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Posted by Tripp Hudgins 2 years 31 weeks ago
What do you have to say about "living abundantly"? How do you deal with anxiety when you think about the future of churches?"Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit. The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. They will not follow a stranger, but they will run from him because they do not know the voice of strangers." Jesus used this figure of speech with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them. So again Jesus said to them, "Very truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and bandits; but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate. Whoever enters by me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. ~ John 10:6-10
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 2 years 32 weeks ago
Editor's Note: Theologian extraordinnaire Tripp Hudgins put together this edition of First Thoughts on living with abundance, butting up against living with anxiety.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 2 years 32 weeks ago
[The "nones"] recite history and Christian leadership's collusion with the agents of empire-building and warfare. Then they say something like, "I'd rather live like Jesus than be a Christian."They see the Church as the rich young man and they wonder if anyone actually follows Jesus anymore.Of course, this is not the only demographic shift at work in the religious life of the world.There are more Anglicans in Nigeria than there are in England.More Presbyterians in Ghana than in Scotland. ..More Baptists in Southeast Asia than in the Southeastern United States.More Christians go to church in China than in Europe.In 1900, 71 percent of the world's Christians were in Western Europe. By 2000 that percentage dropped below twenty percent in some European nations.Here's the real kicker: these are not problems to fix. They are simply realities to be faced.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 2 years 33 weeks ago
Editor's Note: Theologian extraordinnaire Tripp Hudgins put together this edition of First Thoughts prior to the first presidential debate. Still applicable before this evening's Vice Presidential debate.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 2 years 34 weeks ago
Today is the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi.You likely have heard of him. Il Poverello. He's the 13th-century aescetic who founded a religious order.It was, on one hand, a protest order...protesting how the Church had lost its way in relationship to money and helping the poor. It was on the other hand an opportunity for people to come together and do someting rather remarkable in caring for the poor by joining in solidarity with the poor.The Friars Minor were formed in 1226. St. Clare of Assisi was co-founder. She has her own feast day, of course, but don't lose this opportunity to get to know her as well. (There was also an incredibly trippy movie made about his life titled Brother Son, Sister Moon. Some day, when no one is watching, you should rent that film. Outrageously strange.) Francis' prayer is well known, but today I want to offer up this quotation which is similar, but presents a different focus. Less a prayer and more a philosophical edict, these words moved me this morning:"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt."
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 2 years 34 weeks ago
Should the market have so much control over liturgical music?There is nothing new to this question. Not at all. Now, however, there may be much that is new in discoverng the answer. Once upon a time in the European West, liturgical music was created by musicians who were supported by the patronage of a noble class.* Byrd, Tallis, you know the gang.Before then it was the monastic composer (Hildegard, et al) who seemed to rule the charts with their chant. Musicians were supported by the Church and the Wealthy in some way and thus created music for worship.The old markets, of course, have given way to new markets over the centuries, but throughout the history of the Western marketplace, markets (and the people they represent) have had tremendous say in what music we deem as sacred.Now, in our post-colonial, neoliberal marketplace, how shall we choose liturgical music?
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 2 years 35 weeks ago
What if music were ethics?You know, the art of listening and producing sounds as ethics? I'm just thinking on the old blog here. I'm preaching next Sunday and I'm thinking about listening and music and how we learn to be good to one another. Somewhere someone wrote "It is better to give than receive."
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 2 years 37 weeks ago
My children don't remember.I mean, the younger children in my church don't remember. It was eleven years ago. The oldest of them was six when the towers were destroyed and we went to war. I'm wondering how I talk to them about it. I wonder how I tell them the story without subjecting them to the trauma so many people experienced that day.So, no video footage. No point in giving the kids nightmares. I'm just going to talk about how many kinds of religions there are in the United States. No longer simply a liberal posture, it's an issue of national security, no? If we want to be at peace with our neighbors locally and globally, we need to understand them. We need to have something to work with, some kind of conecpt of how they live.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 2 years 38 weeks ago
Hello fellow Sojourners!This is a brief missive for your enjoyment. I just returned from the Wild Goose Festival in Corvallis, Ore.Yes, Oregon and not North Carolina. You see, in a fit of wisdom, the good people of Wild Goose found a west coast location. I hope it worked well for them because I'm sold on the place. I wish you could have been there. It was amazing. To tantalize you into attending next year, here (in no particular order) are Nine Good Reasons to Attend The Wild Goose Festival. 1. There are no bugs.None. Well, some flies, but this is Oregon and not North Carolina and though the nights are chilly and the mornings moreso (I awoke the last morning to see my breath in the air), the sun arose and everything warmed up to make for some of the most beautiful weather you'll ever experience. 2. All the notables are there.Rachel, Richard (and Richard), Brian, Nadia, Gareth, Bruce, Christian, Amy, Yvette, Hilary, Greg, Steve...So many people to meet and to know.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 2 years 41 weeks ago
Psalm 78:1-8Hear my teaching, O my people; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.I will open my mouth in a parable; I will declare the mysteries of ancient times.That which we have heard and known, and what our forebears have told us, we will not hide from their children.We will recount to generations to come the praiseworthy deeds and the power of the Lord, and the wonderful works he has done.He gave his decrees to Jacob and established a law for Israel, which he commanded them to teach their children;That the generations to come might know, and the children yet unborn; that they in their turn might tell it to their children;So that they might put their trust in God, and not forget the deeds of God, but keep his commandments;And not be like their forebears, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, and whose spirit was not faithful to God.I'm pondering the first few lines of this Psalm. They strike me as remarkably different from much of what we're saying these days about generations and faithfulness. It is, it seems, always the younger generations who fail us, who are stubborn and do not recognize the gifts of God. Every so often someone will throw the Baby Boomers (I mean, that's fun, right?) under the bus, but the majority of our attention has been on the future generations or those who are simply young now. We who analyze religious trends are practitioners of religious prognostication.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 2 years 41 weeks ago
Tony Jones has asked some of us progressive Theobloggers to chime in on God, you know, perhaps some kind of definition or doctrine (that word many of us progressives despise). You can read his invitation here. Tony doesn't want us to talk about Jesus, per se, but about God. I get that. He's in his evangelical context and he gets tired of all the Jesus talk. Lately it seems that the Emergent conversation has been all Jesus all the time. Now, that doesn't bother me, but then again I feel that in my end of the progressive mainline (free church progressive) we don't talk about Jesus enough. We talk about God all the time. Jesus, well, he's a bit of an enigma. What else is there to say? Nevertheless, Tony's invitation is an interesting one and I'm willing to chime in.One caveat: I'm doing this as a way to speak of one Person of a Trinity. To speak of the One is, in many ways, to speak of the Three and the Unity. But this is just a blog post and not a 20-page essay. So ... yeah.My answer: If you want to know God, get Religion. (Have you got good religion? Certainly, Lord!) Religion is a combined set of activities embodied by people. These activities are not limited to but may include the following behaviors: liturgy, charity, politics, and even theology (mystical and systematic), and doctrine. Religion can be communal or individual. Religion is the principal craft by which we know (cognition) and understand (hermeneutics) God.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 2 years 42 weeks ago
This is the third and final installment of my little series on Harry Emerson Fosdick, his sermons about Modernism and Science, and how these century-old sermons remind us that our present conversations about the same are anything but new. They may be necessary, but they aren't new. You can read my first post, "I Love How History Repeats Itself," and my second post, "Science, Faith, and An Ongoing Conversation."I want to continue to focus on the same two sermons, "Shall the Fundamentalists Win?" and "The Church Must Go Beyond Modernism," and finish up a line of thought about American Christian Fundamentalism and interlace a third and final sermon entitled, "The Greatness of God" in which Fosdick outlines some of his own understandings of atheism, science, and religion. Typical of Fosdick, there is a tome hidden in between the lines of that sermon. Nevertheless, I'll try to share some of it with you.What does Fosdick say is the trouble with Modernism? In "The Church Must Go Beyond Modernism," he lists a few problems. Here's a list:"... it is primarily an adaptation, an adjustment, an accommodation of Christian faith to contemporary scientific thinking."for this reason it tends "toward shallowness and transiency" and thus cannot adequately represent the Eternal;"Unless the church can go deeper and reach higher than that it will fail indeed.""... excessively preoccupied with intellectualism" eschewing the heart and thus missing much of Christian spiritualityexcessive sentimentality, which means the eternal progress of the human character and the eradication of evil and the loss of moral judgment, scientific progress being equated with human moral progress"... modernism has even watered down and thinned out the central message and distinctive truth of religion, the reality of God."
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 2 years 42 weeks ago
The evening was warm. Seated at the small desk by the windows I opened my Bible and started to read from Jeremiah, "Seek the welfare of the city to which I send you." The passage was also inscribed over the entrance to the cloisters of Richmond Hill, the old convent turned retreat center in the Church Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Va., overlooking downtown. I was on retreat and seeking a little inspiration.Seek the welfare of the city, said Jeremiah. Pray for the city, say the people of Richmond Hill. Love the city. Work for the good of the city. This is the city of God. Every city is the Holy City.The verse from Jeremiah actually continues on. It's a bit more involved than the brief passage inscribed over the entryway:"But seek the welfare of the cityto which I have sent you into Exile,and pray to the Lord on its behalf,for in its welfare you will find your welfare." (Jer. 29:7)Oh no ... I'm gonna have to work this out.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 2 years 43 weeks ago
In a recent post here on God's Politics, Derek Flood suggested (as many have lately) that Christian communities need to start taking this whole "faith and science" thing seriously.I posted some relatively snarky comment on my Facebook page about it (I apologize for the snark) suggesting that the authors of these recent posts about faith and science are ignoring about a century's worth of conversation and theology. Perhaps more.Let me give you an example of what I mean in Harry Emerson Fosdick.***As I said just yesterday, Fosdick was famous for lots of things, particularly the sermon "Shall The Fundamentalists Win?" which he preached on May 21, 1922.It was a call to arms of sorts within the church, encouraging tolerance and a willingness to engage the minds of believers and unbelievers alike in a time of incredible scientific discovery.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 2 years 43 weeks ago
Okay... for all my friends out there. No, history does not repeat itself. Yes, history is a human construct. Now, if you will all just work with me, take a gander at this longish quotation from the Introduction to The Meaning of Prayer (1916) by Harry Emerson Fosdick (pictured here). The introduction was written by John R. Mott. It could have been written last week. These meditations and studies on prayer are most timely. Never have there been such extensive and such convincing evidences of the poverty and inadequacy of human means and agencies for furthering the welfare of of humanity; never has there been such a widespread sense of the need of superhuman help; never have there been such challenges to Christians to undertake deeds requiring Divine cooperation; never has there been such a manifest desire to discover the secret of the hiding and of the releasing of God's power. Interest in prayer is world-wide. This is shown in the prominence of this subject in addresses and sermons in all lands, as well as by the growing volume of books and pamphlet literature in different languages. The multiplication of Calls to Prayer and of Prayer Circles, and the formation of Prayer Bands and of Leagues of Intercession, constitute similar testimony. Among Christians everywhere, and even among those who would not call themselves believing Christians, there is being manifested an earnest desire to understand what prayer is and to engage more fully in its exercise.... An alarming weakness among Christians is that we are producing Christian activities faster than we are producing Christian experience and Christian faith; that the discipline of our souls and the deepening of our acquaintance with God are not proving sufficiently thorough to enable us to meet the unprecedented expansion of opportunity and responsibility of our generation. These studies and spiritual exercises in helping men and women to form that most transforming, most energizing, and most highly productive habit — the habit of Christlike prayer — will do much to overcome this danger.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 2 years 43 weeks ago
Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor and Critter Fuqua first met in the seventh grade in Harrisonburg, Virginia in Rockingham County, and began playing music together. They performed open mics at the Little Grill diner which was "really the first chance that . . Critter had to play on stage." Being "a bit younger" than the "college students at James Madison University who typically hung out there" Secor "was considered a townie." As Secor says today: "They knew that we had talent, but it was raw. I mean, I was up there beating on a jaw harp when I was 13." (wiki)Virginia boys.... Amen.Watch the video for the band's song "Wagon Wheel" inside the blog ...
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 2 years 44 weeks ago
This morning I read and sang this canticle.Come, let us sing to the Lord; let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and raise a loud shout to him with psalms. For the Lord is a great God, and a great king above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the heights of the hills are his also. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands have moulded the dry land. Come, let us bow down and bend the knee, and kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. O that today you would hearken to his voice! Psalm 95:1-7 (Venite)Then I lamented. I lamented the work of human beings to tear down what God holds in God's hands. I lamented that my friends in the peace movement callously sent a press release decrying the gun lobby within what seemed like moments after the smoke cleared in Aurora. I lamented the inane anti-Darwinian posture of other Christians. We're all looking for something to blame. We cannot simply sit in our sackcloth and our ashes and lament ... lament our own failure, lament the actions of someone raised in church, lament our inability to protect the innocent, lament our powerlessness.We cannot and will not lament our powerlessness. We need to learn how.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 2 years 44 weeks ago
Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger, nothing higher, nothing wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller or better in heaven or earth; for love is born of God, and can rest only in God above all created things.And so my musings on Thomas a Kempis, for whom Jesus the Christ was Love Incarnate, begin.Will it frame my day? Will it help me make sense of French class?
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 2 years 44 weeks ago
Maybe someone pursuing a Ph.D. in Liturgical Theology and Ethnomusicology is shouldn't be the one to offer this reflection.Heck, maybe a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering or in Astrophysics would be a wise economic choice. I can't say.I've been mulling over some of the news stories out there hyping either end of the (political?) reality of spending more money (and time, let's not forget time) on higher education. It leads me to a couple of questions:Does the present rate of student debt have a snowball's chance in Tartarus in being repaid? Will the students, especially the so-called "nontradtional student" like myself, actually see a return in their investment? If you believe NPR, the answer may be "no."
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 2 years 45 weeks ago
I haven't written about the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle yet. I think I posted about it on Facebook or Pinterest or somewhere like that. I'm excited by the discovery. Actually, I'm excited by discovery in general. Discovery is good stewardship. This particular discovery is particularly intriguing (Get it? I used "particular" since we're talking about particles! I'm so clever in the morning.).So, let me begin with a simple prayer. I want to get into this a bit.God of the moon, God of the sun,God of the globe, God of the stars,God of the waters, the land, and the skies,Who ordained to us the King of promise.It was Mary fair who went upon her knee,It was the King of life who went upon her lap,Darkness and tears were set behind,And the star of guidance went up early.Illumed the land, illumed the world,Illumed doldrum and current,Grief was laid and joy was raised,Music was set up with harp and pedal harp.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 2 years 45 weeks ago
Is the Mainline Liberal Church in decline? Numerically, sure. Absolutely. But what this means, I cannot say. Many have tried to make sense of it. In the wake of recent editorials, some theologians and others have offered up their thoughts. I surmised it might be helpful to collect one or two of the links here on the outside chance that you missed them. Can Liberal Christianity Be Saved - Ross Douthat offers some sharp critiques of the tradition. Once the bastion of the Social Gospel movement, the liberal mainline is not all "social" and very little "Gospel." "But if conservative Christianity has often been compromised, liberal Christianity has simply collapsed. Practically every denomination — Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian — that has tried to adapt itself to contemporary liberal values has seen an Episcopal-style plunge in church attendance. Within the Catholic Church, too, the most progressive-minded religious orders have often failed to generate the vocations necessary to sustain themselves."There have been a couple of good direct responses to Douthat's OpEd piece.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 2 years 46 weeks ago
The most amazing thing happened this week.Maybe you missed it.The Episcopal Church held their General Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana. They gathered. They prayed. They sang. I'm told there were a few sermons, too! And you know they offered the Eucharist. They can't do anything without someone bringing bread, wine, and a blessing. God love 'em.This week they voted, too. They held up in their bicameral way of doing things and worked out some key issues. Among the issues at hand were whether or not to sell their offices in New York City and to find ways of investing their income in the future of the denomination. They did both. If you followed them on Twitter (Many did. #GC77 trended right up there!), then you know that there was hope and joy in their rooms. This is not why they made the news, of course. They made the news when they voted to formally allow for same-sex blessings within their communion.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 2 years 46 weeks ago
"If you tell a lie, it will be all over the country in a day or two. But if you tell the truth, it will take ten years to get there." ~ Eddie "Son" HouseAnd the truth is what Jesus offered the people of his hometown in this tale from Mark's Gospel. Jesus offered his prophetic witness of truth-telling. He held up a mirror and showed them who they were. He held up a mirror and said to them, "The Kingdom of God is with you."They were enraged that one of their own would do such a thing. He was utterly astonished that the people who had raised him were incapable of facing their own truth.He also knew that if they could not face the realities of their own complicated lives they would not be able to embrace the healing and forgiveness that God offered.Jesus had the blues. He had the hometown blues.So, rejected, he fled his hometown. Then he sent his apostles out into the world proclaiming peace, healing the sick and the lame, and prepared to face the same rejection. People don't like to be reminded of the complications of real life. None of us like the feeling of being judged when the mirror is held up before us.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 2 years 48 weeks ago
I have been thinking about the church of my youth. I have been remembering, if you will, as a guy who has read too much Updike (I'll never forgive him for the Rabbit books) might remember his youth.There is a melding of nostalgia for what was as well as what might have been. It's a mess, to be honest, a kind of lie that draws me in no matter how often I tell myself it is a lie. Sometimes these lies of memory are the heart's truth.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 3 years 2 weeks ago
The Church is not a purity cult. We try to turn our institutions into purity cultus of behavior or belief all the time. We're really good at it. We've fought wars over our theologies wrapped in nationalism. We've crusaded from west to east all in the name of the purity of the Church. "Ex filio" was a war cry a thousand years ago.Rachel Held Evans is right. Evangelicalism may very well be losing a generation and by extension, we all are. But then some of us have been losing parts of generations for a long time. Some of the Boomers walked never to return. More of Gen X did the same. Now the enormous generation of Millennials is having its say. Many are voting with their feet. They are tired of the culture wars. They are tired of the purity fights. Many people from various generations are. They are all voting with their feet. The same thing is happening in Catholicism though some are choosing to stay. If it weren't for the influx of Catholic immigrants to the US, we'd see the same statistical free fall in Catholicism that the mainline is experiencing.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 3 years 3 weeks ago
"Talk to me about your mother."Such ominous words.But talk to you about her, I will. And it's not gonna be pretty.You see, my mother isn't perfect. Her love may be perfect, but she's not and like everyone else on the planet she has hurt the ones she loves the most in the very act of trying to love them.It's Mother's Day this Sunday and we'll honor our mothers, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, spouses, grandmothers and, and, and...We'll honor women and men who have mothered us. And we should.It's not easy work and Lord knows that Freud has helped us pathologize motherhood. In turn we have idolized motherhood and mothers. Neither approach works. Not really. So I would like to propose a via media for Mother's Day.Every Sunday as I'm driving to the church I serve I call my mother to check in. She lives by herself and I worry. I'm her son. I can't help myself.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 3 years 3 weeks ago
This is a response to some of the NPR coverage on pastors who are losing their religion. It's a heartbreaking series. I say that not because people are losing their faith, changing their minds about religion. I'm heartbroken because I'm not hearing about any Christian tradition other than American Fundamentalism. That's Christianity according to mass media and, apparently, according to the men and women who have stepped away from the Church. They believe so strongly in the arguments of Fundamentalism that they cannot imagine another form of Christianity. They cannot imagine another God. They believe that Fundamentalism is the only theology out there. They believe in One God, the Fundamentalist God. So, in breaking with that rhetoric, they have to break with the whole Church.We who believe something other than American Fundamentalism have failed these people. We have failed again and again to successfully offer the alternatives to Fundamentalism. Instead, we sit in our beautiful neo-gothic buildings or in our hip-coffee shops or under the dome of the Pantokrator and wonder why people do not know us. It's simply crap. If all there were in Christianity was American Fundamentalism, I would be an atheist, too. Perhaps the Fundamentalists have won after all.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 3 years 5 weeks ago
This weekend, if you can believe it, marks the 20th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots that followed the verdict in the Rodney King trial that acquitted four police officers of any wrong doing. Maybe some of us are old enough to remember the beating that King took as he was being arrested.Maybe some of us are old enough to remember the violence that followed. Fifty people died in the riots.Why do we bother to honor such memories? Why do we hold them up? St. John of the Cross, the Carmelite mystic, writes of a temporal veil that separates us from God. It's an unavoidable separation, he said, that every creature encounters.We live in time. God does not. He also said, however, that by grace that veil can be torn, time and memory collapsing in upon one another and we are no longer separate from God.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 3 years 6 weeks ago
In City Journal, Pascal Bruckner has written an interesting essay critiquing "secular elites" and their (our?) predilection for an apocalyptic vision without redemption. He calls it the apocalyptic daze, a love for the cataclysmic and states that it's shaping our politics. Interesting stuff to read as Earth Day approaches. He writes: My point is not to minimize the dangers that we face. Rather, it is to understand why apocalyptic fear has gripped so many of our leaders, scientists, and intellectuals, who insist on reasoning and arguing as though they were following the scripts of mediocre Hollywood disaster movies.His is not a critique of the science of environmentalism but one of the rhetoric of the politics surrounding it.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 3 years 6 weeks ago
I've been navel gazing again and wondering how we come to know ourselves. I wonder what that right balance is between our inner-barometer of self-knowing and that external one that people reflect back to us. "Ubuntu," (I am because of who we are) or all the various "I am..." statements: "I think therefore I am" (Descartes) or "I am what I am and that's all that I am" (Popeye)...What statements might we add to this list? Bishop Desmond Tutu expands the notion of Ubuntu thusly: One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu – the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality – Ubuntu – you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole World. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.I'm trying to wrap my mind about how we construct the self. Judith Butler, Catherine Bell (ritualization) and others inhabit my mind lately. Ritual, tradition, story, identity... the list goes on and on ...
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 3 years 7 weeks ago
Yesterday the Lord Awoke. You see, God had been sleeping. Entombed again. How long, O Lord, must we sing this song of You Entombed? We bury you again and again. We crucify you again and again. Then, when you show us (again and again) that death cannot contain you, we run away. We're afraid. We cannot imagine a world in which Death has no sting. We cannot imagine a world in which Death does not hold the last word and our ability to deal in Death doesn't empower us.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 3 years 7 weeks ago
Good Friday. Is this something we can understand? What makes it so "good?"Sure, we have theologies about this moment in history. We have systematic notions about why who and what. We tell the story every year. Some traditions reenact the tale more than once a year. If you attend a church from one of the "liturgical" traditions, you here the story told during the Eucharist every Sunday. "Christ has died. Christ has risen. Christ will come again." It's the Paschal Mystery told again and again. I also know some baptist preachers who tell the story of the Passion of Christ every Sunday. It is the Gospel, after all. This story, the Passion, is The Gospel for many of us Christian preachers. And to not share the Passion is to not share The Gospel. If their sermons don't end with the proclamation of the sarcifice of Jesus, well, then it just isn't Church.I'm still sharing that e-unspoken part of my faith again. This is not new. Nor is it unintegrated with the rest of my Christian spirituality. It's actually essential to it. So, in the spirit of clarity, I'm sharing this stuff with you.I have no idea what Jesus meant by giving himself over like this. We read the scripture last night at the Maundy Thursday service at First Baptist. "Not my will but your's." Lord, have mercy. Someone asked the question as someone does every year, "Why would God want Jesus to die? If it's God's will...Why would God will this to happen?" I have some practiced answers. This year I offered them as I usually do. "First, let me tell you what the tradition says..." I give a theological gloss and watch their eyes glaze over. Right. Of course. This isn't an answer any more than a stump speech is an indication of what will actually happen if one of these people in the news are elected to public office. So, I move on.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 3 years 9 weeks ago
Perhaps you have read Rachel Held Evans' post titled, "15 Reasons I Left Church." With over 800 comments, it has clearly struck a chord with some people. Similarly, Christian Piatt's post on God's Politics, Four Reasons Why I Came Back To Church, has been making the rounds on Facebook. Well, I posted it, at least. They are both about the authors' experiences of being a young adult in relationship with institutional Christianity. It's a difficult topic to write about ... there are trends, of course, but in general the journey is so particular that one cannot really generalize. I think both authors do a good job simply offering up their testimonies, affording the readers an opportunity to make whatever connections we find. So, in the spirit of connecting the dots, I offer this song and a wee bit of testimony.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 3 years 10 weeks ago
I'm on the flight home now. "Home." It's a curious idea, really. Home. As children we might make a game of it. You know, like when you play tag with your friends and you create a safe place where you can't be tagged. Even when we play games it's important to have a place to be safe...a "home."When we played this game as children, however, we had another rule. You could not stay at home forever. You had to venture out. Sometimes the rule would be that you could stay home for 30 seconds and no more. Home. It's safe. You can't be tagged there. But you can't stay forever, either.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 3 years 15 weeks ago
"I have found great beauty in religion and religion has shown me great beauty in myself and in the world," Tripp says, as he reflects on the 11 years since he's had a drink. "I'm still not sure I know what being beloved means. Somehow we forget that we are beloved....Today is the 11th anniversary of the day I was told who I was. It's a good day."
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 3 years 17 weeks ago
Krumbine posited a question, a quandary about how we go on "when the honeymoon is over." How do we sustain love? What do we treasure and how do we sustain the affection and even the excitement? This morning's First Thoughts is about Gratitude. As usual, your video responses and comments are needed to flesh this thing out. I'm only starting a conversation.Watch Tripp hash it out inside the blog ...
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 3 years 19 weeks ago
"Wisdom wants to be free. As a Christian, I believe there is actually some theology to this....Wisdom is a woman and she stands at the gates of the city and she cries out to the people, 'Be free. Be free to love and be free to share.'...What if we understood creativity to be wisdom?"Watch Tripp's v-log on SOPA, creativity, freedom and wisdom inside the blog...
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 3 years 19 weeks ago
I know it's late. I know you are done with the guy and the Broncos' season is over. Still, I have a question for you.
Posted by Tripp Hudgins 3 years 20 weeks ago
Cee Lo Green got himself in some pop-culture hot water on New Years Eve when he changed the lyrics to John Lennon's "Imagine." You would think he was changing the Bible or something, but no, it was much worse. He changed the lyrics to a John Lennon song. "No religions" became "all religions" and all hell broke loose....Suffice it to say that people were put out. They defended Lennon's unchangeable artistic canon. Green's supporters suggested that all art can be reinterpreted...even John Lennon's. Personally, I didn't find it offensive at all. Instead, I thought it was a thoughtful (if momentary) update to the iconic pop song. Given the religious strife in the world, expressing a love for humanity through all the world's religion was generous and very appropriate for a New Year celebration.Alas, no. We're beset by fundamentalisms of all kinds (Lennonists?) and on all sides in this nation of ours. We're sufficiently afraid of religiosity that we've turned anti-religiosity into a religion and musicians become gods and their three minute songs become scripture...unchangeable holy writ.We're afraid and that fear strips us of our compassion.
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Jim Henson spent his life, like Mr. Rogers (a Presbyterian minister), trying to say to us and our children, "Hey, you're special and you're good." How is this a bad thing?
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We're in this thing together or we're not in this thing at all.We should all be marching in the streets.We are the 100 percent.We are poor. We are well-to-do. We are those somewhere in the middle. We are aware of the struggles and unfairness of this world and for this reason we are sensitive to one another's needs. So, we love our neighbors as ourselves.
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"'The fruit for which your soul longed has gone from you, and all your dainties and your splendor are lost to you, never to be found again!' The merchants of these wares, who gained wealth from her, will stand far off, in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning aloud ..." -- Revelation 18:14-15
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Part of a university education is learning how to navigate the complicated and often competing value systems of different social groups.
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THE SECOND edition of the University of the Philippines (UP) Cebu High School Alumni Association's Run UP High is expected to draw more participants this June 10 at the UP campus.
Since the Cebu City government now regulates running events in the city, organizers are confident that their race will not be held simultaneously with another event. This means the running community won't be divided during that Sunday morning.
The race aims to raise funds to support the group's 26 scholars and deserving faculty members.
Meanwhile, the running event will once again feature the 3-kilometer barkada category, wherein competitors will be composed of a four-man team running together to the finish line. This year, organizers will require each team to wear costumes.
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The running event was officially launched yesterday at the City Sports Club-Cebu.
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Lockheed Martin Corporation, Owego, New York, has been awarded a maximum $8,618,751 firm-fixed-price contract for transmitter receivers. This contract was a sole-source acquisition. This is a three-year base contract with no option periods. Location of performance is New York, with a Jan. 22, 2017, performance completion date. Using service is Denmark. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2015 foreign military sales funding. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Philadelphia (SPRWA1-13-D-2000-THBM). (Awarded Oct.
Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Training, Owego, New York, is being awarded $8,879,035 for delivery order 4001 against a previously issued Basic Ordering Agreement (N00019-14-G-0019) for non-recurring efforts for software modifications required for MH-60 Terrain Awareness Warning System (TAWS II) and Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast enhancements, including integration of the TAWS II software into the 2018 product line. These services are in support of the U.S. Navy and the governments of Australia and Denmark.
Lockheed Martin Mission Systems & Training, Owego, New York, is being awarded $38,530,708 for delivery order 4003 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-14-G-0019) for non-recurring engineering in support of the MH-60 integration and testing of the Advanced Data Transfer System, including mission system and common cockpit suite. These services are in support of the U.S. Navy, and governments of Australia and Denmark. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
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It took four votes and about 30 minutes of debate, but Lancaster County Council finally charted a course for how to proceed with obtaining benefits for employees of the Lancaster County Economic Development Corp.
Two people were flown from the scene of a head-on automobile accident outside Van Wyck on Monday afternoon, April 27.
April showers have produced yet another rainout at Lancaster Super Speedway.
LSS, for the second straight week, fell victim to the wet weather and the racing action was postponed.
Rain did little do put a damper on the Seth's Hope 5K Road Race at the University of South Carolina Lancaster on Saturday, April 25.
Central High School runner Mustapha Elgazar, 16, topped a 53-runner field in 19:16 during the rainy race at the USCL course.
Indian Land, 11-3, caps its boys soccer regular-season schedule with two matches this week.
The Warriors host Lancaster for the annual IL senior night match tonight, Wednesday at IL's Reservation.
Lancaster County has four softball teams in the Upper State playoffs.
Region IV-AA softball champion Andrew Jackson, 20-6, closed regular season play with a 5-1 win over Indian Land on Friday, April 24.
The Buford Yellow Jackets capped a perfect regular season – 22-0, 12-0 – with a 12-1 baseball win over Central of Pageland at the CHS field on Monday, April 27.
Jackets' senior right-hander Evan Flynn worked four frames in the win, which was halted in the fifth frame due to the mercy rule.
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In a show of unity, Lancaster County Republicans came together April 16 at their bi-annual county convention to elect a new slate of officers, look back at a number of recent history-making achievements and talk about the upcoming 2016 elections.
Half a century ago, our nation was in the midst of a civil rights revolution.
Over these last few years, we've reached several milestones: the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s transformative "I Have a Dream" speech and the historic march from Selma to Montgomery.
As we commemorate these events, we feel the weight of their expectations. We see the path that has moved us closer to justice and equality, but we also see the stumbling blocks and shortcomings along the way.
Currently, there is controversy involving the Lancaster County Parks and Recreation Department and its scheduling of youth recreation ballgames on Wednesday nights.
Some parents are concerned that their children feel they are not only letting their teammates and coaches down by not participating on Wednesdays, but feel like they are being punished by not getting to play as often as others because their parents take them to church services and activities on Wednesday nights.
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August 11, 2014
it gave me less flex in my voltage, but made my motor and trans run and shift noticeably better. now if I just upgrade my alternator, every thing would be good.
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May 15, 2014
Instead of adding a second battery I bought this, 100% worth the purchase. I never have any electrical problems or power drops. The wire is true 0 gauge. XS power makes great products, I highly recommend this upgrade to anyone.
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March 11, 2014
This is an perfect kit to do the big 3 upgrade. It actually contained enough wire for me to have sufficient wire up everything up front and to complete the ground and distribution block wiring for my second battery in the trunk. Would highly recommend.
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Camden, DE
March 10, 2014
Was curious if I was going to have to put the ring terminals on myself and I'm glad they came already on. Came with everything needed to do this upgrade and had easy enough instructions to follow even if you didn't know anything about cars. Would recommend it to anyone whose looking to do this upgrade.
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March 3, 2014
Used this to upgrade my electrical system when i put air ride on my 63 cadillac, worked great. Comes with everything needed, would recommend.
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March 13, 2015
The Big3XP kit has all the necessities if you're thinking about adding some serious power to your ride. There's more than enough 1/0 cable to get around under your hood and the accessories pack isn't too shabby either. My only request is that they up the number of extra 1/0 "lugs" to 4 or 6. The pack only comes with two and if you need the Big 3 for your system 3 pre-cut lengths of cable with lugs already attached and 2 extra lugs for your custom install doesn't quite get it done so do yourself a fav and add another pair of lugs if you order this kit.
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April 9, 2015
Didn't need a capacitor, stays @ 14.xx volts. Lights don't dim and I can play it sitting still. Def recommend.
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April 3, 2015
This product will improve electrical system. Everything works better. Cons would be: if you are not good with your hands you have to have someone install it.
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February 22, 2015
Very easy to install and described correctly. Comes with extra pieces just in cast you want to shorten the cables.
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January 23, 2015
I got 2 pair of the spx-65c and they are we built and package.. I would diffintly buy more Skar equipment
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May 10, 2015
Product works great, had plenty of wire. I bought extra ring terminals so I could make multiple runs will all the wire.
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October 26, 2014
Bought this from there Ebay store and received it within two days. I installed this before I installed my bass amp and what a difference in my voltage. My voltage with my truck running before would stay at 13.3 to 13.9 with bass notes now with this kit voltage stays at 14.8 to 14.9 voltage never drops with bass notes. Use this kit with an alternator upgrade and/or battery upgrade ( I did both with 250AMP Alternator with two XS D3400 batteries). even my truck runs stronger with this upgrade.
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New Knoxville, OH
May 16, 2014
I installed this in a 1998 Grand Prix GTP, the entire install took about half an hour. This was well worth $50!! Before this, I was having problems with headlight dimming when the bass would hit, the entire car would sometimes shut off, and the windows were getting slow. After I installed this, the engine seems to crank over (start) faster, no more of the entire car shutting off, windows seem to work faster, and best of all-- a significant improvement in sound quality. I also had a lot of alternator whine prior to this installation; this kit seemed to greatly reduce that (it's still there, just not nearly as noticeable). One should take note, that this product DOES NOT come with the extra ring terminals as shown in the picture.
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February 17, 2014
At first I was a little skeptical about the kit but once I got it turned out to be great. I installed it on a 02 cavalier and it fit perfectly, and for $50 for 0 gauge what else do you want.
Im currently running 3 amps in my car and this was definitely a great upgrade. Would defiantly recommend to anyone that's on a budget and wanting to do a BIG 3 upgrade.
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Greenville, NC
May 4, 2015
For the little bit of money this cost, it's a very good upgrade. I haven't actually used a volt meter to compare before and after, but my stereo definitely got louder and no dimming lights. The increased efficiency in transfer route keep the voltage constantly stable equaling higher voltage for the amps to use.
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Cedar Lake, IN
May 1, 2015
Xp flex lives up to its name for 1/0 Cable it is flexible for easy I stallation. Definitely helped a lot of my voltage drop still have some so I'm going with XS Powers batteries because all of XS Powers products have great quality. Thanks Sonic Electronix for the amazing deals
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Arlington, TX
April 28, 2015
Great product, followed enclosed instructions, easy install...I'm just running a two amp system and from my voltage meter shows consistent, no big drops when sub's are subbin', definitely recommend this product
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March 30, 2015
this works...as a skeptic, i dont mind spending a few dollars for trial and error..after successfully finding a suitable ground to the engine block, my headlight dim is minimal..some of the local shops around hera want 10-12 dollars per foot of the 0 gauge wiring..this is a great deal...sonic forever!!! wish i had some sonic stickers!! great product!!...
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Washougal, WA
March 4, 2015
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The XS Power BIG3XP was a great addition to my car and any car. Since I run only 2000 rms I believe having CCA was a good choice since its only to supply power to the car batt and grounds. The wires was a bit long for my small subaru impreza but for any big SUV or Engine bay with alternator on the opposite side of the battery will be a good use. (This is a good thing) Because I did the big 4 upgrade the same time i changed to a HO Alternator and New Batt, I didn't see the affects of the dimming of lights or the drops in voltages. Over all this was definitely a great buy and a definite upgrade for those people who do not want to get their hands dirty crimp lugs and ring terminals together.
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I took off the Shrink wrap to see the connection and the crimp was factory crimped but not soldered. I soldered all connection to get a better connection from them.
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April 5, 2015
It was exactly whay u wanted and need at the right price
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Orangeburg, SC
May 20, 2014
I installed these cables on a 2009 Chevy Silverado that the lights would dim when the base hit with the radio up to mid range...was told this would take care of the problem. No change really...my voltage will show more when I first start the truck but after 2 or 3 minutes it's back to where it started with the problem.
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April 11, 2014
Bought this and was very pleased. ..good thick heavy wire ....comes with connections already on so you dont have to fight with them to get them clamped your self
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September 7, 2014
Easy to install plenty of wire! Worked great fixing the headlight issue and added power all the way around in the car! I would recommend this to everyone!! Sonic was great fast delivery!!
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South Holland, IL
May 24, 2014
Big 3 kit was easy to install and no more engine whine and dimming lights. Works great for the price.
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July 28, 2014
I have to say I was impressed with the wiring kit. It came with everything you need including instructions! This made installing the kit real easy, no guess work. The wires are the wires are 10% OFC and XS Power makes sure it makes up for not being 100% OFC by adding more strands. This is a great product and I highly recommend this to anyone who demands mass power distribution.
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Prairie City, IA
June 10, 2014
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In use for more than four decades, light weight concrete has proven in its principle for economy and benefits over the years of usage, writes M.V.S.Giridhar
As an effective technology, light weight concrete not only promises to reduce the weight on a concrete structure but also minimises the heat transfer from atmosphere to concrete surface such as terrace and fills in voids. It is also cost effective, faster, better and long lasting.
In use for more than four decades, light weight concrete has proven in its principle for economy and benefits over the years of usage. Synonymous to foamed or aerated concrete, it is also a green product and the densities could be varied from 400 to 1600 kgs/m3 based on the application.
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text: No recent wiki edits to this page. OriginDanielle Foccart is young sister of Jacques Foccart, not much is known about her past.CreationDanielle Foccart was created by Paul Levitz and Keith GiffenCharacter EvolutionOriginal Continuity: New EarthComputo (Pre-Crisis)In the latter half of the 30th Century, Brainiac 5 undertook a project to build the ultimate computer. He named the artificial intelligence that emerged Computo, and then watched helplessly as Computo ruthlessly set out to create a tyranny of computers on Earth. With the assistance of other members of the Legion of Super Heroes, Brainiac 5 defeated Computo, but not before the machine had destroyed one of Luornu Durgo's three bodies, changing her from Triplicate Girl to Duo Damsel.Restored to inanimate life years later when Brainiac 5 accidentally incorporated a similar circuitry in a device he had built to save the life of Danielle Foccart, Computo invaded LSH headquarters and nearly killed the entire team. He sealed away Brianiac 5 and the Foccart's in hopes of seeking revenge on his creator. He had possessed the body and mind of Danille but was quickly burning its host body, who could not long survive the interface.Reboot: Earth-247Danielle Foccart (Earth-247)After the events of Zero Hour, a new timeline was created in which the Legion existed on Earth-247. In this timeline, Danielle doesn't having any superpowers.Retroboot: New EarthComputo (Post-Infinite Crisis)She was seen during the Legion of Three Worlds event, battling the Time Trapper and Superboy Prime.Major Story ArcsOriginal Continuity: New EarthComputo RevengePossession for vengeance!Only the decision of Jacques Foccart, the girl's elder brother, who was able to use telepathic earplugs along with Brianiac 5 to construct a plan. Jacques than used trickery to ingest Lyle Norg's, the deceased Invisible Kid, serum and turned invisible instantly. Once he had assume the powers and role of Invisible Kid he enabled Brainiac 5 to defeat Computo again.Five Years LaterComputo (Five Years Later)As for Danielle Foccart , her story did not end there. Danielle had been forever affected at the very biological core of her being, Computo's interface added Nano technology to her to her DNA. Danielle could now literally interface herself with almost any form of technology but would be strained and fatigued the longer she used this ability. Growing up now from the little girl who had been violated by Computo into a strong young womanHer techno-pathic powers and her brothers former tenure at the Legion allowed Danielle membership to the newly reformed Legion. While on board the team she quickly rose to deputy leader, proving her attuned strategies and durable character on the field. She also often assisted Brianiac 5 on his scientific ventures. During the Event known as Zero Hour, Danielle and everyone else in her timeline were erased.Powers and AbilitiesTechnopathyControl over computersDanielle has the ability to communicate with and control computers of all kinds by psionically interfacing with them.Other VersionsOther Media


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THE chief public servant in charge of Sydney aviation says Badgerys Creek is the best option for a new airport - contradicting the position of his boss, Transport Minister Anthony Albanese.
While Mr Albanese has backed a new hub being built at Wilton, Brendan McRandle, the general manager of Sydney aviation capacity for the Department of Transport and Infrastructure, who helped pen the 3200-page study with the state government on Sydney Airport options, has voiced support for Badgerys.
The revelation comes as NSW Treasurer Mike Baird was slapped down by Premier Barry O'Farrell and fellow Liberal MPs over his backing of a fourth and fifth runway on reclaimed land in Botany Bay.
Cronulla MP Mark Speakman warned Mr Baird he faced "the mother of all battles" if he pressed ahead with the plan, which would affect Mr Speakman's electorate and nearby Kurnell.
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The Ivorian forward has stated he would like to play in Spain or Italy, but Aulas claims a return to France for the former Marseille man is possible.
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According to economist Cid Terosa of the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P), the non-voice segment of the outsourcing industry "have higher value-added so revenues can go up."
The suggestion came after the Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPAP) issued a statement saying that the strong local currency made outsourcing to the Philippines 30 percent more expensive than India.
Likewise, a survey of BPAP members on the impact of the steadily appreciating peso showed that 46.7 percent of the respondents felt difficulties in hitting their respective revenue targets.
On Thursday, the peso closed at 41.125 against the US dollar, an appreciation from 41.16 on Wednesday.
To keep its spot in the global outsourcing industry, Terosa said BPO companies should expand and find areas that have "low costs of doing business and enough telecommunications infrastructure."
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The Photography option will be transitioning from Mass Communications program to Liberal Studies program falling within the Art department beginning Fall 2014 to better meet the needs of our students and the four-year universities.
Within Rose State College's art program, students of photography have opportunities to focus their artistic pursuits specifically on photographic arts. Students in the photography program are fully prepared to transfer to a four-year art degree program.
The goal of the Photography option in the Associate of Arts degree in Liberal Studies is to prepare students to transfer to a four-year college or university to pursue a degree in photography or art.
The program includes Rose State College degree requirements and courses generally completed in the first two years of a four-year photography curriculum. It conforms to the articulation agreement among state of Oklahoma two-year and four-year institutions of higher education.
Graduates of the Photograph option will be able to do the following:
Students in the program must complete courses listed in Program Requirements and Support and Related Requirements sections with a minimum grade of "C" in each course in order to receive the Associate in Arts degree. Students should consult the four-year institution to which they are planning to transfer and carefully select courses that will meet requirements for the baccalaureate degree program. Degree requirements (PDF)
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Considered arch rivals, Juhi Chawla and Madhuri Dixit were never cast together in a film. But now Juhi is playing vamp to Madhuri's heroine in their forthcoming film Gulab Gang. "I have a couple of scenes with her, which we have already shot. It's been lovely because there was no pressure. Earlier, we were constantly compared — both of us were playing heroines to the same heroes and trying to do similar things. Now, I am the vamp and she is the heroine. It's fine, and together we will make the film rock," reveals Juhi. This is the first time in her career that the actress will be playing a negative role. "That's what interested me besides the script, which has a lot of punch " says Juhi, who will be seen in Main Krishna Hoon next. "In that film, it's the kind of Juhi you have seen and liked – funny, emotional and interacting with kids," she smiles.
Juhi will also be seen as a guest in the first episode of a new TV show Safar Filmi Comedy Ka. Juhi, who has an excellent comic timing herself, considers Andaz Apna Apna to be the most hilarious film. "I have seen it twice and both times I doubled up with laughter," she says. Ask her who among her co-stars was the best in comedy and pat comes the reply "Govinda. He was fantastic when it came to comedy. It was both interesting and challenging to improvise with him," says the actress.


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There's a New Comic Book About David Petraeus, and It's Just as Heroic as You'd Expect
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Paula Broadwell's 400-page hagiography of her lover, All In: The Education of David Petraeus, wasn't enough. Now available for sale is a new type of Petraeus mythology: the retired four-star general as comic-book hero.
On Thursday, Bluewater Productions released Political Power: David Petraeus, a graphic novel that traces the rise and fall of the American military man in 22 pages. David Petraeus looks something like a violent résumé: honors achieved, schools attended, divisions commanded, accompanied by images of bearded insurgents firing machine guns. Nameless terrorists are up against a man who, at West Point, was "remembered for going for it in everything he did." Naturally, the cartoon terrorists never stood a chance.
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The Iraq War is cast as a humanitarian exercise:
But the comic has its nuggets. The general's father, we learn, was named Sixtus. The name is bolded and italicized, "Sixtus," fitting of a superhero origin story. Here's Petraeus skydiving; here, he nails 50 pushups "without rest" in the hospital after an accidental gunshot wound. Hooah.
This isn't the first time Bluewater has caricaturized a public figure. Other titles include The Cast of Glee and, more recently, Beyond: Edward Snowden. A comic book on Michelle Obama sold around 100,000 copies. And the publisher has released stories on former Rep. Ron Paul, RuPaul, and, yes, Jesus Christ.
If that spread — from RuPaul to Jesus — seems to preclude Bluewater from standing squarely in a single political camp, you're on to something. "I try to keep everything one-banana, two-banana," Bluewater founder and publisher Darren Davis told Foreign Policy. "Whether you like Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, or whoever, you're going to get a fair, unbiased look at them."
Bluewater hopes that the book makes it to schools and libraries. "As a kid, comic books really helped my reading skills," Davis said. "So I try to appeal to that." As for the future: comics on probable 2016 presidential candidates are likely forthcoming, Davis said. One on New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has already been released.
But don't expect Bluewater to delve too deeply into geopolitics. The publisher's Legend of Isis, according to a description on Bluewater's website, isn't about the Sunni insurgency — it's about a time-travelling "Egyptian goddess" who "must adjust to her new life in 21st century Los Angeles."
Bluewater's comic doesn't tell us much about Petraeus's adjustment to life after the 2012 scandal. Instead, it leaves us with the possibility of a comeback — "Americans love stories of redemption" — and a reminder of Petraeus's new digs at Harvard University and the University of Southern California. So there's room for a sequel, at least in the world of comics. While we wait, we can imagine the former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan with his feet up, reading and thinking: this is the education of Gen. David Petraeus.
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