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2010-10-01T05:30:10-04:00

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The Tea Party and the Myth of Antaeus

Last updated on: October 1, 2010 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Stanley Fish sheds light on contemporary politics by means of his vocation as a classically-educated literary scholar: And the Democrats will be helping them [Republicans] by saying scathing and dismissive things about the Tea Party and its candidates. The Greek mythological figure Antaeus won victory after victory because his opponents repeatedly threw him to the ground, not realizing that it was the earth (in the figure of his mother, Gaia) that nourished him and gave him renewed strength. The Tea... Read more

2010-10-01T05:00:25-04:00

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Diplomatic negotiations

Last updated on: October 1, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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The Washington Post is publishing excerpts from Bob Woodward’s new book <a href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439172498?ie=UTF8&tag=cranach-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1439172498″>Obama’s Wars</a><img src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=cranach-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1439172498″ width=”1″ height=”1″ border=”0″ alt=”” style=”border:none !important; margin:0px !important;” />. It includes a fascinating account of some hard-ball diplomacy played by national security director General James Jones and CIA director Leon Panetta with the president of Pakistan. If, God forbid, the SUV had blown up in Times Square, Jones told Zardari, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Should a future attempt be successful, Obama would be... Read more

2010-09-30T06:00:51-04:00

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The state’s right to assassinate its citizens

Last updated on: September 30, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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President Obama is out-Bushing Bush: The Obama administration urged a federal judge early Saturday to dismiss a lawsuit over its targeting of a U.S. citizen for killing overseas, saying that the case would reveal state secrets. The U.S.-born citizen, Anwar al-Aulaqi, is a cleric now believed to be in Yemen. Federal authorities allege that he is leading a branch of al-Qaeda there. Government lawyers called the state-secrets argument a last resort to toss out the case, and it seems likely... Read more

2010-09-30T05:30:21-04:00

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Time: “Your life as a fetus”

Last updated on: September 30, 2010 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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The cover story for the October 10 issue of Time Magazine is “How the First Nine Months Shape the Rest of Your Life.” An excerpt: But there’s another powerful source of influence you may not have considered: your life as a fetus. The kind and quantity of nutrition you received in the womb; the pollutants, drugs and infections you were exposed to during gestation; your mother’s health, stress level and state of mind while she was pregnant with you–all these... Read more

2010-09-30T05:00:14-04:00

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The next frontier of judicial activism?

Last updated on: September 30, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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A court in Canada has struck down that country’s laws against prostitution, saying they are unconstitutional. See this. Read more

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Canada

Prostitution

2010-09-29T06:00:27-04:00

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Obama’s confession of faith

Last updated on: September 29, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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President Obama was asked at a recent meeting with voters why he was a Christian. Here is what he said: “I’m a Christian by choice,” the president said. “My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to... Read more

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Barack Obama

2010-09-29T05:30:13-04:00

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Do atheists know more about religion than the religious?

Last updated on: September 29, 2010 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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That’s what a Pew Research study of “religious knowledge” suggests: Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions. On average, Americans correctly answer 16 of the 32 religious knowledge questions on the survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life. Atheists and agnostics average 20.9... Read more

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atheists

Pew Religious Knowledge Study

2010-09-29T05:14:28-04:00

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Is a major terrorist attack imminent?

Last updated on: September 29, 2010 at 5:14 am By Gene Veith

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Something seems to be brewing among jihadist terrorists, with officials in Europe and the United States on high alert. US and European officials said Tuesday they have detected a plot to carry out a major, coordinated series of new terror attacks in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and possibly the United States. A senior US official said that while there is a “credible” threat, no specific time or place is known. President Obama has been briefed about the threat, say... Read more

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terrorism

2010-09-29T05:00:28-04:00

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Conference on Lutheranism & the Classics

Last updated on: September 29, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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I’ll be heading out to the seminary at Ft. Wayne, Indiana, for the conference on Lutheranism & the Classics October 1-2. I’ll be giving a paper on Luther and the Liberal Arts. If you are in the neighborhood or can come to the neighborhood, ome out for it! For more information, go here: Concordia Theological Seminary – Lutheranism & the Classics. Read more

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Concordia Theological Seminary

Lutheranism and the Classics

2010-09-28T06:00:18-04:00

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The Rich Man & Lazarus

Last updated on: September 28, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Those of us whose churches follow the three-year lectionary on Sunday heard the account of the Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31) and very likely heard a sermon about it. Last week we had what I found to be a very enlightening trading of notes on a rather challenging parable. Let’s do that again with this parable. Here is some of what our Pastor Douthwaite said about it. (Read the whole sermon, which delves into some fascinating details in the... Read more

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