Gene Edward Veith Jr.'s Blog, page 375
November 8, 2013
The NFL’s corruption
Brutal bullying. Murder charges. Rape. Suicides. Scrambled brains. Just another week in the NFL. Pulitzer Prize winning sportswriter Thomas Boswell loves professional football, but he is dismayed at what the NFL has seemingly become. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. Of course the game creates a market for “mean jocks” and criminal-types. The notion of the [Read More...]
Allowing divorced Catholics to take Communion?
Pope Francis and the Roman Catholic hierarchy are reportedly re-considering the practice of denying Communion to Catholics who have divorced and remarried. Details after the jump. Notice in the church debates over the issue how we can see Rome’s teaching that the Sacrament is for those who are holy, rather than for those who need [Read More...]
November 7, 2013
A children’s book on vocation
My daughter, Deaconness Mary Moerbe, has just published a children’s book on vocation! Luther was insistent that being a child is a vocation, that even very young children have callings from God. This book shows kids how God serves them through other people (especially their parents) and how God also serves other people through them. [Read More...]
Speedfaithing
You know about speed dating. A man and a woman sit down together for 3-8 minutes (depending on how it’s set up) to see if they hit it off, then move to a new table for 3-8 minutes with someone else. Now there is speedfaithing, in which people go to different tables to hear from [Read More...]
More on the Obamacare trainwreck
Columnist Dana Milbank is a liberal supporter of Obamacare. But he gives more details about the current roll-out debacle. He goes so far as to make comparisons between Obama’s handling of his health care program and his predecessor’s handling of the Iraq war. From Dana Milbank: Obama is bubble-wrapped – The Washington Post: In one [Read More...]
November 6, 2013
Election Day post-mortem
Virginians elected Democratic operative Terry McAuliffe, even though he had never held elective office, supports gun control, champions same-sex marriage, and is militantly pro-abortion. The once-reliably Republican state picked him over the socially-conservative attorney general Ken Cuccinelli. My prediction: Terry McAuliffe, whose career has been defined by his friendship with Bill Clinton, will eventually run [Read More...]
What’s really demonic
William Peter Blatty is the author of The Exorcist, a novel about demonic possession. He also wrote the screenplay for the movie version, which is considered one of the scariest films of all time. It turns out the former Hollywood comedy writer penned the novel as an expression of faith. After the jump I link [Read More...]
Is America in decline or on the rise?
American foreign policy is in the toilet, with our adversaries not respecting us and our allies not trusting us. Pundits here and abroad have been proclaiming the end of America’s global dominance. And yet, if you factor out our government’s ineptitude, the United States has quite a bit going for it globally. See what two [Read More...]
November 5, 2013
The Civic Sacrament
Today is election day. Mostly up for grabs are local and state races. Voting has been called a “civic sacrament.” The analogy is an imperfect one, and it applies only to democratic systems. Some say that voting “doesn’t do any good,” which even if it were true is not the point. We have a vocation [Read More...]
The Nadia Bolz-Weber phenomenon
Nadia Bolz-Weber is a tattooed, non-conformist, cutting-edge kind of person. She’s also a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, two strikes against her for us Missouri-Synod Lutherans. But she has the ear of “progressive Christians.” And the thing is, she preaches the Gospel. For all of her ministry to gays, the poor, and [Read More...]
