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2025-07-19T11:45:56-04:00

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Making Us Buy AI That We Don’t Want

Last updated on: July 19, 2025 at 11:45 am By Gene Veith

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Have you noticed that Microsoft Word has added an AI feature that will now do your writing for you? Did you ask for that? Did you know you are paying for it anyway? How tech is forcing us to pay for AI even though only 8% want it. Read more

technology corporations

2025-07-19T10:50:43-04:00

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Monday Miscellany, 7/21/25

Last updated on: July 19, 2025 at 10:50 am By Gene Veith

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What the free market is doing for Argentina. Teachers using AI to grade papers written by AI. And Democrats retreat on the environment. Read more

free market economics

Javier Milei

2025-07-11T16:41:46-04:00

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Why Change the Teachings of the Church?

Last updated on: July 11, 2025 at 4:41 pm By Gene Veith

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Why do so many people want to change the teachings or practices of their church, when it would be so much easier to join a different church they agree with or leave Christianity altogether? Read more

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progressive Christianity

2025-07-11T14:09:49-04:00

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DISCUSS: Churches Can Now Endorse Candidates

Last updated on: July 11, 2025 at 2:09 pm By Gene Veith

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The IRS has announced that churches can now endorse candidates without risking their tax-exempt status. But should they? Read more

churches and politics

IRS permitting churches to endorse candidates

religious liberty

2025-07-17T07:20:39-04:00

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Liberal Theology & Eugenics

Last updated on: July 17, 2025 at 7:20 am By Gene Veith

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Eugenics--the attempt to improve the human gene pool by breeding for desirable traits and sterilizing "inferior" humans--is repellent to just about everyone today. And yet, some of its most influential proponents were liberal ministers and theologians, who saw it as a key tactic of the social gospel. Read more

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2025-07-10T21:05:44-04:00

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On Protestant Denominations

Last updated on: July 10, 2025 at 9:05 pm By Gene Veith

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Denominations are being attacked from both a Catholic and a Protestant direction. Here is a modest defense of denominations. Read more

2025-07-10T16:22:58-04:00

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The Texas Floods & Christ

Last updated on: July 10, 2025 at 4:22 pm By Gene Veith

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The Texas floods that killed at last count 160 people, including 36 children, hit kind of close to home. There is a wrong way and a right way to relate this to God. Read more

Christ-centered theodicy

2025-07-10T13:59:36-04:00

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Monday Miscellany, 7/14/25

Last updated on: July 10, 2025 at 1:59 pm By Gene Veith

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"Trump Accounts" give $1000 to babies for when they turn 18. Teen pregnancy is dying out. And boss tells workers replaced by AI to seek comfort from AI. Read more

artificial intelligence

teen pregnancy

teenagers

Trump Accounts

2025-07-06T22:50:59-04:00

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Treating Feelings as the Source of Absolute Truth

Last updated on: July 6, 2025 at 10:50 pm By Gene Veith

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People today are not really relativists; rather, they are dogmatic, to the point of demonizing those who disagree with them. Today people determine truth not according to faith or reason, but according to what they feel. They then turn that feeling into an absolute! So says Robert George in his new book. Read more

2025-07-05T13:44:08-04:00

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DISCUSS: What Do You Miss?

Last updated on: July 5, 2025 at 1:44 pm By Gene Veith

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What do you miss? What do you recall that you value from your past, but which we don't have anymore? What do you feel nostalgia for? Read more

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