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2011-03-21T06:00:38-04:00

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War #3

Last updated on: March 21, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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We started our third war. The United Nations called for a no-fly zone in Libya, to try to stop dictator Moammar Gaddafi’s military strikes against Libyans protesting his rule. This time NATO allies are playing a big role, with the French launching airstrikes against Gaddafi’s tanks. (How do aircraft attacking ground targets, other than air defense sites, relate to the mandate of establishing a no-fly zone?) But the U.S. is in it too, launching 112 Tomahawk missiles against Libya, as... Read more

2011-03-21T05:30:07-04:00

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Majority of Americans now back gay marriage

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

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And majority rules: A slim majority of Americans now support gay marriage, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.The results underscore the nation’s increasingly tolerant views about homosexuals, and parallel a string of recent legal and legislative victories for gay rights advocates. Five years ago, at 36 percent, support for gay marriage barely topped a third of all Americans. Now, 53 percent say gay marriage should be legal, marking the first time in Post-ABC polling that a majority has... Read more

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2011-03-21T05:00:50-04:00

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Problems with the food supply

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

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Just in case you need something else to worry about, global food prices are skyrocketing (here not so much–yet), due to increased demand and shorter supplies: Since last summer, several events — floods in Australia, blistering drought in Russia, the threat of a poor winter wheat crop in China — have compounded concerns about the food supply and pushed world prices to the highest levels measured since the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization began calculating its index in 1990. For... Read more

2011-03-18T06:00:16-04:00

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The Calvinist case against Lutheranism

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

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Darryl Hart, a Reformed theologian who favors “confessional” Protestantism over against the new American varieties–including “neo-Calvinism”–takes up and interrogates the Calvinist critique of Lutheranism. He quotes the venerable B. B. Warfield: Just as little can the doctrine of justification by faith be represented as specifically Lutheran. It is as central to the Reformed as to the Lutheran system. Nay, it is only in the Reformed system that it retains the purity of its conception and resists the tendency to make... Read more

Theology of the Cross

2011-03-18T05:45:49-04:00

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The world has become fragile

Last updated on: March 18, 2011 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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Steven Pearlstein reflects on our recent disasters, all of which took us by surprise and none of which we were prepared for: In just the past decade, we’ve had the attacks of Sept. 11, the tsunami in the Indian Ocean, Hurricane Katrina, the global financial crisis, a global flu pandemic, the earthquake in Haiti, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and devastating floods in Australia and New Zealand. Now, Japan has been hit with a triple whammy of... Read more

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Japan earthquake

2011-03-18T05:30:14-04:00

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Disaster and national debt

Last updated on: March 18, 2011 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Japan’s and ours. . . As Japan begins the complex and costly job of rebuilding the areas of the country that were destroyed, the task will be made more difficult by the government’s vast debt. Japan has the highest level of debt relative to the size of its economy of any major industrial nation — 234 percent of gross domestic product this year, the International Monetary Fund estimates, compared with 99 percent for the United States. With the cost of... Read more

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2011-03-17T06:00:15-04:00

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Online Apologetics Conference

Last updated on: March 17, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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And speaking of Apologetics Conferences, here is one sponsored by Anthony Horvath at Athanatos Ministries. It will be held completely online, April 7, 8, & 9. The overall topic will be “Defending Christianity and God’s Plan for Marriage, Family, and Life through Creative Arts such as Film and Literature.” I’ll be the keynote speaker. Here is the lineup: Keynote: Gene Edward Veith, Jr. Provost and Professor of Literature at Patrick Henry College, the Director of the Cranach Institute at... Read more

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2011-03-17T05:30:05-04:00

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Luther and the universalism debate

Last updated on: March 17, 2011 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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The evangelical blogosphere is all abuzz over a new book entitled Love Wins by the influential evangelical pastor and author Rob Bell, in which he argues for universalism, the notion that God will save everyone, whether or not they have faith in Christ. I had assumed that this debate did not concern us Lutherans, since we have our theology thoroughly worked out and this is just not an issue in our circles. But now I learn that Bell enlisted... Read more

2011-03-17T05:00:48-04:00

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St. Patrick and other missionaries

Last updated on: March 17, 2011 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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Today is St. Patrick’s Day, so wear green or get pinched. You may recall my crusade to use this day to honor ALL missionaries. Those of us of European descent had ancestors who also were brought to faith by missionaries no less than our fellow Christians in Africa, Asia, South America, and the rest of the world. So lift a glass to St. Patrick who brought the faith to Ireland. And lift a glass to St. Augustine of Canterbury who... Read more

2011-03-16T06:00:59-04:00

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Relics

Last updated on: March 16, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Some people go to Cancun on their Spring Break; others go to Myrtle Beach. We went to Baltimore. My wife and I are both interested in medieval art, and the Walter Art Museum there is featuring a big exhibit of medieval reliquaries. That is, containers for relics, bones and other remains of saints that played a big part in medieval spirituality, and, indeed, in Roman Catholicism to this day. The containers ranged from mini-tombs to realistic statuary. (The arm... Read more

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