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2009-12-18T09:51:40-05:00

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So how is “Avatar”?

Last updated on: December 18, 2009 at 9:51 am By Gene Veith

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Avatar opens today, the 3-D science fiction epic by James Cameron that some say will change filmmaking forever. I plan on seeing it when I can. In the meantime, if any of you see it this weekend, please tell us how it is. Specifically, how are the new high-tech 3-dimension effects? Will it change filmmaking forever? Do they already make you want to stop watching your high-definition television set that you thought was so cool until you watched the movie,... Read more

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2009-12-18T06:00:03-05:00

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Why Christmas is on December 25

Last updated on: December 18, 2009 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Biblical Archaeology Review has a good scholarly discussion of why Christmas is celebrated on December 25. And it is evidently NOT because it was superimposed on a pagan holiday: The most loudly touted theory about the origins of the Christmas date(s) is that it was borrowed from pagan celebrations. The Romans had their mid-winter Saturnalia festival in late December; barbarian peoples of northern and western Europe kept holidays at similar times. To top it off, in 274 C.E., the Roman... Read more

2009-12-18T05:31:51-05:00

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And now, tea parties of the left

Last updated on: December 18, 2009 at 5:31 am By Gene Veith

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From Dana Milbank, who covers politics for the Washington Post: Tea parties — they aren't just for conservatives anymore. Liberals are turning against President Obama with an energy that until now has been reserved for Fox News viewers who wear tri-corner hats and wave yellow "Don't Tread on Me" flags: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), in a news conference Wednesday, declares that she won't ask House members to support Obama's Afghanistan troop increase in a January vote. "The president's going... Read more

2009-12-18T05:07:51-05:00

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Coburn’s parliamentary maneuver

Last updated on: December 18, 2009 at 5:07 am By Gene Veith

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More local color from Dana Milbank: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) . . .went to the Senate floor just before noon Wednesday and asked Democrats to agree to an amendment to the health-care bill that "would certify that every member of the Senate has read the bill and understands it before they vote on the bill." Understands it? Would there be a quiz? Would the exam be scored by the Congressional Budget Office? When Democrats understandably rejected this idea, Coburn responded... Read more

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2009-12-17T06:00:56-05:00

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Person of the Year

Last updated on: December 17, 2009 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2009 is Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke. You may be wondering, “huh?” But at least it isn’t Barack Obama for the umpteenth time. Or an abstract non-person, such as the Computer. Usually, we play this game before the announcement and we can see if anyone guesses who wins it, but the announcement keeps getting earlier every year, it seems like. But we can easily second guess this choice. Who do YOU... Read more

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2009-12-17T05:45:11-05:00

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Climate nihilism

Last updated on: December 17, 2009 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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Anne Applebaum finds that the scare tactics of the climate alarmists have reached her children: There is no nihilism like the nihilism of a 9-year-old. "Why should I bother," one of them recently demanded of me, when he was presented with the usual arguments in favor of doing homework: "By the time I'm grown up, the polar ice caps will have melted and everyone will have drowned." Watching the news from Copenhagen last weekend, it wasn't hard to understand where... Read more

2009-12-17T05:00:28-05:00

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Oral Roberts, mainline Protestant

Last updated on: December 17, 2009 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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The blog GetReligion, which critiques media coverage of religion, points out that most obituaries of Oral Roberts are missing the point. First, as Mollie Hemingway points out, he was NOT the patriarch of the prosperity gospel. Journalists are confusing him with fellow-Tulsan Kenneth Hagin. In fact, Roberts was associated with critics of that movement. Also, Roberts, despite his roots in backwoods Pentecostalism, was a member of the mainline United Methodist Church. His main significance, argues Terry Mattingly, is that he... Read more

2009-12-16T06:00:49-05:00

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Conservation & conservatism

Last updated on: December 16, 2009 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Commenters on yesterday’s post about Environmentalism as the new socialism cited the need to articulate a conservative alternative to the radical environmentalists’ stance towards nature. We should recall that conservatives were among the first to advocate what used to be called “conservation.” Conservatives also are the ones who want to “conserve” our heritage, so surely that should include our natural heritage. So what should conservatives do to reclaim this issue and in a way preferable to what the left is... Read more

2009-12-16T05:45:51-05:00

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Oral Roberts dies

Last updated on: December 16, 2009 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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Oral Roberts Dies At Age 91. I grew up in Oklahoma, about an hour from Tulsa, and I remember as a child watching his healing services on TV, things like this: Even then I was both weirded out and fascinated. Still am, though in a Flannery O’Connor kind of way. What are we to make of this? Here is what I think: First, the little boy showed no expression of surprise or wonder or joy at being able to walk... Read more

2009-12-16T05:30:08-05:00

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The role of Satan in the Christian’s life

Last updated on: December 16, 2009 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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More from Grace Upon Grace: Spirituality for Today by John W. Kleinig on tentatio: Strangely, we discover the mysterious power of God’s Word, the hidden work of the Holy Spirit in and through the Word most clearly in temptation. Thus Luther says, ‘Thirdly, there is tentatio [temptation, trial], Anfechtung [attack]. This is the touchstone which teaches you not only to know and understand, but also to experience how right, how true, how sweet, how lovely, how mighty, how comforting God’s... Read more

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