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Last year, the Puerto Rican film Maldeamores (translated as Lovesickness) premiered at Tribeca Film Festival to a great reception, and after making the rounds of film festivals around the world, is finally being released in New York, Chicago and Miami. This comedy, directed by husband/wife Carlitos Ruiz Ruiz and Mariem Perez and produced by Benicio del Toro, explores love from its most tender moments, like a childŌĆÖs first kiss, to the madness it can stir in our lives, such as infidelity, without the typical novela rosa weŌĆÖve come to expect from Latin American films. Or at least with a twist: in┬Ā Maldeamores, clich├®s are consciously romanticized for the sake of humor and successfully so.
Set and shot entirely in Puerto Rico (in the towns of Isabela and Aguadilla),┬Ā Maldeamores relies on three separate love stories like Amores Perros, but with a high dose of colloquial humor to portray the ups and downs of love. Luis Guzm├Īn (Traffic) makes his Spanish (and Puerto Rican film) debut playing Ismael, a cheating husband driving his wife, Lourdes (the excellent Teresa Hernandez) to her motherŌĆÖs funeral. Her hysterical wailing and incessant phone chatter with fellow grievers ŌĆ£no puedo creer que se nos fue la vieja,ŌĆØ she cries, pushes her son Ismaelito (Fernando Tarrazo) to ponder about the terrible timing of his grandmotherŌĆÖs death at the same time heŌĆÖs developing his first crush on a cousin. Plus, Ismael is also dealing with some uncomfortable news of his own from his mistress, also part of the family.
On a different part of the island, Miguel (Luis Gonzaga, known for the popular theatre troupe Teatro Breve) proposes marriage to Marta (Dolores Pedro) a woman he knows very well….but only from riding on the bus every day.┬Ā Marta, a bus driver, gives him a cold rejection, to which Miguel decides to hold the entire bus hostage, leaving amateur cops, priests and everyoneŌĆÖs typical "ay bendito" attitude to handle the situation. But the winner tale, and the most developed one, is the love triangle between los viejitos Flora, Pell├Łn and Cirilo. Flora, played flawlessly by New York-based actress Silvia Brito, is still living with her ex-husband of 28 years, Cirilo (Chavito Marrero) when an unexpected visit from her daughter forces her to house yet another ex under the same roof. Pell├Łn, (Miguel Angel Alvarez) wastes no time to put the moves on Flora, much to CiriloŌĆÖs dismay. And Flora puts both macho men in their place… until sheŌĆÖs ready to be re-awakened.
The film does a good job of capturing the idiosyncrasies of Puerto Rico, and Latin American humor in general, with plenty of "carajos" and over-the-tops dichos like "tan feo como tan franco" (Macho, IsmaelŌĆÖs inebriated brother,) and "Ay Cristo de los milagros, recibeme en tu santo pecho" (Lourdes) or "A los 70 andar en bata es como andar en panties" (Cirilo). MaldeamoresŌĆÖ cinematography and set design has a purposely retro- romantic feel, with obsessive attention to detail worthy of an Almod├│var film. The funeral scene shows an at-home velorio, with la muerta on a bed in her wooden house full of family members reciting the rosary. FloraŌĆÖs house seems stuck in the 1940ŌĆÖs, and everything from the wallpaper, to the fridge and her jeans have flowers on them. The geriatric love nest also lacks a modern bathroom, as if this were normal in modern-day Puerto Rico (instead, thereŌĆÖs a much more pintoresque outhouse in the yard next to the roosters.) There are no shopping malls or highways in Maldeamores and all the cars are shiny, atemporal, brown and without AC. All these situations might be unlikely clich├®, but they lend themselves for the hilarious image of a betrayed woman fighting a cousin as prayers are heard in the background. And so does the archaic shower outdoors where Pell├Łn is the victim of CiriloŌĆÖs jealousy and a few ara├▒azos from a rooster. The music varies, from reggaeton (but good one like ├æejoŌĆÖs "No quiere novia") to salsa and boleros, making the soundtrack (supervised by Cultura ProfeticaŌĆÖs Omar Silva and SuperaquelloŌĆÖs Eduardo Alegria, who also wrote original music) complimentary to each scene. But the true jewel is the question the films asks in the final scenes. IsmaelitoŌĆÖs innocent first peck and FloraŌĆÖs re-awakening to life and her sexuality are as powerful as the sad image of Miguel still longing for Marta after the hostage debacle, or Ismael stealing TeresaŌĆÖs television as he leaves her por la otra. This bittersweet (not sugarcoated) look at love at each one of its stages and how its power can easily jolt us with adrenaline or cause us much sorrow is what makes Maldeamores a triumph.
The movie itself is a little labor of love by first time feature film directors Ru├Łz and Perez, who studied in Chicago and Cuba respectively, and producer Luillo Ru├Łz, CarlitosŌĆÖ brother. In fact, their production company is called "Pajaritos Pre├▒aos" another Puerto Rican dicho which means "to dream of impossible things." An impossible dream that became the first film to win a grant through Puerto RicoŌĆÖs nascent Film Industry Corporation and a first for Maya Releasing, a new distribution company from legendary producer Moctezuma Esparza (Selena, HBOŌĆÖs Walkout) who is distributing it in the US. During one poignantly hilarious scene, Flora tells her daughter "Mira mi amor, esta chocha es mia" with mischievous pride. Maldeamores is using that same defiant, playful attitude to put good Puerto Rican cinema on the map.


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Christian Theological Seminary is a journey.
At the core of our identity, we are not a campus or a single group of people, since so many have participated in our common work over the seminary's nearly 160-year history. CTS is a journey, a pilgrimage we can only travel by continually listening for God's call, and for how we can best live out our historic mission "to form disciples of Jesus Christ for church and community leadership to serve God's transforming of the world."
Every journey has its stages and stations along the way, and the CTS Board of Trustees has discerned that we have come to one of those key junctures. Like other seminaries, we face new realities in 2014, both on campus and in the surrounding world. The shifting North American religious landscape calls for new programs and educational formats. While the CTS student body is now half the size it was 20 years ago, our faculty size is the same, resulting in a student/faculty ratio that has reached an unsustainable level. Higher education is in significant transition, creating new opportunities for innovation and institutional partnerships.
CTS is in a strong position today, but the path we have been on for decades is not organizationally and financially sustainable into the future. The Board is committed to ensuring the school's sustainability so that we can continue to accomplish our mission with excellence for generations to come. With all this in mind, at the Board's direction and authorization, CTS is today taking decisive steps to move onto a sustainable path – while we are still strong.
This plan will put the seminary on a new and sustainable path, strengthening our financial stability and capacity to live out our mission in fresh and creative ways, and repositioning the school on the verge of a new leg on the journey in our long history of visionary theological education.
Change can often be difficult and painful, even when it's motivated for sound reasons, and always when it impacts the lives of beloved colleagues. It is fitting that we take time – with heavy and grateful hearts – to honor the lasting contributions of our colleagues, even as we look ahead to what long-term financial strength and stability can mean for Christian Theological Seminary. Farewells and greetings, sorrows and joys, trials and blessings intertwine. In view of all of this, we are making pastoral care available to our faculty, staff, and students, with the capable guidance of Rev. Mary Harris, our Dean of Students and longtime friend and colleague of many of us at CTS.
At times on the journey, things change and transform. And as we look to the road ahead, the Board's actions will result in enhanced student scholarship programs and recruitment initiatives, increased capacity to financially support the educational innovations of our faculty, more robust community engagement, and the ability to properly care for our campus. Most importantly, however, this plan will result in a new and sustainable path for CTS into the future, enabling us to accomplish our historic mission for generations to come.
The journey continues. CTS is strong. What the Board of Trustees has done is direct and authorize the CTS administration to make this strength sustainable, so we can journey into the twenty-first century.
If you have any questions about this important announcement, please don't hesitate to be in touch with me. Please keep our entire CTS community, as well as those communities we seek to serve, in your prayers. We give thanks, especially in times of change, for the One who always travels with us on the Way.
God's peace,
The Times recently ran an article on atheism in which, almost in passing, the author cites a Pew Forum study to support the claim that "roughly 20 percent" of Americans are "secularly inclined" as opposed to religious. National Public Radio ran a series this week entitled "Losing Our Religion." Religion News Service ran a story that The Christian Century published under the headline, "Unbelief is world's third-largest 'religion'".
And yet all of this is misleading, subtly but decisively. Each of these stories, in various ways, combines and collapses three categories: "Atheist," "Agnostic" (these two combined currently constitute only about 5% of the U.S. population), and "Unaffiliated," that is, those who do not claim a particular religious affiliation (the so-called "Nones," who constitute about 15%). But if you read the Pew Forum's report on the rise of the Unaffiliateds, you'll find that 70% of them believe in God; 60% call themselves either "religious" or "spiritual," and 40% of them pray. Lumping together this group with atheists and agnostics, or calling their increase a rise in "unbelief" or a case of "losing our religion," is sloppy analysis at best.
Worse, this kind of categorization lends support to the false impression that U.S. society, and world society with it, is turning away from religious convictions and toward atheism or agnosticism — a conclusion the data simply do not support. Affiliation patterns are changing, it's true (this is also true of political affiliations: "Independents" are on the rise in the U.S.). But we also live in a breathtakingly religious age: in percentage terms, religious belief and practice are basically holding steady in the U.S. overall, and globally, no less than 84% of the world's 7 billion people claim a particular religious affiliation — and a great many of the other 16%, while they may not identify as members of a particular brand of religion, nevertheless call themselves "religious" or "spiritual."
Religion deeply, widely matters, and will continue to do so, both at home and abroad. Thinking otherwise will lead our thoughts astray, whether we are within or without religious communities. And the stories we tell about religious trends matter, too.
The more we mislabel data and suggest that "roughly 20 percent" of the U.S. population are atheist or agnostic (to take the New York Times example), the more we run the risk of concluding that religion is on the way out — the "secularization thesis" that has come and gone, and now has come again, on the American scene. What's more, this misunderstanding runs the risk of actually contributing to the trend it falsely announces, since it conjures visions of a stampede for religion's exit door ("20 percent!") — and as every antelope knows, stampedes attract followers. On the other hand, the secularization myth may be especially tempting for historically mainline churches today, since it provides a handy excuse for any failure to attract or retain younger generations ("well, it must be them, not us"). In other words, for churches, too, mis-telling the story leads us to misinterpret our situation.
The point here is not that Christian communities should be complacent about the rise of the Unaffiliateds, or simply rest assured that religion is alive and well. Rather, the point is that we should read the data rigorously and wisely, resisting the "secularization" interpretation as long as the data do not support it, and instead working to be nimble enough to engage Unaffiliateds according to their own cherished values: independence and flexibility, to be sure, but also, in many cases, a genuine, vital interest in religion and spirituality.
It's Christmastime, and our hearts are full. This weekend, CTS hosted the Gifts of Grace program here in on campus, an event bringing together hundreds of families to enjoy a bounty of gifts, food, and fellowship. When children smile, we rejoice in a special way. And those smiles, along with those on the faces of their mothers and fathers and grandparents and guardians, were beyond counting. Thank you to the CTS volunteers who represented our community so generously and so well, and to the CTS facilities staff who so kindly and professionally made it all possible.
Hope and sorrow, sorrow and hope. The truth is, Advent and Christmas aren't about glittering lights alone: they're about the light shining in the darkness, "and the darkness has not overcome it" (John 1:5). In other words, every glittering Christmas light is best understood and experienced as a light shining against the encroaching shadows all around us. That's what Christmas lights are for. The season, then, is surely one of joy and wonder and delight – but always over against injustice and heartbreak and despair. After all, it's no accident that we celebrate Christmas morning amidst the longest nights of the year. It's no accident that King Herod's anxious rage is right there at the center of the story, that even as "unto us a child is born," at the same time children are ruthlessly slaughtered and lost, and their parents refuse to be comforted (Matthew 2:16-18). And it's no accident that God's Incarnation is a vivid act of solidarity with the vulnerable. God arrives as a poor peasant baby in occupied territory. The Maker of Heaven and Earth comes as an infant, utterly defenseless, a soft spot on his head.
There are no easy answers here. Theology is often about knowing when to say, "We don't know." And yet, this season as always, we can pray together, act together, struggle together, and learn together. We can wait and watch for the mystery of Christmas morning with a special urgency. We can reach out to each other, mourning with those who mourn, rejoicing with those who rejoice. And through it all, we can give thanks for God's presence in our sorrow, God's presence in our hope.
I read that at one of the candlelight prayer vigils in Newtown this weekend, the assembled sang, "Silent Night." Round yon virgin, mother and child. Holy infant, so tender and mild. A voice is heard in Ramah, Rachel weeping for her children.
Our hearts are broken. Our hearts are full.
Christmas blessings,
Protestants now make up 48% of U.S. adults, the study reports, down from 53% in 2007 (and down from 2 out of 3 in the 1960s). The so-called "Nones" – that is, those who check the box indicating "no religious affiliation" instead of any particular one – have increased by about the same percentage that Protestants have declined.
But let's dig a little deeper into how Nones describe themselves. According to the study, they are not dominated by atheists (only 2% of American adults identify as atheists) or agnostics (only 3%). On the contrary, 70% of Nones say they believe at least somewhat in God or a higher power. That's right: 7 out of 10 Nones say this. Even more telling, 6 of 10 describe themselves as religious or spiritual. 4 of 10 say they pray.
The takeaway here is that what most Nones seem to value is not atheism or agnosticism or anti-religiousness, but rather a kind of openness, flexibility, and independence when it comes to religious affiliation. Consider a political analogy: an uptick in those who identify as "independent" with respect to political party might indicate a shift away from a certain kind of partisanship, but not a shift away from politics itself. So too with religion.
Part of the problem here is with the word "Nones." Digging into the data, it's clear that this group has "no religious affiliation in particular," but not "no religious beliefs or practices." "Unaffiliated" is a much better, clearer term.
Two other caveats: in the supposed golden age of American Protestantism (the 1950s and 60s), significant numbers of Christians likely "checked the Protestant box," so to speak, primarily because it was socially respectable to do so. What may be going on in the decades since is not so much a "shift away from religion" as an increase in clarity and candor about religious affiliation.
Finally, while it's true that nearly 1 in 3 Millennials (those born after about 1980) are Unaffiliateds, the Millennial generation is also the largest in American history – and so there may well be plenty of Americans interested in religious affiliation in the years and decades to come. Moreover, down the road, the picture changes even more. Just last year, for the first time American hospitals welcomed more babies of color than Caucasian babies, and since religion so often plays such a strong role in African American and Latino communities, among others, an American religious renaissance – a "shift toward religion" – may already be on its way.
The bottom line, then, is that the Pew study has no simple bottom line. What's really going on today in American religion – an ebb? a flow? a reconfiguration? – remains an open, important, fascinating question.
]]>And so I'm writing with a warm invitation for you to join us for worship this semester, each and every Wednesday at 11:30am in Sweeney Chapel. I know (all too well!) that there are many demands on all of our schedules – and for that very reason, we need to come together in worship, reminding one another about why we do the work we do in the first place, and inspiring one another to live and serve with both excellence and grace.
If you already attend chapel regularly – thank you (and do invite a friend!). And if you come only occasionally, consider committing to come every week. We need you there. Perhaps more than anything else, CTS needs to become a vibrant, connected, inspired community, and worship is one crucial way Christian communities grow and thrive.
Last week was Convocation, and tomorrow is the first regular chapel service of the year. Come, taste, and see. If you are a singer (and I know you are!), come sing with the fabulous CTS Pick-Up Choir: we rehearse at 11am, learn the song right then and there, and then sing it in worship that day. What could be better? If you love Scripture, the passage tomorrow that our preacher (yours truly) will be tackling (or is it the other way around?) is from the Gospel of Mark: Jesus' famous question, "Who do you say that I am?" And during lunch, we'll continue the conversation: I'll host a table in the cafeteria at which we'll discuss the critical question: "How do we understand Jesus today?" All are welcome!
And finally, if you want to share your gifts and get involved in CTS worship this year, please know you are more than welcome to do so. This fall, Professor Tércio Junker is convening a Community Worship Group of students, staff, and worship practitioners, and they will be keenly interested in your "dreams and visions" for the future CTS worship.
Come one, come all! Pick-up Choir at 11am (try it!); worship at 11:30am; and Christological conversation at 12:30pm in the cafeteria!
Looking forward to seeing you there.
Your family is probably the same, and so is mine. In fact, in some respects, it is closer to the truth to say that Christianity is a community of debate about Jesus Christ – not a community of lockstep agreement about him. What makes us "Christian" is that we are committed to interpreting Jesus (and therefore to arguing about him from time to time) and following him as best we can.
And this is why a crucial question in religious life is the question of essentials, of boiling things down, of interpreting certain aspects of the tradition in terms of other, more important aspects. In the Christian Bible, for example, though Deuteronomy 22 reads that if a new bride is found by her husband not to be a virgin, she shall be stoned to death by the men of her town (Deut 22:20-21), it is also written that above all, God requires us to "do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with God" (Micah 6:8). And so in Matthew's Gospel, Joseph, faced with Mary's surprising pregnancy, confronts an interpretive challenge: which text should govern his actions? Joseph decides to read the law as a guide to mercy, not violence – and so begins the Christmas story.
Joseph gets it. He understands that though certain portions of his own religious tradition may be quite readily interpreted toward violence, the essence that that tradition, the key texts and themes and narrative contours, actually point in the opposite direction. And of course Jesus, the good rabbi, does the same, interpreting the essence of the law in terms of loving God and neighbor. Acting violently in the name of Christianity – or for that matter, in the name of Islam or any other religion that essentially asserts peace – may be historically common, but it is nonetheless mistaken. It misses the center of things, the heart toward which God calls us again and again.
Is religion violent? It certainly can be, and it often is. But Christianity, to take the religion I know best, is at its heart a ploughshare, a tool meant to make for harvest and bounty, and ultimately for nourishment and good health. It's true that we too often beat it into a sword, and for that we should continually confess and seek forgiveness. But we shouldn't let such misuse distract us from seeing what Joseph and Jesus saw so well: religion's blade isn't for violence. It's for turning over the earth, so that all may eat together.
]]>This kind of preaching and teaching "with the Bible in one hand, and the newspaper in the other" (as Karl Barth is said to have put it) provides at least two major advantages. It's an opportunity to consider and engage a major political issue in light of the gospel. It's also an opportunity to consider and engage Christian life in light of a major biblical and theological motif: the idea that every disciple is fundamentally a pilgrim, a "stranger in a strange land."
As far as immigration from the South is concerned, the reality is that our southern border is everywhere – it's not just along the far rim of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Undocumented workers' extremely low wages enable low prices in supermarket produce sections across the country, and a similar subsidizing effect is in place in a whole range of homestead industries: construction, housecleaning, landscaping, house painting and so on.
The U.S. standard of living depends on poor people who work for low wages and are often separated from their families for long periods of time because of immigration laws. Becoming more aware of these dynamics means becoming more aware of reality itself – and of the real consequences and costs of our everyday decisions.
It isn't for nothing that the Bible spends so much time reminding readers that they, too, were (and so in some sense still are) slaves, strangers, aliens in a foreign land. It's a point that might motivate us again and again to work to reform our society into a more humane, self-aware, graceful place to be.
]]>At the heart of the Christian tradition is a story about violence, the story of the cross. There are many ways to interpret that story, of course, but at its heart is a searing indictment of violence in its manifold forms: betrayal, desertion, assault, humiliation and shame. What happens to Jesus – at the hands of his enemies, but also at the hands of his trusted friends – is a devastating, heartbreaking thing. That God miraculously makes something good out of this ruin doesn't change the indictment; if anything, it underscores it. God is a God of life, and so opposes the world's ways – our ways – of death, contempt and destruction.
The cross, we should never forget, is an ancient instrument of torture and intimidation. The good news of Easter morning is that God has transformed and will transform even the worst into signs of life and resurrection.
Reasonable, well-meaning people will disagree about the precise role physical force should play in Christian parenting, but in my own view, the indispensable role of the parent is to protect the vulnerable bodies of children. Love can sometimes be "tough," as they say, but it should never injure. Our homes, our lives, our most precious relationships should be pockets of patience and resurrection, sanctuaries against the swirling storm.
]]>Facing such tragedies, Christians can do at least three things. May God grant us the grace to do them well.
First, we can deny easy answers. In catastrophe we confront great mysteries, and the mysteries demand to be honored. We certainly cannot say, "God willed this," and we can respectfully, strongly object to those who do. But at the same time, by the same token, we cannot simply say, "This happened against or despite God's will," thereby conjuring up a world full of chaos against which God is powerless or indifferent. Either way, we claim to know too much, and we are in no position to make such pronouncements. We are in a position to pray.
And so second, we can pray. We can offer prayers of solidarity, standing as best we can with the lost and grieving, the living and the dead. We can pray not only with our words but also with our wallets, our time, and our talent. We can reach out across the city and around the block to all those affected, near and far. We can act, touch, listen – and lend a hand.
Third, we can lament. We can join our voices with the brokenhearted singer of the Psalms, asking those passionate, difficult, ancient questions that ring down through the ages: "How long?" and "Why?" Anger and sorrow have a place in our lives and therefore in our prayers, and denying easy answers sometimes means persistently pressing the unanswered questions.
We stand today in a world both beautiful and broken. There is so much that needs to be done. People that need to be fed, wars that need to end, bodies that need protection, hearts that need encouragement. It's enough to overwhelm us, too much, too much. It's enough to send us to our knees to cover ourselves in dust and ashes, the very debris of death.
And yet, think of this: the Eastern Orthodox Church calls the weeks leading up to Easter Sunday the season of "bright sadness." That sounds just about right, doesn't it? We are called to be a light to the nations, to let our light shine – but not in a way that stands apart from the world's sorrows, or our city's sorrows, or our neighbor's sorrows. On the contrary, we are called to shine in a way that illuminates those sorrows, and that stands with the sorrowful in their grief and their hope.
This is who we are: people of bright sadness. Each of us called to deny easy answers, and pray, and lament, and shine until the shadows become like the noonday sun.
Our hearts are broken. There's nothing easy here. Let us pray.
Holy and beautiful God, you created this soft, green earth, and you called it good. You made the oceans depths and the soaring mountains. For your earth and for your people: Lord, have mercy; Christ, have mercy; Lord, have mercy.
God of wind and rain, God who said to the storm, "Peace – be still," we cry and beat our breasts with all those who are grieving. How long will disasters haunt our days? How long will hearts and bodies break and bleed? How long will parents bury their children?
God of grief and anger, this is what we know: Even in the valley of the shadow of death, still we are held, still we are loved, still we are brought back to life, rocked so sweetly in your everlasting arms. God of hope against hope, we call on you, we depend on you. Deepen and brighten our sadness.
God of love and new life, for your earth and for all of your people, living and dead, wounded and healing: Lord, have mercy; Christ, have mercy; Lord, have mercy. You are our refuge and strength. You are our very present help in times of trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the winds may rage, though the mountains be toppled into the depths of the sea. Be with us now. Have mercy. In Jesus' name, Amen.
]]>Boulton is relocating to Indianapolis from Cambridge, Massachusetts where he has served as Associate Professor of Ministry Studies at Harvard Divinity School (HDS) since 2007. He has taught a broad range of courses on Christian theology, preaching, and history, including courses that put social justice work in theological perspective. His teaching and research have explored the ways in which Christian life is shaped through worship and music.
CTS Chairman Mark Mutz commented that Boulton understands that the most important work in theology does not occur in the insulated towers of academia, but where faith meets the joys and sorrows of living. "If you look back at those who have made the most significant contributions to theology – people like St. Augustine, John Calvin and Karl Barth – you will see that they were all pastors who spent a great deal of time with men and women confronting the most difficult and rewarding issues of their lives, issues like children, marriage and death. Their thinking arose where their faith met these realities. Matt gets that. He has not only written respected academic works, he has also made films, founded a church and started a band. He has the intellect, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit to lead CTS and theological education in exciting directions," Mutz said.
An accomplished musician and songwriter, Boulton co-founded the bluegrass gospel band, Butterflyfish. He notes that the arts can provide effective means for conveying theological concepts. "Just as scholarly writing can explain and explore the big ideas of Christian faith, a song or work of art can bring clarity and insight to those very ideas, making them easier to engage and understand," Boulton stated.
Boulton is no stranger to the Midwest. The son of a religion professor, he grew up in southwest Michigan and earned a degree in film and history from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, before an interest in anthropology, ritual studies and theology prompted him to enroll in Harvard Divinity School.
Prior to his teaching at HDS, Boulton served as Assistant Professor of Worship and Preaching at Andover Newton Theological School. He is the author of God Against Religion: Rethinking Christian Theology through Worship and the forthcoming Life in God: John Calvin, Practical Formation, and the Future of Protestant Theology, due out this fall. His essays have been published in a broad range of scholarly journals, and he is a sought-after speaker, preacher, and workshop leader.
Boulton said he was intrigued by CTS's legacy of exploring faith in ways that engage both intellectual rigor and passionate inspiration. "We strengthen and deepen our faith by asking critical, adventurous questions while at the same time leaning into what most inspires us. I look forward to working with CTS's accomplished faculty and staff to continue asking these questions in fresh, exciting, faithful ways," he said.


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Randolph J. Noelle, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Microbiology and Immunology
Albany Medical College, PHD 1980
SUNY - Stony Brook,
Dr. Noelle was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas from 1980-1984
and in 1984, he joined the faculty of Dartmouth Medical School as an Assistant Professor. In 1995, he was promoted to Professor of Microbiology and Immunology.
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In 1991, Professor Noelle's laboratory identified a novel membrane protein expressed on helper T lymphocytes (Th), CD154. The receptor for CD154 is CD40. CD40 is expressed on B lymphocytes and antigen-presenting cells. This ligand-receptor pair plays a central role in the control of antibody- and cell-mediated immunity. Intervention in CD154-CD40 interactions (by genetic deletion or antibody-blockade) can block a wide spectrum of immune and autoimmune responses as well as transplantation rejection. As a result, the laboratory has focused on four areas of immunobiology that are relevant to CD40 function.
Regulatory T cell biology:
Peripheral tolerance in cancer and in graft tolerance is sustained by regulatory T cells. Our laboratory studies the network of cells (mast cells, DCs) and factors (PD-L1, Retinoic acid) that control their activities.
B cell memory and plasma cell development:
Our goals are to understand the factors that control the remarkable longevity of plasma cells and memory B cells in mice. Studies using global gene analysis have and will lead to novel genetic targets that allow us to understand the mechanisms that allow the persistence of these cells in humans for decades.
Immune tolerance in transplantation:
Perhaps the most impressive activity of ±CD154 is its ability to block the rejection of fully allogeneic skin, heart, kidney and islet allografts in mice, and in some of these cases in monkeys. Exciting new insights into how ±CD154 induces peripheral T cell tolerance and long-lived graft acceptance have emerged from these studies. The impact of ±CD154 on T cell anergy, regulatory T cell function, and dendritic cell biology are all elements in engendering permanent allograft survival.
Recently we have shown that retinoic acid can exert profound effects on Tregs and are now deeply involved in how this dietary supplement controls T cell fate.
Cancer vaccines:
CD40 is such a powerful activator of the immune system, we have exploited it as a target in producing a new generation of molecularly defined immune adjuvants. Using CD40 agonists and other pro-inflammatory mediators we are engineering adjuvant platforms that can induce profound levels of cell-mediated immunity. Our interest lie in both the practical development of these novel platforms and the basic science behind how they work.
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Polycomb Associates Genome-wide with a Specific RNA Polymerase II Variant, and Regulates Metabolic Genes in ESCs Cell Stem Cell, Volume 10, Issue 2, 3 February 2012, Pages 157-170 Emily Brookes, Inês de Santiago, Daniel Hebenstreit, Kelly J. Morris, Tom Carroll, Sheila Q. Xie, Julie K. Stock, Martin Heidemann, Dirk Eick, Naohito Nozaki, Hiroshi Kimura, Jiannis Ragoussis, Sarah A. Teichmann and Ana Pombo Summary Polycomb repressor complexes (PRCs) are important chromatin modifiers fundamentally implicated in pluripotency and cancer. Polycomb silencing in embryonic stem cells (ESCs) can be accompanied by active chromatin and primed RNA polymerase II (RNAPII), but the relationship between PRCs and RNAPII remains unclear genome-wide. We mapped PRC repression markers and four RNAPII states in ESCs using ChIP-seq, and found that PRC targets exhibit a range of RNAPII variants. First, developmental PRC targets are bound by unproductive RNAPII (S5p+S7p−S2p−) genome-wide. Sequential ChIP, Ring1B depletion, and genome-wide correlations show that PRCs and RNAPII-S5p physically bind to the same chromatin and functionally synergize. Second, we identify a cohort of genes marked by PRC and elongating RNAPII (S5p+S7p+S2p+); they produce mRNA and protein, and their expression increases upon PRC1 knockdown. We show that this group of PRC targets switches between active and PRC-repressed states within the ESC population, and that many have roles in metabolism. Summary | Full Text | PDF (2411 kb) |
Phase Resetting and Phase Locking in Hybrid Circuits of One Model and One Biological Neuron Biophysical Journal, Volume 87, Issue 4, 1 October 2004, Pages 2283-2298 S.A. Oprisan, A.A. Prinz and C.C. Canavier Abstract To determine why elements of central pattern generators phase lock in a particular pattern under some conditions but not others, we tested a theoretical pattern prediction method. The method is based on the tabulated open loop pulsatile interactions of bursting neurons on a cycle-by-cycle basis and was tested in closed loop hybrid circuits composed of one bursting biological neuron and one bursting model neuron coupled using the dynamic clamp. A total of 164 hybrid networks were formed by varying the synaptic conductances. The prediction of 1:1 phase locking agreed qualitatively with the experimental observations, except in three hybrid circuits in which 1:1 locking was predicted but not observed. Correct predictions sometimes required consideration of the second order phase resetting, which measures the change in the timing of the second burst after the perturbation. The method was robust to offsets between the initiation of bursting in the presynaptic neuron and the activation of the synaptic coupling with the postsynaptic neuron. The quantitative accuracy of the predictions fell within the variability (10%) in the experimentally observed intrinsic period and phase resetting curve (PRC), despite changes in the burst duration of the neurons between open and closed loop conditions. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (503 kb) |
Robust Entrainment of Circadian Oscillators Requires Specific Phase Response Curves Biophysical Journal, Volume 100, Issue 11, 8 June 2011, Pages 2557-2565 Benjamin Pfeuty, Quentin Thommen and Marc Lefranc Abstract The circadian clocks keeping time in many living organisms rely on self-sustained biochemical oscillations entrained by external cues, such as light, to the 24-h cycle induced by Earth's rotation. However, environmental cues are unreliable due to the variability of habitats, weather conditions, or cue-sensing mechanisms among individuals. A tempting hypothesis is that circadian clocks have evolved so as to be robust to fluctuations in the signal that entrains them. To support this hypothesis, we analyze the synchronization behavior of weakly and periodically forced oscillators in terms of their phase response curve (PRC), which measures phase changes induced by a perturbation applied at different times of the cycle. We establish a general relationship between the robustness of key entrainment properties, such as stability and oscillator phase, on the one hand, and the shape of the PRC as characterized by a specific curvature or the existence of a dead zone, on the other hand. The criteria obtained are applied to computational models of circadian clocks and account for the disparate robustness properties of various forcing schemes. Finally, the analysis of PRCs measured experimentally in several organisms strongly suggests a case of convergent evolution toward an optimal strategy for maintaining a clock that is accurate and robust to environmental fluctuations. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (358 kb) |
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Synchronous oscillations in neural activity are found over wide areas of the cortex. Specific populations of interneurons are believed to play a significant role in generating these synchronized oscillations through mutual synaptic and gap-junctional interactions. Little is known, though, about the mechanism of how oscillations are maintained stably by particular types of interneurons and by their local networks. To obtain more insight into this, we measured membrane-potential responses to small current-pulse perturbations during regular firing, to construct phase resetting curves (PRCs) for three types of interneurons: nonpyramidal regular-spiking (NPRS), low-threshold spiking (LTS), and fast-spiking (FS) cells. Within each cell type, both monophasic and biphasic PRCs were observed, but the proportions and sensitivities to perturbation amplitude were clearly correlated to cell type. We then analyzed the experimentally measured PRCs to predict oscillation stability, or firing reliability, of cells for a complex stochastic input, as occurs in vivo. To do this, we used a method from random dynamical system theory to estimate Lyapunov exponents of the simplified phase model on the circle. The results indicated that LTS and NPRS cells have greater oscillatory stability (are more reliably entrained) in small noisy inputs than FS cells, which is consistent with their distinct types of threshold dynamics.


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A 10-Test All Black with a World Cup under his belt, it's a little odd that, at just 25, he isn't quite champing at the bit to be back in the driver's seat of the most anticipated team in the New Zealand conference.
But as he revealed to Sportal 'a long ride' of dealing with injuries, including the most recent - a broken fibula, has taken a toll on his usually clear head where despondent thoughts have led to the question: 'Can I do it again?'
"Physically I'm going to come right. I'm going to get strength back and I'm going to be able to tackle again; it's just [whether] mentally 'can I do it again?'" Slade explained two weeks after returning to contact training.
"Can I think to myself that if I go out to a breakdown or something like that, I won't break a leg again?"
Skipping the Highlanders' season opener against the Chiefs, Slade will instead use a development side match to 'remember how to play rugby' before even thinking about a return to the front lines.
A bye in round two will be another chance to clear the cobwebs with the B team if he chooses.
For the second time Lima Sopoaga is set to kick-off the season, literally, in Slade's absence - as he did in 2011.
The Wellington-based 22-year-old made positives strides in his combination with Blues recruit Ma'a Nonu in a 38-21 win over the Crusaders.
Still, coach Jamie Joseph is 'frustrated' to not have Slade, who has played just eight games in two years under him, available for selection but said there was no need for him to return prematurely.
"He has started doing a bit of rugby but he's better to get his leg absolutely right," Joseph said of Slade's participation in half of the team's 10 training sessions per week.
"There could be a slight chance he could be available for the match against the Chiefs ... but it's going to be touch and go and we're not going to rush him."
Joseph's fondness of physical contact has helped Slade overcome his reluctance to take the big blows once again.
"That's the good thing about Jamie; he loves hard training and he loves contact and that's good for me because I've got no choice, I've just got to go in there and do it," Slade said.
"He's not like 'just go in there and see how you go.'"
Nine 'lonely' months of physical rehab ensured plenty of time to ponder the unfortunate series of events that have blighted his career.
And while he admits continuous injuries make mental recovery even more difficult, he has opted not to seek professional help from sports psychologists which are available to the squad.
"There are options for it but I'm of the opinion, and it's a personal opinion of mine, that if you talk too much about it will happen," he said.
Slade overcame a niggling groin injury and two broken jaws to pip more experienced candidates, Aaron Cruden and Stephen Donald, to the World Cup as Dan Carter's deputy - who he later replaced as the starting No 10.
That triumph was met with more disappointment after a sandwiching tackle between Argentinean defenders in the quarterfinal left him grimacing face down on the Eden Park turf clutching his torn groin.
In 2012, after a hernia operation restricted his second Highlanders pre-season, a fit-again Slade threw his hat back in the ring, confident the injury curse had left him.
Running at the Rebels with ball in hand, he had no idea he was about to face his biggest struggle yet.
The sickening sound of his leg buckling beneath the ensuing tackle is something that is hard for the former Crusader to forget.
"I don't want to say to myself that I'm going to be scared of the breakdown, because I'll talk myself into it," added Slade.
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"Dancing with the Stars" co-host Brooke Burke-Charvet says she has thyroid cancer.
"Dancing with the Stars" co-host Brooke Burke-Charvet says she has thyroid cancer.
Burke-Charvet posted a video message Thursday on YouTube disclosing her condition and her plans for surgery to remove her thyroid.
The 41-year-old mother of four says a lump on her thyroid was found during a routine biopsy.
She said in the video that the surgery has been scheduled, but didn't specify when. She said it will leave "a nice big scar right here," tracing a line across her throat.
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>> Take Aston Martin's most accessible car, the V8 Vantage, take off the top and here's what you get. The V8 Vantage Roadster. One of the show stoppers going on here at the LA Auto Show. Now the basic mechanicals remain the same on this vehicle. Of course it's been stiffened up as all convertibles need to be, but Aston claims just a slight weight increase. They use a lot of exotic materials and bonding technologies to create the under pittings of their cars anyway. So stiffening didn't require a whole bunch of ungainly welding to be done. When the top is down, it's very interesting. You've got this hard shell cover and a couple of upholstered sort of power bulges back here that are almost kind of Pontiac Solstice. I know they don't want me to say that, but that's what they remind me of. Inside the car, we're looking for some interesting technologies that would include a slot for the SIM chip out of your GSM phone. That's how you might enable the in card telephony on this. Instead of actually using your phone via Bluetooth, you take the chip out, put it in the car and the car's internal phone rig becomes the actual phone. That's a very tidy and robust way to do in car telephony. Other interesting technology here is a battery conditioning and battery cut off apparatus built into the electrical system. That way you can keep the car from aging in place if you're not driving it every single day. And I figure folks who have one of these probably have a few other interesting cars as well. So this may not be their daily driver. In terms of power, 380 horsepower, do zero to 60 in under five seconds, six speed manual or a paddle shift automatic is also available on this vehicle. Deliveries will start in Q2 07. ^M00:01:30 [ Music ]
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I saw Susan on Thursday. She was SO happy. She was very nervous about graduate school, but she just got her first paper back and it was an A!
I am grateful beyond words and deeply moved by your help. I am equally grateful and moved by the donors who, with giving hearts, helped me get the books I needed for my studies. This act of kindness has encouraged me even more to pursue this dream and pay forward the kindness shown to me. I can not say this enough times or with enough conviction, but thank you. Thank you so much, for your help and support. This moment, and everyone involved, will forever be in my thoughts and prayers.
I need books for my graduate school classes and help with tuition. This includes books like "Philosophy and Contemporary Issues" by Burr, "What Does It All Mean" by Nagel, and "Herzog" by Bellow. There are several other books as well, and they are all very expensive and add up quickly, especially when I earn less than $50 a month and I will probably earn less than $30 a month if this program is cut.
Meeting this need will help me because I hope one day to teach college courses. To do this, I need to have a master's degree or higher. I absolutely want to teach courses inside the prison, and I think I might be able to make it work, but I need to go through this degree.
This goal to me, when I hear people talk about education, they talk about making a living. For me, I want to do this to make a difference. I want to help people accomplish something. If I can teach them, they will change their whole demeanor. Once they know they can get a degree, even a GED or a vocational degree, they will be able to do so much. I remember when I didn't believe in myself, but now I do. School has made such a difference in my life.
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Foligno scores twice as USA moved closer to avoid relegation
COLOGNE The United States beat France 4-0 for its second straight win at the IIHF World Championship on Sunday and moved itself into a prime position to avoid being relegated to international hockeys second tier.
The USA has six points, while France and Italy have three apiece. The Italians beat Kazakhstan 2-1 on Sunday, creating the possibility of a three-way knot for first place when the relegation round ends Tuesday.
The easiest way for the Americans to avoid being relegated is to gain at least one point against the Italians on Tuesday.
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Nick Foligno, with a pair of goals, Brandon Dubinsky and T.J. Oshie scored for the USA in the second period and goaltender Scott Clemmensen didnt exactly have a tough game in registering the USAs second shutout in as many days.
Clemmensen and Ben Bishop shared the duties in goal in a 10-0 win over Kazakhstan on Saturday. The 10-goal margin of victory was the most one-sided win in the World Championship for the USA since a 12-1 triumph over Switzerland in round robin play.
While the French proved to be a stronger opponent than the Kazakhs, the score flattered them. The French defencemen struggled trying to contain the Americans all game. And the French didnt have much in the way of velocity on their shots, not to mention their shot selection wasnt up to snuff.
Oshie came within the width of a crossbar of scoring what would have been the only goal of the first period. He went from forehand to backhand with the puck on his stick and his shot beat goaltender Eddy Fehri but it struck iron.
Foligno finally solved Fehri at 4:49 of the second on a smart play by Johnson. The USA captain sent a cross-crease pass to Foligno, who was hovering off the left post. Fehri slid across his net to make the initial save and Foligno jammed the rebound past the goalie.
"We've been telling him it was time he started scoring," joked Johnson.
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Dubinsky doubled the margin at 13:11 by whipping a rebound past Fehri from between the faceoff circles.
Any chance of a French comeback were all but snuffed out at 1:46 of the third as Oshie snapped a rebound into the net for a 3-0 lead.
Foligno made it 4-0 on a wrist shot high to the stick side at 13:41 of the third.
Clemmensens best save of the game came in the second period when the teams were tied 0-0.
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Clay Matthews Says the Packers Beat Themselves Last Year in the Playoffs, 37-20.
Clay Matthews is a laughable human being. He's become less of a football player and more of a marketing tool for State Farm. Clay Matthews wears diapers. It's a proven fact. He also is a one trick pony that only knows how to rush the quarterback, and can only do it successfully after he's abused many, MANY performance enhancing drugs to the point that ... Let me check ... Yup, that's illegal to do in professional football. Oh, and he was also the "anchor" on the 32nd ranked defense in yards allowed last season. "But points matter more than yards!" SHUT UP YOU HIPPY. The Packers defense sucked, and they got beat by the New York Giants in the divisional round of the 2011 (2012? Damn season split over a calendar year) playoffs, 37-20 and no one thought anything more about it. The Giants were better, clearly. They ended up winning the Super Bowl too. They were a Super Bowl winning team. It's ..... Not complicated.
Except it is complicated for long haired dingleberries like Clay Matthews, who had this to say in a recent interview posted on Pro Football Talk:
"We picked the most inopportune time to play our worst ball," linebacker Clay Matthews tells Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports. "The fact is, [the Giants] didn't beat us; we beat ourselves. We need to play our best ball when it counts. This year, I expect us to be right back where we should be." |
Oh, well, thanks for clearing that one up, Soccer Mom! Except of course that you're wrong.
Apparently having the eventual Super Bowl winning quarterback crip walk onto your home field and throw 3 touchdowns and 330 yards counts as beating yourself? "Nah, we let him have those yards, man, and those touchdown passes. We were just resting ourselves for the Conference Championships, you know, thinking long term." That has to be the best explanation, right? Because apparently hearing, "No, you just sucked" isn't going to cut it for Clay Matthews.
I guess there's no credit to the Giants in this case, you know, the guys that won the Super Bowl. It was all because of things the Packers did or didn't do. Charles Woodson and his geriatric legal guardians checked in too:
"Regardless of what happened in the first half, nobody thought we would lose that game," Charles Woodson said of the first two quarters against the Giants, which saw the Packers trailing, 20-10. "With what our offense had done that season, I think we had, especially defensively, a false sense of security about what they were gonna do. "Maybe we should have panicked. But we didn't. We just felt like, 'Hey, at the end of the day, the offense will put up enough points, we'll win the game and move on.' That was probably to our detriment." |
Nice. I bet going into the locker room at half time they were all like, "Hey, 10 points, Green Bro Packers? No probs! Let's throw some bombs, wave our hands at the quarterback, and shake our butts a little bit. That'll scare them and let us win! Now someone put on George Michael!" Assholes. You know what the Packers are? They're that entitled little shit face in your college class that thinks he's a gangster, who drives a nice car, who is super pissed off when he gets a B after attending only 5 classes all semester, bitches about how much homework there is, can't hold his alcohol, and still expects a $100,000 paying job after he obtained a worthless Bachelor Degree because his negligent Dad told him he was "worth it." I hate those people.
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