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2015-02-25T20:58:59-05:00

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D. C. legalizes marijuana, sort of

Last updated on: February 25, 2015 at 8:58 pm By Gene Veith

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As of 12:01 a.m. today, the possession of marijuana is legal in our nation’s capital. But it’s still illegal to sell it. So you can have it, but you can’t buy it. The tangled new law, with its bureaucratic twists and turns, illustrates the dilemma of a state legalizing a substance (though the District of Columbia is not a state), while federal law (which D. C. is mostly under) still outlaws it. It seems to me that making the possession... Read more

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2015-02-25T20:09:53-05:00

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ISIS comes to America

Last updated on: February 25, 2015 at 8:09 pm By Gene Veith

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New York City police arrested three men in connection with a plot to join ISIS and commit acts of terrorism in the United States, including assassinating the president. (more…) Read more

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2015-02-24T20:08:58-05:00

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Justification by faith and the physical world

Last updated on: February 24, 2015 at 8:08 pm By Gene Veith

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More from Living by Faith by Oswald Bayer. (For earlier posts on the subject, see this and this.) When we no longer have to justify ourselves, observes Bayer, but know the “passive righteousness” of faith that comes from being justified by Christ, we are reconciled to ourselves (no longer having to justify ourselves); we are reconciled to God (no longer having to justify Him); we are reconciled to others (no longer having to justify them); and we are reconciled to... Read more

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2015-02-24T19:28:04-05:00

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The LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM community

Last updated on: February 24, 2015 at 7:28 pm By Gene Veith

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Wesleyan University in Connecticut has a residence hall devoted to a whole alphabet of sexual diversity: Open House is a safe space for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Queer, Questioning, Flexual, Asexual, Genderfuck, Polyamourous, Bondage/Disciple, Dominance/Submission, Sadism/Masochism LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM communities and for people of sexually or gender dissident communities. The goals of Open House include generating interest in a celebration of queer life from the social to the political to the academic. Open House works to create a Wesleyan community that... Read more

2015-02-24T19:52:53-05:00

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ISIS abducts 150 Assyrian Christians

Last updated on: February 24, 2015 at 7:52 pm By Gene Veith

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The Assyrian Church, which is neither Catholic nor Eastern Orthodox, traces its history to the first century, all the way to the Apostles Thomas, Thaddeus, and Bartholomew. Now, these Syrian Christians, as in those early days, are experiencing brutal persecution and martyrdom. ISIS has rounded up 150 Assyrian Christians from Syrian villages. Their fate is unknown at this time. We should pray for them. Are you seeing much outrage at what the jihadists are doing to Christians, either from the... Read more

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2015-02-23T15:03:37-05:00

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From justifying God to justifying existence

Last updated on: February 23, 2015 at 3:03 pm By Gene Veith

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More (see my last post on the subject) from Living by Faith by Oswald Bayer. . . Not only are we always judging, condemning/justifying ourselves and each other, we also judge, condemn/justify God. Bayer has some interesting reflections on “theodicy,” the question of how or why God allows evil, drawing on sources that I wasn’t familiar with. But what most struck me was Bayer’s observation that when the idea of God fades away in some people’s minds, the problem of... Read more

2015-02-23T21:17:04-05:00

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The digital generation prefers print on paper

Last updated on: February 23, 2015 at 9:17 pm By Gene Veith

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I really enjoy my Kindle. But when it comes to reading scholarly works, I need to flip back and forth, mark pages, study illustrations, and generally read more carefully. I kind of need hard-copy printed books to do that. Now it turns out that the Millennial generation, computer-literate and screen-oriented as they are, are the same way, maybe more so! Their preference for reading old-fashioned books is overwhelming. See why, with details about the mental difference between reading on paper... Read more

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2015-02-23T21:16:15-05:00

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What else Turing did

Last updated on: February 23, 2015 at 9:16 pm By Gene Veith

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The movie The Imitation Game focused on how mathematician Alan Turing broke the German “Enigma” code, a major contribution to the Allied victory in World War II. Those interested in artificial intelligence talk about the “Turing test,” the goal of making it impossible to tell whether a machine or a human being is responding to questions. But Turing’s most enduring contribution is not known so much. He wrote a paper about 0’s and 1’s and computable numbers that basically invented... Read more

2015-02-22T12:52:14-05:00

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Justifying ourselves

Last updated on: February 22, 2015 at 12:52 pm By Gene Veith

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I am reading a book that is blowing me away: Living by Faith by Oswald Bayer, the contemporary German theologian who is sort of the Lutheran answer to radical orthodoxy. Instead of reading it all, then writing a formal review, I am so excited by this book that I thought I would write posts about what I am finding so interesting as I am reading through it. Bayer begins by showing that the concept of “justification” is not an arcane... Read more

2015-02-22T11:59:51-05:00

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In Europe, only outlaws have guns

Last updated on: February 22, 2015 at 11:59 am By Gene Veith

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In Europe, owning a firearm is pretty much illegal. But a huge black market has arisen in military-grade weapons, making them easily available to criminals, gang members, and terrorists. Proving the adage that if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will own guns. (more…) Read more

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