Gene Edward Veith Jr.'s Blog, page 47
November 1, 2017
Russia Investigation Indicts Three
Special prosecutor Robert Mueller and his grand jury investigating allegations of the Trump campaign’s Russia connections has issued three indictments: former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, his associate Rick Gates, and former Trump advisor George Papadopoulos. Manafort and Gates were charged with money-laundering and refusing to register as a foreign agent, as the law requires. But […]
October 31, 2017
The 95 Theses
What better way to mark the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation than to read Luther’s 95 Theses? They aren’t long. And you will find it rather surprising that these assertions criticizing the sale of indulgences proved to have such monumental consequences. The theses do not reject the papacy. They do not deny the existence of Purgatory. […]
Other Takes on the Reformation
The 500th Anniversary of the Reformation–which is today–has received an extraordinary amount of attention. As we have been discussing, some of it is way off base and some of it is insightful. Then there are the analyses that come from such a different angle that they show facets of the Reformation that I, at least, […]
October 30, 2017
How Lutherans View the Reformation Differently
Luther didn't split the church. The pope did.
How Lutherans view the Reformation differently
Some of my fellow Lutherans are sick to death of all of the hype around the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation, which is tomorrow. They read all of the media coverage and internet posts and see so many different versions of Luther’s contributions and the results of the Reformation that they can scarcely recognize. This […]
China’s Communists Plan to Replace the U.S. as the World’s Superpower
We have our national elections every two years, with our presidential election every four years. China has just had its equivalent. Not elections–China is opposed to democracy–but the every-five-year congress of the Chinese Communist Party, which rules the country. The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China ended last week. It elected new members of […]
October 27, 2017
What the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation is NOT About
The 500th anniversary of Luther’s posting of the 95 Theses is soon upon us (next week on Halloween), and this year’s Reformation Day has not lacked for media coverage and internet hype. Some of what people are celebrating about the Reformation is valid, but some is not. Christians of all stripes are marking the day, with some […]
Conservatives–and Christians?–for Marijuana Legalization
Nearly two-thirds (64%) of Americans support the legalization of marijuana. More than half (51%) of Republicans want marijuana to be legal. That’s the finding of a Gallup poll on the subject. This is another astonishingly fast shift in values. In 1969, with the counter-culture in full bloom, only 12% of Americans supported marijuana legalization. By 2001, a third […]
October 26, 2017
Eyewitnesses to Jesus: The Testimony of Papias
Scot McKnight points us to a quotation from Papias, a first century Christian, who tells about talking with people who knew the original Apostles. A well-known Bible scholar uses his testimony in demonstrating that the source of the four gospels was eye-witness accounts of Jesus. We blogged about the “higher criticism” of the Bible as being […]
Clinton and the Democrats Paid for That Russia Dossier Incriminating Trump
A “blockbuster” story in the Washington Post has revealed that the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign paid some $9 million to link President Trump with Russia. Do you remember that “dossier” purporting to be an intelligence document that gave evidence that Russia was tied to Donald Trump’s campaign and controlled him by holding over his head […]
