Gene Edward Veith Jr.'s Blog, page 309
August 20, 2014
The friendliest and unfriendliest cities
Conde Nast Traveler has conducted a survey to find the friendliest and the unfriendliest cities in the world and in the United States. See the lists after the jump. Sound about right? What does this tell us about the various cultures represented? From What are the world’s friendliest/unfriendliest cities? – CNN.com: World’s friendliest cities [Read More...]
August 19, 2014
When life contradicts God’s Word
Last Sunday, the sermon was about that puzzling passage in which Jesus seems at first to reject the Canaanite woman (Matthew 15:21-28). Pastor Douthwaite solved that puzzle in a definitive way in a sermon that was incredibly profound and helpful. From Rev. James Douthwaite, St. Athanasius Lutheran Church: Pentecost 10 Sermon: What do you do [Read More...]
Thoughts on Ferguson shooting
We’ve blogged about the militarization of the police (here and here), but what about the shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri? Some say the 18-year-old was just minding his own business walking down the street when the police officer killed him in cold blood. Police have put out a more [Read More...]
Doug Wilson on Crypto-Lutherans
Douglas Wilson, who is associated with the “Federal Vision” movement, weighs in on the Crypto-Lutheran controversy within Calvinism. Read his whole post, but I give an excerpt after the jump. From Douglas Wilson,, Playing Puritans and Lutherans, Blog & Mablog|: To simply dismiss the lutherans out of hand is way too . . . lutheran. [Read More...]
August 18, 2014
The problem with cops in camo
Why would police officers, as in those in Ferguson, Missouri, wear green camoflage jungle fatigues? If it’s necessary to hide from urban bad guys, they should wear black, grey, and dirty white camoflage so as to blend in with asphalt, concrete, and dilapidated houses. (Like this.) The answer, of course, is that since most of [Read More...]
When your mother is a man and your father is a woman
Feminists make a distinction between “sex,” which has to do with biology, and “gender,” which has to do with culture; thus, gender roles are changeable and interchangeable with those of men, having nothing to do with an individual’s sex. But now sex is held to be changeable too, determined not by reproductive organs or the [Read More...]
Rick Perry indicted for trying to oust drunk D.A.
A district attorney who was in charge of the public integrity unit (!) was convicted of drunk driving. So Texas governor Rick Perry called on her to resign. If she didn’t resign, he said, he would veto the funding for her office. (Which he did.) So now the Democratic machine in Austin has indicted Gov. [Read More...]
August 15, 2014
“It’s time to out the Lutherans among us”!
Back in the 19th century, Lutherans went through a “crypto-Calvinist” controversy. But today, Calvinists are undergoing a “crypto-Lutheran” controversy. It seems a number of Reformed pastors are realizing that the Bible teaches a higher doctrine of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper than is common among Calvinists and are introducing liturgical worship. It appears that the [Read More...]
Oklahoma City’s Black Mass
My native Oklahoma is a conservative state, and yet the city manager of Oklahoma City has allowed renting out part of the Civic Center for a Satanic Black Mass. Unlike the kerfluffle at Harvard (see here and here), the group putting on this event has reportedly acquired a consecrated host, which they will then publicly [Read More...]
Demilitarizing the Police
I just got back from St. Louis, staying just a few blocks from the riots in Ferguson over the police shooting an unarmed teenager. I didn’t see anything and I don’t want to address the incident, as such. But the Cato Institute’s Walter Olson raises some interesting questions: Why armored vehicles in a Midwestern inner [Read More...]
