free post] Saddlemaker and leather artist Cary Schwarz--a longtime member of the Cranach blog community--has been given "the nation's highest honor in folk and traditional arts" by the National Endowment for the Arts. Read more

National Endowment for the Arts

National Heritage Fellowships

saddlemaking

2026-04-25T14:03:00-04:00

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AI Detectors

Last updated on: April 25, 2026 at 2:03 pm By Gene Veith

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As AI-generated content proliferates, from homework assignments to professional publications, another technology has emerged: AI detectors. These are helpful, but they must be used with caution. Read more

2026-04-28T10:19:12-04:00

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Lost Civilization

Last updated on: April 28, 2026 at 10:19 am By Gene Veith

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Much of our civilization--our ways of thinking, our art, our literature, our political order--has been built on that of the ancient Greeks. But, as Philip Jenkins points out, most of Greek writing has been lost. Why and why did some texts survive? What are the prospects for our civilization? Read more

legacy of the ancient Greeks

technology of reading

2026-04-27T10:45:17-04:00

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Monday Miscellany, 4/27/26

Last updated on: April 27, 2026 at 10:45 am By Gene Veith

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Another assassination attempt against the president. Preventing fellow-citizens from being represented. And UK outlaws tobacco forever for anyone born after 2008. Read more

Trump assassination attempts

UK anti-smoking law

White House Correspondence Dinner

2026-04-24T10:35:53-04:00

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The Dignity of the Work AI Is Supposed to Liberate Us From

Last updated on: April 24, 2026 at 10:35 am By Gene Veith

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Some people are claiming that AI will free us from the drudgery that constitutes much of our work today, enabling us to spend our time with the more fulfilling parts of work. Anne Hendershott argues that the "drudgery" is where the true dignity of work can be found. Read more

Catholic teaching on work

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