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Reference Services & Research Assistance
The library staff is available to assist you in using the library's resources and conducting research. We are here to help you, both for quick questions and for more extensive research consultations. On this page you will find information on how reach the library staff, as well as specific reference resources that may be helpful to you.
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Email a Divinity Librarian
You can send an email to the Divinity Library's Reference Email or to one of the librarians directly. We welcome both questions and comments. We try to respond to most emails within a day or on Monday for emails received over the weekend.
- Reference Email (firstname.lastname@example.com)
- Email Suzanne Estelle-Holmer, Reference & Instructional Services Librarian (firstname.lastname@example.com)
- Email Martha Smalley, Special Collections Librarian / Curator of the Day Missions Collection (firstname.lastname@example.com), for any questions concerning the Divinity Library's Special Collections or the Day Missions Collection of missionary materials.
- Email Susan Burdick, Circulation & Interlibrary Loan Manager (email@example.com), for questions about circulation issues and interlibrary loan.
Email addresses for other library staff members are listed in the Staff Directory.
Databases & Article Searching
There are a number of options for using databases to search for journal articles as well as for locating other kinds of information. Each of these options can be accessed from the Yale University Library's Databases & Article Searching page. If you would like information on how each of these options for database searching works, click on one of the links below:
Find Database
Use this option if there is a specific database you want to use. For example, if you know you want to search in the Religion & Philosophy Collection database, use Find Database and either type "Religion & Philosophy Collection" in the searchbox, and then hit the GO button:
or select the first letter and scroll through the list to find the link which will take you to the database you want:
Find Articles
Use this option to search for journal articles across a set of databases selected by Yale librarians. Type your search term or terms in the search boxes, and hit the the GO button:
To launch a search across databases for religious studies and theology, use the Philosophy+Religion option:
It is important to understand when using Find Articles that the databases are already selected for you, and that you cannot deselect any of the databases from the set you are searching. For example, when you use the default General search in Find Articles, you are searching in the following databases, none of which are specifically focused on religious studies:
- Academic Search Premier
- Business Source Complete
- Econlit
- IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
- Social Science Fulltext
Similarly, when you use the Philosophy+Religion option, the databases are already selected for you, as follows:
- ATLA/Atlas Religion Database
- Francis
- Index Islamicus
- Philosopher's Index
If you want more options for selecting the specific databases to search, it may be better to use Multi-Database Search or to select a specific individual database using Find Database.
Multi-Database Search
Use this option to select a subject area and search across multiple databases. While the Find Articles Philosophy+Religion option (described above) allows you to search several databases in the combined areas of philosophy and religion at once, Multi-Database Search provides more options for searching specific areas within the field of religious studies as well as for selecting the specific databases within which to search.
The first step is to select the subject area within which you would like to search:
Once you have selected a subject area, subtopics within your subject area will be suggested for you. You can opt to search within the larger subject area or you can select a subtopic within that subject area.
Once you have selected a topic or subtopic, a number of databases will be suggested for your search. You can opt to search across all of them by leaving them all checked. You can also uncheck those databases that you don't want to search.
Once you've decided on the databases you want to search, type your search term or terms in the search boxes and hit the GO button to launch your search.
Language Resources
The study of religion often requires the knowledge of languages other than English, including Hebrew and Greek for Biblical Studies; Latin, German and French for the study of theology; Hebrew, Aramaic, and other languages for the study of the Ancient Near East. The following online resources are available to assist you in working with the diversity of languages involved in the study of religion:
- Aleph-Bet on the Net
- Tutorials designed to reinforce vocabulary and spelling for beginning students of modern Hebrew.
- Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon
- The CAL database search page currently offers complete CAL lemma search, search for English glosses, text browse, Targum studies module, basic concordance search, advanced search by multiple text number(s), and advanced search by dialect. You can also generate concordances on the screen for selected words, have the option of browsing specific Aramaic texts with the option of word analysis. The Targum search page allows you to view and analyze a given biblical verse in all its available Aramaic versions. You can also search for the translation of an English word into Aramaic.
- Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari
- The CMCL is an enterprise dedicated to the study of Egyptian Christian culture in the I-XII centuries C.E., especially for the documents in Coptic language. This web site contains the archives of the CMCL: texts, grammar, history of literature, catalogue of manuscripts, bibliography. One can consult the list of the authors and works of the Coptic literature with information on manuscripts, content, and critical problems; the list of the Coptic codices either well preserved or reconstructed, especially from the Monastery of St. Shenoute, Atripe (White Monastery); the electronic edition of Coptic texts with Italian translation; the history of Coptic literature; a computational grammar of Sahidic; a full bibliography. Contact firstname.lastname@example.com for ID & password.
- Database of Latin Dictionaries
- The Database of Latin Dictionaries comprises a number of Latin dictionaries, including dictionaries to assist translation from Latin into modern languages, dictionaries providing semantic and etymological explanations in Latin of Latin words, and historical Latin dictionaries.
- Greek Language and Linguistics
- Resources to facilitate the study of Ancient Greek and to promote the application of methodologies from the field of Linguistics to the study of Classical and Hellenistic Greek.
- Hebrew Alphabet
- Hebrew Program at Yale University
- Ma'agarim
- Historical dictionary including text from Dead Sea scrolls, Rabbinical literature, piyutim, and various other sources documenting and illustrating Hebrew language usage between 100 and 1050 A.D.
- Oxford English Dictionary
- The Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press) is in an online version which enables the full text of the Dictionary to be searched in a way impossible in the printed version, and which allows updates more rapidly and more frequently than ever before. Language is constantly evolving, and there has been a great proliferation of new words and meanings in English throughout the world since the original publication of the OED between 1884 and 1928. Now, for the first time ever, the Dictionary is being completely revised. Every one of the 250,000 entries is being updated, and many more will be added during the course of this unprecedented revision programme, which is expected to double the length of the text. Draft versions of new and revised entries from the revision programme will be added to OED Online at quarterly intervals, with each revised entry being linked to the Second Edition version for comparison.
- Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
- Trial Database. Initially offering millions of words, phrases, and translations, in French, German, Spanish and Italian, the site will expand to include many other languages such as Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Polish. Included are usage examples and illustrative phrases, grammar guidance, click-through verb tables and pronunciation charts, explanations of grammatical terms, and help with spelling and punctuation. Also included are hundreds of correspondence templates including sample letters, CVs and resumes to provide practical help with writing in each language. Contextualized language reference help includes notes on life and culture, guidance on grammar and idiomatic usage, and Words of the Day. Updates every six months ensure that the most current meanings and the latest new words are just a click away. Advanced search options allow users to search the full text of each dictionary, or restrict a search to specific parts of speech or language register. Extensive links to language lea! rning and usage supplements provide a 'learn as you go' gateway to further language study. Citation information is available for all entries.
- Oxford Reference Online
- Over 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works published by Oxford University Press combined in a single cross-searchable resource. Click on the link in the database for Bilingual Dictionaries to get access to a selection of language resources, including the following:
- The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (English-French / French-English)
- The Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary (English-German / German-English)
- The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (English-Latin / Latin-English)
- The Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary (English-Spanish / Spanish-English)
- Resources for Biblical Language Computing
- This web site, a joint project of the Yale Divinity Library and the Yale Center for Language Study, is designed to guide YDS students in the process of setting up their personal computers with unicode fonts for biblical language computing. The instructions on the website will enable students to use biblical Hebrew and Greek and reliably print documents using the appropriate fonts.
- Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
- The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae has collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in 1453 CE. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era. The TLG Canon of Authors and Works is a bibliographic guide to the authors and works included in the TLG� Digital Library. Before you begin, you may select a Greek font for your session. A polytonic Greek font must be installed on your computer in order to view some work titles that appear in Greek.
- Yale Center for Language Study
- A center of coordination and resources for the more than fifty languages taught at Yale, the Center for Language Study (CLS) provides leadership and support for pedagogical innovation, professional development (including workshops and informal seminars offered in collaboration with language programs), and implementation of new methodologies in language instruction and learning. Through the DILS program, the CLS also offers opportunities for independent language study.
Frequently Asked Questions
Google is a very powerful search engine and can help you find all sorts of things on the Internet. However, Google is not the best place to start when you want to do serious scholarly research. There are several reasons not to rely on Google:
- Google searches only the Internet. But not everything that has been written is located on the Internet. Yale University provides numerous electronic databases that can help you find information not available on the Internet.
- Using Google to do research casts a very wide net. It is very possible to find quite good resources using Google but you may also find a lot of irrelevant resources (as well as resources that are relevant but of dubious authority -- see below). You may end up with lots of hits but you may also find yourself trying to weed out a lot of junk in order to get to the good stuff. It is much more efficient to start your research by using the tools that have been especially developed to help you find resources in the particular area you need. The library has numerous electronic databases that cover specialized subject areas.
- Much of what is on the Internet is highly suspect. Literally anyone can publish anything they want on the Internet, and information you find there using Google may have been written by an expert in the field...or it may have been written by a fifth grader. Just because you see it on the Internet doesn't make the informaton valid or authoritative. In contrast, books have to go through a publication process. While the authority of what is written in a book is not a given, most of the writings in books at least have gone through some sort of selection process by the publisher before they were published. Additionally, there has been a second selection process on the part of subject librarians who have purchased the books for the library. Similarly, articles in reputable academic journals have usually been selected by experts in the field. Thus, there is a higher degree of authority for what you find using the research tools of the library (the online catalog and databases than for what you can find doing a Google search.
A database is an organized collection of records presented in a standardized format that can be searched on a computer. The ORBIS catalog is a database, as is the ATLA Religion Database.
When you search in a database what you are doing is searching through records that represent and describe some other object, such as a book or an article. When you search in the ORBIS catalog, for example, you are not searching within books themselves, but instead you are searching through records that have been created to describe the books (and other items) within the collections of the Yale libraries. The record provides you with information about an item, such as its author, what it is about, and most importantly, where it can be found.
Similarly, when you search in an article database such as the ATLA Database, you are searching for records (also called citations) that describe articles written in the field of religion; you are not searching within the articles themselves (in most cases; however there are occasional exceptions to this rule). The citations provided in most article databases give you information about the article, such as who wrote it, what it is about, and, most importantly, the journal, issue and pages where it can be found.
Yale University subscribes to hundreds of databases. The number of electronic resources available can seem overwhelming, which leads many people to prefer using a search engine they are familiar with such as Google, because it seems to be easier and appears to search everything. But there are good reasons not to start with Google, and there are a number of ways to help you select the appropriate database for your research.
To find print materials, online books, journals (both online and print), and other items available at the Yale libraries, the best place to start is the ORBIS catalog. If you need help in using ORBIS, the Divinity Library provides an instructional guide for Using the ORBIS Catalog. There are also a number of tutorials and instructional guides provided by the Yale University Library that can give you further assistance with searching in ORBIS.
ORBIS is not so helpful for finding scholarly articles and essays, however, unless you already know the name of the journal where the article is published (see Why can't I find the article I want in ORBIS? for more on this topic.) To find articles and essays, you need to start with an electronic database that is geared to scholarly articles.
For theology and religious studies, the most important database to know about is the ATLA Religion Database. Instructions for using the ATLA Religion Database are available on our Instructional Guide: the ATLA / ATLAS Religion Database page.
There are a number of other databases that are specifically focused on religious studies, as well as databases for other subject areas, and databases that cover multiple subject areas including religious studies. Here are some options for finding the database or databases you need:
- Use Quick Article Search to search across a number of top article databases for religious studies.
- Use Multi-Database Search to select a subject area and search across multiple databases at the same time, or to find out which databases are available for a particular subject area. Multi-Database Search is helpful because it provides subtopics within a single subject area. For example, for the subject area of religion, it provides listings of databases for individual subject areas such as Christianity, Islam, Judaica, etc. More information on how Multi-Database Search works is available on the Databases & Article Searching: Multi-Database Search section of this page.
- For databases that will help you find articles and essays in the area of Christianity, use the Research Guide for Christianity. This guide is organized by both subject area (i.e., Bible, Church History, Practical Theology, etc.) and by resource type (i.e., catalogs, bibliographies, primary sources, etc.) You can find databases to use in your research through either avenue. Electronic databases for finding articles are listed, along with print indexes, in the section under Resources by Format entitled Indexes and Abstracts; on this page, they subdivide by subject area and can be found by clicking on the link Electronic Databases. Or you can go directly to the specific subject area page (i.e., Bible, Church History, etc.) and click on the link for Indexes and Abstracts and from there click on the link for Electronic Databases.
- A more general listing of the top recommended databases for theology and religious studies is available on the library's Finding Articles instructional guide; on this page there is also a list of databases that cover more than one subject area in the section Multidisciplinary Databases.
- If you are looking for databases for other subject areas besides religion and theology, you can use the Multi-Database Search to identify the right database for your topic; instructions on how to do this are available on the instructional guide for Finding Articles in the section on Databases for Other Subject Areas.
- The subject guides in the Research Guides by Subject have been developed by Yale librarians who are subject specialists. Most of these guides will provide you with a listing of the recommended databases for that subject area.
- Finally, you should always feel free to consult one of the librarians for assistance if you are not sure what database to use for your research. Options for getting assistance from a librarian are listed on the Options for Getting Reference Assistance section of this page.
- Why can't I find the article I want in ORBIS?
The ORBIS catalog does not include records that represent and describe journal articles. What ORBIS can tell you is what journals are available and where they are located, but it does not include information on the articles contained in the journals. To get that information, you need to first go to an article database, such as the ATLA Religion Database. If you know the title of the article you want, search for the title within the article database and then note the name of the journal, the volume and/or issue, date, and page numbers for where the article is located. Then, search in ORBIS to find out if Yale has the journal and the volume and/or issue you need. For more detailed instructions on finding journal articles, go to the Finding Articles instructional guide on our website.
- I've searched in a database and found a record describing an article I want; now, how do I actually get hold of the article?
The record you found, also called the article citation, will provide you with information about the article. Usually, journal article citations tell you information such as the author, the article title, the journal within which it is published, the volume and/or journal issue, the date of publication, and the page numbers for the article. Sometimes you may also be provided with an abstract, or short summary describing the article. In many databases, though not in all, there may be an electronic link that will take you to the actual article itself. In that case, to retrieve the article you would click on the link to get to the article.
Once you have the article on your computer, then follow the instructions for the database to print it out (usually you can find a link somewhere on the page indicating a print function).
Not all databases, however, will provide a link to the article itself. For most Yale databases, if you don't see an electronic link to the article, you may still be able to get it electronically from another database. Look for the button and click on it to see if the article is available in full-text from another database.
If the article you want is not available in full-text through any of the library's databases, you will have to see if it is available in print. Search the ORBIS catalog for the journal title (NOT the article title) by using Journal/Newspaper/Magazine Title as the search type. Be sure to note which library holds the journal, and whether or not it has the specific issue in which the article you want is located.
If the journal issue is available at one of the Yale libraries, note the location and call number for the journal. Then, either go to that library, and retrieve the issue from the shelf, or use the Place Requests feature in ORBIS to request that the journal be delivered to the library of your choice.
If the journal is not available at any of the Yale libraries (i.e., there is no record for it in ORBIS) you may be able to obtain the article through Interlibrary Loan (ILL).
- Yale has the journal with the article I want, but it's not online and it's not at the Divinity Library. Can I get the journal sent to the Divinity Library so I can see the article?
You can use the Place Requests feature in ORBIS to request that a journal held at another Yale library be sent to your home library. Follow these instructions:
- First, bring up the record for the journal you want in ORBIS. Click on the Place Requests tab at the top of the record.
- You will next be taken to a page with a link to login with your Yale NetID. Click on the Yale NetID Login button and login to your account.
- Next, select Request Staff Search or Delivery from the pull down menu.
- Select the appropriate volume of the journal you want, then make sure to select the library you want it delivered to from the Select a pickup or use location option, and then hit Submit Request.
You will receive an email when the journal has been delivered to your selected library, usually by the next day.
The Divinity Library maintains a list of these lectures on this webpage: Bibliography of the Lyman Beecher Lectureship on Preaching.
Students preparing to write their thesis often ask to see examples of papers that have been submitted at Yale Divinity School in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Sacred Theology (STM) degree. Although the STM degree has been granted since 1939, for most of those years neither the Divinity School nor the Library ever made a systematic attempt to retain those essays.
However, some selected theses have deposited with the Library on the recommendation of the faculty (presumably of the degree advisor). These papers are listed in Archive & Manuscript Record Group 41 and are located in the Divinity Library's Special Collections.
Beginning with degrees granted in 1989, STM theses have been submitted to Theological Research Exchange Network for microfilming. The Divinity Library receives microfiche copies of all the YDS theses filmed by TREN. The microfiches receive brief cataloging and are arranged under the call number FICHE B3500. TREN will supply microfiche copies of the theses they have for a modest fee. In those cases where we were able to secure the author's permission, we also filmed theses retrospectively. We are making another effort to get permission for the ones we still have in hard copy. Please note that Yale STM's are NOT indexed in Research in Ministry because they are not doctoral level theses. (RIM is strictly D.Min.)
The electronic version of Prof. John Collins' book Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is available on Workstation B, in the Trowbridge Reference Room. To access, go to the Start menu, and then click on the link for the Libronix Digital Library System. Then, click on the link at the top for My Library; scroll down the list to get to Collins, John and click on the link to open.
The Vatican has its own website, The Holy See, and papal documents are listed alphabetically on this page of the site: Papal Documents.


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Do You Want to Be on the Food Network Star Finale? — Email Us
by Sarah De Heer in Community, July 11, 2013For the first time in Food Network Star history, fans have a chance to ask Alton, Bobby, Giada and all 12 finalists questions during the final episode, which airs August 11 at 9pm/8c. Before the winner is revealed, the contestants will gather in the studio on August 7 to tell all and view never-before-seen footage from the season. Bobby, Alton and Giada will also share their favorite moments during an emotional look back at the remaining finalists' journey to the finale.
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Bring Paula back! Bring Paula back! Bring Paula Back! Bring Paula Back, Bring Paula back, bring Paula back, Bring Paula back! I will not shop with your SPONSORS until you do so even if it takes ordering most things I use out of the USA, the POLITICALLY CORRECT make me so very sick, if a Rap star said something against, or women, white people what would you do , I know !have that person on your show and laugh right along with them your channel is now on skip on my television which is a bad thing because I really enjoyed most of your programming, and that the way it is.
Hey, it's over. Deal with it and move on. There are far better chefs on the network than her.
Who did you have in mind?
That's my own personal opinion.
Thanks for an informative post. lol Guess you're just here to B----.
Guest, Politics aside, I enjoyed watching her shows. This network is so lacking these days in cooking shows that I feel it was a bad call on their part to remove any and all of her shows. There are already skimming the bottom of the pool of re-runs. The same ones over and over.
Who makes up the stupid rule that there can't be instructional shows after 6 o'clock? Why does after dinner have to be all competitions? Is Guy Fieri now the controlling stock holder of Scripps? I used to see Alton doing Good Eats at 9:30 or 10pm. Heck with it, there's always the cooking channel. They give a rip about cooking.
Exactly, Brad!!!! Even on the weekend, you get cooking till noon then BOOM ...competition shows..and I personally do not want another marathon of RI or DDD.
Watch the Cooking Channel.
Two observations to consider:
1) Viewership of Deen's shows has been dropping since it became known she had type II diabetes yet continued to promote nutritionally irresponsible recipes for three years. At the same time the production costs were rising, making her shows far less profitable than in the past.
2) The complaint filed against Deen and her brother contains serious allegations of racial and gender discrimination.This has nothing to do with rappers' use of foul language.
Paula, although I don't feel so strongly about her leaving as u do, Doug, I wish they would bring her back. I know we should move on, but I feel like her shows were just fun to whatch. She was good at cooking. I feel like I'm stuck! But we can fight, or we can move on. It's up to us to decide what we're gonna do.
YES, YOU are so correct.
YOU ARE SOÕO RIGHT, Doug! WHY are talented people subjected to ridicule, demeaned & lose their jobs for expressing THEIR FREEDOM OF SPEECH? Where in The Bill of Rights does it say Celebrities are excluded the rights afforded to us poor folk Americans???? This kind of "boycotting someone's future" is making me Boycott the Networks & Companies who act out of FEAR of losing revenue rather than allowing their employees their Constitutional Rights! By practicing this kind of prejudice, I HOPE IT BACK Fires "BY The People" protected by the Constitution. Let US JUDGE THEM by turning our backs & withholding our dollars from these idiot Companies. Is being PC starting to annoy rather than aid those who really can defend themselves? Sticks & Stones, people. Right on Doug...I, too miss Paula. Hope to see Paula working for a more enlightened Network & buying her line of products at non-judgmental stores. Sorry my venting is so tediously long!
If you asked 25 people on this Blog, I think more of them than not, would say that despite his "needing work" that Viet should have outlasted Rodney. But he didn't. And so, with that in mind.....QUESTION: Is Food Network seriously prepared to tell it's audience that on-camera counts *more* than being a great cook? Because it appears that it does. This also flies in the face of what Bobby Flay mentioned last year (in so many words) about: if you can cook, we can teach you the on-camera. But considering Viet and Rodney, the opposite seems to be true.
You have to be interesting in some way to have people watch you cook again and again. Think back on any kind of show that you tuned into time and again. Was the main character flat and pedantic?
No, they weren't. And I want to like the winner.
But it's not such an either/or...or all of this and none of that.
Of course personality matters. I want it, too. But---I would rather have someone who's competency I really respect, who needs a little coaching...than to have my best friend on TV and just be mediocre.
In the case of Viet vs. Rodney, it seemed that skill lost to entertainment. Yes, Viet had his misses...but most of the audience believed he had superior ability.-
At least we could understand Viet as opposed o Rodney.
Viet should have outlasted Rodney regarding cooking...he is a superior Chef. Unfortunately, he completely froze when the peppers were not there, that is where I think mentoring was not as good as it should have been. Were "live" demonstrations discussed prior to taping and going with what is there??? I don't know. Also remember that Bobby is just one vote......
To the FNS Selection Committee: I would love very much to participate in the FNS Finale this year but unfortunately, my Internet servers are not able to work out. Nonetheless, I want for you to know that I will vote for my choice as the NFNS, BUT - right now, I am concerned that we have lost the ability to produce a successor to the likes of Emeril LaGasse. I believe that Rodney and his "Pie Man" approach might work but I want for him to PLEASE be clear and concise on what he communicates in public. He needs to learn from Jeff "Sandwich King" Mauro and then do likewise with his love for pie, as I want to see that love translate onto the FN TV screen and make me go CRAZY for pie-making and consumption more often!!
Dude, yer weird.
Mauro is a no-talent joke. If everything can be a sandwich, then nothing takes much talent.
I gathered Suzy loved his P.O.V. and felt she could develop a great brand around it.
Think long-term.
that's rude lady...I love the sandwich guy...ur a hater..
At this point I think most questions would go to the producers...."what were you thinking!"
Or whomever selected these people to begin with
I would like to know the schools attended, the credentials of each participant and every CULINARY award each has received. What kitchens they have cooked in. Who mentored them in cooking.
As I want to learn things that I do not know how to cook, short cuts, or culinary information that they have knowledge of. I am a GREAT home cook, I don't want to see things I already know, I want to see things I can learn.
I mostly agree with you.
I want someone who can shoe me things. And explain it simply.
My concern is, while I like credentials, it is far too easy to fall into the trap of "prestige."Callie, I know you didn't say that...but many people hear of a famous place or a famous mentor, and then they think no further. I don't care quite so much where they learned it, or who taught them. I care about *they themselves* being awesome! If they studied somewhere, that's a good thing--but they, still have to make the dishes. If they can cook with superior flavor and show me new things, I'm interested!
...should be show me things, above. Not shoe. What I wouldn't give for a spell-checker with a flashing light and loud alarm.
I was getting bored with Paula, she was too fake, crass and too loud I don't miss her. Also, getting bored with next food network star, find more interesting people and come up with new and different show. I agree, the Food Network is getting boring. I do love the Contessa, Ina Garten, Giada is awesome, and Trisha Yearwood is a breath of fresh air. Sunny Anderson is still a joy to watch too. Oh, and the Pioneer Women is fun to watch. Bobby is becoming too full of himself. Thank goodness no one has to watch those awful producers Bob and the curly haired Susy! I was a true fan but as you can see, I am changing the channel more and more.
This show has become a joke. The contestants are terrible and the only one who was talented, and someone I'd love to watch was Viet, who they let go.
I cannot believe how weak the contestants are, as well as the judges. Food Network, is this the best you can do......?
I am glad that Paula is gone, I paid a lot to see her in person in Shreveport, Louisiana a few years back, being a great fan, subscribing to her magazine, and watching her on Food Network. She was so offensesive, with her curse words, and taking her shoes off, then throwing her leg over the edge of a couch where she placed her bare foot against the crocth of the man sitting there. My friend and I left so dissapointed in her as a person. I canceled my subscription and told all my friends she was not a lady at all and not to support her anymore


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After SAVE Dade challenged the validity of the petition, county election officials examined 200 signatures in two samplings. The results showed that 67 individuals either were not registered voters (a requirement for petition-signers) or their signatures did not match the handwriting sample the county maintains for every voter. In the opinion of elections supervisor David Leahy, that was enough to warrant an examination of all 51,000 signatures.
The Miami Herald, however, contacted a number of people whose signatures had been disqualified for handwriting discrepancies and discovered that some of them had indeed signed the petition. Take Back Miami-Dade leaders later produced 23 affidavits from voters who said they had signed; the group's leaders demanded that the valid signatures be reinstated. Leahy forwarded the issue to the County Attorney's Office for review. If the signatures are reinstated, the petition could be certified.
Leahy says he does not expect to hear from the County Attorney until late this week, but regardless of the legal advice he receives, he does not expect the matter to be settled with his decision. "Whether it's certified good or bad," he predicts, "it's going to end up in court."
Leahy acknowledges that he alerted law-enforcement authorities after finding some of the same problems SAVE Dade discovered. "I don't know if they are all violations," he says, "but there are certainly things that look like they might be." Prosecutors at the State Attorney's Office confirm that they, along with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, are investigating the petition. "We're taking a serious look at all the allegations," says Joe Centorino, head of the office's public-corruption unit. "We are certainly reviewing all the documents in connection with it." He would not elaborate on the inquiry except to note that investigators recently met with SAVE Dade representatives to review their findings.
While criminal charges against Take Back Miami-Dade and its leaders may be a remote possibility, SAVE Dade's Jorge Mursuli vows a vigorous pursuit of the fraud allegations. "We are not going to go home without a clear explanation of what happened," he assures. "We are not going to walk away from someone who hurts our community and breaks the law. We are going to be the biggest pains in the butts in the county."
Eladio Armesto-Garcia remains unfazed. "They are using the courts for a frivolous cause," he says. "The real McCoy is they don't want the issue to go to an election. They want to keep the people out of it."


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Choosing Cyberspace Over Hot Sex?
Think about it; when we're not having personal thoughts, we're not self-conscious. When we're not self-conscious, we feel good, we're focused on what we're doing, we're grounded in the moment, in the here and now. Isn't that what everyone wants?
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2. You can find people like you in cyberspace. People can locate others with the same opinion on anything, in cyberspace, whereas their partner is sure to have different opinions on (possibly, most) things.
Doesn't everyone secretly want to marry an opposite sexed clone? Some people may say they don't, but deep down inside, I'll bet it's the same for everyone (I could be wrong, but...) Doesn't it seem as though life would be easier and we'd get a whole lot more done if in fact we could hook up with someone just like us?
3. No one in cyberspace will judge you ... and if they do, you can just x them out or unfriend them. How convenient is that? A sure fire way to gain acceptance no matter what? Who wouldn't want that experience?
4. You can be whoever you want to be in cyberspace. You can show your best self or even your fantasy self if you're on a dating site, but life with another is not so controllable. I wonder if it's human nature to want to live out a fantasy, be part of a fairy tale, create the life you want?
5. Cyberspace lets you escape from reality. The cyberspace experience is pure fantasy, partnering is pure reality — actually not so "pure." "Personal" reality is more accurate, but what if ...
1. People could get out of their own thinking while they were with their partner? Wouldn't that make a difference?
2. Your partner's different opinions intrigued you instead of angered you? Wouldn't that make life more interesting and fun?
3. You and your partner appreciated one another and understood the dangers of judgment? That sure would make for a more loving environment.
4. You and your partner exhibited compassion when you were not operating from your best selves? To feel understood must be the best feelng in the known universe.
5. You realized that your "personal reality" is actually fantasy anyway. It's all an illusion brought to us by our ability to think (imagine) and to be conscious of that which we think up!
... and then there is the question of Internet pornography and the effect it has on a relationship. Stay tuned for my next blog! But first, I'd love to hear what you think about this study and if you've had any personal experience.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The controversy surrounding the death of 2-year-old Stephanie Stephens continues. Her parents made two 911 calls to get her help, but ambulance medics diagnosed her against D.C. Fire protocol and refused to transport her. Her parents called 911 a second time eight hours later, and she was transported but later died.
The two ambulance medics who allegedly refused to transport the toddler are at the center of a discipline investigation. However, FOX 5 has learned that others in a supervisory position on a fire truck may have arrived first, but never went inside the Southern Avenue home. Instead, they left the scene and were put back into service.
On Friday, Mayor Adrien Fenty was clear that two medics arrived first. As a result, they have been taken off the street and can no longer have contact with patients.
The internal documents obtained exclusively by FOX 5 seem to contradict the city's account. They are the automated time stamps generated by a computer showing the history of the fire units.
The documents clearly show Engine 33 with a paramedic on board arrives first at 4:56:45 a.m. on February 10, 2010. Medic 33 arrived at the Southern Avenue address at 4:58:28 a.m., nearly two minutes later, but they were the only ones to go inside.
So the question is, why didn't the higher ranking paramedic on engine 33-- who arrived first-- make the evaluation on the little girl, and if he was there, why did he not intervene when medics decided not to transport the child? More importantly, why is the engine 33 paramedic still on the job?
D.C. Fire and EMS would not answer those questions. A spokesman disputes their own records, maintaining that the ambulance was first to the scene.
"The case is still under review. As we previously reported, the medic unit arrived and had initial patient contact," said D.C. Fire and EMS spokesman Pete Piringer.
Privately, medics say it's a systematic problem.
For the first time on Monday, the hospital where Stephanie died spoke out in a letter to the editor in the Washington Post. Joseph Wright, the Senior Vice President of Children's National Medical Center wrote a scathing letter about EMS saying, "a death was inevitable." Wright also calls the decision not to transport as "inexcusable."
Wright, who is also the EMS Medical Director, goes on to say it was only a matter of time before a pediatric Rosenbaum case surfaced.
Wright was referring to the death of NY Times journalist David Rosenbaum two years ago.
The city settled a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed over EMS missteps and promised operational reforms.
We should point out that while the city disputes the time stamps on these documents, they are the official record used when disciplining firefighters.


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Splurging for Fashion
By Kyran Pittman
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Over time, the bag begins to feel more natural to me. I love its size and its durability. I don't feel afraid to handle it, the way I do with the cashmere sweater or the Hermès scarf.
Gradually, the clothes are integrated into my life. I get a lot of mileage from the Prada pencil skirt, dressed up and down. I discover that the scarf looks great as a belt for my old jeans, though I have to take it off when it starts to rain. I wear the trousers only twice before they need to go to the dry cleaners, an errand that seems to stay at the bottom of the to-do list. Maintenance is definitely going to be an issue.
The Manolos go as easily to third grade chapel as to a dinner party, where I indulge in my most flagrant act of label flashing. I'm standing in a circle of women, when one of them looks down and gushes, "Great shoes!" I'm about to say, "Thank you," when I realize she is talking about the shoes next to mine. "Thanks," says the person for whom the compliment was intended. "I got them at that vintage store. I love yours!"
"You do? I got them online."
Oh, for heaven's sake. The two women are comparing shoe sizes, so I reach down and remove one shoe on the pretense of having forgotten what mine is. The label is clearly printed on the inside. "Manolos!" one of the women gasps.
But the real moment of reckoning comes one evening when I have to run out last-minute to the grocery store. It's been a typical, nonstop day, and I'm wiped out. My hair is dirty. I'm in old jeans and a T-shirt. I can't believe I have to go out in public. Then I remember the black Burberry trench coat.
I throw it on. The Louis Vuitton bag slips easily over my shoulder. I slide the Gucci sunglasses over my head. It's magic. Instantly I look, and feel, like someone who has it together. Isn't that worth a few thousand bucks? Heck, yeah if you've got a few thousand to burn. Of course, if it all turned to discount-apparel at the stroke of midnight, I would feel a mighty pang, but nothing more serious than that. As they say, it's just fashion, darling.
The keeper, the real must-have, is that woman I kept running into all over New York City: the one standing a hundred feet tall and "fabulous" in the mirror every time I turned around. The woman who's allowed as much time as she needs to discover what she wants. The one who can walk confidently through doors that are opened for her and enjoy beautiful unnecessary things without the fear that she's losing her soul. The one who can dream up things that are wildly impossible from the bathtub and watch them come true.
If it takes wearing something special on the outside to remind me I am always her on the inside, I think that's okay. You can call it an investment. But it isn't in the clothes.
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The futurist: Technology's threat to the future of sports
Thomas FreyI recently returned from a trip to Seoul, Korea, where I was asked to speak at the Global Sports Marketing Forum on the future of sports.This event was part of a series being planned to draw attention to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Korea.
Here's how I began my presentation in Seoul.
In 1980, Carnegie Mellon University announced the formation of the $100,000 Fredkin Prize, named after computer pioneer Edward Fredkin, for anyone who could develop a computer capable of beating a world chess champion. In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue team took up the challenge and proceeded to beat Gary Kasporov, the reigning world chess champion.
In 2011, IBM waged a similar battle on the TV game show Jeopardy. This time, they pitted their Watson Computer against Ken Jennings and Paul Rudder, the all-time top Jeopardy champions. Again the computer came up the winner.
So if computers can win at chess and Jeopardy, are we about to see similar contests between robots and basketball players, driverless cars and NASCAR drivers, or robots and golf champions? More importantly, do we run the risk of automating these sports out of existence?
Yes, we will see many more human versus machine-staged competitions. But no, this won't jeopardize the sporting industry. We're asking is the wrong question.
Even though the human versus machine competitions won't be an issue, there are several possible threats around the corner for professional sports. Here's why.
The Ultimate Form of Story Telling
Sports have become the ultimate form of storytelling. Each contest is a test of the human spirit, with good guys and bad guys pairing off, with great drama, as people test their limits overcoming adversity, to achieve an unknown outcome. And all of this is happening in real time.
As a result, sports have become the ultimate form of fresh content in a world where relevance is gauged by timeliness and hyper-awareness is our competitive edge.
The value of sports broadcasts degrades exponentially faster than virtually any other form of content, so as a result, it assumes center stage as we plan our days. Most media companies view sports as an anchor event around which every other program is scheduled.
But that doesn't mean the likes of baseball, football, and hockey are immune to change. Far from it.
Over the course of this series we will at many of the looming variables that will dramatically change how we value sports over the coming years.
Future Athletes
An athletic competition is only interesting if the athletes are relatively evenly paired, and if either team has the potential to win or lose their next competition.
We lose interest in lopsided competitions like America's 1992 Dream Team with Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and Scottie Pippin facing off against far less-qualified national teams in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics People may have found it amusing for a few games, but it wasn't a sustainable business model.
At the same time, teams with superior athletes have an advantage So it's in their best interest to do the best possible job of selecting, developing, and coaching each of their athletes.
While there is tremendous improvement being made to sporting equipment, protective gear, and training simulators, we are seeing many instances where technology goes too far. These include everything from performance enhancing equipment to genetically reengineering the athletes themselves.
Oscar Pistorius, with his artificial legs, became the first double leg amputee to participate in the 2012 Summer Olympics where he proceeded to win 2 gold and one silver metal. But this wasn't without controversy
Having gear that stimulates muscles, improves field awareness, or adds any unusual competitive advantage, will first lead to debate and later to a league ruling before being allowed or disallowed.
Thomas Frey is the executive director and senior futurist at the DaVinci Institute and currently Google's top-rated futurist speaker. At the Institute, he has developed original research studies, enabling him to speak on unusual topics, translating trends into unique opportunities. Tom continually pushes the envelope of understanding, creating fascinating images of the world to come. His talks on futurist topics have captivated people ranging from high level of government officials to executives in Fortune 500 companies including NASA, IBM, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Unilever, GE, Blackmont Capital, Lucent Technologies, First Data, Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Qwest, Allied Signal, Hunter Douglas, Direct TV, Capital One, National Association of Federal Credit Unions, STAMATS, Bell Canada, American Chemical Society, Times of India, Leaders in Dubai, and many more. Before launching the DaVinci Institute, Tom spent 15 years at IBM as an engineer and designer where he received over 270 awards, more than any other IBM engineer.


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Fall 2011 Sermon at Nampa First Church of the Nazarene - September 11th
The Ultimate Act of Praise
Sermon at Nampa First Church of the Nazarene
September 11, 2011
Good morning. It is truly a privilege to be here this morning and to have the opportunity to open the Word with you. I want to thank Pastor Conrad for this invitation.
If I may, I'd like to say a few things before I say what I came to say.
I stand before you as the President of your school—Northwest Nazarene University. It's important for us to continually remember and renew the bond we share church and school. I'm not only talking about the connection NNU has with the 400 plus Churches of the Nazarene here in the Northwest—from Colorado to Alaska—Oregon to Montana. I'm talking about the shaping, nurturing, uplifting relationship this church and the school 7 blocks away have had for almost a century. Do you realize that in two years both Nampa First Church of the Nazarene and Northwest Nazarene University will celebrate their Centennials? Both institutions were founded in 1913; first the church was birthed out of a revival held in March of 1913 and then, just a few months later, the same men, Eugene Emerson and Rev. Ferdinand, established the Idaho Holiness School, which has become Northwest Nazarene University. 100 years of ministry and service to God!
In my view, we need each other as much now as we did then. I pray often that God will bless us and use us in ways beyond our imagining in the next 100 years. In just two days, we'll "officially" report the number of students at NNU; but before it's official I'm happy to report to you that we once again enjoy a record enrollment; this year we have welcomed traditional aged students, adult and graduate students giving us a student body 2060. To God be the glory!
Pastor Conrad invited me to share with you this morning in the context of his series on praise. In accepting his invitation, I have prayed about how best to contribute to the tapestry of praise he has woven from various passages in both the Old and New Testaments. What I would like to do is make several observations about 'praise' in the corporate worship of today's evangelical churches; and then conduct a review of the story of God, humanity's place in that story and what has competed for the praise of humankind across history's pages, ending up with what I consider to be "the ultimate act of praise".
I very much like the metaphors Pastor Conrad has been using across the arch of this series as he has issued a call to praise God. That call has been a call to corporate action on the part of this church both for our times of corporate worship and for our lives of worship outside the sanctuary - what he called the Pathway of Praise. Yet he also cautioned us to remember that praise is a human capacity that can be directed toward many things; we don't just praise God. Thus we must periodically examine who and what we're praising and to what degree.
For those of you who haven't heard me speak before, you need to know that I'm prone to try and squeeze too much into the allotted time; so hang on, I'm going to move quickly, make a lot of points, refer to many passages of scripture until I get us to a vista where we can consider God, and praise, and the people of God across the ages, and ourselves, and call us all to make a choice, a choice I consider the ultimate act of praise.
First, I'd like to talk about corporate praise and worship in the contemporary evangelical church in America. (And just so you're aware, I may use the words "praise and worship" interchangeably this morning, for praise is a component of worship, it is not the only component of worship, but to consider praise is to consider worship.)
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote:
"it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming."
Did we hear that? Or did you only hear the word "behoove".
Let me say it again:
Be careful what we worship,
For what we worship we are becoming.
If that's the case, who, or what are we worshiping?
As Christians let's agree to begin with this statement:
Worship is for God.
Worship is organized around, based upon the character and acts of God.
Do we get that?
I don't know that I always get that.
I thought worship was for me?
I come here because I have needs and wants and concerns and issues.
Worship isn't for me?
As Psalm 96 so powerfully states, we are to "ascribe to the Lord the glory due His name".
First and foremost, worship is for God. Certainly worshipping God will affect you, change you, but worship is for and about God.
Christian "worship is grounded in the character of God and the three primary acts of God: creation, redemption and covenantal relationship." (Webber, Common Roots, p. 85)
"It is absolutely essential that the Church keep God as the subject of worship since to be Christian means to believe that the God revealed in Jesus Christ is everything to us - Creator, Provider, Sustainer; Deliverer, Redeemer, and Lord; Sanctifier, Inspirer, and Empowerer." (Dawn, Reaching Out, p. 76)
Every Sunday, across America, we count on worship leaders to help us remember our place, and God's place in the theater of worship. God is the audience, worship leaders are the prompters, and we, the Church, are the performers, through our acts of worship we offer sacrifices of praise to God.
Churches must remember that the image of God portrayed in each Sunday's corporate worship is critically important to the image of God we carry with us throughout the week. We must be ever asking ourselves, what image of God do our worship practices portray?
I pause to make this point because I think it is a crucial, critical matter for the church in America. We live in a highly individualistic, feelings-based, consumerist, anti-intellectual, overly specialized secular society, and into this culture we ask, we need our worship leaders to focus us on God first and foremost. Church beware, the nature of the culture in which we live, can easily infiltrate the life of the church in general and our worship in particular.
N.T. Wright issues this caution: "most of what Americans do in their religion now is done at the behest of feeling. They judge Christian activities and their own religious condition according to their feelings. The quest for pleasure takes over the house of God. What is good or what is true is no longer the guide." (Wright, After, p. 199)
Our pastor has issued a call to praise, and we must guard against all the things that would cause us, entice us, tempt us to do something other than focus our praise and worship on God and God alone.
Let me meddle just a bit more, and say that the temptations to skew our worship away from God, are often very subtle and creep into our practices rather than boldly show up one Sunday. Don Hustad, who for many years served as Billy Graham's music team, wrote a wonderful book, Church Music in the Evangelical Tradition, in which he identifies four sins that the evangelical church and its members must avoid if we are to offer genuine and sincere praise to God and God alone.
We must beware of and guard against these worship temptations:
Sin of pride (our worship is better than the church down the street; how do I know that? Because I 'shopped' there before coming here)
Sin of hedonism (to allow the pursuit of an emotional experience to be the benchmark for whether or not one has worshipped)
Sin of spectatorism (to behave like the audience instead of the actors, passive consumers in our worship recliners)
Sin of sentimentalism (the temptation to judge current worship practices against memories of former worship experiences)
The worship of God is so much more than any of these human contrivances.
When we come together, our time before God in worship should "re-describe the world" the very world in which we live.
(Dawn, Reaching Out, p. 137)
In her book, "A Royal Waste of Time: the Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World", Marva Dawn writes: "The church's worship provides opportunities for us to enjoy God's presence in corporate ways that take us out of time and into the eternal purposes of God's kingdom." (Dawn, Royal Waste, p. 2) She goes on to describe Christian worship in this manner:
By God's gracious invitation and Christ's intercession and the Spirit's enabling we are welcomed to learn of the Trinity through the Biblical narratives passedon by faithful witnesses. Gathered in the community of saints, we are formed by the truth taught in worship's music and Word to be Church so that out of our Christian character will flow the witness of our words and deeds for the sake of the world." (Dawn, Royal Waste, p. 69)
I love that description, it sounds like a place where God is honored and praised and people go out empowered, encouraged and enabled to live the life of a true disciple, praising God corporately and individually.
Now, I'd like to step back, and move from contemporary writers on worship in today's evangelical church to consider the activity of God revealed to us across the ages. What can and should we learn from the Biblical narrative about the proper ordering of praise and worship? What has God wrought, and what does God expect of His people?
Let us turn our attention to the story of God, as recorded in the Scriptures, and remember the God who creates, the God who reveals Himself and the God who makes covenant.
Turn to Deuteronomy 4: 32-40. Listen to the word of the Lord as Moses recounts thehand of God upon His children:
"Search all of history, from the time God created people on the earth until now. Then search from one end of the heavens to the other. See if anything as great as this has ever happened before.
Has any nation ever heard the voice of God speaking from fire—as you did—and survived? Has any other god taken one nation for himself by rescuing it from another by means of trials, miraculous signs, wonders, war, awesome power, and terrifying acts?
Yet that is what the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, right before your very eyes.
He showed you these things so you would realize that the Lord is God and that there is no other god. He let you hear His voice from heaven so He could instruct you. He let you see his great fire here on earth so He could speak to you from it.
Because He loved your ancestors, He chooses to bless their descendants and personally brought you out of Egypt with a great display of power. He drove out nations far greater than you, so He could bring you in and give you their land as a special possession, as it is today.
So remember this and keep it firmly in mind: The Lord is God both in heaven and on earth, and there is no other god! If you obey all the laws and commands that I will give you today, all will be well with you and your children. Then you will enjoy a long life in the land the Lord your God is giving you for all time."
Moses is re-telling the story of God to the people of Israel as they prepare to enter the Promised Land. As the prompter of the people he is rehearsing the plot of the nation, of a people, chosen by God, rescued by God. He is telling the story of the God who creates and reveals and redeems and makes covenant.
At the heart of the story, the story that reminds the people of Israel what God has done for them he states: "He showed you these things so you would realize that the Lord is God and that there is no other god."
In this passage the creatures are reminded that the Creator has made all these things happen—He alone is God, He alone is worthy of praise. Then in chapter five Moses retells the conditions of covenant reminding the people of God's laws; then at the beginning of chapter six he issues the most important and powerful declaration in the history of humankind:
Deuteronomy 6: 2-6
If you obey all His laws and commands, you will enjoy a long life. Listen closely, Israel, to everything I say. Be careful to obey. Then all will go well with you, and you will have many children in the land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised.
Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. And you must love the Lord you God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands I am giving you today.
God has created, God has revealed Himself by setting apart a people, and now God calls them to worship God and God alone. In so doing, God has defined the parameters of worship for all eternity. Worship is the affirmative, transforming response of human beings to God's self-revealing. (Hustad, Jubilate, p. 100) The Creator reveals, the creature responds.
There is only one God, there is only one being worthy of praise; the praise of worship should not primarily be for what He has done, but for who God is. In worship we gather to ascribe to the one who is worthy, the praise only He is due.
My colleague, Dr. Brent Peterson, member of the NNU theology faculty and member of this church, has been commissioned to write a book on worship. I love his title, "Created to Worship: God's Invitation to Become Fully Human". I asked him for permission to share several quotes with you before the book is published. Hear these statements on who we are, who God is and what praise should be. He writes, "God created persons to worship. The question is not if a person will worship, the question is what will they worship. Being created to worship reminds persons that to worship myself or any other creature is not only idolatry but to miss out on the fullness of what God intends for humanity."
"The worship of God, both individually during the week and then primarily in communal worship, is God's gift to creatures to help them be more fully human by recognizing that they are not to be the center of the universe."
Do we think that's good news? There is one God, and that God has ordered existence in such a way that the life the Creator intends His people to live, is a life of loving obedience to Him.
Unfortunately, if you thumb through the pages of the Old Testament and take note of the people called Israel, you began realize that more often than not, the people of God did not accept this plan, they did not worship, follow or obey God.
They turned away and praised and worshipped other things.
Though prophets of God spoke on God's behalf, calling the people to praise and repentance, time and time again, generation after generation, a people chosen and set apart by God, chose, individually and collectively, to worship something or someone other than God. In essence they broke the first two commandments God had given them:
Do not worship any other gods besides me.
Do not make idols of any kind…
The creatures of God abandoned the praise and worship of the one true God and worshipped other created things. Listen to God's admonition in Isaiah 44: 9-20:
"How foolish are those who manufacture idols to be their gods. These highly valued objects are really worthless. They themselves are witnesses that this is so, for their idols neither see nor know. No wonder those who worship them are put to shame.
Who but a fool would make his own god—an idol that cannot help him one bit! All who worship idols will stand before the Lord in shame, along with all these craftsmen—mere humans—who claim they can make a god. Together they will stand in terror and shame.
The blacksmith stands at his forge to make a sharp tool, pounding and shaping it with all his might. His work makes him hungry and thirsty, weak and faint. Then the wood-carver measures and marks out a block of wood, takes the tool, and carves the figure of a man. Now he has a wonderful idol that cannot even move from where it is placed!
He cuts down cedars; he selects the cypress and the oak he plants the cedar in the forest to be nourished by the rain. And after his care, he uses part of the wood to make a fire to warm himself and bake his bread. Then—yes, it's true—he takes the rest of it and makes himself a god for people to worship!
He makes an idol and bows down and praises it! He burns part of the tree to roast his meat and to keep himself warm. Then he takes what's left and makes his god: a carved idol! He falls down in front of it, worshiping and praying to it. "Rescue me!" he says. "You are my god!"
Such stupidity and ignorance! Their eyes are closed, and they cannot see. Their minds are shut, and they cannot think. The person who made the idol never stops to reflect, "Why, it's just a block of wood! I burned half of it for heat and used it to bake my bread and roast my meat.
How can the rest of it be a god? Should I bow down to worship a chunk of wood? The poor, deluded fool feeds on ashes. He is trusting something that can give him no help at all. Yet he cannot bring himself to ask, "Is this thing, this idol that I'm holding in my hand, a lie?"
The people of God were living a lie; too many times they discarded their God at the altar of their national and personal greed. They followed the urging of their appetites and lusts, often times still going through the motions of worshiping and praising God while simultaneously making, buying and relying on the idols of the cultures that surrounded them. In effect, they stopped being the people of God and followed the fallen examples of the kingdoms of the world that encompassed them. Even as they were being hauled away into exile they failed to see the folly of creating and worshipping false gods.
Isaiah records this folly in Isaiah 46: 1-9:
The idols of Babylon. . . are being hauled away on ox carts. But look! The beasts are staggering under the weight! Both the idols and the ones carrying them are bowed down. The gods cannot protect the people, and the people cannot protect the gods. They go off into captivity together.
Listen to me, all you who are left in Israel. I created you and have cared for you since before you were born. I will be your God throughout your lifetime—until your hair is white with age. I made you, and I will care for you. I will carry you along and save you.
To whom will you compare me? Who is my equal? Some people pour out their silver and gold and hire a craftsman to make a god from it. Then they bow down and worship it! They carry it around on their shoulders, and when they set it down, it stays there. It cannot even move! And when someone prays to it, there is no answer. It has no power to get anyone out of trouble.
Do not forget this, you guilty ones. And do not forget the things I have done throughout history. For I am God—I alone! I am God, and there is no one else like me.
God's call to His people is consistent across the years. You are mine, I have called you, smash the idols of this world; come, worship and praise Me and Me alone, for I am the one true God.
And yet, the people ignored Him, slighted Him and abandoned Him.
And then, in the fullness of time God revealed Himself in a new way—Jesus. The God who creates, the God who calls a people, the God who makes covenant, is the God who sends His Son.
Jesus the Son of God, sent to show us the way, to make the way. It is important to remember that Jesus' arrival did not and does not rearrange the order of things regarding the worship of God.
Remember this encounter, recorded in Mark 12: 28-31:
One of the teachers of religious law was standing there listening to the discussion. He realized that Jesus had answered well, so he asked, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?"
Jesus replied, "The most important commandment is this 'Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only Lord. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.' The second is equally important: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' No other commandment is greater than these."
Jesus came to show us the way to the Father. He reaffirmed the plan laid out from the beginning, that we are designed to love the Lord with all that we are. Yet what did the people of God do? They chose idols. They chose power and prestige, they choose to remain in control, and under the camouflage of religious authority they crucified the Son of the One true God.
The lure of idolatry with all of its lusts and appetites outweighed the call of God on His people.
Jesus said, "leave your nets"
And they choose to maintain their way of life.
Jesus said, "sell your possessions"
And they choose to acquire more.
Jesus said, "follow me"
And they said let me go bury my father.
Think deeper with me for a moment, think below the surface, to matters and motives of the heart; across all these years the idol worshippers have not really been worshiping idols. Instead they have been creating gods to get their own way. Whether they desired power, or possession or prestige or pleasure, the idols of the world of Moses and Isaiah and the Roman Empire were in reality tools used by the idol worshiper in an attempt to get their way.
I have reminded us of God's story across the ages to get to this point. The idol is the servant of the idol worshiper, for the real idol, the thing we are truly worshiping is ourselves.
Humans are the universal idol. I worship me. You worship you. We want things our way and not God's way. We pursue our wants and our appetites, we want control, to create our own false sense of security instead of following God's ways and His commands.
Across the arch of human history, God has called us to Himself and we have instead turned to ourselves. We must come to the realization that we have idols to smash if we are to worship and serve the one and only God, and the idol that defiantly keeps us from God is ourselves. You. Me.
We each have a fundamental choice to make as humans, "are you going to worship the creator God and discover thereby what it means to become fully and gloriously human, reflecting his powerful, healing, transformative love into the world? Or are you going to worship the world as it is, boosting your corruptible humanness by gaining power or pleasure from the forces within the world [thereby] contributing to your own dehumanization and the further corruption of the world?" (Wright, Surprised by Joy, p.185)
I came this morning to remind us of the journey of humankind, and our on again, off again relationship with our Creator God; to remember His repeated acts of revelation and redemption, all intended to bring us into right relationship with Himself; and to remind us of the fact that our lives are constructed in such a fashion that we cannot not worship. As dependent, finite beings we must, we will give ourselves in allegiance to something or someone.
And here we are, at the page of the story where our lives are being written. You have been reminded of the call of God and the nature of humankind, you have been called by our pastor to a life of praise, and now I feel compelled to ask us all—who do you worship? Who is your God?
You see, I've been asked to speak about praise. I have lived long enough around the people of God and those on the edges of God's people to observe and learn a few things.There are those whose praise is compartmentalized. There are those whose praise is counterfeit. There are those who praise in an attempt to manipulate the one they praise.
And then there are those who get it.
Who understand.
Who believe that there is but one, true God.
And that God has created us, and we only find fulfillment in life as we find our place in a life yielded to Him.
This is the good news for this day, the only way to truly praise God, is to give yourself to God.
The ultimate act of praise is a life consecrated to Him.
Let me ask you this.
Are there idols in your life?
Do you understand that the ultimate idol is the idol of self?
Who do you choose to serve, to worship, to depend upon?
Or God?
Complete this sentence, "This is my life and I give it to . . ."
If the answer is you, if you are in control—your praise is hollow.
If, however, you have taken your life, this gift from God, and surrendered it, yielded it; in essence died to self in order to live for God, then your praise is authentic, more importantly, your life is authentic, and a sweet fragrance before our Lord, the one, true living God.
I want us to sing a song of praise to God. Many will know it, for some of you it is so old it may be new.
I invite you to sing it with me in the spirit of praise that can only be sounded from a surrendered heart and life:
Sing "I Surrender All"
Recommended Reading:
Dawn, Marva J. A Royal Waste of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World. Grand
Dawn, Marva J. Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for the Turn-of-the-Century Cultu
Hustad, Donald. Jubilate II: Church Music in Worship and Renewal. Carol Stream: Hope, 1981, 1989.
Wright, N.T. After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters. New York: HarperCollins, 2010.
Wright, N.T. Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection and the Mission of the Church. New York


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If you are a new starling owner and are wondering how other starling owners successfully share their homes with these birds, these webpages are for you. In this section we offer some of our thoughts and experiences as starling owners. Our purpose in doing so is to give you some insight and ideas about living with one of these amazing little birds. Remember that YOU are responsible for deciding how to do things for your own bird.
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Baby Shadow's Photo Albums (What a baby starling looks like)
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Stormy, Sunshine, & Shadow's diet. Why we feed this diet. Healthy
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-- We do NOT condone stealing baby starlings from nests! Our birds were found as nestlings in trouble, and our only option was to raise each one and keep it. However, when possible,
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-- European starlings are not federally protected in the U.S., yet some states require a special permit to keep one. If you rescue a baby starling and cannot keep it, contact a
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-- If you find a wild baby bird other than a Starling, Pigeon (Rock dove), or House sparrow, U.S. law dictates that you
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NBM in May: the last Boneyard!
March 2, 2010 by NBM
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Here's what's being solicited for at comics shops now from NBM. Boneyard comes to its conclusion, well, at least for a while: BONEYARD, Vol. 7 Richard Moore The final volume, at least for a long while as Moore takes an indefinite break. Michael Paris and Abbey are up against powerful rival armies in the land […]
Much Ado about Little Nothings.
February 25, 2010 by NBM
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"A giant in French comics, Trondheim has always been a marvelous observer of the extraordinary little moments in everyday existence. All rendered in the simple but expressive and versatile style that has always been one of his greatest strengths. Verdict: Recommended for those who appreciate low-key but charming autobiographical comics." Library Journal "Trondheim's third collection […]
Booklist on Graylight: for connoisseurs
February 24, 2010 by NBM
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"For connoisseurs of serious literature and film as well as graphic novels." says Booklist of Naomi Nowak's new Graylight.
Comics Reporter on Little Nothings: straight to the top of the pile
February 24, 2010 by NBM
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Lewis Trondheim's newest entry in his comics blog collection of Little Nothings (vol.3: Uneasy Happiness) gets these words from Tom Spurgeon of The Comics Reporter: "It's one of the few series that vaults to the head of the reading pile whenever it shows up in the mailbox. For whatever reason, Trondheim's diary comics play to […]
Down the Bunny Trail…
February 24, 2010 by Brooke Allen
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I'll be honest, I can't think of anything more fun to draw then some one tromping through the woods… and as a result you'll find many a panel of Tesana + crew doing just that. Besides it being the perfect excuse to scribble trees and live vicariously through my characters (because lets face it, […]
Year of Loving Dangerously still gets reactions.
February 23, 2010 by NBM
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"The Year of Loving Dangerously is just the second book I've read of Ted Rall's, the first being his account of his travels along the Silk Road in Silk Road to Ruin. I quite enjoyed the latter, how he combined his memories of the trip with accurate descriptions of the people and political climes of […]
Unshelved on The Big Kahn
The very popular daily strip for Librarians "Unshelved" recommends The Big Khan. And this book, by the way, has gone back to press!
Little Nothings in stores
February 12, 2010 by NBM
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Lewis Trondheim's latest collection of pithy every day musings and observations from his comics blog, Little Nothings vol.3: Uneasy Happiness is in stores now! We've been posting these comics blog entries right here twice a week, as advertised, come snow or sleet. All of these are from volume 3. Pretty soon, we hope to start posting all-new […]
Malefic reviewed by SF site
February 10, 2010 by NBM
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"The works, complete and often accompanied with some of the initial drawings that led to the finished piece, are hauntingly beautiful. The poetry and power of the images depicted are timeless in their quality and the dark subject matter resonates in this age of Twilight. If you enjoy a fantasy art, this is one of […]
Be Prepared this April for…
February 9, 2010 by Brooke Allen
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Here's a few things to expect this April: VILLAINOUS MUSTACHES ! DEFIANCE! INCREDIBLE DIALOGUE! AND EQUESTRIAN AGILITY! ALL THIS BETWEEN THE COVERS OF : A Home for Mr.Easter More sneak peaks and comic talk to come!…. after I finish my home work. >:(


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Hey everyone! Kia ora, I'm Taika Waititi. I made this movie called BOY. This is what I tricked Sundance Film Festival into saying about it when I took it there …
"Inspired by his Oscar-nominated short, Taika Waititi offers a charming, funny, and wild coming-of-age story where everybody has some coming of age to do. Never short on laughs, Waititi's story is ultimately about three boys (one grown) reconciling fantasy with reality."
I wanted more, so I got Bird Runningwater from the Sundance Institute to say this:
"The actor playing Boy in the film, teenager James Rolleston, was mobbed by teenaged German girls wanting his autograph after he premiered at the Berlinale."
No love for me in Berlin? So I Googled myself and found this from @jackiechan and then I had an idea.
"Every once in a while, a tiny little film will come along so heartfelt and so well executed that you just know if it can find a studio that believes in it or somehow find its way in front of an audience, it will be a hit. All too often that movie fades only to be discovered years later by adoring fans, leaving them wondering, 'Why didn't I see this in the theater?' I am holding onto hope that this doesn't become the fate of Taika Waititi's wonderfully hilarious autobiographical film BOY."
Columbus arrived in America in 1492. In 1964, the Beatles made the trip. It's 2012 and I am bringing BOY to your big United States and your fancy theatres with 3D and butter for your popcorn and share it with you. You can be my studio.
I made the film in New Zealand where it to become the biggest hit in history. We won tons of crazy awards at the Sydney, Melbourne and AFI Film Festivals. I took it to New Mexico with Sundance and showed it there just for fun. Most importantly to me, it made people happy.
But you Americans haven't had a chance yet to see it and I just know you'll love it—and you could use a bit of cheering up, especially since the world is supposed to end this year.
I want to come to more American cities and show it to more of you. I promise to visit as many places as I can so you can beat me up in person afterwards if you didn't like it. Thanks for your help, mysterious people.
Sincerely, Taika
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