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2024-10-25T07:20:08-04:00

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Must Reads, 10/25/24

Last updated on: October 25, 2024 at 7:20 am By Gene Veith

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Beginning an occasional feature highlighting articles and posts worth reading: The third wave of dog domestication; why AI is dumber than a cat; and shotgun preaching and rifle preaching. Read more

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2024-10-20T17:52:35-04:00

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DISCUSS: Your Must Reads

Last updated on: October 20, 2024 at 5:52 pm By Gene Veith

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To roll out our new occasional feature "Must Reads," I invite you to also share posts and articles that your fellow readers would find interesting, edifying, or amusing. Read more

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2024-10-19T19:18:12-04:00

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From Discordia to Concordia

Last updated on: October 19, 2024 at 7:18 pm By Gene Veith

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of when the advocates of theological liberalism walked out of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, leaving it in orthodox hands. Hillsdale College professor of history Korey Maas has written a blow by blow account of the controversies, showing how the laity, church politics, and a self-destructive seminary faculty led to the progressives just walking away, to the benefit of the church and the seminary they left behind. Read more

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Schism in Lutheran Church Missouri Synod

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2024-10-19T16:10:08-04:00

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Convicted for the Crime of Silent Prayer

Last updated on: October 19, 2024 at 4:10 pm By Gene Veith

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After two years of legal proceedings, an Afghanistan war veteran, Adam Smith-Connor, was found guilty of the crime of praying silently outside an abortion clinic in Bournemouth, England. Abortion has become not just a value but an ultimate value, trumping all others (freedom of religion, of speech, of thought), a tenet of a secular fundamentalism that forbids contrary beliefs and punishes dissenters. Read more

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2024-10-19T13:22:32-04:00

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The “In Terrorem Effect”

Last updated on: October 19, 2024 at 1:22 pm By Gene Veith

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Prosecutors have found a way to punish people without convicting them. Simply putting someone on trial--even when prosecutors know they won't get a conviction--is itself a punishment. This tactic is especially effective in prosecuting political, moral, and religious cases. And now there is a name for it: the "in terrorem effect." Read more

Bishop Juhana Pohjola

2024-10-18T17:38:25-04:00

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Monday Miscellany, 10/21/24

Last updated on: October 18, 2024 at 5:38 pm By Gene Veith

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FBI's revised 2022 stats show violent crime was up, not down as reported; "one of the biggest failures in food history"; and SpaceX vs. NASA. Read more

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Friday Miscellany, 10/18/24

Last updated on: October 20, 2024 at 7:48 am By Gene Veith

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Young men are now more religious than young women. Portlandia is replacing its entire government. And the EPA is reconsidering adding fluoride to the water. Read more

2024-10-17T09:56:03-04:00

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DISCUSS: Not Voting

Last updated on: October 17, 2024 at 9:56 am By Gene Veith

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A study has found that some 104 million people classified as "people of faith" are not planning to vote this election. Are some of you in that number? What is the case for not voting? How about the option of going to the polling place and not voting in some races but voting in others? If you are voting, what can you say that might persuade the non-voter? Read more

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2024-10-12T16:25:56-04:00

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The Masons in History and in the Church

Last updated on: October 12, 2024 at 4:25 pm By Gene Veith

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Most people today see all Masons as nothing more than members of a social club. But in their heyday, as Philip Jenkins shows, the Masons played a major role in American--indeed, world--history with important religious ramifications. Why confessional Lutherans oppose them. Read more

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2024-10-16T10:11:12-04:00

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The Vatican’s New List of Seven Deadly Sins

Last updated on: October 16, 2024 at 10:11 am By Gene Veith

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The Christian church has long warned against the Seven Deadly Sins. These have been staples of Christian art and literature. Now the Vatican has (not for the first time) put out a new list of Seven Deadly Sins, reflecting some different moral preoccupations. Read more

New lists of Seven Deadly Sins

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