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2009-12-28T06:00:26-05:00

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Holy Innocents Day

Last updated on: December 28, 2009 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Today, December 28, is Holy Innocents Day, the commemoration of the death of those children under two years old slaughtered by King Herod in his vain attempt to slay the Christ child. Child sacrifice, as when parents would kill their infants as a sacrifice to Moloch, is a sign in the Bible of the most demonic kind of idolatry. So it is today in its new manifestations of abortion, the harvest of embryos, and the casualties of reproductive engineering. No... Read more

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2009-12-28T05:33:39-05:00

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Security breakdown with Detroit bomber

Last updated on: December 28, 2009 at 5:33 am By Gene Veith

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So we now know that the Nigerian who tried to blow up an airliner as it was coming in to Detroit was on the terrorism watch list. Nevertheless, he obtained a visa to come to America and was allowed onto the aircraft. He also was able to bring explosives through security and take them aboard. (Go here for details.) How many security breaches did he pull off? Now airports are imposing new security measures–such as not allowing passengers to go... Read more

2009-12-28T05:15:19-05:00

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How common is religious freedom?

Last updated on: December 28, 2009 at 5:15 am By Gene Veith

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Not very. The Christian Telegraph reports on a Pew Forum study that found that 70% of the world’s population is subject to restrictions on their religion. UPDATE: For the full report, go here. Read more

2009-12-28T05:00:08-05:00

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The context of Climategate

Last updated on: December 28, 2009 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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Defenders of the climate scientists whose embarrassing e-mails have cast doubt on their work are saying that the messages are taken out of context. Well, Steven F. Hayward supplies the context in a fascinating article on the whole fiasco and what it means. Basically, the principles were the researchers responsible for the famous “hockey stick” graph that shows global temperatures as being essentially flat for the last millennium, then shooting up in the 1990s. But this model ignores the Medieval... Read more

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2009-12-25T00:47:11-05:00

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Merry Christmas!

Last updated on: December 25, 2009 at 12:47 am By Gene Veith

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Today we will have no political arguments, theological debates, cultural lamentations, snide remarks, or forensic reconstructions. Just reveling in the fact that Christ the Savior is born. So Christmas greetings to all of you readers. I appreciate that we have so many different opinions. That makes our discussions far more interesting than they would be otherwise. And yet I sense a kinship that we have anyway, a common interest in some of the same things and in most cases a... Read more

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2009-12-24T06:00:05-05:00

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Christmas Eve is Christmas

Last updated on: December 24, 2009 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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In the ancient world, the end of the day was when the sun went down. The night time counted as the beginning of the next day. This is the Biblical reckoning: “The evening and the morning were the first day.” To this day, Jews begin celebrating the Sabbath as soon as the sun goes down on Friday night. This means that Christmas begins with Christmas Eve. So if your custom is to open presents on Christmas Eve, as long as... Read more

2009-12-24T05:48:49-05:00

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The hometown of Jesus

Last updated on: December 24, 2009 at 5:48 am By Gene Veith

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Archaeologists have excavated a house in Nazareth from the time of Jesus. The story about it gives details about the tiny village in which Jesus grew up: Days before Christmas, archeologists on Monday unveiled what they said were the remains of the first dwelling in Nazareth that can be dated back to the time of Jesus — a find that could shed new light on what the hamlet was like during the period the New Testament says Jesus lived there... Read more

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2009-12-24T05:30:38-05:00

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Santa accused of promoting obesity

Last updated on: December 24, 2009 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Santa is a bad role model for children and needs to lose weight, according to a wide-spread sentiment that has even reached the professional Santa community. A sample: As the obesity epidemic has swollen, some public health experts have cast an increasingly critical eye on Santa's sprawl. Two years ago, acting Surgeon General Steven K. Galson said Santa's corpulence was setting a bad example. His remarks prompted howls of protest, with more than a few people accusing Galson of being... Read more

2009-12-24T05:15:52-05:00

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Angels and Vocation

Last updated on: December 24, 2009 at 5:15 am By Gene Veith

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Anthony Carter quotes a book quoting Luther on what Mary was doing when the angel appeared to her (Luke 1:26-33): Quite possibly Mary was doing the housework when the angel Gabriel came to her. Angels prefer to come to people as they are fulfilling their calling and discharging their office. The angel appeared to the shepherds as they were watching their flocks, to Gideon as he was threshing the grain, to Samson’s mother as she sat in the field. Possibly,... Read more

2009-12-23T06:00:47-05:00

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Garrison Keillor claims Christmas for Christians

Last updated on: December 23, 2009 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Lake Woebegone sage Garrison Keillor has stirred things up with a column entitled Nonbelievers, please leave Christmas alone. An excerpt: You can blame Ralph Waldo Emerson for the brazen foolishness of the elite. He preached here at the First Church of Cambridge, a Unitarian outfit (where I discovered that "Silent Night" has been cleverly rewritten to make it more about silence and night and not so much about God), and Emerson tossed off little bon mots that have been leading... Read more

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