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2015-01-07T21:58:05-05:00

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The Dalton gang meets the Second Amendment

Last updated on: January 7, 2015 at 9:58 pm By Gene Veith

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In the course of a discussion on the importance of an armed citizenry, Michael Walsh tells how the citizens of Coffeyville, Kansas, shot up the Dalton gang. The story is similar to what the good folks of Northfield, Minnesota, did to another set of formidable outlaws, the gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger. I blogged about Northfield, but I didn’t know about Coffeyville, even though that small city is just across the border from where I grew up! (more…) Read more

2015-01-06T17:52:39-05:00

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Seeing with the eyes of faith

Last updated on: January 6, 2015 at 5:52 pm By Gene Veith

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Like the Wise Men, Pastor Douthwaite last Sunday opened up treasures. Not gold, frankincense, and myrrh, but the treasures of God’s Word. His Epiphany sermon had some gems that I want to contemplate the rest of this week. He pointed out, for example, that the Wise Men saw merely a baby–not with the halos of the Christmas cards–but they saw Him with the eyes of faith, as we must, and thus knew Him as the Son of God. (more…) Read more

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2015-01-06T18:40:27-05:00

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Confusing LBJ with Robert Kennedy

Last updated on: January 6, 2015 at 6:40 pm By Gene Veith

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We’ve blogged about how the movie Selma villainizes Lyndon Johnson, even though he was the president who pushed through the Civil Rights laws that Martin Luther King was marching for. The movie shows LBJ ordering the FBI to spy on Dr. King to collect dirt on him. But, as (liberal) columnist Richard Cohen points out, it was Attorney General Robert Kennedy who gave that order during his brother’s administration! (more…) Read more

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2015-01-06T18:45:37-05:00

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Boehner holds on and takes revenge

Last updated on: January 6, 2015 at 6:45 pm By Gene Veith

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The Republicans took over the Legislative Branch today. Despite an attempt to oust him as Speaker of the House, John Boehner was re-elected to his third term. Now he is taking revenge against the Congressmen who opposed him. (more…) Read more

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2015-01-05T19:35:33-05:00

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Epiphany as both theological and literary term

Last updated on: January 5, 2015 at 7:35 pm By Gene Veith

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Today is Epiphany, a day and a season in the church year that I especially appreciate, old English teacher that I am, since the name is both a theological and a literary term. I explain that after the jump in a post from four years ago. (more…) Read more

2015-01-05T19:23:31-05:00

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Sea of Blue

Last updated on: January 5, 2015 at 7:23 pm By Gene Veith

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Nationwide, “hands up” and “I can’t breathe” protesters have been demonstrating against police brutality. But now police are staging demonstrations of their own. protesting the politicians and the citizens who do not appreciate the danger police officers face and who make it worse with their anti-police rhetoric. Cities nationwide are seeing “sea of blue” demonstrations, featuring thousands of police officers in their blue uniforms. (more…) Read more

2015-01-05T19:24:11-05:00

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Discovery of the site of Jesus’ trial?

Last updated on: January 5, 2015 at 7:24 pm By Gene Veith

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Archaeologists have found what they are identifying as Herod’s palace in Jerusalem, which many scholars believe was the headquarters of Pontius Pilate and the site of Jesus’ trial. (more…) Read more

2015-01-05T07:43:38-05:00

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The last day of Christmas

Last updated on: January 5, 2015 at 7:43 am By Gene Veith

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Today Christmas is finally over. Traditionally, the holiday lasted 12 days, and this is the twelfth. So call it twelve drummers drumming day. Or, to use the historical term, Twelfth Night, which is not only the name of a very good play but was a time of revelry and merry making. So I wish you a Merry Christmas one more time for the season and a Merry Twelfth Night tonight! Or are you weary of celebrating, satiated with all of... Read more

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2015-01-04T16:10:58-05:00

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Replacing marriage

Last updated on: January 4, 2015 at 4:10 pm By Gene Veith

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Isabel Sawhill is a liberal scholar who has spent much of her career defending marriage from cultural developments and government policies that have weakened the institution. She has been pro-marriage not for moral, spiritual , or cultural reasons but because the data is overwhelming that children do better with two parents and that married couples do better economically. But now she is giving up. She says that marriage is in such a weakened state that we need to come up... Read more

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2015-01-04T17:08:08-05:00

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‘Selma’ movie slanders LBJ?

Last updated on: January 4, 2015 at 5:08 pm By Gene Veith

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The movie Selma will be released next weekend and is already receiving great acclaim and Oscar buzz for its portrayal of Martin Luther King’s crusade for Civil Rights, centering in the demonstration he organized in Selma, Alabama. But narratives, even apparently factual movies, like to have a villain, so Selma turns President Lyndon Baines Johnson into King’s nemesis. But historians are disputing that characterization, pointing out that LBJ was the president who proposed, pushed through, and implemented the Civil Rights... Read more

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