Gene Edward Veith Jr.'s Blog, page 176
March 11, 2016
The myth that evangelicals are going for Trump
The media keeps talking about how evangelicals are supporting Donald Trump, and Christian leaders are wringing their hands about it. But Biola poli-sci professor Darren Patrick Guerra crunches the numbers and shows that Trump isn’t winning the evangelical vote after all. From The Myth of the Evangelical Trump Voters | Darren Patrick Guerra | First Things: [Read More...]
March 10, 2016
Tonight’s Republican debate
The Republican presidential candidates will debate tonight on CNN at 8:30 p.m. ET. The event will be held in Florida, whose primary on March 15 may be decisive. On that day Florida will hold a winner-take-all contest for its whopping 99 delegates. On the same day Ohio will give the winner all of its 66 [Read More...]
Chaplains in the workplace
A number of companies in the United States and other countries are providing chaplains for their employees. Is that an appropriate application of vocation, or a confusion of vocation? I’m not sure myself! Read about this phenomenon after the jump. From Emma Green,The Rise of Workplace Chaplains in the U.S. and Abroad – The Atlantic: Pastors have [Read More...]
Scientific outrage!
A paper on the workings of the human hand published in a scientific journal uses the term “creator” and “design,” sparking sputtering outrage and calls for boycotting the publication. The authors, most of whom are Chinese, say the apparent reference to Intelligent Design was a mistake due to a mistranslation. Chinese writing does tend to [Read More...]
Dispatch from Denmark
I am now in Copenhagen, where I have an internet connection. The conference I spoke at was held at an Inner Mission Bible college, where Christian young people go after they graduate from high school and before they go to University. Here they study Christian doctrine, the Bible, and apologetics in a way designed to [Read More...]
March 9, 2016
Of Christian t-shirts and vocation
R. J. Grunewald offers a stimulating critique of Christian T-shirts, movies, and music on the basis of the doctrine of vocation. From R. J. Grunewald, Why Christian T-Shirts, Movies, & Music Aren’t Very Good — rjgrune.com: Christian t-shirts, mediocre films about the rapture, and Christian music that is a copycat of the Top 40 are [Read More...]
The Civil Rights cause of our day
African-Americans sparked the struggle for civil rights. Other ethnic minorities have followed suit. Women are not a minority but they have been fighting to assure their civil rights. Gays have been demanding their civil rights, and they have won significant victories. Can you think of any other group of people who are excluded from legal [Read More...]
March 8, 2016
Vocation of a fast food worker
Like a lot of people in this economy, my former student Stephen Williams is “underemployed” right now. But he understands the doctrine of vocation. Read his account of how working in a fast food joint is charged with spiritual significance and gives him occasion to love and serve his neighbors. From Stephen Williams, Ambushed by Beauty [Read More...]
The Republican Party’s botched efforts to stop Trump
The Republican Party is trying to stop Donald Trump from getting its nomination, but every effort so far has self-destructed. The other candidates are refusing to bow out to consolidate behind one contender. Public criticism of Trump seems to have started too late. Donors and political operatives are paralyzed. So reports the New York Times, with [Read More...]
March 7, 2016
Making America great again through vocation
Mark Hemingway excoriates the left’s denigration of work and says that the lack of respect for the working class is what drives Donald Trump’s popularity. And then he offers his proposal for making America great again: Recover Luther’s doctrine of vocation! Read what he says after the jump. This will kick off a special series of [Read More...]
