This is how I looked soon after hobbling back home after today’s attempt at bike commuting, which ended abruptly — exactly as abruptly as a human face stops when it slams mouth-first into the edge of a concrete curb, as mine did today a brief instant after my front tire was snagged in the grooves formed by the MAX train tracks I was trying to cross. It turns out it is very important to cross such obstacles at direct perpendicular. I recommend you make a note of it, lest you’re the next to lose half a tooth, scrape much of the skin off your knee, suffer a concussion, and add to your personal store of fears.
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Profiles In Excellent Judgment: Urban Cycling
BY MICHAEL PASQUIER Two recent publications—Vincent Brown’s The R eaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (HUP 2008) and Amy Louise Wood’s Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 (UNCP 2009)—pay close attention to the relationship between death and religion in the history of the Americas. Taking a cue from anthropologist Katherine Verdery’s claim that “Death is the quintessential cosmic issue,” Brown shows in terrible detail how death dictated life for Africans of Jamaica, the island at the heart of British colonial slavery during the seventeenth century.
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Where There Is Death, There Is Religion
Gary Beach plays Nathan Detroit and Heather Lee is Miss Adelaide in the Music Circus production of “Guys and Dolls.” Unlike Sky Masterson, Music Circus doesn’t have to woo Lady Luck to find success. The Sacramento summer institution does it the old-fashioned way: great music, strong production values and talent, talent, talent. Take, for example, the production of “Guys and Dolls,” which opened Tuesday night at the Wells Fargo Pavilion
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Rollickin’ good ‘Guys and Dolls’
This week I presented two seminars at the NACBA National Conference, the first of which was explaining how to use financial reporting as part of an overall strategy for communicating vision among measured outcomes. Here’s the workshop description: “Financial reports are the cornerstone for understanding the fiscal health of any church. Financial reports are generated every day by thousands of church administrators across the country, but too often financial reports never get beyond the basics o
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NEW SHARON – Get ready for some old-fashioned family fun.On Saturday, the annual Family Fun Day, aimed at the residents rather than tourists, will focus on the local talent, activities for the kids and the merchants of New Sharon.In its fourth year, the festival grows out of the Freedom Festival which featured, among other things, a parade down Route 2.“Nowadays you can’t ride your ponies down Route 2 anymore,” organizer Juniper Thompson said with a laugh. “This is for people wanting some of th
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Family Fun Day Saturday in New Sharon
Most of you probably remember that my husband is the youth minister at our church. We try to be as family oriented in our activities as possible, making sure there is at least one family event per month. This month’s event was planned by a very neat family that used to homeschool and love the outdoors. We went seining in the creek on our church’s farm! (Seining for sport is actually not legal in Kentucky, but fear not, we were only seining for educational purposes. All the “catches” were p
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Seining – A Family Event at Church
Wallis Knights of Columbus 4th Degree officers installed on July 20 by District Master Joe Morino are front row, left to right, Lupe Luna, Frankie Orsak, District Marshal Frank Larh, Lefty Hanzelka, DM Morino, John Baros, Willie Hajdik; back row, Adolph Bellinoski, Robert Schipa, David Pavlock, Garry Kuciemba, Leslie Jez and Tom Baranowski. On Monday night, July 20, Lefty Hanzelka took the oath of office for the Wallis Knights of Columbus 4th Degree Assembly as Faithful Navigator. In an impr
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Hanzelka named as Faithful Navigator of 4th Degree
When you are studying a text and preparing to preach it, make sure you notice the details. No word is there by accident. As I sometimes say, the writers of the Bible were neither drunk nor wasteful. Not drunk means that they were coherent and deliberate in what they wrote. Not wasteful means that papyrus was expensive, so they didn’t waffle for a paragraph or two before getting into it. Sometimes the details in a passage are helpful theologically . For example, why does Mark tell the reader that the grass was green when Jesus fed the five thousand? Is this mere ornamentation? Or is it part of a larger package of details and tone that are suggestive of Jesus bringing something of the eschatological feasting and abundance? It can be hard to discern the difference between allegorical misreading of Scripture and sensitivity to the original writer’s intent. The goal is not to make it say something Mark didn’t know, but to recognize what Mark intended to communicate both overtly and subtly. Sometimes the details in a passage are helpful apologetically.
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Exhibit Dates: August 1 – 30, 2009Meet the Artist Reception: Friday, August 7, 5 – 8pm All Welcome!Home Fine Art Gallery: 2 Church Street (& White Street), Mount Holly, NJ 08060Home Fine Art Gallery exhibits work by new member Lydia Hamilton Brown for the month of August. A graduate of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art, Hamilton Brown is a process artist. She takes a single image and manipulates it over and over until it results in a large scale painting. Each image becomes as importa
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This interesting piece of history has been unearthed by Smygo : Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson: “There was private money long before there was government money. The first revolutionary (or reformist) use of this idea, as a check against galloping usury and high interest rates, was the foundation of “Banks of Piety” by the Dominican order of the Catholic Church in the late middle ages. (See Tawney, _Religion and the Rise of Capitalism_.) The Dominicans, having discovered that preac
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Dominicans and their Banks of Piety
Last night I was given the honor of preaching the message at our Haitian Church’s revival service. For this week’s revival meetings, the Haitian Church has been meeting in our Worship Center. Though the building is First Baptist Church’s, we were the guests last night. We talk of going overseas on international mission trips and how to engage different cultures, but last night reminded me that international ministry is available right here at home. Of course, I knew this, but it’s good to ha
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A judge sentenced the leader of a religious sect to 2 years in prison Wednesday for hiding an elderly follower’s rotting body on a toilet for weeks. Prosecutors said Bushey kept the body hidden so he could collect Middlesworth’s Social Security checks and annuities. Bushey’s attorney, Thomas Steinman, argued that Bushey thought God would bring Middlesworth back to life.
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Cult leader Alan Bushey sentenced in corpse case
Daijiworld.com USA: First Hindu Dharmasabha of North America held in Virginia Daijiworld.com Over a hundred Hindus and Americans from various states of North America and Canada enthusiastically took part in the first Hinduism meet in North America. ..
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Thaindian.com Naomi Campbell's first Bollywood venture proved a disaster Thaindian.com Rajan Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism , further said that Hindus welcomed world filmmakers to make films about Hindu subjects but …
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” width=”244″ height=”300″ /> Thanks, Leslie, for sending me this link earlier this week about Target’s new price-match policy. I have confirmed that the Cleveland Target is indeed price-matching. Just be sure to read the policy . You must bring in a current local ad and the policy states price-adjustments will only be done at customer service, not in a check-out lane. ” width=”300″ height=”169″ /> Thanks, Fun and Frugal reader, Summer, for sending me a copy of this email she
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Retail News: Target is now Price-Matching; Dollar General does not accept Internet Printables
Judge rejects polygamous church trust settlement SALT LAKE CITY — A judge on Wednesday rejected a proposed settlement that would have returned control of a state-managed land trust to followers of jailed polygamous leader Warren Jeffs. The United Effort Plan Trust was formed in 1942 to hold the collective assets of faithful members of the Fundamentalist Church
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Utah judge rejects deal aimed at returning control of trust to followers of polygamous leader
This week Miss Attitude received the following e-mail from a friend and loyal blog reader in need of fashion advice: Need your fashionista/recessionista advice! My husband’s high school reunion is coming up in October in New York, and I have no idea what to wear. The last time I needed a dress for a friend’s wedding, someone suggested Ann Taylor. I wanted something more unique than an Ann Taylor dress but I ran out of time and ended up going with a cute dress I got on sale at AT Loft.
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Fashionista/recessionista to the rescue!
Tourism department of Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to revive some of the ruined Buddhist sites of state. In this regard, they have already sent a plan to Archaeological survey of India and have identified some spot for this project. The development of these place may lead to more tourist inflow into the state.
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Jammu and Kashmir to revive Buddhist sites
How You Can Ensure Kids Across The Country Have School Supplies Article by: Angela King, Busy Mom Contributor It’s that time of year again and you literally see the signs in stores across the country: back to school. Aisle after aisle of supply displays that highlight the colorful notebooks, pocket folders, glue sticks and pink erasers that children everywhere tote with them on that first day of school.
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How You Can Ensure Kids Across The Country Have School Supplies
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Solar eclipse: Rationalists eclipsed amid outpouring of devotion Times of India Shastri is a well-known scholar of Sanskrit and Hinduism , and holds the post of maha mantri (general secretary) in the Kashi Vidvat Parishad, …
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When it comes to same-sex couples living together, with (or without) sex, New England has a reputation for being just a little bit more innovative than the rest of the country. Not for nothing was such an arrangement in the 19th century termed a “Boston marriage.” Now, as Boston Globe reporter Michael Paulson writes, Episcopal bishops in New England find themselves in the fascinating situation of having the denomination’s tacit O.K. to gay blessings — but not having its permission to allow their clergy to officiate at gay marriages (yet)
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In today’s RNB Religion News Roundup: lawyers hope Tony Alamo won’t speak; cult leader Alan Bushey faces sentencing; No deal on rape charge for man whose marriage to underage sect member led to conviction of FLDS cult leader Warren Jeffs. Also: While providing marriage counseling, two associate pastors concealed that a third pastor was having an affair with a man’s wife. Then: A federal judge in Chicago has dismissed a charge against an avowed white supremacist accused of threatening a juror
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RNB’s Religion News Roundup: Tony Alamo, Alan Bushey, Allen Steed, Johnny McGowan and more…
The most recent issue of the Journal of Mormon History actually arrived a little while back, but I’ve been slow to post this. Since the next will be here soon, I’d better get this out! I’ll be more prompt next time! First, the JMH has published Philip Jenkins’ 2008 Tanner Lecture entitled “Letting Go: Understanding Mormon Growth in Africa.” Jenkins observes of Christian (Catholic, Protestant, etc.) growth in Africa, “Missions in Africa are rather like gardening in Florida: Plant some seeds
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The Journal of Mormon History, Spring 2009 (35:2), Part 1
When covering foreign affairs (or even religion news), journalists often end up needing to mention the names of documents, institutions or groups — in the original language. Readers get used to seeing this. For example, the Los Angeles Times recently ran an essay that referred to Pope Benedict XVI’s “just-released encyclical, ‘Caritas in Veritate’ (Love in Truth).” The logic is that some readers might know the meaning of that Latin phrase, but not many.
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What does Lashkar-e-Taiba mean?
Recently here, I reported how moved I once was by the words of Latin Mass priest in Ireland who regretted a contemporary tendency in the Church to de-emphasise the need for the Sacrament of Confession. His point was that people who availed themselves less often of this Sacrament, availed themselves less of the “Sanctifying Grace” which it offered.Again, what I admired was that this was a case where the supernatural reality of the Sacraments was taken absolutely seriously. And it seems to me that
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Materialism, Truth and the Catholic Mystery
Guardian:-Communion wine is not being offered in some churches amid fears over swine flu.Some church leaders have made the decision just to distribute bread rather than offering the chalice to the congregation during Holy Communion services.The Archdiocese of Liverpool, which represents the Catholic church in Liverpool, said yesterday that some churches had taken the precaution but added that it was a decision made by individual churches, following its guidance, and they had not told churches wh
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Churches stop offering communion wine to halt spread of swine flu