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2009-09-03T05:30:40-04:00

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The vocation of the unemployed?

Last updated on: September 3, 2009 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Rev. Christopher Jackson wrote me this e-mail: I was thinking recently that a helpful topic for you to take up in these days it the vocation of the unemployed. Specifically, I think it would be interesting to see what the Doctrine of Vocation says about unemployment and how the unemployed could even see unemployment as a special kind of vocation. First of all, “vocation,” as in the doctrine of, is NOT the same as “vocation” in today’s vernacular, as a... Read more

Vocation

2009-09-03T05:15:17-04:00

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Liberals turning on Obama

Last updated on: September 3, 2009 at 5:15 am By Gene Veith

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A number of liberals are becoming harshly critical of President Obama, despite their earlier support: The president won’t be able to ignore the simmering discontent within his own party much longer, the congressman [Alcee L. Hastings, angry that the president has not repealed “don’t ask, don’t tell” for gays in the military] said, not on this military policy or on a range of other issues on which the president appears to be charting a course that veers away from his... Read more

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2009-09-02T05:30:47-04:00

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Its publishers say the TNIV Bible translation was a mistake

Last updated on: September 2, 2009 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Ted Olsen at the Christianity Today site quotes an editor of Zondervan saying that the Today’s New International Version (TNIV)–the new edition of the NIV that eliminated the “sexist” language of the Bible, even when it meant distorting the Word of God into inaccurate and ungrammatical gibberish–was a series of “mistakes.” He says that a new NIV is in the works and that the TNIV will be discontinued. “In 1997, IBS announced that it was forgoing all plans to publish... Read more

Bible

2009-09-02T05:15:27-04:00

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Conservatives as the new peaceniks?

Last updated on: September 2, 2009 at 5:15 am By Gene Veith

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The conservative pundit George Will is calling for American troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan: Military historian Max Hastings says Kabul controls only about a third of the country — “control” is an elastic concept — and “‘our’ Afghans may prove no more viable than were ‘our’ Vietnamese, the Saigon regime.” Just 4,000 Marines are contesting control of Helmand province, which is the size of West Virginia. . . . Afghanistan’s $23 billion GDP is the size of Boise’s. Counterinsurgency... Read more

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2009-09-02T05:00:35-04:00

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Disney is buying Marvel Comics for $4 billion

Last updated on: September 2, 2009 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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I used to buy comic books for 12 cents! Who would have thought that Marvel Comics, publishers of Spiderman and other angst-ridden super-heroes, would now be worth $4,000,000,000. Of course what makes it so valuable are Marvel’s characters and concepts, which have been turned into lucrative movie and merchandising franchises. Still, I’m getting cognitive brand dissonance. Is Disney going to put white gloves and big eyelashes on the Incredible Hulk? Read more

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2009-09-01T05:30:28-04:00

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The 70th Anniversary of World War II

Last updated on: September 1, 2009 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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On September 1, 1939, a German battleship shelled Gdansk in Poland. Hitler’s attack on Poland, with the connivance of Stalin who took the Baltic Republics in exchange, was the beginning of World War II. It was 70 years ago. Do you think a war like that could ever happen again? Read more

History

2009-09-01T05:15:37-04:00

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Photograph of a molecule

Last updated on: September 1, 2009 at 5:15 am By Gene Veith

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Scientists for the first time have managed to take a photographic image of a single molecule: It may look like a piece of honeycomb, but this lattice-shaped image is the first ever close-up view of a single molecule. Scientists from IBM used an atomic force microscope (AFM) to reveal the chemical bonds within a molecule. ‘This is the first time that all the atoms in a molecule have been imaged,’ lead researcher Leo Gross said. The researchers focused on a... Read more

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2009-09-01T05:00:34-04:00

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The Christian origins of health care

Last updated on: September 1, 2009 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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Christianity Today reviews Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity by Gary Ferngren, a book that undercuts the new atheists’ claims about how bad Christianity has always been for civilization: When an epidemic struck in the ancient world, pagan city officials offered gifts to the gods but nothing for their suffering citizens. Even in healthy times, those who had no one to care for them, or whose care placed too great a burden on the family, were left out to... Read more

2009-08-31T05:30:19-04:00

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Glitch in ELCA/Methodist fellowship

Last updated on: August 31, 2009 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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As we have blogged about, the ELCA and United Methodists agreed to go into full communion, which includes allowing Lutheran congregations to call a Methodist pastor and Methodist congregations to call a Lutheran pastor. But the Methodists, for all of their liberalism, do not allow for sexually-active gay pastors, which now the ELCA does. So now the ecumenical pact is problematic, as far as the Methodists are concerned. From Methodists Say No to Lutheran Gay Clergy | Christianpost.com: Lutheran ministers... Read more

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2009-08-31T05:00:42-04:00

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A new portrait of Shakespeare?

Last updated on: August 31, 2009 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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The Washington Post Magazinepublished a fascinating article on the possibility that scholars have discovered a previously unknown portrait of William Shakespeare. My verdict, speaking as a 17th century English Lit. specialist, is that it is not. The homelier, bald pictures are much better attested by the bard’s contemporaries and people who knew him. This could be him when he was younger, at the time of his patronage with the Earl of Southhampton–in whose passed-down art collection this portrait was found–but... Read more

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