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2025-09-02T17:51:49-04:00

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The Cranach Blog While I’m in Ecuador

Last updated on: September 2, 2025 at 5:51 pm By Gene Veith

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By the time you read this, if all goes well, I should be in Cuenca, Ecuador. While I'm gone, though, the blog will continue. I'll be posting some pieces I wrote back when I was a columnist for "Tabletalk Magazine." Read more

2025-09-02T18:51:27-04:00

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The Wrong Kind of Enthusiasm

Last updated on: September 2, 2025 at 6:51 pm By Gene Veith

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This is my very first contribution to "Tabletalk," published in June 2001. I wrote about one of my earliest religious memories, develop some thoughts about the pastoral office, and apply some distinctly Lutheran warnings against "enthusiasm." Read more

2025-09-05T17:55:26-04:00

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“Full-Fat Faith” vs. “the Diet Versions”

Last updated on: September 5, 2025 at 5:55 pm By Gene Veith

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A writer on the resurgence of church attendance In the UK says that the churches that are growing are "those that make the boldest doctrinal claims," what a sociologist calls “full-fat faith.” "The diet version doesn’t have the same appeal." What does that mean for Lutherans? Read more

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2025-09-11T08:38:27-04:00

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DISCUSS: Political Violence

Last updated on: September 11, 2025 at 8:38 am By Gene Veith

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In a discussion of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, my fellow Patheos blogger Anthony Costello quotes philosopher Charles Taylor on the mindset behind political violence. What do you think? Read more

Charlie Kirk assassination

political violence

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2025-09-05T15:17:31-04:00

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The End of Free Market Capitalism in the USA?

Last updated on: September 5, 2025 at 3:17 pm By Gene Veith

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A conservative economist laments, "The free-market capitalism that saw this nation prosper like no other is no more." Read more

free market capitalism

President Trump's economic policy

socialism

state capitalism

2025-09-05T14:03:00-04:00

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Americans Are Stuck in Place

Last updated on: September 5, 2025 at 2:03 pm By Gene Veith

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American citizens used to be highly mobile, criss-crossing the country to pursue better jobs and buying new homes as the size of their family and their incomes increased. No more. Economists are worried. But is this altogether a bad thing? Read more

2025-09-04T19:46:29-04:00

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Schools That Don’t Teach Knowledge

Last updated on: September 4, 2025 at 7:46 pm By Gene Veith

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A cognitive scientist complains, "Schools have decided that facts are no longer worth teaching." Read more

contemporary educational theories

critical theory and education

knowledge

postmodernism

2025-09-04T16:30:56-04:00

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Monday Miscellany, 9/8/25

Last updated on: September 4, 2025 at 4:30 pm By Gene Veith

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Generation Z takes the lead in church going. American farmers are in trouble. And the further decline of labor unions. Read more

church-going statistics

farmers

Generation Z and church

Labor Unions

Trump's tariffs

2025-08-31T18:22:28-04:00

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Teaching Children to Despair

Last updated on: August 31, 2025 at 6:22 pm By Gene Veith

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Schools are teaching our children that their country is bad, that oppression is everywhere, that there is nothing they can do about it, and that they will perish in a climate apocalypse. This makes children hopeless and depressed. We are teaching them to despair. Read more

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contemporary education

nihilism

Social and Emotional Learning

Trauma-informed pedagogy

2025-08-31T18:46:13-04:00

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DISCUSS: What Books Shaped You in High School?

Last updated on: August 31, 2025 at 6:46 pm By Gene Veith

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NPR asked listeners, "What books shaped you in high school?" Some who responded cited books that set them on their life's course. What about you? Read more

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