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2009-11-09T06:00:00-05:00

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Our squirrelly Sunday

Last updated on: November 9, 2009 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Sunday was one of the oddest days I have ever known. It was our grandson’s third birthday, so it all had a festive air, but it was a day of exceedingly strange happenings. We went off to church. But it turns out, our little town was holding a 5K run. On Sunday morning! That’s bad enough, scheduling such a thing to compete with church services. But to make it worse, the police had blocked off all of the main streets.... Read more

2009-11-09T05:30:11-05:00

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20th anniversary of the collapse of Communism

Last updated on: November 9, 2009 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Twenty years ago today, the Berlin Wall–the icon of the “Iron Curtain” that separated nations under Communist rule from the free West–was torn down by exuberant citizens from both sides. It thus is a convenient date to celebrate the fall of Communism. The totalitarian, oppressive, murderous system, protected by an extensive secret police and a panoply of nuclear weapons, came tumbling down when its citizens saw through the propaganda, said “no” to its claims, and chose freedom. That was surely... Read more

2009-11-09T05:28:50-05:00

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The idealism that kills

Last updated on: November 9, 2009 at 5:28 am By Gene Veith

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Paul Hollander is a Harvard scholar on Eastern Europe and Russia and is himself a refugee from communism, having escaped from Hungary during the Soviet suppression of that country’s freedom movement. He discusses why we today still vilify the Nazis while giving the communists more of a break. The different moral responses to Nazism and communism in the West can be interpreted as a result of the perception of communist atrocities as byproducts of noble intentions that were hard to... Read more

2009-11-09T05:00:30-05:00

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Unintended consequences of health care reform bill

Last updated on: November 9, 2009 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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The House passed the Health Care reform bill, but with an anti-abortion amendment that would prevent the public option or insurance companies that get federal subsidies from paying for abortions. Now the bill goes to the Senate, which can also make changes, whereupon wheeling and dealing will take place to reconcile the bills. Harvard economist Martin Feldstein explains that the health care bill may well do the opposite of what it was intended to do, sending insurance costs soaring while... Read more

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2009-11-06T05:20:28-05:00

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Worship going to the dogs

Last updated on: November 6, 2009 at 5:20 am By Gene Veith

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The latest in church growth worship styles: dog-centric services: When the Rev. Tom Eggebeen took over as interim pastor at Covenant Presbyterian Church three years ago, he looked around and knew it needed a jump start. Most of his worshippers, though devoted, were in their 60s, attendance had bottomed out and the once-vibrant church was fading as a community touchstone in its bustling neighborhood. So Eggebeen came up with a hair-raising idea: He would turn God's house into a doghouse... Read more

2009-11-06T05:19:31-05:00

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House Health Care bill puts pro-death provisions back in

Last updated on: November 6, 2009 at 5:19 am By Gene Veith

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The latest version of the Health Care reform bill in the House of Representatives would use taxpayers’ money to pay for abortions: The Pelosi health-care bill. . .authorizes the public plan to cover all elective abortions — and it will certainly do so. Can anyone imagine the Obama administration’s HHS deciding otherwise? And people receiving federal subsidies would be able to use them to purchase private insurance plans covering abortion. Which is to say that federal funds will, in a... Read more

2009-11-06T05:12:18-05:00

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Massacre at Fort Hood

Last updated on: November 6, 2009 at 5:12 am By Gene Veith

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A gunman who was an army officer and a medical doctor opened fire at Ft. Hood in Texas, killing 12 and wounding 30, by last count. The killer was eventually shot to death. NBC News’ Pete Williams reported that U.S. officials identified the gunman as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who had been promoted to major in May. A defense official told NBC News that Hasan arrived at Fort Hood in July for his first assignment after completing... Read more

2009-11-06T05:00:13-05:00

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The winners

Last updated on: November 6, 2009 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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The Yankees won the World Series, so that means that commenters Pete and Sam, who predicted that outcome, are also winners. (Too bad all they get for that is honor.) Read more

2009-11-05T06:00:47-05:00

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That God died

Last updated on: November 5, 2009 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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I had assumed that yesterday’s post about Crucifixion, in which I talked about how God died, would attract objections. This was actually a big controversy during the Reformation, with Zwinglians in particular denying that God could be said to have died on the Cross. The human nature of Christ died, of course, but divinity–conceived in the Aristotelian way as an impassive, unchanging Being–could not be said to have died. The Lutherans responded with their unique Christology, which teaches the communication... Read more

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2009-11-05T05:51:39-05:00

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Conservatives vs. Republicans

Last updated on: November 5, 2009 at 5:51 am By Gene Veith

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Politico.com reports that conservatives are gearing up to launch primary challenges against a dozen moderate or liberal incumbent Republicans in next year’s House and Senate elections: In what could be a nightmare scenario for Republican Party officials, conservative activists are gearing up to challenge leading GOP candidates in more than a dozen key House and Senate races in 2010. Conservatives and tea party activists had already set their sights on some of the GOP’s top Senate recruits — a list... Read more

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