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2015-04-05T22:02:49-04:00

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Scientists look at Crucifixion

Last updated on: April 5, 2015 at 10:02 pm By Gene Veith

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Scientists have been studying the mechanics, physiology, and history of crucifixion. They have learned that it was more horrible than people had assumed. Details and a link to some of the findings after the jump. (more…) Read more

2015-04-02T22:27:27-04:00

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“Everything is groundless and gratuitous”

Last updated on: April 2, 2015 at 10:27 pm By Gene Veith

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More from Oswald Bayer, who shows the connection between justification and creation, as underscored in Luther’s Small Catechism: The world was called into being without any worldly condition, in pure freedom and pure goodness. Creation out of nothing means that everything that is exists out of sheer gratuity, out of pure goodness. “All this is done out of pure, fatherly and divine goodness and mercy, without any merit or worthiness of mine at all!” That is how Luther puts it... Read more

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2015-04-01T22:00:07-04:00

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Herbert’s Maundy Thursday poem

Last updated on: April 1, 2015 at 10:00 pm By Gene Veith

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I’ve posted this poem before, since it’s maybe my favorite poem by George Herbert. But I realized that this is his Maundy Thursday poem. It’s all here: love, the agony in the garden, the Sacrament, the leadup to the Crucifixion. And in this poem, Herbert shows how all of those are linked. Read it after the jump. (more…) Read more

2015-04-01T22:18:14-04:00

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Maundy Thursday and the search for the real Jesus

Last updated on: April 1, 2015 at 10:18 pm By Gene Veith

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Anthony Sacramone discusses all of the magazine cover stories about “the search for the real Jesus” that get published during Lent, generally concluding that we can’t really know much about Him, the assumption being that the Gospels aren’t reliable. Well, Mr. Sacramone gives a very Lutheran answer to those in search of a tangible Jesus, proposing a billboard campaign, as you can see after the jump. (more…) Read more

2015-04-01T22:24:21-04:00

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Weird matter

Last updated on: April 1, 2015 at 10:24 pm By Gene Veith

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Dark matter constitutes 85% of the universe. New research shows how weird this stuff is. Not only is dark matter invisible, it can pass through not only ordinary matter, but also other dark matter. (more…) Read more

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2015-03-31T21:43:51-04:00

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The hidden God and the revealed God

Last updated on: March 31, 2015 at 9:43 pm By Gene Veith

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More from Oswald Bayer: Luther never downplays or treats as harmless the situation of temptation and testing when God withdraws and conceals himself. He confronts it in all its depth and sharpness. He does not ignore experiences of suffering. Yet he still refuses to accept their finality. He flees from the hidden God to the revealed and incarnate God. Living by Faith , Chapter 6 (more…) Read more

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2015-03-31T21:52:17-04:00

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April Fools’ Day Central

Last updated on: March 31, 2015 at 9:52 pm By Gene Veith

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If you come across any amusing April Fool’s Day pranks–on the internet, in the media, in actual life–please tell about them here. Read this for the origins, though it sounds like no one really knows for sure, with the explanations themselves sounding like hoaxes. Read more

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2015-03-30T20:26:20-04:00

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Shooting down the claims that Easter has pagan origins

Last updated on: March 30, 2015 at 8:26 pm By Gene Veith

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Rev. Joseph Abrahamson has thoroughly refuted these claims about Easter, and yet we still keep hearing them: There are three main things people attack about this Holy Day: They claim that it is pagan because the name Easter is from a pagan goddess. They claim that Easter eggs are a symbol of pagan worship, particularly of that false goddess in number 1. They claim that the Easter bunny is a pagan symbol, the consort of the pagan goddess in number... Read more

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2015-03-30T20:28:12-04:00

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A scholarly study of anti-Christian bigotry

Last updated on: March 30, 2015 at 8:28 pm By Gene Veith

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Sociologist George Yancey has conducted a study of people who are bigoted against Christianity. He has found that conservative Christians share at least one thing with atheists: both are hated by large numbers of people. (Half of the public hate atheists, but a third hate conservative Christians.) Prof. Yancey has found that “Christianophobia” is similar to bigotry against racial and ethnic groups and is found largely among affluent white people. Prof. Yancey tells about his study after the jump,... Read more

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2015-03-30T15:08:27-04:00

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Politics in the biggest “hinge moment” since the industrial revolution?

Last updated on: March 30, 2015 at 3:08 pm By Gene Veith

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Political thinkers are pondering recent claims that we are in the midst of an epic transition that will rival the industrial revolution, wondering what difference these changes will make politically. The projections deal with technology but also demographics, as whites will soon become an aged minority in the United States. So far the political implications being heralded are that the midwest will fade in political clout in favor of growing ethnically-diverse states. And that Republicans need to reach out to... Read more

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