Gene Edward Veith Jr.'s Blog, page 187
January 28, 2016
Live-blogging tonight’s Trumpless Republican debate
This may be a crazy night. Donald Trump is boycotting the debate on Fox because of Megyn Kelly, but he is holding a non-debate event of his own, which is being carried by CNN. And two of the undercard candidates, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum, after their kind of humiliating debate with Jim Gilmore and [Read More...]
Muslims dreaming about Jesus
A recurring theme in the Muslims’s conversions to Christianity, as documented by Uwe Siemon-Netto, is that individual Muslims are saying that they have had dreams about Jesus, who, in turn, directs them to the Bible and to a Bible-believing church. Charismatics would have no problem with this, but we Lutherans (who are getting a lot [Read More...]
Ben Sasse calls out Trump on the adultery issue
Sen. Ben Sasse (R, Neb) has called out Donald Trump for all of his bragging about his sexual exploits, including adultery with married women. He asked him, in a stream of questions on Twitter: You brag abt many affairs w/ married women. Have you repented? To harmed children & spouses? Do you think it matters? [Read More...]
Republican debate tonight
The next Republican presidential candidate debate will take place tonight on Fox News at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time. This will be the last debate before the Iowa caucus on February 1. Donald Trump is boycotting the debate because Fox refused to replace his nemesis Megyn Kelly as a panelist. Rand Paul made the cut this [Read More...]
January 27, 2016
More on Muslims converting to Christianity
International journalist Uwe Siemon-Netto, a confessional Lutheran, has more details about Muslims converting to Christianity. He has published a compelling article in the Australian magazine Quadrant that you need to read for yourself. Excerpt and link after the jump. (Tomorrow we’ll post about the strange phenomenon of the Muslims dreaming about Jesus.) From Uwe Siemon-Netto, [Read More...]
Weird political news
The political landscape keeps getting stranger and stranger. Three new examples after the jump.Donald Trump will boycott Thursday’s debate, which will be hosted by Fox News, due to a dispute over panelist Megyn Kelly. Another wealthy businessman is looking to run for president. Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, owner of a business [Read More...]
The end of the “noble savage”
Archaeologists have discovered the site of a deadly massacre in which 27 people were killed by primitive weapons. The researchers date the site at some 10,000 years ago and say the people were hunter-gatherers. This upsets the theory that warfare and organized violence appeared only when early humans settled down into permanent settlements. This also [Read More...]
January 26, 2016
Gordon Lightfoot’s vocation
The London Telegraph interviewed songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who reflected on his life and career. We can see how the most seemingly ordinary things–parents, church, small-town life, listening to Bing Crosby Christmas records–turned him into the artist that he became. The interview reads like a meditation on vocation. From Gordon Lightfoot: The Queen likes my Canadian [Read More...]
Freeing the guilty, punishing the innocent
A Texas grand jury investigating Planned Parenthood for organ trafficking exonerated that organization and instead indicted the pro-lifers who made the videos in which the abortionists talked about selling fetal tissue! In fact, the grand jury is charging the two filmmakers for trafficking in fetal tissue, since they formed a cover business supposedly seeking to [Read More...]
Ted Cruz hammered for not tithing
In the struggle for evangelical voters, Ted Cruz has seemed like the most evangelical candidate of them all, with his family history and overt Christian rhetoric. But his financial records indicate that he doesn’t tithe! He has given away only 1% of his income, instead of the 10% that many (though not all) conservative Christians [Read More...]
