Gene Edward Veith Jr.'s Blog, page 342
April 2, 2014
Death penalty for helping a missionary
Thirty-three people have been arrested and face the death penalty in North Korea for helping a missionary in his efforts to set up a network of 500 underground churches. From Kim Jong-Un ‘orders 33 people to be executed’ say South Korean press | Mail Online: Thirty-three North Koreans face execution after being charged with attempting [Read More...]
April 1, 2014
Replacing academic freedom with academic “justice”
The hard-core left just does not believe in the concept of individual freedom, as is evident wherever that ideology has had its way (in the former Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, North Korea, Cuba, etc., etc.). So it shouldn’t be surprising that the concept of academic freedom as it applies to conservatives is [Read More...]
April Fool’s Day central
This is April Fool’s Day. We don’t do pranks with phony posts here at the Cranach blog. But we are willing to serve as a clearing house for reports of pranks. If you come across any on the internet or elsewhere, please tell us about them, including a link when possible.
Baseball predictions
Yesterday was Opening Day of the baseball season. That means it is time for more sports predictions! What teams do you think will play in the World Series, and which one will win it?
The Obamacare deadline is past
If you don’t have health insurance and didn’t sign up for Obamacare, you are in violation of the Affordable Health Care Act! The administration has been saying that so many people signing up is evidence that people support it. But it’s the law! People are supposed to sign up whether they want to or not, [Read More...]
March 31, 2014
“Coming out” as a Christian
In her memoir Dancing Through It, ballerina Jenifer Ringer tells about her Christian faith. I was struck by this line from Washington Post reviewer Rebecca Ritzel: “Coming out in a dance memoir as an evangelical Christian is nearly as rare as coming out as gay in the NFL.” Back in 2012, we posted about the [Read More...]
Homeschooling and tolerance
Contrary to the critics who argue that homeschooling makes kids insular and intolerant and that we need public schools to establish social cohesion, a new study has found that college students who had been homeschooled are actually more tolerant of people with different political views than are products of public schools. A Brief Review of [Read More...]
Why Margaret Sanger opposed Abortion
Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, held to some outrageously racist and eugenicist positions. But she drew the line at abortion. From What Did Margaret Sanger Think about Abortion? | RedState: From Chapter II of her 1920 book Woman and the New Race, she states the following: So, too, with woman’s struggle for emancipation. [Read More...]
March 29, 2014
Being underweight is more dangerous than being overweight
We are rightly worried about obesity, but a new study has found that being underweight is even more dangerous. From Underweight or overweight: Study looks at which is deadlier – CBS News. It’s said you can never be too rich or too thin, but new research suggests otherwise. People who are clinically underweight face an [Read More...]
What did you think of the movie “Noah”?
Have any of you seen the movie Noah? What is your verdict? After the jump, excerpts from a revealing interview by the ace religion reporter Sarah Pulliam Bailey with filmmaker Darren Aronofsky about what he was trying to convey in the movie, including its themes of original sin, justice, and mercy. From Sarah Pulliam Bailey, [Read More...]
