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2011-07-21T05:30:31-04:00

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The 19th Century Depression

Last updated on: July 21, 2011 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Canadian historian Francois Furstenberg reminds us of the economic depression that America had to struggle through in the 19th century: Much like our time, the Gilded Age was an era of economic booms and busts. None was greater than the financial crisis that began in September 1873 with the collapse of Jay Cooke & Co., the nation’s premier investment bank. Like many other firms, Cooke & Co. overextended itself by offering risky loans based on overvalued real estate. Cooke’s collapse... Read more

2011-07-21T05:00:57-04:00

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Headaches for Bachmann

Last updated on: July 21, 2011 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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It is being reported that presidential candidate Michele Bachmann suffers from “incapacitating” migraine headaches. The implication is that this disqualifies her from office. Is this a concern? Or an example of the punditocracy, having already discredited her religious background, being willing to bring up anything to damage the prospects of a conservative candidate? See Bachmann’s Headache | Stress-Related Condition | Pill Use | The Daily Caller, which broke the story, and The Fix at the Washington Post, which makes a... Read more

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2011-07-20T06:00:29-04:00

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A prominent evangelical discovers Bo Giertz

Last updated on: July 20, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Remember our recent discussion about “Where are the Lutherans?”, responding to another blog complaining that Lutherans are invisible in the evangelical world? Well, here is a post from Tullian Tchividjian. He is a Reformed pastor, the grandson of Billy Graham and the successor to the late D. James Kennedy as pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian church. He describes reading The Hammer of God by the Swedish Lutheran bishop and novelist Bo Giertz. The result? A “Copernican revolution” in his ministry: After sitting... Read more

2011-07-20T05:45:58-04:00

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When government embraces religion

Last updated on: July 20, 2011 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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A speaker at the National Press Club called for making religion central to our foreign policy. He made a lot of sense at first, but then fell off the deep end: The best way to address Jihadist terrorism is to make religion a central component of American foreign policy, according to Douglas Johnston, an expert on foreign policy and religion, who spoke at the National Press Club on June 23. “We’re dealing with symptoms and not the real cause,” Johnston... Read more

2011-07-20T05:30:19-04:00

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Iranian president’s theological troubles

Last updated on: July 20, 2011 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Theology may be bringing down Iran’s President Ahmadinejad. So says Karim Sadjadpour, writing in the Washington Post: While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s demagoguery and Holocaust revisionism on the world stage have earned him alarmist comparisons to Adolf Hitler, his recent, ignoble fall from grace reveals the Iranian president for what he really is: the dispensable sword of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The marriage of Khamenei and Ahmadinejad should be understood in the context of Iran’s internal rivalries. Since... Read more

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2011-07-19T06:00:00-04:00

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Clarifying the cosmological argument

Last updated on: July 19, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Philosopher Edward Feser clears us misconceptions about the cosmological argument for the existence of God: 1. The argument does NOT rest on the premise that “Everything has a cause.” Lots of people – probably most people who have an opinion on the matter – think that the cosmological argument goes like this: Everything has a cause; so the universe has a cause; so God exists. They then have no trouble at all poking holes in it. If everything has a... Read more

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2011-07-19T05:55:17-04:00

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Journalists gone wild

Last updated on: July 19, 2011 at 5:55 am By Gene Veith

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Are you following the scandal swirling around media magnate Rupert Murdoch’s empire, which includes The Wall Street Journal and Fox News, just to name two of his American holdings? It seems reporters from his British tabloid News of the World have been caught hacking into voice mails of celebrities, crime victims, members of the Royal family, and even families of 9/11 victims. Now investigators have uncovered evidence that reporters have bribed police officers for story tips–leading to the resignation of... Read more

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2011-07-19T05:45:39-04:00

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Prosecuting Roger Clemens

Last updated on: July 19, 2011 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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The great pitcher Roger Clemens testified before a Congressional hearing that he had not used steroids. But then came evidence that he had. So he was brought to trial for perjury. The prosecution used hearsay evidence that the judge told them not to use, resulting in a mistrial. So do you think Clemons should be retried? Notice that steroid use was not illegal, nor was it then a violation of the rules of baseball. I don’t see why... Read more

2011-07-19T05:00:01-04:00

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Those edgy, dangerous Lutherans

Last updated on: July 19, 2011 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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You’ve got to read Mollie Hemingway on the Lutheran/anti-Christ controversy, in which she notes the irony of the media becoming indignant over the “anti-Catholic bias” of the Lutheran confessions, while they themselves savage Roman Catholic beliefs at every opportunity. An excerpt: Also, you’re kidding me that Lutheran views on the papacy are controversial. Again, there is no doubt that they were controversial back when Pope Leo X was in power. Where’s the controversy now? Except in the pages of papers... Read more

2011-07-18T06:00:38-04:00

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Lutheranism & the Antichrist

Last updated on: July 18, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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The teaching that got Michele Bachmann into trouble–that the papacy is the antichrist– and made her leave Lutheranism in order to be a creditable presidential candidate (see the other post for today) is not limited to the Wisconsin Synod. It is a tenet of the Lutheran Confessions, serving as the climax of Melanchthon’s Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope (41-42) and affirmed throughout the Smalcald Articles. This, however, is not in the sense of the premillennialist understanding... Read more

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