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2010-06-24T05:13:16-04:00

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How the internet affects the brain

Last updated on: June 24, 2010 at 5:13 am By Gene Veith

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More on the prospect that the internet makes us dumber. In this case, by rewiring our brains: Nicholas Carr, a veteran writer about technology, is not sanguine about what he learned about his own Internet-infused brain, much less my brain. “What can science tell us about the actual effects that Internet use is having on the way our minds work?” he asks. His answer, iterated throughout this often repetitive but otherwise excellent book: “The news is even more disturbing than... Read more

2010-06-23T06:00:42-04:00

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And now an interfaith seminary

Last updated on: June 23, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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A southern California seminary will soon start training not only Christian pastors but also Jewish rabbis and Muslim imams. The venerable Claremont School of Theology, which has taught Methodist ministers and theologians for more than a century, will try an unorthodox approach this fall: cross-training the nation’s future Muslim, Christian and Jewish religious leaders in classrooms scattered around Southern California as they work toward their respective degrees. . . . Conceived in 2006, the University Project will allow seminary students... Read more

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2010-06-23T05:12:22-04:00

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Medicare doctors

Last updated on: June 23, 2010 at 5:12 am By Gene Veith

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Not every doctor accepts medicare patients. Many doctors only accept a few. The same is true of medicaid patients. This is because government payments are less than the going rate for their services. This could become a problem. The number of doctors refusing new Medicare patients because of low government payment rates is setting a new high, just six months before millions of Baby Boomers begin enrolling in the government health care program. Recent surveys by national and state medical... Read more

2010-06-23T05:00:33-04:00

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Partying with the reporter

Last updated on: June 23, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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Newsweek interviews Michael Hastings, the Rolling Stone reporter who broke the story quoting our top military brass in Afghanistan dissing the president and his staff, asking how in the world he got them to open up like they did. You reported a lot of sentiments that are usually only expressed in private—why were the general and his team so candid? Part of it was the circumstances. They were in a different environment. They were in Paris. But you would really... Read more

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Rolling Stone

2010-06-22T11:32:16-04:00

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Military brass & the Rolling Stone

Last updated on: June 22, 2010 at 11:32 am By Gene Veith

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America’s top commander and his staff in Afghanistan are in big trouble for their disrespectful remarks about their civilian bosses that they made to a reporter from Rolling Stone: The top U.S. general in Afghanistan is headed to Washington to apologize for a magazine profile that includes highly critical remarks by him and his staff about top Obama administration officials involved in Afghanistan policy. The article in this week’s Rolling Stone magazine is certain to increase tension between the White... Read more

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2010-06-22T06:09:47-04:00

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It’s nature to nurture

Last updated on: June 22, 2010 at 6:09 am By Gene Veith

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The conventional view in academia today is that sex is biological, but gender is a cultural construction. That is, roles that are attached to being male or female are nothing more than the impositions of culture. Well, I just observed my 15-month-old granddaughter picking up her first doll. She had played with teddy bears and the like, but she never even saw a doll that looked like a baby. This one wasn’t hers. But she picked it up, cradled it,... Read more

2010-06-22T06:00:31-04:00

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Small groups in church

Last updated on: June 22, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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We discussed this book and this issue a while back, but a piece in USA Today by Rev. Henry G. Brinton–after a rather strained comparison with online social media–focuses on the problem introverts have with small groups in church, which have become ubiquitous in churches of every kind. My Presbyterian colleague Adam McHugh, author of the book Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in An Extroverted Culture, describes the experience of walking into an average evangelical church as “walking... Read more

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2010-06-21T05:23:01-04:00

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The billionaire challenge

Last updated on: June 21, 2010 at 5:23 am By Gene Veith

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Fortune Magazine has an exclusive story about a project among the nation’s billionaires. Here is an excerpt: Just over a year ago, in May 2009, word leaked to the press that the two richest men in America, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, had organized and presided over a confidential dinner meeting of billionaires in New York City. David Rockefeller was said to have been a host, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Oprah Winfrey to have been among those attending, and philanthropy... Read more

2010-06-21T05:22:18-04:00

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What could your church do with a billion dollars?

Last updated on: June 21, 2010 at 5:22 am By Gene Veith

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Pretend that one of the megabillionaires mentioned above lived in your community. To fulfill the pledge, he gave every church in your community a billion dollars. What could your church do with that much money? If all the churches in your community had that kind of money, what do you think would happen? I intend this not as a fantasy but as a thought experiment. Would it be an unmitigated blessing, or could it do harm to your congregation? (If... Read more

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2010-06-21T05:00:23-04:00

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Why do fans trash their city when they win?

Last updated on: June 21, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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The Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA championship. Could somebody explain this?: Violence erupted within 30 minutes of the game's end as rowdy fans poured out of area bars and, shortly after, the 19,000 ticket-holders inside Staples began to emerge. Phalanxes of LAPD officers successfully funneled the tightly packed revelers away from the venue, but bands of mostly young men grew aggressive and brazen as they moved into the surrounding blocks. A typical scene played out on Figueroa Street, where... Read more

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