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2014-12-04T17:51:56-05:00

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China passes USA as largest economy

Last updated on: December 4, 2014 at 5:51 pm By Gene Veith

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The United States no longer has the world’s largest economy. China just passed us. Ever since Ulysses S. Grant was president, the American economy has been number one. Now we are number two. (more…) Read more

2014-12-04T18:28:17-05:00

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North Korea hacks Hollywood

Last updated on: December 4, 2014 at 6:28 pm By Gene Veith

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Sony Pictures will soon release a comedy about two reporters who are enlisted to assassinate North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un. The movie, entitled The Interview, combines fiction with non-fiction, bringing the venerated “dear leader” of the notoriously touchy Communist country into a silly comedy plot. But North Korea is outraged and breathing threats. So apparently North Koreans hacked into Sony’s computer system, deleting files, stealing personal information about its employees, and downloading unreleased movies and making them available on... Read more

2014-12-03T17:28:14-05:00

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My new book on the imagination

Last updated on: December 3, 2014 at 5:28 pm By Gene Veith

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I have published a new book, one that I collaborated on with Matt Ristuccia, an evangelical pastor in Princeton. It’s called Imagination Redeemed: Glorifying God with a Neglected Part of Your Mind. The imagination often gets mystified these days with its association with the arts and creativity. We get into those areas in the book, but we are trying to recover a much more basic understanding of the concept. The imagination is simply the power of our minds to conjure... Read more

2014-12-03T18:17:03-05:00

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In Defense of Looting

Last updated on: December 3, 2014 at 6:17 pm By Gene Veith

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Willie Osterweil (a white punk rocker) has written a defense of the looting in Ferguson, Missouri. Read it, excerpted and linked to after the jump. You might also take a look at Time‘s article “In Defense of Rioting.” How would you answer these arguments? (more…) Read more

2014-12-03T18:43:51-05:00

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The corruption index

Last updated on: December 3, 2014 at 6:43 pm By Gene Veith

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An agency has compiled a list that ranks the world’s nations according to how corrupt they are. Read this for the story and see the list of the top and bottom 20 after the jump. (Guess where the USA is.) (more…) Read more

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2014-12-02T21:13:13-05:00

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Bringing God back to Veggie Tales

Last updated on: December 2, 2014 at 9:13 pm By Gene Veith

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Broadcast television is facing stiff competition from services such as Netflix, which is now streaming original programming. The traditional networks are complaining that Netflix, like HBO, can present taboo content and language that they can’t. Now Netflix is presenting uncut, uncensored material that NBC found too shocking: Letting Veggie Tales talk about God. Netflix is running new Veggie Tales stories, a franchise now owned by DreamWorks, but unlike the cartoons’ unhappy experience on network TV, the talking vegetables with Christian... Read more

2014-12-02T21:14:30-05:00

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Abortion as a moral good?

Last updated on: December 2, 2014 at 9:14 pm By Gene Veith

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Most arguments for abortion have treated it as a tragic but sometimes necessary choice, something regrettable. The goal should be to make abortion “safe, legal,” but also “rare.” But tolerating a morally questionable practice is no longer enough; now that practice must also be affirmed as good. A new book, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights by Katha Pollitt, argues that we need to start thinking of abortion as something that is morally good, just as good as letting the child be... Read more

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2014-12-02T21:15:37-05:00

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Royal blood without royal DNA

Last updated on: December 2, 2014 at 9:15 pm By Gene Veith

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We’ve blogged about the discovery of a skeleton with a deformed back found where Richard III was supposed to have been buried. Studies have confirmed that the skeleton is that of Richard III, the Plantagenet king and Shakespearean villain, who was overthrown by Henry Tudor (father of Henry VIII and grandfather of Queen Elizabeth I). The studies further show a significant problem with a hereditary monarchy: DNA from the skeleton does not match known male ancestors, suggesting that some... Read more

2014-11-30T17:18:37-05:00

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Advent do’s and don’t’s

Last updated on: November 30, 2014 at 5:18 pm By Gene Veith

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More from Mollie Hemingway, Forget The War On Christmas, The War On Advent Is Worse in The Federalist: 1) Advent is for preparation. Christmas is for partying. So that means Christmas parties should take place during Christmas. Christmas parties should not take place during Advent. You get 12 full days when hardly anyone is working to party all you want. Use them. (more…) Read more

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2014-11-30T17:20:18-05:00

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Professional trolls

Last updated on: November 30, 2014 at 5:20 pm By Gene Veith

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Trolls–those who make harsh and nasty comments just to take over and disrupt discussions–are the bane of the internet. It turns out, some trolls are paid for their work. (more…) Read more

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