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2011-07-12T06:00:43-04:00

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Discrimination charges against religions?

Last updated on: July 12, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Journalist Asra Q. Nomani, writing in USA Today, is calling for the government to enforce anti-discrimination laws against religious organizations, denying them tax-exempt status if they discriminate against women. She is thinking of her fellow Muslims, but the proposal also would apply to Christians. Her article specifically mentions the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran Church Missouri-Synod: As much of the world cheers the rise of democracy in the public square of the Middle East, it’s time that we see... Read more

2011-07-12T05:23:18-04:00

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National debt impasse

Last updated on: July 12, 2011 at 5:23 am By Gene Veith

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So President Obama offered $4 trillion in budgetary cuts if the Republicans would accept a tax increase on the higher brackets. House Speaker Boehner rejected increasing anyone’s taxes, indicating that he would accept a $ 2.4 trillion trim in cuts alone. Talks between President Obama and congressional Republicans grew increasingly contentious on Monday, as GOP leaders flatly rejected his call to raise taxes on the wealthy as part of a bipartisan agreement to restrain the nation’s mounting debt. Dueling news... Read more

2011-07-11T06:00:27-04:00

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The history of classical Christian education

Last updated on: July 11, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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I am very excited about the publication of Thomas Korcok’s Lutheran Education: From Wittenberg to the Future. It supplies what has long been needed: a history of classical Christian education as practiced in the Reformation tradition. Dr. Korcok shows that the Lutheran approach to education has always been the classical liberal arts + catechesis. He also shows that the various theological conflicts were also manifested in educational conflicts: The scholastics did practice the liberal arts but with an emphasis on... Read more

Classical Lutheran Education

2011-07-11T05:30:28-04:00

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Why do believers have more children?

Last updated on: July 11, 2011 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Sociologist Peter Berger (an ELCA Lutheran), after surveying the overwhelming data that religious people have more children than the non-religious do, offers this explanation: Religion has always given its adherents a sense of living in a meaningful universe. This protects individuals from what sociologists call anomie—a condition of disorder and meaninglessness. Religion, by the same token, gives a strong sense of identity and confidence in the future. More than anything else that human beings may do, the willingness of becoming... Read more

2011-07-11T05:00:06-04:00

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Pushing back against “born this way”

Last updated on: July 11, 2011 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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Postmodernists are opposed to “essentialism,” the notion that ANYTHING is innate or predetermined. Thus I have found it interesting that when it comes to homosexuality, the prevailing argument is that this condition IS innate and predetermined. I have been waiting for signs that postmodernism is on its way out, and this seemed to be a significant development. But now it seems that postmodernists are pushing back against Lady Gaga’s assertion that we can all say “I was born this way.” ... Read more

2011-07-08T06:05:28-04:00

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Gay marriage & totalitarianism

Last updated on: July 8, 2011 at 6:05 am By Gene Veith

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We have discussed gay marriage in terms of theology and morality. Now let us consider it in political terms. What kind of government is it that takes to itself the power and the authority to make such a radical change in the institution of marriage? George Weigel makes the connection between gay marriage and totalitarianism: As analysts running the gamut from Hannah Arendt to Leszek Kolakowski understood, modern totalitarian systems were, at bottom, attempts to remake reality by redefining reality... Read more

2011-07-08T06:00:55-04:00

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And now, the gender-free pre-school

Last updated on: July 8, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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In Sweden, a government-run pre-school is refusing all gender categories in their dealings with children, to the point of avoiding personal pronouns: On the surface, the school in Sodermalm – a well-to-do district of the Swedish capital – seems like any other. But listen carefully and you’ll notice a big difference. The teachers avoid using the pronouns “him” and “her” when talking to the children. Instead they refer to them as “friends”, by their first names, or as “hen” –... Read more

2011-07-08T05:30:44-04:00

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Where is the John Adams memorial?

Last updated on: July 8, 2011 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Alexander Heffner in the Washington Post raises something that I have long called for: When President Obama ponders tough decisions at the White House, he may join the cadre of presidents who have sought inspiration in the Truman Balcony’s stunning vista, gazing at the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial, which commemorate our first and third commanders in chief. But there’s a man missing from this presidential panorama. Where is John Adams, our feisty second president and lifelong American patriot?... Read more

2011-07-07T06:00:06-04:00

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The genderless child

Last updated on: July 7, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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A Toronto couple is raising their baby to be genderless, refusing to identify the child either as a boy or a girl, so that he or she can choose his or her own sexual identity. The baby, named Storm, is now 4 months old. This article explains how the parents are managing this: Parents keep child’s gender secret – Parentcentral.ca. But I thought we were supposed to believe that sexual identity is not a choice, but rather an innate... Read more

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

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The Atlanta cheating scandal

Last updated on: July 7, 2011 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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It’s not the students who cheated in Atlanta. It’s the teachers. And the principals: Prosecutors are weighing whether to file any criminal charges against 178 Atlanta teachers and principals who state investigators said had cheated on standardized tests to inflate student scores. The cheating in 2009, found in 44 of the 56 Atlanta public schools examined, was prompted primarily by pressure to meet targets in a data-driven environment, a statement released by Governor Nathan Deal’s office said. “A culture of... Read more

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