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2011-06-10T05:45:10-04:00

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The legacy of Dr. Death

Last updated on: June 10, 2011 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a.k.a. “Dr. Death,” died the other day, of natural causes and not by his own hand. Dr. Kevorkian was a practitioner of “physician-assisted suicide” and a hero to the euthanasia movement. Ross Douthat has brilliant op-ed piece in the New York Times, no less, that questions his legacy. A sample: We are all dying, day by day: do the terminally ill really occupy a completely different moral category from the rest? A cancer patient’s suffering isn’t necessarily... Read more

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2011-06-10T05:00:26-04:00

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And now war in Yemen?

Last updated on: June 10, 2011 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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Has President Obama, the former peace candidate, now started a 4th war? The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to American officials. The acceleration of the American campaign in recent weeks comes amid a violent conflict in Yemen that has left the government in Sana, a United States ally, struggling to cling to power. Yemeni troops... Read more

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2011-06-09T06:00:23-04:00

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On baptizing infants

Last updated on: June 9, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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A good discussion about Baptism broke out at Internet Monk. Commenter Scott, as a Baptist, made some interesting points, as reposted at New Reformation Press: While not precisely in line with any of the above confessions, there are three things that, over the past decade and a half and more as a Baptist, have struck me as wrong about the general credobaptist position. 1. Having raised some of my kids in the Baptist Church (and my youngest from birth) I’m... Read more

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2011-06-09T05:38:37-04:00

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The first Lutheran president

Last updated on: June 9, 2011 at 5:38 am By Gene Veith

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Both Joe Carter and Sarah Pulliam Bailey note this article by Doyle McManus in the Los Angeles Times on the end of the mainline Protestant domination of the American presidency. But what I take from it is the prospect that we could theoretically be getting the first Lutheran president! That would be Michele Bachman, if she runs and if she wins. (And aren’t Lutherans mainline Protestants, just the only ones that still hold to a Biblical orthodoxy?) Of the 44... Read more

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2011-06-09T05:00:58-04:00

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A new Chinese militarism?

Last updated on: June 9, 2011 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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An Australian newspaper reports on the views of a Chinese general who is encouraging the rise of a new militaristic spirit in China and the recovery of the fighting spirit in revolutionary Communism: A rising star of the People’s Liberation Army has called for China to rediscover its ”military culture”, while challenging unnamed Communist Party leaders for betraying their revolutionary heritage. General Liu Yuan displays sympathy for Osama bin Laden, says war is a natural extension of economics and politics... Read more

2011-06-08T06:00:52-04:00

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How bad theology yields bad Christian art

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

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Tony Woodlief at Image (an important journal on Christianity & the Arts) argues for a connection between bad Christian art and bad theology. His points are usefully specific and pointed: I’m convinced that bad art derives, like bad literary theory, from bad theology. To know God falsely is to write and paint and sculpt and cook and dance Him falsely. Perhaps it’s not poor artistic skill that yields bad Christian art, in other words, but poor Christianity. Consider, for example,... Read more

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2011-06-08T05:23:44-04:00

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Tim Pawlenty’s economic plan

Last updated on: June 8, 2011 at 5:23 am By Gene Veith

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GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty, the former governor of Minnesota, laid out an ambitious and unusually specific plan to get the economy going again: “Growing at 5 percent a year rather than the current level of 1.8 percent would net us millions of new jobs, trillions of dollars in new wealth, put us on a path to saving our entitlement programs,” Pawlenty said in his first detailed speech on economic policy since he formally declared his White House ambitions a... Read more

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2011-06-08T05:00:04-04:00

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30% of health plans to be dropped under Obamacare

Last updated on: June 8, 2011 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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Another reason the new national health care bill will have a hard time working: Once provisions of the Affordable Care Act start to kick in during 2014, at least three of every 10 employers will probably stop offering health coverage, a survey released Monday shows. While only 7% of employees will be forced to switch to subsidized-exchange programs, at least 30% of companies say they will “definitely or probably” stop offering employer-sponsored coverage, according to the study published in McKinsey... Read more

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

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10,000 Adams and Eves

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

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Thus far the main controversy between Christianity and mainline scientists has been over evolution. Many Christians have tried to resolve that dilemma by embracing “theistic evolution,” the notion that God did create every living thing, but that He used evolution to do it. (Never mind that Darwin’s theory of evolution specifically insists on the randomness of mutations and of natural selection. Believing that evolution is directed is beyond the pale of actual Darwinism and is just another form of Intelligent... Read more

2011-06-07T05:37:44-04:00

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The Honorable Anthony Weiner

Last updated on: June 7, 2011 at 5:37 am By Gene Veith

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So Congressional Representative Anthony Weiner, D-NY, now admits that he twittered the lewd photo and has been lying about it. And now it turns out the congressman has been sexting and exposing himself to other women. See Anthony Weiner admits he sent photo, but won’t resign – The Fix – The Washington Post. I refuse to make any of the obvious jokes and bawdy wordplay. I find the whole episode repellant, but it seems telling for the degradation of our politicians... Read more

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