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2025-07-26T14:25:31-04:00

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The Meaning of the Epstein Case

Last updated on: July 26, 2025 at 2:25 pm By Gene Veith

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Just as the legend of Dracula depicts how medieval peasants saw blood-sucking aristocrats (until defeated by the church), says Dan Brooks, the story of Jeffrey Epstein is "a fable of how power works in the 21st-century United States." Read more

2025-07-26T13:09:23-04:00

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DISCUSS: Do Democrats Need Their Own Trump?

Last updated on: July 26, 2025 at 1:09 pm By Gene Veith

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It has been proposed, as party officials try to find a way forward, that Democrats need their own Trump. What would that look like? Read more

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Democratic Party

President Donald Trump

2025-07-24T20:09:55-04:00

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The Theological Problems with AI Sermons

Last updated on: July 24, 2025 at 8:09 pm By Gene Veith

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The main problems with AI-generated sermons are not ethical but theological. AI-chatbots are not called by God to preach. They cannot pray. Or meditate. Or struggle like their hearers. They have no vocation. Read more

2025-07-30T08:37:54-04:00

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The Ethical Problems with AI Sermons

Last updated on: July 30, 2025 at 8:37 am By Gene Veith

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Today 12% of Protestant clergy say they are comfortable using AI to write their sermons. Is that ethical? A consideration of the arguments in favor (and why they are wrong). Read more

ethics of AI preachiing

pastoral office

2025-07-29T07:57:25-04:00

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Secular Theodicy

Last updated on: July 29, 2025 at 7:57 am By Gene Veith

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Oswald Bayer has written about secular theodicy, pointing out that concluding that God must not exist does not solve the problem of theodicy but, rather, makes it worse. Here three philosophers, two non-believers and one Christian, discuss grief. Read more

2025-07-24T14:15:17-04:00

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Monday Miscellany, 7/28/25

Last updated on: July 24, 2025 at 2:15 pm By Gene Veith

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Minneapolis is also going for a socialist mayor. Europe is making itself go extinct. And seal of confession update. Read more

Democratic Socialist Party

Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party

European abortion laws

Omar Fateh

religious liberty

seal of confession

2025-07-20T09:12:04-04:00

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False Consciousness

Last updated on: July 20, 2025 at 9:12 am By Gene Veith

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Why the working class is so often conservative, while elites are so often radical has been a puzzle to both sides. One answer is the Marxist notion of "false consciousness." But such analyses are reductionistic and condescending. Read more

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false consciousness

Marxism

working class conservatism

2025-07-19T18:09:56-04:00

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DISCUSS: The Trump & Epstein Controversy

Last updated on: July 19, 2025 at 6:09 pm By Gene Veith

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The controversy over President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is being called "the biggest crisis of his presidency." Is it? What are your thoughts about this? Read more

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Jeffrey Epstein

MAGA movement

President Donald Trump

2025-07-19T17:36:39-04:00

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“Sex is for fun, and embryo screening is for babies”

Last updated on: July 19, 2025 at 5:36 pm By Gene Veith

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A number of tech start ups are devoted to the genetic screening and implantation of embryos, using IVF not for fertility problems but for eugenics. To improve the gene pool, some are calling for replacing sex as a means of reproduction with this new technology. Read more

in vitro fertilization

separating sex from reproduction

Silicon Valley

2025-07-19T15:14:08-04:00

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All the Lonely People

Last updated on: July 19, 2025 at 3:14 pm By Gene Veith

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Americans are becoming so isolated from each other that I worry that the ties that bind the fabric of society might be coming apart! Why this is and what churches can do about it. Read more

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common meals

decline of social interactions

Loneliness

virtual relationships

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