Gene Edward Veith Jr.'s Blog, page 378
October 25, 2013
Teenagers are losing interest in driving?
You thought it strange that Japanese young adults are losing interest in sex? How about American teenagers who are losing interest in driving? Only half of teenagers have a driver’s license by the time they are 18. Twenty years ago two-thirds did. After the jump, a report on the phenomenon. The study cited, sponsored by [Read More...]
October 24, 2013
A great video on baptism, inspired by the Prince
Prince George, the future King of England, was baptized yesterday. For that occasion, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who baptized the prince, made a quite remarkable video about the meaning of baptism. Read the excerpts and watch the video after the jump. Note the very end, especially, about the Sacrament signifying that Christ is [Read More...]
Behind the HealthCare.gov fiasco
We are learning that the problems with HealthCare.gov, the website that is the portal to Obamacare health insurance, are not just due to the large number of people trying to sign on. It turns out that the website is symptomatic of government incompetence on an epic scale. The site wasn’t even tested until the week [Read More...]
Catechism app
Get Luther’s Small Catechism for your smartphone, for free. It isn’t exactly an app, but it’s the same difference, mostly. Go online with your device to cph.org/catechism and bookmark the site, which is specially formatted for mobile phones and tablets.The press release from CPH, courtesy of Paul McCain: Concordia Publishing House (CPH) is pleased to [Read More...]
October 23, 2013
Pope Francis as evangelical?
In our continuing effort to try to figure out the new Pope of Rome–is he a liberal? a traditionalist? a traditionalist acting liberal?–another possibility has presented itself: Is he evangelical? (Not “an evangelical,” but evangelical in the sense of stressing the Gospel–grace, Christ, the Word of God–more than the typical Roman Catholic pontiff?) From a [Read More...]
ObamaCare and the end of nonprofit hospitals?
Nonprofit hospitals are defined as those that devote at least 3% (or in some states 4%) of their revenue to treat patients who cannot pay for treatment. Well, if Obamacare works to insure everybody, those requirements might be hard to meet, forcing the 60% of the nation’s hospitals that are non-profit to lose that status [Read More...]
C. S. Lewis calendar
My friend and former colleague Joel Heck has been doing some exhaustive research on the life of C. S. Lewis. He has put together a detailed chronology that you can see on his website. On the basis of that work, Joel has prepared a C. S. Lewis calendar. It isn’t tied to a particular year, [Read More...]
October 22, 2013
What Legalism & Licentiousness have in common
An objection being made to Tullian Tchividjian’s op-ed piece in the Washington Post that we blogged about yesterday (and that came up in our discussion too) is that legalism just isn’t the problem in the church today. Rather, churches are rife with licentiousness. Too much preaching of grace and forgiveness can encourage people to keep [Read More...]
A society that is losing interest in sex
Young people in Japan are not only losing interest in marriage. They are losing interest in relationships altogether. And they are reportedly taking the next step: Losing interest in sex. From Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex? | World news | The Observer: Japan’s under-40s appear to be losing interest in conventional [Read More...]
Wasting our stuff in Afghanistan
A military contact told me this was happening, but now it’s made the papers: As our troops leave Afghanistan, they are leaving behind some $7 billion worth of equipment. It’s reportedly cheaper to just leave it than to haul it back to the states. But to keep the Taliban and other terrorists from getting all [Read More...]
