Gene Edward Veith Jr.'s Blog, page 60
August 3, 2017
Free Lutheran resources
My daughter, Deaconness Mary Moerbe, has collected links to a vast array of free Lutheran resources. This includes Bible studies, devotions, music, catechism helps, homeschool material, and arts & crafts (including coloring projects and worksheets for kids). She also includes links to online shops and artists. She is on the lookout for more, so she [Read More...]
A classical alternative to the SAT & ACT
High school graduates who want to go to college nearly always have to take the SAT or the ACT, the college entrance exams that universities use to assess prospective students for admission and scholarships. These tests do not measure knowledge, as such, as implied when teachers warn against “teaching to the test.” Rather, they measure aptitude, [Read More...]
A man without a party
Before Reince Priebus was President Trump’s Chief of Staff, he was the chairman of the Republican National Committee. Now that Priebus is out, the president has virtually no personal or staff ties with the Republican party. So says Tim Alberta, who notes that among President Trump’s closest advisors, only Mike Pence is an actual [Read More...]
Hollywood vs. Rotten Tomatoes
As you may well know, the website Rotten Tomatoes is a review aggregator, summarizing and linking hundreds of movie reviews, then quantifying the critics’ positive and negative reactions for each film. Instead of using stars or thumbs up, the site uses tomatoes. If a film gets 59% or more negative reviews, it is marked with a [Read More...]
August 2, 2017
Gluten-free Communion bread?
What do you think? Should churches accommodate people with health concerns in the case of gluten, alcohol, or germs from the common cup?
Unanswered misconceptions about the Health Care plan
The Republican Health Care plan that went down in flames was portrayed in the media as causing millions of Americans to lose their health insurance. And the proposed cuts in Medicaid were said to take health care away from millions of poor Americans. But, as Ramesh Ponnuru points out, the 23 million Americans who would [Read More...]
August 1, 2017
I’m going down under
We’re off to Australia, where we will be for the entire month of August. We will be visiting our daughter, son-in-law, and grand-children. I’ll also be doing quite a bit of speaking at various places. I’ll give three presentations at the Speak Lord 2017 conference/retreat, which will be held twice, once in Hamilton and once in [Read More...]
Worshipping electricity
Religions have long been fascinated by new technology, often incorporating it in ways that are sometimes beneficial and sometimes questionable. A good adaptation was when the Reformation embraced the printing press, putting the Bible into the hands of ordinary Christians. Today Christians are making good use of the new information technology, with websites that make [Read More...]
Kelly gets Scaramucci fired already!
President Trump’s flame-throwing communications director Anthony Scaramucci has been fired after only 10 days on the job. His obscene rant to a reporter about his colleagues led to the departure of chief of staff Rance Priebus. President Trump reportedly fired Scaramucci at the behest of his new chief of staff, John Kelly. That is a very [Read More...]
Congressional Republicans in rebellion against Trump
It isn’t just that the Republican-controlled Senate failed to pass President Trump’s initiative to repeal and replace Obamacare. Congressional Republicans were nearly unanimous in passing a bill to limit the president’s ability to remove sanctions against Russia. Republican Senators are livid over President Trump’s public humiliation of their former colleague Attorney General Jeff Sessions. [Read More...]
