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2010-02-19T05:49:35-05:00

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So what does the story mean?

Last updated on: February 19, 2010 at 5:49 am By Gene Veith

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The story above is kind of Zen, but how would you apply it as an example of Christian wisdom? Read more

Literature

2010-02-19T05:30:45-05:00

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A conservative manifesto

Last updated on: February 19, 2010 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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A group of conservative leaders have issued a manifesto entitled The Mount Vernon Statement, which attempts to define what political conservatism is all about. Excerpts: A Constitutional conservatism unites all conservatives through the natural fusion provided by American principles. It reminds economic conservatives that morality is essential to limited government, social conservatives that unlimited government is a threat to moral self-government, and national security conservatives that energetic but responsible government is the key to America’s safety and leadership role in the... Read more

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Mount Vernon Statement

2010-02-18T06:00:15-05:00

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An Ecumenical Catechism

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

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Is this possible? A Vatican official has floated the idea of a shared “ecumenical catechism” as one of the potential fruits of 40 years of dialogue among Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and members of the Reformed churches. “We have affirmed our common foundation in Jesus Christ and the Holy Trinity as expressed in our common creed and in the doctrine of the first ecumenical councils,” Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, told representatives of... Read more

Luther's Small Catechism

2010-02-18T05:30:33-05:00

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Forensic archaeology on King Tut

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

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The Egyptians believed their pharoahs were gods. As such, they could not marry mere mortals but had to marry others of divine blood within their own families. Even Akhenaten, who promoted a kind of monotheism that taught that the Sun was the only god, followed this custom. New forensic studies of his son King Tutankhamun’s mummified body showed that for all the glamor and beauty reflected in that golden mask and all of his treasures that he is known for,... Read more

2010-02-18T05:00:16-05:00

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Another local girl in the news

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

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This little part of Virginia where we live is turning out a crop of notable 16-year-olds. First Maddy Curtis made “American Idol” and now Ashley Caldwell from just down the other side of the road is in the Winter Olympics: It’s hard to imagine that anyone enjoyed Friday night’s Opening Ceremony as much as Ashley Caldwell. In fact, it’s hard to imagine anyone enjoying much of anything as much as Caldwell, the youngest American on the U.S. team and a... Read more

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Winter Olympics

2010-02-17T06:00:04-05:00

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Repent

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

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You are dust. And to dust you shall return. Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing you have made and forgive the sins of all who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of you, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and... Read more

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"Ash Wednesday"

2010-02-17T05:45:19-05:00

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Ash Wednesday by T. S. Eliot

Last updated on: February 17, 2010 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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T. S. Eliot was one of the most important founders of the modernist movement in literature, a cutting-edge poet of the first order. And yet he was converted to Christianity. He also began calling himself a conservative and a classicist. But he still wrote cutting-edge poems of the first order. Among them is “Ash Wednesday,” which he wrote not too long after his baptism. Here he writes about the Word of God, Christ as the still point of the whirling... Read more

2010-02-17T05:00:13-05:00

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The emergent church meets the “Spirituality of the Cross”

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

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I am very grateful to Dan, who had said that he was influenced by my book Spirituality of the Cross and, in answer to Paul McCain’s query, explained why. I am posting it here, even though it’s long, because you might have missed it. I offer it to you not because of the kind things he said about my book but because Dan gives some trenchant critiques, born of experience, to the emerging church and other cutting edge movements in... Read more

Spirituality of the Cross

2010-02-16T06:00:15-05:00

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Churches structured like businesses

Last updated on: February 16, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Walter Russell Mead at the American Interest invokes Luther’s reforms and claims that the church today needs another structural reformation: The Christian churches in the United States are in trouble for all the usual reasons — human sinfulness and selfishness, the temptations of life in an affluent society, doctrinal and moral controversies and uncertainties and on and on and on — but also and to a surprisingly large degree they are in trouble because they are trying to address the... Read more

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church structures

2010-02-16T05:57:16-05:00

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Fat Tuesday

Last updated on: February 16, 2010 at 5:57 am By Gene Veith

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Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. As a result, this is traditionally the day known as Fat Tuesday, during which people indulged in whatever they were going to give up for Lent. That devolved into the decadent hedonism associated with carnival or Mardi Gras, though it doesn’t need to. I will mark the day by NOT exercising and NOT watching what I eat, in preparation for the healthy regimen I am planning that will start the next day.... Read more

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