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2010-05-14T06:00:27-04:00

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The blood of Russians washed away their sins

Last updated on: May 14, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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So what is orthodox about this teaching from an Orthodox patriarch? Church debate in Russia continues to simmer over the role of dictator Josef Stalin, but Patriarch Kirill I of the Russian Orthodox Church has said in a Moscow sermon that the Second World War was redemptive for his country, while making no mention of the former Soviet ruler's name in his address. “The church does not look at the war as historians or politicians do,” said Kirill on 9... Read more

2010-05-14T05:07:51-04:00

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The truth about GM’s payback

Last updated on: May 14, 2010 at 5:07 am By Gene Veith

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Have you seen the ads in which General Motors says that they paid back the government bailout money? Well, George Will says that this is not exactly correct: A television commercial featuring CEO Ed Whitacre demonstrates the institutional murkiness and intellectual dishonesty that result when the line between public and private sectors disappears. In the commercial, Whitacre says GM has “repaid our government loan in full.” Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) noted that GM used government funds to pay back the... Read more

2010-05-14T05:00:18-04:00

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Beware of Greeks receiving gifts

Last updated on: May 14, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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More from George Will on the debacle in Greece: Greece, whose gross domestic product is below that of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, is “too big to fail,” meaning too inconveniently connected to too many big banks. Bailing out Greece really rescues European banks that improvidently bought Greek bonds. Visit http://tinyurl.com/2dzaul2 for a useful New York Times graphic illustrating how European nations borrow from one another. For example, Italy owes France French banks $511 billion, a sum nearly equal to... Read more

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2010-05-13T06:00:31-04:00

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Classical Lutheran Education

Last updated on: May 13, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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The Consortium for Classical and Lutheran Education celebrates its tenth anniversary with its tenth annual conference in Concordia, Missouri, June 22-24. In addition to all kinds of workshops on curriculum, teaching, and catechesis, the plenary speaker will be Rev. Thomas Korcok of the Lutheran Church of Canada. He has done some remarkable research for his doctorate on classical education in the Lutheran tradition. I’ve seen it. He shows how the classical liberal arts were key to Luther’s whole educational project,... Read more

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2010-05-13T05:30:42-04:00

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Satellite churches with onscreen pastors

Last updated on: May 13, 2010 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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The latest in megachurch trends: Doing without a pastor, except on streaming big screen video: A new church was born Sunday morning, but, like an increasing number of congregations, it has no preaching pastor. In what has become one of the most popular church growth methods across the country, a large white screen unfurled in front of the stage with the preacher’s image projected on it, preempting the live sermon and the pastor’s physical presence. Welcome to the satellite church,... Read more

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2010-05-13T05:00:34-04:00

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Bailing out Europe

Last updated on: May 13, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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The American share of the bailout of Europe, due to our involvement in the International Monetary Fund, may be as much as $54 billion. This will be in the form of loans that might get paid back, but still. . . . See US Exposure to EU Bailout Is Big But Risk Is Limited – CNBC. Read more

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2010-05-12T06:00:34-04:00

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Religions are not all the same

Last updated on: May 12, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Religion scholar Stephen Prothero on the current truism that all religions are essentially the same, are paths to the same destination, etc., etc.: No one argues that different economic systems or political regimes are one and the same. Capitalism and socialism are so self-evidently at odds that their differences hardly bear mentioning. The same goes for democracy and monarchy. Yet scholars continue to claim that religious rivals such as Hinduism and Islam, Judaism and Christianity are, by some miracle of... Read more

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2010-05-12T05:30:20-04:00

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Europe abandoning what America is embracing

Last updated on: May 12, 2010 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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From Europe rewrites its rule book in creating fund to contain financial crisis: The massive emergency fund assembled to defend the value of the euro is backed by a political gamble with an uncertain outcome: that European governments will rewrite a post-World War II social contract that has been generous to workers and retirees but has become increasingly unaffordable for an aging population. So Europe is drawing back from the social democratic welfare state JUST AS the United States is... Read more

2010-05-12T05:00:22-04:00

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Conservatives take over in Britain

Last updated on: May 12, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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David Cameron is Britain’s new prime minister. This was the result of a coalition between the Conservative party and the middle-of-the-road Liberal Democrats. The Labour party is out of power for the first time in 13 years. This is the first coalition government in Britain since Winston Churchill’s during World War II. As we see the parliamentary system at work–in which the leader of the leading party in the legislature becomes Prime Minister–do you see some advantages over the American... Read more

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2010-05-11T06:00:37-04:00

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Elena Kagan nominated to Supreme Court

Last updated on: May 11, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Well, President Obama has nominated his second Supreme Court justice, Elena Kagan. She has never been a judge before–is that an asset or a liability? Rather, she is an academic, the former dean of Harvard Law–is that an asset or a liability? She has also been a government official and presidential advisor, currently serving as the Solicitor General–is that an asset or a liability? As Dean, she refused to allow military recruiters at the law school, due to the military’s... Read more

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