Gene Edward Veith Jr.'s Blog, page 4
October 25, 2018
The Non-Angry Bob Dylan
Last week I was in Houston. While my wife was on an accreditation visit for the Consortium for Classical Lutheran Eduction, I visited my brother . We continued my BBQ pilgrimage (new favorite: Corkscrew, with brisket so tender you could eat it with a spoon). We also went to the Bob Dylan concert at Sugarland. This was about […]
October 24, 2018
Christian Firefighter Wins His Case Too
In 2015, the mayor of Atlanta fired the city’s much-decorated fire chief Kelvin Cochran. Why? Because the African-American firefighter had written a Bible Study in which he said that homosexuality is sinful. Chief Cochran sued the city for wrongful termination. The case has dragged on for years, but now the city has offered a settlement, including […]
October 23, 2018
A New Anthology of Classic Christian Poetry
When I was teaching, I longed to find a good anthology of classic Christian poetry. One now exists: The Soul in Paraphrase: A Treasure of Classic Devotional Poems. The collection was put together by the dean of Christianity and literature scholars, Dr. Leland Ryken, who also offers the right amount of help to open up these […]
October 22, 2018
Who Is a Cherokee?
Imagine my surprise to see the name of Chuck Hoskin, an old family friend and fellow alumnus of Vinita High School in northeast Oklahoma, plastered all over the national media. Actually, I learned that it was his son, Chuck Hoskin Jr., who is the Secretary of State of the Cherokee Nation and who wrote the […]
October 19, 2018
Planned Parenthood’s Plan to Work Around a Pro-Life Supreme Court
Planned Parenthood is making plans to promote abortion despite the likelihood of a pro-life Supreme Court. From Lauretta Brown, Planned Parenthood Launches New Campaign to Expand Abortion Access in Light of ‘Hostile’ Supreme Court: Planned Parenthood explained that the campaign will be a three-pronged approach. The organization will focus on expanding “services in states where […]
October 18, 2018
The UK Supreme Court Rules for Its Christian Bakers
Great Britain has its own Christian bakers who refused to bake a cake in support of the LGBT cause. And has happened in the American case, the Supreme Court of the land ruled in favor of the baker’s religious liberty. But the British case is somewhat different. The Christian owners of Ashers Baking Company [see […]
October 17, 2018
China’s Revision of Christianity
We have blogged about how still-communist China is seeking to co-opt and control the Christian churches that, despite persecution, are growing like wildfire. The plan is to cultivate and require a distinctly “Chinese” form of Christianity. We now have details about what that will look like. According to the Chinese Christian dissident Rev. Bob Fu, […]
October 16, 2018
The Hermeneutic of Harm
Some churches teach that gay marriage, abortion, and other violations of traditional morality are not wrong at all. One might wonder, how can they do that? Certainly, non-Christians and churches that are so liberal that they don’t believe in the authority of the Bible at all don’t have a problem with making up their own […]
October 15, 2018
Rethinking Vocation?
The doctrine of vocation has been catching on. There is now something called the “Faith and Work movement,” with think tanks, publications, and programs designed to show Christians the connection between the two. (The founder of at least one of these think tanks told me that my book on vocation, God at Work, was the […]
October 12, 2018
Walther’s Depression
Depression is enormously common. So are other mental travails. Christians who are going through the valley of the shadow of death, as it were, should not think that these tribulations mean that there is something wrong with their faith or that God has cast them away. In fact, some of the greatest saints have gone […]
