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2010-03-17T05:15:14-04:00

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I’m on Issues, Etc.

Last updated on: March 17, 2010 at 5:15 am By Gene Veith

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I’m doing a series of interviews with Todd Wilkens on Issues, Etc. based on my book Spirituality of the Cross Revised Edition. Go here and then to “listen” to find the interview archived. Read more

Spirituality of the Cross

2010-03-17T05:00:30-04:00

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The Falerian Schoolmaster

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

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My daughter Joanna, a Latin teacher, told me a great story from Livy. It can give us a new word for a teacher who harms students or uses them for his own ends. This account is from Plutarch’s version. Camillus is the noble general of the Roman Republic who is besieging the Falerii: Now, it so happened that in Falerii there was a school-master who had under his charge a large number of boys, and after their lessons were finished... Read more

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2010-03-16T05:44:32-04:00

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do-nothing Republicans vs. pro-life Democrats

Last updated on: March 16, 2010 at 5:44 am By Gene Veith

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Pro-life activist Marjorie Dannenfelser serves notice on the Republican party, which increasingly seems to be trying to play down the abortion issue. In the meantime, the lawmakers who are stepping up to fight abortion are pro-life Democrats such as Rep. Bart Stupak, who is blocking the health care bill unless it forbids funding for abortion. She points out that pro-lifers have been an important part of the Republican base, but they are being taken for granted. She cites statistics that... Read more

2010-03-16T05:30:52-04:00

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China throws its weight around

Last updated on: March 16, 2010 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Still-communist China, which has emerged from the global financial meltdown stronger than ever as the USA and other countries depend on its money, is asserting itself and feeling its power: China’s government has embraced an increasingly anti-Western tone in recent months and is adopting policies across a wide spectrum that reflect a heightened fear of foreign influence. The shift has accelerated as China has emerged stronger from the global financial meltdown, with a world-beating economic expansion rate and a growing... Read more

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2010-03-16T05:00:07-04:00

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Organ harvest in ER

Last updated on: March 16, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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In a bid to get more organs to transplant, the federal government is funding a program to remove organs in emergency rooms as soon as the heart stops beating. Nevermind about brain death. The sooner hearts, lungs, and livers are removed, the better they work, so it’s good to harvest them while the body is still warm. This, however, raises ethical concerns: In the hope of expanding a controversial form of organ donation into emergency rooms around the United States,... Read more

2010-03-15T06:00:14-04:00

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The Prodigal Father

Last updated on: March 15, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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How many times have you read the story of the Prodigal Son? How many sermons have you heard about it? Do you think you have seen everything there is to see in that parable? Well, check out what Pastor Douthwaite did with this text in his sermon to our congregation yesterday. Go here. I was struck with the vividness with which he described the family situation with the two sons (including that added speculative detail at the very end of... Read more

2010-03-15T05:40:14-04:00

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Would universal health care lower the abortion rate?

Last updated on: March 15, 2010 at 5:40 am By Gene Veith

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Catholic journalist T. J. Reid makes a challenging connection for us pro-lifers: Increasing health-care coverage is one of the most powerful tools for reducing the number of abortions — a fact proved by years of experience in other industrialized nations. All the other advanced, free-market democracies provide health-care coverage for everybody. And all of them have lower rates of abortion than does the United States. This is not a coincidence. There’s a direct connection between greater health coverage and lower... Read more

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2010-03-15T05:00:05-04:00

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How to teach science classically

Last updated on: March 15, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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Last week’s post about teaching mathematics classically provoked some excellent comments. Here is one of mine, responding to the question of why the liberal arts include astronomy and not physics, biology, chemistery, etc.: Great, helpful, and important comments! Classical educators–here are some splendid ideas. Run with them. Webmonk and Peter, chemistry, physics, biology, etc., WERE taught in classical schools and universities (such as Oxford and Cambridge). They are not liberal arts–which deal with processes and skills–but they come under the... Read more

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2010-03-12T06:00:48-05:00

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The mathematical part of classical education

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

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Those who are bringing back classical education as an alternative to the deadends evident in John Dewey’s progressive education are familiar with the trivium: grammar, logic, and rhetoric, the three liberal arts that lead to a mastery of language. The other four liberal arts, the quadrivium, though, gets short shrift: arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. Many people think that the liberal arts is just another word for the humanities, forgetting the quadrivium completely. Dorothy L. Sayers, whose essay “On the... Read more

2010-03-12T05:49:25-05:00

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Jihad Jane

Last updated on: March 12, 2010 at 5:49 am By Gene Veith

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Colleen LaRose is a white, middle-class suburbanite from Pennsylvania. She became a terrorist recruiter known on the Internet as Jihad Jane. She was arrested for her involvement in a plot to kill the Swedish cartoonist whose caricature of Mohammed inflamed the Islamic world. from BBC News – Profile: ‘Jihad Jane’ from Main Street: The blonde middle-aged woman apparently raised no concerns with her boyfriend or her neighbours on Main Street, Pennsburg, near Philadelphia. But online she had allegedly agreed to... Read more

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