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My last post on here, which was just a quote, was from May 14. A lot has changed in my life since then. While I don't often post about my life on this blog (in fact, I don't recall ever doing so), I thought that the number changes of the last month and a half are deserving of a post of their own.
This spring I successfully defended my master's thesis, "For the Sake of the World: The Ecclesiology of Karl Barth in Critical Conversation with Jürgen Moltmann and Stanley Hauerwas." Writing a thesis was a very rewarding venture. I learned a lot about the process of writing a sustained argument. Writing a thesis for my degree was not required. Many students choose not to write one, opting to take an extra course and compile a portfolio instead. While I found writing a thesis much more difficult than taking a course (even more difficult than taking two courses), I am so very glad that I did it. Having professors engage with my own sustained theological writing will prove invaluable as I begin doctoral studies.
I graduated with a Master of Divinity degree with an academic concentration in Christian Theology from Emmanuel Christian Seminary. I absolutely loved my time there. While I wasn't sure how much I would benefit from seminary studies (since I studied Bible and ministry in my undergraduate studies), I can now say with confidence that seminary was an amazing experience and a good choice for me.
I was ordained into Christian ministry by the elders of Hopwood Christian Church. Spending the last five years at this church as an attendee, member, intern and eventually as a staff member, was deeply formative for me. While living life among this congregation, I saw the gospel of Jesus take on flesh and blood. It is one of the greatest privileges of my life to be ordained by this church. I have thought about ordination for many years (and have even written about it on here). As I discerned that I was called (at least for a time) toward academic theological endeavors, I choose to pursue ordination so that my study would always be an exercise of my vocation as a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
I have accepted an generous offer of admission into Saint Louis University's doctoral program in historical theology. My concentration will be in modern theology, which covers theology since 1500. In my dissertation I hope to focus upon the doctrine of the church in the theologies of Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar. I will begin my coursework this August. The program will take five years to complete. Saint Louis University is an excellent school and I am very excited to begin studies there.
I have joined the Lotus House, an intentional Christian community in the north city of St. Louis. This is a community that formed in 2008. We live in a single three-story house. There are daily times of common prayer and shared meals. The community is committed to service to the church and neighborhood and practices hospitality in a number of ways. I just moved in yesterday and am looking forward to living life together here.
On June 2 I was privileged to preach to Hopwood one final time before my departure. After struggling with the lectionary texts all week, I decided to focus in on the question, "what is the gospel?" It seemed appropriate given the epistle reading. Here is the audio from that sermon. Below is the text.
I was enjoying a nice relaxing family vacation in the picturesque mountains of western North Carolina about a week and a half ago. My parents, my siblings and their spouses, and my eight nieces and nephews enjoyed a few days in a spacious mountain lodge. At dinnertime one evening I sat down next to my five year old niece Isabelle, who was puzzling over a deep theological problem her father (my brother) encouraged her to ask me about. She looks at me suspiciously, as though she's about to set a trap that she knows there is no way out of. She asks, "If God made everyone and everything, then who made God?" An understandable question; predictable even. I try to give her the basic answer, that no one made God; that God has always been and always will be. She doesn't buy it. I try to tell her that God is unlike any person or thing that we know or experience in creation. I remind her that everything she can think of has had a beginning and will have an ending, and then I tell her that God is different than all of those things, for God has no beginning or ending. I see in her eyes that she believes I am hopelessly trapped by her astute question. In my growing exasperation contemplate referencing the poet John Berryman's description of God when he wrote that God is "Unknowable, as I am unknown to my guinea pigs."
But I managed to restrain myself.
Having just a few days prior received my Master of Divinity, having just been ordained into Christian ministry, I found myself humbled by a five year old's honest question about God. I ended up giving her a half-hearted answer about not having to understand God in order to know and love God. As she ran off to play I couldn't help but remember the admonition of a wise philosopher that "What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence."
There are a lot of words that we use in church, words that we find in the Scriptures, that are like this. They seem straightforward at first brush, but when we look a little deeper, when we stop and ask a few questions, they slip through our fingers. Words that buck against clean and tidy definitions. When we stop and ask the questions hidden in the words "God" "Spirit" "salvation" and "church" we are left stammering for the right way to speak about something bigger than human speech. We end up in silence. Theologian Rowan Williams says that this silence is "not an absolute, unbroken inarticulacy, but the discipline of letting go our own easy chattering about the gospel so that our words may come again with a new and different depth or force from something beyond our fantasies."
I want to talk about one of these words today; one of these words that we can't talk about, that can't be captured by our language. It's a word that crops up six times in our short reading from Galatians. Gospel. What is the Gospel? What do we mean when we say that we believe and live the Gospel of Jesus Christ? Or, conversely, as is the case in the church in Galatia whom Paul is addressing, what would it mean to abandon the Gospel?
Well the simple answer, the first brush answer, is that the Gospel is good news. The Greek word that the earliest Christians adopted, the word euangelion, (which we translate as "Gospel") simply means an announcement of some great goodness. People might use the word to describe a victory in a major battle or perhaps the Empire would use the word to describe the ascension of a new Emperor to the throne in Rome. Euangelion simply means that something very good and very significant has happened.
You can see why the earliest Christians used this word. They believed and preached that through a specific set of historical events, the birth, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, that the very best thing that could ever happened has in fact happened. That the Word became flesh and walked upon earth. That through Jesus, God has defeated death and sin. The Gospel is indeed good news, a welcome announcement of staggeringly good events happening in the midst of this world.
And yet, the Gospel of Jesus Christ is more than those events only. It's more than an isolated historical occurrence in the first century. Paul accuses the Galatian church of abandoning the Gospel, and if we read the whole letter we aren't left with the impression that they were somehow discounting the veracity of any of the events of Jesus's life, death and resurrection. It's not as if they decided to pick some other historical event and ascribe to it the same status as Jesus's resurrection. No, what they were doing that prompts Paul's harsh condemnation is requiring believers in the Gospel who came from non-Jewish background to abide by certain Jewish practices in order to enter into the Christian community. That's it. And for that Paul accuses them of abandoning the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Gospel is good news about events, that's true. But it has to be more than that. In order for the Gospel to be the Gospel of Jesus Christ it cannot simply rest satisfied in affirming that a certain set of events happened in a particular place two mallenea ago. No, the Gospel requires that these events continue to be worked out in a particular community called the church. While the Gospel is always about pointing to Jesus, from its inception the church has affirmed that in its own life Jesus is made present—that in some important sense the gathering of believers animated by the Spirit of God is the very Body of Jesus Christ. This means that the church, the Christian life that is visible in the people sitting around you, is in some sense the Gospel. Theologian Stanley Hauerwas has this point in mind when he writes, that "There is no way, if we are to be faithful to God's gift at Pentecost, that the church can avoid calling attention to itself. To be sure, like Israel, the church has a story to tell in which God is the main character. But the church cannot tell that story without becoming part of the tale."
So, as I reflect upon what the Gospel is, about the good tidings it holds, about what it requires of us, I am pulled in two directions. On the one hand, I see in your lives, in the past five years that I've spent among this congregation, the good news of Jesus Christ. I see your faithful witness and your steadfast perseverance and I admit that I am drawn into that New Age that dawned on that first Easter morning. On the other hand, I am pulled into affirming that the Gospel is bigger than us too, that it draws us out of this congregation. That the Gospel is not simply what we think it is or would like it to be. It can not be mastered or domesticated. That is, the Gospel is cannot be wholly reduced to any human experience or action. As Paul says, the Gospel does not have a human origin or a human source.
And so, I want to offer some reflections for today on both of these directions. I want to recount the ways that I've seen the Gospel in this congregation and I want to suggest ways in which the Gospel pushes us into new and unexpected places.
What is the Gospel? It is the way this congregation mourns with those who mourn. It is the way that we help bury one another. Every year we gather early on a spring Sunday and walk to the graveyard together. Every year, we read the words of resurrection hope from the gospels. And year after year I have seen you embody that resurrection life as you have mourned with hope our brothers and sisters who have died. Faithful witnesses like Billy Polly, Harmon Gouge, Ray Giles, Julie Newby, and Melissa Dahlman. I have seen you entrust these saints to God with the steadfast faith in the God who gives life. And while we still weep for these friends, just as Jesus wept for his friend Lazeraus, we do not weep without hope. That is the Gospel. That is the visible manifestation of Jesus's destruction of death. That is what it means when the author of Hebrews writes that Jesus has freed "those who all their lives were held in slavery by the fear of death."
What is the Gospel? It is being patient with one another. It is recognizing that those who are different than us are not obstacles to be overcome but brothers and sisters within whom the Spirit dwells. I have seen this congregation embody this kind of stubborn patience with one another. I have seen you patiently listen to Ben Lee's constant quoting of T. S. Eliot. If you've been part of this body very long you are probably aware that there are real differences among this congregation. Differences of opinion in politics and philosophy, for sure, but also differences in our understanding of important theological points regarding Christian ethics, baptism, and worship. These differences are not swept under the rug here for the sake of the status quo. Nor are they affirmed as an ideal. Rather, they are set within a larger story, the story of God's work among us, a work that requires a diversity within a larger unity of spirit in the bond of peace. That is the Gospel. In a world where ideological and theological differences fuel violence and isolation, the patience of this congregation with one another is a manifestation of Jesus's preaching of peace to those who are far off and to those who are near.
What is the Gospel? It is this shared Table. Around this table we gather as broken, sinful beggars and our eyes our opened and Jesus is recognized among us. What seems at times to be simply a happy thought actually becomes the first course of the marriage supper of the Lamb. I have seen this congregation welcome Christ to this Table by practicing hospitality to the stranger and the homeless. I have seen this congregation manifest the Gospel by being a place where Christians from divided denominations and traditions can gather to pray for and practice the unity figured in this one bread and one cup. That is the Gospel. The fellowship that welcomes all to God's abundance given in Jesus Christ.
It is clear to me that this congregation is a congregation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In these ways and in countless others the people who gather hear have allowed themselves to become Good News for a world in need. And yet, the Gospel is not bound by this congregation. It is not exhausted in what we do here. No, the Gospel is like a never-failing stream of fresh water. (Wendell Berry) "We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst we cannot have it all, or want it all. In its abundance it survives our thirst."
The Gospel is not only in this place. We believe that the Good News of Jesus creates a crack throughout this world in which another world can be seen advancing. We believe that the Kingdom is coming in those cracks. We believe that what happened in a garden tomb outside of Jerusalem 2000 years ago put a crack in everything, for all times and in all places and called into question the world "as it is." Let us find these Gospel cracks, which appear in surprising places [like a Roman Centurion with greater faith than the Jews]. Let us find these places where light is advancing in darkness. Let us be Gospel people by working for the Kingdom where the Spirit moves.
The Gospel is not a fixed tradition or people. It is not bound by any time, by any place, by language or by any people, even by the church. The Gospel is constantly moving and drawing us outside of ourselves, outside of our congregations, outside of even our ministries, in order to awake us anew to God's powerful work in the world. Let us not rest content by saying that the Gospel has already been figured out and all we need to do is affirm that something happened long ago and far away—that people long dead have already figured out everything that the Gospel is and we simply need to bend a knee to that. No, we need to resist traditionalism, and awaken to a living tradition—one animated by the Spirit of God that constantly questions and pushes our boundaries.
The Gospel is both very complicated and very simple. You know it when you see it and yet it can still surprise you and show up in unsuspected places. It is clouded in mystery and it clears that which is clouded. It can be perfectly understood by children just as it can bewilder the trained scholar.
Theologian Karl Barth wrote that "By the Gospel the whole concrete world is [both] dissolved and established." (REPEAT). He writes that "The Gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather it sets a question mark against all other truths. [It] is not the door but the hinge. … The Gospel is the victory by which the world is overcome."
Let us continue to be people of the Gospel in this place. Let us continue to follow the Spirit into new places and discover there new life-giving waters. Let us remember when God has given us good news through the people around us and let us be prepared to be surprised for good news to appear in new places. May we be constantly awakened to the story of cross and resurrection which is the very foundation of the universe.
As I prepare to be ordained into Christian ministry (at Hopwood Christian Church this Sunday, Pentecost, at 6pm), this quote is on my mind. I thought I would share it here.
"As the church that is founded on the apostolic word, the church is never a given factor. It has to be repeatedly found anew by an apostolic word. It can exist only in the event of the speaking and hearing of this apostolic word as God's Word. Thus the church is an institution only as an invitation, as a waiting for the church. In the church we are always on the way to the event of the church. Thus the ministry as a stepping forth of individuals is an act which must repeatedly become a reality by the calling of God. Ordination is a canonical act, but its significance is as a pointer to God's calling to the extent that in ordination the ordained come to hear the Word of God, which, however, they must constantly hear afresh."
Karl Barth, Homiletics, 70
"The diaspora situation of the Church is thus, when seen from the perspective of the gospel, the normal one; whereas the medieval appearance of a 'Christendom' closed in on itself, whose opponents—as pagans and Moslems—are located beyond her borders and can be defended against with weapons of power and even pushed back, corresponded to a direct, unmediated insertion of the Old into the New Testament."
Hans Urs von Balthasar, Explorations in Theology, vol. 4: Spirit and Institution, 67.
Is Jesus only the consoler and the helper of the individual in a world that forces people to do evil? Does he, against the background of personal forgiveness of sin, merely sanctify an ethics based on this old world, letting the old world ultimately be as it is? Or does the totality of human life rather meet the totality of divine conditions for life in Jesus? … Is Jesus indeed such a totally new world that fundamentally all our ethics, still built on the basis of the old world, is destroyed in encounter with him?
Karl Barth, Letter to Martin Rade, summer of 1915.
I haven't written much blog-appropriate material lately, so here is something I wrote a while back that might be of interest. Last semester one of my students in my course on the history of Christian worship asked me about the practice of the kiss of peace. Here is what I cobbled together.
The so-called kiss of peace, or holy kiss, is mentioned several places in the New Testament (Rom 16:16, 1 Pet 5:14, 1 Cor 16:20, 2 Cor 13:12). It clearly has to do with the fellowship and mutual love shared by Christians. It seems to have been an act specific to the worship gathering of Christians and not simply a general Christian practice of daily life (like, for example, prayer). In support of this, we read in the second-century testimony of Justin Martyr that there is a kiss present within the worship of the early Christians:
"Having ended the prayers, we salute one another with a kiss. There is then brought to the president of the brethren bread and a cup of wine…" (First Apology, 65)
First, let's deal with why there is a kiss of peace.
1) To demonstrate and create interpersonal reconciliation and Christian unity in the worship service.
In the liturgies of the church, it is interesting to note that the kiss of peace moves around a bit.
In several liturgies of the Eastern Orthodox traditions, the kiss of peace is practiced in near proximity to the offering ("offering" not here referring to the collection of monies, but to the prayers offering to God the gifts of bread and wine for consecration). The kiss seems to have been placed there because of Jesus' words in Matt 5:23ff regarding the reconciliation when you remember that you have something against a brother or sister while offering a gift on the altar. In the Western Rite (Roman Catholic and Anglican churches), the kiss of peace is placed directly before everyone participates in communion. Probably to underscore the importance of harmony and unity in the body before partaking in the one bread.
2) To show reverence to the image of Christ in others.
The kiss as an expression of reverence has ancient origins. The custom of kissing hands of sacred people (priests, bishops) and those with sacred authority (kings, emperors) is widespread among ancient cultures, including non-Christian cultures. Christians have kissed sacred obects and people during the worship service for centuries. In Orthodox services, people often kiss icons as an act of worship. In many churches (Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, etc.) that are more "high church" in their worship they kiss the Eucharistic table, the gospel book, and other objects during the service.
These practices are meant to demonstate reverance to Christ who is represented in the images of Table and Gospel.
Given the New Testament understanding of the Christian as a vessel of Christ ("Christ in you, the hope of glory") and the understanding of the liturgical kiss as a "holy kiss," we might argue that kissing one another in worship is a greeting of Christ, whom we believe is present in our brothers and sisters.
Now, let's talk about how people have practiced the kiss of peace.
In the ancient church, it most certainly was an actual kiss. It was not a sexual act in any way, but was an intimate, but common greeting among friends. This is still the case in many cultures (I can remember being kissed on both cheeks frequently when I was in Russia).
In the Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus (third century), he comments on the practice of actually giving a kiss in the liturgy:
"After the catechumens have finished praying, they do not give the kiss of peace, for their kiss is not yet pure. But the faithful shall greet one another with a kiss, men with men, and women with women. Men must not greet women with a kiss."
According to the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, "Originally an actual kiss, the form of the Peace has been modified in all rites. In the Western the traditional practice was for the person giving the Peace to place hands on the shoulders of the recipient, who in turn placed his hands on the elbows of the giver, each bowing their heads toward each other, but in recent years hand-shaking has become more common outside monastic houses." (Third Revised edition, p. 937)
So, in contemporary churches of the Western Rite, they normally practice the Kiss of Peace, or simply "Pax" or "Peace," by hugging or shaking hands (often while saying "the peace of Christ be with you" or some such variance).
We see something of this in the intermittent practice of "meet and greet" in Evangelical and Stone-Campbell churches. In general though, this practice seems to be more like a break in the worship of the church in order to talk to friends. The traditional Kiss of Peace, on the other hand, seems to be a more sober and specifically liturgical act in the service. That is, you probably shouldn't start up a conversation about last night's NFL game. In the traditions that practice it, it is supposed to be a holy greeting that both symbolizes and creates unity and reconciliation in the body of Christ.
The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven,
The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.
O perpetual revolution of configured stars,
O perpetual recurrence of determined seasons,
O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying!
The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
The desert is not remote in southern tropics
The desert is not only around the corner,
The desert is squeezed in the tube-train next to you,
The desert is in the heart of your brother.
The good man is the builder, if he build what is good.
I will show you the things that are not being done,
And some of the things that were long ago done,
That you may take heart, Make perfect your will.
Let me show you the work of the humble. Listen.
In the vacant places
We will build with new bricks
There are hands and machines
And clay for new brick
And lime for new mortar
Where the bricks are fallen
We will build with new stone
Where the beams are rotten
We will build with new timbers
Where the word is unspoken
We will build with new speech
There is work together
A Church for all
And a job for each
Every man to his work.
What life have you, if you have not life together?
There is not life that is not in community,
And no community not lived in praise of GOD.
Even the anchorite who meditates alone,
For whom the days and nights repeat the praise of GOD,
Prays for the Church, the Body of Christ incarnate.
And now you live dispersed on ribbon roads,
And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor
Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance,
But all dash to and fro in motor cars,
Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
~T.S. Eliot
I delivered the homily at our Ash Wednesday service this year. Here it is.
I hope you all have a blessed Lent.
Isaiah 58:1–12
2 Corinthians 5:20–6:2
Luke 4:1–14
In his play Murder in the Cathedral, T. S. Eliot tells the story of the martyrdom of Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket in 1170. As agents from the king come to kill him, Becket preaches his final sermon in the cathedral on Christmas morning. He reflects in the sermon upon the paradox of celebrating Christ's birth in the midst of a mass centered on Christ's death. Joy and sorrow are not as far from one another as one would initially think. In his sermon, he turns to the topic of the martyrs. So to, with them. We rejoice that these departed brothers and sisters can be counted among the saints around the heavenly throne even while we mourn that they have been killed for their faith. Then, in an aside, Eliot has Becket note that, "saints are not made by accident."
If the season of Lent had a tagline, that would be it. "Saints are not made by accident." The stories of saints are not stories of people who waited until they had finished school, secured an income, created a stable family to follow radically after Jesus. No, the stories of saints are stories of what Nietzsche called "a long obedience in the same direction," —the direction toward the cross. They are stories of intentionally following Jesus through the practice of everyday life. It is not extraordinary actions or miracles that make a saint, but ordinary faith, simple virtues, and unseen service.
Lent is a season of waking up to ourselves, of reminding ourselves that this faithfulness thing doesn't happen by accident or when it's convenient. That is why during this season before Easter we divest ourselves of distractions and luxuries, of habits and attitudes, so that we can intently look into the mirror and see the self that is really there and not the self we want to be there. Self-awareness, like sainthood, does not happen by accident.
And as we look at ourselves so that all our failings and imperfections are clearly visible, we take the difficult next step, confession. For Lent is not simply a season of increased self-awareness, but of growth in Christian virtue. So acknowledging our sin and skewed perspective must lead to clearing the way for growth. When we finally awake to the imperfect self in the mirror, we gather together to confess our sin and cultivate a penitential attitude in our lives. We begin, then, by drawing upon the Old Testament practice of mourning; we begin with ashes. After we come to our senses like the younger brother in Jesus' story, we confess that we are not the selves that we thought we were. We confess that we are not the center of the universe, but simply a small part of God's creation; we confess that we are, as the psalmist says, shoots of grass that spring up in the morning but by evening are dry and withered. We confess that we are not the servants of God that we want to be; and we even confess that we don't always want to be God's servants. We confess it all. Together. Here.
Lent is then a time of taking an inventory of our lives, of finally noticing all of the rubbish we've picked up along the way: cynical attitudes, addictions, distractions and unforgiveness. We confess it and we put it down. But it doesn't stop there. Lent isn't about becoming the best me I can be. We don't just set down that which is weighing on us, we have to pick up something too.
In his fantastical vision of living creatures and dragons, of angels with trumpets and elders with crowns, John the Revelator has a curious phrase. As he is describing the people of God, the people who've been marked as God's own, he says that "these follow the Lamb wherever he goes" (Rev 14:4). The Lamb he speaks of, the one who was slain and now lives and rules holding the keys to death, is Jesus. If you want to know who the people of God are, then look who is following Jesus. During Lent we set our compass once again, and follow Jesus. That is the theme of our book of Lenten reflections—"Walking with Jesus." As we walk with Jesus, we go to some strange places.
We go into the wilderness for forty days; we walk into synagogues, proclaiming jubilee, we sleep on boats and eat fish sandwiches on hillsides. We eat at the table of teachers of Israel, and with sinners and tax collectors. But if we follow Jesus long enough, we'll eventually make it to Jerusalem. And as the palm branches that were so triumphal raised begin to turn brown and wither, we will make our way to a forsaken hill. And there we will die with Jesus. Walking with Jesus means journeying toward our deaths. It means carrying our own crosses.
Our mourning in ashes tonight is not only a mourning over our sin, it is also a mourning over our impending deaths—over the inevitable end of walking with Jesus. But because this death is a sharing in the death of Jesus, it is also a joy. For we know that God will raise us up, as he raised up Jesus.
In just a moment, we will invite you, if you so desire, to come forward to receive ashes, to mourn together. To set aside those things that are weighing us down. And then you will be given a cross as a reminder of what you are called to carry as we journey toward Easter together. This is not an easy journey, and it won't happen by accident, but together we can inch toward Jerusalem, together we can follow Jesus. As we leave this sanctuary tonight, look around at the foreheads of friends and strangers. These are the ones who've been marked. These are the ones who follow the Lamb.
We leave as pilgrims and fellow travelers.
Circumstances alter from age to age, and the practical interpretation of moral principles must alter with them. Few who consider dispassionately the facts of social history will be disposed to deny that the exploitation of the weak by the powerful, organized for the purposes of economic gain, buttressed by imposing systems of law, and screened by decorous draperies of virtuous sentiment and resounding rhetoric, has been a permanent feature in the life of most communities that the world has yet seen. But the quality in modern societies which is most sharply opposed to the teaching ascribed to the Founder of the Christian Faith lies deeper that the exceptional failures and abnormal follies against which criticism is most commonly directed. It consists in the assumption, accepted by more reformers with hardly less naiveté than by the defenders of the established order, that the attainment of material riches is the supreme object of human endeavor and the final criterion of human success. Such a philosophy, plausible, militant, and not indisposed, when hard pressed, to silence criticism by persecution, may triumph or may decline. What is certain is that it is the negation of any system of thought or morals which can, except by a metaphor, be described as Christian. Compromise is as impossible between the Church of Christ and the idolatry of wealth, which is the practical religion of capitalist societies, as it was between the Church and the State idolatry of the Roman Empire.
R. H. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1922), 234–5.
For my first post of this new year, I thought that I would share a sermon I gave last night at the ecumenical Adoration service hosted by my church. Christians of every stripe gather on Tuesday nights for a liturgical service centered on Scripture and Table.
Homily for Adoration 1/15/2013
(Texts from USCCB 1/13/2013, Feast of the Baptism of the Lord)
Isaiah 42:1–7
Psalm 29
Titus 2:11–14, 3:4–7
Luke 3:15–16, 21–22
In May of 2008, David DeVore Jr., only seven years old, underwent his first surgery. Since his mother could not be present, his father decided to document the experience to share with her later. After an outpatient oral surgery, David's father buckled him in the backseat and began recording. The resulting video, depicting a seven year old's reaction to anesthesia, was eventually posted on youtube and went viral, titled, "David After Dentist." It's easy to see why it was so popular. The hilarious two-minute video shows David wrestling with the medicine's effects on his body. He clearly knows something is off, but he just can't seem to put his finger on it. At one point in the video, he looks at his dad and asks, "Is this real life?" Despite his Dad's assurances that yes, this is indeed real life, David appears to remain skeptical. This is not real life as he knows it.
Reading our texts for today, I am inclined to ask myself the same question. Isaiah testifies that the servant of the Lord, whom we know to be Jesus, will peaceably establish justice on the earth. But a quick look around, or a scan of recent headlines seems to be pretty convincing counter-evidence to that statement. In a world where children are sold into military and sexual slavery, where the rich are satisfied and the poor are starving, can we really believe that Jesus has already established justice on the earth? Isaiah tells us that the servant of the LORD will bring prisoners out of their confinement and open the eyes of the blind. If Jesus did that, why are there still so many prisoners? Why is there still so much blindness? I read Isaiah's admittedly beautiful song and I have to ask myself, "Is this real life?"
I tell myself that maybe it is not. Maybe it is just what our life can be, or will be with God's future action. Maybe because of Jesus, we can hope, with steadfast faith, that this will happen; that justice will be established and prisoners will be set free. Maybe this prophetic text is still anticipatory for God's creation which wanders in darkness and groans in expectation.
But that move doesn't do much good. Perhaps Isaiah is yet to be fulfilled, but Titus does not offer us that way out. Paul says in Titus that the grace of God has already appeared, saving all. Saving all? Really? Is this real life? I look at Titus and I think to myself, did the grace of God appear and save the young children in Newtown?
Paul says the the grace of God has appeared and is training us to live temperately, justly and devoutly in this age. But, has it really? Don't we in the church struggle just as much as those outside to live rightly in this world? Doesn't sin still get a hold of us and drag us down? Are we sure that the Scriptures are talking about our world and not about some other world, far away from the pain and ambiguity that we all know?
The Scriptures paint a beautiful picture, there is no doubt about that. They quicken our imagination and spark our curiosity. But the question is not whether they are nice to think about, or whether give us a good feeling, the question is whether they are true. In light of what I see in the world, it is hard to say that they are. Maybe, you're different than me. Maybe you don't feel in your bones the loneliness, the suffering, and the pain of the world. But I do, and I have to ask myself if Marx was right. Is all that is in these Scriptures opium for the masses?
Then I think about the scene from our gospel. It must have been a fantastic sight to behold. The sky opens up, revealing the Holy Spirit descending like a dove and the very voice of God announcing the Jesus is his beloved Son. In the midst of the wilderness in an oppressed country, God breaks through and announces that he is changing real life. Something new is happening. That is our hope, right? That the world as we know it is transformed into the beautiful life promised by the scriptures, that as John the Revelator says, the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdom of our God and of his Christ.
At Jesus' baptism, all can see this uniting of heaven and earth—this transformation of earth by heaven. No one who saw this awesome scene could possibly deny that this was indeed the real world that they knew.
And yet, we read later in Luke's gospel that some who were present at this scene doubted the Jesus was indeed the Messiah. And these doubters weren't just the people on the outskirts, the people who might have been to far away to have seen clearly the dove-like figure or made out what the thundering voice was saying. No, the doubter that we know of is John himself, the very one baptizing Jesus. The one with the front-row seat to this sight. After enough time had passed and Jesus had lost a little of the novelty of a prophet by teaching in parables and surrounding himself with a ragtag group of peasants, John sends two of his disciples to Jesus. Are you sure that you're the one, or are we supposed to wait for another?
The gospel message is not that because Jesus came, lived, died and was resurrected, that we now have the promise of a future negation of all of the pain and misery in the world. The gospel is not that Jesus came and therefore we can be assured that we can go to heaven when we die. No, the the gospel message is that in Christ God has already destroyed the wall of hostility, in Christ, God has already defeated death, in Christ, God has already brought about a new age.
The world full of suffering and death, of heartsickness and addiction that we all know and experience, that is not the real world. The real world is the world we read about in these Scriptures, that we celebrate at this table.
That is why we come together to worship. To divest ourselves of our worlds and histories and see again the glory of God's real world. This is a cause of rejoicing, as theologian David Bentley Hart says. "We can rejoice that we are saved not through the immanent mechanisms of history and nature, but by grace; that God will not unite all of history's many strands in one great synthesis, but will judge much of history false and damnable; that He will not simply reveal the sublime logic of fallen nature, but will strike off the fetters in which creation languishes; and that, rather than showing us how the tears of a small girl suffering in the dark were necessary for the building of the Kingdom, He will instead raise her up and wipe away all tears from her eyes—and there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor any more pain, for the former things will have passed away, and He that sits upon the throne will say, 'Behold, I make all things new.'"
And this is not only some future reality that we hope for, but the world as it already really is, ruled presently by the lamb who was slain. We come here to train our eyes, to cultivate our alternative consciousness to maintain a sense of the reality that runs against the stream of the unquestionably accepted commonplaces of the age. We come hear to learn, as John Howard Yoder said, "to see history doxologically." To open our eyes and see the whole cosmos as a theater of God's action, and all sin, all death, as nothing.
Rowan Williams tells a story about nuns who made the decision to put up a sign that reads "private" on the front door of the convent. Itself, not that noteworthy of an action, until, that is, we learn of the direction of the sign. It was placed on the inside of the front door. It points to the fact that the outside world is a world full of sin and isolation (Adam, Where are you?), while inside the convent, through prayer and self-critical contemplation, a truly public life is being lived before God and one another. That is the real world. Everything outside and opposed to the grace, love, and justice of Jesus is non-being is unreality. So, we gather in worship to hear again the gospel, the Yes of God to his creation. As we approach this table, we are like Peter walking on the sea. We behold Jesus here and we confess, "Lord, we believe." Then we turn to the world beyond these doors, the false world of sin and loneliness, like the waves threatening to overtake Peter, and pray, "help our unbelief."
To a Prisoner in Germany
Basel, 20 December 1961
Dear N. N.,
Your letter of the thirteenth reached me yesterday and moved me greatly. Partly because you refer to my good friend Gertrud Staewen but above all because Christmas is upon us, I hasten to make at least a short reply.
Since you obviously want something from me, you cannot be serious in expecting me to judge you harshly. But can I give you any supporting counsel?
You say you plunge deeply into the Bible in vain. You say you also pray in vain. You are clearly thinking of a "final step" but you shrink back from it. Have I understood you correctly?
First regarding your prayers. How do you know they are in vain? God has His own time and He may well know the right moment to lift the double shadow that now lies over your life. Therefore, do not stop praying.
It could also be that He will answer you in a very different way from what you have in mind in your prayers. Hold unshakably fast to one thing. He loves you even now as the one you now are. …And listen closely: it might well be that He will not lift this shadow from you, possibly will never do so your whole life, just because from all eternity He has appointed you to be His friend as He is yours, just because He wants you as the man whose only option it is to love Him in return and give Him alone the glory there in the depths from which He will not raise you.
Get me right: I am not saying that this has to be so, that the shadows cannot disperse. But I see and know that there are shadows in the lives of all of us, not the same as those under which you sigh, but in their way oppressive ones too, which will not disperse, and which perhaps in God's will must not disperse, so that we may be held in the place where, as those who are loved by God, we can only love Him back and praise Him.
Thus, even if this is His mind and will for you, in no case must you think of that final step. May your hope not be a tiny flame but a big and strong one, even then, I say, and perhaps precisely then; no, not perhaps but certainly, for what God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
Can you follow me? Perhaps you can if you read the Christmas story in Luke's Gospel, not deeply but very simply, with the thought that every word there, and every word in the Twenty-Third Psalm too, is meant for you too, and especially for you.
With friendly greetings and all good wishes,
Karl Barth
Karl Barth, Letters: 1961–1968, trans. Geoffrey W. Bromiley (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1981), 27–8.


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1 Now it happened on the second Sabbath after the first, that he was going through the grain fields, and his disciples plucked the heads of grain, and ate, rubbing them in their hands. | 1 One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and his disciples began to pick some heads of grain, rub them in their hands and eat the kernels. |
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Web Omelette: Cool Module: Menu Token
In the previous article I showed you how you can add menu items with wildcards to your menus in custom modules. Since then, however, I've been shown a cool module that allows to do similar things through the UI: Menu token.
Menu token allows you to define menu items that include tokens (provided by the Token module). These tokens get replaced on page load depending on the context or whatever rule you set when you created the menu. So let's take a look at how it works.
To install it, go through the normal module installation procedure. With Drush, this is simple:
drush dl menu_token token && drush en menu_token tokenYou'll notice that we also install the Token module as it is needed.
Before anything, navigate to admin/config/menu_token and check/uncheck the relevant boxes. These are basically the available entity types exposed by Menu Token.
Next, go to your menu and add a new link. You'll notice a new checkbox saying Use tokens in title and in path. Check that box and you'll get all the options for the token in that menu link.
Example #1: Current User IDLet's see how we can create a menu link that goes to the user page of the currently logged in user.
- Under Method for users, select User from context.
- Best to also check the box Remove token if replacement is not present to avoid problems if the token is not available on a given page
- Browse the available tokens and look for this one: [current-user:uid]. This is the token for the currently logged in user account ID.
- Add your menu title and for the path specify: user/[current-user:uid].
- Save
Now if you go somewhere your menu is visible, you'll notice a new link that leads to your user account page. Neat. We have't done anything that isn't already available in Drupal core, but still neat. The reason I'm saying this is that you can create a menu link with the path user/ that will lead the same place. But for illustrating the power of Menu Token, it's a good example.
Example #2: Current Node TypeLet's say you have a View that displays nodes of two different content types: Article and Basic Page. This View has a contextual filter to show nodes of the type article when the first parameter after the path to the view is article. And same for the Basic Page (with page being the machine name). The view path is nodes.
Let's create a menu link for the main menu that will link to this view and pass to the URL the content type of the currently viewed node.
- Under Method for nodes, select Node from context.
- Best to also check the box Remove token if replacement is not present to avoid problems if the token is not available on a given page
- Browse the available tokens and look for this one: [node:content-type:machine-name]. This is the token for the currently loaded node content type.
- Add you menu title and the following path: nodes/[node:content-type:machine-name]
- Save
Now if you navigate to an article page, you'll notice in your main menu a new link to the following path: nodes/article. If you go to a Basic page, it'll be nodes/page. And clicking on these will of course take you to your View page with the filtering applied.
ConclusionThese are a couple of simple examples of how you might use Menu Token. Of course you can use it in other situations depending on what you need and what tokens are available.
Hope this helps.
In Cool Modules | Drupal var switchTo5x = true;stLight.options({"publisher":"dr-8de6c3c4-3462-9715-caaf-ce2c161a50c"});Damien McKenna: Convention plans for the year
While I'm not going to Drupalcon, missing my second 'con in a row, I am hoping to attend some regional camps this year:
Tags:SystemSeed: Panopoly 1.2 released
We are pleased to announce that the Panopoly 1.2 release is now available on Drupal.org.. Once again, thank you to all those that contributed.
TweetDeeson Online: Deeson Online 2014 DrupalCamp London round up
Running from Friday February 28 to Sunday March 2, DrupalCamp London was the second largest DrupalCamp ever seen in Europe: Attended by over 600 people, it included a CxO day, over 30 sessions and Bofs, and high-caliber keynotes from organisations ranging from Cancer Research and Government Digital Service to Drupal Association and Acquia.
Drupal's growing upThe event itself had more of a DrupalCon feel than a Camp - emphasising the view that Drupal community is 'growing up', something that Associate Director at Drupal Association, Megan Sanicki, also hit home in her keynote. We were lucky enough to catch up with Megan where she expanded on topics covered in her speech.
Expanding the Drupal talent pool
Talent was also very much part of the focus of DrupalCamp London. This was not only reflected in the attendance of a group of Drupal Apprentices (above) who met with potential employees at a special Bof, but also with the inclusion of Eric Gaffen, Global Manager, Talent Acquisition at Acquia. Eric travelled over from Boston to be at the event, and in this great short video told us why nurturing great Drupal talent is important for the whole of the Drupal ecosystem.
Networking, sessions... and swag!Deeson Online not only sponsored it, MD Tim Deeson was also one of the organisers. And as this Vine proves, was also king of networking...
Deeson Online Developer Annika Clarke gave a session entitled Introducing Demo Framework, a distribution that aims to make the process of pitching Drupal to new clients a lot easier, while Solutions Architect John Ennew delivered his session on concurrent programming in Drupal. We'll be putting up their well-attended presentations very soon - so watch this space.
But as is the case with anything vaguely Drupaly... it's the swag that people really love, and our We Are Smarter Than Me tees went down a storm again!
2014 DrupalCamp London definitely upped the game, and next year's event will no doubt build on the great foundations set down last weekend. We're looking forward to it already!
Deeson Online: DrupalCamp London: Interview with Megan Sanicki
While at DrupalCamp London, we caught up with Associate Director at Drupal Association, Megan Sanicki, for a quick video interview.
In it Megan highlighted key elements from her keynote speech including how:
- Drupal Association is stepping up their mission to further the project and help expand the community
- They plan to grow from 3% to 10 % of the web
- They're investing £850k to improve Drupal.org including marketing to help people understand why they should adopt Drupal 8.
In the video, Megan also emphasises that Drupal Association want to know how they can better serve the UK Drupal community - so tell them @drupalassoc or contact them via their website.
Megan's DrupalCamp London keynoteYou can also see the slide deck from her DrupalCamp London keynote below. In it Megan shares in more detail the Association's vision and the programs being implemented to help make that happen.
Drupal Camp London Drupal Association Keynote 2014 from Drupal AssociationJackson River: Jackson River Earns 2013 inc5000 Honors
When we started Jackson River in 2008 we had a simple business plan. It wasn't filled with lofty goals for things like revenue, number of employees or market share. Those things are important in business but can also lead to the tail wagging the dog. Instead we had one simple idea: figure out the problems progressive nonprofits face and solve them...and that became our business plan.
Nextide Blog: Maestro - Drupal 8 - Road map
With Drupal 8 emerging on the horizon, we've started to delve in to our core modules, Maestro and Filedepot, beginning the process of porting them from Drupal 7 to 8.
For our Drupal 8 version of Maestro, I have some immediate concerns that I would like addressed, but also some "wish list" items which I feel would bring a great deal of flexibility.
A condensed road map, of sorts, for Maestro's first release on Drupal 8 would be:
Drupal Easy: X Marks the Spot: A Beginner's Guide to Online Maps in Drupal
Mapping address data in Drupal can be confusing, if only because of the great number of contributed modules available that involve online maps. Picking the right module (or combination of modules) is challenging - especially for site builders who are new to mapping in Drupal. In this tutorial, we'll utilize the popular and well-supported Geofield module as one of the key ingredients in the common task of entering address data and having it displayed on an interactive map.
This tutorial contains step-by-step instructions for accomplishing this task, as well as a screencast demonstrating all of the steps.
-->InternetDevels: Drupal themes
Each site has its own design. Good-looking design will help attract users, they will stay on the portal longer and most likely will visit it again.
There are lots of Drupal themes that will help you to develop your own theme from scratch, to create a simple and beautiful catalogue website, or to make a useful site that will have a lot of helpful materials.
Read moreCode Drop: Writing a Drupal 8 Image Effect Plugin for Image Styles
Recently at Drupal South I had the opportunity to upgrade the Image Style Quality module to Drupal 8. I was lucky enough to be surrounded by some of Australia's top Drupal contributors who were more than happy to lend a hand with the ins and outs. In this blog post I will run through the entire processes of writing an image effect plugin for Drupal 8.
Advantage Labs: Baking our cake and eating it too: an uncamp FTW
In the past 3 years the Twin Cities Drupal community has organized one of the best annual Drupal camps in the country. But still we find learning gaps -- people new to Drupal looking for help answering questions they haven't yet formed; advanced developers seeking challenges; self-taught site-builders wanting to understand if they've put the pieces together correctly. Staring at another 7 months before our next DrupalCamp Twin Cities, this past Saturday we hosted the first ever Twin Cities Drupal Open House (TCD'OH!) in an effort to address the difficulty of being everything for everybody every time.
Modules Unraveled: How to use multiple logos in responsive design
When re-designing my site, I needed to make the logo responsive so that it could stay out of the way, and not take up more screen real estate than needed. Here's my (debatably hacky) solution to creating a responsive logo using css and display:none.
Show Different Logos Based On Window Size Tags:Lullabot: Creating a Simple Chrome Extension
As a front-end developer there are a lot of different technologies to keep up with. Whether I'm working with AngularJS or trying to set up Grunt tasks, I find myself having to look up a lot of things. To make that easier on myself, I decided to write Google Chrome extensions to simplify the process. It turns out that's pretty darn easy! In this article, I'll show you how to create a simple one that hooks into Chrome's Omnibar to search the Drupal API with a simple keyword.
Phase2: Using Blueprints to clone spaces in Open Atrium 2
Open Atrium 2 supports many different patterns for your site's Information Architecture. Through the use of Spaces, sub-Spaces, and Sections you can easily create a hierarchy of content within your Intranet. However, it can be tedious to create every new section within every new space. The new 2.15 release of Open Atrium adds "Blueprints" which will allow you to clone an existing space structure and automatically create the necessary sections!
Creating a BlueprintTo create a Blueprint, simply create a sample space that contains all of the sections and content that you want to bundle. Let's create a Blueprint for a basic "Project Space". In this example, we want our Project Space to contain an Event Calendar, a Discussion Forum, a Document section, and a Task list.
- Create a new Space called "Project Blueprint" and save it as a Draft so other users don't see it.
- Create each Section: Calendar, Discussions, Documents, Tasks. In the new 2.15 release you'll notice that the "Create New Section" action in the drop-down menu on the toolbar allows you to choose which type of section you want to create.
- At this point you can adjust any other settings for the space, such as color scheme, banners, taxonomies, permissions, etc. You can even create sub-spaces within this Space and create additional Sections within those sub-spaces. You can also create sample content, such as a Welcome document, or sample discussion forum.
- You can also customize any of the Section or Space landing pages using the "Customize Layout" and "Customize Page" buttons. You can place additional widgets on the landing pages, or make any other customizations needed for the Space.
- Once your sample space is set up the way you like, click on the "gear icon" in the upper-right portion of the Space landing page and select the "Create Blueprint from this Space" option. You will be taken to a form where you can enter the to name your Blueprint (we'll call it "Project Space" in this example) and also enter a short description for this Blueprint. Be sure the "Clone an existing Space" checkbox is enabled and that the "Space to clone" is set to the "Project Space" node you created above. All of this should be set by default, but it's good to verify. When you are done, click the Save button.
Viola! You have created your first Space Blueprint!
Using a Blueprint to create a new SpaceNow when you select "Create New Space" in the toolbar drop-down menu you'll see a choice for the different Blueprints available on your site. Simply select "Create new Project Space" from the menu and you'll be taken to a normal Create Space form where you can enter the name of your new project space. All of the other fields on this page are filled in automatically with the values from the Blueprint. Change anything you like, then click Publish when you are finished and your Blueprint will be cloned into your new space.
You will be redirected automatically to your new space landing page. Click the drop-down menu in the toolbar next to the space name and you will see the Sections for Calendar, Discussions, Documents, Tasks that you created above. You didn't need to create these manually, they were created for you automatically by cloning the Blueprint!
That's really all there is to it…it's simple to use and simple to understand and will save you hours and hours of work.
Behind the ScenesHow does Open Atrium 2 accomplish this magic? The Drupal node_clone module is being used for the heavy lifting of cloning the actual content nodes, such as spaces and sections. It provides hooks such as hook_clone_access_alter() that can be used to add custom functionality for specific OA2 plugins. Beyond that, the new oa_clone submodule handles all of the OA2-specific settings, such as the space and section panelizer layout. In addition, a new hook_oa_clone_group_metadata() allows submodules to clone any additional space-specific settings, such as the space colors handled by the oa_appearance module.
In addition to cloning the nodes and settings, oa_clone creates a new "Space Blueprint" vocabulary term (previously called "Space Type") to represent your new Blueprint. New fields have been added to this vocabulary to indicate an existing space should be cloned when creating spaces using this taxonomy term. By selecting the "Clone an existing Space" option, the panelizer layout is taken from the specified "Space to clone" along with all of it's structure and content.
If you don't want to clone an existing space you can still create your own Space Blueprint taxonomy term as in the past to point to a specific custom panelizer layout by selecting the "Specify layout and node types by hand" option.
By controlling the cloning process via the "Space Blueprint" taxonomy, you can easily integrate other Drupal tools for importing content into this architecture. For example, imagine you have a list of Projects to be created already saved in a *.csv spreadsheet. Using the Feeds module you can import that spreadsheet to create a new Space node for each entry. By simply specifying the Space Blueprint taxonomy term from the spreadsheet, each new space can be created as a clone of existing space structures, building out all of the child pages that are needed for each space quickly and easily.
Cloning ContentIn addition to creating a Blueprint from an existing space, you can also just clone content directly. On any content page, a "Clone this content" option is added to the "gear" icon in the upper-right corner of the page for users that have permission to clone content. You can use this to clone an entire space, sub-space, or section. You can also use it to clone specific documents, discussion posts, events, or any other content in Open Atrium. Any "child" content is also cloned, such as content with sections, or replies within a discussion topic.
ConclusionThe ability to create entire Space hierarchies by simply cloning a Blueprint greatly increases the day-to-day usability of Open Atrium 2. By allowing site admins to create their own Blueprints directly from existing Space examples, rather than filling out complex forms makes it even easier. Open Atrium 2 was designed to be used as a toolkit for building many different types of collaboration sites, from intranets to project management sites to web portals. Each OA2 use-case requires a different content structure and set of content-type features. Blueprints allow you to easy to design your site's information architecture and keep it consistent across all of your Spaces.
(NOTE: The OA 2.15 release still calls the taxonomy "Space Type" rather than "Blueprint". The vocabulary was changed to "Blueprint" in the recent -dev version.)
To get more tips and tricks for getting the most out of Open Atrium, sign up to attend this month's Open Atrium webinar!
Mediacurrent: Join us at these upcoming Drupal events
Our talented team here at Mediacurrent will be leading discussions on the latest developments in Drupal trends in a number of upcoming events. Check out the links below for more information and registration information. We hope to see you there and make sure you stop by and say "hello"!
Forum One: 5 Lessons Learned for Content Migration
This past fall I undertook my first content migration effort. This was to migrate an existing site from Expression Engine to Drupal 7. I immediately began looking at the Migrate module to learn it's use and here are some lessons I learned along the way.
First of all, be aware that migrate is a module for developers. It does have a user interface, but this is merely to run the import process. All the real action happens in the code, so you will need to be familiar with object oriented programming in PHP.
Lesson One: Don't Force a 1-1 RelationshipDo not try to force a 1-1 relationship with your migration classes and your destination content types. If you are migrating a site, you very likely are taking the equivalent of Drupal content type in the legacy system, creating similar types in Drupal, and probably combining a few of these because you realized in discovery sessions that some of the legacy system's content types are redundant. Although I did not use this method myself, given another migration project, I would create a 1-1 relationship between the migration classes and the legacy system's content types. This will avoid some awkward logic in your migration code as you try to route multiple possible source fields into a single field in Drupal.
In other words, don't do this:
Source type \
Source type ---> Migration ---> Drupal content type
Source type /
Do this:
Source type ---> Migration ---> Drupal content type
Source type ---> Migration ---> Drupal content type
Source type ---> Migration ---> Drupal content type
Be obsessive about in-code documentation/comments. In code comments are always a good idea, and you can never comment too much, but this is especially true with migrations. I did this from the start and it helped greatly when I had to revisit the migration code. Migrate is handy in that it provides tools to integrate in a project management system by linking to available tickets and places to add descriptions for mappings. Use these, your client's product owner will greatly appreciate it as they are reviewing the state of the migration. Which brings us to Lesson 3.
Lesson Three: Break out your migration into tasksBreak out the migration task into it's own project/ticketing system and use it! Migration tasks seem to live in a bubble within the larger site build project. Avoid this by separating the migration effort into it's own sub-project with a dedicated ticketing system. This way you won't clutter up the build's ticket queue with migration work and the whole team can observe the progress of the migration.
Lesson Four: A Gotchya!A small gotchya on Migrate: If your source and legacy databases are owned by separate users, remember to set the "join" option to false in each of your migration classes with this bit of code:
$options = array('map_joinable' => FALSE); $this->source = new MigrateSourceSQL($query, array(), $count_query, $options);This may be the cause of some permissions errors. You may wish to make these databases joinable however, since the performance hit of not joining these is huge, (close to doubling the import in my own casual observation).
Lesson Five: Entity Reference Field HandlersEntity reference field handlers do not currently support multiple cardinality (as of December 2013). This means fields with multiple values. You will need to write extra code in your prepare() method to handle this, e.g.
$related_nodes = $this->getRelatedContent($row); //Custom method to seek related nodes based on source id foreach ($related_nodes as $related_node) { $node->field_content_relationship[LANGUAGE_NONE][]['target_id'] = $related_node->nid; }* assuming this is not a multi-lingual field.
During this effort, I took it upon myself to develop a small Drupal module that would allow users to explore the Channel data (Expression Engine's version of a content type) of an Expression Engine site. I call it Expression Engine Analyzer and have posted it on Drupal.org as a sandbox project. It's been a great tool to help self understand the source data better and proven to be an excellent visual aid with clients while we discuss the the migration work. The whole team wishes we had such a tool at the beginning of a project, and going forward, I may consider making similar tools at the beginning of other migration efforts.
Five practical Drupal lessons learned during a recent content migration effort.
Linnovate: mean.io + Drupal - Meaningful Untheming
Maybe it's just me.. But I see more and more DG's (Drupal Geezers) find themselves introspecting and thinking about the technology they have invested their past 7-8 years in.
Our reality is that we still live in a world where 10% of the functions we use frequently in drupal end with .+_alter - Drupal typically will output whatever markup you want and then you find yourself wrestling with it and altering it to fit the semantic html you want. To actually get Drupal to come close to sub-second performance means to wrap it with so many caches it looks like an Egyptian mummy.
Unthemeing The main challenge I see with Drupal revolves around theming, because Drupal is a great CMS for beginners it bundles every layer of markup possible so it can be tweakable from the admin UI, but in the process if you want clean, simple semantic markup of blocks, menus, views, panels etc... - you really need to know what you're doing. Thus you see more and more Drupal shops experiment with decoupling the front and back side of Drupal. Drupal is awesome in managing content, users, groups and processes but when it renders that information it's sometimes heavy, bloated and inflexible. The way we approach this is through building the interface with angular.js an awesome MVC javascript framework and connecting through web services to the Drupal containing the data. In the past 2 years we have started to experiment with technologies augmenting Drupal - building apis powered by node.js and mongoDB for scalable mobile endpoints, and building angularjs based widgets that we've inserted in to existing Drupal sites. I talked about this in a webinar by acquia 2 years ago but as we reimplemented these fullstack javascript implementations we felt we needed to standardise around a common solution for our internal needs. Mean.io We've merged all of the best practices for fullstack javascript development within the mean.io project. MEAN is an acronym coined by Valery Koltarov from MongoDB and is used to describe applications built by MongoDB, Express, Angular.js and Node.js. We and over 3200 developers which stared the project in github are awed in the speed and quality that comes when you're actual building what you need and not constantly altering what you got from Drupal. So we have this awesome js framework that knows how to serve content very well but lacks a CMS, and we have a CMS (that we still love) which does an awesome job of managing content but can do a better job serving it. We combined both worlds with the mean module providing a standard way to bi-directionly communicate between mean.io instances and Drupal. The mean module Although Drupal 8 is coming up there are tons of Drupal 6 sites out there that want to spice up the look and feel yet maintain the content, ccks and views involved. We thought how to expose the data within drupal to rich widgets or single page applications which either feed information in to drupal or use information fro within to provide a dynamic experience. The mean module (at http://drupal.org/project/mean) provides the means to export blocks,menus views and variables to one big json file which is accessed by an angular.js service which reads it and makes it available to the mean application. Integration Strategies There are two types of patterns that can be implemented using the mean module. Mean in frontmean.io is used in many places as an engine for SPA (single page applications) now we can create applications that are built from information which is held in drupal. Mean provides an interface to load various pieces of data from a Drupal sites and to render a single-page application which uses Drupal as an additional data source. We implemented this approach lately with Strauss an established enterprise customer which had an OpenIdeal - Drupal 6 site which they wanted to face lift. You can browse here to see the result and here to peek in to the drupal in the backend which powers it.
After enabling the mean module you can browse /mean/json/help/me and see the following possabilities... URL stucture: /mean/json/[TYPE]/[NAME]/[ARG1]/[ARG2]/[ARG3] currently supported TYPE values and their arguments: - view - returns results for requested Drupal view object, arguments: - NAME - view's name - ARG1 - (optional) display_name - ARG2 - (optional) items per page value (-1 for unlimited, 0 - skip arg) - ARG3 - (optional) arguments divided by '+' sign without whitespaces - menu - output from menu_tree_all_data() function - load - looks for load_[NAME_mandatory] function and returns its output (node_load([ARG1]), user_load([ARG1]), menu_load([ARG1]) ...), arguments: - ARG1 - ID or name to pass to load function - help - /mean/json/help/me will output current instruction - user - /mean/json/user/logout - Logging current user out - /mean/json/user/login (along with name and pass values passed as post will log user in and return its object) - /mean/json/user/session - returns $_SESSION - /mean/json/user/me - returns global user object - get-mean-packet - returns set of JSON objects, set at admin/build/mean-packets - NAME - packet's name ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To skip any optional ARG, use 0, (example: /mean/json/forum_search/0/5) Angular apps in blocks/panel panesIn many cases we have to continue hosting with Drupal - for instance if you have a governmental site that has been security cleared to run Drupal there is a very slim chance you could change that. With the next approach you can still get the "single page" behaviour or implement a complex widget that you'd rather implement on a client-side MVC rather then in a bunch of spaghetti code in jquery.
We have been working with a financial client from new-york for the past year which has a huge antiquated drupal-5 site and the ability to insert rich angular.js driven application that connect to the data within the drupal site - can create a modern feel even if you're stuck in the past, it also can provide a clear path to fix sites that can't be upgraded because their core has been altered. Drush support
One of the concepts and tools we've built to help with both types of integrations - has to do in how to swiftly enter the Drupal data in to a mongodb based db so it can be served effectively to mobile devices, widgets and single page applications. We have bundled the mean shadow module with the the mean module which provides a standard way to sending drupal information upon content update to the Mongo/Node based service. To make the initial import of the data in to the mean easy we provide the drupal shanties (shadow entities) command...
Here are some examples of the possible usage.. Examples: Standard example (all the user entities) drush shadow-entities Type example (all the node entities) drush shadow-entities node Id example (specific user) drush shadow-entities user 42 Id example 2 (specific node) drush shadow-entities node 42 Bundle example (all the entites of drush shadow-entities node article bundle article) To summarize - mean.io is an amazing way to develop cool and modern applications but the mean module integration lets us start building mean apps now and helps them co-exist and augment Drupal.Open Source Training: Drupal: You have not created any content types yet
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Louisiana Voo Doo
A soulful chicken and sausage soup with bell peppers and smoked paprika created after our expedition around New Orleans searching for the perfect recipe.
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A hearty lentil & vegetable soup that is also low in fat.
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We recently closed our Adventure Through Prizes competition, the last winner was drawn on the 06th May 2014. Thank you for all of your entries since we launched the competition and congratulations once again to all previous winners, we hope you enjoyed your prizes! A list of our most recent winners is below. Keep an eye out for our next on-pack promotion for more chances to win with GLORIOUS! ...
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"What is New Orleans? New Orleans is Creole gumbo,filé gumbo, cowan gumbo, chicken gumbo, smoked sausage gumbo, hot sausage gumbo, onion gumbo." Kermit Ruffins, New Orleans vocalist and trumpeter In New Orleans gumbo is THE food, present on the tables of both rich and poor, in the country and city and on every restaurant menu (there are even restaurants dedicated to the many forms of gumbo). It's one of those interesting dishes where different cultures have, over time added their...
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On a recent venture to the Big Easy I was fortunate enough to experience a lovely big slice of down 'n' dirty New Orleans soul food. I ate from one end of the culinary spectrum – grits and gravy, all the way through 'gator' dogs (I'll get to them) to the most refined filé gumbo you could hope to taste; scribbling away as I went to share the details of my visit, in the hopes that others can more easily find their way to the good stuff. First up, try and take the tram or walk, locals ...
Ham & Smokin Cheese & Jalapeno Pancakes (Serves 2)
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For Basic Pancakes (8-10). . 100g Plain Flour. 2 Eggs. 300ml Semi – skimmed milk. Pinch salt. 1tbsp Vegetable oil plus extra for frying. (chopped coriander or spring onions can be also added). 100g Diced Cooked Ham. 20g Chopped Spring Onion. 1 Whole Diced/ De Seeded Tomato. 1 Pot Glorious Smokin Jalapeno Sauce
Tunisian Chick Pea, harrisa and Cumin soup.
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1 Onion. 1 or 2 carrots. Chicken or Vegetable Stock. 2 x 400g tins of ChickPeas. 1-2 Tbs Harrisa - home made is best. 1-2 Tbs Cumin - preferably freshly roasted and ground seed, but powder will be ok. Salt to taste
Rocky Road Granola
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• 2 tbsp vegetable oil. • 125ml maple syrup or golden syrup. • 2 tbsp honey. • 1 tbs vanilla extract / essence. • 300g oats. • 50g sunflower seeds. • 4 tbsp sesame seeds. • 50g pumpkin seeds. • 100g flaked almonds. • Handful of your favourite nuts. • 100g dried berries (find them in the baking aisle). • 50g coconuts flakes or desiccated coconut. • Cinnamon and nutmeg 1 tablespoon of each. • Handful of crushed Ore...


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Princess Lollipops
Princess Lollipops
The perfect sweet treat party favor!
Our Princess Lollipops have the look of brightly colored princess crowns. These princess crown lollipops are one sided and the candy measures approximately 2 inches and they have a 4 inch stick attached. Each package of lollipops contains one dozen sweet treats in blueberry, grape and strawberry. These Princess Lollipops make great party favors for any girl's birthday party or princess themed event or for just an anytime sweet treat!Serving size: 1 Piece (20 g)
Servings Per Container: 12
Amount per serving:
Calories 90 Calories from Fat 0
% Daily Values
Total Fat 0 g 0%
Saturated Fat 0 g 0%
Trans Fat 0 g 0%
Cholesterol 0 g 0%
Sodium O mg 0%
Total Carbohydrates 20 g 0%
Dietary Fiber 0 g
Sugars 14 g
Protein 0 g
Vitamin A 0%
Vitamin C 0%
Calcium 0%
Iron 0%
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I would definitely buy again!
We used these as birthday treats at our princess themed birthday party, they were a big hit!
We used these as birthday treats at our princess themed birthday party, they were a big hit!
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The product was nicely packaged and looked great to eat but had a funny taste, kids did not like.
The product was nicely packaged and looked great to eat but had a funny taste, kids did not like.
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Needed lollipops for a centerpiece I am making. Found these and they are the colors of the party! Could not find these anywhere else. The price is great and the size is awesome. I hope they taste as good as they look!
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The product was nicely packaged and looked great to eat but had a funny taste, kids did not like.
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I ordered these for a party I am doing. The theme is princess I believe the little girls will love it.
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Perfect for Princess Ariel birthday party.
These are very cute. I can't wait for the girls to see these at my daughters birthday party.
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Our daughter (who is the current queen) will be handing these suckers out to all the little girls dreaming of becoming a princess at our home town parade. Very cute!
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I got these for my 4yr olds Princess party! She absoultely LOVED them!! All her friends thought they was cute lol. Its was a easy decoration to the food table also!! Great great purchase!
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My daughter loved these! I ordered 2 dozen for her princess party and the kids loved them. They are so cute. Perfect for any princess party!!!!
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We had a little mermaid themed party for our 3yr old and these were perfect! The girls LOVED them.
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Does this lollipops come with their own individual bag? or they come all together in one bag? I want to know if they come individually so I can give THEM to the guEsts as a present with their own plastic bag. THANKS!Asked on 2/6/2012 by Heydsha from centreville, MD1 answer
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For the 50th anniversary of the Beach Boys, the group (which includes Brian Wilson for the first time in like, forever) is thinking big; 2012 will not only see a new LP from the iconic band as well as a series of reissues for classic Beach Boys LPs, the band will also head out on a 50-stop international tour. The tour begins in April at New Orleans' Jazz Fest. Look out for the LP next year on Capitol/EMI.
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My 88 mom may come live with me. I live in Westchester County New York. Does anyone have supplemental insurance they recommend? |
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Contact Blue Cross, expensive but better than most. AARP has some. May depend on her health. If you have a Dr./medical center, talk to the billing dept also. |
Mother so far in excellent health. But I dont know how much longer that go on. She is not on any medication. She did have a hip replacement 3 years ago, and will likely need catarat this year. |
kkny, Is that a cat ... or a rat? That Mom may need this year. Oh ... she has a cataract ... and wants to get over it? ole joyful |
funny, I can see you have your eye on this forum. also, this is a question which anyone can see I am truly ignorant, how do you decide which of the A through I policies you need. Mom basically in good health. |
My husband is on occupational disablility from the railroad. We don't have any health insurance right now. My sister heard of this company but I don't know anything about it. I'm worried about falling for a dishonest group. Have any of you heard of this? Health Benefits Direct. Sounds like they're sort of along the lines of Progressive auto insurance and they say they handle everything over the phone. If there some place I go to check into it? thanks, Mlou |
I haven't heard of the company you mentioned. We're self-employed and carry our insurance through Assurant Health. You can go to the link below for an online quote. We carry a high deductible to keep premiums low so haven't ever had a claim; however with our policy if we go to an approved provider (physician or hospital) on their list we get a good-size discount from the initial billed cost. There are many providers on the plan; however it might depend on the plan a person selects. They are also very good about their communication/ reports and being able to talk to a person on the phone. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Assurant health
Health Benefits Direct is an insurance brokerage company - they represent many health insurance companies. |
I have AARP supplementary. Works for me! |
My Mom and I have BC&BS, we pay nothing except the premiums. My Sis didn't want to pay what BC&BS found a cheaper alternative, but she is always having problems with medical bills and her company moved on and she had to find another company. I am 71 and pay $133 a month. |
"We're self-employed and carry our insurance through Assurant Health" I did some background checking into the parent company. I didn't like what I saw. Penalties assessed, name change, complaint index and complaint ratio all made me nervous about this insurer. |
I received an "invitation" to enroll in UnitedHealth Allies - supposedly a medical discount company. There is a $13.00 monthly feed. I have only Secure Horizons, but some medical problems seem to be looming in the near future - dizziness - hearing loss - bone density studies (bad back) - MRI (head) and hearing aids. AARP supplemental sounds interesting - but cost wise, will it be a financial problem - my retirement income isn't too great and providing support for others as well. What hearing aids are recommended - (lots of loss due to noise abuse in my job over the years). I've heard folks say sometimes that they aren't too effective, perhaps there are some, however, that work better than others for this type of loss. Any help appreciated. Confused. Bejay |
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Trying to trade with all 50 states this year . I have 10 more to go. I'm looking for one person from each listed below. RI WA SC NJ NM NC MO LA GA CT Let me know what you would like from my list |
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I was looking at your list and want to ask about your Long horn okra,wondering if is really good tasty? due to my limited space I can't afford to waste space on so so varieties.PLMK also is your charentais commercial? |
Please check my trade list and see if there is anything you want on it. |
- Posted by mastergarder2003 5 MI. (email@example.com) on Fri, Feb 22, 13 at 16:43
I hope you get all 50 states soon Mrsdlight I am on my last trade for my 50th state great accomplishment for me. enjoy.Bon |
- Posted by gthayes 7 (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Sat, Feb 23, 13 at 22:30
I've got Georgia if you are interested in trading. |
I'm from Louisiana. Sent you an email. |
hey, I can check off ri for ya let me know |
- Posted by lavenderpyly 6 (My Page) on Sat, Mar 30, 13 at 22:27
I am in CT if you still interested in trading! |
- Posted by ourhappyhome 7B (My Page) on Sun, Mar 31, 13 at 0:18
I'm in Georgia. I'd love to trade for cocozelle zucchini and purple Vienna kohlrabi. I have lots of tomatoes, early melons, early beets,cauliflower and a few things not yet added to my trade list: Malabar spinach, runner beans, Japanese dukes, Swiss chard and sweet peas. |
- Posted by AsukaWasHere 6b (My Page) on Sun, Mar 31, 13 at 14:10
I'm in CT and wouldn't mind trading for some veggie seeds, but I don't have much to offer that's terribly interesting. I've got some leftovers of last year's commercial packet of brussel sprouts (L.I. improved) seeds, or this season's parsley (Italian flat) seeds. Most of the more unusual stuff in my collection is aquatic, actually. If you happen to have a fish tank or a pond or something, I'd have a lot more to offer. |
I am in Wa. Have egyptian walking onions, which do well in cool weather, I am only interested in heirloom seeds, and have a lot of tomatoes already. Beans? Peas? Have to be heirloom or I don't plant it. Darlene |
Not sure if you got WA yet, but check out my trade list if you're interested. There are a few things I would like off your list. :) |
- Posted by dontwakethebear 7a (My Page) on Mon, Apr 29, 13 at 15:53
If the other 2 wa folks don't work out I'd trade with ya. :-) let me know. |
If you still need SC, I'm interested in the list below. Amarillo Oro Melon |
I am in Missouri interested in your Red Belgian sweet paco loco Only things I have to trade are seeds I got by mistake hardy hens and chicks or daylily seeds |
I am in Missouri interested in your Red Belgian sweet paco loco Only things I have to trade are seeds I got by mistake hardy hens and chicks or daylily seeds |
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