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2009-06-12T06:00:23-04:00

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Lars Walker’s new novel

Last updated on: June 12, 2009 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Lars Walker, a frequent commenter on this blog, is a novelist of note. He is also a Christian and a Lutheran. His faith comes out loud and clear in his fiction, but, unlike many “Christian novelists,” he is not preachy or sappy or didactic. With Lars, the Christian themes don’t substitute for a good story; rather, they contribute to the good story. Lars specializes in historical fantasy. He is especially interested in Vikings, writing about the ancient Norse seafarers and... Read more

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2009-06-12T05:42:39-04:00

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Have a Nice(an) Day

Last updated on: June 12, 2009 at 5:42 am By Gene Veith

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Today, June 12, is the anniversary of the Council of Nicea, held in 325 A.D. to clarify that Jesus Christ was and is both true God and true Man. Out of that council came The Nicene Creed: I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of... Read more

2009-06-12T05:15:11-04:00

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Our postmodernist government

Last updated on: June 12, 2009 at 5:15 am By Gene Veith

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Victor Davis Hanson explicates the postmodernist philosophy that animates our government today: One of the chief tenets of postmodernism is relativism — the notion that neither morality nor wisdom is absolute and definable, but instead simply predicated on what those with power and advantage say they are. In response, the postmodernist sees “competing truths” and “rival moralities” that are of at least roughly equal merit. Indeed, those marginalized often have a higher claim on truth and knowledge by the very... Read more

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2009-06-12T05:00:40-04:00

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The socialism question

Last updated on: June 12, 2009 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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Jonah Goldberg asks why liberals laugh indignantly when conservatives say that President Obama’s economic policies are socialist, when they themselves in other contexts praise his policies for being socialist: The government effectively owns General Motors and controls Chrysler, and the president is deciding what kind of cars they can make. Uncle Sam owns majority stakes in American International Group, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and controls large chunks of the banking industry. Also, President Obama wants government to take over the... Read more

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2009-06-11T05:30:40-04:00

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Theistic evolution

Last updated on: June 11, 2009 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Theistic evolutionists say they believe in God while also believing in Darwinism. They maintain that God used evolution as His way of creating the world. But the whole point of Darwinism is that the process of mutation and natural selection is random and undirected! If they want to believe that God directed some form of evolution, theistic evolutionists would have to embrace some form of intelligent design, but they don’t, trying to distance themselves from that line of investigation so... Read more

Science

2009-06-11T05:15:30-04:00

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Automotive criticism

Last updated on: June 11, 2009 at 5:15 am By Gene Veith

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I have often said that ANY subject can be made interesting by good writing. As an example, I have often used writing about cars. I’m not all that interested in them, but I enjoy reading good writing about them. Consider, for example, Car Talk with Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers. Just as there are literary critics, movie critics, and food critics, there are car critics. The most entertaining of the breed has to be Jeremy Clarkson, one of the... Read more

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2009-06-11T05:00:32-04:00

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Lisa’s reforms

Last updated on: June 11, 2009 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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In case you missed it, Lisa R., in the post about lawmakers passing bills without reading them, proposed this list of congressional reforms: This is my plan for the U.S. Congress: 1) Congress should meet every other year; when not in session, members must return to their home states/districts to work and to live with the laws they’ve enacted and among the people against, er, FOR whom they’ve enacted said laws. 2) Members of Congress shall receive a small stipend... Read more

Government

2009-06-10T06:00:32-04:00

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Evangelical critiques evangelicalism

Last updated on: June 10, 2009 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Warren Cole Smith is an evangelical journalist who has just published a book entitled A Lover’s Quarrel with the Evangelical Church. He summarized his quarreling points in an interview with The Charlotte Observer: Among his more provocative charges: “For the sake of money and power and status and celebrity … we’ve made ‘church’ easy. We’ve made being a card-carrying member of the evangelical movement easy. But being a disciple of Jesus in the early 21st century is hard and, for... Read more

Church

2009-06-10T05:45:22-04:00

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Pay-as-you-go

Last updated on: June 10, 2009 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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From Obama proposes making ‘pay-as-you-go’ the law – CNN.com: President Obama on Tuesday proposed making “pay-as-you-go” rules for federal spending into law. The so-called PAYGO proposal requires Congress to balance any increased spending by equal savings elsewhere, Obama said in announcing the measure that now goes to Congress. A previous PAYGO mandate helped erase federal budget deficits in the 1990s, and subsequent ineffective rules contributed to the current budget deficits, Obama said. Now the PAYGO rules should be the law,... Read more

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2009-06-10T05:30:00-04:00

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Voting on bills without reading them

Last updated on: June 10, 2009 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Heritage Foundation scholar Stuart Butler identifies a major problem for a representative democracy: Never mind what your politics are, there is something very wrong with a democracy in which lawmakers routinely vote on huge bills they have not even read. In fact, congressional bills have become so large and complex — and the time between lawmakers receiving copies and voting on bills often so short — that it is literally impossible for them to read much of the legislation than... Read more

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