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Cautions against going to law in heathen courts. (1-8) Sins which, if lived and died in, shut out from the kingdom of God. (9-11) Our bodies, which are the members of Christ, and temples of the Holy Ghost, must not be defiled. (12-20)
Verses 1-8 Christians should not contend with one another, for they are brethren. This, if duly attended to, would prevent many law-suits, and end many quarrels and disputes. In matters of great damage to ourselves or families, we may use lawful means to right ourselves, but Christians should be of a forgiving temper. Refer the matters in dispute, rather than go to law about them. They are trifles, and may easily be settled, if you first conquer your own spirits. Bear and forbear, and the men of least skill among you may end your quarrels. It is a shame that little quarrels should grow to such a head among Christians, that they cannot be determined by the brethren. The peace of a man's own mind, and the calm of his neighbourhood, are worth more than victory. Lawsuits could not take place among brethren, unless there were faults among them.
Verses 9-11 The Corinthians are warned against many great evils, of which they had formerly been guilty. There is much force in these inquiries, when we consider that they were addressed to a people puffed up with a fancy of their being above others in wisdom and knowledge. All unrighteousness is sin; all reigning sin, nay, every actual sin, committed with design, and not repented of, shuts out of the kingdom of heaven. Be not deceived. Men are very much inclined to flatter themselves that they may live in sin, yet die in Christ, and go to heaven. But we cannot hope to sow to the flesh, and reap everlasting life. They are reminded what a change the gospel and grace of God had made in them. The blood of Christ, and the washing of regeneration, can take away all guilt. Our justification is owing to the suffering and merit of Christ; our sanctification to the working of the Holy Spirit; but both go together. All who are made righteous in the sight of God, are made holy by the grace of God.
Verses 12-20 Some among the Corinthians seem to have been ready to say, All things are lawful for me. This dangerous conceit St. Paul opposes. There is a liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, in which we must stand fast. But surely a Christian would never put himself into the power of any bodily appetite. The body is for the Lord; is to be an instrument of righteousness to holiness, therefore is never to be made an instrument of sin. It is an honour to the body, that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead; and it will be an honour to our bodies, that they will be raised. The hope of a resurrection to glory, should keep Christians from dishonouring their bodies by fleshly lusts. And if the soul be united to Christ by faith, the whole man is become a member of his spiritual body. Other vices may be conquered in fight; that here cautioned against, only by flight. And vast multitudes are cut off by this vice in its various forms and consequences. Its effects fall not only directly upon the body, but often upon the mind. Our bodies have been redeemed from deserved condemnation and hopeless slavery by the atoning sacrifice of Christ. We are to be clean, as vessels fitted for our Master's use. Being united to Christ as one spirit, and bought with a price of unspeakable value, the believer should consider himself as wholly the Lord's, by the strongest ties. May we make it our business, to the latest day and hour of our lives, to glorify God with our bodies, and with our spirits which are his.
1 Corinthians 6:1-11 . LITIGATION OF CHRISTIANS IN HEATHEN COURTS CENSURED: ITS VERY EXISTENCE BETRAYS A WRONG SPIRIT: BETTER TO BEAR WRONG NOW, AND HEREAFTER THE DOERS OF WRONG SHALL BE SHUT OUT OF HEAVEN.
1. Dare--This word implies treason against Christian brotherhood [BENGEL].
before the unjust--The Gentile judges are here so termed by an epithet appropriate to the subject in question, namely, one concerning justice. Though all Gentiles were not altogether unjust, yet in the highest view of justice which has regard to God as the Supreme Judge, they are so: Christians, on the other hand, as regarding God as the only Fountain of justice, should not expect justice from them.
before . . . saints--The Jews abroad were permitted to refer their disputes to Jewish arbitrators [JOSEPHUS, Antiquities, 14.10,17]. So the Christians were allowed to have Christian arbitrators.
2. Do ye not know--as a truth universally recognized by Christians. Notwithstanding all your glorying in your "knowledge," ye are acting contrary to it ( 1 Corinthians 1:4 1 Corinthians 1:5 , 8:1 ). The oldest manuscripts have "Or" before "know ye not"; that is, "What! (expressing surprise) know ye not," &c.
saints . . . judge--that is, "rule," including judgment: as assessors of Christ. Matthew 19:28 , "judging," that is, "ruling over." (Compare Psalms 49:14 , Daniel 7:22 Daniel 7:27 , Revelation 2:26 , 3:21 , 20:4 ). There is a distinction drawn by able expositors between the saints who judge or rule, and the world which is ruled by them: as there is between the elected ( Matthew 20:23 ) twelve apostles who sit on thrones judging, and the twelve tribes of Israel that are judged by them. To reign, and to be saved, are not necessarily synonymous. As Jehovah employed angels to carry the law into effect when He descended on Sinai to establish His throne in Israel, so at His coming the saints shall administer the kingdom for, and under, Him. The nations of the earth, and Israel the foremost, in the flesh, shall, in this view, be the subjects of the rule of the Lord and His saints in glorified bodies. The mistake of the Chiliasts was that they took the merely carnal view, restricting the kingdom to the terrestrial part. This part shall have place with the accession of spiritual and temporal blessings such as Christ's presence must produce. Besides this earthly glory, there shall be the heavenly glory of the saints reigning in transfigured bodies, and holding such blessed intercourse with mortal men, as angels had with men of old, and as Christ, Moses, and Elias, in glory had with Peter, James, and John, in the flesh at the transfiguration ( 2 Timothy 2:12 2 Peter 1:16-18 ). But here the "world" seems to be the unbelieving world that is to be "condemned" ( 1 Corinthians 11:22 ), rather than the whole world, including the subject nations which are to be brought under Christ's sway; however, it may include both those to be condemned, with the bad angels, and those about to be brought into obedience to the sway of Christ with His saints. Compare Matthew 25:32 Matthew 25:40 , "all nations," "these my brethren" on the thrones with Him. The event will decide the truth of this view.
judged by you--or, before you (compare 1 Corinthians 3:22 ).
smallest matters--The weightiest of earthly questions at issue are infinitely small compared with those to be decided on the judgment-day.
3. judge angels--namely, bad angels. We who are now "a spectacle to angels" shall then "judge angels." The saints shall join in approving the final sentence of the Judge on them ( Jude 1:6 ). Believers shall, as administrators of the kingdom under Jesus, put down all rule that is hostile to God. Perhaps, too, good angels shall then receive from the Judge, with the approval of the saints, higher honors.
4. judgments--that is, cases for judgment.
least esteemed--literally, "those of no esteem." Any, however low in the Church, rather than the heathen ( 1 Corinthians 1:28 ). Questions of earthly property are of secondary consequence in the eyes of true Christians, and are therefore delegated to those in a secondary position in the Church.
5. your shame--Thus he checks their puffed-up spirit ( 1 Corinthians 5:2 ; compare 1 Corinthians 15:34 ). To shame you out of your present unworthy course of litigation before the heathen, I have said ( 1 Corinthians 6:4 ), "Set the least esteemed in the Church to judge." Better even this, than your present course.
Is it so?--Are you in such a helpless state that, &c.?
not a wise man--though ye admire "wisdom" so much on other occasions ( 1 Corinthians 1:5 1 Corinthians 1:22 ). Paul alludes probably to the title, "cachain," or wise man, applied to each Rabbi in Jewish councils.
no, not one--not even one, amidst so many reputed among you for wisdom ( 1 Corinthians 3:18 , 4:6 ).
shall be able--when applied to.
brethren--literally, "brother"; that is, judge between brother and brother. As each case should arise, the arbitrator was to be chosen from the body of the church, such a wise person as had the charism, or gift, of church government.
6. But--emphatically answering the question in the end of 1 Corinthians 6:5 in the negative. Translate, "Nay," &c.
7. utterly a fault--literally, "a shortcoming" (not so strong as sin). Your going to law at all is a falling short of your high privileges, not to say your doing so before unbelievers, which aggravates it.
rather take wrong--( Proverbs 20:22 , Matthew 5:39 Matthew 5:40 ); that is, "suffer yourselves to be wronged."
8. ye--emphatic. Ye, whom your Lord commanded to return good for evil, on the contrary, "do wrong (by taking away) and defraud" (by retaining what is entrusted to you; or "defraud" marks the effect of the "wrong" done, namely, the loss inflicted). Not only do ye not bear, but ye inflict wrongs.
9. unrighteous--Translate, "Doers of wrong": referring to 1 Corinthians 6:8 (compare Galatians 5:21 ).
kingdom of God--which is a kingdom of righteousness ( Romans 14:17 ).
fornicators--alluding to 1 Corinthians 5:1-13 ; also below, 1 Corinthians 6:12-18 .
effeminate--self-polluters, who submit to unnatural lusts.
11. ye are washed--The Greek middle voice expresses, "Ye have had yourselves washed." This washing implies the admission to the benefits of Christ's salvation generally; of which the parts are; (1) Sanctification, or the setting apart from the world, and adoption into the Church: so "sanctified" is used 1 Corinthians 7:14 , John 17:19 . Compare 1 Peter 1:2 , where it rather seems to mean the setting apart of one as consecrated by the Spirit in the eternal purpose God. (2) Justification from condemnation through the righteousness of God in Christ by faith ( Romans 1:17 ). So PARÆUS. The order of sanctification before justification shows that it must be so taken, and not in the sense of progressive sanctification. "Washed" precedes both, and so must refer to the Christian's outward new birth of water, the sign of the inward setting apart to the Lord by the inspiration of the Spirit as the seed of new life ( John 3:5 , Ephesians 5:26 , Titus 3:5 , Hebrews 10:22 ). Paul (compare the Church of England Baptismal Service), in charity, and faith in the ideal of the Church, presumes that baptism realizes its original design, and that those outwardly baptized inwardly enter into vital communion with Christ ( Galatians 3:27 ). He presents the grand ideal which those alone realized in whom the inward and the outward baptism coalesced. At the same time he recognizes the fact that this in many cases does not hold good ( 1 Corinthians 6:8-10 ), leaving it to God to decide who are the really "washed," while he only decides on broad general principles.
in the name of . . . Jesus, and by the Spirit--rather, "in the Spirit," that is, by His in-dwelling. Both clauses belong to the three--"washed, sanctified, justified."
our God--The "our" reminds them. that amidst all his reproofs God is still the common God of himself and them.
1 Corinthians 6:12-20 . REFUTATION OF THE ANTINOMIAN DEFENSE OF FORNICATION AS IF IT WAS LAWFUL BECAUSE MEATS ARE SO.
12. All things are lawful unto me--These, which were Paul's own words on a former occasion (to the Corinthians, compare 1 Corinthians 10:23 , and Galatians 5:23 ), were made a pretext for excusing the eating of meats offered to idols, and so of what was generally connected with idolatry ( Acts 15:29 ), "fornication" (perhaps in the letter of the Corinthians to Paul, 1 Corinthians 7:1 ). Paul's remark had referred only to things indifferent: but they wished to treat fornication as such, on the ground that the existence of bodily appetites proved the lawfulness of their gratification.
me--Paul giving himself as a sample of Christians in general.
but I--whatever others do, I will not, &c.
lawful . . . brought under the power--The Greek words are from the same root, whence there is a play on the words: All things are in my power, but I will not be brought under the power of any of them (the "all things"). He who commits "fornication," steps aside from his own legitimate power or liberty, and is "brought under the power" of an harlot ( 1 Corinthians 6:15 ; compare 1 Corinthians 7:4 ). The "power" ought to be in the hands of the believer, not in the things which he uses [BENGEL]; else his liberty is forfeited; he ceases to be his own master ( John 8:34-36 Galatians 5:13 1 Peter 2:16 2 Peter 2:19 ). Unlawful things ruin thousands; "lawful" things (unlawfully used), ten thousands.
13. The argument drawn from the indifference of meats ( 1 Corinthians 8:8 , Romans 14:14 Romans 14:17 ; compare 7:18 Colossians 2:20-22 ) to that of fornication does not hold good. Meats doubtless are indifferent, since both they and the "belly" for which they are created are to be "destroyed" in the future state. But "the body is not (created) for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body" (as its Redeemer, who hath Himself assumed the body): "And God hath raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us" (that is our bodies): therefore the "body" is not, like the "belly," after having served a temporary use, to be destroyed: Now "he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body" ( 1 Corinthians 6:18 ). Therefore fornication is not indifferent, since it is a sin against one's own body, which, like the Lord for whom it is created, is not to be destroyed, but to be raised to eternal existence. Thus Paul gives here the germ of the three subjects handled in subsequent sections: (1) The relation between the sexes. (2) The question of meats offered to idols. (3) The resurrection of the body.
shall destroy--at the Lord's coming to change the natural bodies of believers into spiritual bodies ( 1 Corinthians 15:44 1 Corinthians 15:52 ). There is a real essence underlying the superficial phenomena of the present temporary organization of the body, and this essential germ, when all the particles are scattered, involves the future resurrection of the body incorruptible.
14. ( Romans 8:11 ).
raised up--rather, "raised," to distinguish it from "will raise up us"; the Greek of the latter being a compound, the former a simple verb. Believers shall be raised up out of the rest of the dead the first resurrection ( Revelation 20:5 ).
us--Here he speaks of the possibility of his being found in the grave when Christ comes; elsewhere, of his being possibly found alive ( 1 Thessalonians 4:17 ). In either event, the Lord's coming rather than death is the great object of the Christian's expectation ( Romans 8:19 ).
15. Resuming the thought in 1 Corinthians 6:13 , "the body is for the Lord" ( 1 Corinthians 12:27 , Ephesians 4:12 Ephesians 4:15 Ephesians 4:16 , 5:30 ).
shall I then--such being the case.
take--spontaneously alienating them from Christ. For they cannot be at the same time "the members of an harlot," and "of Christ" [BENGEL]. It is a fact no less certain than mysterious, that moral and spiritual ruin is caused by such sins; which human wisdom (when untaught by revelation) held to be actions as blameless as eating and drinking [CONYBEARE and HOWSON].
16. Justification of his having called fornicators "members of an harlot" ( 1 Corinthians 6:15 ).
joined--by carnal intercourse; literally, "cemented to": cleaving to.
one body--with her.
saith he--God speaking by Adam ( Genesis 2:24 , Matthew 19:5 ). "He which made them at the beginning said," &c. ( Ephesians 5:31 ).
17. one spirit--with Him. In the case of union with a harlot, the fornicator becomes one "body" with her (not one "spirit," for the spirit which is normally the organ of the Holy Spirit in man, is in the carnal so overlaid with what is sensual that it is ignored altogether). But the believer not only has his body sanctified by union with Christ's body, but also becomes "one spirit" with Him ( John 15:1-7 , 17:21 , 2 Peter 1:4 ; compare Ephesians 5:23-32 , John 3:6 ).
18. Flee--The only safety in such temptations is flight ( Genesis 39:12 , Job 31:1 ).
Every sin--The Greek is forcible. "Every sin whatsoever that a man doeth." Every other sin; even gluttony, drunkenness, and self-murder are "without," that is, comparatively external to the body ( Mark 7:18 ; compare Proverbs 6:30-32 ). He certainly injures, but he does not alienate the body itself; the sin is not terminated in the body; he rather sins against the perishing accidents of the body (as the "belly," and the body's present temporary organization), and against the soul than against the body in its permanent essence, designed "for the Lord." "But" the fornicator alienates that body which is the Lord's, and makes it one with a harlot's body, and so "sinneth against his own body," that is, against the verity and nature of his body; not a mere effect on the body from without, but a contradiction of the truth of the body, wrought within itself [ALFORD].
19. What? know ye not? &c.--Proof that "he that fornicates sinneth against his own body" ( 1 Corinthians 6:18 ).
your body--not "bodies." As in 1 Corinthians 3:17 , he represented the whole company of believers (souls and bodies), that is, the Church, as "the temple of God," the Spirit; so here, the body of each individual of the Church is viewed as the ideal "temple of the Holy Ghost." So John 17:23 , which proves that not only the Church, but also each member of it, is "the temple of the Holy Ghost." Still though many the several members form one temple, the whole collectively being that which each is in miniature individually. Just as the Jews had one temple only, so in the fullest sense all Christian churches and individual believers form one temple only. Thus "YOUR [plural] body" is distinguished here from "HIS OWN [particular or individual] body" ( 1 Corinthians 6:18 ). In sinning against the latter, the fornicator sins against "your (ideal) body," that of "Christ," whose "members your bodies" are ( 1 Corinthians 6:15 ). In this consists the sin of fornication, that it is a sacrilegious desecration of God's temple to profane uses. The unseen, but much more efficient, Spirit of God in the spiritual temple now takes the place of the visible Shekinah in the old material temple. The whole man is the temple; the soul is the inmost shrine; the understanding and heart, the holy place; and the body, the porch and exterior of the edifice. Chastity is the guardian of the temple to prevent anything unclean entering which might provoke the indwelling God to abandon it as defiled [TERTULLIAN, On the Apparel of Women]. None but God can claim a temple; here the Holy Ghost is assigned one; therefore the Holy Ghost is God.
not your own--The fornicator treats his body as if it were "his own," to give to a harlot if he pleases ( 1 Corinthians 6:18 ; compare 1 Corinthians 6:20 ). But we have no right to alienate our body which is the Lord's. In ancient servitude the person of the servant was wholly the property of the master, not his own. Purchase was one of the ways of acquiring a slave. Man has sold himself to sin ( 1 Kings 21:20 , Romans 7:14 ). Christ buys him to Himself, to serve Him ( Romans 6:16-22 ).
20. bought with a price--Therefore Christ's blood is strictly a ransom paid to God's justice by the love of God in Christ for our redemption ( Matthew 20:28 , Acts 20:28 , Galatians 3:13 , Hebrews 9:12 , 1 Peter 1:18 1 Peter 1:19 , 2 Peter 2:1 , Revelation 5:9 ). While He thus took off our obligation to punishment, He laid upon us a new obligation to obedience ( 1 Corinthians 7:22 1 Corinthians 7:23 ). If we accept Him as our Prophet to reveal God to us, and our Priest to atone for us, we must also accept Him as our King to rule over us as wholly His, presenting every token of our fealty ( Isaiah 26:13 ).
in your body--as "in" a temple (compare John 13:32 , Romans 12:1 , Philippians 1:20 ).
and in your spirit, which are God's--not in the oldest manuscripts and versions, and not needed for the sense, as the context refers mainly to the "body" ( 1 Corinthians 6:16 1 Corinthians 6:18 1 Corinthians 6:19 ). The "spirit" is incidentally mentioned in 1 Corinthians 6:17 , which perhaps gave rise to the interpolation, at first written in the Margin, afterwards inserted in the text.


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USA | Taking a second chance at building women's premier league
A publicity-hungry whale shark lurks behind Johnson, Gaston, Georgia State Soccer Association executive director Rick Skirvin (back row, left to right) and representative soccer tots. (Photo courtesy Hope-Beckham, Inc.)
I love soccer because of the Atlanta Beat, who played in powder blue uniforms on a downtown rectangle of grass purpose-built for 1996 Olympic field hockey. Since the Beat ceased operations in 2003 along with seven other teams in the Women's United Soccer Association, the stadium's water system has been vandalized at least twice. The college that inherited the 15,000-capacity venue, Morris Brown, founded by former slaves, has been crushed by debt and scandal. Water service has been cut off entirely; last week, the school announced that one of its classroom buildings, another Olympic legacy, would be auctioned on the steps of Fulton County Courthouse.
For two WUSA seasons, however, Herndon Stadium was a den of inflatable "thunder sticks" and home of omnipresent mascot Rhythm, a pastiche of dog and posturing hip-hop artist who once belched for broadcast over the loudspeakers. The Beat played the inaugural 2001 season at Bobby Dodd Stadium, drawing the ire of the Georgia Tech gridiron football coach. He grumbled at soccer players for leaving boot marks behind.
But there are even better memories. The Beat won its first two home matches of the last campaign by a combined score of 11–0. I was sure that I had never seen women's soccer better played. Contingents of Latino fans whom stereotype suggests would never tolerate the women's game waved Mexican flags in honor of Maribel Domínguez, dubbed "Marigol" by regional sport newspaper Estadio (see 25 Jul 07).
An annual Beat family picnic provided good barbecue and baked beans, which supporters ate on the Herndon pitch. My wife and I selected seats for 10 home matches with the connoisseurship of symphony goers who seek out places on the keyboard side. I tested several locations in the bleachers, settling on a north-facing midfield spot, slightly less exposed on Atlanta summer afternoons, with skyline view, some 25 rows above the grass surface. A concrete riser offered lumbar support.
With players from Canada, Germany, Japan and Mexico, the Beat, notwithstanding the Caribbean and Eastern European imports on the baseball Braves and Thrashers of the National Hockey League, added a hint of the exotic to an otherwise homogenous regional sportscape. (Now the Silverbacks of the United Soccer Leagues, both women's and men's teams, offer similar diversity.) Two players from the People's Republic of China added another linguistic and political overlay. The cultural clash was especially poignant when Sun Wen, the sublime striker-midfielder hybrid with technician's touch was, in 2001, the team's only non-English-speaker.
To the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sun described her feelings as xiangjiade, "thinking of home" (Michelle Hiskey, "Home at Last," 25 May 02, H1, H2). In 2002, China teammate Liping Wang joined the side to take the edge off isolation exacerbated by Sun's late-career injury problems. To teammates she was "Sunny." I think supporters saw into her personality at halftime of a 2001 playoff match against Philadelphia. Down 0–2, the Beat brought on a previously scheduled team of Frisbee-catching dogs. Sun was a halftime substitute but spent much of the warmup period mesmerized by the dogs' routine. In my memory she reached to give one a pat.
At the center circle soon afterward she slapped forward Cindy Parlow's hands. The Beat won 3–2 in extra time.
Such positive feelings should help the new Atlanta team scheduled to join the Women's Professional Soccer league in 2010. On the other hand, owner T. Fitz Johnson will have to provide his team its own identity, notwithstanding his obvious affection for the team name ("it's a great brand") and for ritualized components of a women's fixture in these United States: screeching pre-teen girls, Smashmouth blasting over the tannoy and face painting.
An important difference between the two league structures is that Johnson, without the backing of the Cox media conglomerate that financed the original Beat and San Diego Spirit, will be able to negotiate with players and control daily operations free of a league-dominated infrastructure. Team publicists and longtime members of Atlanta's soccer community at a Georgia Aquarium press event earlier this month expressed frustration that the Beat had excelled on the field and in attracting crowds but had to go along when investors abandoned the league on the eve of the 2003 Women's World Cup.
Persistence from Tonya Antonucci, who formed the Women's Soccer Initiative in 2004, and that of other believers has seen franchises formed, or re-formed, in Boston; Chicago; Los Angeles; New Jersey; Saint Louis; Santa Clara, California; and Washington, DC. The first season begins Mar 29. Atlanta and Philadelphia are planned as expansion teams in 2010. The second chance for women's pro soccer might be its last according to Marilyn Childress, a strong advocate for the game who helped secure its introduction as an Olympic medal sport in Atlanta in 1996:
This is a chance to be able to survive. I'm concerned with the economy starting out a new league, but this is going to be a chance that I don't think will be available down the road. We need to take it by the horns and try to get it to go. It's very important for the sport. It's very important for women's sports.
In a retracting economy that has seen the loss of one team (Houston) in the Women's National Basketball Association and layoffs in the National Football League and NBA, Atlanta and the WPS hope to trade on the sport's intimacy and to offer advertisers unique value. Puma already has signed on as a league-wide sponsor. Playing in small venues—Yurcak Field at Rutgers University in New Jersey, for example, will seat 5,000 for home games of Sky Blue FC—the WPS might be the perfect downscaled sport for downscaled times.
Franchises in the women's league cost $1.5 million compared to $40 million in Major League Soccer. The Wall Street Journal continued a prospectus on Dec 15 by concluding that the WPS "will more closely resemble minor league baseball than Major League Soccer" (Matthew Futterman, "Women's Pro Soccer League Scores Deal with Puma," subscription only). As for the "beer an inning" challenge that sometimes prevails at minor-league ballparks, perhaps we could substitute a beer for every throw-in?
One person touting the league's revised economic plan was Leslie Gaston, a former Beat player who deserved steadier nerve from investors than what she and colleagues got in Sept 03. Having persisted as a defender at the University of North Carolina despite 11 knee surgeries, she was selected 10th overall by the Atlanta Beat in 2003. She says she "was devastated when the league folded because I loved playing and hoped, given that I continued making rosters, that I was going to continue playing for another four or five years."
Unsure about opportunities overseas, Gaston found work in marketing at the Journal-Constitution. She also played for the Atlanta Silverbacks of the W-League and forms part of the inner circle of advisers who have begun to lay groundwork for the Beat's successor.
Georgia's place in women's soccer history already should be secure. Grassroots work by the North American Soccer League's Atlanta Chiefs in the late 1960s (see 4 Oct 08) led in 1971 to one of the nation's first all-girls' leagues at the Decatur-DeKalb YMCA. Title IX–inspired activism established girls' soccer in Atlanta-area schools, followed, of course, by the U.S. women's gold medal in Athens.
Johnson represents one of the new generation of enlightened soccer dads. One of his daughters, Jordan, recently completed her freshman season at Texas Tech, led by former Beat coach and current national U-20 assistant Tom Stone. Johnson played for both club and high school (Woodbridge) in suburban Virginia. He excelled, however, as a wrestler and competed for the Citadel, a military college in Charleston, South Carolina, in the National Collegiate Athletic Association championships.
Before becoming CEO with an Atlanta-based military contractor, he earned coaching qualifications and guided his daughters' teams from U4 through U19. His son plays soccer at Marietta High School and numbers among some 75,000 youth players registered in Georgia. We were impressed that, shunning the domestic vernacular, Johnson at the press conference used the terms "pitch" and "boots"—residue perhaps of a 20-year military career and his international experience, or of weekend mornings glued to Fox Soccer Channel.
Although his resources expanded when the consulting firm his father started became a Lockheed Martin subsidiary in May, Johnson offers a contrasting portfolio to the Russian oligarchs portrayed in a recent Sports Illustrated. Some of the latter are splashing out up to $7 million per year on women's basketball teams. Compared to playing for the Spartak team owned by Shabtai von Kalmanovic, Diana Taurasi quips that "the WNBA is, like, communist" (see Alexander Wolff, "To Russia with Love," Dec 15).
Johnson is likely more approachable than these Russian counterparts. He gladly schmoozed with a young player who, inspired by sea creatures floating in turquoise aquarium water, suggested "Stingrays" as a possible team nickname. (The team announces its name on 25 Apr 09 after online voting; "Stingrays" is one of the early choices.)
Johnson said that stadium options are in process but acknowledged pressure coming from the region's suburban soccer lobby. They would prefer a location, in local lingo, "outside the Perimeter," the ring road that, roughly speaking, separates suburb from city. As mentioned, the Beat had played in a stadium with rapid-transit access. Herndon Stadium, near the eponymous Herndon Home, was situated in Vine City, a historically African American neighborhood settled in the 19th century. Martin Luther King Jr., following generations of the city's black leaders, lived there with his family on Sunset Street.
We either took a MARTA train to Beat games or parked at the 125-year-old Christian Methodist Episcopal church across the street. Should the new side realize Johnson's ambitions of signing top international talent such as Marta Vieira da Silva—already signed by Los Angeles Sol—it would have a ready-made marketing slogan: "Riding Marta to the WPS Cup."
But one possible site for hosting the top tier of Atlanta soccer is Kennesaw State University, a women's soccer power that won the Division II NCAA championship in its second season in 2005. It is now in Division I. By Johnson's reckoning, 95 percent of the area's youth-soccer registrants live in such exurban zones, primarily to the north.
Questions of how the WPS team connects with the existing soccer establishment will have to be navigated soon. One issue, as in the league as a whole, is whether the women's team will link with a potential MLS team backed by home-improvement magnate and Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank. He submitted an official bid to MLS in October. Or will the second-generation Beat go against the grain and reclaim an inner-city patch that, when the Beat played there, gave credence to residents' belief that "we black folks have something to offer in our communities" (Chandra R. Thomas, "Beat's Move Lifts Inner City," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 8 Aug 02)?
Ties to the MLS will be closer than during the three-year WUSA experiment. The WPS already uses the men's league's marketing arm—the group that shrewdly purchased television rights to the 2002 World Cup finals and that arranges summer barnstorming trips from European sides—for its promotion.
Whatever happens, the Beat legacy is established. As Georgia State Soccer Association executive director Rick Skirvin said at the press conference, 45 percent of the 90,000 registered players in the state are female. Maribel Domínguez Castelán, Homare Sawa, Charmaine Hooper, Conny Pohlers, Sun Wen … they brought the global game to me.
I will forever be grateful.
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For an article and podcast on the development of the women's soccer program at Spelman College, part of the Atlanta University Center consortium south of downtown, see 23 Aug 07. We have also interviewed Nel Fettig Hayes, formerly of the WUSA's New York Power and Carolina Courage, on the prospects for women's pro soccer (24 Aug 07). On soccer and the civil rights movement, see 5 Feb 08.
As of mid-Jan 09, Blank had withdrawn his bid for an MLS team in Atlanta in 2011, although 2013 remains possible. "In this economy, the discussions don't make sense," Cobb County commission chairman Sam Olens told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Dan Chapman, "Blank Won't Bring Soccer Team to Atlanta by 2011," Jan 15).


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Still Some Trout Despite Low Water
Posted: 08/28/2012
Summer shrinkage still shows along Iowa's ponds, creeks and rivers. Oh, rain through the last couple weeks—still below normal--has been a slight benefit for fields, lawns AND water levels.
However, the telltale band of dirt showing where a stream's waterline used to be remains wide as we approach the end of the dog days of summer. That brings mixed response from fish and other organisms dependent on the water…including us.
"We have extremely low water levels. The fish have to contend with that; they have to find the deep holes," concedes Mike Steuck; DNR fisheries supervisor for northeast Iowa. "They'll feed on the riffles; above and below those pools (but) those are the only places they have."
Steuck's district includes the nine counties in Iowa's 'trout country.' Those coldwater streams show the effect of low flows and high temperatures. Trout are temperature sensitive. The DNR stocking trucks roll out earlier in the morning during hot weather, to keep temperatures similar between hatchery raceways and streams. Crews stock about 300,000 catchable sized (half-pound or so) rainbow and brook trout each year. In addition, fingerling sized brown trout are raised and then stocked in a couple dozen 'put and grow' locations.
Stream flows are lower, but fairly reliable as groundwater trickles through the karst topography and out thru limestone fractures and seeps to form the 50 or so trout streams. There was still depth for them to streak from one pool to another as Barry Allison brought the family to Bailey's Ford in Delaware County, just before school started.
"This is the first time we've had all three of our grandkids up here," said Allison. "My wife (Cindy) and I do a little trout fishing and have (our son Mike and) the grandkids up camping for a week during the summer. We thought we'd treat them to a little trout fishing."
Camping and fishing with three youngsters. Gluttons for punishment?
"They're taking to it pretty well," laughed Allison, up from Oskaloosa. "I always remember back to when my Dad took us fishing as kids. If we had a good day fishing, he never got a line wet."
Grandson Kaiden, 4, had the hot hand as I watched. A little help from Grandma got the line out into the pool, but he pulled in two rainbow trout by himself. Cameron, 10, brought in a nice one, later in the morning.
In between watching her pole, Jase, 9, helped everybody else. "I was fishing for bluegill once and I caught a turtle. My brother caught a frog," she reminisced. "Fishing is fun. It's like a sport. You can just throw in a line and then, afterwards you can eat the fish."
And her favorite fish? "Crablegs…but just at Panda Garden, because I live next to Panda Garden," she volunteered. To be fair, I did not ask about her favorite fish to catch. Come to think of it, I prefer crablegs over just about anything else that comes out of the water, too.
Hot Weather 'No Stock' list.
About 10 northeast Iowa trout streams are not stocked through July and August. From loading at the hatchery to stocking at the stream, water temperatures can rise 15 to 20 degrees. That leads to high stress for trout, possibly fatal, as they suddenly hit the warmer water.
This summer, another five streams are on the list. Hatchery crews monitor stream flows and weather forecasts. As they improve, the streams return to the stocking schedule. Changes are announced on the trout stocking hotline (563-927-5736) or
And while the weather has evened out a little, the trout stations are developing a drought contingency plan. Even with a 'normal' late summer and fall, there have been trout held back from stocking. That means either holding them over for another season—and providing feed for those months--or providing a few thousand more this fall in streams, or maybe aiming at nearly 20 urban sites, stocked from about Thanksgiving through March.
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" You Can't Get Anywhere Without Coming to Ogden: Railroading in the American West" a commemorative panel discussion presented at the 2004 Utah Construction/ Utah International Symposium Making Tracks by Dr. Richard Sadler Thursday, October 7, 2004 2 I grew up on the west side of the Salt Lake Valley and often was involved with, including a couple of summers, working on the railroad that went from Bingham to Magna that carried copper ore from the 1920s, and continues today to carry a concentrated copper that is milled at Copperton to the smelter and refinery on the north end of the Oquirrh mountains. In 1960 I traveled on a one way ticket from Salt Lake on the Western Pacific Railroad on the Feather River route. And as we talked about the Western Pacific I was telling my friend John Sillito I traveled that route, I can tell you what it was like. For many of us railroads are nostalgic. As I thought about us coming together today I thought some of you may have heard Peter, Paul, and Mary saying, " If you miss the train I am on, you will know that I am gone. You can hear the whistle blow…" How far? "… a hundred miles." Some of you will have heard Arlo Guthrie singing, " Riding on the city of New Orleans" traveling from Chicago through Tennessee to New Orleans. Some of you may have seen Gene Wilder in the film Silver Streak. We have railroads in both history and folklore. One hundred and fifty years ago people were talking all about John Henry, that steel driving man, who put himself up against a machine to see who could lay track the quickest. How about Casey Jones the engineer. And how about songs like, " I've been working on the railroad, all the live- long day. I've been working on the railroad to pass the time of day." Of course the live- long day may have meant a twelve hour working 3 day. " Don't you hear the whistle blowing; rise up so early in the morn. Don't you hear the captain shouting, Dina blow your horn." In 1765, the same year that the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which would lead, in part, to independence in America, James Watt, a Scotsman, invented an efficient steam engine. Seventeen years later in 1782 he patented it a steam engine that had pistons that would both push and pull and allow energy to be transmitted both ways when it pushed and pulled. The first important railroad in the United States was the Baltimore and Ohio which was begun in 1827 and then, in 1829, Peter Cooper, a New York manufacturer, built a steam engine he called the Tom Thumb. The Tom Thumb was an embarrassment to him because it lost a race against a horse because a belt slipped! It was still not powered in a way that locomotives would soon be powered. In 1833 when the Baltimore and Ohio had 133 miles of track, that was the longest stretch of track in the world. One American who dreamed of a transcontinental railroad and pushed for it in the decade of the 1840s was a man by the name of Asa Whitney. And, of course, two decades later Ogden would become the junction center for the first transcontinental railroad in the world. Railroads in the 19th and early 20th centuries were, to those folks, what today automobiles, rockets, and airplanes are all in one for us. So when we consider how important railroads were for those people, there is some nostalgia attached to it. For example, Carl Sandburg in his poem about Chicago said, " Hot butcher for the world, toolmaker, stacker of 4 wheat, player with railroads, and the nations freight handler, stormy, husky, brawling, a city of big shoulders." Not everyone loved railroads. Henry David Thoreau writing at Walden in 1846 said, " We do not ride upon the railroad, it rides upon us." So there were alternative points of view. I also liked him writing in Walden, " Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes." Another author, Philip Guedalla said, " The true history of the United States is the history of transportation. In which the names or railroad presidents are more significant than those of Presidents of the United States." Bret Hart writing about the May 10, 1869 joining of the rail said, " What was it that the engines said there, and for us we would say at Promontory, touching head to head, facing on a single track, with half a world behind each back?" Here we are in the area of the first transcontinental railroad of the world. Edna St. Vincent Malay and her poem entitled " Travel" said, " My heart is warm with the friends I make and better friends I'll not be knowing. Yet, there isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going." And finally Langston Hughes, black poet with great feeling, wrote in his poem " Homesick Blues," " De railroad bridge's a sad song in the air. Ever time the trains pass I wants to go somewhere." So that whistle that still blows in Ogden, and Sacramento, and Omaha, and that even sometimes wakes us up at night, my friend Leisel Large up in Oregon, I am sure it blows a whistle up there too. We are going to be introduced today by my colleagues. I am delighted to introduce Dr. Kathryn MacKay, a member of our history faculty here at Weber, who is going to bring us to Ogden from the East and the Union Pacific Railroad. 5 She will be followed by Dr. Stan Layton, also a member of our history faculty but formerly the editor of the Utah Historical Quarterly for three decades. Stan does not look that old but he started young. He is going to bring us to Ogden from the West and talk about the Central and Southern and Western Pacific. And then our colleague Dr. Richard Roberts, emeritus professor of history, is going to talk about the Utah Central railroad and Ogden as a railroad center so we'll turn the time to these folks. Then we'll ask you for some questions and end up the discussion in that fashion. Does that sound alright? Thank you, Dr. MacKay.
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Another Step Toward Open Health Education
May 22, 2014, 8:00 AM, Posted by Michael Painter
This post was originally published on The Health Care Blog by Shiv Gaglani, Ryan Haynes, and Michael Painter, MD.
Earlier this month Shiv and Ryan published a piece in the Annals of Internal Medicine, entitled What Can Medical Education Learn from Facebook and Netflix? We chose the title because, as medical students, we realized the tools our classmates are using to socialize and watch TV use more sophisticated algorithms than the tools we use to learn medicine.
What if the same mechanisms that Facebook and Netflix use—such as machine learning-based recommender systems, crowdsourcing, and intuitive interfaces—could transform how we educate our health care professionals? For example, just as Amazon recommends products based on other items that customers have bought, we believe that supplementary resources such as questions, videos, images, mnemonics, references, and even real-life patient cases could be automatically recommended based on what students and professionals are learning in the classroom or seeing in the clinic. That is one of the premises behind Osmosis, the flagship educational platform of Knowledge Diffusion, Shiv's and Ryan's startup. Osmosis uses data analytics and machine learning to deliver the best medical content to those trying to learn it, as efficiently as possible for the learner. Since its launch in August, Osmosis has delivered over two million questions to more than 10,000 medical students around the world using a novel push notification system that syncs to student curricular schedules.


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U.S. Representative Marcia L. Fudge, Congresswoman, (OH-11) and current Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus will deliver the keynote address at Case Western Reserve University's annual forum on public service.
Congresswoman Fudge will deliver the address The Importance of Community Leadership in Public Service at the university's Louis Stokes Leadership Symposium, beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Monday, February 10, 2014 at Amasa Stone Chapel located at 10940 Euclid Avenue.
This event is free and open to the public.
The Louis Stokes Symposium is a public forum dedicated to leadership in public service and civic engagement as espoused by U.S. Congressman Louis Stokes. The symposium provides a platform for an individual, who exemplifies these qualities, to lead a thought-provoking discussion among members of the Greater Cleveland community, the Case Western Reserve University campus and others about the continuing importance and value of public leadership in the 21st century.
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Barcelona is full of experimental restaurants, seafood shacks, and, of course, tapas bars.
Tickets: Ferran Adrià and his brother Alberto's first spot since closing El Bulli is a sophisticated tapas place with serious eats: liquid olives; tissue-thin tuna belly with tartare and salmon roe; algae tempura. Don't miss the house-made seasonal sorbets. $$$
Alkimia: Cerebral, offbeat takes on traditional Catalan dishes are the standard at chef Jordi Vilà's sleek space. The menu includes tenderly cooked seafood (rice with langoustine and ñora peppers) and grilled-to-perfection meats (gizzard with Campari sauce and pickles), accompanied by an excellent wine selection. $$$
Abac Restaurant & Hotel: Despite the far-northwest location, this high-end restaurant serving deconstructed neo-Catalan cuisine has been a power-lunch destination ever since chef Jordi Cruz earned it a second Michelin star this year. Order raw hamachi with cherries and cucumber snow followed by violet ice cream with yogurt and flower nectar. $$$$
Sagàs Pagesos, Cuiners & Co.: The ingredients here come from chef-owner Oriol Rovira's nearby farm, but recipes are globally inspired: bo ssäm (Korean pork buns); chicharrones; sheep-milk curd with rosemary honey. $$
Can Maño: Join the locals and line up outside this no-frills seafood canteen in La Barceloneta for fried artichokes and calamari washed down with amber-colored Moscatel wine. 12 Carr. del Baluard; 34/93-319-3082. $$
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Our three-stop itinerary of the city's best authentic bars.
Bar Celta Pulpería: Feast on marinated octopus a la gallega and razor clams at this dive in El Born. 50 Carr. de la Princesa; 34/93-315-0006. $$
Quimet & Quimet: Classic smoked dishes with a twist draw crowds every night. Try the salmon topped with honey. $$
Tapas, 24: Small plates and truffle-laced ham-and-cheese sandwiches are chased with balls of chocolate mousse at chef Carles Abellan's popular new venue. 269 Carr. de la Diputació. $$
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Four new hot spots.
Bocachica/The Apartment: You'll find the usual Spanish cocktails at these two upscale bars, but the atmosphere—regional antiques and a touch of chinoiserie—is one of a kind. $$$
Fàbrica Moritz Barcelona: Architect Jean Nouvel just renovated this 19th-century three-level space, which includes a popular microbrewery and wine bar. $$
Dry Martini: Behind a dimly lit wood-paneled bar are row upon row of gin and vermouth bottles, which white-tuxedoed waiters mix expertly. $$$
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A bride goes to consultations prepared and open-minded. The issue so many brides run into is that theyre not as prepared for the initial meeting with their floral designer as they thought they were. So here are several points that will help you and your floral designer have a more effective meeting.
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• Know who needs personal flowers. You'll need a bridal bouquet and a bouquet for each of your bridesmaids, but will the groom and groomsmen wear boutonnieres? What about the mothers? Do they prefer a wrist or pinned corsages? Let's not forget the grandparents. And will you have children as ring bearers and flower girls? Make sure you know exactly what is needed.
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• Bring a picture of your wedding gown. It can tell a floral designer a lot about you and what style you are looking for as part of your overall design.
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• We all have a budget that we are working on when it comes to floral décor for your wedding. Don't be embarrassed about it, be it grand or modest. Know and give your bottom line budget with which you are comfortable. Most brides refrain from doing this, but truth of the matter is giving floral designers a range helps them design and ensure you're getting the best design for your budget.
• Know the kinds of flowers you like and dislike. Most brides don't know the names of flowers and we don't expect you to know. It is always best to bring pictures. Be as descriptive as possible; blogs and wedding books are great for this.
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The State of Emergency for Bolivar County declared by Gov. Phil Bryant on Monday remains in tact as the conditions continue to present a variety of issues, especially on the roads.
The State of Emergency is an administrative tool, which allows the state to offer support to the areas impacted by this weather event.
"We're trying to be proactive instead of reactive when it comes to the ice," said Bolivar County Emergency Management Agency Director Bill Quinton. "If you don't need to be on the road you should stay safe and warm in the house."
Bryant added that, "We are taking the threat of severe weather seriously, and we are working to ensure that local officials have the tools they need to respond properly."
Mississippi Emergency Management Agency officials are working closely with local emergency managers to identify any unmet needs counties and communities have in impacted areas of the state.
Freezing rain and snow are in the National Weather Service's local forecast through Wednesday night.
The NWS said ice accumulations of one-quarter to one-half an inch were reported in the region Monday and another quarter inch to half an inch of ice accumulation is expected Tuesday with locally higher amounts possible.
Entergy Mississippi, Inc. said it continues to work hard at preventing further outages across the Delta.
"We are staging out-of-state contractors and other Entergy staff at the Bolivar County Expo building," said Cheryl Comans, customer service manager for Cleveland Entergy. "We have approximately 100 extra resources for the Cleveland network.
The extra staff includes lineman, supervisors and support personnel.
Comans said an interruption with the transmission line from the Delta Steam Plant to North Greenville early Tuesday morning caused a three-minute outage for customers in Rosedale, but the problem was quickly restored.
A short power outage occurred late Monday morning affecting many businesses along U.S. Highway 61 North for about 45 minutes.
Some parts of the state that haven't been threatened by icy conditions remain under flood warnings or flash flood warnings.
The Mississippi Department of Transportation announced Tuesday a wintry weather update on roadway conditions for motorists traveling through the state.
As a winter weather system pushes across Mississippi, icy precipitation has begun to accumulate on bridges in northern Bolivar county. MDOT crews are spreading slag on bridges to improve traction but extreme caution should be used if you must travel due to the patchy ice.
MDOT will keep motorists posted on road conditions as information becomes available and advises emergency travel only throughout the aforementioned areas. Motorists are encouraged to buckle up for safety, drive safely, stay alert and slow down, especially when driving in wintry weather conditions.
For the most up-to-date information in your area, please visit www.MDOTtraffic.com and sign up for traffic alerts. Also, visit http://www.MDOTtraffic.com/mobile to get the latest traffic information from www.MDOTtraffic.com on your mobile device. MDOT advises the public to pull off the road to a safe location if you need to check the www.MDOTtraffic.com website while driving. MDOT's number one concern is the safety of the traveling public.
The weather forecast for today was freezing rain likely before 10 a.m., then a slight chance of rain until 1 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 42. North northwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70 percent. New ice accumulation of around a 0.1 of an inch possible.
Wednesday Night — A slight chance of rain and snow after 7 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 30. Northwest wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20 percent.
Thursday — A slight chance of rain and snow before 7am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 48. North wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20 percent.
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The "Cosmogonic" Form of Genesis 1
In both form and content, then, Genesis 1 reveals that its basic purposes are religious and theological, not scientific or historical.
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In both form and content, then, Genesis 1 reveals that its basic purposes are religious and theological, not scientific or historical.
By getting rid of the miracle stories in the Bible, Bultmann and his followers hoped to make the Christian story more palatable to modern man. Although I recognize the emotional weight of this sentiment, I am not convinced that it is an intellectually coherent approach, mainly for reasons of self-consistency.
Collection of the best articles of the past several weeks on science (and faith) from around the web.
Some of the Christian objections to evolutionary creation come from a misunderstanding of what the Bible means when it says "God created".
Theology needs science, but science needs theology; there can be no two-state solution.
In this video originally featured in March of 2012, Dr. David Finch, a biologist at New York University, discusses his thoughts on both Creationism and the effects of "new atheists" like Richard Dawkins.
Here are some of the best responses from around the web to David's Barash's controversial editorial about God and Evolution in the New York Times.
When we sit down to read sacred Scripture, we need to develop a rapport with the Bible's various authors and their worldviews. Otherwise, we will unintentionally demand they communicate in the same manner we do.
Do we see God because of design, or do we see design because of God?
For Augustine, the literal sense of scripture is not a scientific narrative of physical reality, but a liturgical and poetic narrative of God's awesome power at the dawn of history. This is a vital thread in the story of how to read Genesis.
Christ is the reason the natural sciences work: he is the source of the laws of nature, and he contains and underpins the natural sciences. Christ is the pattern for all created things, while the Spirit – his presence in the created world – breathes the divine fire into the equations.
We now take for granted an understanding of the Christian story that was largely worked out by Paul and later theologians. Even though the Gospels were composed after Paul's letters, they were concerned to tell the story itself in all its strangeness as it had been preserved by the first generation of Christians. And what we find in the stories themselves is the shock and wonder and surprise that the resurrection caused.
Four Views on the Historical Adam shows that evangelical Christians are far from agreeing on the particulars of Adam and Eve. But this book also makes clear that there is strong agreement among evangelical Christians on the fundamentals of the Christian faith. We agree that all Scripture is inspired by God and authoritative, even while disagreeing on the interpretation of some passages.
The key point of continuity between redemption and creation is the idea that the future can be different from the past, i.e., the key is eschatology. More abstractly put, God does new things.
The idea that the story we know is only the very beginning raises a new question in place of Feynman's objection that Christianity is provincial. Is it presumptuous to claim that in such a grand universe, possibly with intelligent life arising in many places, the redemption and transformation of the entire cosmos starts here, on our pale blue dot?
This entry was originally posted on February 13, 2010. While the question of evolutionary predisposition toward religious belief may be challenging, Christians need not see it as threatening. In fact, this is actually a Pauline notion that is explored in Romans 1, where Paul claims that it is in mankind's nature to "know God".
Over the next few months, with permission from Yale University Press, BioLogos will offer edited versions of chapters from John Polkinghorne's best books, Belief in God in an Age of Science and Theology in the Context of Science, in order to help readers delve more deeply into some of his most important ideas.
I was raised in a household of atheists. My parents were card-carrying members of the American Communist Party, and therefore the atheism in my household was quite close to the militant anti-theism of the so-called "new atheists".
So what then does Resurrection mean? For Benedict it represents a new dimension of reality breaking through into human experience. It is not a violation of the old; it is the manifestation of something new.


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There will be programs each week which will explore a different area pertaining to our theme. The sessions will be educational but fun. There will be stories, games, videos, and other incentives to show children that you can enjoy reading.
Children, ages 6 through 12, can sign up for a group that meets on Mondays at 2 or 4 p.m., Wednesdays at 11 a.m., Thursdays at 7 p.m. or Saturdays at 2 p.m.
In addition, there will be special programs during the summer from the Lost Sea, Chattanooga Zoo, Creative Discovery Museum and a Mid-Summer's Dig Day.
As always, children, who read 20 books and turn in their reading logs by July 27, will receive a Goody Bag and a Summer Reading Program Certificate that you can show off to your friends, family and your teacher.
"Beneath the Surface" is the teen program which will kick off with a Zombie Prom on June 8 at 7 p.m. This event will be for ages 13 through 17 and will have a live DJ. Teens will be meeting after hours during the summer at 7 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
For more details on the summer reading programs, check out the website or stop by the Children's Room Desk for complete details.
Sign-up for the Adult Summer Reading Program, "Groundbreaking Reads," is located at the Non-Fiction Desk on the second floor of the library.
Special Programs for the adults this summer include: "Digging Into Gardening ... How to help your garden survive the summer using native plants," on May 23; "Archaeology: Reading Dirt in Southeast Tennessee" on June 4; "Antiques ... Digging into your treasures" on July 16; and "Mining … Environmental Issues and Remediation in the Basin Area" on July 22. All programs will be held in the Community Room at 7 p.m.
As part of the library's celebration of Children's Book Week (May 12 through 18) the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra String Quintet will perform here on May 14 at 4:30 p.m. All are invited to come to this presentation.
The library will be closed on Mother's Day May 12, and on May 27 in observation of Memorial Day.
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Expect rainy weather Sunday afternoon through Monday afternoon
America in Bloom today announced the creation of a new level of competition in its nationwide awards program. The new level is called the Champions category.
For nature lovers in search of a quick winter fix, these 10 nationwide botanical gardens boast wonderful winter transformations.
Health, nature, and living outdoors are some of the key gardening trends nationwide for this coming year as noted by Leonard Perry.
You might really be looking forward to the rest of gardening catalogs to come in the next month or two.
While the end of the year and another gardening season is a good time (before you forget) to make notes and take stock on this year's successes, as well as failures (always a great way to learn), it is also a good time to highlight some of our gardening tips from this past year notes Leonard Perry.
California's iconic trees, the giant sequoias, may sail through the state's current extreme drought. The huge trees survived even drier conditions during their long lives, studies show. The oldest sequoias live for more than 3,000 years.
Whether cutting storm-damaged branches and dead limbs, regulating growth or shaping a tree for aesthetic purposes, regular trimming is important to promoting a healthy, good-looking tree.
Keeping cyclamen cool and evenly moist, poinsettias warm and away from drafts, and making gardening gift baskets are some of the garden-related activities for this month as shared by Leonard Perry.
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If you went to any EFFPortland, you might have noticed that Mr. Brent Coughenour was ALL UP IN IT. His installation In Search of Lost Time was at Place Gallery, and his excellent short film Work in Progress was in our "best of" program. Bottom line: THIS DUDE RULES. He may in fact be the best thing to come out of Detroit. And NOW he's bringing a tour of recent work back to Portland, and you're not going to want to miss it. JOIN US THIS THURSDAY, September 27, at 8pm, for a show that will rock your socks.
Brent Coughenour is a media artist originally from the Motor City, currently based in the Golden State. He has presented his work at a variety of festivals and venues throughout the U.S. and internationally, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Media City Film and Video Festival, Antimatter Film Festival, Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul, Ann Arbor Film Festival and the fledgling Experimental Film Festival Portland. His most recent piece, the three-part found-footage video essay Mysterium Cosmographicum, is distributed by Video Data Bank.