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2009-11-02T05:45:27-05:00

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Swine flu makes churches feel unclean

Last updated on: November 2, 2009 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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Politics Daily reports on Swine Flu panic in churches: Christians not only gather together for worship at least weekly, but they also dip their fingers in common fonts of holy water, pass baskets up and down the pews to collect donations, exchange handshakes and hugs at the sign of peace, and — in varying formats — share bread and wine at communion, sometimes drinking from a single chalice or picking from a loaf of bread. Those churches in which a... Read more

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2009-11-02T05:28:19-05:00

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The most powerful writer since Julius Caesar

Last updated on: November 2, 2009 at 5:28 am By Gene Veith

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More embarrassing, unbecoming, grovelling sycophancy from America’s artists and intellectuals when it comes to Barack Obama. Rocco Landesman, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, is lauding our president’s literary gifts, saying he is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar: This is the first president that actually writes his own books since Teddy Roosevelt and arguably the first to write them really well since Lincoln. If you accept the premise, and I do, that the United States is... Read more

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2009-10-30T06:00:16-04:00

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Special Halloween/Reformation Day/All Saints Edition

Last updated on: October 30, 2009 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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This weekend is lots of holidays, sacred and profane, overlapping and one after another. So we will contemplate them all. Read more

2009-10-30T05:58:34-04:00

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Contemporary Reformation

Last updated on: October 30, 2009 at 5:58 am By Gene Veith

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If the Church were to go through another Reformation today, what do you think needs reforming? What are the issues today? Read more

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2009-10-30T05:45:46-04:00

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Anti-Halloween tracts that out Halloween Halloween

Last updated on: October 30, 2009 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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Jack Chick is that anti-Catholic comic book artist who also puts out evangelistic tracts, including ones that some Christians give out as Halloween treats. You’ve got to read Joe Carter’s account of these things, which includes actual horrific panels for the little kiddies, with the exquisite title Trick or Tract: Satan, Jack Chick, and Other Halloween Horrors. Read more

2009-10-30T05:30:34-04:00

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The meaning of monsters

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

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Stephen Asma is a philosophy professor writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education on Monsters and the Moral Imagination. Here is some of his theory: The uses of monsters vary widely. In our liberal culture, we dramatize the rage of the monstrous creature—and Frankenstein's is a good example—then scold ourselves and our "intolerant society" for alienating the outcast in the first place. The liberal lesson of monsters is one of tolerance: We must overcome our innate scapegoating, our xenophobic tendencies.... Read more

2009-10-30T05:00:00-04:00

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For all the saints in warfare, for all the saints in rest

Last updated on: October 30, 2009 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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We recently discussed the need for unity in the Church. But isn’t there already the only unity in the Church that really matters? All who believe and have been baptized in Christ are part of His Body, the Holy Christian Church. Isn’t it like the Kingdom of God, which is not something we have to bring on–though we pray for it to come–but already exists, since He already reigns, on Earth and in Heaven? As for an external, temporal, institutional... Read more

Communion of the Saints

2009-10-29T06:00:41-04:00

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What’s so wrong with America?

Last updated on: October 29, 2009 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Yesterday we discussed what’s so great about America, covering the gamut of national greatness from Americans’ strong professions of faith to the superiority of American ketchup. Now, following those great American traditions of giving everyone equal time and of welcoming patriotic self-criticism, let us discuss what is wrong about America. No bigoted anti-Americanism from our international readers, please, just helpful suggestions for what we need to improve, if we only could. As for American cultural critics, I have noticed that... Read more

2009-10-29T05:45:05-04:00

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If you commit a crime, don’t hate

Last updated on: October 29, 2009 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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The hate crime law has been expanded: President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed and celebrated hate crime legislation that extends protection to people based on sexual orientation, sealing a long-fought victory to gay advocates. The president spoke of a nation becoming a place where "we're all free to live and love as we see fit." The new law expands federal hate crimes to include those committed against people because of gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability. It also loosens... Read more

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2009-10-29T05:30:22-04:00

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The marine who resigned over Afghanistan

Last updated on: October 29, 2009 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Former Marine captain and Iraq war veteran Michael Hoh took a job in the foreign service as a diplomat serving in Afghanistan. He resigned, saying that we don’t really know what we are doing there and that the sacrifices are not worth it. Here is the news story. But now read this copy, which our own FWS has found a link to, of his actual letter. The details and the force of his statement come out more powerfully. He strikes... Read more

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