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Any regular reader of Cinema Styles knows that I have watched and read dozens of documentaries and books on the construction, deployment and testing of nuclear weapons. I have reviewed several documentaries and fiction movies on the subject here and my fascination with it goes back to reading a biography of Robert Oppenheimer that belonged to my dad when I was in middle school. I've read several different ones since then as well as all the usual suspects of the history of the bomb's creation: Day One, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Brotherhood of the Bomb, etc. I do strange things sometimes when I'm bored like read essays on surviving a nuclear holocaust or revisiting the details of how the first bombs were made and tested or honing my knowledge of the Teller–Ulam design. I have a great deal of layman's knowledge about this subject and I can thus say with confidence, Countdown to Zero fudges the facts almost from the start. And that's a shame, because its premise is an important subject that should be discussed: the possibility of terrorists getting their hands on nuclear weaponry. Instead, Countdown to Zero is insecure about the facts at hand and goes down the road of yellow journalism fairly quickly.
At only 89 minutes, one would think there wasn't enough time to cram all the information needed into a documentary probing such a subject, and one would be right. Unfortunately, 89 minutes is too much time for Countdown to Zero, which appears to have only around 20 minutes or so of ideas that it is content to repeat endlessly for its hour and a half running time.
Right at the start, scare tactics take precedence over clarity. Now, I realize it's difficult to discuss nuclear destruction without scaring the hell out of the viewer, but the facts are played with fast and loose and quotes are taken out of context to suggest something much more ominous. For instance, inside the first three minutes we are presented with a story about the great Enrico Fermi. Apparently, he looked out over New York from an office building window, cupped his hands to about the size of a tennis ball, and said, "A little bomb like that, and it would all disappear."
Now, anyone having read up on nuclear weaponry would know, without having to be a nuclear physicist, that Fermi was referring to the size of the fissionable material, the enriched uranium (Uranium 235) or plutonium. The bomb itself is necessarily much bigger, containing the casements and the high explosives that surround the core and the timers and on and on. Even a very small nuclear device is going to be too heavy to casually carry around. This may seem like nitpicking but what they are doing at the very start of the documentary is misleading the viewer. The clear impression given is that a terrorist could take a bomb the size of a tennis ball and walk right into the center of Manhattan and blow it up.
And that kind of lazy impression-making wouldn't be so bad if the experts (and, brother, have they got experts! Practically everyone who has ever worked for the CIA, Pentagon or presidential cabinet in the last thirty years is interviewed!) didn't constantly make statements that disproved what they were actually trying to prove. That seems pretty hard to do, but they do it, early and often. Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor at Harvard (no, they don't actually say in what, it's that sloppy) recounts two cases of nuclear theft at about the ten minute mark. He talks about how poorly guarded the nuclear materials are in Russia and mentions two separate cases of men stealing the material to sell it. He talks breathlessly about how they just walked right in to the old shipyards, broke padlocks and took the materials and no one noticed. He says that. He says the words, "No one noticed." He even quotes the prosecutor in the latter case who said, "Potatoes were guarded better."
Wait, the prosecutor?
Yes, see, they were caught, tried and convicted. See how that worked? Professor Bunn says "no one noticed" but, well, I guess somebody did because they're both in prison now. That is, in fact, the only way Professor Bunn knows of their existence, because they were caught. They even interviewed the nuclear thief, in prison. Then the professor tells us he was caught by accident (arrested with his friends who were also stealing car batteries) and that every time they catch someone with materials, they didn't know the materials were missing until they caught the person. But the point that is ignored, is that they keep catching them. They mention at least six more cases. That's a lot of accidental arrests.
Then they spend a lot of time talking up how casually one can smuggle enriched uranium or plutonium into the country. And yes, it is easy to do, in theory. It's tempting to say this part of the documentary is irresponsible but the fact is, anyone who has access to a computer and certainly anyone who's actually trying to obtain fissionable material can find very quickly and easily what materials will hide the nuclear signature of fissionable material. This section is mainly filler and provides more scare tactics, complete with animations showing how easily the material could be hidden aboard container ships.
The doc then moves on to accidental destruction and, again, the experts make curious statements. We are told of the myriad of nuclear accidents that have happened over the decades, and yes there have been many, and we are told that the problem is that there are too many redundant safety systems. The more complicated a system, we are reminded, the more likely it is to fail. This is true but that's not the same thing as redundant safety systems and yet they refer to them as though they are interchangeable. In other words, a nuclear device is very complicated which means it could fail. Safety systems that are simple are put in place to prevent this. Since they could fail too, they put in several. That is why, despite accidental h-bomb drops over Florence, South Carolina and Goldsboro, North Carolina, plane crashes with h-bombs in Greenland and dozens of lost planes with bombs and explosions of planes with bombs, not one has ever blown up. Not one. We are reminded, however, that in this case or that case, only one safety system stood between the bomb and nuclear holocaust. True, but that's why the safety systems are redundant, and why they've worked. The fact that the expert can remind us "only one" safety system worked indicates that the system did indeed work.
One thing the doc hammers home, and this is quoted early on, is that the hardest part of building an atomic bomb is getting the fissionable material. Once you do that, building it is easy. Well, no. Entire countries working with every possible scientific advantage have failed to do so. One can assemble all the parts from easily available materials, which a panel before congress did a few years ago to show it could be done (the doc shows this). But getting all of it to work, perfectly; the timers, the high-explosives, the lenses, all of it, is no easy task. Conventional bomb makers blow themselves up working with gunpowder. Working with the complications of putting together an atomic bomb is a whole other matter.
What we're left with at the end of all this is lots of graphics showing aerial views of cities like New York, London and Paris with rings of destructive range rising up from them to let the viewer know how much of the city would be destroyed. They even describe the level of destruction that would come to New York City if a bomb went off but don't reveal what size bomb they're talking about. It is assumed they are describing a bomb made by a terrorist but the destruction they reveal clearly indicates a large hydrogen bomb, not a smaller fission bomb like the kind a terrorist would actually have. Then, Nuclear Arms Analyst Jeffrey Lewis describes how utterly complicated would be the efforts of terrorists building the bomb, tallying up millions of dollars, dozens of different experts in different fields and problem-free locations to do it all (because who's going to notice 100 or so people working on a large-scale project requiring $50,000 furnaces and used artillery cannons, right?) and calls it simple! Why, it'd be the easiest thing in the world for them to do it. "It's not rocket science," he says, "that's actually hard." Good grief.
Finally, Countdown to Zero comes to a close by calling the viewers to activism by... wait for it... going to a website. Yes, a "Demand Zero" website where you can sign petitions and donate money and somehow stop nuclear weapons from being built. I do believe it is towards a noble goal if, one day, all countries of the world can agree to never produce nuclear weapons again. But, seriously, a website? I guarantee you no president of the United States, or congress, or Prime Minister of Britain or Pakistan or any terrorist leader really gives a rat's ass if you go to "Demand Zero" and sign a petition. I'm not ridiculing the activism, I'm ridiculing the almost invisible scale of it. This isn't an ill-advised war that protests can hope to change through influencing policy making or elections. This is nuclear arming and, frankly, that isn't something decided by the wave of public opinion. Where and when and how often they're tested? Yes. Whether we have them? No. That's not going to change until we're sure no one will ever build another one and that's something we can never be sure of so don't look for nuclear disarmament any time soon.
Until then, the threat of nuclear terrorism is something that should be seriously considered and discussed in serious terms. Countdown to Zero, unfortunately, isn't the place to go for such a serious discussion. It's too bad. A documentary on this subject is welcome but Countdown to Zero is only interested in cool graphics, alarmist out of context quotes and strange contradictions that keep it from ever truly standing on solid ground. Countdown to Zero is a missed opportunity but aptly titled: By the end, the reductive "insights" have left us with nothing. Absolute zero.


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Baptist Press Stories for May. 19 2014
Volunteer dies after helping share Christ
Ukraine, Russian Baptists remain united
First Ph.D. awarded at Midwestern
NRB, publisher split over pro-gay book
BP Ledger, May 19 edition
FIRST-PERSON: Millennials & a new social witness, Part 1
Volunteer dies after helping share Christ
By Robin Cornetet Bass
May. 19 2014
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (BP) -- Robert "Bob" Waldron, a longtime volunteer with the Kentucky Baptist Convention Disaster Relief, died May 16 while on assignment in Michigan helping victims of recent flooding.
Waldron, of Mount Washington, was leaving a job site Friday afternoon when he reportedly lost control of and crashed his vehicle. Fellow volunteer Buford "Butch" Turley, a passenger in the automobile, was critically injured in the crash.
Both men were taken to Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich., where Waldron, 79, was pronounced dead. He is survived by his wife Janice.
Turley, a member of Millville Baptist Church in Frankfort, remains in stable but serious condition while on life support.
"Our hearts are heavy," Coy Webb, KBC disaster relief director, said. "We ask Kentucky Baptists to pray for the families affected by this accident and for our teams as they continue to serve while in Michigan."
Webb left Kentucky early Saturday morning to be with families at the hospital and offer his prayers and support for team members as they continue to press on with the ministry work of disaster relief.
"Our purpose is to show the love of Christ through this ministry," Webb said, "to help the hurting and lift up the hopeless -- and ultimately lead others to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. That is exactly what Bob and Butch were doing."
Wynn Williams, director of the Baptist Convention of Michigan Disaster Relief, said moments before the accident Turley had prayed with a homeowner to receive Christ as Savior.
"We give God all the praise for this news in the midst of such a difficult time," Williams said.
North American Mission Board disaster relief executive director Fritz Wilson said, "Our state partners are blessed with amazing volunteers and Bob was one of the best and so is Butch. I've had the privilege of serving alongside both men in several responses.
"Bob loved God and people and he served them both through his work with disaster relief," he said. "He also knew that long-term healing and hope only comes through a relationship with Christ. That's why it is so comforting to know that he and Butch were sharing Jesus just before this accident occurred. Our prayers are with Butch and the families who are walking through this tragedy right now."
Team members continuing to serve in Paris, Mich., include Dave Hampton, Susan Hampton, Chris Cropp, Petra Messer, Gina Harbold, Ramona Watkins, Elvis Brown, Rick Woodside, George Shanks, Bonnie Prince, Jerry Kemper, Tony Callan, Pat Callan, Patrick Neal, Bud Willis and Rodney Collins.
Teams will be based at Charity Baptist Church in Paris, Mich., through next week.
Robin Cornetet Bass is news director of the Western Recorder, newspaper of the Kentucky Baptist Convention. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter ([URL=http://www.Twitter.com/BaptistPress]@BaptistPress[/URL]), Facebook ([URL=http://Facebook.com/BaptistPress]Facebook.com/BaptistPress[/URL]) and in your email ([URL=http://baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP.asp]baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP.asp[/URL]).
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Ukraine, Russian Baptists remain united
By Diana Chandler
May. 19 2014
UKRAINE (BP) -- Baptists in Ukraine and Russia will likely maintain unity beyond contentious political elections and Vladimir Putin's nationalistic aggression, but the U.S. could do more to contain the crisis, said historian Albert W. Wardin Jr.
"I'm sure the Baptists will try their best to retain their Baptist relationships, not only in Ukraine itself, including both the Russian-speaking and the English-speaking, [but] they would have a relationship with the Russian Baptist Union which is under Putin's control," Wardin told Baptist Press. "I think that's very, very important, and they may be the peacemakers."
Wardin, the author of many books on the history of Baptists and other Protestants in Eastern Europe, has close ties to Baptists in the region. His latest book, "On the Edge: Baptists and Other Free Church Evangelicals in Tsarist Russia, 1855-1917," was released in 2013, and his great-great granduncle, Gottfried F. Alf (1831-1898), has long been credited as the pioneer of the Baptist Movement in Poland.
"The All-Ukrainian Union of Associations of Evangelical Churches-Baptist is a united union, even though members may speak either Ukrainian or Russian as their first language," Wardin said. "With the Russian Baptist Union in the Russian Republic, the All-Ukrainian Union is seeking a peaceful resolution of the political crisis fueled by contending forces from Western Europe and Russia that [threaten] the division of the country."
Still, U.S. President Obama would do well to impose more stringent sanctions against Putin to stop any attempts to annex portions of Ukraine or provoke a civil war, Wardin said, characterizing Putin as a bully.
"The way [Putin] does things.... He doesn't negotiate," Wardin said. "To stop that ... we need to have a more robust ... position to say, 'Putin, we cannot just have you just go ahead with this without consequence.'"
Without sending in troops, the U.S. could send material aid to strengthen Ukraine's military, Wardin said, and could get Putin's attention through much stronger sanctions on Russian industries including oil and banking.
"I certainly would not want to send American troops there. America doesn't want that," he said. "We would try to negotiate as much as we possibly can and see if we can resolve it without confrontation. But I do think that since Putin is a bully ... it's like any bully on the playground in school. That bully just goes ahead and takes advantage of the people [whom] he considers weak. But if somebody really stands up to him and knocks him down ... it's a different message."
As Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine seek to separate from the free republic and unite with Russia, Baptists are working to maintain unity and will likely continue fellowship across borders, Wardin said.
Ukrainian Baptists comprise the largest Baptist body in any one country in Europe, even more than in England or the Russian Republic, according to the East-West Church and Ministry Report from spring, 2013.
Baptists in Ukraine numbered 151,000 and were dispersed among 2,517 congregations in 2010, according to the report, and are very well organized with an association in each of the country's 25 provinces. The 25 associations are grouped into six regions, each headed by its own superintendent, Wardin said. Another 16,000 worship as unregistered Baptists, refusing to comply with government regulation of churches.
A third of the Baptists in Ukraine are located in region five of the Baptist union. It includes the eastern provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk where pro-Russian forces held a rogue and largely unrecognized May 12 election declaring independence from Ukraine.
As Ukraine approaches elections May 25, the country has a Baptist presence in its parliament, according to a Baptist World Magazine 2013 article. About 15 members of parliament from different political parties have comprised a prayer group since 2008 that has met for prayer and Bible study each Thursday before parliamentary sessions.
In Crimea, annexed by Russia, Baptists number 3,836 and maintain 469 churches, according to the ministry report. Churches in Crimea would be welcomed in the Russian Baptist union, as would Baptist churches in eastern Ukraine provinces where pro-Russian forces are active, Wardin said.
"If they (eastern provinces) were actually annexed I am sure the Russian Baptist union would accept them, even though the Russian Baptist Union wants peace and doesn't want disruption," he said. "No doubt a lot of Baptists would not like to be with the Russian Republic either, politically, so there's those things."
Baptists would enjoy enough religious freedom in Russia to continue fellowship and evangelism, Wardin said.
"I think even if (Ukraine) were gobbled up in Russia, Baptists are kind of a small minority so I think they would get as much freedom as it is in Russia itself," Wardin said, "and Baptists are doing pretty well when it comes to freedom in the Russian republic."
Ukraine's population of 44.8 million is nearly 70 percent Orthodox Christian, and only 2.4 percent Protestant, including Baptist, Pentecostals and others, according to the Ukraine census.
In April, Baptist leaders from Russia and Ukraine met for the first time since the February overthrow of the Ukrainian government, and drafted a joint statement encouraging prayer and peace, according to the Russian Baptist union.
"All of our congregations pray continually for peace between our peoples as well as for those who have suffered during the course of the recent political stand-off," the statement reads. "We pray for the maintenance of lasting peace and understanding between the citizens of our countries independent of their national and confessional affiliations....
"We call on our brothers and sisters in the churches of Russia and Ukraine to pray for a peaceful resolution of the political confrontation between our two countries," Ukrainian and Russian Baptists stated jointly. "We call on our people to make every effort to avoid any provocations, to retain in their hearts love for the neighbor, to respect his human dignity and religious beliefs. We are ready, regardless of our circumstances, to cooperate further in proclaiming the Gospel in our own countries and throughout the world."
Wardin's interest in Eastern European Baptists soared after he learned of his ancestral ties to the spread of the Baptist religion there.
"My great-great-granduncle, named Gottfried Alf was the first ordained Russian Baptist minister in the Russian Empire. He was living in what today would be Poland, which then was a part of Russia," Wardin said. "And on his own study of the Scripture he had a religious experience. Nobody came to convert him. And he was so excited about what he felt about the Lord and salvation and so on, he began to preach. He became a kind of revivalist on his own and he got response."
Wardin recorded Alf's Baptist work in the 2003 book "Gottfried F. Alf: Pioneer of the Baptist Movement in Poland," published by the Baptist History and Heritage Society of Brentwood, Tenn., and Fields Publishing Inc. of Nashville.
Diana Chandler is general assignment writer/editor for Baptist Press, the Southern Baptist Convention's news service. BP reports on missions, ministry and witness advanced through the Cooperative Program and on news related to Southern Baptists' concerns nationally and globally. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter ([URL=http://www.Twitter.com/BaptistPress]@BaptistPress[/URL]), Facebook ([URL=http://Facebook.com/BaptistPress]Facebook.com/BaptistPress[/URL]) and in your email ([URL=http://baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP.asp]baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP.asp[/URL]).
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First Ph.D. awarded at Midwestern
By Tim Sweetman
May. 19 2014
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP) -- The seminary's first Ph.D. graduate was among more than 100 students to receive degrees at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary's spring commencement.
Midwestern also honored its longtime librarian, Craig Kubic, for his service to multiple generations of students, faculty and staff. Kubic will depart in August to become dean of libraries at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.
Todd R. Chipman became the doctor of philosophy program's first graduate, receiving a Ph.D. in biblical studies with an emphasis in New Testament. Chipman was one of six students to enroll in the program's second Ph.D. class in 2009.
"Institutionally, we are proud to award our first Ph.D. degree, and we look forward to awarding many more in the years ahead," Midwestern Seminary President Jason Allen said. "The growth of our Ph.D. program, especially in recent months, is a source of institutional joy and accomplishment."
Midwestern Seminary launched the Ph.D. in 2008 with emphases in Old and New Testament. The first class saw five students enrolled, and currently there are more than 50 students in the program. In April, the Ph.D. program expanded, with trustees approving new emphases in biblical preaching, biblical ethics, biblical theology, biblical missiology and biblical ministry.
Kubic, who has worked in his current position since 1988, received a standing ovation from the overflow audience in Daniel Lee Chapel as Allen praised his service.
"Our entire seminary community expresses its deepest appreciation for Dr. Craig Kubic who, for the past 26 years, has demonstrated his great love for the Lord Jesus Christ through his dedicated service as library director and as an educator here," Allen said at the May 10 commencement. "By fully implementing the gifts God has given him, Dr. Kubic faithfully carried out Midwestern Seminary's mission of educating God-called men and women to be and make disciples of Jesus Christ for multiple generations.
"We honor and thank you," Allen said, "for pouring your life into the lives of so many students, faculty and staff members. You have truly exalted the name of Jesus Christ as a result of your tireless efforts over these many years."
Allen preached from John 3, titling his message "You Must Be Born Again." Focusing on the story of Jesus and Nicodemus, Allen reminded students of their central calling.
"Those that are called to ministry, and those especially before me this morning, are called first and foremost to be ministers of the Gospel," he said, telling graduates to be Gospel servants who strengthen the church and win many to faith in Jesus.
"If there is one message that this generation needs to hear preached again and again and again, it is this: you must be born again," Allen said.
Jesus emphasized that the new birth is not something done by man, but is solely dependent on the work of the Holy Spirit, Allen said. He told graduates that, like their salvation, their ministries depend on the Spirit's work.
"Graduates, I say to you, rely upon that, build your confidence upon that, but do not in any degree foster complacency in your heart," he said. "For our responsibility is to preach and to share and to beg. The Spirit's responsibility is to give life."
Ministers should expect changed lives as they preach the Gospel, Allen said.
"When the Spirit works, the effects are seen," he said. "We preach the Gospel with the expectancy that it has the power to free the addict, to change the scoffer, to redeem the vilest offender."
Allen encouraged graduates to live with the Day of Judgment in mind.
"Aim to be men and women of the Gospel, who preach and teach and counsel and sing the new birth," Allen said. "And as you do, you know that you do not sit here to be judged by men. Make it your aim to live your life in ministry in such a way that when you face that Day of Judgment, your character, your life, your ministry and your message will have proven true."
Allen also announced Midwestern Seminary's Professor of the Year, John Lee, assistant professor of New Testament and Greek who is originally from South Korea.
Lee received a doctor of philosophy from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, a master of divinity from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., and a bachelor of music from Seoul National University in South Korea with a specialization in piano performance. His research interests include the Gospel of Mark, Second Temple Jewish monotheism and New Testament Christology. He has been involved with pastoral ministry in both English- and Korean-speaking churches.
Tim Sweetman is director of communications at Midwestern Seminary. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter ([URL=http://www.Twitter.com/BaptistPress]@BaptistPress[/URL]), Facebook ([URL=http://Facebook.com/BaptistPress]Facebook.com/BaptistPress[/URL]) and in your email ([URL=http://baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP.asp]baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP.asp[/URL]).
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NRB, publisher split over pro-gay book
By Staff
May. 19 2014
MANASSAS, Va. (BP) -- The publisher of numerous evangelical bestsellers has resigned from the National Religious Broadcasters following a confrontation with NRB over a controversial new book that argues monogamous homosexual relationships are compatible with biblical Christianity.
[IMGONLY=37638@right@150]The split between WaterBrook Multnomah and NRB, reported by Christianity Today, took place after NRB President and CEO Jerry Johnson confronted the publishing group about the content of "God and the Gay Christian" by Matthew Vines -- a book published by the same company under a different trade name.
Convergent Books, Vines' publisher, is under the same corporate umbrella and leadership as WaterBrook Multnomah. Historically, WaterBrook Multnomah has published books by evangelical authors such as John Piper, David Jeremiah, Kay Arthur and Randy Alcorn.
Convergent and WaterBrook Multnomah are imprints, or trade names, of the same publishing division owned by Penguin Random House, run by President Steven W. Cobb. In April, Cobb explained to WORLD the difference between the two imprints. WaterBrook Multnomah caters to a conservative evangelical audience, but Convergent targets readers who are "open in their approach to issues that face the church today," Cobb said.
NRB is an industry association of mostly radio and television broadcasters, but it also includes some major Christian publishing houses. Its code of ethics states, "I will refrain from any sexual conduct or life-style, such as homosexuality or adultery, which is inconsistent with Scripture, or any promotion of the same."
The organization advocates on behalf of its members in Washington and the courts, hosts an annual convention and promotes networking. Beyond those benefits, NRB membership signifies to customers that a broadcaster or publisher espouses the conservative evangelical beliefs in the association's statement of faith. The first article of that statement asserts the Bible is "inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God."
In a letter to the NRB board of directors, Johnson, former president of Criswell College in Dallas, said the organization would "revisit the issue" with WaterBrook Multnomah if it could ensure that its staff would not work on Convergent books, according to Christianity Today.
Cobb sent a brief statement to WORLD saying NRB and his publishing group share mutual respect: "Our organization has discussed our publishing programs in private with leadership of the National Religious Broadcasters. These conversations with NRB have been characterized by one senior official at NRB as 'professional and Christ-honoring.' I couldn't agree more." Cobb declined to comment further.
Adapted from WORLD News Service, a division of WORLD Magazine (www.worldmag.com).
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BP Ledger, May 19 edition
By Staff
May. 19 2014
EDITOR'S NOTE: BP Ledger carries items for reader information each week from various Southern Baptist-related entities, and news releases of interest from other sources. The items are published as received.
Today's BP Ledger contains items from:
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Harling named president of Connie Maxwell Children's Home
By Staff
SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. (Baptist Courier) Randy Harling, pastor of Simpsonville First Baptist Church, will be the next president of Connie Maxwell Children's Home.
He informed his congregation Sunday, May 18.
Harling succeeds Ben Davis, who will retire Sept. 1 after serving at the Greenwood-based ministry to children for 21 years. Davis has been president since 2002.
Harling has served as lead pastor of Simpsonville First Baptist since 1997. He led his church to begin a ministry called "A Home for Me," through which the church partnered with the South Carolina Department of Social Services to enhance foster care opportunities for church members.
Harling has consulted with other churches to help start foster and adoption ministries, and he has served on the board of "Children Come First" in Columbia. He has served in various capacities in working with DSS, and he and his wife Sherri have fostered four boys. They are also the parents of two adult sons.
"I believe our most urgent mission field in South Carolina is abused and neglected children and their parents," Harling said. "James 1:27 is a mandate for the Body of Christ to get involved."
Davis said he will work with Harling to ensure a "good, smooth transition." He said Harling "has a sincere heart for children in need."
Davis said he and his wife, Polly, will be praying for Harling and his wife as they assume their roles at Connie Maxwell, "and we trust they will experience the blessings and satisfaction we have had by serving here."
Harling is a graduate of Furman University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
During his tenure at Simpsonville First Baptist, average weekly attendance has grown from 600 to 2,200. The church contributed $500,000 to the Cooperative Program in 2012.
Harling previously served as pastor of Cedar Shoals Baptist Church in Belton.
Fuller named music director & conductor of the CenturyMen
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (The CenturyMen) -- Charles Fuller has been named as music director and conductor of The CenturyMen. First established in 1969 as a ministry of the former SBC Radio and Television Commission, The CenturyMen is an auditioned men's chorus of professional Christian musicians who serve as ministers of music and choral directors in churches and Christian institutions throughout the United States.
Since its beginning, The CenturyMen had been under the musical leadership of the late Buryl Red, who served as music director, conductor and arranger throughout The CenturyMen's 45-year history.
When Red died in April 2013, the board of directors of The CenturyMen named Fuller as acting music director and conductor. Fuller has been a part of the leadership team of The CenturyMen since 2003. He previously held the position of associate music director and choral specialist with the group. When The CenturyMen met for their annual meeting on April 25 of this year, the membership unanimously voted to name Fuller as new music director and conductor.
From Little Rock, Ark., Fuller brings nearly 30 years as a choral conductor, university administrator and church musician. Fuller holds the BME degree in choral music from Baylor University, the MM degree in choral conducting from West Texas State University, and the Doctor of musical arts degree in choral music from Arizona State University. His teaching positions include director of choral activities at East Texas Baptist University and professor of music, director of choral activities and dean of the school of fine arts at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Ark. Fuller also holds the master of divinity degree in biblical studies and preaching from George W. Truett Theological Seminary and is completing work on the doctor of ministry degree in contextual leadership from The Baptist Seminary of Richmond. He currently serves as minister for congregational life at Second Baptist Church in Little Rock.
Dr. Fuller's mentors include Hugh Sanders, Douglas McEwen, and Euell Porter as well as significant workshop experiences with Robert Shaw, Howard Swann, and Frauke Hausemann. He has conducted and led workshops in 18 states, Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, Austria, and China. His choirs have been invited to sing for the American Choral Directors Association, Alleluia Church Music Conference, American Guild of Organists, and the White House. He has served on working groups and boards for the International Federation for Choral Music, American Choral Directors Association, Texas Choral Directors Association, the MUSICA Project, and was a founding board member of ChoralNet, Inc. In addition he has served 16 churches from Arkansas to Arizona as part-time and/or interim minister of music. He formerly served as a member of the editorial board of Alliance Music Publications, Inc. in Houston, Texas, the publisher of some of his edited choral publications.
Dr. Charles Fuller's writing for choral musicians has focused on the power of choral music in service of shared community. He also promotes in his teaching and conducting the use of excellence not as an end in itself, but as a tool for enhancing community, building character, and strengthening faith development. Choral music is for him a tool he has used to touch the lives of hundreds of people in his classrooms and rehearsal halls in churches and schools across the South and Southwest.
In addition to announcing Dr. Fuller's election as Music Director and Conductor, The CenturyMen is pleased to announce the release of its new CD, "Celebrating a Legacy � Songs Along the Way." This CD is a tribute to the life, music and ministry of Dr. Buryl Red and is a collection of the last arrangements he did for The CenturyMen.
The CenturyMen recently completed its 2014 concert and ministry tour of Florida and south Georgia and is making plans for future tours that include Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma, as well as international ministry and mission opportunities. The CenturyMen is always looking for qualified male singers to join this ministry. Membership is by audition only. Information about auditions as well as ordering CDs can be found by visiting the website at www.thecenturymen.com.
Futral receives honorary doctorate at Mississippi College
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CLINTON, Miss. (Mississippi College) -- A Baptist leader who has preached with passion around the world, Jim Futral is in pretty exclusive company at Mississippi College.
During MC's Spring 2014 commencement on May 10, Futral received an honorary doctor of divinity degree.
It marked the fourth honorary doctorate awarded in the past 11 years at the Baptist-affiliated university, President Lee Royce told commencement ceremonies that Saturday at the A.E. Wood Coliseum. Founded in 1826, Mississippi College awarded its first honorary degree in 1843.
Futral challenged the Class of 2014, family members and friends to make a difference, set high standards and let Jesus guide them. "You need to have integrity about your life," he said.
While there are more than seven billion people on the planet, they are not just numbers, Futral said. They are capable of becoming world changers. "He (Jesus) will guide you. Let Him love you, day by day."
In recent years, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice received an honorary doctor of laws at the MC School of Law in 2003. Among others, former Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale and federal U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock of Mississippi were presented with honorary doctorates at the Christian university in 2008.
Dr. Futral's pastoral and denominational experience is outstanding. He's offered insightful leadership as executive director-treasurer of the Mississippi Baptist Convention, a post he's held since 1998. He's served as a pastor in Southern Baptist churches for 35 years, including 13 years at Broadmoor Baptist Church in Mississippi.
His parents are the late Rev. Guy Futral and Mary Sue Futral of Fort Smith, Arkansas. That's where he was born near the Oklahoma border. But, just a few months later, the infant moved with his parents to Greenwood, Mississippi. He's called the Magnolia State home ever since. He grew up in Clinton, but has lived in other cities, including Jackson, Oxford, Starkville and Gulfport.
Thousands of readers of "The Baptist Record," the Mississippi Baptist Convention newspaper, look forward to reading Futral's weekly column called "Directions."
The Futral name carries many Mississippi College connections dating back to the 1940s, Royce said as he introduced the event's guest speaker. His dad, Rev. Guy Futral, was a 1951 MC graduate. Dr. Jim Futral is one of five brothers, and several of them are MC alums. In addition, one of Jim's three children, Rob Futral, is a Mississippi College graduate and senior pastor at Broadmoor Baptist Church in Madison.
A wonderful family man, Dr. Futral and his wife, the former Shirley Fay Moore of Bessemer, Alabama, are the parents of three children, Melodi McNair, Rob Futral and Mysti Chutz. They are proud of their eight grandchildren, Madi, Trea, Ridge, Rivers, Banks, Coleman, Mary Lamar and Clay.
Futral's work as a servant of God began when he was called to preach at age 18. He's preached around the globe, in much of the United States and in Mississippi's 82 counties. He earned his bachelor's degree from Blue Mountain College in north Mississippi in 1967, his master's and doctorate at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
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FIRST-PERSON: Millennials & a new social witness, Part 1
By Owen Strachan
May. 19 2014
EDITOR'S NOTE: Part 2 of Owen Strachan's comments on Millennials and the public square will be in Baptist Press tomorrow, May 20.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- They are born after 1980. They don't know much about Thatcher, but they do know about Bieber. They take "selfies." Much discussed, oft-misunderstood, they are the Millennials.
A December 2013 poll of this much-fretted-over demographic offered fresh light on their political views. Harvard University's Institute of Politics conducted the poll and found that 35 percent of Millennials approve of Democratic congressmen and just 19 percent approve of Republican congressmen.
This data leads to rumination both sociological and theological. How, exactly, will Millennial Christians -- in a jaded generation but not of it -- engage with politics, with the public square? The way Millennials, of which I am one, answer this question will play a vital role in the public prospects of Christianity in America and the West.
The last 30 years have left many Millennials with some baggage. The fire-breathing model of engagement practiced by some leaders of the "Moral Majority" left many Millennials with a bad taste in their mouth. The disillusioned and confused Millennial masses include many young pastors and scholars who find their identity in the vibrant "big gospel" movement of the last decade (like The New York Times, you may have just heard of it). Young Christian leaders today often express a desire to distance themselves from the Moral Majority et al, adopting an "apolitical" or relatively indifferent political stance.
This is a partly helpful and partly unhelpful response to their heritage. It is helpful because it means that many young church planters and pastors and thinkers will avoid reducing the faith to a policy position. They will focus on making friendships with people not like them and living a "missional" way of life. The church will be the listening church, a spiritual body of believers that gathers to hear the lion of the Scripture roar from His Word each week.
This response is unhelpful because young Christian leaders might forget that the church must also be the speaking church. Many Millennial leaders understand the dire need for evangelization of lost friends, but fewer grasp the importance of public square witness. Few of us Millennials will emulate the Moral Majority at its apex, but we also must recognize that, in their imperfect way, various figures of this group spoke courageously on behalf of the unborn, the natural family and the moral fabric of the nation. There was real bravery, and real sacrifice, in this witness. It came at a real cost in a culture and society that now reads any attempt, however noble, to intervene in others' lives as hostile and injurious.
Unlike the Moral Majority, many Millennials are quiet as a church mouse on public square issues, save for a vocal rejection of past tactics. But if your only significant act of public square proclamation is a sneering disavowal of Jerry Falwell, you're doing it wrong. A church inspired by the Gospel, aware of its claim on all of life, and in tune with a historic tradition of figures like Augustine, Wilberforce and Colson, cannot content itself with exquisitely calibrated public neutrality. Neither can it accept the velvet muzzle its opponents offer. It cannot dance like a celebrity cha-chaing his way back to the C-list when a confused church member asks for guidance on cultural questions of grave import.
It must speak. It must offer a new social witness.
Owen Strachan is assistant professor of Christian theology and church history at Boyce College, the undergraduate school of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and president of the Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood. He is the author of "Risky Gospel: Abandon Fear and Build Something Awesome" (Thomas Nelson, 2013) and of a forthcoming book for a millennial audience on the public square witness of Chuck Colson. This column first appeared in the Canon & Culture blog (www.canonandculture.com) of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.
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I'll be on FNC with John Gibson today at about 5:30 pm. Talking about how the Iraqi military is standing up, and what a withdrawal would mean for us, and for them.
I'll be on FNC with John Gibson today at about 5:30 pm. Talking about how the Iraqi military is standing up, and what a withdrawal would mean for us, and for them.
One oddity in Howard Kurtz's story is his continuing agnosticism about the forged documents. He complacently accepts the absurd notion that the documents' authenticity is beyond verification: "Mapes is right that the purported 30-year-old memos by Bush's long-dead squadron commander have not been proved to be forgeries..." Why does he grant her this concession? Just to make his criticism of her seem a little more even-handed?Â
As "Engine Charlie" Wilson used to say: "What's good for General Motors is good for the country, and what's good for the country is good for General Motors." (Though the media usually omitted the corollary half of the saying.)
By these lights, the country should be prepared to shut down next spring.
I attended Vice President Cheney's speech at AEI this morning. Truly, besides the excellent content of the veep's remarks, little about the event was remarkable. Afterward outside the building, though, the LaRouchians were singing tunes to the effect of Cheney being a Nazi. If James Bowman is right in today's column, that's the quality discourse we should expect in coming years from the Democratic Party.
If you missed the Vice President's speech this morning, here are the money quotes:
"Several days ago, I commented briefly on some recent statements that have been made by some members of Congress about
"One thing I've learned in the last five years is that when you're Vice President you're lucky if your speeches get any attention at all. But I do have a quarrel with that headline, and it's important to make this point at the outset. I do not believe it is wrong to criticize the War on Terror or any aspect thereof. Disagreement, argument and debate are the essence of democracy, and none of us should want it any other way...
As Bob Woodward is starting to learn, you don't want to get on Howard Kurtz's bad side. In today's Washington Post Kurtz politely lets Mary Mapes have it for refusing to acknowledge the problems with her "60 Minutes II" report on George W. Bush's Air National Guard past. She has thereby "open[ed] herself up to the charge that her obsession has clouded her judgment." Before he's done, Kurtz is comparing her to another investigative journalist who in disgrace ended up committing suicide.
All very fine. So why was Kurtz much more tolerant of Mapes in his November 9 report on her? Her obsession hadn't yet clouded her judgment?
I'll be preaching to the heathen on Philadelphia NPR (WHYY, 91 FM and Sirius satellite radio ch. 107) 10-11 a.m. today. They want to talk about Iraq and have booked a guest for the other side of the debate whose name you should recall. Larry Johnson, pal of Val and Joe Wilson, apologist for the CIA and hyperlib activist. This should be fun.
It's that Time again. Tomorrow's mag will invite your nominations for their "Person of the Year." The process has already begun, and among the nominees are J.K. Rowling, Cindy Sheehan and Bono. Please do make your own nominations (here) and then vote when the noms are closed. Otherwise we'll probably get the 2005 Dynamic Duo -- Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame -- on the cover of Time.
There are so many possibilities: Rafael Palmeiro, Dick Durbin and Dominique de Villepin, just to name a few. I won't even mention Mark Brunell.
To the extent we should take this seriously at all (which isn't much), why not someone such as: Aussie Treasurer Peter Costello, who told those who want to establish Islamic law in his country to bugger off or Gen. Russ (don't get stuck on stupid) Honore or his boss, The Big Dog? Think about it.
Long ago, in my column, "The Bush/Powell Conundrum," I analyzed the relationship between George W. Bush and Colin Powell, and came down generally on the positive side in my evaluation of Powell as then-new Secretary of State. I hereby and definitively change my mind, and acknowledge that I should have listened to my friend Jeff Jacoby, always a Powell skeptic. Powell is now and was always a snake in the bosom of the Bush presidency.
The latest: Former Powell chief of staff Retired U.S. Army Col. Larry Wilkerson tells CNN that Vice President Dick Cheney provided the "'philosophical guidance' and 'flexibility' that led to the torture of detainees in U.S. facilities...and told CNN that the practice of torture may be continuing in U.S.-run facilities."
Dave: No, that's not correct. Evolutionary theory consists of a constellation of hypotheses that are falsifiable by experimentation. It's pretty easy to come up with simple ones. For example: Get a mix of puppies of various breeds and raise them in a lab with their food on a platform. Raise the platform six inches every 2 months, until it is 3 feet high when the dogs are one year old. When they breed, raise their offspring under similar conditions. Hypothesis: Each generation of dogs will be taller, on average, than the last. If the hypothesis is correct, it would seem to demonstrate that height is heritable and can be determined by natural selection. If dogs too small to reach their food, and thus too unhealthy to breed, continue to be born generation after generation, then size must not be heritable, and we have to figure out some other explanation.


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Long Street is usually bustling with people, activity and non-stop entertainment - except on a Sunday. Although it may loose that chaotic-crazy energy it transforms into something very different and yet lovely in it's own right. Laura Ronchi noticed this void and launched at the opportunity to create Cape Town's newest, freshest and vibrant indoor Sunday market. Only On A Sunday… Located in the stunning Zula, Sound Bar building on Long Street the interior possesses that old–worldly charm dating back to the 1800's. As you weave your way through the different floors and levels expect a delectable variety of art, live entertainment and eclectic stalls offering an abundance of goods ranging from A to Z, retro to modern, collectibles
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Stumbling down Long Street early one morning last week, I was in dire need of a good caffeine fix - ahead of meeting up with my lawyer - which as you know, is often not the most pleasant thing to do at any time of the day, let alone when all good citizens should still be safely ensconced in their pits and in the arms of Morpheus... However, I digress, "Rcaffe" (I am told it is pronounced "aar – café) is a real gem and a great find, right in the heart of good old Cape Town! (For those who can remember that far back, it is where the old "Yellow Pepper Deli" was situated). And - it's in Long Street close to The High Court and Huguenot Chambers (why the reminder of all things legal I ask
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Tuesdays are trouble in Cape Town, and here's why... A pre-emptive intervention approach to mid-week stress is on the Mothercity's Tuesday To-Do List. Forget weekends in the culture of the Cape - Tuesdays are a full force party day. For those keen to kick it up to some commercial radio hits with students, lumo-lovers and bachelorette partiers, "Summer of 69" style, the Claremont strip is watering hole of choice. Claremont favourites include Springboks, Tiger Tiger and Tin Roof. Tiger Tuesday's promise free drinks 'til ten and top of the chart tracks to get you swaying. The plush interiors of this well-designed club allow ample bar space and a sunken, dense dance-floor. Be sure to arrive collared, smart-shoed and on time -
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So its reached the midpoint of the 2010 World Cup with the last game of the first round having been wrapped up yesterday. To say the least the tournament has yielded more than its fair share of excitement and above all good times. If ever their was a tangible measure of the success of the event, the atmosphere in Long Street would be it. Historically the Mother City's oldest and arguably still its most relevant clubbing district, its performance undoubtedly is the true test of 'off the pitch' success. That being said, thus far things have been phenomenal. The exemplary safety blanket provided by the ever so present S.A.P.S who have quite hilariously, adopted the time old 'school field trip' buddy system, and
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SAN DIEGO—A string of four different car crashes around the county leave five people dead pre-dawn Sunday morning.
In Escondido, two people were killed in a predawn head-on traffic collision on a two-lane road between Escondido and Valley Center today, authorities said.
The crash happened just after 4 a.m. on Old Castle Road just east of Champagne Boulevard, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The victims were the drivers of each vehicle, one of whom died after being rushed to a hospital, said Mike Mohler of Cal Fire.
Their names have not been released.
Lanes in the area were closed for several hours because of an investigation.
Near Camp Pendleton, a man was killed today when he was struck by a vehicle on Interstate 5 near the main gate at Camp Pendleton, north of Oceanside.
The victim's body was discovered just after 4 a.m. in the center divider of the northbound lanes just north of Harbor Drive, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Law enforcement was put on the lookout for a white Honda or Acura with damage to its front end that may have fled the collision, but the driver later drove back to the scene.
All but one lane of the freeway were closed for several hours after the crash.
The victim's name has not been released.
In Jamul, a young Alpine man was killed in a hit-and-run crash on a two-lane stretch of state Route 94 south of Jamul today, authorities said.
The body of Jonathan Michael Ulmer, 21, was found shortly before 3 a.m. on Campo Road just southeast of Proctor Valley Road, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office.
Ulmer is survived by his mother.
Lanes of the highway were closed in both directions because of the crash, according to the California Highway Patrol.
In Barrio Logan, a motorist killed when his car skidded on a curve and slammed into a telephone pole in Barrio Logan was identified today as a 28-year- old employee of the San Diego Convention Center.
James Moore Young Jr. died at the scene of the crash around 1 a.m. Saturday in the 2500 block of National Avenue, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office.
San Diego police said Young, who was married and lived with several family members, was driving west when his 1994 Mercedes Benz lost control on a bend in National Avenue near Sicard Street and slammed into a telephone pole.


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Tribal on my sister's ankel done by yohan, Art Cannes Tattoo shop in france Tribal Tattoos Bull Tattoo Pictures , Hello,First off, if I have posted this in the wrong section of the site I'm sorry for the mistake Basically I was wondering if any of you can point me in the right direction, I'm looking for what I can only describe as "old school woman style" tribal tattoos ( I have attached an example of what I mean to this post). Mainly looking for artists or tribal tattoo(ists) that are known for this style, and any general imergy or sites that have these types of tribal tattoos/illustrations/pictures on them. So if anyone could point me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated.Thank you for your time
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Here's a tribal cross on the forearm.. slightly modified from another design Tribal Daisies Tattoos Gallery , Considering my friend and I just paid a decent amount of money, we suggest there should be quite a bite more...elaboration ideas for current tribal tattoos, more color schemes, circular designs, more symbols....the list goes on and on. Seriously. We suggest this happens....fast. There are plenty more designs out there than what's here. This is supposed to help you and give you ideas, and it hasn't been all that helpful. Much appreciated if it could improve.
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Did this one for my Brother Tribal Tattoos Hawaii Tattoo Designs Design , Well.. Like i said im really looking to do something for my family mainly my wife and son. Then if possible represent the rest of my family in a smaller way like ex.) each person represented by a star within the sleeve. But ill do more research and hopefully be able to bring some ideas to you guys
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He yells, he grabs, he kicks: Should I say something?
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I have read your column for a long time, and I have a problem that I suspect is not unique to me, and am not sure how to proceed.
My friend has a kid.
The kid is almost 11. I've known the kid since he was almost 8.
The kid is a brat. I don't mean occasionally overstimulated, whiny, badly behaved – every kid acts badly at times. I mean horrible, malicious, ruin-your-weekend kind of brat. The context where I encounter him is mostly formal activities that are led by his dad, my friend. Of course, these are activities I have paid to join, which adds insult to injury, or injury to insult, or something.
I do have fairly strict ideals for children's manners and behavior, since I was raised strictly, and I've tried to allow for that, but I do think that this kid's behavior is beyond any possible pale.
He needs to be the center of attention at ALL times, and whenever he isn't (and sometimes when he is), he gets rude and bullying. He imitates my accent. He demands things like, "Why do you always have that look on your face? Why are you always blinking?" He deliberately mispronounces my name. Asking him to stop is pretty much like showing a red flag to a bull. Trying to redirect him to appropriate behavior, ignoring him … all just make things worse, and I don't feel like I can actually scold him considering he isn't my kid.
He's been rude and mocking pretty much since he was 8, but now that he's a bit older, he's also progressed to touching. Grabbing my hair. Poking me with his hand. Grabbing at my glasses to put fingerprints on them. Grabbing my possessions. He's almost as tall as I am, so despite his youth, this is actually kind of scary. Last time I was trapped in a vehicle with him, he snatched my water bottle, and I lost my temper and snatched it back. His reaction was to scream "Child-hater! Child-hater!" at me for the rest of the car ride. At that point, I said something like, "No, I don't hate children and I don't hate you [I was sort of lying about that just then but, you know], but I don't care for the way you're behaving towards me today." This had no effect, of course.
His dad, my friend/instructor, was driving the vehicle and did exactly nothing. I tried talking with him later. I was circumspect, like "sorry I kind of lost my temper at your kid, I'm not really used to kids … "
I was hoping he would say, "Yeah, he needs to learn how to interact with adults, I'll talk to him." What he actually said was something like "No big deal, you're learning," like I'm just not really used to kids because I don't have any, but hey, I'll get there.
But what I really felt like I was learning was that an 11-year-old can ruin my entire weekend trip, a trip I paid for, with his miserable behavior and I have no recourse? Ugh.
If this were a stranger, my reaction, especially to the touching, would be far stronger, but this is my friend's kid … and my friend doesn't get that anything is wrong. I'm sure I'm not the only adult this kid disrespects or the only target of his bullying. It's going to cause him problems in school and life if he doesn't learn to act appropriately.
Is there any way at all that I can bring this up with my friend? It seems like a bad idea, if I want to keep the friendship, to tell him how I really feel. But if the situation continues, the friendship will end anyway, because I'm not willing to be in the kid's company at all unless things change a lot, and therefore I will have to avoid my friend at any time when his kid might be with him, which is obviously fairly often. Or is there some other option? Some way I can act around the kid that isn't totally socially unacceptable but will just get him to leave me alone?
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Dear Tormented,
There is no such thing as a brat.
There are children who are out of control, who will lie to us and hit us and try to hurt us; there are children who will steal from us and make us uncomfortable, who will kick us and tug at our sleeve and scream and cry and smash things; there are even children who will try to kill us.
But there is no such thing as a brat.
When we call a child a brat we are saying that child is not acceptable to us; we are saying that we ourselves have reached our puny limits of endurance and compassion; we are saying that in our opinion that child is defective, that child should be separated from the rest and turned out into the forest or cast into the sea. That is simply an opinion that arises out of exhaustion, and it is wrong.
When we call a child a brat we are frightening that child because that child knows full well what we are saying; children who are called brats know that they are being called brats yet they cannot stop being brats because the category "brat" is foist upon them like a net and so they live with the terror of being smothered in that net and cast into the sea. They live with the terror of being locked in a cage. They live with the knowledge that they are displeasing their parents and teachers and they live with the constant foreknowledge of punishment and isolation.
It's what the child is experiencing that matters. And that may be beyond our comprehension. It may be beyond our skill and knowledge; it may be a phenomenon that forces us to remember that we are only people, that we are not gods; that we do not create life or control life, we only pass life on from our loins to the earth, that we couple and bring children into the world and then we are baffled by who they are and what they want, and that our responses may at times have nothing to do with who they are and what they want, but since we are the stronger ones we can often afford to forget this and just say fuck it and kick the kid down the road or hit the kid or lock him up in a cage or send him to bed with no supper or give him some drugs that slow him down and make us more comfortable.
Give the kid some drugs that will make us more comfortable. That's the height of our science and philosophy?
So I identify, personally, with this kid's brattiness. I identify with his wanting to disrupt and intimidate. I identify with this kid. I want to bite you, too. I want to bite all the adults who in the face of worldwide starvation and murder and environmental destruction want a peaceful little picnic where everyone behaves. I am glad to see the occasional brat tipping over my picnic basket because the universe speaks to us through children, reminding us that our placid enjoyment of life is just denial, that my nice, middle-class picnic is an illusion, that the world is full of suffering and pain and it is calling out to us, through all the disruptive children and the bipolar adults and schizophrenics and outcasts and junkies and wanderers and homeless crazies shitting themselves on Market Street and all the other abandoned and outcast people: Through them, the world is telling us that all is not right, that we have much work to do, and that we are virtually asleep to our true condition.
It's possible, also, that what is going on is in some way intended for you, as a signal, as an opening into some kind of insight, as a way of saying to you, Here is an opportunity for you to experience your own pain about childhood and your own beliefs about control, and to see how you yourself were taught control, and how painful that was, and how it involved, in a sense, the sacrifice of your own childhood and your own innocent energy and sense of self and your right to express yourself and move freely; here is an opportunity to feel the pains in your body that are connected to your childhood, and to feel the anger that you live with day in and day out, and to acknowledge that behind your certainty and intolerance is grief for your own childhood.
I'm just guessing. I don't know you. But I have strong feelings about the status of children in our society because I have seen children in a state of beautiful wildness, verging on chaos but a beautiful chaos, and I have seen adults shut them down as if the children were pets purchased in a bazaar. I have seen this and I have zipped my lip because I, too, am afraid in public to raise a hand and say this is madness, this is wrong, this child is innocent and just trying to work out something, trying to work out the impossible swirling chaotic energy of childhood, and this child is being restrained and possibly this child is lonely and hurt and out of control but the last thing the child needs is more disapproval and control. And at times like that I will think to myself: What the child needs is dirt, a ranch, a forest, some vast unenclosed space in which the child can exhaust himself and fall down and be spoken to by the wilderness.
I could be wrong. I'm just a guy who writes. But that's what I hear. I hear a society that looks at its children as material resources cultivated for future use in its vast machine, and in its zeal to form these children into eventual usefulness implants in them ticking bombs that go off years later in high school cafeterias and suburban bedrooms. I see a society that codes into its children a set of shaded messages that later will erupt as disease, addiction, violence, depression and that sad attenuation of the noble spirit that we call the well-adjusted person.
I remember the terror and bewilderment of childhood; I remember my own hatred of restraint; I remember my dismay at the failure of adults to overcome their own cowardice and live in the moment where we children were happily living in glorious anarchy and delight. When I was a child I was living in the moment, as all children do, and I saw with dread the dull, gray world adults were living in and I did not want to give up my heart and soul to that world; I dreaded leaving the pure energy of childhood; I dreaded making the deathly compromises of adulthood; I felt sadness for what my parents and elders had given up, supposedly for us children, binding us to them with guilt and indebtedness for things that could never be repaid.
So what I fervently wish for you in this situation is that you can see in this child the raw wildness you remember from your own childhood, and you can see in your reactions the reactions you have been taught by a rigid and blind society, and that you can find in yourself some compassion for that wildness of the child, that angry, anarchic but true spirit.
That child is not a brat. That child is just a child. You have a chance here. You have a chance to confront something deep and timeless and maybe make a difference in the rest of your life, in how you treat other adults and children and how you treat that long-lost child in yourself that is crying out for recognition and love.


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