Gene Edward Veith Jr.'s Blog, page 207
November 5, 2015
State church says not to evangelize Muslims
The Protestant state church in the Rhineland has issued a statement saying that Christians should not try to evangelize Muslim immigrants. It maintains that the Great Commission does not mean Christians should try to convert others to their faith. This, despite the phenomenon of more and more Muslim immigrants becoming Christians, thanks in part to [Read More...]
Clinton accuses Sanders of sexism and racism
Hillary Clinton and her organization are fending off the threat from the left by accusing Bernie Sanders–avowed socialist with impeccable leftist credentials–of sexism and racism! This is because of these two statements he made during the debate: In the debate, Sanders began by saying, “As a senator from a rural state, what I can tell [Read More...]
Treasure from the grave of a Greek warrior
Archaeologists have made an astounding discovery: the tomb of a warrior at Pylos from 1,500 B.C., before the Homeric era, filled with gold, jewels, and priceless artifacts. From Grave of ‘Griffin Warrior’ at Pylos Could Be a Gateway to Civilizations – The New York Times: Archaeologists digging at Pylos, an ancient city on the southwest [Read More...]
November 4, 2015
Luther and Religious freedom
The Wall Street Journal has published an excellent account by Joe Loconte on Luther, the Reformation, and its precursors. He ends up crediting Luther, who insisted that faith is not something that can be coerced, for the Western concept of religious freedom. He then wonders if Islam can ever have such a reform. Read it [Read More...]
Father seeks right to marry adopted son
It seems that before gay marriage was legal, in order to form a family union, an older homosexual man would sometimes adopt his young lover. Now a father is trying to get a court to dissolve the adoption so that he can marry his son. From Father, Adopted Son Seek Right To Marry Each Other [Read More...]
The fight for “regular order” in the House
Remember watching “Schoolhouse Rock,” in which you were taught how a “Bill” becomes a “Law,” going through committees and all those other legislative processes until it gets passed and signed? That’s called “regular order,” and it hasn’t been used in the House of Representatives for years. Mostly today, bills instead are initiated, negotiated, brought to [Read More...]
November 3, 2015
Reformation website
The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has put together a web site in conjunction with the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, which will take place in 2017. (So this year it’s the 498th anniversary.) The site includes lots of resources, including videos. It also announces a hymnwriting competition! After the jump, I have posted an excellent [Read More...]
People who think they are dead
I think a major problem today–one that looms behind other problems, such as sexual immorality and identity confusions–is that people are often dissociated from their bodies. We see this in the gender dysphoria that gives us transgenderism, the sense that some people have that they are really a different sex than that of their bodies. [Read More...]
World Series post mortem
The Kansas City Royals won the world series against the New York Mets in a series of epic comebacks. They were behind in each of the games! In game #4, they were down to their last four outs, but ended up winning the game. In game #5, they were down to their last three outs–completely [Read More...]
November 2, 2015
The Communion of the Saints
The body consists of innumerable cells. Each of these has its own distinct life–its own systems of nutrition, reproduction, and protection–and yet these cells group together to form highly specialized organs that, in turn, make up a single body. The whole scheme, with its incredibly complex relationship of the parts to the whole and the [Read More...]
