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East Texas Baptist
(1-1) at Centenary (La.) (1-1) 11/21/2013 | Shreveport, La. (Gold Dome) | Attendance: 661
SHREVEPORT, La. – Leading from start to finish in their second game in less than a week, East Texas Baptist University pulled away for an 11-point win over Centenary College, 71-59. It was ETBU's first win of the season as they prepare for the start of American Southwest Conference play on Tuesday in Longview vs. LeTourneau. Leading the men's basketball team with his second consecutive double-double was Justin Felicia with 11 points and 11 rebounds. Erby Thompson added 10 points hitting two three-pointers. Monty Gray finished with nine points and five assists. Centenary's Jonathan Blount led all scorers with 27 points. The entire first half was close but ETBU never gave up the lead. Gray swooshed home a three-pointer just over two minutes into the game for the 3-0 lead. Centenary tied the game at nine at the 15:15 mark but ETBU added an 8-3 run to take a five-point lead, 17-12, with 12:09 left on a Jamil Samuel jumper. Cutting the lead to two with 4:57 on the clock, Centenary tied the game at 27 by the 4:04 mark. Ahnre Gray completed an 'and-1' shot to give ETBU a three-point lead, 30-27, thirty seconds later but Centenary was within one, twice in the last two minutes. C.J. Jones put ETBU up by four, 35-31, with under 30 seconds to play as Centenary pulled within two at the half on a Blount lay up. ETBU jumped out to an eight-point lead, 41-33, in the first three minutes of the second half as Gray laid in a shot. Thompson hit back-to-back buckets with a three-pointer (15:53) and a layup (15:13) in just 40 seconds as ETBU took an 11-point lead, 46-35. Thompson hit his second three-pointer in just over a minute and a half as ETBU moved ahead by 12-points, 49-37, at the 14:13 mark. By the 11:20 mark, Samuel gave ETBU a 15-point lead on a layup. Neither team scored a point in the next two minutes until Centenary's Donovan Williams hit a free throw. Kerry McClahan gave ETBU their largest lead of 16 points, 56-40, with 8:53 left in the game on a lay up. Centenary fought back and cut the lead to eight, 58-50, with just under five minutes to play. ETBU played through the Centenary run and responded with a 7-0 run pushing the lead back to 15, 65-50, in just under two minutes. Centenary came within just 11 points in the final three minutes as ETBU moved forward with their first win of the year. Shooting 45% from the floor, ETBU made 35% of their three-point shots and 64% of their free throws. They held Centenary to 35% shooting from the floor, 36% from beyond the arc and 78% from the line. ETBU also out rebounded Centenary 42-33, and both teams had 12 turnovers. ETBU travels to Longview, Texas, for their American Southwest Conference opener on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. against LeTourneau. |
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PREVIEW: ETBU @ LeTourneau
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
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Sunday, November 17, 2013
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Some people say that journalists don't know how to handle money, but this simply isn't true. I, for one, save a lot of money by asking my mother to buy my clothes. I also sleep on a floor in the back room of an auto body garage, which is quite cheap, and I regularly stuff my pockets with buffet food at corporate events to which I have not been invited. As a result of these cost-cutting measures, my net worth has grown to $10.87 and two slightly crumpled banknotes from Mobutu-era Zaire.
So, how about it? Do you want investment advice from me? I bet you do. But before I sell my secrets (hint: V.E.G.A.S., baby!), I should disclose that there are many journalists whose wealth-building skills very nearly equal my own. These include my friends at BusinessWeek, which recently published its annual special issue revealing the investment schemes that are sure to make you big bucks in the coming year, according to analysts, who caution that there are a number of reasons why these investments might, in fact, make you exceptionally poor.
BusinessWeek's advice for 2006 is as follows: Invest in the stock market and "you have a good shot of earning total returns of 9 percent to 10 percent." Why is this so? Because (this will flabbergast you) … "the bulls" are optimistic. Unlike those grumpy bears, these bulls say that the economy will grow "at a robust clip," "corporate profits are rising," the "Fed's long series of interest rate hikes is over" and oil prices "will ebb."
BusinessWeek promises that all of these things will occur barring "certain developments." For example, the Fed's long series of interest hikes might not be over. Oil prices might not ebb. And the economy might not grow at a robust clip. BusinessWeek also notes that "most ordinary investors" think the investment outlook is not very bright at all. But, as a rule, the bulls should be right as long as the bears are wrong.
Incidentally, BusinessWeek reports that it has identified a group of people called the "inflation worryworts." We are tersely informed that these individuals "will be silenced." No further information about their whereabouts or opinions is available — not in this magazine, anyway.
You might also be wondering about the fate of the BusinessWeek reporters who wrote all those nerve-wracking stories in 2003 … and 2004 … and 2005 … predicting that the housing "bubble" is going to pop. Well, we are pleased to report that these people, too, seem to have been silenced.
In their stead, the magazine has employed a new line of cost-efficient, short-term-profit-boosting robotic information dispensers that never waste time drinking, smoking, cultivating sources, or even thinking. They just automatically spew out the sorts of endearingly simple-minded, marvelously vague and absolutely definitive pronouncements (wholly uncluttered by supporting evidence) that have become the mainstays of our nation's most powerful media syndicates.
In the most recent issue, we get this one-liner: "Oh, and the bottom won't fall out of the housing market, either."
The precise computations that sparked this particular revelation are not made clear, but BusinessWeek does tell us how it formulated some of its other predictions. For example, it figured out the prognosis for corporate profits by asking 54 forecasters how much they think corporate profits will increase. The guesses ranged from 0.9 percent to 17.2 percent, which was hardly helpful, so BusinessWeek averaged them all together. The result was 7.3 percent; hence the magazine's conclusion that "profit growth will slow to a pace of 7.3 percent."
The beauty of this method is that BusinessWeek didn't have to crunch any complicated numbers by itself or evaluate the forecasters' relative qualifications and backgrounds. One analyst says the stock market index will hit 6,800. Another says it will reach 14,150. One of these individuals might be the next Warren Buffet. The other might be a BusinessWeek editor's former neighbor at the sanatorium. But it doesn't matter. They are both wrong. The average (or "the consensus," as the magazine calls it) says the index will hit 11,556. And so it must.
This explains why BusinessWeek does not provide its readers with any information about this year's pool of forecasters, other than their places of employment. As individuals, they are irrelevant. The magazine does, however, profile William Greiner of Kansas City, Mo. He was one of BusinessWeek's "Fearless Forecasters" last year, and he came closest to predicting where the stock market would finish in 2005, which is sort of like trying to guess how many gumballs are in that giant glass jar at FAO Schwarz.

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This mixed use project contextually knits together an entire city block in the heart of downtown Dallas. Designed by Good Fulton & Farrell, the new building consists of a large parking structure that provides 370 public parking spaces in addition to the required spaces for all the on-site residences. The existing historic buildings on either side informed the masonry façade of the garage. Ground floor retail fronts both Main and Elm Street and re-energizes a portion of the public street that was formerly a vacant parking lot.
A glass tower with 84 residential units sits atop the masonry podium of the new parking garage and amenity deck/roof top below. These residential units offer spectacular panoramic views of downtown Dallas. A slender glass shaft runs the full height of the building marking the lobby entry below and interlocking the components together in an elegant and modern composition.
The urban density of the site is the top sustainable feature of the project. The lushly landscaped amenity deck with all native and adapted planting translates to exceeding the required open space by 550% over code. The covered parking garage is equivalent to three acres of surface parking. The project is one block from Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) light rail stop. The amenity deck is covered with pedestal pavers which both act as a rainwater filter to increase the stormwater quality and is designed to a Solar Radiant Index of 40 to reduce the heat island effect.
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Locals spotted the sea cow, which experts say is just days old, behind a home on Sunday.
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The animal's mother could have been another victim in a year full of an unusually high number of manatee deaths.
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Located in the heart of Isla Mujeres, this hotel is within 6 mi (10 km) of Dolphin Discovery, Garrafon Natural Reef Park, and Costa Occidental de Isla Mujeres National Park. Playa del Norte Isla Mujeres and El Meco Archaeological Site are also within 12 mi (20 km).
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Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.
Morgan Freeman I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
And then there was Dick Gregory.... I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.
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As I have mentioned before, I have lived practically the whole time since I got married, either on Army installations or in an area with mainly military and retired military neighborhoods. Morgan Freeman expressed what we live without thinking about it. We are friends, neighbors, military or ex-military, not black and white or any other combination. Well, there are the others of course - the "Civilians", LOL. |
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Cherish wishes...
Esselunga supermarkets in Italy, are running a huge campaign with the line: "Famous in quality". They use vegetable products, appearing as famous persons or themes. First they started mixing vegetables with animals trying to make us figure out what they were (animals or vegetables). I believe a new one is going on now, using food products to show the zodiac star signs. I am posting here just one sample of their campaign, as it is impossible to post them all (there must be more than 50!) I liked the wish they are making, so I am also wishing to you all the same... Cherry Xmas! :-)
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15,500 in Suriname. 14,400 Aukan, 33 Aluku, 1,160 Paramaccan (1980 census). Population total all countries: 33,500. 1,550 monolinguals.
Near Brokopondo, east along Marowijne and Tapanahony rivers, northeast along Cottica river. Aluku dialect: French Guiana border; Paramaccan dialect: Northeast.
5 (Developing).
Aluku (Aloekoe, Boni), Aukan (Aukaans, "Djoeka" (pej.), "Djuka" (pej.), Ndjuká, Ndyuka, Njuká, Okanisi), Paramaccan (Pamaka). Ndyuka, Aluku and Paramaccan are highly mutually intelligible dialects; Kwinti [kww] is slightly less intelligible with them.
SVO; prepositions, noun head final, content q-word initial, up to 2 suffixes, clause constituents indicated by word order, passives and voice, tonal, 25 consonant (some rare) and 14 vowel (5 long monophthongs, 5 short monophthongs, 4 diphthongs) phonemes.
Vigorous. In Paramaribo some shifted to Dutch [nld], some younger ones to Sranan [srn]. All domains. Also in oral and written form for religious services. Positive attitudes. Schools are in Dutch [nld], so many youth read and write it, but the majority are not fluent. Perhaps 30%–50% use Dutch as well as Sranan [srn]. Most men also use Sranan Tongo [srn]. Perhaps 30%–50% use Sranan as well as Dutch [nld].
The society was formed by escaped slaves. Subsistence and economy is Amerindian; social culture and religion are West African. Aluku has more French influence than Paramaccan does. Spelling of Ndyuka without the initial nasal is considered derogatory. Aukan is English, Aukaans is Dutch. In early 1900s an Aukaner named Afaka developed a syllabic writing system, but few learned to read it, and it was not officially endorsed. 12 clans. In the 1980s and 1990s many went to Paramaribo. Traditional religion, Christian.


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Patch 3.1 PTR build 9637 Priest changes {WoW}
Mar 3rd 2009 6:13PM Shadow Affinity now gives the priest 5% of his base mana when his Shadow Word: Pain or Vampiric Touch spells are dispelled.
Remember that it's 5% per rank, so it goes up to 15%. Think you forgot that for a moment. :)
Spiritual Guidance: Secondary stats and what to stack {WoW}
Feb 2nd 2009 1:56AM "Hit rating: For the most part, a healing Priest will not need hit rating. If you intend to do damage in your spare time (as Shadow or otherwise), know that the hit cap is ~237 after every possible raid buff (including having a Draenei in your party)."
1% hit = 26.23 hit rating at level 80.
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My name is Dakota!
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- Breed: English Springer Spaniel
- Color: Brown/Chocolate - With White
- Age: Adult
- Size: Med. 26-60 lbs (12-27 kg)
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I am already neutered, housetrained, purebred, up to date with shots, and good with dogs.
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Age: 5 years
Gender: Male
Color: Liver & White
Weight: 48 lbs
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Here's Dakota! He came to ESRA from a shelter, so little is known about his past. This boy is what we call an "easy keeper." He listens well and knows how to Shake, Sit, Lie Down, and Sit Up. He has free rein of the house without any issues, and he is so excited when his foster dad gets home from work.
Dakota is not a furniture jumper, but he will gladly join you if he is invited. He loves attention and especially treats. Dakota walks well on leash and LOVES car rides. He just sits in the back with a big Springer smile!
Dakota plays very well with his canine foster brother. They love wrestling on the floor and chasing each other outside. He is also great with the resident nine-year-old boy. Sometimes all three of them wrestle on the floor! Dakota does like to chase the cat into hiding, so a cat-free home may be best for him.
Dakota would do best in a home with fenced yard because he will take off to explore if given the chance. However, Dakota is so obedient that he may learn to respect boundaries if he has a family who is willing to work with him on recall and off-leash behavior.
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Why Adoption is a Great Option
Dakota, a Minneapolis English Springer Spaniel dog was adopted! Here's how you can benefit by looking at adoption as an option to buying a English Springer Spaniel for sale in Minneapolis, or seeking a English Springer Spaniel dog from a breeder in Minneapolis.
- Rescues and shelter volunteers in Minneapolis already know the personality and tendencies of their pets. This means they can match you with the right pet. That will makes it much easier transition to owning a pet for yourself and your new pet.
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See below for the 5th and last part of the comments elicited by Katie's post on ConscienceFather, in reply to your last: 1) Yes. Appropriating the achievements of modernity most definitely involves correcting its aberrations. And there are an awful lot of those in modernity. 3) I don't consider CW's work a development of doctrine. I agree with you about its shortcomings on several points. 4) No disagreement there. 5) I am all for enforcement of Canon Law. I only meant I wouldn't be satisfied with only that. And I do not want to re-establish an ethos of law enforcement, which goes hand in hand with an ethos of legalism and paternalism. I think persons thrive best when laws are kept to the essential minimum, and, as you say above, we are formed to be prudent. 6) I agree with you on the general point. (I withhold agreement regarding its application to CW, since I do not know enough about his view of modesty.) |
Katie, Nice to see that for the most part we agree. 5) What I meant was that in regard to "reigning things in a bit" I would be satisfied with just enforcing the existing canons. I am not looking for a reactive police state in the Church, nor do I have any affinity for the philosophies behind them. That would mean we basically agree on all points! |
That is nice, though I fear it will be short lived. I mean short lived if I ever manage to make good on my promise to answer your critique of CW. Even then, though, I have good hope that, on the whole, we will find ourselves generally much more in agreement than otherwise. |
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Hi Katie, I realize from your most recent post on TPP that you are either currently occupied with, or preparing to give, a public presentation. I've already offered prayers that all goes exceptionally well for you in your talk, and that you have safe and uneventful travels (if that is required).... Ever since our very animated discussion on this topic of "conscience" concluded about a month ago (That long ago? How time flies!), I've still been digging deeper on the subject. Last night, I came across a VERY interesting article, which shed quite a bit of light on the matter for yours truly. The article (link below) describes "two camps" of belief within Catholicism wrt conscience, which I think makes considerable sense of why you, Jules, and I came to such loggerheads on this topic. When you do finally have free time again, please give the relatively brief article a read, and let me know what you think. Anyway, here's the link to the article: http://ncronline.org/news/conscience-... Perhaps, with the enlightenment of this article, we can continue our discussion of "conscience", albeit each from the perspective of our own "camp", respectively? As the authors of this article infer, perhaps there is a need within Catholicism for these "two camps" of belief to work harder toward greater harmony? I hope that we can continue further discussions which might aid in that lofty goal…. Take care and God bless, Steve B |


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5. Ace Combat 3
The only place for dreaminess in fighter combat is Maverick and Goose.
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The main character is the NEMO artificial intelligence, the very first AI to ever be installed in military hardware without instantly turning evil – which should have been your first sign it wasn't real. So far, so fun, until the final ending reveals that the entire game was a simulation. And when even your PlayStation takes the piss by telling you that the game was really just a game of a game, you're officially being bullied by your own hobbies.
This isn't just a cute twist, this is a psychological bombshell - you have to complete the full game five times to get the NEMO reveal. Who'd have thought a program named after a cartoon character that dreams would be a simulation? At that point finding out the whole thing was only a simulation of a simulation (or simulation squared) of fighter combat would be the exact opposite of being unplugged from the Matrix: you've learned that your entire world was a lie, and now you're even worse at everything than before.
6. Tekken 6: Ling Xiaoyu
Fighting game endings are always tricky, as it's hard to repeat "one guy beat another guy" without it getting boring, but Xiaoyu's endings are a catalog of insanity. From double-crossing amusement parks to temporal paradoxes they do their absolute best to undermine the serious Tekken storyline, but
a) anyone using Xiaoyu isn't serious about anything
b) "serious Tekken storyline" – are you kidding?
Still, her Tekken 6 ending makes Paul's hairstyle look professional.
That is full on "straddling in short shorts so tight they count as an extra epidermis" while having a wet dream about wrapping herself around her fantasy man. Giant pandas might still refuse to have sex in captivity, but it's not for Xiaoyu's want of trying.
7. Bart's Nightmare
Even more so than Super Mario Bros 2, there was no part of Bart's Nightmare which didn't feel like a dream: the story started with Bart falling asleep, the gameplay was more disjointed than an exploded snail, the minigames felt like they'd been programmed in different time periods, never mind time zones, and you got the feeling that everyone involved really knew about being asleep. Upon waking, said staff then had to bash out a game in forty-five minutes on the day of the deadline.
We honestly cannot picture Sculptured Software's studio as anything other than a vast pile of hammocks suspended over bean-bags with a single Sinclair ZX keyboard in a corner, being used as a pillow. Saying electricity was wasted on this trash is like mentioning the war to a German.
8. Final Fantasy X
Ten was where Square realized that the whole "tiny group vs vast evil empire" thing might be getting a tiny bit tired, and unfortunately the developer's reaction was to fall asleep entirely and dream of a half-fish pretty-boy. Then claim that was the story.
Main character Tidus wasn't in a dream, he was a dream - which is more a typo than a story element - and even the most kickass characters were dead figments of their own imagination. Yes, Tidus was the son of a dream of a dead man who'd been turned into a monster in the minds of a dead civilization, which is easily the most convolutedly multilayered dream on this list.
In other stories ghosts hang around to impart advice, provide cryptic clues, or gradually realize their own true nature back when M. Night Shyamalan could make good movies. In this game the ghost's first action is to kill a dinosaur single-handedly, and his penultimate is to kill the closest thing his world has to a god, which was badass. Unfortunately his actually-ultimate action was to fade away and leave you stuck with Tidus, which was a dick move.
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Written in 2006 by retired pastor Glenn Hatfield, at the request of and in consultation with current pastor Felix Tingson.
Some churches call it "multicultural" to rent space to a church of another culture, or to have more than one cultural or language group as part of one church, but with separate meeting times or rooms. Under some circumstances, these can be valid approaches. However, Peddie's approach to multiculturalism is to have all groups involved in one church, interacting with each other as Christian brothers and sisters in most activities. Although Peddie still uses the terminology "multicultural," this form of being "multicultural" is now increasingly called being "
Initially, Peddie's members were all white and mostly Scottish. Now it's an international, multi-cultural church with more than 200 members from 23 nations, speaking more than 30 languages. For more than a quarter century, an annual event at which its multiculturalism is most obvious is its annual International Sunday, now celebrated on Pentecost Sunday. The first Pentecost two millennia ago WAS a multicultural, international gathering. Acts 2:9 lists 15 nations or ethnic groups present; they spoke many "tongues."
On Peddie's Pentecost or International Sunday, large flags of the nations represented in the membership are displayed. People wear the clothing usually worn in their country of origin. Bible readings are in many languages. There is ethnic music. The Lord's Prayer is prayed in many tongues simultaneously - quietly, as people listen to all the languages rising to God along with their own. After worship, there is an international food festival where people learn to enjoy the dishes of other ethnicities. This unity in diversity is joyfully felt to be a Holy Spirit blessing. Visitors often say, "This is the way a church should be."
It took a long time to develop a multicultural church. The path began in 1801 when 12 members started the church and soon built a small frame church house. As the congregation grew, they built a mid-sized brick building. One wealthy member, Thomas Baldwin Peddie, who joined the church in 1852 when it was half a century old, gave the present building to the church. The building, completed in 1890, is of outstanding beauty, and will seat more than 1,000 worshippers. Just before it was completed, Mr. Peddie died, and the grateful congregation changed the church's name from "First Baptist Church" to "First Baptist Peddie Memorial Church." For brevity and simplicity, here it will be called simply "Peddie Church" or "Peddie," whether referring to the time before or after the name change.
specifically FOR multiculturalism has been the main factor in Peddie's becoming multicultural. The Biblical emphasis upon multiculturalism at Peddie probably was sharpened mostly by its five most recent pastors, beginning in 1953 - Pastors Drummond, Hunt, King, Hatfield, and (currently) Tingson.
: Dr. Martin Luther King observed that the most segregated gatherings in America are at our Sunday worship services. This is still true. While many mono-cultural churches are necessary, valuable, and pleasing to God, King's comment is, nevertheless, to some extent a general indictment against the Christian community as a whole - since Christ, the Bible, and good theology, if properly heeded, would move many churches toward becoming more multicultural.
Attached to this document is a brief paper, titled "Theological Undergirding," citing a few of the many Biblical passages and books that address the theme of churches being more inclusive and multicultural, as a matter of theological conviction and spiritual integrity.
One early step toward multiculturalism probably was the one Peddie took in 1811 - a decision to have a pastor who was not only sincerely spiritual, but also
. Some members sharply differed, holding that only "spirituality" mattered and that education was not important - the church's first serious controversy that resulted in some members leaving. The pastor at the time, whose views prevailed, said that should the church choose to not have an educated pastor "folly and imprudence (would) become (their) teacher." Since then, Peddie has tried to prayerfully select pastors who were both spiritually dedicated and well educated.
: Good education opens hearts and minds in many ways - including toward Christian multiculturalism - which therefore can be furthered by seminaries having multicultural faculties and providing good multicultural training, by denominations maintaining high God-honoring educational standards for clergy, and by churches being careful to call ministers whose hearts and minds are open to the movement of God's Spirit.
Peddie's long held attitudes of
paved the way for its multiculturalism. Although it has had some controversies such as the one in 1811, it has a long history of compassion, friendliness, openness, and Christian dedication, and little dogmatism, closed-mindedness, moralistic self-righteousness, etc. It really believes in loving ALL of the people God created. There has been evidence that such an attitude has been nourished from the pulpit and practiced in the congregation for many many years.
: Christian harmony can lead to multicultural relationships, and once a church is on the path toward multiculturalism, is even more necessary. That's because people of different languages and nationalities have different perceptions about being a church. It is necessary to honor cultures and viewpoints other than ones own, and stress Christian harmony and love that transcends some very real differences.
Being a
over the years is another factor that paved the way for Peddie to become multicultural. Peddie gave birth to several Baptist Churches in Newark, and helped start one in India. From early times, Peddie people have loved the people of other nations enough to have a desire for their general welfare and Christian conversion, and therefore to pray sincerely and give substantially to support American Baptist's international ministries. More recently, when so many immigrants have been coming to the USA, it was natural to continue outreach to them here, just as had been done by outreach to them when they lived in other nations.
: Although it's not always the case, an emphasis on international ministry can feed a sense of multiculturalism, and vice versa.
Long having had an
has been a factor. An early group of Peddie's non-Scottish members were black Americans (then called "colored"). The church had black members so far back that nobody seems to know when or how this step was achieved. It is known only that there were so many black members that they decided they wanted their own separate church. So in 1871, in good will, Peddie became the mother church of Bethany Baptist Church, Newark's first "colored" church. The friendship with Bethany continues. Some black members must have stayed on at Peddie, for there were still black members at Peddie after 1871. As far back as anybody knows about, there has been a considerable spirit of openness at Peddie. Even when Mr. Peddie gave the church its present building, he was vigorous in stating his intent and hope for building to be used not only for church functions, but also for good community gatherings, and that it should remain a house of prayer for ALL people.
: "Multicultural" and "interracial," though not synonyms, are kindred terms. For a church to achieve either can help to achieve the other.
undergirded Peddie's move toward greater multiculturism. In 1963, Horace Hunt became Peddie's pastor. In 1967 Newark had a racial riot, which was a rebellion against racial injustice in the city. That same year, American Baptists' Board of National Ministries sent Glenn Hatfield (later to become Peddie's pastor) to Newark as Director of the (former) Newark Christian Center and to work on an ecumenical team to help the city address racial injustice and restore peace. Hunt was instrumental in creating this team (Metropolitan Ecumenical Ministries) and later was called to be its Executive Director. Peddie housed this ecumenical movement in its early stages.
Because of Newark's racial troubles, property values declined, some white churches and many white families fled to the suburbs, and Newark's white churches either closed or shrank. Despite some discomfort, Peddie held firm, stayed, and continued to minister. Since it also lost some of its white members, by simple arithmetic it was left as a more multicultural church. And since the non-Caucasian people began to see that Peddie really cared, a few more of them joined.
: Becoming multicultural can help save the life of a dying inner city church, but also involves the necessity to understand the frustration and problems of groups other than one's own and some willingness to "go to bat" for them and their concerns
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was important in becoming multicultural. Since quite a few Chinese lived in Peddie's neighborhood, the church called a part time Chinese "local missionary" in 1960, and launched some effort to reach out to Chinese, with some limited success. The title of this part time position has since been changed to "assistant to the pastor," and the position has been filled by one other Chinese minister, a Filipino minister, and (now) a Korean minister. In 2001, the Filipino minister, Felix Tingson, was called to be Peddie's first non-Caucasian pastor, and in this role is currently serving capably. Peddie also has filled non clergy positions (secretary, choir director, sexton, etc.) with people of various ethnicities.
: Few people who are not part of a church's dominant culture will become members of a church that is not sensitive enough to be multicultural in its "employment" practices.
to other ethnic groups was part of Peddie's process. For instance, Pastor King (1970 & following) led the church to focus strategically on Chinese outreach. Accordingly, the church began holding events that were attractive to Chinese (such as celebrating the Chinese new year) -also on translating, printing, and handing out tracts and other outreach materials to Chinese; and having telephone campaigns to Chinese people whose names can sometimes be picked from the phone books - Chin, Chang, Wang, Wong, etc.).
: The idea is wrong that merely being open toward other groups might be all that is needed to advance toward multiculturalism. Even if a church has a good attitude toward people of other cultures, those people probably will never know this is true, unless there is some intentional, strategic effort to reach out to them.
was important. In church bulletins and newsletters, Pastor King began referring to Peddie AS "an "international church." Pastor Hatfield (1974 & following) continued and expanded this practice. For example, he arranged to get the flags of all nations that are in place for International Sunday at Pentecost. He also took care to always have people of different colors and ethnic groups in the pulpit, receiving the offering, serving at communion, being ushers, etc. Pastor Tingson (2001 to the present) is continuing to work on this. For him, however the problem is no longer having an almost all white group front, but is having an almost all-black group. Although the blacks themselves are an international group (from Nigeria, Haiti, Ghana, Cameroon, the USA, etc.) Pastor Tingson is trying to have more Asians and whites upfront, to keep the image balanced.
: Just as image important, so is having a multi-ethnic "appearance" in worship leadership. On the one hand, being "color-blind" is a wonderful ideal. Presumably we will all be color-blind in Heaven. On the other hand, being "color blind" in a society or a church that still discriminates based on color is a refusal or failure to address the situation. As Christians seeking to reach out to all people, we need to be color conscious (not color blind) and balance participation in worship conduct among various races and ethnic groups.
was important. Mostly it was Pastor Hatfield who began to do this. When he came as pastor, the congregation had begun to look somewhat "international," but the various boards and committees were still mostly all white. He began slowly and gradually to introduce capable leaders from various national and racial backgrounds into the various boards and committees. He also personally recruited and trained several dedicated lay-ministers from varied ethnic backgrounds to undertake various ministries and take turns in pulpit ministry. This continued to further the image (as above) of being a multicultural church, and to further its actuality by having the people of other ethnicities move from merely attending church to become integral members of the church family. Pastor Tingson is finding it necessary to work even more on this aspect of power. As the church's first non-Caucasian pastor, he is finding that a few members who seldom if ever challenged a white pastor are beginning to challenge him on some issues. He finds it necessary to work hard, as many pastors do, to maintain balance between the opinions of some individuals and the democratically established church practices.
: Although the power issue is one of the most important of all, it may be the one least addressed. Many times, the majority group, even though well-meaning, is unaware of this issue.
has been and is central to Peddie's multicultural family. Many people have worked on that, including Pastor Hatfield. Peddie member Myrna Karasig wrote a brief history for the church's 200th anniversary, in which she said that although other downtown churches are declining in membership, Peddie has sustained steady membership growth by increasing its international base. In part she credits Pastor Hatfield for this by :continuing (Peddie's ) tradition of fine preaching" and for sustaining "the otherwise fragile relationships between twenty or so nationalities and ethnicities by allowing diverse cultural expressions yet forging unity of our Christian spirit."
: The key is love. See I John.
was a key to the process. Many people, including many pastors have earnestly prayed that Peddie keep on loving and serving people across racial and national boundaries - and have prayed that the congregation will continue to be drawn together in harmony and in ministry. Soon after Pastor Tingson first came to be Peddie's local missionary, he led the church in a significant movement of prayer renewal. As members came together for prayer, boundaries faded, commonalities emerged, and Christian caring increased. As a result, some of the processes and hopes stated above that had been flagging were renewed, and as the general spiritual and organizational health of the church improved, so did the multicultural communion.
: Thanks be to God!
A declining church may choose to become multicultural to survive. Or, a church may choose to become multicultural because it is life enriching to be in a multicultural fellowship and have friends from other backgrounds. But the main reason to become multicultural is
Here are a few of
Biblical texts that favor multiculturism.
Psalm 133:1. The good of dwelling together in unity.
John 17: especially 11 & 23. Jesus prays that his church may be one, that the world might believe in him.
Matthew 28:19-20 The great commission - go to all "nations" (Greek, ethnai / ethnic groups)
Acts 2:5-11 lists fifteen ethnic groups present at the Pentecost event. The very first church gathering was multicultural
Acts 10:34 After God sends a powerful vision to Peter to correct his racism and encourage outreach to the Gentiles, Peter proclaims that he now sees that God is no respecter of persons, or shows no favoritism.
Galatians 3:28. "Your are all one in Christ Jesus."
Ephesians. The entire book, the main theme of which is God's purpose to unite all things in heaven and earth together, the role of the church in this overarching purpose, and the need for all Christians to claim their unity in Christ and dwell together in mutual love.
Ephesians 4:3-5: Love each other; keep the unity of the Spirit. One body, one spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God.
Revelation 7:9 describes the multinational church at the end of time gathered before
God's throne. This shows God's desire for how the church should be; and since it will ultimately be this way, it's good for us to work toward that ideal.
Here are a few of
books that challenge churches toward multicultural sensitivity or toward or becoming multicultural.
Intentional Diversity
. Jim Lo
Where the Nations Meet: The Church in a Multicultural World
. Stephen A. Rhodes,
What Color Is Your God?
David Ireland.
Marginality: The Key to Multicultural Theology
. Jung Young Lee.
The Wolf Shall Dwell With the Lamb: A Spirituality for Leadership in a Multicultural Community
. Eric Law
One New People: Models for Developing a Multiethnic Church
. Manuel Ortiz.
Coming Together: The Bible's Message in an Age of Diversity
. Curtiss Paul DeYoung
United by Faith: The Multiracial Congregation as an Answer to the Problem of Race.
Curtiss Paul Deyoung, Michael Emerson, George Yancey, and Karen Chai Kim.


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The detention of asylum seekers is regulated in the Aliens' Police Law (Fremdenpolizeigesetz 2005, FPG), which was amended several times with the effect that the reasons for the detention of asylum-seekers were specified and extended. The various grounds for detention are laid down in § 76 FPG. Detention is limited to those cases where it seems necessary to safeguard the examination of the applicant's asylum claim or to undertake the Dublin transfer:
In case there is an inadmissibility decision which can be executed, even if it is not yet in force; meaning that the Federal Agency for Immigration and Asylum has already issued an inadmissibility decision on the asylum application but logistical enforcement is still pending
In case an inadmissibility procedure is being undertaken meaning in case the asylum applicant received information indicating that the Austrian authorities are consulting other Member States to verify whether another Member State is responsible under the Dublin Regulation
In case a return decision, a residence prohibition or an expulsion order was issued before the asylum application was lodged
In case it seems likely, based on various kinds of evidence, that an inadmissibility decision will be taken
In case an inadmissibility decision was already issued or when the asylum applicant submitted a subsequent application which did not have an actual protection against deportation
In case an asylum applicant who had been informed that the claim was the subject of Dublin consultations does not respect the territorial restriction (obligation to remain within the district where the asylum seeker receives reception)
In case an asylum applicant registered as "homeless" violates the duty to report to the police on a regular basis (more than once) or does not report that they are registered as homeless to the police within two weeks while they are in an admissibility procedure. If an asylum-seeker is not entitled to Basic Care (for example when they submitted a subsequent asylum application or they left the designated place of residence), they have either to inform the BFA about their address or to organise a "homeless address" where letters or decisions can be delivered.
If a person is taken to a detention centre at an early stage of the procedure (a decision was not yet issued on the asylum application) it is mostly because of their behaviour in the past and their individual characteristics: such as if the asylum applicant previously absconded or is likely to do so; the asylum applicant was in several other Dublin Member States before; it concerns a subsequent asylum application; if the asylum applicant confirms their travel route to Austria or not (asylum seekers are often detained after the preliminary interview to establish identity, nationality and travel route).
Detention is almost systematic during the 24 hours preceding the transfer of an asylum applicant to the responsible Member State under the Dublin Regulation. According to a response to a parliamentary question there are cases where persons in a Dublin procedure were detained for six months.1
The reasons for the detention of asylum-seekers in 2013 were as follows:
Executable expulsion order |
133 |
Initiated return procedure |
142 |
Executable return decision prior to asylum application |
78 |
Likely expulsion order |
229 |
Executable return decision in Dublin cases |
116 |
Subsequent asylum application in Dublin cases |
19 |
Violation of restriction of movement |
14 |
Violation of registration duty |
1 |
Violation of obligation to comply with the procedure |
1 |
Subsequent asylum application |
8 |
Unauthorised leave of initial reception centre |
0 |
When a person is placed in detention, they must receive a written decision relating to their individual situation and circumstances and the grounds for detention. The main parts of such decision, which are the verdict of detention and the information about the right to appeal against detention, have to be in a language the asylum applicant is able to understand. In each case, the detained asylum applicant is granted a legal advisor provided by the state, either from the organization ARGE Rechtsberatung or Verein Menschenrechte Österreich, which closely co-operate with the Ministry of the Interior. While before the Alien's Law contained an obligation to act as legal representative for detained asylum seekers if they wish so, the new amended Law which came into effect in 2014 deleted this obligation and now contains only the obligation for the legal adviser to take part in hearings if the asylum-seekers wishes his presence (§ 51 Aliens Police Law).
Under the law detention is possible if the asylum seeker left the initial reception center without having a valid reason)2 and also when one of the requirements stipulated in paragraph 76 (2) 1 to 4 is fulfilled. The Aliens Police Law does not refer to the risk of absconding, but to the fact that the asylum seeker left the initial reception center without having a valid reason, which can also be seen as a risk that the person would abscond.3 In 2013 this regulation was not applied in practice.
§ 34 (4) Act on Procedures before the Federal Agency on Asylum and Immigration (BFA) allows the apprehension of asylum seekers if they evaded the procedure or if they left the initial reception center without having a justified reason (§ 24 (4)2 Asylum Act). § 34 (2) Act on Procedures before the BFA uses the term "evading" the procedure and refers to § 24 (1) Asylum Act. § 24 (1) Asylum Act defines the situation where an asylum seeker evades the procedure: itis the case if the authorities are not informed about an asylum seeker's place of stay or if this place is not easily identifiable. Reference is made to § 15 Asylum Act: this Article contains the obligation for asylum seekers to cooperate with the authorities and enumerates a number of duties, including the duty to inform the authorities about the place of stay.
The Administrative High Court has ruled in several decisions that will be binding for the BFA and the Federal Administrative Court (BVwG) on the risk of absconding. The criteria to determine whether detention is necessary to secure deportation and prevent absconding are the following: previous attempts to abscond; behavior of the applicant (such as not complying with the obligation to leave); previous criminal law violations; illegal entry; illegal entry shortly after deportation; entry despite residence ban; attempts to hinder the expulsion and escape the authorities' administrative power; having dependent children in Austria; or having a health condition.4
So far it is not possible to assess the practise of the authorities as the new laws have only been in force for a few months.
The Human Rights Advisory Board (Menschenrechtsbeirat) and UNHCR have criticised the detention conditions for asylum seekers and irregular migrants for being even worse than in regular prisons.5 For the time being it is not clear whether the detention conditions have improved due to the closure of several detention centres and the new facility which offers more opportunities for activities outside the cells.6 Concerning detention conditions for children, the Menschenrechtsbeirat has criticised the fact that children under 14 years are kept in detention centres with their family when their parents agree to keep the child with them rather than being separated from them.7
While unaccompanied children are separated from adults in the detention centre, they are often kept alone in their cell, which has very negative psychological consequences. However, there was a small improvement in 2010. Since then there is a special detention centre in Vienna for unaccompanied children and families, which is located in a house formerly sheltering recognized refugees. This means that in practice the whole family waits for their deportation in an apartment, without the possibility of leaving it, while previously the family was usually separated by ordering an alternative measure to detention for the mother and the children while the father was detained.
Many persons awaiting their expulsion are still being held, in some cases for months, in police detention centers, which have been regularly criticised for their poor material conditions. Regular inspections by different bodies have noted some improvements but limited access to legal counsel and very limited possibilities for leisure activities and medical treatment have remained areas of concern. Two doctors under contract of the police have been found guilty of insufficient medical treatment of a detained Chechen, who died from cardiac infarction in 2012 although he had asked for medical help about 60 times.8
Figures on the duration of detention of asylum seekers are not available. As asylum seekers whose applications are processed under the Dublin procedure are often detained immediately after submitting their applications, they may be kept in detention for months until they are transferred to the Member State determined to be responsible for the examination of their asylum applications. In other Dublin cases detention may last for some weeks, as suspensive effect of the appeal is hardly ever granted and the transfer can be effected while their appeal is still pending.
The Aliens Police Act (§ 77) enumerates three alternatives to detention: reporting obligations, the obligation to take up residence in a certain place of accommodation and the deposit of a financial guarantee. Details about the deposit and amount of the financial guarantee are regulated by an Ordinance Implementing the Aliens Police Act.9 This amount (§ 13) has to be decided in each individual case and has to be proportionate. The law specifies a maximum of 2 x € 858,73 (= € 1.717,46). The measure is not applied in practice.
Alternatives to detention are open centres. Such measures are executed in regular reception facilities, facilities rented by the police or houses of NGOs, or the private flat of the person to be deported. If an alternative to detention is ordered, asylum seekers have reporting duties. They have to present themselves at the police offices of the Federal Police Directorates every day or every second day.
If reporting obligations or the obligation to take up residence in a certain accommodation facility are violated, the person is detained. § 77 (3) Aliens Police Act contains the obligation to detain persons who do not fulfill the requirements stipulated the provision on alternatives to detention.
The duration of alternative measures is limited. Two days in the alternative measure count as one day of detention. the counts only half. Asylum seekers benefiting from an alternative to detention are not entitled to Basic Care. Necessary medical treatment must in any case be guaranteed. These costs may be paid by the BFA. Asylum seekers may also receive free emergency medical treatment in hospitals.
With regard to children in detention, the Austrian Human Rights Advisory Board, in its report on children in the Austrian Aliens' law, quotes the Human Rights Commissioner Hammarberg explaining that "the use of detention for minors should be kept to the absolute minimum in accordance with the provisions of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. [...] While the detention of children for a matter of hours or days prior to a certain expulsion might exceptionally fall within the permissible scope of these provisions, anything much longer would be of serious concern [...]". Figures on detention of children in the year 2010 show that the number of children between 16 and 17 years of age in detention was double the number of children subjected to alternatives to detention, demonstrating that alternative measures to detention are in practice not applied. This is thus not in line with the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.10
Figures relating to alternatives to detention of asylum seekers are not available. While in 2011 alternatives to detention were applied in 13% of all cases (all foreigners), the percentage increased to 17% in 2012 and diminished to 15% in 2013.
Year |
Detained foreigners |
Alternatives to detention |
2010 |
6.153 |
1403 |
2011 |
6.657 |
1012 |
2012 |
4.561 |
924 |
2013 |
4.171 |
741 |
Detention has to be proportionate to its aim. Alternative measures (so called less coercive measures) have to be applied in all cases (not only if a particular ground for detention exists) if the authorities have good reasons to believe that the object and purpose of detention (i.e. deportation) could be reached by the application of such measures. An individualized examination is provided for in the legal basis, but in practice less coercive measures are often regarded as not sufficient measure to secure the return procedure/expulsion.
According to § 76 Aliens Police Act, the principle of necessity is to be taken into account. Detention has to be necessary to reach one of the aims, e.g. securing a procedure or the execution of a deportation order. The principle of proportionality is not explicitly mentioned in the provisions regulating the reasons for detention and detention orders in the Aliens Police Act. It is however mentioned that the BFA has to review the proportionality of detention every four weeks. Proportionality is also a Constitutional Principle applicable to all administrative procedures and therefore also to Aliens' Law proceedings. This is confirmed by the jurisprudence of the Administrative Court11 and the Constitutional Court.12 Proportionality means to weigh or balance the interests between the public interest of securing the procedure (mainly expulsion procedure) and the right to liberty of the individual.
- 1. Parliamentarian request NR 10892/AB (XXIV.GP) from 16 May 2012, available at: www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/VHG/XXIV/J/J_11024/fnameorig_248259.html.
- 2. Aliens Police Law § 76 (2a) 6 and (§ 24 (4) Asylum Act.
- 3. § 76 (2a).
- 4. See VwGH 2007/21/0246 from 28.05.2008, 2011/21/0247 from 18.04.2013, 2007/21/006 from 19.6.2008.
- 5. Menschenrechtsbeirat beim Bundesministerium für Inneres: Bericht des Menschenrechtsbeirates über seine Tätigkeit im Jahr 2011, S. 57 (Human Rights Board with the Federal Ministry of Interior, Report of the Human Rights Board on its activities in 2011, p. 57); Menschenrechtsbeirat beim Bundesministerium für Inneres: Haftbedingungen in Anhalteräumen der Sicherheitsbehörden (Human Rights Board with the Federal Ministry of Interior, Detention conditions in back rooms of security services), October 2009.
- 6. Der Standard, 14.1.2014: Im Wartezimmer Vater Staats, (In the waiting room of father state) http://derstandard.at/1388650234480/Im-Wartezimmer-Vater-Staats?_slide=1
- 7. Bericht des Menschenrechtsbeirates zu Kindern und Jugendlichen im fremdenrechtlichen Verfahren (Report of the Human Rights Board on Children and Adolescents in alien's law procedures), 2011, P VII.
- 8. Die Presse 17.03.2014: Tod in Schubhaft: Zwei Amtsärzte verurteilt, (Death in detention: two doctors convicted), available at: http://kurier.at/chronik/wien/tod-in-der-schubhaft-zwei-amtsaerzte-verur....
- 9. Verordnung der Bundesministerin für Inneres zur Durchführung des Fremdenpolizeigesetzes 2005 (Fremdenpolizeigesetz-Durchführungsverordnung – FPG-DV).
- 10. Bericht des Menschenrechtsbeirates zu Kindern und Jugendlichen im fremdenrechtlichen Verfahren (Report of the Human Rights Board on Children and Adolescents in alien's law procedures), 2011, p 40 showed that in 2010 18 children aged 14-16 years were detained; 154 children between 16 and 18 years of age were detained; in 2010 365 between the age of 14 and 16 were subjected to alternatives to detention and 84 between the ages of 16 and 18 years of age.
- 11. Administrative Court VwGH, 2013/21/0008, 2.08.2013 https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/Vwgh/JWT_2013210008_20130802X00/JWT_...
- 12. See e.g. Constitutional Court, VfGH B1447/10 10, 20.9.2011: "Wie der Verfassungsgerichtshof nämlich … klargestellt hat, sind die Behörden unter Bedachtnahme auf das verfassungsrechtliche Gebot der Verhältnismäßigkeit (proportionality) verpflichtet, im Einzelfall die verfassungsrechtlich gebotene Abwägung zwischen dem öffentlichen Interesse an der Sicherung des Verfahrens und der Schonung der persönlichen Freiheit des Betroffenen vorzunehmen." https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/Vfgh/JFT_09889080_10B01447_2_00/JFT_...