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When a physician participated in the peer review of another physician and his conduct during the review became the basis for adverse employment action against him, the New Mexico Supreme Court, in Yedidag v. Roswell Clinic Corp., ruled that the reviewing physician had a private cause of action against his employer, and affirmed the jury's verdict… Continue Reading
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According to a report by Deutsche Welle, the German Federal Labor Court held that employers may monitor employees only when they have concrete suspicions of wrongdoing that are based on fact. In the U.S., the standards for engaging in monitoring employees may not be quite that high, but employers should be thinking about whether a… Continue Reading
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Companies Need to be Better Prepared to Respond to Problematic Social Media Activity, Including Facebook "Likes"
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New Hampshire Joins the Growing Number of States Limiting Employer Access to Employee Online Accounts
Effective September 30, 2014, New Hampshire joins sixteen other states (Arkansas, California, Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin) in prohibiting employers from requiring employees or job applicants to disclose their login information for accessing any "personal account" or service through an electronic communication device. Similar… Continue Reading
Missouri Constitutional Amendment Protects Electronic Privacy
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Supreme Court Decision in Riley Affects Cellphone Searches in Civil Litigation, Employment Matters
When the United States Supreme Court handed down its decision Riley v. California, a Fourth Amendment criminal case, we suspected it would not be long before the rationale in that case concerning the privacy interests individuals have in cellphones would be more broadly applied. In late June, a federal district court in Connecticut denied a request by two… Continue Reading
The K5 Autonomous Data Machine Might Soon Be Securing and Monitoring Your Business
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Use of HIPAA-Protected Personal Health Information by Employer Investigating FMLA Issue Not Barred
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected the appeal of a former City of Daytona Beach Fire Inspector who argued that the City improperly used her "personal health information" to defend itself against her lawsuit for interference under the Family Medical Leave Act. In Bailey v. City of Daytona Beach Shores, the City of… Continue Reading
Court Denies Access To Employee Social Media Accounts
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Special Report – Social Media in the Workplace
Jackson Lewis Special Report on Social Media in the Workplace.
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Hospital employee's discrimination claims were unsuccessful where termination resulted from HIPAA breach
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Colorado joins eight other states in restricting employers' use of credit information in making employment decisions
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South Carolina Supreme Court Addresses When Email is Backed-Up Under the Stored Communications Act
Are emails saved in one's Yahoo! account stored for backup protection under the Stored Communications Act?
Florida's New "Sexting" Law Makes it Criminal for Minors to Transmit Sexually Explicit Materials Electronically
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Deleting E-mails Can Constitute a "Damage" Under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
What is a company's recourse when a former employee deletes e-mails and other company electronic information before he leaves? A case from Indiana provides a lesson. When Meridian Financial Advisors began serving as Receiver for bankrupted OCMC, Inc., it took possession of a number of OCMC computers, including one belonging to Joseph A. Pence, OCMC's President… Continue Reading
New Jersey Supreme Court Rules on Personal E-mail Privacy: Stengart v. Loving Care
Co-author: Joseph J. Lazzarotti The New Jersey's highest Court has concluded that an employee, Marina Stengart, could reasonably expect that e-mail communication with her lawyer through her personal, password-protected, web-based e-mail account would remain private, and that sending and receiving them using a company laptop did not eliminate the attorney-client privilege that protected them. The Court… Continue Reading
Pretexting and the Need for Employers to Investigate Their Investigators
As reported by Ameet Sachdev, of the Chicago Tribune, a jury found an employer responsible for the actions of its investigators who obtained a former employee's phone records through "pretexting." Of the $1.8 million awarded to the former employee for breaches of her privacy, the jury awarded $1.75 million in punitive damages. Regardless of whether… Continue Reading

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- Medium: Pottery, paste
- Place Excavated: Egypt
- Dates: ca. 3300-3100 B.C.E.
- Period: Predynastic Period, Naqada III Period
- Dimensions: 5 1/16 x diam. of mouth 3 in. (12.8 x 7.6 cm) (show scale)
- Collections:Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Egyptian Orientation Gallery, 3rd Floor
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- Accession Number: 09.889.445
- Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
- Caption: Jar with Impressed and Incised Decoration, ca. 3300-3100 B.C.E. Pottery, paste, 5 1/16 x diam. of mouth 3 in. (12.8 x 7.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 09.889.445. Creative Commons-BY
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- Catalogue Description: Red pottery jar, of ovoid shape, asymmetrical, with flattened base, the bottom perforated with a big hole. Slightly inset wide mouth without lip, the rim sharply splayed inward. Incised decoration, consisting of three irregular bands of inverted triangles filled with incised horizontal dotted lines. The last row of triangles forms a seven-pointed star with the base as a center. The white paste with which the incised lines were filled has been partly preserved. The rim is pierced with four holes for fastening cover. Condition: Broken and repaired. Numerous chips and holes, besides an artificial hole in the center of the bottom.
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Jeff Locke has allowed just 4 earned runs in his last 4 starts
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Lock Down: Jeff Locke stifles Indians throwing eight shutout innings
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Neil Walker has big series in sweep of Tigers
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Gerrit Cole has second shortest outing of career in 5-2 loss to Reds
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The Cincinnati Reds continue to be a thorn in Gerrit Cole's side. Cole winless in his career vs the Reds, had the second shortest outing of his career tonight in the Pirates 5-2 loss. The Reds put up a 4-run first inning against Cole with two RBI doubles and Marlon Byrd hit a 2-run homer as the Pirates fell behind 4-0 for the second straight night.
Cole lasted just 4.2 innings, allowing 8 hits and 5 runs. Cole exited the game in the fifth inning with the Pirates trailing 5-1 and threw 106 pitches on the night.
Cole fell to 0-3 with a 5.53 ERA in his career vs the Reds. This season vs the Reds, Cole is 0-2 with a 6.75 ERA.
|2015 Stats: 11-3, 2.16 ERA, 102 SO, 25 BB, 1.13 WHIP
A.J. Burnett allowed career-high 14 hits in Friday's loss but his will to keep Pirates in game impressed
11:46am - Sat, Jun 20th, 2015 by Inside Pittsburgh Sports
A.J. Burnett allowed a career high 14 hits and the Pittsburgh Pirates winning streak came to an end Friday night with a 4-1 loss to Washington Nationals. Despite Burnett allowing 14 hits and 15 runners reaching base, he found a way to keep the Pirates in the game. The Pirates offense, though, was stagnant producing just 1 run, 6 hits and one extra-base hit.
Burnett on the night went 6 2/3 innings, allowing 14 hits, 4 runs (3 ER), while striking out 7 and walking 1. He threw 98 pitches, His will to compete impressed his manager.
"I don't think I've ever seen a pitcher go into the seventh giving up double-digit hits like that and have the game still in hand," Clint Hurdle said via Pirates.com. "It wasn't his 'A' stuff. But his will to compete got things done and kept us in the ballgame."
The Nationals felt they were able to hit Burnett so well because he had the ball up a bit. "The ball was up a little bit for A.J. tonight and we took advantage of it," Nationals manager Matt Williams said. "We had a lot of opportunities out there, which we created, and that's great."
Burnett fell to 6-3 on the season with a 2.05 ERA.
|2015 Stats:Â 6-3, 2.05 ERA, 82 SO, 25 BB, 1.21 WHIP
Corey Hart had first 3-hit game since August 31, 2012
9:39am - Fri, Jun 19th, 2015 by Inside Pittsburgh Sports
Corey Hart getting rare playing time as a DH, went 3-3 in the Pirates 3-2 win over the White Sox on Thursday night. It was Hart's first three-hit game since August 31, 2012, a span of over 320 at-bats.
Unfortunately for Hart it's back to the bench for him as the Pirates return to NL play.
|2015 Stats: .200 - 1 HR - 7 RBI
Gerrit Cole wins MLB-best 11th win
12:17am - Fri, Jun 19th, 2015 by Inside Pittsburgh Sports
Gerrit Cole picked up his MLB-best 11th win of the season as the Pirates extended their winning streak to eight games on Thursday night with a 3-2 win over the White Sox.
Cole allowed 3 hits and 2 runs over seven innings and appeared to be heading to a no decision until Gregory Polanco's RBI groundout in the eighth, scoring Jung Ho Kang put the Pirates in the lead 3-2.
Cole has won each of his last six starts.
|2015 Stats: 11-2, 1.78 ERA, 97 SO, 22 BB, 1.07 WHIP
Pirates 3 - White Sox 2: Kang, McCutchen, Locke
11:11pm - Wed, Jun 17th, 2015 by Inside Pittsburgh Sports
1. Jeff Locke continued the Pirates dominant starting pitching stretch, putting on one of his finest starts of the season. Locke struck out 8 and limited the White Sox to just 3 hits and 2 runs, earning his 4th win of the season. Locke threw 99 pitches, 60 for strikes, as he walked just 2 batters on the night.
|2015 Stats: 4-3, 4.74 ERA
2. Jung Ho Kang hit a 2-run homer in the first inning, highlighting a 3-run first for the Pirates in their 3-2 win over the White Sox at US Cellular Field. Kang's 2-run shot was his 4th home run of the season. Kang went 1-4 with HR, 2 RBI, R, in the win and has 4 RBIs in his last three games.
|2015 Stats: .280 - 4 HR - 24 RBI
3. Andrew McCutchen went 2-4 with an RBI, run scored in the Pirates 3-2 win. McCutchen had 2 of the Pirates five hits on the night, and extended his hitting streak to five games. McCutchen has multi-hits in three straight games.
|2015 Stats: .296 - 8 HR - 42 RBI
Josh Harrison's 4-hit night bumps average up to .280
9:13am - Tue, Jun 16th, 2015 by Inside Pittsburgh Sports
Josh Harrison extending his hitting streak to five games with a 4-hit night in the Pirates 11-0 win over the White Sox.
Harrison went 4-4 with RBI, 3 runs scored and a walk. It was Harrison's second 4-hit game in his last four games. Harrison is hitting .468 over his last seven games and has bumped his average up to .280 on the season.
|2015 Stats:Â .280/.317/.397 - 4 HR - 21 RBI
Francisco Liriano post highest 'game score' of season for a Pirates starter
9:05am - Tue, Jun 16th, 2015 by Inside Pittsburgh Sports
The Pittsburgh Pirates rolled to their fifth straight win Monday night with an 11-0 thumping over the Chicago White Sox. While the Pirates put up five runs in the first inning and 11 runs on the night, the star of the game was Francisco Liriano on the mound.
Liriano threw 8 shutout innings, allowing 2 hits, while striking out 12 and walking 1. Liriano threw 100 pitches, 69 for strikes. His Bill James game score of 89 was the best score by a Pirates starter this season. It was also Liriano's 10th quality start as Gerrit Cole, A.J. Burnett and Liriano have combined for 31 quality starts on the season.
Liriano inability to go deep in games is about the only knock on him this season but he had the fastball working vs the White Sox. "When I can't throw my fastball for strikes, then I have to throw too many breaking balls," Liriano said. "Then I don't go that deep into games. Being able to throw my fastball for a strike tonight was a big thing for me."
|2015 Stats: 4-5, 2.94 ERA, 99 SO, 27 BB, 0.96 WHIP
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Baltimore Orioles fans waited months for the much-hyped arrival of catcher Matt Wieters , and the back end of the rotation's struggles made the wait for right-hander Chris Tillman 's debut seem a lot longer than it actually was. Brian Matusz 's impending promotion, on the other hand, is an unexpected and much appreciated surprise. O's fans were well aware of the highly touted southpaw's dominance of Double-A hitters, but Andy MacPhail & Co. had stated all along that he would finish up his first full professional season in the minors and then be sent home. Instead, all indications are that Matusz will start in place of the injured Brad Bergesen on Tuesday night in Detroit.
Matusz will be making his Major League debut in just his 20th pro appearance, but he certainly appears ready for prime time. The fourth overall pick in the 2008 draft signed too late to appear in any minor league games last summer but made a good showing in the Arizona Fall League , ranking as its No. 3 prospect according to Baseball America . He was assigned to advanced Class A Frederick to begin the year but earned a promotion to Double-A Bowie after posting a 2.16 ERA in 11 starts. Eastern League hitters proved no match for the 22-year-old, who won all seven of his starts for the Baysox before he was pulled after one inning Saturday in anticipation of his big league debut. In total, Matusz went 11-2 with a 1.55 ERA in 19 minor league starts this year, fanning 121 and walking just 32 in 113 innings.
With four major league-caliber pitches - five if you count both variations of his low-90s fastball - and impeccable command, Matusz seems like as good a bet for immediate success as any rookie pitcher in recent memory. I had a chance to speak with the potential future ace last September while he was in Aberdeen working out with the short-season Class A IronBirds just a few weeks after signing, and he seemed optimistic about his future in orange and black and eager to get started on what ultimately turned out to be a quick trip to the big leagues.
Q: You were drafted out of high school (by the Angels, in the fourth round of the 2005 draft) but elected to go to college instead of sign. Was it a difficult decision to go to college instead of going pro?
A: Oh, absolutely. When that type of money is flashed in front of an 18-year-old's face, I mean, it's real tough to turn down. But deep down inside I knew I wanted to go to college. I knew I wanted to have at least three years to have that experience, and it ended up being a great decision.
Q: Negotiations went right up to the deadline. Were you confident all along that something would get done, or were you concerned that you might not be able to agree to terms?
A: No, I knew from the beginning that we were going to get it done. I wasn't asking for anything that was record-breaking, or anything that wasn't a right fit. I knew that we were going to come to terms, but it was going to come down to the end. I knew that, my agent knew that, and [Orioles GM Andy] McPhail and [scouting director] Joe Jordan knew that it was going to come down to the end, but we were making good progress. We worked well together, and I'm glad that we were able to make a deal.
Q: What was the Orioles' purpose for assigning you to Aberdeen without the intention of having you pitch?
A: It's just a great experience for me to get out here, experience minor league ball, meet a lot of the guys, be able to play in such a great ballpark and just be around the game. And to start my throwing, start working out a little bit so I can get ready for instructs and hopefully Arizona Fall League.
Q: So you don't know for sure whether you'll be playing in the Arizona Fall League yet?
A: Not yet. It hasn't been determined. I'm hoping to play in the Arizona Fall League, but if not, Hawaii [Winter Baseball ] is an option too.
Q: Could you talk a bit about the different pitches you throw and how you like to use them?
A: I throw a two-seam and four-seam fastball; I throw a changeup, a curveball and a slider. I use the slider as more of an out-pitch; the curveball I can use as an out-pitch as well as a set-up pitch - I feel like I've got very good command of it. My changeup I like to use at any time in the count; just depending on the hitter, I like to throw it to both lefties and righties. And obviously the fastball is the same thing - it can be a set-up pitch, it could be an out-pitch ... whatever is working that day. A good day for me is when I have everything going my way and I have a lot of options to work with.
Q: Do you consider yourself a strikeout pitcher, a guy who pitches to contact, or some mixture of the two?
A: Well, I had a lot of success in college with strikeouts. I led the country my junior year, and I was second my sophomore year in strikeouts. I had a lot of strikeouts throughout my career, and that was one thing we pitched for and really tried to do in college was pitch for the strikeout. Pitching to aluminum bats, we wanted to prevent other guys from hitting it. But it might be a little bit different out here. I'll work with my coaches, and hopefully I'll be able to pitch in to guys a lot more and get jam-shots. We'll just see how it goes - I'm just trying to get in shape and get ready to get out there.
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Some challenging words from John Piper:
It's of course no surprise that John Maynard Keynes was a fierce critic of the gold standard, but lest anyone think that he was an unthinking proponent of fiat currency, consider this quote from James Rickards' Currency Wars:
Near the end of his life, Keynes supported a new currency, which he called the bancor, with a value anchored to a commodity basket including gold. He was, of course, a fierce critic of the gold exchange standard of the 1920s, but he was practical enough to realize that currencies must be anchored to something and, for this reason, preferred a global commodity standard to the dollar-and-gold standard that emerged from Bretton Woods in 1944.
Right now I'm reading one of the best books on economics I've come across: Currency Wars: The Making Of The Next Global Crisis, by investment banker and risk manager, James Rickards. Since we've bandied around on this blog with Ron Paul, Keynesianism, and other assorted economic truffles, I thought I'd weigh in with something provocative from Mr. Rickards' book. Rickards contends that critics of the Fed like Ron Paul are actually a part of the U.S. central bank's plan. As amusing as those Youtube clips are of Ron Paul laying into the central bank grand wizard, Ben Bernanke, according to Rickards, they're exactly what Bernanke and his central bank minions want.
Before I defend this, I'll provide some background reading to help this make sense.
We first have to understand the economic theory of monetarism. Monetarism is the theory, made popular by Milton Friedman, that changes in the money supply are the most important changes a country can make in GDP. One of the things that Friedman became famous for was his contention that GDP changes can be broken down into a 'real' component, with actual gains, and an 'inflationary' component, with illusory gains.
The theory is encapsulated in the following equation:
MV = Py.
Money supply (M) times velocity (V) equals nominal GDP, which can be broken down into its components of price changes (P) and growth (y).
The money supply is controlled by the Fed. But, not everything is directly under the Fed's control (you could even dispute that 'M' is under the Fed's control, but that's for another post). The problem is that velocity is all psychological – the proverbial wildcard in the deck. As Rickards says:
It all depends on how in individual feels about her economic prospects or about how all consumers in the aggregate feel. Velocity cannot be controlled by the Fed's printing press or advancements in productivity. It is a behavioural problem, and a powerful one.
In the mind of the Fed, the economy is screeching to a painful stop. Uncle Milton's equation is breaking down. The Fed has exhausted their ability to change the money supply, so the solution is to attempt to change velocity. And this will mean manipulating the hopes and fears of enough U.S. citizens to get the economy humming along again.
There are two ways to do this. The Fed can instill in the public either euphoria from newly created 'wealth' or the fear of inflation. Rickards points out that there was a stock market rally from 2009-2011, but it wasn't strong enough to move consumer spending and investment in any significant way. So, Rickards thinks that the government has turned to creating fears of inflation.
The way for the Fed to do this was to manipulate three things at once: nominal rates, real rates, and inflation expectations. You keep the nominal rates and inflation expectations high and create negative real rates (the difference between nominal rates and the expected rate of inflation). Rickards uses the example of having inflation expectations at 4%, nominal rates at 2%, with leaves you with a real rate of -2%. According to this way of thinking, if real rates are negative, borrowing becomes more attractive, which will fuel investment and spending. "Negative interest rates create a situation in which dollars can be borrowed and paid back in cheaper dollars due to inflation."
Now, this all makes sense theoretically, but is there any evidence that Ben Bernanke agrees with this line of thinking? There is.
Bernanke and Krugman studied Japan's economic plight in the late 1990s at Princeton University. A summary of their work was written by a colleague of Krugman and Bernanke, Lars Svensson, in 2003. First, Svensson talks about everything that we're seeing play out in the world economy right now: a depreciating US currency in order to boost exports and create inflation.
Even if the … interest rate is zero, a depreciation of the currency provides a powerful way to stimulate the economy … A currency depreciation will stimulate an economy directly by giving a boost to export … sectors. More importantly … a currency depreciation and a peg of the currency rate at a depreciated rate serves as a conspicuous commitment to a higher price level in the future.
Here's the money quote from Svensson:
If the central bank could manipulate private-sector beliefs, it would make the private sector believe in future inflation, the real interest rate would fall, and the economy would soon emerge from recession … The problem is that private-sector beliefs are not easy to affect.
In Svensson's writings, we see what according to James Rickards, is Bernanke's playbook: interest rates are kept close to zero, the dollar is devalued by quantitative easing, and public opinion is manipulated to create the fear of inflation.
It would seem that Ron Paul is accomplishing what Ben Bernanke wishes he could do himself – stoke the fears of inflation at home.
Rickards concludes in a poignant, though somewhat overblown conclusion:
This was central banking with the mask off. It was not the cool, rational, scientific pursuit of disinterested economists sitting in the Fed's marble temple in Washington. Instead it was an exercise in deception and hoping for the best. When prices of oil, silver, gold and other commodities began to rise steeply in 2011, Bernanke was publicly unperturbed and made it clear that actual interest rates would remain low. In fact, increasing inflation anxiety reported from around the world combined with continued low rates was exactly what the theories of Bernanke, Krugman and Svensson advocated. America had become a nation of guinea pigs in a grand monetary experiment, cooked up in the petri dish of the Princeton economics department.
This is from Alister McGrath's masterful biography of JI Packer. McGrath talks about the desperate state of the Anglican church for evangelicals in the 1940s. If it was this bad in the 40s and things turned around, there's still hope for evangelicals choosing to serve in mainline churches today.
… However, as time went by, the Church of England gradually lost its close association with the ideas and practices of the Reformation. The rise of Deism and a form of theological liberalism usually known as Latitudinarianism during the eighteenth century eroded the influence of evangelicalism. Although a major evangelical revival developed during that same century, it had faded away by the 1830s. During the remainder of the nineteenth century, the history of the Church of England was dominated by the rise of Anglo-Catholicism (a 'high church' movement, linked with the Oxford Movement), and the rise of modernism and liberalism. Between the First and Second World Wars, the general growth of liberalism within the Church of England was supplemented by the rise of 'Liberal Evangelicalism'. The strongly liberal 'Group Brotherhood', which began meeting in 1907, 'went public' in 1925 with the publication of a work entitled Liberal Evangelicalism. The result was that evangelicalism became seriously disunited and fragmented by the eve of the Second World War.
After the Second World War, evangelicalism was in a sorry state in England. It had lost any positions of power it once had in the national church. It was numerically weak. It was treated with something approaching contempt by academics, especially academic theologians. It was dominated by forms of Pietism which stressed the importance of personal intimacy with Jesus, yet discounted as irrelevance any serious thinking or engagement with theological issues. It was a movement with a distinguished past, but apparently no viable future. Hensley Henson (1863-1947), Bishop of Durham, dismissed it as 'an army of illiterates, generalled by octogenarians'. With exceptions as honourable as they were few, the movement was characterized by an anti-intellectual defensiveness, nourished by a separatist mentality.
For a convinced evangelical, such as Packer, to go into ministry in the Church of England at this stage was rather like a Daniel volunteering to enter the lions' den. It seemed that there was no place and no future for evangelicals inside that church. They were few in number, and were left in no doubt that they were unwanted. In the post-war period, the Church of England witnessed a major surge in the number of men wishing to be ordained, and a growth in its church life at every level. It seemed that its future was secure. The kind of evangelicalism which Packer represented – which at this stage was generally identified with 'fundamentalism' – was widely regarded as immature, simplistic, irrelevant and unreasonably dogmatic. For Packer to choose to minister in such a church was, quite simply, a step of faith. Could things be changed? In the closing years of the 1940s, there were few reasons to think so. But Packer kept his counsel.
I just finished Peter Leithart's excellent commentary on 2 Peter where he argues for a partial preterist reading of the epistle. If you don't know what means, it's simple. The prophecies concerning the imminent judgment / arrival of Jesus were fulfilled with the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. And lest you think that Leithart has veered off into heresy, he still affirms the visible return of Christ at the end of history. He just doesn't think that's what 2 Peter is talking about. And he's not alone. Reformed great, John Owen, argued that 2 Peter 3 was linked with Isaiah 65. For Owen, 2 Peter 3 was talking about the end of the old covenant order, not the end of the world.
Here are his five 'knock-down' arguments for partial preterism:
At this year's edition of Elephant Room, Driscoll interviews MacDonald on how he's been taking it like a pinata at Cinco de Mayo over his decision to invite T.D. Jakes. Macdonald explains how it all got started:
Round 2. I was in California and I played golf with a well-known pastor. (He's not a fan of you, Mark.) Not one hole, but two, three, five, eight holes, he couldn't stop talking about everything bad Driscoll does. I was so upset about that. I got off the course and I called Jack Graham, who has everyone's cell phone number. I said, "Jack, get me Driscoll's number." It took him five minutes. Mark picked up, and I said "hello." I knew he had one of my books on his website so he knew who I was. We talked. He came to Chicago and we went to a Cubs game. Then I called him and said, "We're going to Haiti."
Macdonald discusses elsewhere his golfing with MacArthur in California.
Dr. Doug Groothuis, professor of apologetics and philosophy at Denver Seminary, was gracious enough to allow us to interview him for the blog. As none of us have a face for video (Dr. Groothuis notwithstanding), we decided to do the interview and post it here. For those not in the know, Dr. Groothuis has recently published his magnum opus, a textbook on Christian Apologetics. And given the exemplary recommendations it's getting, (J.P. Moreland called it the "go-to text in the field) we thought it'd be a good idea to arrange an interview with the good Doctor. For more information on Groothuis, check out his blog, twitter, and homepage. But, most importantly, go buy the book.
1. Many people are unaware of your background. Could you please give us a short biography of your life? (E.g. education, family, vocation, interests)
I have a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Oregon (1993) and have taught at Denver Seminary since 1993. I am married to author and editor, Rebecca Merrill Groothuis. Besides philosophy, theology, and social analysis, I am interested in the history and philosophy of art, particularly painting and jazz.
2. When did you first become introduced to reformed theology and what difficulties did you have, if any, in accepting the doctrines of grace?
I took a class at an OPC church in the early 1980s on The Westminster Standards. This was the turning point for me, along with reading parts of Calvin's Insitutes and Reformed writers such as Gordon Clark, R.J. Rushoony and Greg Bahnsen. (However, I am not a theonomist.) J.I. Packer's work was helpful as well, particularly Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God.
3. Can you share with us a bit about the influence that R.K. Macgregor Wright, author of No Place For Sovereignty, has had on you?
I was already a confirmed Calvinist (at least with respect tot he theology of culture and predestination) when I read this book. However, it helped me deal with some passages that Arminians claim support their view. I was impressed with the book, which is why I endorsed it.
4. How do you think Reformed convictions ought to express themselves in apologetic method? Should Calvinists only use a particular argument? Or only make defensive arguments? Can they appropriate arguments and methods from other traditions, or are they too compromised to be useful?
That is a rather complex question. To my mind, no Calvinist doctrine entails presuppositionalism, as the Van Tillians claim. I address this in Christian Apologetics. Total depravity does not extinguish the knowledge of God through general revelation, which serves as the epistemic basis for the argument of natural theology. Moreover, strong Calvinists such as R.C. Sproul support a non-presuppositional approach to apologetics. I do, however, accept the basic force of the transcendental argument for God's existence, and use it in chapter 18 of my new book. However, I think this is one argument among many for the truth and rationality of the Christian worldview.
5. How do you understand Reformed theology's teaching on natural revelation, and how does your understanding impact your view of natural theology?
See chapter 17 of my book.
6. Are there any important contemporary apologetic challenges that you think Reformed theology has the best ability to respond to? Are there any that you think Reformed apologists will have (or are having) more difficulty with than other traditions?
The Reformed view of Providence really answers the problem of evil better than Arminianism or openness theology, both on the philosophical and pastoral level.
7. What works, theological and philosophical, have been the most influential for you in terms of intellectual development and sanctification?
The corpus of Francis Schaeffer has been very influential, even though he was not a professional philosopher as I am. Carl Henry's God, Revelation, and Authority, 6 vols., was also like a seminary education in itself, especially combined with a summer course I took from him in 1981. Blaise Pascal is also a constant companion.
8. What works can we expect from you in the future?
I hope to continue to teach, preach, and write as long as possible. I am not sure what my next book will be, but it may be on lament.
I was reading an old interview with John Frame from TWOTH, and came across this Q&A which I thought was germane for the post I did on defeater(s) for molinism:
14. What differences do you see in the presentation of the gospel with monergists and synergists?
Both typically present salvation by grace alone, and both call upon people to make decisions for Christ. (By the way, there is nothing in Reformed theology that deprecates the importance of human decisions.) But synergists sometimes compromise salvation by grace by saying that human decision is free in the libertarian sense, not controlled by God. If that is true, then as Vern Poythress has said, my decision for Christ is the one part of salvation for which I don't need to give thanks to the Lord.
From time to time I'm going to deal with objections evangelicals have with mainline denominations. Here's one for today:
Don't serve in a mainline denomination. You may lose your family. Who will your wife associate with? Who will your kids grow up with?
This is a common objection. A man is responsible for his household and there is nothing more important than your family. If a man can't effectively lead his own home, he isn't fit to govern the church (1 Tim. 3:4-5). My father in law once gave me great advice when it came to discipling children. I was marveling at the fact that both of his daughters were not just surviving as Christians, but had flourishing faiths. He told me that his philosophy of parenting was to treat the faith of his daughters like a wheel. In order for a wheel to work, there has to be numerous spokes. If one or two of those spokes failed, it was ok, because there were other spokes to support the rest of the wheel. He said that his goal as a parent was to provide as many spokes as he could, realizing all the while that a few of them would not work out. My wife, for example, definitely had one of those spokes fail her, but still has a flourishing faith because of the other intentional connections that he provided for her.
I bring this up to show that while the church is a normal means of discipleship for a wife and family, we live in a fallen world and sometimes things don't work out the way we plan them to. I know plenty of people who have gone to great churches but haven't been able to make the right connections. It's not as if going to a great church is a guarantee of great friends and a spouse. Friendship, like many things in life, are a chasing after the wind, a la Solomon in Ecclesiastes.
The larger problem with this objection is the affect it would have on missions. The same argument applied to mainliners could equally be applied to church planters and missionaries. How could you send your family to Papua New Guinea to preach the gospel? It's dangerous! Your wife won't be able to go to a Beth Moore small group. Your kids won't go to Muskoka Woods with all their church friends each summer. I can hear John Piper groaning in the background.
Last year I read D.A. Carson's biography of his father, Tom Carson, who spent his whole career ministering 'unsuccessfully' in Quebec. Carson grew up being bullied by Catholics in church plants that never seem to have grown beyond 30 people. Should Tom Carson have packed up and moved to an area of Canada where there were more evangelical churches? Well, he didn't because he felt called to preach the gospel to unreached areas of Quebec. Similarly, evangelicals in mainline groups may feel a similar call to preach the gospel, not just to an area, but to a particular gospel-less congregation, and sometimes, even to a gospel-deficient elder board.
It seems then that what's good for Samoa is good for St. Andrew's by the Gas Station.
In 1966, at a national evangelical conference in the U.K., D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones called on all British evangelicals to leave theologically mixed denominations. John Stott, sensing that many of his fellow evangelical Anglicans might actually follow Lloyd-Jones' admonition, decided to rebuke Lloyd-Jones in front of the whole assembly and call upon his fellow evangelical Anglicans to maintain the course. Alister McGrath, in his biography of J.I. Packer, said that if Stott had not done this, there would have been an evangelical exodus out of the Anglican church.
The Stott / Lloyd-Jones debate is important for it highlights a real tension for evangelicals in mainline denominations. At what point should evangelicals simply pack up and leave the decaying husks of mainline churches that are declining all over the Western world? Complicating this even further is the fact that some Anglican evangelicals, like J.I. Packer and David Short, who at first argued for evangelicals to stay in mainline denominations, are now arguing for them to leave. Why? According to Packer and Short, the Anglican leadership have repudiated the gospel by their repudiation of biblical norms of sexuality. Simply put, they're preaching a gospel without a need for repentance, which is no gospel at all.
No doubt, Short and Packer are right. A gospel without repentance is no gospel, and many in the leadership of mainline churches are guilty of this. Does it follow though that evangelicals should leave those denominations? Should we follow the advice of Lloyd-Jones, even if it is about 50 years after the fact?
I'm not so sure. Liberals fudging the gospel is nothing new. I mean, if John Greshem Machen is correct, theological liberalism can't be called Christian, and he said that in the 1920s! And what about mainliners like John Spong? Spong denied the virgin birth and the resurrection of Christ and he was a bishop in the Episcopal church. If there ever was an award for preaching a gospel-less Christianity, Spong certainly wouldn't have to worry about taking second place. And he has always appeared to get a sympathetic hearing in the Episcoal church. I realize that not all are were as extreme as he is, but many are extreme enough to warrant the admonition that they're no longer preaching the gospel.
Orthodox Christians have always had problems in the institutional church. The Wesley's, Charles Simeon, George Whitefield, John Newton – all faced opposition in their day. Unless you're willing to break away and start a new denomination, faithless preaching will always coexist besides faithful preaching (in varying degrees of course). To once again reference Alister McGrath's biography of Packer, in the post-war era of the 40s and 50s, Anglican evangelicals were hemmed in on all sides. Anglo-Catholicism was vibrant, liberal theology was growing in acceptance, and most Anglicans had committed themselves to a form of ecumenism which saw a concern for 'right doctrine' as being out of touch with the modern world. It was in that context that Packer urged evangelicals to reform the Anglican church instead of leaving it.
I realize that mainline churches allowing ministers to marry and ordain practicing homosexuals is a terrible move for biblical orthodoxy, but I don't see how this is materially different from other forms of theological liberalism. All we're seeing now are the Spong's of the church open up the bedroom doors.
If, according to thinkers like Packer and Stott, having a mixed liberal-orthodox denomination was never a reason to leave in the first place, I hardly see how having practicing ordained homosexuals are a reason to leave. If Gene Robinson becoming a bishop means you're going to leave the Episcopal church, why was it ok to stay when John Spong was a bishop? This argument only breaks down if faithful ministers are being coerced to assent to this slouch towards Babylon. If they're not, and orthodox congregations are given space to preach the gospel, then Stott's response to Lloyd-Jones from 1966 would seem to still apply.


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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Sorry! Devastating blog post on lying, back-stabber Alexander Lewy to be delayed for a few days
the Diplomat LAC project coming before
the Broward County Commission on
Tuesday afternoon, my devastating blog
post -complete with photos and video-
that I had planned on running today,
which I think would have effectively put
the lie to the smug self-serving lies, serial
mis-statements and absurd exaggerations
and claims of experienced big-mouth
back-stabber Alexander Lewy, will be,
necessarily, postponed for a day or so.
But I know you won't be disappointed when
you finally see it.
Frankly, Hallandale Beach Blog's biggest
problem with this forthcoming blog post on
Lewy has not been with what to put in,
but rather, what telling and embarrassing
anecdote about him and his deceptiveness
and self-serving nature to leave out,
on account of time and space -and repetition.
I'll mention it again in the future but just to give
you some idea of his out-of-proportion sense
of self-importance and willingness to lie at the
drop of a hat, consider what I heard from a
person who is greatly admired and respected
in this county, even by people who may often
disagree with this individual.
Asked in late February at a public meeting
whether or not he was running for a seat on
the Hallandale Beach City Commission this Fall,
unctuous Lewy said "No."
Yet according to his own weird Facebook
campaign site, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alexander-Lewy/34138291835
where fidelity to the truth is not a virtue,
it's clearly written in the top left that
"Alexander submitted paperwork to run
for City Commissioner on January 11, 2010."
And he continues to claim he's running.
But when asked about it six weeks later, he lied.
My point?
Well, ask yourself this simple question, which
speaks volumes on his chronic logrolling and
inability to be straight with people.
If Lewy is unwilling to be honest and is incapable
of telling the truth about whether or not he's
even running for office, something for which
there's no logical upside or advantage to him
to lie about, what makes you think he will be
forthright with you on an issue you genuinely
care about?
Sometimes a person's character is most vividly
revealed in a moment of genuine crisis, which
is what compelled John F. Kennedy to write
-with Ted Sorenson?- Profiles in Courage,
so he could better come to understand how
these particular individuals he had chosen
from American history had made the particular
choices and decisions they had, often at great
personal risk and professional reputation.
There's a reason that book won the Pulitzer
Prize and why those sorts of basic questions
continue to greatly interest us today, since
people love to claim that they respect
straight-shooters, even if they disagree with
them, but finding actual proof that that's true
is always elusive.
But sometimes, it's in someone's complete
inability to be honest in answering a very
simple question that someone's character
-or lack thereof- is revealed.
Such is the case here, as Alexander Lewy's
untruthful answer shows what sort of person
he is -NOT the sort of person I want to see
have any degree of power, and certainly NOT
to make public policy decisions that will greatly
affect this city and its future.
And ours.
It's not too much to insist on honesty in candidates,
and by that simple measure, Alexander Lewy
has proven himself NOT QUALIFIED.
Hallandale Beach Blog is where I try to inject or superimpose a degree of accountability, transparency and insight onto Florida and local Broward County government and public policy issues, which I feel is sorely lacking in local media now. On this blog, locally, I concentrate my energy, enthusiasm, anger and laser-like attention on the coastal cities of Hallandale Beach and Hollywood.
If you lived in this part of South Florida, you'd ALREADY be stuck in stultifying traffic, paying higher-than-necessary taxes and continually musing about the chronic lack of accountability among not only elected govt. officials, but also of city, county and state employees as well. Collectively, with a few rare exceptions, they couldn't be farther from the sort of strong results-oriented, eager work-ethic mentality that local residents deserve and expect.
This is particularly true in the town I live in, the City of Hallandale Beach, just north of Aventura and south of Hollywood. There, the "Perfect Storm" of years of apathy, incompetency and cronyism are all too readily apparent.
Sadly for its residents, HB is where even easily-solved, quality-of-life problems are left to fester for YEARS on end, because of myopia, lack of common sense and ineffective supervisory management. It's a city with lots of potential because of its terrific location, yet its citizens have become numb to its outrages and screw-ups after years of the worst kind of mismanagement and lack of foresight. On a daily basis, they wake up and see the same old problems that have never being adequately resolved by the city in a logical and responsible fashion, merely kicked -once again- further down the road.
I used to ask myself, not always rhetorically, "Where are all the enterprising young reporters who want to show that through their own hard work and enterprise, what REAL investigative reporting can produce?" Hearing no response, I decided to start a blog that could do some of these things, taking the p.o.v. of a reasonable but skeptical person seeing the situation for the first time, and wanting questions answered in a honest and logical way that citizens have the right to expect.
Hallandale Beach Blog intends to be a catalyst for positive change. If there's one constant gripe in South Florida, regardless of your age, race, nationality or political persuasion, it's about the fundamental lack of PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY here among Florida's state, regional and local govt./agency officials. Hallandale Beach Blog aims to be a small step towards regaining some of that needed accountability, whether it's thru simple public scrutiny, or requires a degree of follow-up investigation and public exposure of incompetency, cronyism or simple negligence -South Florida's usual governing style.
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In the continuing opera still called, even by Cubans who have now lived the largest part of their lives in this country, el exilo, the exile, meetings at private homes in Miami Beach are seen to have consequences. The actions of individuals are seen to affect events directly. Revolutions and counter-revolutions are framed in the private sector, and the state security apparatus exists exclusively to be enlisted by one or another private player. That this particular political style, indigenous to the Caribbean and to Central America, has now been naturalized in the United States is one reason why, on the flat coastal swamps of South Florida, where the palmettos once blew over the detritus of a dozen failed booms and the hotels were boarded up six months a year, there has evolved since the early New Year's morning in 1959 when Fulgencio Batista flew for the last time out of Havana a settlement of considerable interest, not exactly an American city as American cities have until recently been understood but a tropical capital: long on rumor, short on memory, overbuilt on the chimera of runaway money and referring not to New York or Boston or Los Angeles or Atlanta but to Caracas and Mexico, to Havana and to Bogota and to Paris and Madrid. Of American cities Miami has since 1959 connected only to Washington, which is the peculiarity of both places, and increasingly the warp...
"The general wildness, the eternal labyrinths of waters and marshes, interlocked and apparently neverending; the whole surrounded by interminable swamps... Here I am then in the Floridas, thought I," John James Audobon wrote to the editor of The Monthly American Journal of Geology and Natural Science during the course of an 1831 foray in the territory then still called the Floridas. The place came first, and to touch down there is to begin to understand why at least six administrations now have found South Florida so fecund a colony. I never passed through security for a flight to Miami without experiencing a certain weightlessness, the heightened wariness of having left the developed world for a more fluid atmosphere, one in which the native distrust of extreme possibilities that tended to ground the temperate United States in an obeisance to democratic institutions seemed rooted, if at all, only shallowly. At the gate for such flights the preferred language was already Spanish. Delays were explained by weather in Panama. The very names of the scheduled destinations suggested a world in which many evangelical inclinations had historically been accommodated, many yearnings toward empire indulged...
In this mood Miami seemed not a city at all but a tale, a romance of the tropics, a kind of waking dream in which any possibility could and would be accommodated...
So this is where our tax dollars go to die?
"So this is where our tax dollars go to die? My friend and fellow civic activist Csaba Kulin, perhaps wondering when we're FINALLY going to get the clean and inviting public beach that Hallandale Beach residents believe we're entitled to but have never received under Mayor Cooper and her Rubber Stamp Crew.
Instead, we get rusty pipes in the middle of the beach and garbage cans on the beach -without lids- at the windiest place in the entire city. And a public building across the street from the beach that the public can't use for free but which city employees can -for their holiday parties." Click photo to see many more photos of the site and the original post, or http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/latest-info-photos-re-related-groups.html; 2012 photo by South Beach Hoosier. © 2013 Hallandale Beach Blog, All Rights Reserved
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The 4th annual Mike O'Connell Memorial Trucking's Top Rookie award went to Julie Matulle, a graduate of Fox Valley Technical College's Truck Driving program.
On Thursday, September 18, five area radio stations converged on Fox Valley Technical College as part of a radio blitz to promote training programs for high-demand careers in transportation.
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Ever thought about a career in truck driving? Are you currently a truck driver and looking for a fresh start? Attend the Truck Driving Job Fair on Thursday, July 31.
Robin Grapa, a recent completer of Fox Valley Technical College's Truck Driving program, writes about her experience in Women in Trucking magazine.