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2011-12-28T05:30:39-05:00

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“How Luther went viral”

Last updated on: December 28, 2011 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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The Economist tells how Luther, in effect, used social media: Although they were written in Latin, the “95 Theses” caused an immediate stir, first within academic circles in Wittenberg and then farther afield. In December 1517 printed editions of the theses, in the form of pamphlets and broadsheets, appeared simultaneously in Leipzig, Nuremberg and Basel, paid for by Luther’s friends to whom he had sent copies. German translations, which could be read by a wider public than Latin-speaking academics and... Read more

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2011-12-28T05:00:41-05:00

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Postmodernism & pedophilia

Last updated on: December 28, 2011 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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Anne Hendershott traces a significant stream of postmodernist scholarship over the last decade that amounts to an academic defense of pedophilia. After all, so say these scholars, both childhood and sexual morality are nothing more than social constructions. A sample, though you’ll want to read the whole thing: The publication of Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex [2003] promised readers a “radical, refreshing, and long overdue reassessment of how we think and act about children’s and... Read more

2011-12-27T06:00:36-05:00

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A blogging hero?

Last updated on: December 27, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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I don’t like to blow my own horn. I don’t even like to call attention to when someone else is blowing it. Still, since you readers and commenters are a big part of what makes this blog work, I can’t resist passing this along. Tim Challies has a BIG blog, with like a million-reads-per-month. Whenever he links to something I post, my readership statistics shoot up into the stratosphere. So it’s gratifying that he listed me as one of his seven... Read more

2011-12-27T05:45:31-05:00

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Newt wasn’t married after all!

Last updated on: December 27, 2011 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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Newt Gingrich is on his third marriage, but the Roman Catholic church, which does not believe in divorce, has granted him at least one and maybe two annulments! According to canon law, annulled marriages were never marriages at all. So if there was no marriage, there was no adultery, no divorces, and Newt is a once-married paragon of family values. From the New York Times: In 1980, Mr. Gingrich left his wife of nearly 20 years, the former Jackie Battley,... Read more

2011-12-27T05:31:26-05:00

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The Hobbit trailer

Last updated on: December 27, 2011 at 5:31 am By Gene Veith

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To be released this time next year! HT: Paul McCain Read more

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2011-12-26T06:00:39-05:00

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Eating for death vs. eating for life

Last updated on: December 26, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Our church was not one of the 10% of American churches that cancelled Sunday services on Christmas day, I’m happy to say. We had a wonderful service. Pastor Douthwaite’s sermon was on the “great reversal” of the Fall of Adam and Eve that God worked through the gift of His Son. Especially striking was something that I had never thought about: Our fall took place when mankind ate the fruit of the forbidden Tree of the Knowledge of Good &... Read more

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Theology of the Cross

2011-12-26T05:45:09-05:00

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Why I can’t vote for Gingrich or Perry

Last updated on: December 26, 2011 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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Because they weren’t organized enough to get the petitions signed to get on the Virginia primary ballot! Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has failed to qualify for Virginia’s March 6 Republican primary, a development that complicates his bid to win the GOP presidential nomination. “After verification, RPV has determined that Newt Gingrich did not submit required 10K signatures and has not qualified for the VA primary,” the Republican Party of Virginia announced early Saturday on its Twitter website. Perry also... Read more

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2011-12-26T05:30:30-05:00

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The multiple universe theory

Last updated on: December 26, 2011 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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An interesting article in Harper’s Magazine by MIT physicist Alan Lightman on how the “multiverse” theory–which cosmologists are embracing apparently as their only alternative to Intelligent Design–is throwing down the very foundations of the scientific enterprise: The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles. One can add to the list of the fully explained: the hue... Read more

2011-12-23T06:00:40-05:00

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God bless us, every one!

Last updated on: December 23, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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I would like to wish all of you readers–conservatives and liberals, Lutherans and non-Lutherans and anti-Lutherans, Christians and other religionists and atheists, moralists and libertarians, Tea Partiers and Occupy Wall Streeters, experts and textperts and choking smokers, and all of the other varied souls who frequent this blog–a merry, merry celebration of the Incarnation of our God and Savior (whether you believe in Him or not)! Read more

2011-12-23T05:45:07-05:00

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Keep the “mass” in Christmas

Last updated on: December 23, 2011 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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Last time Christmas fell on Sunday it came out that a number of churches had decided to cancel services, which provoked some controversy. I haven’t heard of churches doing that this year, whether because they have all come to their senses or because it has become no big deal. (Does anyone know of churches that have cancelled Sunday services?) The reason given was that if people don’t have to go to church they can spend more time with their families,... Read more

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