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Beside improving my language abilities, it was one of my main goals to also improve my abilities as a lacrosse player during my stay in Canada. I was spending my school semester on Vancouver Island, at the Pacific Coast - one of the most beautiful parts of Canada. Driving about 45 minutes northwards from the Comox Valley to Campbell River, I played goalie for the U19 Campbell River Ravens.
After school, two practices per weeks, from September to December, included a hand full of new adjustments. Not only it was a far more relaxed training session, but on the other hand it was the higher Lacrosse level I had to play in. In addition to the practices, there were almost every weekend at least one game against other teams from the region. The one disadvantage of Canada is the far distance between all your places you want to go, so that you are forced to drive a long way to your games and practices. Unfortunately, more people on Vancouver Island preferred Box Lacrosse before Field, which hugely influenced the game-play of these lacrosse games, and in the way the players attacked the goal.
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Ecclesiology - Printable Version
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Ecclesiology - John Charmley - 16-09-2007
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
I did think of posting this under the 'nature of the Church' thread, but it is a little different, and I didn't really want to turn that thread in this direction.
On another forum I have been discussing with some EOs the question of 'the Church'. We, and they, and the RCC seem to inherit the ecclesiology of St. Cyprian, that there is one Church, and outside of it there is no salvation. The implications of this, and how one can read it, are what I'd like to raise here.
For my EO friends their Church is the Church; some of them think we, the OO, are plain heretics, others that we are simply not the Church but an ecclesial body which has some claims to be Christian; a view not dissimilar to the RCC one. My queries here are as follows:
1. Given that St. Cyprian wrote before the split of 451, are we right to read his words as applying to an ecclesial body alone?
2. How, to the satisfaction of anyone outside your own way of believing, would you assert that your Church was THE Church?
3. What follows IF the concept of the Church can be limited to one ecclesial group? Since it is God who decides who will be saved, there need be no negative soteriological consequences even if one is outside THE Church.
I ask these things in the context of many of us here being either converts or potential converts. For me, it was the growing realisation that the Anglican Church was headed in a direction which I could not follow which led me to find myself needing to find another spiritual home.
But that left me with a choice to make, and very uncomfortable it felt, since I was conscious for the first time of what I would call a Protestant dilemma; who was I to make such a choice? How was I to make it?
Some things I took for granted: Apostolicity; a sacramental ministry; orthodox faith as defined by what the Church held before the major divisions started in 451. But, whilst holding to a version of Cyprianic ecclesiology, the version of it I found in the EO seemed, as it still does, both potentially exclusivist and divisive.
I see no satisfactory answer to my question 2 above; even the EOs are telling me that it only works within their tradition; that's a solipsistic definition. They imply, sometimes more than that, that to hold anything other is syncretism. Well, I don't think I am a syncretist, but I don't hold what I am coming to think of as the 'rigorist' position they do.
What lies beneath, above and beyond our Church? What is the bed rock of our Faith? Belief in the Risen Lord and our encounter with Him. If we start from this Christo-centric position, what form of ecclesiology do we end up with?
I suspect (but I always do) that I'm asking the wrong questions in the wrong way; but since I have always found this forum to be excellent in keeping me from making too many excursions into rank heresy, I thought I'd bring it here; as some of you will know, on the EO forum, it simply gets them cross!
In Christ,
ecclesiology - kirk yacoub - 17-09-2007
Dear John,
I think that I have written somewhere before that, yes, there is only one Church, which is the Church of the Holy Spirit, to which we belong as members of the Body of Christ. However, the Church's organisational name is not the Church itself. Whether Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, or protestant, if a Christian has been baptized
by a priest whose authority comes from that of Apostolic succession, then that Christian has been truly baptized into the Church. However, that is only the beginning of the story. It is then up to each individual Christian to live according to the commandments of God, always, of course, seeking the divine help without which it is not possible to do anything. So, within the framework of any Apostolic Church,anyone striving to do God's will is a member of the Church, and anyone, even a Bishop, who goes against God's will, has put themselves outside of the Church. Since all of us are sinners, we are both members of the Church and, succumbing like my hypothetical Bishop, also outside the Church. Since we can only be judges of our own selves, we must try to stay within the Church through honest admission of sins, repentance, and the continual striving to fulfill God's will.
The Church is not exclusivist because it always seeks to convert and, if the Church fails to convert, always prays for those who reject the Church.
If what I have written seems to vague for some people, then all I can say is that Christ rejected slavish subservience to rules and proclaimed the power of outward-going love. If Christ commands us to do something we see that it is always connected with what is good for us, His Truth setting us free.
I hope that this will push the ball forward for a good, long conversation!
Kirk Yacoub
Ecclesiology - John Charmley - 19-09-2007
Dear Kirk,
Thank you for your response, which will, I hope, help us along here.
The ecclesiology of Anglicanism can be summed up in the notion of the 'branch theory', which sees itself, the RCC, and the OCs as parts of the one tree which is the Church; but this is not at all the ecclesiology of those other Churches, each of which teaches that there is but one Church - and it is it, so to speak.
Not being a relativist on these things, I have no problem with this; except, of course, that if only one of these Churches is THE Church, what are the others? Moreover, how does anyone outside of any of those Churches establish which one is THE Church?
I am rather taken with your own views, but wonder how they square with the traditional ecclesiology of our Church?
My own tentative thoughts lie along the axis of seeing our encounter with Christ at the Eucharistic feast as the centre of our experience of Him. It may be that the way in which we encounter Him in the different traditions means we speak in different ways about Him - but if it is Him we encounter, we must be encountering the same Christ. I don't know if that is orthodox or quite where it would lead, but the line taken by some of the EO posters on the other site - namely that there is ONE Church and they are it and the rest of us are heretics, is, whilst being entirely consistent within itself, not one that feels right.
In Christ,
- admin - 20-09-2007
I have found this question of the Church and the churches to have been one that I have reflected on for many years, even before I became Orthodox and had only started to believe that there was 'One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church'.
I don't think I have found any straightforward answers, just a variety of propositions or paradigms.
i. I wonder if there is a difference between a group which is actually and presently separating itself from the integrity of the Orthodox Church, and a group which is not Orthodox but which has not in living memory separated itself, or even does not consider itself as existing in separation.
I mean that the case of Max Michael in Egypt is a present case of someone setting himself up in opposition to the integrity of the Church. It seems to me that it is appropriate to apply the formal Cyprianic ecclesiology in his case. There is only One Church and Max Michael's is not it.
But what of people who are Baptist or Brethren not through any personal, or even corporate rejection of Orthodoxy. And who perhaps hold no personal animosity towards Orthodoxy, even a genuine interest?
Are these in the same category? It does not seem to me that they are directly the focus of St Cyprian, who was dealing with present schism and attempts to undermine the Church.
So I wonder if as a first thought, those are only outside the Church who set themselves against the Church and themselves withdraw from the life of the Church?
ii. I wonder if there is also a difference between leaders and ordinary faithful Christians. This seems to be the case because even at the times of fiercest persecution of the Church by the Byzantines it was always the rule that simple lay people should be easily accepted into communion and that very little in the way of canonical obstructions should be placed before them. More or less, if they were not positively Nestorians then they were received as being part of the Church.
Even clergy from among the Byzantines were received certainly as Christians and therefore sacramentally part of the Church, but were required to provide a statement of faith and renounce error, and then had a probationary period before they could resume clerical ministry.
These Byzantines were never baptised by our Orthodox communion.
Therefore it must have been the case, and I believe that the writings of the Fathers show this, that they distinguished between the visible community which a person came from, and which might be in error in some regard, and the reality of the Church which subsisted in such broken-ness in a human sense.
This never meant that the errors in mind were not important. Or that the integrity of the Church was not important. But it seems to me that they understood the Church as being rather more resiliant to human imperfections. The Byzantines were certainly spoken of as heretics, but I sense that this meant that they were teaching error and heresy, not that all grace had abandoned them. They were still in some sense the Church, but a disabled limb, which there was always hope could find healing.
I mean that after Chalcedon the various Patriarchates were in the hands of the Chalcedonians. But this did not mean that the Church had ceased to exist. The Alexandrian community had to live in an uneasy state of persecution by their new Patriarch while preserving their Orthodox life in difficult circumstances.
At the first opportunity they consecrated their own Patriarch, Timothy, who very surprisingly and commendably in the circumstances urged tolerance and compassion towards all those who had 'collaborated'. He was willing even to accept the leaders of the Chalcedonian group, but was prevented by the will of the whole Church which had suffered such loss at their hands.
By 512 almost all the patriarchates were in the hands of our own Orthodox leaders. But it was the same Church essentially, swinging this way and that at the level of senior leadership and international Church politics, but on the ground there were just ordinary priests and people finding themselves under one leadership and then another. Some more or less relunctantly.
So it is hard to see that there were clear cut divisions between The Church and the Non Church even in these days of suffering such great persecution on our own part. There seems to me to have been good and bad bishops. Faithful and unfaithful bishops. Principled and unprincipled bishops. But most of the Church probably found themselves swaying this way and that without a very clear idea of what was happening.
In our own country the Protestant Revolution seems to have taken place against the will and inclination of most people. But within a generation or two England was firmly Protestant, not least because it was functionally impossible to be anything else.
Were those first generations of still vaguely Catholic people heretics? Or did they find themselves swept up in currents stirred by other more culpable leaders? And were the later generations schismatics considering they knew nothing other than Protestantism? People did try to remain Catholic but the forces acting against Catholicism were so strong that it was virtually impossible.
St Severus recognises that some court officials will have to attend Chalcedonian Church services but counsels them only not to commune. So it seems to me that he did not consider so completely negatively the spiritual life of the Chalcedonian communion, but that to take communion was to say something about belonging to it which was not appropriate.
iii. Since it was the case that Byzantines coming over to our communion were not baptised again, I wonder when the practice of baptising Roman Catholics began in the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate? I have not been able to find out, and of course exposure to Roman Catholics would have been minimal until the Napoleonic period.
It seems to me that the Roman Catholics are essentially Byzantine in their theology. This being so is the present requirement for their baptism because of later theological developments in Roman Catholicism? Or because the form of baptism has changed from immersion (practiced until the Middle Ages) to aspersion? Or is it because of the presence of Roman Catholics in Egypt drawing their members from the Coptic Orthodox Church? I am not sure.
If a Roman Catholic had been baptised by immersion would they be accepted?
I am not sure about the reasons for our present Coptic practice, since other Churches in our communion receive Roman Catholics with less restrictions. Nor can I see that the Roman Catholic Church is essentially and formally more defective than we have considered the Byzantine communion. They are, after all, two halves of a whole and share many of the same authoritarian aspects of Church life and governance.
iv. So is it the case that our Fathers were able to accept as Christian those who had been baptised in the name of the Trinity, and belonged to what was still in some sense The Church even though the expression of that Church life had been marred by human sin?
I think that it is so. And in the Byzantine tradition they also were able to accept as Christian in some sense members of various groups who were separated from the visible organisation of the Church.
Does this mean that everything is the Church and everyone is in the Church? I don't think so.
I think it is possible to say by faith that our communion is The Church in the fullest sense, because the Life of the Spirit which is the Life of the Church is a qualitative matter in our experience and not a binary one. I am in the Church, thank God, but how much is the Life of the Church, which is the Holy Spirit, in me?
I think it is possible to also say that the Byzantine communion is also The Church, but perhaps in a qualitative lesser sense, although it might be more reasonable to assert that all the Orthodox Churches are struggling, but perhaps with different problems of being human in the world. Nevertheless I do think it is possible to say that some aspects of Byzantine theology are less satisfactory and do tend towards certain ends which are not as spirit-filled.
Personally I do think it is the same with the Roman Catholic Church. Even though baptism is not by immersion, and it would be better if it were. There seems to me to be a clear intent that the person being baptised be regenerated in a sacrament and become part of the Church.
And much of the theology of the Roman Church is within the bounds of what is acceptable to the Orthodox Church, even though there is a different theological spirit about much of Roman Catholicism. I mean the spirit of scholasticism. And of course the Papal doctrines are unacceptable, but they have always been unacceptable and have generally been ignored by others without any breach of communion.
So I think I personally believe that the Orthodox - Byzantine - Roman Catholic communion is The Church in one sense, though there are local problems of clarity of theology and practice. There is One Church and this is it. Not branches. But qualitatively The Church filled with the Holy Spirit, but to varying degrees, because the Church is human as well as being the Body of Christ.
Am I not in The Church because I have a couple of strange non-Orthodox ideas? Am I not in the same Church as you because I am less holy? It seems to me that the Church is liable to this human element. It copes with it, just as the Scripture says that some parts of our body are more presentable and honourable than others.
The Protestant and non-Apostolic Churches are rather different. I was baptised as a Plymouth Brethren but we positively and explicitly rejected any sense of it being a sacrament. Therefore I cannot think that I was sacramentally baptised. It was not the same thing at all. And this, as far as my experience goes, holds for almost all non-Apostolic groups.
I must think of them, and of myself in those days, as a catechumen. I had faith in Christ, as a catechumen has faith. I had a relation to the Church, as a catechumen has a relation, a relation of being outside much of the blessing, while also being within the family of the Church. As catechumens I understand all these faithful believers, Christians, to be on their own journeys into the Life of the Church, which is the Holy Spirit. It has not been the will of God that most of these should complete their journey in this life within the visible boundaries of any Orthodox Church, but as catechumens in relation to the Church, and not heretics, we have a great responsibility towards them.
Yes, they are to be baptised when they come formally to the Church, and yes, much of the theological and practical systems which men have organised outside of formal Orthodoxy is defective in many ways. But as persons loved by God they are not on a different journey than our own, though they have further to go in some regards. And being on the same journey they are fellow travellers.
v. In short. I guess I consider systems (denominations) to be more or less Orthodox and more or less defective, even damaging. But the faithful people within them, if they love Christ, are in relation to Christ and therefore to The Church, to our Church.
Not all are members of the Church, otherwise the state of being a catechumen would have been meaningless. But we may consider all as being God-fearers in the sense of those Gentiles who loved the God of Israel but had not been received into Judaism through the rite of circumcision.
There are groups which need to be opposed as heretical, but there are others which need to be restored to unity with the wider Church as far as this ever becomes possible.
This is one of the aims of the British Orthodox Fellowship after all. To help people become MORE Orthodox where they are, because the next step in each of our journeys is where WE are. To the extent that each of us lives an Orthodox life we ARE Orthodox and we are Christian.
This can only find fulfillment in the formal bounds of the Orthodox Church, which is not an exclusive club but an inclusive haven. It received ME after all, but we are received on the Spirit's terms not our own.
I wonder, in conclusion, if much of our present 'hard-line' ecclesiology is not suited for our present times. It presents itself as 'One Church AGAINST all others'. I wonder if our mission is now to be 'One Church FOR all others', sharing what we have received, as far as we can, winning others for the fulness of Life in the Spirit, rather than circling the wagons in a fearful spirit of contamination.
Just a few thoughts, still no answers.
ecclesiology - kirk yacoub - 21-09-2007
Dear John and Peter,
Just a brief comment. Bishop Athanasios Touma explained to me that the Syriac Orthodox Church will commune anyone who considers themselves to be a Christian, excepting protestants, who are "non-Apostolic". I take the latter to mean that Anglicans are "Apostolic", but that all the other non-conformist groups are not. It is to be noted that the Oriental Orthodox Churches have recently decided to resume ecumenical discussions with
the Church of England. The problem of the Church of England is that you can be a member of it and believe whatever you want, therefore, unless the C of E suddenly decides to become very precise in what it believes, I do not see much hope of fruitful dialogue with them. The Syriac Orthodox Church also began dialogue with the Church of the East a few years ago, only to be told that it should not do so on its own, but as part of the Oriental Orthodox family. With the signing of a Christological agreement
between the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of the East a big barrier was placed between the RC Church and the Coptic Church. Further confusion was added following the invasion of Iraq. The Uniates in Iraq, who placed themselves under the Vatican in the 17th century, are now able to give communion to members of the Church of the East on the strength of the controversial Christological agreement. The knots are being further entangled.
I can see why Patriarch Zakka I Iwas has said that the devil is still up to his tricks to cause splits and divisions.
Kirk Yacoub
- Rick Henry - 21-09-2007
Dear Peter,
Yes, thanks very much for this post--this one's a keeper! I think I see an answer or two in your post, not the least of which is contained in the following when you say:
Quote:"So I wonder if as a first thought, those are only outside the Church who set themselves against the Church and themselves withdraw from the life of the Church?"
And, I think I would like to reread what you have written before possibly commenting further; however, after a first run through, as we consider those inside and those outside Orthodoxy Proper, is it a play on words to consider the possibility of turning from something without rejecting/withdrawing? As I reread even my own words here it sounds like mumbo jumbo, but for those of us who have had the legalists and the formalists sink their teeth into us in the past, it may warrant consideration as it is now applied to both extremes to be found in an ecclesial discussion such as this.
Thanks again Peter, good work.
In Christ,
Re: ecclesiology - John Charmley - 22-09-2007
Dear Kirk,
Yes, I fear that the Church of England probably needs to have ecumenical dialogue with itself first! Still, if a stand is taken against the Eposcopalian hierarchy, that will at least sugges that there are limits to what it will tolerate.
Quote:I can see why Patriarch Zakka I Iwas has said that the devil is still up to his tricks to cause splits and divisions.For sure His Holiness is correct.
In Christ,
Ecclesiology - John Charmley - 03-11-2007
Thinking further on this subject, I do wonder whether the ecclesiology of St. Cyprian has not helped imprison us in our current situation where we have a number of Churches all claiming to be THE Church.
Is it beyond the wit of a Church that was able to grasp the idea of the trinity to grasp an ecclesiology which sees three in one and one in three in ecclesiological terms?
So often, in these sorts of discussions, we find ourselves saying that although we believe that there is no salvation outside the Church, we do not necessarily believe in the damnation of those outside our Church 'because only God decides that'. If that is so, why do we believe it matters which Church one is in? If we believe it does matter, why are we not out there trying to save as many souls as possible?
Origen posited an ecclesiology which saw the mission of the Incarnate Word as being to the whole world, so the whole world was potentially 'the Church' - those actively converted were, so to say, the elect of the elect. It seems a more hopeful ecclesiology than one which concentrates on boundaries.
In Christ,
ecclesiology - kirk yacoub - 05-11-2007
Dear John,
Yes, there is only one Church, which is the only road to salvation, and the whole world is indeed, potentially, the Church. The only problem is the human perception of who is in the Church, not God's perception. We must follow the commands of Christ, we must live within the precepts of the Apostles and the Fathers, and then pray that we are really doing this. If you read the monastic Fathers in particular you will see how they understand the subtle slyness of the Devil in making us believe that by being baptised and attending the Liturgy we are neccessarily doing everything else right. It does matter that we are in an Apostolic Church, but that in itself will not be sufficient if we lack love towards our fellow creatures.
Kirk Yacoub
Thank you - John Charmley - 05-11-2007
Dear Kirk,
Extremely helpful - many thanks.
In Christ,
Ecclesiology again - John Charmley - 06-11-2007
Dear Kirk, Dear Rick, Dear Peter,
Pondering this topic further it occurs to me that our ecclesiology is usually used to draw boundaries and point out differences, but I do wonder whether we don't need a way of talking about something which the early Church did not have words for because it did not experience it - and that is the phenomenon of more than one Church claiming to be the one Church?
I don't want to go back to something like the Anglican 'branch theory' because I don't think that sort of metaphor actually describes what has happened, and therefore can't accurately scope it for us. But the phenomenon described previously, and familiar to us all, does require some language in which it can be discussed - and 'heresy' and 'schism' aren't perhaps the best words to start with - unless they are accurate representations. The question is - are they?
The iconography, liturgical life, Creeds and dogmatic believing of the ancient Church came down to us in forms at once Eastern and Western; this rich unity of patristic culture, expressing as it did the faith of the apostolic community was shattered by the schism between Catholics and Orthodox, even as it had earlier been damaged by Chalcedon. Catholics, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox all claim the exclusive title of THE Church - yet each of them inherits the same rich patristic culture, whilst claiming that each of them is the only one that possesses the 'fullness of the Faith'. It is a moot question, posed this way, as to whether any of them can actually substantiate that claim in any eyes other than their own.
There are some Catholic writers who have the humility (often wanting in all three Churches) to acknowledge that after 1054 (and I quote one):
Quote:No Church could now lay claim to the total cultural patrimony of both Eastern and Western Chalcedonianism - that is, the christologically and therefore triadologically and soteriologically correct understanding of the Gospel.
We can claim that the OO, the EO or the RCs do indeed possess the 'total cultural patrimony', but that is where we may disagree; my Catholic source (Fr. Aidan Nichols) evinces a humility from which we could all learn. Taking the same line as Pope Benedict takes in the recent CDF document, Fr. Aidan states:
Quote:the Orthodox churches are churches in the apostolic succession; they are bearers of the apostolic Tradition, witnesses to apostolic faith, worship and order - even though they are also, and at the same time, unhappily sundered from the prima sedes, the first see. Their Fathers and other ecclesiastical writers, their liturgical texts and practices, their iconographic tradition, these remain loci theologici - authoritative sources - to which the Catholic theologian can and must turn in his or her intellectual construal of Catholic Christianity.
He goes on to write:
Quote:only the Orthodox are, along with the Catholic Church, bearers of Holy Tradition - in the singular, with a capital 'T', that is, of the Gospel in its plenary organic transmission through the entirety of the life - credal, doxological, ethical - of Christ's Church.
What we find on examination is that the OO, the EO and the RCs are all liturgical, dogmatic and monastic Churches; all confess the Nicene Creed; all (perhaps) recognise the same Christology (even if the EO and the OO won't always admit it); all recognise that there are some real differences between them - some doctrinal, some dogmatic and some cultural and historical. These last we deal with by focusing on them; what about the commonalities?
It seems to me that we need an ecclesiology which says something about the common patristic and dogmatic inheritance as well as speaking to the differences. There is no inherent reason why St. Cyprian's ecclesiology cannot do this - just that we usually stress the boundaries. Of course, St. Cyprian did not have to deal with a situation where three Churches, all with a claim to part of the common patristic inheritance, would claim it all for more than a millennium and a half; that is our task - if we can embrace it.
This is not, I hope, a plea for 'indifferentism' - indeed, it is far from it. How do we describe those areas where we actually agree? Only by doing so - and proceeding from there, is there any chance of 'unity'.
As we have no examples of how such schisms can be healed - since they never have been - it may be rank optimism to think they can - but His command is there - and we ignore it at our peril - surely?
In Christ,
ecclesiology - kirk yacoub - 08-11-2007
Dear John,
John Romanides states things very clearly in the 'Concluding Remarks' to his excellent and provocative 'Ecclesiology of St Ignatius of Antioch':
"The ecclesiology of St Ignatius rests exclusively and harmoniously upon the Biblical teaching concerning salvation and its appropriation. The
resurrected flesh and blood of God is the only source of immortality, of unity with each other in Christ, and of power to struggle for selfless love and simultaneously defeat the devil. Salvation is not magical. God Himself saves those who gather together in the life of selfless love with their clergy... The visible Church is composed of those only who continuously share in the corporate eucharistic life. This life of selfless love for God and neighbour is an end in itself. Good works are not, therefore, performed for utilitarian motivations as part of divine-human business, but rather are expressions of the struggle for selfless love, as well as a most effective weapon against Satan. God has no need of man's acts of charity.
It is man who needs good works, prayer and fasting as a spiritual exercise for selfless love and as an effective means of remaining attentive and spiritually alert against the attacks of Satan... Beyond the life of unity centred in the corporate Eucharist as an end in itself there is no Church and only God can know if there is any salvation...
"As all other things pertaining to the Church, the clergy also exists for the sole purpose of preserving and increasing the life of unity and love...
in the flesh and blood of Christ. The authority of the clergy is founded exclusively upon the mysteries of unity in Christ... The clergy as such cannot save. Only the resurrected flesh of Christ saves when received in unity and selfless love for each other... Even within the corporate life of
the mysteries it is Christ and not the Church that saves."
Inevitably Romanides condemns the 'nationalisms' of Byzantium, the Papacy, and Anglicanism which, in attempting to extend the meaning of the Church beyond that of a Eucharistic community to one of national and therefore political significance, investing the clergy with powers and authority beyond that of the laity, actually diminish the true role of the Church. He adds that Eastern Orthodoxy will not be able to play a true ecumenical role "if she does not first drop her cultural, political, and national pretensions."
Powerful stuff!
Kirk Yacoub
Concrete Utopia or Abstract? - Rick Henry - 08-11-2007
Dear John, Dear Kirk,
Romanides words just leapt off the page at me here especially in the last paragraph as he speaks of "extending the meaning of the Church" and "pretensions/"pretense.
I have never considered it this way before; however, what a definition of the term 'cosmic irony' we have here. In an attempt to draw lines and pound boundary markers into the common ground found in the Kingdom of God, in an attempt to stake out protect, and elevate the one true, genuine, etc., Body of Christ, all the calls and prayers for unity in the New Testament are ignored, and the flag is raised which proclaims the kerygma of pretense is spoken here and that the true role of the Church is diminished.
And, just for the record, based on my reading of Eastern Orthodoxy the Eastern Orthodox hierarchy is not a hierarchy, as one might think. What I mean here is that in the EO Church, there is a kind of check and balance system. Whereby, Bishops can (as has happened in the past) come together and agree on something; but, the people of their churches have rejected it, and what was agreed on by the Bishops was abandoned and truly overturned by the people of the Church, the Church.
So hopefully, no one will see this as a plea for insurrection anymore than one would see the above as a plea for indifferentism, but as you suggest John, the Church is living in a time and experiencing a way of being that she has never before. And, this may very well require a way of talking, a language, that has not been employed in the past. Based on my limited view/perspective, there is an increasing number of people who are seeing the prayer of the Lord (John 17) as being something to not ignore, but how to speak of this at all? How to speak of a unity which is as the Trinity. I am not aware of a theology or a branch of theology that deals with this--we are not speaking of ecclesiology here now.
On the one hand, I think a true unity of the East and the West (whatever that means these days) will probably not ever be realized in the here and now, and it will only be realized as an eschatological event. But, on the other hand, IT is here and now and available for those to participate in for those who can/may transcend all divisions in Christ.
But, it is here where the one who would transcend all divisions in Christ is placed in an awkward position. To speak of this moving beyond the cultural, political and national pretensions is in many ways like blowing in the wind. To just live in the reality of the Church and the Kingdom of God that is within, the Inner Kingdom, is to move beyond all of this and to work out our salvation for ourselves, to be involved as we are gifted and called, and to be known by our love . . . in this sense the one who has transcended all divisions in Christ is usually not found in such ecumenical debates, they are moot. But, it is as you imply John, if we ignore the words of our Lord and especially Paul, we do this at our peril.
Also, on one hand, at times it seems there is no use in discussing such things, even if all participants are willing to come to the table--it usually ends up being a tiring exercise where well honed responses are traded and all those who agreed with each other in the beginning agree with each other in the end, and vice-versa. But, again, on the other hand, I am not so sure that within the ranks and phalanx of the common man and woman there is not a common ground that has come into view, and if my vision is close to being accurate, then it is not a time to be depressed or get down in the dumps, but a time to begin rejoicing. Time will tell.
I think it was another John (Lennon) who wrote something like, "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one." And, for that matter, if I remember correctly also, it was another Peter, and a Paul and a Mary who sang, "The answer my friend, is blowin' in the wind, the answer is blowin' in the wind."
In Christ,
Ecumenism - John Charmley - 09-11-2007
Dear Kirk, Dear Rick,
I am deeply in your debt for continuing this discussion in such a constructive and eirenic way. Kirk's quotations are wonderfully thought-provoking.
I am struck by the frequency with which the phrase 'the fulness of the faith' is used by Orthodox and Catholic writers; few of them appear to be converts from the other, so quite how they are qualified to pronounce thus is an interesting question. On both sides of the divide comments get made which, if accurate, would presuppose a depth of experience within that Church which few, if any, of the writers possess. Kirk's quotation about 'the Church' is one of the most thoughtful I have seen on this vexed subject.
The close identification between Orthodoxy and nationalism does seem to question its Catholicity in some ways; even as the equivocation of some parts of the Catholic Church on some crucial issues may be seen to cast doubts on its Orthodoxy. The unwillingness of some Christians to admit to the need for repentance might be thought a trifle surprising?
In Christ,


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Jay & Silent Bob will be in town, but they won�t be here to sell pot, that�s for sure. They just want to chat.
The comedy duo has been through a lot together during their 25-year friendship, and their �Get Old� show at the Community Concert Hall will delve into some of their most private experiences.
In real life, Jay is Jason Mewes and, as on screen, is foul mouthed. Silent Bob is Kevin Smith, but he is actually quite talkative and a successful film director.
Like their movies, such as �Clerks� and �Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back,� their live comedy show will be raunchy. There will be mention of sex, alcohol, drugs and whatever other adult content they may come up with. Some of it will be for entertainment purposes, but some of it will also come from a very real and personal perspective.
Mewes, 38, is on a tour of sobriety. The show began as a podcast in 2010 as an intervention. Doing hard drugs such as heroin on and off for nine years, he had a huge problem, and his life was going nowhere fast.
�I explained my situation to Kevin, and he said �Why don�t we do a podcast? Maybe if you�re accountable to others, and you talk about it, it�ll help you stay off that stuff. We�ll talk about drug use, how you�re doing each week. That way, you�ll be accountable to people,�� Mewes said by phone from Los Angeles.
And things are looking good for him these days. At the time of our talk a few weeks ago, Mewes was 920 days sober. He and his wife, Jordan Monsanto, also celebrated their four-year wedding anniversary this month.
�It�s awesome. When I go out in public, I�ll be at Starbucks or Target or something, and someone will come up to me and say, �Hey, Jay. Thank you so much for your podcast. I just turn it on and it inspires me to stay sober one more day,�� Mewes said.
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Their 100th podcast, recorded Dec. 22 at The Jon Lovitz Comedy Club & Podcast Theatre, was a benefit for victims of the storm. All of the money from the show was donated to the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund.
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the parking brake. short for emergency brake. when pulled at fast speeds, it causes the car to lose control and slide around
hold on bro, im gonna pull the e-brake around this turn
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In a process of stroking a male, the female covers the urethra with her thumb in a fashion of pressing the e-brake button, and restricts any flow of sperm to go through, causing an emergency brake.
"Yo why you walkin like that?"
"My bitch e-braked me again, caused my sacks to pop"
"My bitch e-braked me again, caused my sacks to pop"
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A very useful tool in a front-wheel drive car. Allows the driver to slide around/drift when pulled at high enough speeds, and to keep the car in place when doing a burnout.
Dude 1: Dude, you can't drift this shit, it's FWD..
Dude 2: Yeah, but I can still e-brake around this corner!
Dude 2: Yeah, but I can still e-brake around this corner!
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When someone calls shotgun for the front seat of a car and you call E-brake which means you will give them a handjob for shotgun.
He called shotgun before I could so I called E-brake and got shotgun.
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quote: " Wasn't Apple the #1 smartphone seller in America Q4 2012". May I add that apple in America is protected by judges and politicians, because they figure that apple is an Icon of America, what about the rest of the world. I don't see apple bragging about sales and profit outside American borders. America preaches Free Trade as long as their the beneficiary of the end result. I just see Protectionism at all cost.


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Citizen alleges city park is no longer safe at night
September 7, 2013
The Buckhannon City Council encouraged citizens Thursday to utilize the anonymous tip line after one citizen publicly reported witnessing questionable activities on Park Street....
Don't worry, we all have guns. Several guns & plenty of ammo. What we fear is that the deals are being so brazenly transacted. Hopefully it will be stopped soon.
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Tuesday, 13 March 2012
It's real!
I'm too excited for a proper blog post, so I'll just bung up a few random competition links and then sneak off to drink wine whilst gazing lovingly at my new baby.
This one is for stage, film, radio or documentary writing and could win you £6,000.
For this one you're invited to write up to 350 words either prose or poetry about a woman who has inspired you. The competition is being run in support of International Women's Day.
And this one gives you a chance to get your hands on an iPad 2.
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Patsy congratulations!!!ReplyDelete
It looks so good! Look at that - a book, a real live book! You deserve a glass or two :-)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousTuesday, March 13, 2012 6:49:00 pm
I will now need to get drunk.ReplyDelete
Many thanks to you and your lovely book for this opportunity.
Doesn't it look lovely! Congratulations :-) xReplyDelete
It's lovely, Patsy. Congratulations!ReplyDelete
Thanks, Alex!ReplyDelete
Cheers, Annalisa!
Big Fat Lion, you're very welcome to join in my celebrations.
Thanks, Teresa. I'm very pleased with the cover.
Thank you, Pat.
Is it any kind of coincidence that the young lady is ... a redhead?ReplyDelete
Looks great, Tosh, even down to the pippi longstocking stockings!
Well done again!
- AnonymousTuesday, March 13, 2012 7:55:00 pm
Fantastic - Knowing how hard you worked on this may it be the first of many.ReplyDelete
Oh my gawd! It is real. You've done it Patsy. Looks great. Hugs xReplyDelete
No and yes, Celia. The main character (who has lots of fun, eats lots of cakes and gets her man) is a redhead so it's no coincidence the girl on the cover has red hair. It is however a coincidence that the mc and author both have similarly coloured hair. Honestly, in all my unpublished novels they're blondes and brunettets or have black hair. There's even one with grey hair.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Niddy. I had help - as you know because you're one of the lovely people who provided valuable feedback when I was writing this.
Thank you, Diane.
WOO HOO! and Congratulations to you! cover looks great ~ adore those stockings she has on.ReplyDelete
Hi Patsy .. well done and it looks so good .. love it - good luck .. cheers HilaryReplyDelete
It's beautiful! Congratulations, Patsy. :)ReplyDelete
Farawayeyes, they're great aren't they? I'm pretty sure that Phillip Grizzell (the guy who designed the cover) had to make them himself.ReplyDelete
Thank you, Hilary.
Thanks, Linda!
Wow! Yes, it is truly beautiful!ReplyDelete
OH PATSY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
Oh wow!! Happy Dance!! Happy Dance!!!
Oh it looks amazing - look at it!!
Awwww YAY!!!!!! So where can I get my SIGNED (hint, hint!) copy!??!?!?!
Take care
Well done, Patsy. Really good news. This just shows the rest of us that you can get published.ReplyDelete
I think the cover looks great, Patsy. Well done. The excitement is certainly building...ReplyDelete
Thank, Baggy. I love it.ReplyDelete
Kitty are you happy for me? It's hard to tell ... Of course I'll be happy to sign you a copy.
Charlie, it really can be done. All you have to do is write the thing, polish it up and be really persistent until someone gives in and publishes it.
Thanks, Carol. I'm hoping it doesn't build much more round here or something is likely to break!
What a great moment for you, Patsy! You must be so excited!ReplyDelete
Fab fab fab......Perfect, modern, so very you Patsy.ReplyDelete
Nice looking cover, Patsy. Have you got a publication date yet?ReplyDelete
Your cover is beautiful. Congratulations on getting your book out there.ReplyDelete
Is this the same book you were happy dancing about? That's come out really quickly.ReplyDelete
COGRATULATIONS. This is big.
Brilliant!!!!! Congratulations :o)ReplyDelete
Indeed I am, Frances!ReplyDelete
Thank you, Suzy. Glad you like it.
Thanks, Rob. I should be able to announce the date today (fingers crossed)
Thank you, Beth.
Yes, Deborah it is the same one - and yes it has come out quickly. (The publisher had already had it a while before I announced my good news but it's still been quite a speedy process)
Thanks, Vikki.
How wonderful... you lucky, lucky, girl. Good luck with it.ReplyDelete
Wonderful, Patsy! I feel your excitement. Enjoy every second.ReplyDelete
And thanks for those links.
Patsy, I'm so so happy for you. You did it!ReplyDelete
Congratulations Patsy!ReplyDelete
It looks great, and like any other new parent, you deserve a glass or three to celebrate.
x Liz
Many congratulations, Patsy! I hope it's a big success for you.ReplyDelete
Thank you, Jarmara!ReplyDelete
Thanks, Rosemary.
Yes, Sarah - I did it!
Lizy, if you say so it must be true - I'll go open a bottle!
Thanks, Dan. I hope so too!ReplyDelete
Way to go, Patsy! That has got to be an awesome feeling.ReplyDelete
Many congratulations on your wonderful news!ReplyDelete
You must be walking in air! I wish you every success and best wishes.ReplyDelete
Congrats on a beautiful cover!ReplyDelete
Wooo hoooo!! Congrats! That's so exciting, Patsy. :)ReplyDelete
Thanks, Milo - it is!ReplyDelete
Thank you, Chris.
Thanks, Maria.
Thanks, Nancy.
Thank you, M Pax.
Love the cover pic. So exciting for you! I thought I'd commented on this post before, must have drifted into cyberspace.ReplyDelete
BTW You've been lucky 7 tagged on my blog
Woo-hoo, Patsy. Congratulations, sweetie. I'll keep me eyes peeled for a copy, and... I WANT IT SIGNED!ReplyDelete
Thank you, Madeleine.ReplyDelete
I'll be very happy to sign it, JJ.
I'm so pleased for you, Patsy - just catching up with everything after St Paddy's!!!ReplyDelete
Well done, you deserve it and it's a great tale. :]
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Tonight, the Jacksonville Jaguars and Tennessee Titans are fighting to keep up with the rest of the AFC South in front of a national TV audience on Monday Night Football.
I'm Jack Harver, Bleacher Report's Featured Columnist for the Jacksonville Jaguars, and I'll be taking an incisive look at what's happening in tonight's game.
If you're watching the game live, I'll try to season what you're seeing with thoughtful analysis. If I'm your go-to source for updates, I'll deliver the goods with the most important events from the opening warm-ups to the final whistle.
Neither of these teams lack motivation to give this game their all. Should be a good one.


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University recently conducted a study that
shows a minimal number of scientists who do not accept that human
beings have contributed to the Earth's climate change have "far
less expertise and prominence in climate research" than
scientists who do believe climate change has been affected by
university came to these
conclusions by analyzing the number of research papers
published "by more than 900 climate researchers" and the
number of times these researchers' works were cited by other
scientists. The expertise was evaluated by citing the number of
research papers written by scientists (with the minimum number for
inclusion being 20).
was analyzed by finding the four most popular climate change and
non-climate change papers published by scientists, and "tallying"
the number of times these papers were cited. According to the
results, approximately 64 percent of papers by climate researchers
of human contribution were cited more often than those who
are unconvinced.
are standard academic metrics used when universities are making
hiring or tenure decisions," said William Anderegg, lead author
of a paper published in Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences.
scientists who participated in the study were also involved in
creating the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which compiled and "assessed
the evidence for and against human involvement in climate change, as
well as any climate researchers who signed a major public statement
disagreeing with the findings of the panel's report."
addition, the university's team of scientists decided on who the top
100 climate researchers are by determining the "total number of
climate-related publications each had." According to Anderegg,
97 percent of those in the top 100 agree with and/or endorse the
IPCC's assessment. He also says that this result has been "borne
out" by other studies that use different methodology.
really wanted to bring the expertise dimension into this whole
discussion," said Anderegg. "We hope to put to rest the
notion that keeps being repeated in the media and by some members of
the public that 'the scientists disagree' about whether human
activity is contributing to climate change."
scientists at Stanford have mentioned that they are ready to take
some heat from doubters of anthropogenic, or human-affected, climate
change who "object to their data." But according to Stephen
Schneider, a professor of biology and a coauthor of the paper
in Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences, the
team "took pains to avoid any sort of prejudice or skewed data
in their analysis." When selecting researchers for the study who
either disagreed
with statements of the IPCC or signed the petitions, the
Stanford team was sure to stay completely neutral in the study by
omitting "those who had no published papers in the climate
says that despite the careful analysis of this study, skeptics of
human-affected climate change will "claim foul" anyway, and
will say that climate researchers who are onboard with the idea of
anthropogenic climate change are "just trying to deny
publication of the doubters' opinion," but he challenges them to
"go out and do a study to prove it -- it is of course not true."
think the most typical criticism of a paper like this -- not
necessarily in academic discourse, but in the broader context -- is
going to be that we haven't addressed these sorts of differences
could be due to some clique or, at the extreme, a conspiracy of the
researchers who are convinced of climate change," Anderegg
you stop to consider whether some sort of 'group think' really
drives these
patterns and it could really exist in science in general,
the idea is really pretty laughable," he said. "All of the
incentives in science are exactly the opposite."
Stanford study is the first of its kind to address the issue of
scientists' opinions of human-affected climate change, and what their
level of expertise and prominence in the field is.
quote: Changes in the Sun's brightness over the past millennium have had only a small effect on Earth's climate, according to a review of existing results and new calculations performed by researchers in the United States, Switzerland, and Germany.
quote: Warming by the Sun and other variations in natural systems cannot explain global warming... The simulations that include only natural variability, including changes in the Sun and eruptions of volcanoes, show that we should have seen a decrease in the global average temperature in the last several decades.The simulations that most closely resemble the observed record are the ones that take the cooling effect of air pollution and the warming effect of greenhouse gases into account.
quote: According to Shindell, the new study also confirms that changing levels of energy from the sun are not a major cause of global warming.Many scientists have argued that the radiation change in a solar cycle — an increase of two to three tenths of a percent over the 20th century — are not strong enough to account for the observed surface temperature increases. The GISS model agrees that the solar increases do not have the ability to cause large global temperature increases, leading Shindell to conclude that greenhouse gasses are indeed playing the dominant role.


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Man accused of kidnapping freed from jail
February 21, 2013
The 19-year-old Elkins man who was being held on kidnapping charges is free after pleading guilty to one misdemeanor count of conspiracy in Randolph County Magistrate Court. James E....
maybe she should have just embezzled the cash from someone then she wouldnt be in trouble, just have to pay it back. this comment is related to another story in todays paper that lacked a comment box.
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TAHOE, Calif. — The North Lake Tahoe Historical Society will host two tours in August: Their Annual Home Tour and Historic Bus Tour. The Annual Home Tour attendance is exclusive to NLTHS members only. Individuals may purchase membership for as little as a $30 annual fee ($5 for full-time students). The Historic Bus Tour, which is open to the public, attracts a large crowd, and will likely sell out again this year.
The Annual Home Tour takes place Aug. 2 on the West Shore of Lake Tahoe, taking guests through historical Tahoe homes and modern homes. "This is a chance to step inside some of the most interesting and beautiful homes on the lake. Each home has a story to tell, and each is captivating," said NLTHS Executive Director Marguerite Sprague. Food and drink will be served at one of the homes. Tickets are on sale for $55.
The popular Historic Bus Tour will return Aug. 24, and participants will be taken along the Lake Tahoe's west shore. The tour guide is local Tahoe author, "Storm King" Mark McLaughlin. McLaughlin will regale guests with little-known facts, weather quips and anecdotes. A picnic lunch is included with the ticket price. Tickets are $60 for NLTHS members and $70 for non-members.
"The Historic Bus Tour is an exciting summer event for Tahoe locals and visitors. Mark McLaughlin brings Tahoe history to life on the tour and, with lunch included, it's a uniquely Tahoe day," said Sprague. To make reservations or to get more information on the Home Tour and the Historic Bus Tour, call 530-583-1762 or visit www.northtahoemuseums.org.
The North Lake Tahoe Historical Society operates two museums in Tahoe City: Watson Cabin Museum and the Gatekeeper's Museum, which features the Marion Steinbach Indian Basket Collection showcasing more than 800 baskets from 85 tribes west of the Mississippi River. The North Lake Tahoe Historical Society's mission is to preserve and present Lake Tahoe history both regionally and in the larger context of the American West. For more information, visit www.northtahoemuseums.org or call 530-583-1762.


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Clarence Naugle, 33, of Hedgesville, died Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, at City Hospital.
Born June 14, 1979, in Martinsburg, he is the son of Roxanna Moore and the late Randal E. Naugle.
He was employed by James Rumsey Technical Institution.
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Clarence Naugle
In addition to his mother, he is survived by his wife, Ashley Kyne; one daughter, Desiree Naugle; one stepbrother; three stepsisters; one sister, April Palmer; grandmother, Betty Houck; and uncle, Greg Naugle.
He was preceded in death by his grandfather, Earl Moore.
Memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Monday, March 4, 2013, at Brown Funeral Home with the Rev. Billy Moore officiating. Interment will be private.
The family will receive friends from 2:30 to 3 p.m. prior to the service.
Online condolences may be offered at www.BrownFuneralHomesWV.com.


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It is distressing enough that a national school quality program gives West Virginia low marks for how it prepares and manages teachers. Worse is that little progress has been made during the past two years.
Our state ranks 41st in the nation in rankings released by the National Council on Teacher Quality. The letter grade assigned us is D-plus, the same as in 2009.
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and state legislators are taking limited steps to improve public schools. More action is expected later this year, as a result of a comprehensive "audit" of education in West Virginia.
Some legislators are expressing increasing frustration at the slow pace of school reform. They are right to worry; every year that passes without major progress represents a high school graduating class of thousands of young Mountain State residents who could have been prepared better for life in the 21st century.
Evaluations by the NCTQ are in five categories: delivering well-prepared teachers, expanding the teaching pool, identifying effective teachers, retaining effective teachers and exiting ineffective teachers.
Specific criteria are used to rate the states and recommendations for improvements are made.
Some of the council's suggestions would be relatively easy to implement. For example, under "delivering well-prepared teachers," the council notes that while teacher preparation programs are required to teach the science of reading, education students are not required to pass tests to gauge their knowledge of the subject. It should not be difficult for the state Department of Education to devise such a test.
In other areas - especially identifying and retaining effective teachers - the task is much more demanding.
It is not one from which state - and local - officials should shrink, however. Better schools are an absolute necessity for West Virginia. Concrete, effective steps to provide them must be taken.


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A schmazoolie is an amount equaling a dollar given to a musician at the end of a gig. Especially when payment is being made by a jewish band leader with a sense of humor. Toronto DJ Danny Marks coined the phrase in 1988.
Hey Stig, here is your 300 schmazoolies, go get a haircut.
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Canadian Association for Latin American and caribbean Studies
in association with CAAS, CASA, and CANMES
April 27 – May 1, 2005
Marriott Chateau Champlain, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Planning Committee
The Canadian Council of Area Studies Learned Societies (CCASLS), in conjunction with the Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS), the Canadian Asian Studies Association (CASA), The Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS), and the Canadian Association of Middle Eastern Studies (CANMES) is pleased to announce a call for papers for its inaugural, multidisciplinary conference. Panel proposals are strongly encouraged, since it will ensure interesting and thematically coherent sessions, of course, individual proposals are equally welcome. All proposals should fall into the theme of the conference.
Early Submission Deadline: September 15, 2004
Submission Deadline: December 15, 2004
Furthering the Globalization Debate: Cross Regional Comparisons
CCASLS represents several Area Studies societies covering Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Middle East. While Appadurai considers Area Studies as "the largest institutional epistemology through which the academy… has apprehended the world in the last fifty years", it is clear that the reluctance to transcend regional or local boundaries, or move outside traditional disciplines, has hampered our attempts to elucidate the structures and processes that are often only vaguely captured by the catch-all abstraction called "globalization."
This CCASLS conference is an attempt: to integrate the academy with NGOs and policy makers; to bring together scholars from different regions and perspectives who often "dig long and deep" in their own case study areas while remaining oblivious to the theories and methodologies of those asking the same research questions in other places; to make sense of the real, existing impacts of globalization by presenting "deep" comparisons of places, cultures and economies; to understand the changing structures and processes of world history so that we may "historicize" globalization.
We ask for papers that address the theory and methodology of comparativism; that integrate regional studies in a comparative context; and that help us understand the social variables that constitute particular regional or local studies, so that such studies can be matched with similar research projects from other places.
Papers must conform to the overall theme and/or the sub-themes. Potential contributors who are unsure which sub-theme is appropriate for their papers should specify "Other" and leave the decision to the Program Committee. Papers which are irrelevant to the objectives of the conference will not be accepted. The sub-themes are:
Theorizing the Integration of Area Studies
Capitalism and the New World Order
Historicizing Globalization
Social Inequality and Social Cohesion
Health, Disease and Society
Globalization and the International Division of Labour
National and Cultural Sovereignty
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Goldtop, VG++. Another '70s Gibson with fairly small shipping numbers. These had unique electronics. The pickups are 1 3/8" wide smaller than full size humbuckers yet bigger than P-90s. They are crisp, unique, and easy to love. Came to us with the electronics in pretty rough shape, we rewired everything new pots and wires. But, no longer functional are the "phase" and "level" controls. Now it's simply wired like a Les Paul. Selector switch on top, volume and tone for each pickup. You're welcome! No breaks, original color, gold top is beautiful. Nickel Kluson tuners, mix of knobs, some original, one not. (One original has no numbers again unique.) With newer hard case, a real nice player from Kalamazoo.
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SYCAMORE - The new season is only a week old, but it's not too early for a key battle between Midland Athletic League favorites.
"This league's tough," Carey coach Phil Vaughn said. "... You knew going in, when we look at the front of the schedule and right there is Mohawk, at Mohawk. In our league you play everybody once, and you get one shot."
Vaughn and his Blue Devils made the most of their one shot at a team thought by many to be one of the top challengers to knock them off the top of the MAL mountain. An early fourth-quarter spurt and clutch foul shooting led Carey to a 48-42 win.
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Carey's Ali Rymer looks to go up for a shot as Mohawk's Kasey Adelsperger defends during Friday's game in Sycamore.
"It was a big win," Vaughn said. "Went back and forth, they went up early, we come back. It was kinda a tug-of-war there. Then again, like [Carey's season opening win] against Wynford, I felt like we hit our free throws down the stretch. We had a rash of turnovers in the first half, I felt like we settled down a little bit more at the end of the game with turnovers. It seemed like we took care of the ball at the end of the game better then we did through the first 28 minutes or so."
After falling behind early, Carey took a 24-20 lead into halftime, only to see Mohawk's Julie Adelsperger key her team in a third-quarter rally. Adelsperger knocked down a 3-pointer with time ticking off the clock to give Mohawk a 34-32 advantage heading into the fourth.
"We were just saying, 'keep playing, keep going hard. We can do this,'" Carey's Ali Rymer said.
Carey started the fourth quarter strong. A basket by Sydney Wentling tied the game, then Rymer gave her team the lead, converting an and-1 play. Hannah Draper followed with a basket and the Blue Devils quickly turned their deficit into a 39-34 lead.
"We needed to win the fourth quarter by four points, heading into it with the mindset that we needed some stops. We needed to get back to at least even so mentally you know that it's there," Vaughn said. "It's a lot easier when the scoreboard reads even or your ahead. The girls got some stops and got some big rebounds I felt in that stretch."
Rymer said a strong start to the quarter was important.
"It was big so we didn't have to force shots and make ourselves take bad shots," she said. "They had a lot of holes so we would take advantage of that. We'd cut into open spots; we did some things to get easy shots."
Rymer topped the Blue Devils with 14 points and shared the team-high in rebounds with Shelby Kin, pulling in six.
Mohawk kept fighting back, twice getting within a point, the last time coming with 1:17 to play when Megan Cleveland pulled down an offensive rebound then assisted on a Clara Adelsperger basket that cut Carey's lead to 41-40.
Carey, though, hit 10 of 11 foul shots in the fourth quarter to seal the win.
"We just got to get more fundamentally sound on the offensive end," Mohawk coach Mike Beck said. "We were having trouble making 10-foot passes. It's hard to get into an offensive flow when you're continually turning the ball over. I thought our defense, especially in the second half, we made the adjustment at halftime that we can't play behind in the post. 'Cause if a post player can score and you let them pass it they're going to score. ... I thought defensive, it was better the second half. I think if we continue to improve defensively, I think that will help us win a lot of games."
Mohawk started the game fast, jumping out to an 8-2 lead and a 13-9 advantage after the first quarter.
Carey, though, turned up the pressure defense in the second, forcing nine turnovers in the quarter as the Blue Devils jumped ahead.
"I just felt like they were too comfortable in their offense," Vaughn said. "It seemed like they were running good sets. We knew Julie could shoot. Her shots that went in hand a hand in her face, they were contested 3s. When we helped too much, that's when Kasey (Adelsperger) hurts you. ... I felt like we had to start running and jumping a little bit, and get them our of their comfort zone."
Mohawk was able to improve its ball control in the third quarter while Julie Adelsperger heated up from the field.
She scored 11 of her 14 in the third quarter as Mohawk rallied to take the lead
"I felt that was a real critical part in the comeback," Beck said. "We talked about in halftime that some of our better players were going to have to step up offensively. We adjusted against their little trap, their man-trap and went to more of a two-guard look and I thought we did a lot better in attacking the trap against our man offense once we did that."
Julie Adelsperger also led the team in rebounds with seven. Kasey Adelsperger chipped in 12 points.
Wentling added seven points for Carey while Kin and Draper each added six.


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Taking the bar exam is an experience all its own, and your success depends on how well you prepare. You've heard about the all the different review courses, but which option is right for you?
This event will provide a one-stop opportunity for you to meet representatives from five bar-review programs and learn their unique approaches to preparing students for bar exam success. Representatives include BARBRI, Kaplan, Merlin, Shemer and Themis.
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The Russian Avant-Garde, Siberia and the East. Kandinsky, Malevich, Filonov, Goncharova
In September, 2013, the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, will host The Russian Avant-Garde, Siberia and the East. It's the first international exhibition to examine the fundamental importance of the Oriental and Eurasian connection to Russian Modernism, follows the destinies of Russia's self-proclaimed "Barbarians" in their search for new sources of artistic inspiration. Neolithic stone figures, Siberian shaman rituals, popular Chinese prints, Japanese engravings, Theosophical doctrine and Indian philosophy are some of the elements which inspired Russia's new artists and writers as they developed their aesthetic and theoretical ideas just before and after the Revolution of October, 1917. The exhibition demonstrates how modern Russian culture experienced a deep attraction to—and an apprehension of—the exotic, the unknown and the "other", qualities which artists and writers identified with the spirit of the taiga, the virgin territories of desert and steppe and the "otherness" of Oriental culture.
Dates of this event 27/09/2013 - 19/01/2014