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2010-08-06T06:00:32-04:00

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Luke 1:63

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

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Our daughter Joanna had her baby! He is our fifth grandy in three years. Read more

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2010-08-06T05:26:13-04:00

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The spilled oil is gone?

Last updated on: August 6, 2010 at 5:26 am By Gene Veith

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As workers finally manage to cap the leaking oil well in the Gulf, some scientists have reached conclusions about what happened to all of that spilled oil: Nearly three-fourths of oil from the BP (BP.L)(BP.N) spill is gone from the Gulf of Mexico, with 26 percent remaining as a sheen or tarballs, buried in sediment or washed ashore, U.S. scientists said on Wednesday. “It is estimated that burning, skimming and direct recovery from the wellhead removed one quarter (25 percent)... Read more

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2010-08-06T05:15:42-04:00

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The Postsecular

Last updated on: August 6, 2010 at 5:15 am By Gene Veith

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The intellectual, academic world, according to some observers, has become “postsecular.” Scholars are now factoring back in the importance of religion. And yet this too has its divisions between those who favor a multi-faith religious pluralism and the advocates of “radical orthodoxy”–a sophisticated application of historical Christianity in terms of continental philosophy. See this interview: Views: After the Postsecular – Inside Higher Ed. For Radical Orthodoxy, see this. HT:David Mills Read more

2010-08-06T05:05:59-04:00

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The Islamic center at Ground Zero

Last updated on: August 6, 2010 at 5:05 am By Gene Veith

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It looks like the Islamic cultural center being proposed for construction near the site where the World Trade Center stood before 9/11 will be built: Plans to build an Islamic cultural center near the World Trade Center site moved forward after New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to allow the demolition of a building that would be replaced by a mosque. The panel denied landmark status to a long-vacant 152-year- old lower Manhattan building on Park Place, formerly a... Read more

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2010-08-05T06:00:23-04:00

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Interesting jobs

Last updated on: August 5, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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To celebrate the doctrine of vocation and as a build up to Labor Day, let us consider Interesting Jobs. Here is one: Major league baseball interpreter. An interpreter’s job can be consuming, from taking phone calls from a confused player in a grocery store aisle to helping a player’s wife get a driver’s license. “It’s one thing to be bilingual,” says [Kenji] Nimura, who is unique in the major leagues and especially valuable because he’s fluent in English, Japanese and... Read more

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2010-08-05T05:40:08-04:00

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Ray Bradbury on God

Last updated on: August 5, 2010 at 5:40 am By Gene Veith

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Ray Bradbury is not just a great science fiction writer. He is a great writer, period. And he is a man of some-kind-of faith: The 89-year-old science fiction author watches Fox News Channel by day, Turner Classic Movies by night. He spends the rest of his time summoning “the monsters and angels” of his imagination for his enchanting tales. Bradbury’s imagination has yielded classic books such as “Fahrenheit 451,” “The Martian Chronicles” and 600 short stories that predicted everything from... Read more

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2010-08-05T05:00:31-04:00

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Good news and bad news

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

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Joe Carter reflects on the meaning and practice of “evangelism”: The term derives from the Greek word evangel: good news. How odd then that so much evangelism appears to be about selling Jesus and hoping that you can convince the unsaved heathen to buy into salvation. Good news doesn’t have to be sold. Bad news has to be sold, but not good news. via Selling Jesus Like a Chevy | First Things. What difference might this distinction make in the... Read more

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2010-08-04T06:00:50-04:00

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Here comes the Sun

Last updated on: August 4, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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If you are reading this, we must have survived the storm on the sun that is sending plasma right at us: Earth is bracing for a cosmic tsunami Tuesday night as tons of plasma from a massive solar flare head directly toward the planet. The Sun’s surface erupted early Sunday morning, shooting a wall of ionized atoms directly at Earth, scientists say. It is expected to create a geomagnetic storm and a spectacular light show — and it could pose... Read more

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2010-08-04T05:19:36-04:00

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Lutheran conversion testimonies

Last updated on: August 4, 2010 at 5:19 am By Gene Veith

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Some may consider that phrase a contradiction in terms. But a new book contains the stories of various people who converted to Christianity as proclaimed in Lutheranism. It’s called Wittenberg Confessions: Testimonies of Converts to Confessional Lutheranism, by Jim Pierce, Edited by Elaine Gavin. I mention it in particular because it includes accounts from some of the readers and commentators on this blog, such as author Jim Pierce (former atheist and just about everything else you could name) and Kelly Klages.... Read more

2010-08-04T05:00:14-04:00

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New theories on the Dead Sea Scrolls

Last updated on: August 4, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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Some scholars are thinking that the Dead Sea Scrolls, those ancient texts that include some of the oldest copies of the Old Testament, may not have been the property of the Jewish sect known as the Essenes. They might have come from the Temple itself: Recent findings by Yuval Peleg, an archaeologist who has excavated Qumran for 16 years, are challenging long-held notions of who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls. Artifacts discovered by Peleg’s team during their excavations suggest Qumran... Read more

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