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2010-05-19T06:00:31-04:00

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So how will “Lost” end?

Last updated on: May 19, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Many of you have followed, with me, the labyrinthine ways of “Lost.” Now, the television puzzler is approaching its finale. What do you think the final explanation will be? HT: Larry Wilson Read more

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2010-05-19T05:05:10-04:00

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Another Christian politician caught in adultery

Last updated on: May 19, 2010 at 5:05 am By Gene Veith

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Is it any wonder that Christians are losing their credibility? Indiana congressman Mark Souder’s resignation, announced Tuesday, came after anonymous tipsters called his aides and his opponents in a Republican primary to say he was having an extramarital affair with a part-time staffer, according to sources familiar with the calls. The conservative Christian congressman’s chief of staff, Renee Howell, confronted him last week over the rumored affair with Tracy Meadows Jackson, according to a source in the office. On Tuesday... Read more

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2010-05-19T05:00:23-04:00

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What’s in a name?

Last updated on: May 19, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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You have probably heard by now of the latest survey of baby names, finding that the most popular names of last year were Jacob and Isabella. But this article by Laura Wattenberg goes deeper, surveying the history of naming customs and noting, among other things, the impact of the internet in making parents think that they have to find an absolutely unique name, or at least a unique spelling. A sample: In the 1960s, a new cultural emphasis on individuality... Read more

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2010-05-18T06:00:28-04:00

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Scientifically, nothing should exist

Last updated on: May 18, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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I hadn’t realized that science, despite all of the claims that it has all the answers, remains stuck at a very basic conundrum: Physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory are reporting that they have discovered a new clue that could help unravel one of the biggest mysteries of cosmology: why the universe is composed of matter and not its evil-twin opposite, antimatter. If confirmed, the finding portends fundamental discoveries at the new Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva, as well... Read more

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2010-05-18T05:30:09-04:00

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Why the media ignored the Nashville flood

Last updated on: May 18, 2010 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Thirty people died in the Cumberland River flood that inundated Nashville and other places in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi. But, as we have complained on this blog, it barely made the news. This, despite our three 24-hour cable news networks that one would think have lots of air time to fill. Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz explores why, and, in doing so, makes the late Neil Postman’s point that the news is less about what happened and more about... Read more

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2010-05-18T05:00:10-04:00

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Either ignoring or capitulating to Islam

Last updated on: May 18, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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A sobering piece by Mark Steyn: What with the Fort Hood mass murderer, the Christmas Pantybomber, and now the Times Square bomber, you may have noticed a little uptick in attempted terrorist attacks on the U.S. mainland in the last few months. Rep. Lamar Smith did, and, at the House Judiciary Committee, he was interested to see if the attorney general of the United States thought there might be any factor in common between these perplexingly diverse incidents. “In the... Read more

2010-05-17T06:00:37-04:00

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Christology

Last updated on: May 17, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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We’ve been discussing the Christological dimensions of the Ascension, including the Lutheran view that not only Christ’s divine nature was taken into the Godhead, but that also His human nature–body and all–is now part of the Trinity, sharing in the divine attributes such as omnipresence. Thus, Christ, in His body and blood, can be truly present on all the world’s altars celebrating Holy Communion. I just had a related conversation with a friend of mine who said that he had... Read more

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2010-05-17T05:39:30-04:00

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Homeschooling comebacks

Last updated on: May 17, 2010 at 5:39 am By Gene Veith

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Deborah Markus gives 25 comebacks to people who question the decision to homeschool. Here is one: Please stop questioning my competency and demanding to see my credentials. I didn’t have to complete a course in catering to successfully cook dinner for my family; I don’t need a degree in teaching to educate my children. If spending at least twelve years in the kind of chew-it-up-and-spit-it-out educational facility we call public school left me with so little information in my memory... Read more

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2010-05-17T05:00:08-04:00

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Republicans’ new ideas

Last updated on: May 17, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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Republicans are reportedly working on some innovative but controversial ideas. Here are three examples: The parent tax cut Robert Stein, a conservative economist who served as deputy assistant secretary for macroeconomic analysis in George W. Bush's administration, says the tax code is unfair to one particular group of Americans: parents. He says that parents invest thousands of dollars in raising members of society who eventually fund programs such as Social Security and Medicare, but retirees who chose not to raise... Read more

2010-05-14T06:05:11-04:00

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Happy belated Ascension Day

Last updated on: May 14, 2010 at 6:05 am By Gene Veith

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That was yesterday. Sorry I missed it. Ascension Day marks an important event, but it is odd the way Protestants interpret it in two opposite ways. For the Reformed, that Christ ascended into Heaven means that this is where His body is, so it can’t be on the altars of churches celebrating Holy Communion. But Lutherans say that the taking up of the man Jesus into the Godhead makes the doctrine of the Real Presence possible, since now this flesh... Read more

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