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Governments in Cancun, Mexico, have chosen hope over fear and put the building blocks back in place for a global deal to combat climate change. For the first time in years, governments put aside some major differences and compromised to reach a climate agreement.
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At this year's climate summit governments have a choice. They can decide between a safe future or continue with business as usual and allow climate change to continue to threaten many aspects of life as we know it. After the failure in Copenhagen last year, we know the chances of getting out of Cancun with a global deal that encompasses everything we need are very small. What countries can do here in Cancun is decide on some critical issues that will pave the way for an Energy [R]evolution.
Right now, a clean and safe future is a choice we can still make. An international climate change agreement would catalyze and help pay for a world with clean, secure and independent means of energy guaranteed for generations to come. It could keep forests standing and forest peoples thriving, as well as protecting many species and helping to stop catastrophic climate change.
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Posted by Adam Ericksen 5 days 3 hours ago
"Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil."Thus begins the spiritual drama of Lent, the forty days before Easter that commemorates Jesus' wilderness experience. No human, not even Jesus, can escape the temptation of the devil.Just before Jesus was led into the wilderness, he was baptized in the Jordan River by John. As the Gospel of Matthew reports, when Jesus emerged from the water "a voice from heaven said, 'This is my Son, my Beloved, with whom I am well pleased.'"Jesus' identity as God's Son had always been true, but he received confirmation of his relationship with God at his baptism.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 4 weeks 4 hours ago
There's something about Michael Sam that we are missing and I hope the church will see it.Michael Sam is the college football star who "came out" in an interview with ESPN and the New York Times . He graduated in December and will be drafted in the upcoming NFL draft. Sam was the Southeastern Conference's co-defensive player of the year and a first-team all-American. He came out to his teammates before the season started and at the end of the year they voted him their most valuable player.But it's not his superior football skills that the church should pay attention to. It's his spirit and his sense of identity.Throughout his interview on ESPN with Chris Connely, Sam smiles, clearly comfortable in his own skin. A few highlights of the conversation that are worth pointing out:
Posted by Adam Ericksen 4 weeks 6 days ago
The highlight of the Super Bowl for me was Coca-Cola's "America is Beautiful" commercial. The images of the American landscape are amazing and the song was beautiful. At first I was a bit confused by the different languages singing "America the Beautiful" (I'm slow…), but I caught on about halfway through. When the commercial ended, I looked over at my wife and said, "Wow. That was beautiful … Not worth four million dollars, but that was good."For the moment, let's deal with any cynicism that the Coca-Cola Company is simply trying to sell us their product. Of course they're trying to sell us their product; that's why they spent millions on their ad, but along the way, Coke pointed to the reason that I love the United States. I love my country because it is a nation that welcomes the "Other." Indeed, we haven't always been good at this, and we still struggle with it, but the United States is a nation of immigrants. Even Native Americans, who have tragically been excluded from the land they've lived on for thousands of years, were originally immigrants who were welcomed by this land. This land has a long history of welcoming people into it, and so any act of excluding immigrants goes against its ideal of welcoming the "Other."
Posted by Adam Ericksen 5 weeks 1 day ago
Tom Junod of Esquire wrote an insightful piece about the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman titled " Philip Seymour Hoffman's Final Secret: The cost of holding up a mirror to those who could barely stand to look at themselves ." The whole article is worth reading, but these words are especially important:"There was no actor, in our time, who more ably suggested that each of us is the sum of our secrets … no actor who better let us know what he knew, which is that when each of us returns alone to our room, all bets are off. He used his approachability to play people who are unacceptable, especially to themselves; indeed, his whole career might be construed as a pre-emptive plea for forgiveness to those with the unfortunate job of cleaning up what he — and we — might leave behind."In his roles, Hoffman played unacceptable, despicable, and broken characters. In other words, he played our cultural scapegoats. But the beauty of Hoffman's work is that he humanized our scapegoats. Of course, his characters were unacceptable because they were guilty of being repellent jerks, underserving of love or sympathy, which is exactly why they made good scapegoats. The function of a scapegoat is to unite us in hatred against them, so the scapegoat who seems to us to be completely guilty, like a cartoon villain, the better sense of unity we can form against them. The best scapegoat is one who even agrees with us about just how terrible he is. As Junod writes, Hoffman "used his approachability to play people who are unacceptable, especially to themselves."
Posted by Adam Ericksen 6 weeks 21 hours ago
Call me old fashioned, but our culture hit a new low at the Grammys when 33 couples were married. Some of them were gay and lesbian couples.Indeed, it was a bad day for marriage.First, Macklemore sang "Same Love," then Queen Latifah officiated a wedding for 33 couples, and then Madonna sang her 1986 single "Open Your Heart."Now, don't get me wrong. I love Macklemore's Same Love. I love its pro-same-sex marriage message because of my Christian faith, not in spite of it. I've written about why Christians should embrace same-sex marriage here, here, and here, but Macklemore's theological argument in the song is as good as any.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 7 weeks 6 days ago
(Editor's Note: This post was adapted from the author's speech at the Christianity 21 Conference in Denver.)When I was in seminary, one of my best friends came up with a brilliant theological … pick up line:"Hey, baby. What's your hermeneutic?"Despite the genius of that question, we soon discovered that anytime you start a pick up line with "Hey, baby" you're in some trouble.But it's such a great question. Think of all the relationships that would have avoided painful break ups if they just defined the relationship in the beginning by answering the question "What's your hermeneutic?"
Posted by Adam Ericksen 9 weeks 1 day ago
Last Thursday, as I carefully navigated my way home from work on the slippery streets of a few Chicago suburbs, I was listening to a talk radio program. The host reminded his listeners that he broadcasts from sunny Arizona, and then he said, "I know that many of you have had large amounts of snowfall. I recommend that you sit back and enjoy the beauty of the snow."At which point I yelled some expletives about what he could do with his recommendation and promptly changed the station.It's been a brutal winter. Indeed, we've already had "large amounts of snowfall." Yesterday in Chiberea (that's an amalgamation of Chicago and Siberia, for those keeping score), the high was negative 13 and today the high will be positive 3. Yay for staying positive, Chicago.Staying positive about the weather is becoming more difficult. The snow, while pretty, will be here from late November to early March. It. Gets. OId. And schools have been canceled for two days in a row. Listen, I love my kids, but they've been stuck inside for the past five days. We are all experiencing cabin fever.But there's one thing about Chicago winters that I can appreciate. The relentless snow and the extreme cold provide an opportunity to build a sense of community. Neighbors suffer through this weather together. We check in on one another to make sure people are surviving and staying warm. And, of course, we create a sense of community by uniting against the weather. The snow and the cold become our common enemy. Or, as René Girard's mimetic theory puts it, the weather has become our scapegoat.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 10 weeks 6 days ago
Now that Dec. 25 is over, the real war on Christmas can begin.Because, you see, that other "War on Christmas" that begins in late November and ends on Dec. 25 is a manufactured war. That war is fabricated by a television network that, despite the Bible's repeated message at the birth of Christ to "not be afraid," wants Christians to live in fear of some secular agenda to destroy Christmas. After all, there's nothing like fear and a manufactured war to raise television ratings.That's a manufactured war because, as Diana Butler Bass has brilliantly pointed out, the season from late November to Dec. 24 isn't Christmas. It's Advent. If anyone were waging a war on a Christian season during the early part of December, it wouldn't be on Christmas. It would be on Advent.The real war on Christmas begins on Dec. 26, but no major television network will tell you about it. The real Christmas season, known as Christmastide, begins on the evening of Dec. 24 and lasts 12 days, ending on Jan. 5.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 11 weeks 1 day ago
I know. We're all a little fatigued about the Duck Dynasty and freedom of speech controversy. As many have pointed out, everyone has been free during this controversy. Phil Robertson was free to make his statement to GQ. GQ was free to publish it. A&E was free to suspend Robertson for making comments that it thought hurt its image. And, despite that justification, A&E is free to air Duck Dynasty marathons on Dec. 24 and 25. (Yes, on Christmas Day you can watch 12 1/2 hours of Duck Dynasty. A&E is taking this controversy straight to the bank!) We are free to watch, or to not watch, future episodes of Duck Dynasty. We are all free to take sides. And bloggers are freely adding to our Duck Dynasty fatigue by writing endless blog posts.This blogger asks for your forgiveness in writing yet another post that adds to our fatigue. So I'll keep this brief.There is something about freedom that we are missing in this debate, especially from a Christian point of view. When it comes to freedom, we want to fight for the freedom to do or say whatever we want. This is the highest point of freedom in the United States. It's a freedom that is based on freedom for individual rights. It's a freedom that says that I should have the right to say whatever I want without any negative consequences.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 11 weeks 5 days ago
It's taken me a few years, but I've decided to relax about him. I refuse to beat myself up over his presence anymore. He's okay. I mean, don't get me wrong — he's annoying and I have concerns. And I know that many of my fellow parents will disagree, and that's okay. This makes me cringe, but that little Elf on the Shelf can stay.After some debate, my wife bought the Elf on the Shelf in 2010. If you aren't familiar with the Elf on the Shelf myth, it goes something like this: Apparently Santa is incapable of knowing if children have been bad or good on his own, so Dec. 1 to Dec. 24 that Jolly Old Elf sends his little elves to houses to spy on boys and girls. Their job is to check to see if children are being naughty or nice. So, each morning before anyone is awake, our Elf flies in from the North Pole and hides in a different spot in our house. When our children wake up — noticeably earlier in December than any other month — they look for him. Yup, it's hide-and-seek every morning with the Elf. Then, the National Security Agency Elf spies on our children throughout the day. When our children fall asleep at night, the Elf flies back to the North Pole to provide Santa with a report on how our children have behaved. Then the Elf promptly flies back to our house, hides in a new place, and the morning hide and seek ritual begins again.Truth be told, my children love it. They. Love. It. They can't wait to wake up in the morning and search for that little Elf.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 12 weeks 5 days ago
President Obama's "selfie" with prime ministers Helle Thorning Schmidt of Denmark and David Cameron of Great Britain has been making the rounds on social media. Many of Obama's detractors have taken the opportunity to criticize the President's picture taking prowess, bringing on "Selfie-Gate." Take John Kass of the Chicago Tribune, for example:First lady Michelle Obama sits off to the side, somber, dignified, as the world remembers Mandela. Yet next to her like some goofy adolescent who hasn't yet been taught how to behave properly at a memorial service — her husband — is snapping a memorial to himself.Hold on a minute there, Kass, because South Africa is teaching us a thing or two about how they "behave properly at a memorial service." Sure they mourn.But they also dance.From the video and images that I've seen, there was festive atmosphere at Mandela's memorial service. This leads me to wonder what "proper behavior" at this memorial service looks like.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 13 weeks 6 days ago
I was driving home from work a few weeks ago and found myself suffering from a little radio ADD. I flipped through every station on my programmed radio console with a sense of emptiness. Each station was playing what sounded like the same song with the same beat over and over again.How can I find meaning in my drive home with the drudgery of the same bland music?I finally gave up on my search for meaning and stopped on my favorite top-40 radio station, Chicago's 101.9 The Mix. And there it was. Someone was singing these words:I will love you unconditionally There is no fear now Let go and just be free I will love you unconditionally."Wait a minute," I thought. "The Mix is playing a song about God?!? Had The Mix been taken over by a Christian radio station? Had K-Love or Moody Radio joined messianic forces with Rafael and Ted Cruz to enforce Christian Dominionism all over American radio?"
Posted by Adam Ericksen 15 weeks 6 days ago
The religion section of The Huffington Post published an article on Tuesday about how some Christians are responding to Costco. Unfortunately, it wasn't about how Christians are celebrating the fact that this big-box store not only makes a profit and actually pays its employees a living wage.That, after all, would be Good News.No. These Christians have their panties in a bunch because Costco had Bibles labeled as fiction.*Gasp*
Posted by Adam Ericksen 16 weeks 6 days ago
When Pope Benedict XVI retired in February, I wrote an article in appreciation for his papacy. While he served as a great model of humility in stepping down from his role as Pope, what I appreciated more about Pope Benedict was his first encyclical, turned into a book called God is Love . In it, Benedict wrote these profound words:Love is possible, and we are able to practice it because we are created in the image of God. To experience love and in this way to cause the light of God to enter into the world — this is the invitation I would like to extend with the present encyclical. (93)God is Love is a powerful written reminder of the essence of Christianity. I hope more Christians of all stripes will read it.Indeed, I appreciate Benedict for writing those beautiful words, but I love Pope Francis because he's publicly living those words.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 17 weeks 6 days ago
If you were on Facebook or Twitter last week, you probably saw the CBS interview with Mandy Patinkin. He's probably best known for this line from the classic movie The Princess Bride:"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."The Princess Bride was released when I was 16. My friends and I would throw that line back and forth whenever we competed against one another. Monopoly. Basketball. Chess. Nintendo. Rock, paper, scissors. It didn't matter. Like anyone with a pulse during the late 1980s, we repeated that phrase endlessly. It was our favorite line in the movie.That and "Mawwiage …"But that's not Mandy's favorite line.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 18 weeks 1 day ago
Christianity is facing an identity crisis that boils down to one question: Who is God? It's the question that Rob Bell tackled in his latest book What We Talk About When We Talk About God and it's the question Rob and Oprah Winfrey discussed this week on Oprah's Super Soul Sunday ... From nearly the beginning of religion, the human experience of the sacred has been marked by ambivalence. The gods were fickle and you never knew where you stood with them. They were loving and wrathful, forgiving and judgmental.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 19 weeks 4 days ago
I first heard about the Strange Fire controversy when my Twitter feed started tweeting up a storm on Monday. The drama centered on a confrontation between two conservative mega church pastors, John MacArthur and Mark Driscoll. Most of my Twitter friends are theological liberals, and we liberals love it when our conservative brethren get in fights.Woo-hoo! A scandal! This scandal, like most scandals, was overblown. Driscoll says that MacArthur and his people were "gracious that they let me on campus at all." What was Driscoll doing "on campus?" He crashed MacArthur's conference on the Holy Spirit called Strange Fire to meet with people and hand out free copies of his upcoming book, A Call to Resurgence, which has a chapter on the Holy Spirit. Conference officials told Driscoll he had to stop, and so he did. Driscoll's books ended up in the hands of conference officials. The drama between the two has to do with whether Driscoll gave the books as a gift to the conference or if conference officials confiscated them.Like all scandals, the drama distracts us from what really matters, which is the conference theme. The work of the Holy Spirit is vitally important for Christians, yet the Holy Spirit is usually treated like the ugly stepchild of Christian doctrine. (No offense to ugly stepchildren.) I think MacArthur radically misunderstands the Holy Spirit. The conference website provides an overview of its mission, which will help me explain his misunderstanding:
Posted by Adam Ericksen 21 weeks 1 day ago
Malala Yousafzai has captured our love and imagination.Malala was recently a guest on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. By the end of the interview, Stewart was so enamored with Malala that he asked if he could adopt her. The remark was hilarious because it was true. After 5 minutes with this girl, who wouldn't want to adopt her?Malala is the 16-year-old Pakistani girl who fought for education in the face of persecution from the Taliban. She explained on the show that, "Education is the power for women and that's why the terrorists are afraid of education. They do not want women to get education because then women would become more powerful."In the face of persecution from the Taliban, Malala says she "spoke on every media channel I could and I raised my voice on every platform that I could and I said, 'I need to tell the world what is happening in Swat and I need to tell the world that Swat is suffering from terrorism and we need to fight against terrorism.'"But it was what she said next that stole our hearts. She reflected upon what she would do if a member of the Taliban came to take her life.If you hit a Talib … then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat another with that much cruelty and that much harshly. You must fight others, but through peace and through dialogue and through education. Then I'll tell him how important education is and that I even want education for your children as well. And I'll tell him, 'That's what I want to tell you. Now do what you want.'
Posted by Adam Ericksen 25 weeks 1 hour ago
Maybe you are like me and you need a bit of good news this week, because it's been a week of bad news. There was the tragic shooting at the Navy Yard, leaving 12 people killed. Then there were the racist comments about the new Miss America, Nina Davuluri. She is the first person of Indian descent to be crowned Miss America, yet the news of the event emphasized racist tweets. It was almost as if people were competing over who could be the most racist: Some referred to her as "the Arab," and other tweets claimed, "this is America, not India," and one even called her "Miss 7-11." Not to mention the continuing escalation of tensions throughout the world involving Syria.It was a depressing beginning to the week. I mimetically absorbed much of this violence, hatred, and racism. Misanthropy settled into my soul and I began to loathe myself and the entire freakin' human race.But then I saw this video of Beyoncé performing in Brazil, and my hope in humanity was restored.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 27 weeks 4 days ago
What's happening in Syria is awful. You see the pictures and your heart breaks. It's horrific. Lakhdar Brahimi, U.N. special envoy to Syria, said Wednesday that, "With what has happened on the 21st of August last week, it does seem that some kind of substance was used that killed a lot of people: hundreds, definitely more than a hundred, some people say 300, some people say 600, maybe 1,000, maybe more than 1,000."The Huffington Post has a slider with the title, Syria War In August (Warning: Graphic Images). Of course, every life matters, but as a father with three young children, seeing the picture of a Syrian man crying out in pain as he carries the body of a young girl – words fail.Violence and JusticeMy wife knows that we promote nonviolence at the Raven Foundation, and that I lean toward pacifism. Wednesday night, as we discussed Syria and Bashar al-Assad's continued threats of violence, she asked me, "Well, what do we do if a government uses chemical weapons against its own people?"The question haunts me. These are times that try the soul of anyone committed to nonviolence. We all want justice. We all want the violence to stop. We don't want any more people to cry in pain as they carry the body of a lifeless child.And so President Barack Obama seems to be ramping up the war machine. Ironically, as he plans for possible military strikes, on Wednesday he delivered a talk honoring the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech "I Have a Dream." As we hear the drum beat of war, we are reminded of King's dream of justice. In his speech King said:We must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. … We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. … [We] will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.Our popular understanding of "justice" is mired with violence. For King, true justice was always based on love and nonviolence, because violence always carries with it a fatal flaw. As he wrote in his book Strength to Love, "Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace" (18).
Posted by Adam Ericksen 28 weeks 22 hours ago
I didn't watch the Video Music Awards last night, but this morning I noticed that Miley Cyrus is getting all the attention.Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC's Morning Joe gives voice to the moral outrage that many are feeling. She just couldn't stop lambasting Miley for her performance:That was really, really disturbing … That young lady, who is 20, is obviously deeply troubled, deeply disturbed … probably has an eating disorder … That was disgusting and embarrassing … I feel terrible … That was really, really bad. They [MTV] should be ashamed of themselves … She is a mess … I don't want to see that ever again on this show … It was pathetic.Well, Mika's vehemence intrigued me, so I found the video on YouTube and watched it. It's bad. Awkward might the best word I can find to describe her performance, and it only became more awkward when Robin Thicke joined her onstage. Then it became awkward and demeaning. And I was instantly reminded of why I don't watch the VMAs.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 29 weeks 1 day ago
Reza Aslan begins of his book, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, with a prescient warning: "Scholars tend to see the Jesus they want to see. Too often they see themselves—their own reflection—in the image of Jesus they have constructed" (xxxi).I don't think Aslan had himself in mind when wrote that statement, but you should be warned: the Jesus in Zealot is Aslan's own false construction.His central thesis is that the Jesus of history, and the God Jesus believed in, demanded violence in the face of political and religious oppression. Here's one of the relevant passages:[F]or those seeking the simple Jewish peasant and charismatic preacher who lived in Palestine two thousand years ago, there is nothing more important than this one undeniable truth: the same God whom the Bible calls a "man of war"(Exodus 15:3), the God who repeatedly command the wholesale slaughter of every foreign man, woman, and child who occupies the land of the Jews, the "blood spattered God" of Abraham, and Moses, and Jacob, and Joshua (Isaiah 63:3) the God who "shatters the heads of his enemies," bids his warriors to bathe their feet in their blood and leave their corpses to be eaten by dogs (Psalm 68:21-23)—that is the only God that Jesus knew and the sole God that he worshipped. (122, emphasis in the original.)The problem that I have with this passage is indicative of the problem that I have with the way Aslan constructs his Jesus. He constantly picks and chooses which verses from the Bible he uses to support his claim that Jesus was a warrior messiah whose goal was to violently overthrow the Roman and religious establishment. He peels away all passages that conflict with his construction so that he can show us what Jesus was truly like.Well, what Aslan thinks Jesus was truly like.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 29 weeks 5 days ago
I love Fun.. I especially love the wacky period at the end of the band's name. But my Word doc has the green squiggly line under the two periods of that first sentence. I hate that green squiggly line — it's not fun. It's there to tell me that I have bad grammar. Not this time, Word doc! I shall right click and ignore you!Fun.'s (okay, now there's a red line! Once again I shall ignore…) Some Nights is full of philosophical and spiritual gold. It asks questions about identity, friendship, violence, and the purpose of life. But, for me, these words stand out the most:My heart is breaking for my sister and the con that she calls "love"When I look into my nephew's eyes…Man, you wouldn't believe the most amazing things that can come from…Some terrible nights…ah…
Posted by Adam Ericksen 30 weeks 21 hours ago
Kelly Clarkson's latest single is a pop culture anthem with a catchy tune. It's called "People Like Us" and it has a spiritual depth that struck me when I first heard the song.Clarkson identifies with certain people in the song – "people like us." Who are people like us? Cultural scapegoats, outcasts, marginalized, misfits, and the damned.People like us we've got to stick togetherKeep your head up, nothing lasts foreverHere's to the damned, to the lost and forgotten… We are all misfits living in a world on fireSome may criticize Clarkson's motivation for identifying with cultural scapegoats. After all, she's been a pop culture diva since her appearance on American Idol more than a decade ago. Is she identifying with the marginalized because ever since Lady Gaga did it in 2011 with Born this Way it's now the cool thing to do?Whatever her motivations, I think it's amazing that it has become "cool" to identify with cultural outcasts. And as opposed to criticizing her motivations, I want to affirm them. Whether Clarkson realizes this, as a powerful and influential person who identifies with cultural "misfits" and the "damned," what she is doing in "People Like Us" is modeling an example of Christ-like love.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 30 weeks 5 days ago
Last Saturday Muslims throughout the world celebrated Laylat ul-Qadr, usually translated in English as the Night of Power. It is part of the month of Ramadan and commemorates the night when Allah came to Muhammad with the first revelation of the Qur'an. The Night of Power is based on chapter 97 of Islam's Holy Book. The Qur'an has 114 chapters, which are generally ordered from longest to shortest. So, chapter 97 is short enough to quote in full here:In the name of God, the Lord of Mercy, the Giver of Mercy,We sent it down on the Night of Power. What will explain to you what the Night of Power is? The Night of Power is better than a thousand months; on that night the angels and the Spirit descend again and again with their Lord's permission on every task; [there is] peace that night until the break of dawn.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 31 weeks 4 hours ago
I have a long history of hating the-man-who-shall-not-be-named. In fact, my wife no longer lets me watch the Yankees. That's because we have children and she doesn't want them to hear me launch f-bombs at the television whenever my arch-nemesis stands at the plate.It wasn't always this way. In fact, I used to love him. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, so the Seattle Mariners are my favorite team. He began his career with the Mariners, but after a few years of stardom, he let it get to his head and he joined the Texas Rangers. "It's not about the money," I remember him saying. But that was disingenuous. The Rangers crippled their team by providing him with the biggest salary in baseball history.It was heartbreaking. I once heard that whenever hearts break, they either grow bigger or they become calloused. Well, my heart calloused. Along with other Mariner fans, I took a certain satisfaction in knowing that the Rangers, now led by the-man-who-shall-not-be-named, were horrible. In his three years in Texas, the Rangers were one of the worst teams in baseball and never ended a season above last place in their division.And I loved it.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 37 weeks 7 hours ago
Whenever I hear someone lament that kids these days need to read their Bibles, I tell them that the Bible should be rated R for violence, nudity, rape, drug deals, and even genocide – and that's just in the first book! Of course, as a youth pastor, I've found that the best way to get kids interested in the Bible is to tell them that if someone made it into a movie, it would be rated R.The Bible and movies tell stories. Gareth points out the importance of stories in his article "It's the Movies' Fault/It's not the Movies' Fault" in which he brilliantly states that, "we could benefit from recognizing that the relationship between storytelling and the formation of human identity is crucial." Indeed, the stories we tell are crucial to the formation of human identity, but the Bible and movies tell stories that are permeated with violence. So, the question becomes, how do we make sense of those violent stories in terms of human identity?
Posted by Adam Ericksen 37 weeks 6 days ago
The Internet is abuzz with Miss Utah. Marissa Powell was asked at Sunday night's Miss USA Pageant:"A recent report shows that in 40 percent of American families with children, women are the primary earners, yet they continue to earn less than men. What does that say about society?"Powell responded: "I think we can relate this back to education, and how we are continuing to try to strive … to … figure out how to create jobs right now. That is the biggest problem right now. I think, especially the men are … um … seen as the leaders of this, and so we need to see how to … create education better. So that we can solve this problem. Thank you."Her answer was painfully incoherent, and as you can tell in the video, the poor girl knew it. There's a bit of irony in the question that has been missed. Maybe we should be asking, "What does it say about our society that we still have these kinds of beauty pageants?"
Posted by Adam Ericksen 39 weeks 5 hours ago
According to Gil Bailie's groundbreaking book Violence Unveiled, the word myth stems from the Greek wordmu. Those two Greek letters combine to form the powerful concept behind all myths. Mu means "to close" or "to keep secret." Bailie claims that "Myth closes its eyes to certain events and closes its mouth." Myths are the lies and the cover-ups that we tell about our own violence. Truth, on the other hand, works against myth to reveal our violence.Ancient cultures told their myths, of course. Unfortunately, we moderns, who think we've progressed so much since our ancestors, tell our own myths. The United States government's military trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning is a case in point.Manning's Leak to WikiLeaksIn 2010, Manning was arrested and accused of the worst military crimes, including espionage and aiding the enemy. He secretly released an extensive archive of classified documents to WikiLeaks. Some believe Manning is a traitor, while others believe he is a heroic whistleblower. As the New York Times reports, "There is no doubt that he did most of what he is accused of doing, and the crucial issue is how those actions should be understood."
Posted by Adam Ericksen 39 weeks 6 days ago
Star Trek: Into Darkness is a fascinating and complicated story that is well worth watching. Instead of providing a summary, I want to explore three related aspects of the movie: sacrifice, blood, and hope for a more peaceful future.Live Long and Prosper – The Sacrificial FormulaIn a reference to my favorite Star Trek movie, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the current movie's Spock (Zachary Quinto) restates the sacrificial formula: "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one." This formula has generally been used throughout human history to justify sacrificing someone else. As René Girard points out, from ancient human groups to modern societies, whenever conflicts arise the natural way to find reconciliation is to unite against a common enemy.Of course, there's a lot of this going on throughout the Star Trek franchise. One conversation in Into Darkness explicitly points this out when Kirk (Chris Pine) unites with his enemy Khan (Benedict Cumberbatch), and explains it to Spock:Kirk: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.Spock: An Arabic proverb attributed to a prince who was betrayed and decapitated by his own subjects.Kirk: Well, it's still a hell of a quote.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 41 weeks 1 hour ago
You may not realize this, but senior pastors throughout the world were on vacation last Sunday. Not because they were celebrating the American holiday weekend of Memorial Day. No, senior pastors the world over were conveniently on vacation because it was Trinity Sunday.Of course, I can't blame pastors for taking a nice weekend vacation and leaving the challenge of preaching the Trinity Sunday sermon to their associates. I've always had a hard time with the Trinity — not because of the math. I was always horrible at math. I frequently tell people I became a pastor and a blogger because I failed Algebra. So, the concept that 1 + 1 + 1 = 1 has never been an issue for me.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 42 weeks 37 min ago
Many of my liberal friends never call themselves "Christians." Their hesitancy is usually a reaction against conservative Christians who, let's face it, are an embarrassment to the name. You know what I'm talking about – those who make crazy claims like natural disasters occur because God is angry at homosexuals. And then there are those who use phrases like, "legitimate rape."Influential pastor John Piper provides the latest example. While most of my friends on Facebook and Twitter lamented the devastation wrought by the Oklahoma City tornado, Piper decided to show off his biblical acumen with this tweet:"Your sons and daughters were eating and a great wind struck the house, and it fell upon them, and they are dead." -Job 1:19Piper's tweet is a bit ambiguous. His reference to Job doesn't say that God caused the tornado, but Piper has historically claimed that God causes these types of disasters. In fact, this wouldn't be the first time Piper has tweeted something so theologically insensitive. A few years ago Piper claimed God caused a tornado in Minnesota because God was angry at homosexuals. Piper's god is a fickle Cosmic Jerk.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 42 weeks 6 days ago
I hate Abercrombie & Fitch.It all started a few years ago. A member of my youth group worked at one of their stores in a Chicago suburb. I was minorly troubled that she was employed at the store. But what really flamed my loathing for Abercrombie was when they asked her to model their clothes for their catalogue. She told me about their offer and I responded in the only way an over-protective youth pastor could:"NO! Absolutely not! No way in Hell are you doing that!!!"I don't think that Abercrombie is evil per se. I only hate them because they stand for everything that I'm against!Over the weekend, BusinessInsider.com published an article titled "Abercrombie & Fitch Refuses to Make Clothes for Large Women." The article included a comment made by Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries in 2006. He described his business strategy by stating:In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids. Candidly, we go after the cool kids. We go after the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don't belong [in our clothes], and they can't belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely. Those companies that are in trouble are trying to target everybody: young, old, fat, skinny.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 45 weeks 21 hours ago
Editor's Note: Jim Wallis' latest book On God's Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn't Learned About Serving the Common Good is sparking a national conversation of what it means to come together on issues that traditionally divide the nation. Bloggers Adam Ericksen and Tripp Hudgins are having that conversation here, on the God's Politics blog. Follow along, and join the discussion in the comments section.In his post "Lattes for the Common Good," Tripp states that working for the common good starts in mundane places, like a coffee shop. These are the places where we practice neighborliness. Here's Tripp's brilliant point:I wonder if one of the things that we can think about in terms of the common good is learning to practice neighborliness in the inconsequential moments so that when we face the bigger political difficulties of our shared life — when we start talking about the common good in the larger sense around some of the other issues like violence, and fear, and money — that maybe if we've already built up habits we can have these larger conversations with greater ease.Jim Wallis says something very similar in his book On God's Side. When it comes to the common good, Wallis states, "I have never seen the real changes we need come from inside politics. Instead, they come from outside social movements" (295).According to Wallis, for those social movements to make any real change in our politics they must be based on the biblical command to "love your neighbor as yourself." Indeed, On God's Side begins with a reflection on the Golden Rule. And, as Tripp says, "learning to practice neighborliness" is learning to practice loving our neighbor as we love ourselves.But there is a tension in Wallis's book that, for me, is unresolved. That tension is clearly seen when Wallis talks about baseball.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 46 weeks 6 hours ago
Editor's Note: Jim Wallis' latest book On God's Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn't Learned About Serving the Common Good is sparking a national conversation on what it means to come together on issues that traditionally divide the nation. Bloggers Adam Ericksen and Tripp Hudgins are having that conversation here, on the God's Politics blog. Follow along, and join the discussion in the comments section.What if we surprised our enemies?I mean, really surprised them. What if we surprised them with something totally unexpected? When our personal, political, and national enemies strike us, they expect us to strike back. That's been the human script since the foundations of human culture. We mimic violence blow for blow. Only each side wants to be the side who delivers the final blow.What if we surprised our enemies and changed the script?
Posted by Adam Ericksen 47 weeks 1 hour ago
What do you say in the face of evil?The stories from Monday's attacks at the Boston Marathon are heartbreaking, gut-wrenching. One in particular stands out to me. A woman was waiting for her husband to cross the finish line when the bombs exploded. For three hours she searched frantically for him, not knowing if he was alive or dead, not knowing if he was frantic and looking for her. Her voice cracked and tears flowed with the raw memory as she told of the moment when she and her husband embraced.Moments like this, even when they end happily, remind us of our vulnerability. As hard as we try to protect ourselves with heightened security measures, we know that complete invulnerability is impossible. I am vulnerable. My wife is vulnerable. My children are vulnerable. We cannot escape it.In the face of gun violence and bombings, gender violence and rape, we would be irresponsible not to ask big questions about evil and human vulnerability.A few hours after the bombing, President Barack Obama addressed our natural desire to carry out justice after these events.[M]ake no mistake; we will get to the bottom of this. We will find out who did this, we will find out why they did this. Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups, will feel the full weight of justice.Like the president, I want to take action against evil and I want to know I am secure. I hate admitting that I'm vulnerable. But the president's words didn't reassure me. They made me feel more vulnerable because the phrase "full weight of justice" is always a veiled call to violence.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 47 weeks 1 day ago
On Saturday, the pop culture icon Justin Bieber visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam while on a world tour. At the end of his visit to the museum, Bieber wrote a message in the guest book.His three-sentence message has become Big News. Sunday afternoon I checked my Huffington Post app and discovered this headline on the homepage, "Fury Erupts over Bieber's Obnoxious Anne Frank Comment." On Monday morning, the scandal was front page news on Yahoo.com, "Justin Bieber Gets Blasted for Anne Frank Comment." The New York Times reports that Bieber's comment "set off a maelstrom of criticism."What did Bieber write in the guestbook?
Posted by Adam Ericksen 48 weeks 1 day ago
Watching sports is not as much fun as it used to be.I blame Jesus for that, because he just had to say:"Love thy enemy."Or, as Chad Gibbs puts it in the title of his fantastic book on spirituality and sports, Love thy Rival.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 48 weeks 5 days ago
(The Controversial figure Rob Bell has created another firestorm with his latest provocative book What We Talk About When We Talk About God. Raven Foundation Education Director, Adam Ericksen and Tripp Hudgins will share our thoughts on the book in this blogalogue. We invite you to join the discussion by leaving a comment.)Sadly, this is our last post on Rob's book What We Talk About When We Talk About God. As Tripp Hudgins stated, my previous post was a lengthy missive, and yet I feel like we have just scratched the surface of this book. I promise to make this concluding post shorter, but I'm tempted to inflict upon you the longest post ever! because there is so much in these final 30 pages.I noticed that we haven't made a list yet, and every blogalogue needs a list! So, to keep this from becoming the longest post ever!, I offer you the top 3 reason that Rob Bell matters.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 49 weeks 20 hours ago
Tripp Hudgins touched on something in his post yesterday that is essential to this discussion about Rob Bell and his book What We Talk About When We Talk About God. He wrote:Why does Rob write this stuff? Whose side is he on? Yours. Mine. Ours … Rob is on everyone's side. He's trying to live like the God who meets him when he's surfing, hanging with his kids and friends, walking along the city streets, or doing just about anything.Tripp, how can you say such a thing! "Rob is on everyone's side"? How could Rob possibly be on the side of those who ruthlessly criticize him?!? I'm sorry my friend, but that's just ridiculous and absurd.And yet the ridiculous and absurd is at the heart of the Christian message. I hope that Rob is for everyone. Not because I need Rob to be on my side, nor because I need his approval or acknowledgment. (Although, I wouldn't mind it!) Rather, I hope it's true because at the heart of the Christian message lies the ridiculous, absurd, and even scandalous message that God is for everyone.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 49 weeks 23 hours ago
Last week, a member of my youth group texted me this picture of a pregnant Kim Kardashian. It's a recent cover from Star Magazine. She added these sarcastic words:What? How dare she gain weight while carrying another person in her stomach!My heart broke. We have a big problem of objectifying women in our culture. I'd just written about the Steubenville rape case and the need to finally answer the ancient question "Am I my brother and sister's keeper?" with a definitive yes. Rape is an extreme and obvious example of the objectification and violence against women.But what about the cover of a magazine whose central thesis is: OMG, a pregnant person gains weight?
Posted by Adam Ericksen 49 weeks 5 days ago
(The Controversial figure Rob Bell has created another firestorm with his latest provocative book What We Talk About When We Talk About God. Raven Foundation Education Director, Adam Ericksen and Tripp Hudgins will share our thoughts on the book in this blogalogue. We invite you to join the discussion by leaving a comment below.)Tripp Hudgins always gets me thinking. He is right that Rob's chapter "Open" in What We Talk About When We Talk About God is about science and religion but that it's also not about science and religion. This is the longest chapter of the book, and it's full of scientific information that points to the mystery of the material world. What's the point? As Tripp states, Rob is "asking for a little humility. He's asking for a little poetic imagination. He's asking for curiosity."That's the point of the next chapter, too. Titled "Both," in this chapter Rob points out a major problem we have with "God-talk." That problem is language. Tripp set me up for this at the end of his post by asking, "Are words actually enough? Ha! Write about that. Words. Words. Words."When I was in seminary I learned about apophatic theology, or negative theology. It tries to define God by what God is not. A 9th century apophatic theologian named John Scottus Eriugena asserted, "We do not know what God is. God Himself does not know what He is because He is not anything. Literally, God is not because He transcends being."
Posted by Adam Ericksen 50 weeks 6 hours ago
(The Controversial figure Rob Bell has created another firestorm with his latest provocative book What We Talk About When We Talk About God. Raven Board Member Tripp Hudgins and I will share our thoughts on the book in this blogalogue. We invite you to join the discussion by leaving a comment below.)Thank you, Tripp Hudgins, for your "Open Letter to Rob Bell." As always, you are inspirational and thought provoking. The letter provides a great introduction to our blogalogue on Rob's latest book What We Talk About When We Talk About God. I want to emphasize one point you make and relate it to the first chapter of the book, called "Hum."You claim that, "This book is not about a 'new' thing. It's simply about God and how we come to know God in this world." This is such a great point because Rob isn't making up new ways to talk about God. Throughout the book, Rob explores what God has done in the past and how God continues to pull all humans into a global future that has "greater and greater peace, love, justice, connection, honesty, compassion, and joy" (19).
Posted by Adam Ericksen 50 weeks 6 days ago
The tragedy of the Steubenville rape case has provided a moral challenge to our nation. We are caught up in a highly emotional cycle of blame as we debate who the real victim is in this case. I find myself asking two questions: Why is our nation obsessed with the story and what does this story mean for us as individuals and as a culture?My FamilyI've always wanted a daughter. The problem is that adult Ericksen dudes tend to produce baby Ericksen dudes. My dad has 4 siblings — all brothers. I have mostly male cousins. So, when my wife and I started having children … yep … two dudes.My Church FamilyI've been a youth pastor for about six years, and for a long time I thought the closest I'd ever get to having a daughter was to pseudo-adopt the girls in my youth group. Actually, they first pseudo-adopted me by claiming me as their "Father" on Facebook. (Hey, it's on Facebook, so my pseudo-fatherhood status is legit.) As something of father figure for these teenage girls, each youth group session I discussed with young women and men how the Christian faith is leading us into patterns of love and non-violence. Frequently after our sessions, one of my pseudo-daughters will tell me she's dating a boy. So, of course, after teaching them about non-violence, I say to each of them with a straight face:If he ever touches you, I will personally kick his ass.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 51 weeks 2 days ago
I love St. Patrick's Day.The one day of the year when, for better or worse, Western culture allows me to claim my non-existent inner Irishman.Kiss me, baby.Okay. I'm done.There are many stories and legends about the fascinating life of St. Patrick. One of the most famous legends recounts how this great 5th century saint banished all of the snakes from Ireland. Bad snakes. Bad.My work at the Raven Foundation during the last few years has taught me to be suspicious of such legends. In fact, we might call them myths. Myths cover up scapegoating of human beings by telling the story in a more innocuous way. So, instead of saying we banish humans, we say we banished snakes.Interestingly, the last glacial period (some 10,000-100,000 years ago, depending on whom you ask) beat St. Patrick to the snake banishing. But, Christian tradition has given Patrick all the credit. So, if there weren't snakes around during Patrick's day, what's with the legend?
Posted by Adam Ericksen 1 year 1 day ago
Last Friday was International Women's Day. It was a day of celebrating how far we've come, but also a reminder of how far we need to go. I'm reminded of an experience I had with a member of my youth group a few years ago. We were volunteering for a social service project. A member of the group happened to be named Eve and we thought it was fun to play up the joke. I'd start greeting people, "Hi! I'm Adam," and then Eve would chime in, "and I'm Eve!" We always received the strangest looks, which, of course, is why we did it. But this time it was different. A man at the service project actually said, "Oh. So you're the one to blame."Eve was able to laugh it off and respond with grace, but I was pissed. I instinctively scowled at the man. It was a deep blow to me because, once again, religion was being used to put women down. But this time it was personal. Religion was being used to put down a member of my youth group.Of course, religion hasn't always been good to women. Or, maybe it would be better to say that religious men have used religion as a weapon to make women feel inferior. Whenever we blame someone else it's a sign of our own weakness and insecurities. We don't have the courage to deal with our own inner turmoil so we blame someone else. This is classic scapegoating and we men have been scapegoating women in this way since the beginning of human history. It's pathetic. International Women's Day is a reminder to me that women and men need to work together to end the religious bigotry against women.My model for this is Jesus, my favorite feminist. [1]So, in the spirit of International Women's Day, I offer you the top 4 ways Jesus included women as full members of his posse.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 1 year 2 weeks ago
Whenever I talk with people about Jesus and nonviolence, a curious thing happens. Someone will inevitably raise his hand (and it's always his hand), call me a wuss, and then accuse me of making Jesus-Christ-Our-Lord-And-Savior into my own wussy image.First, the accusation that I'm a wuss is totally true. No one can surpass my wussiness. I run from confrontation, and if I ever get into a fight my money is on the other guy.Now, to the second accusation that a nonviolent Jesus is a projection of my own wussy imagination: That is false and, in fact, the reverse is true – a violent Jesus is a god made in our own image. As a self-professed wuss, I would love a bad-ass-machine-gun-toting Jesus who violently defends me against my enemies. I want the Jesus depicted in Saturday Night Live's sketch DJesus Ucrossed. (A sketch satirizing Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained.) As David Henson brilliantly states in his post "DJesus Uncrossed: Tarantino, Driscoll and the Violent Remaking of Jesus in America," the sketch "pulls back the curtain and shows us just how twisted our Jesus really is: We want a Savior like the one SNL offers. We want the Son of God to kick some ass and take some names. Specifically, our enemies' names."David goes on to quote Mark Driscoll, a megachurch pastor from Seattle whose theology of hate has had a major influence on American Christianity. Driscoll states,In Revelation, Jesus is a prize fighter with a tattoo down his leg, a sword in His hand and the commitment to make someone bleed. That is a guy I can worship. I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up.
Posted by Adam Ericksen 1 year 2 weeks ago
It was a proud moment in the Ericksen household. The five of us sat down for lunch and my six-year-old boy said, Let's pray.This is every pastor's dream. Usually I have to coerce people into prayer. Now my boy is offering to pray. With great pride and a smile on my face I said, Yes, my Son. Will you lead us in prayer?He took a pensive moment and agreed. We bowed our heads, closed our eyes, and then … this happened,Hi God! I want something really awesome for Christmas next year! Please get me something really great! Okay. That's all. Amen.Both of my boys began to laugh. My proud moment was gone and replaced by a bitter sense of disappointment. I instinctively thought to myself, "Christmas! It's February, Dude. I hope you have a lot of patience, cause you're not getting anything remotely close to 'awesome' for at least another 10 months! That'll teach you to laugh at prayer. And, by the way, you shoulda' prayed for freakin' world peace!!!"
Posted by Adam Ericksen 1 year 6 weeks ago
"Can we watch a video with that guy who has the weird hair and the dark rimmed glasses?" -Member of My Youth Group"Love wins the in the sense that God's will is the reconciliation of all things—the soul, the body, the earth, the cosmos, and everything in it." -James Wellman, Rob Bell and a New American Christianity, 59.American Christianity is experiencing a theological shift. Many have tried to explain it, sometimes making the shift far more confusing than it actually is. Fortunately, the shift can be explained quite simply, and while it may be new to American Christianity, it is actually very old. Indeed, it dates back 2,000 years. The shift boils down to the two theological axioms of the New Testament, both found in the letter 1 John:"God is light and in him there is no darkness at all" (1:5) and "God is love" (4:8 and 16).Those statements, while simple, are far from simplistic. John was bold in affirming these statements. He knew he had to give it to us straight – probably because he and the other disciples had a hard time understanding what Jesus meant in his teachings and parables. So, John cut to the chase and simply claimed that Jesus reveals, "God is love and God is light. There is absolutely no darkness within God."
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Israel reported last week that it successfully tested its latest missile defense system. Known as "David's Sling," it is designed to shoot down midrange missiles from Hezbollah rockets originating from Lebanon.I don't want to get bogged down in a discussion about Israel's right to defend itself. What I want to do is explore the biblical reference to "David's Sling" and what it might mean for us. The name is an obvious allusion to the story of David's victory over Goliath. It's a favorite biblical story for many Sunday school teachers, but a conundrum for those teachers who take mimetic theory seriously. Mimetic theory claims that violence belongs to humans, not to God. It also states that the Bible progressively reveals this message about violence to us. And yet, the connection between God and violence permeates the Bible, with God apparently sanctioning violence against God's enemies. So we rightly ask, "What about all the violence in the Bible?"


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Pfft, Stitches, How About A Little PEW PEW?
In an attempt to prove that not all PEWs are bad PEWs, doctors at Tel Aviv University have developed a laser that is capable of sealing wounds safer and more efficiently than traditional stitches.
The laser allows a wound to be welded shut as opposed to sutured, which makes it far more watertight and there's less tearing. It's done by very carefully controlling the temperature of the beam, and Israeli patients treated with the laser have already enjoyed faster healing times and less scarring.
Cool, but can it still blind you if you stare at it too long? And, if not, can you make me one that can? The bully that lives across the street threw a rock at me when we got off the bus yesterday, and I want to burn his eyes out. Also, his older sister is hot. I want to see her naked. PEW PEW?
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Thanks to Ryan, who can heal the sick with a sidelong glance and kill with a direct stare.
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The adobe store is very unclear. It seems to be just shipping 4 premium with an upgrade from 3 premium (?)
the eligibility is missing.
there is no flash builder 4 standard for sale.
Standard appears to be available here:
Also matrix is here:
It will be different for your location, but if you click on the "purchasing options" from the Flash Builder 4 home page you should be able to get Standard.
There are two links from the purchasing options - Flex 3 Standard to Flash Builder 4 Premium and Flex 3 Professional to Flash Builder 4 Premium. Both are retailing here for €277 as upgrades.
I don't know if that is correct.
Hopefully someone from Adobe can jump in and clear this up.
I made a phone call to Adobe today, and it seems there is a problem with the store upgrade otpions.
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Rebuilding Haiti
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MIT scholars with ties to Haiti discuss the country's future
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On February 26-28th, the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab will host the 2010 Complete Game-Completion Marathon to raise money for relief efforts in Haiti.
President's letter to the community on Haiti
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Efforts underway to assist after January earthquake.
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Not only is the party almost over, the outdoor temperatures are about to soar….again. Our house-sitting adventure staycation is coming down to the final one or two nights before the homeowner returns. (He is currently making a transatlantic crossing on the Queen Mary 2 and swears he will never leave the ship, but I have a feeling when he hits New York he'll be ready to come home.) I spoke to him this morning. He was sitting on the balcony of his stateroom watching the ocean pass by. Now I don't like to brag but I would be SO GOOD at that. I would be equally accomplished in a deck chair. I could positively preside over an en suite stateroom. I have these refined skills and talents – yet no way to exercise them. I could flag down a nattily dressed steward and gracefully request a something or other and do it with such panache. Seriously.
The ship above is the RMS Cunard Campania. It happens to be the ship Margaret Carroll sailed on from Ireland to New York and then spent her 18th birthday on Ellis Island. I'm glad she did, she later married Martin McGill and they became my maternal grandparents. I'm sure when Grandma sailed on the Campania she was probably in steerage. That seems to have set the tone for my life – I'm a first class girl always sailing (and flying) in steerage. What's up with that? It is enough to convince me in the possibility of having past lives – and in one of mine I must have been some kind of grande dame with engraved (not thermographed) stationery and all the accoutrements necessary for exercising the civilized life. What else explains my penchant for bread and butter notes, cloth napkins and having the instinctive knowledge of how to properly eat soup?
My mother used to say I had champagne taste on a beer budget. True dat. I don't need to fashion myself as wealthy or throw myself around on boudoir furniture and feign a swoon at odors, but jeez I do like nice things. Not expensive or pretentious things, just nice. Everything is so disposable now, nothing is made to endure. From appliances to dishes to events (an e-vite? Are you kidding me?) it has all gone down with the ship. Now we must pack up our bags and return to home sweet home. Oh well, we can always dream, right? I think of all the things I'll miss about the staycation house, the central air conditioning (and the world's greatest couch for napping) will be what haunts my dreams most in the ungodly hot days to come.


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Dressed in his blue scrubs, Luke Marcum reaches deep down inside his pants and touches his fleshy manbits. Then he shrugs off his shirt and frees his cock which is already hard and aching to be squeezed some more. Luke strokes his meatpole and his entire body responds to the touch: his nipples are erect and perky; his pecs tense-up; and his dick seems to project itself firmer and harder with every tight pull. Luke's brow is soon glistening with sweat and he doesn't stop fiddling on his instrument until he finally explodes, shooting spurts of spooge onto his belly.


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Salander is plotting her revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in Intensive Care, and is set to face trial for three murders and one attempted murder on her eventual release. In the third volume in the explosive trilogy that has sold more than 60 million copies worldwide, Lisbeth Salander confronts political corruption from her hospital bed while a killer lurks next door.


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First up was a recap of the calls on various stocks by the magazine in 2008. They said their long picks were lousy and their shorts were pretty good. I don't doubt what they say but in case it is not clear long picks not being good and shorts picks being good is exactly what would happen when the market drops 38%. I would add that the call to short Fannie Mae, a very good one, probably skewed the overall result.
This makes an important top down point. In a down 38% world it is difficult to find the few stocks that will go up. If you have a diversified portfolio of individual stocks it is not impossible that you end up with a name or two that would go up but going into the bear I was not concerned in the least with finding stocks that would go up. For my money it is a whole lot easier to simply own less of the thing that is going down; that was stocks. If every stock you own went down the same 40% as the market but you only had half the portfolio in stocks then you'd be in great shape for adding value over the entire stock market cycle.
Next up are a couple of stock lists. One was of companies that should be involved with modernizing the US electrical grid and the other list was stocks tied to reducing greenhouse gases. Both of these themes tie in one way or another with Obama's plans. Each theme has a simple to understand bull case with some risks that could derail how they play out in the stock market. There is no question that money will be spent on each area, the variable is whether the stocks benefit as much as some people think. Should you invest in either or both? The answer must be it depends but there is no question that we should all take the time to learn more than we now know and then make an informed decision based on more information.
Lastly a couple of nuggets from the second installment of the annual Barron's Roundtable.
First this quote from Felix Zulauf;
Investors should keep their powder dry. Sit in fixed income. Buy five-year investment-grade corporate bonds in less-risky industries that service daily necessities, such as telecoms, oil and food, and blend them with medium-term government bonds. Check company balance sheets. I wouldn't buy long-term government bonds, except maybe German bonds. My one recommendation for the longer term is physical gold.
Ouch. He also makes a case for the S&P 500 going to between 400-600. Even if you disagree with the people making this call (as I do) it is still very worthwhile understanding the uber bear argument. Ditto if you do agree with Zulauf, you should learn the bull case. Knowing the other side of the trade will either reinforce your opinion or help you realize that you might be wrong.
Also this week was Abby Joseph Cohen's picks and commentary. She made one point that I would say to watch out for. The US was one of the first countries to get into trouble and so should be one of the first to get out of trouble. A point I have been making for a long time is that many other countries (ex-Western Europe) are probably dealing with more cyclical problems while the US is probably confronting structural/secular problems. This does not mean there won't be bear market rallies or that end times are coming, just a slower recovery process than some other places.
The roundtable convened in the first couple of days in January. One of her picks was Bank Of America priced at $14.33 at the time. It closed at $7.18 on Friday. Double ouch. Disliking big mergers is a truism from way back (don't remember where I picked it up) but it will be the right call more often than not. Just something to file away.


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Middlesex's Hatch End has one notorious former resident – the original queen of cookery herself (no, not Delia), Mrs Beeton. And the world's first celebrity chef would undoubtedly be a fan of Hatchets, a family friendly neighbourhood restaurant where the emphasis is on good, home cooked food and welcoming service. The classic surroundings – dark wood furnishings, white linen, attractive art works and careful finishing touches such as tiny vases of fresh flowers on each table – are timeless, offering an atmosphere which suits any guest and any occasion. The spirit of Mrs Beeton clearly lives on in the kitchen of her former residence, where European and international specialities are created.
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