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2009-07-27T06:00:45-04:00

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Race vs. Class

Last updated on: July 27, 2009 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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As more and more facts come out about the incident between a police officer and Harvard professor Henry Gates, assessing the significance of what happened becomes more and more complicated. What do you think of this take from Kansas City Star columnist Grant Martin? Who yells at a police officer? In my experience only two types of people yell at police officers: drunken people and those who are “privileged”. By privileged I mean people who feel they are “above” the... Read more

Culture

2009-07-24T05:45:54-04:00

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World Christianity

Last updated on: July 24, 2009 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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Matthew Kratz at Sola Fide posts some factoids from Mark Noll’s new book, The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith: This past Sunday it is possible that more Christian believers attended church in China than in all of so-called “Christian Europe.” Yet in 1970 there were no legally functioning churches in all of China; only in 1971 did the communist regime allow for one Protestant and one Roman Catholic Church to hold public worship services,... Read more

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International

2009-07-24T05:30:11-04:00

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The Russian solution to religion in schools

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

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How Russia is trying to rebuild a moral and religious infrastructure while honoring the principle of free choice, sort of. The Associated Press: Russian pupils to have choice of religion, ethics: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced a pilot project Tuesday that will require schoolchildren to take classes in religion or secular ethics. The proposal is part of a Kremlin effort to teach young Russians morals in the wake of a turbulent period of uncertainty following the collapse of the officially... Read more

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International

2009-07-24T05:00:12-04:00

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Teachers who don’t like the NEA

Last updated on: July 24, 2009 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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The blog 1517 linked to my post on the National Education Association and its vote to push for gay marriage. That not all teachers agree with the political activity of their union came out in our discussion, but the 1517 post provoked a comment from Noel that contains some information worth knowing: I am a teacher in a public school as are many of my friends and may I say that the NEA does NOT represent me or many of... Read more

Education

Vocation

2009-07-23T05:40:55-04:00

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Aging athletes–and others?–should not retire

Last updated on: July 23, 2009 at 5:40 am By Gene Veith

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So argues sportswriterSally Jenkins , thinking of Tom Watson and Lance Armstrong and defending Bret Favre’s desire to keep coming out of retirement: Athletes such as Favre have it right. Studies show that retirement is no good for you. Even if you hate the job you go to every day, sudden abrupt inactivity is a bad idea. A working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research entitled “The Effects of Retirement on Physical and Mental Health Outcomes” studied people... Read more

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Vocation

2009-07-23T05:34:06-04:00

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Mandatory health insurance

Last updated on: July 23, 2009 at 5:34 am By Gene Veith

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In the health care debate, lawmakers from every party have apparently reached consensus on at least one approach: require all Americans to have health insurance. Many of the uninsured are young and healthy adults who opt out of employer coverage and otherwise do without. If they have to get insurance, so the reasoning goes, that would add a population to the pool that doesn’t go to the doctor much, thus bringing down insurance costs for everyone. People who couldn’t afford... Read more

2009-07-22T06:00:35-04:00

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Jimmy Carter is no longer a Baptist?

Last updated on: July 22, 2009 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Former President Jimmy Carter has written an op-ed piece in which he announces that he has severed his ties with the Southern Baptist convention due to that church-body’s teaching that women should not be pastors and should be submissive to their husbands. But the thing is, as Joe Carter (no relation) reports, the ex-president took this step eight years ago. And he still attends the same Baptist church in Plains, Georgia, where he serves as a deacon and teaches Sunday... Read more

Church

Politics

2009-07-22T05:24:40-04:00

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Teachers’ union votes for gay marriage, abortion

Last updated on: July 22, 2009 at 5:24 am By Gene Veith

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The National Education Association, the country’s major teachers’ union, had more than education on its mind at its annual convention: The National Education Association has thrown its full support behind homosexual “marriage.” The NEA recently held its annual convention in San Diego, California, where members voted on two issues of importance to those involved in the culture war. One of those issues was whether the union would support same-gender marriage. According to Jeralee Smith, co-founder of the Conservative Educators... Read more

Education

2009-07-22T05:00:57-04:00

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A Marxist takes on the new atheists

Last updated on: July 22, 2009 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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Terry Eagleton is a Marxist literary critic who lambastes the new atheists. He has written a book on the subject, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate. Here is an interesting conversation with him in the atheist publication New Humanist, which begins with a sampling of Eagleton’s critiques: Reading the first sentence of Terry Eagleton’s review of The God Delusion in the October 2006 edition of the London Review of Books was not unlike watching a gunfighter kicking... Read more

Apologetics

2009-07-21T06:00:31-04:00

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Praise songs as sacraments and as mantras

Last updated on: July 21, 2009 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Several years ago, there was a fascinating discussion of the use of “praise songs” in worship at Mere Comments, the blog of Touchstone Magazine that I was just alerted to. Timothy Striplin, a young church musicians, had this to say: Seizing on the idea that “He inhabits the praise of His people,” those who advocate this style of worship attempt to compensate for the loss of the catholic center of worship by emphasizing above all else an experience of the... Read more

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