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Founders Journal · Fall 2000 · pp. 13-20
Interview with Paige Patterson
The following excerpts are taken from a interview with Dr. Paige Patterson, President of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, conducted by Dr. Mark Dever and Mr. Matt Schmucker of the Center for Church Reform. An audio CD of the hour-long interview is available from CCR (phone 202.543.1224). The transcript has been slightly edited to fit accepted literary style and, where necessary, for clarification.
Schmucker: Briefly, for those who are not familiar with Southern Baptist life, particularly the last 20-30 years, tell us what people refer to as the Southern Baptist Controversy?
Patterson: The Southern Baptist Controversy really grew out of things that happened to our denomination following World War II. In spite of the fact that we were a very large denomination at that time, nobody took much notice of us. We were sort of isolated to the south and nobody took a lot of interest in us. But then, as we began to expand into all 50 states and that kind of thing, plus the controversy, then we became fairly well noticed at that point in time. Now it seems like we can't comment that "It's a cloudy day" without the press picking up on it. But, be that as it may, the controversy began in 1979 when some of us just felt that our denomination was slipping ever to the left just as most mainline denominations had done. Some of us decided that it didn't have to be that way and that we were going to try to raise up a standard and sound the trumpet and see if the brothers and sisters wouldn't return to the faith of their fathers. We didn't know whether they would or they wouldn't, but we knew that's what we had to do and the Lord graciously blessed from heaven and that's exactly what happened. The churches returned to the faith of their fathers. Of course, that was not to the liking of some people and so there has been not a little bit of controversy out of it.
Dever: If I could just interrupt you for just a second, for a non-Southern Baptist listener your name is probably one of the best known among Southern Baptists. Most loved among some and most hated among others.
Patterson: I would say that's true.
Dever: Southern Baptists probably understand that. Can you tell those who are not Southern Baptist but evangelical pastors in other churches why that is the case with you in particular.
Patterson: I think probably so. I try to empathize with those who are my enemy, and those who think they are my enemies. I understand that many of them had positions in leadership and prestige and all those things that go along with it and they look upon me as the man who blew the whistle.
Dever: They would blame you for them being fired or for a lot of people losing their jobs?
Patterson: Or for it just becoming so uncomfortable that they couldn't stay and they of their own volition left. But nevertheless I would be blamed for it and I'm sympathetic to that. I often understand very well why they are unhappy, but I still say that truth is more important than one's level of happiness or unhappiness.
Dever: A good book summarizing this at least at the time would have been Nancy Ammerman's Baptist Battles.
Patterson: Nancy, I thought, did one of the best jobs because she was not sympathetic with the conservative revival in Southern Baptist life. She was on the other side, but she was a very honest sociologist.
Dever: She sustained what had been your main contention throughout that it was a theological battle, not a political one, while the other guys had always been saying this is just a bunch of guys from Texas who want power. Nothing theological in it. She said actually it's very theological.
Patterson: Yes, that's exactly right and one of the funny things that happened out of that was that I wrote a review for Christianity Today and was bombarded by people saying that they should not have allowed me to do the book review on it because I didn't represent it correctly. So I called Nancy Ammerman and asked her whether or not I had been accurate. She said, Absolutely. So I said, Would you alert Christianity Today and tell them that and she did. So that sort of brought an end to that.
Dever: Hasn't the need for reform in the history of the church always been true, given human nature.
Patterson: Given human nature, that's exactly right. Given human nature, and the thirst for power and influence and prestige, the church will forever be having to take a look at itself and asking how much is being influenced by the world philosophy around it, how much materialism has seeped into the lining of the church, and how much the desire for recognition and prestige has passed by the desire for holiness. So, forever, we'll have to do that and we must each individually examine our own hearts on a regular basis about this, too.
Dever: A prominent pastor has recently been divorced by his wife and is maintaining himself by staying in the ministry at this particular church. That's the kind of thing you wouldn't have seen 50 years ago, isn't it.
Patterson: Absolutely not. Fifty years ago that was not even questioned.
Dever: I don't mean to get into that particular case, but isn't it true that pastors are facing situations today that they just weren't facing even when you entered the ministry 20-30 years ago?
Patterson: Certainly, that's true. Not that pastors 30-50 years ago didn't have their problems, but it is true that we live in a problem-plagued world right now that is full of so many difficulties that pastors are called upon to face things that they've never even had to think about.
Dever: In my mind that encourages me to tell pastors to get back to the Bible and look and see what it says. I know the Bible doesn't directly address everything we're going to run into as pastors, like Mrs. Jones of the flower committee, but there may be a lot of things it addresses. For example, in that case, is it appropriate for a brother who may be genuinely a brother in Lord but has been divorced, is it appropriate for him to serve as an elder or pastor of a congregation? Rather than just simply asserting we have a congregational right to do this, I think there are biblical issues at stake that we need to raise and, in charity, discuss.
Patterson: I think you're exactly right, Mark, because otherwise we end up with purely human solutions. Human solutions are always fraught with all the same inadequacies that all human thought has.
Schmucker: The up-side of this looks like it would be increasingly thoughtful Christians and a knockout of Christian nominalism.
Patterson: That's what we can hope for. That's what we want to see take place.
Dever: That's what I'm guessing is going to be the case in the younger generation. When it's no longer a fashionable thing to be in church on Sunday morning you're not going to have the huge number of nominalists hanging around the churches. I think that in America one of the biggest barriers to evangelism is the sloppy way that pastors are treating church membership.
Patterson: Absolutely.
Dever: If you're out there doing evangelism on Tuesday nights, sharing with somebody in their home, and they know the guy two doors down is a member of your church and he's been in an openly adulterous affair for 2-3 years and doesn't come to church, yet your church never disciplines him, what on earth do they think you're saying when you're sharing the gospel?
Patterson: Here's the pity of it. It is easier to get into a church than it is to join the Rotary Club. It is more difficult to be disciplined by a church than it is to be disciplined by the Lions Club. If you're a member of the Lions Club (if I understand it correctly) and you miss four weeks in a row, you're out. If you're out of town for four weeks in a row, you better find a Lions Club in that city wherever you are and attend or you're going to be out. So, the sad state of affairs that exists in many of our churches now is church membership is meaningless. Therefore there is nothing appealing to the people on the block as they look at the church members who live there. They look no different than the others.
Dever: I think the Lions Club may have gotten their standards from 19th century Baptist churches actually. I want to come back to that more specifically in just a moment, but basic to the tenor of a church, I think, is the preaching and the commitment to biblical preaching.
Patterson: I concur 100%.
Dever: Any comments on that? Are you encouraged by the state of preaching as you go around? But you're usually preaching as you go around to churches, aren't you?
Patterson: Yes, I'm usually preaching, so I don't get to hear as much, but I would have to say, without trying to sound pessimistic, that on the whole I am not encouraged. I am encouraged about what our seminaries at this present moment are doing, but we've got a hiatus here in which, very frankly, we've got people out there who are not really doing biblical preaching.
Dever: So, Paige, would you encourage pastors to spend more or less time reading systematic theology?
Patterson: I would encourage them to spend more time reading systematic theology. The commentaries are important but a man has to understand the whole of what God has said and to get a biblical worldview and perspective. The Bible says that God said our ways are not His ways and our thoughts are not His thoughts. Well, just exactly how are we going to come by His thoughts and His ways? We have to see the broader picture. I think the pastor ought to be reading not only systematic theology and not only his commentaries, but he ought to be reading a good diet of good biography, not only for the influence of the spiritual lives of people that he reads about, but also for cogent illustrations for a segment of his preaching.
Schmucker: Name two you would recommend of the biographies.
Patterson: Of course, one of my favorites still remains Bainton's biography of Luther, Here I Stand. Very frankly it's one of the books that sustained me more than any other during the days of difficulty and confrontation through which I walked. That book was very, very helpful to me. Another is coming from my own background, of course, a book called The Anabaptist Story by William R. Estep which chronicles the story of the south German and Swiss Anabaptists during the Reformation and the many persecutions that they suffered. That book, too, was very helpful to me. So those would be two right off the top of my head.
Dever: There's something we have talked about before that I would like to understand a bit more, specifically on conversion. We both agree that salvation is of the Lord, that God saves people.
Patterson: Absolutely.
Dever: I understand that conversion has to be something that fundamentally God does in our souls by the vivifying influence of the Holy Spirit, to use the old theological language, that the Holy Spirit by the preaching of the gospel (Romans 10), and by the word of Christ, that the Holy Spirit comes in and uses that word and brings new life to a soul. What that means essentially is that regeneration is not caused first by our faith apart from the work of the Holy Spirit. As we are thinking through conversion, I see it very much the Bible teaching it as the activity of God's Spirit in us. Not at all unrelated to our action. We have to have the gospel preached, Paul is clear on that, and we have to repent and believe, but what I stop and ask the question How is it that I ever did repent and believe? My only answer is the activity of God's Holy Spirit.
Patterson: I think I would agree with you 100%. I think probably where we might not see it quite eye to eye is that I would not insist that regeneration be the word applied to that work of the Spirit at this point. I am uncomfortable with preceding repentance and faith by regeneration, although I am equally uncomfortable with preceding regeneration by repentance and faith. I see it all as something that happens in a nanosecond. The point where I really do agree with you 100%, Mark, would be that that can never come to pass as a coincidence of any set of human actions, however you want to define that. Whether of one person or other person's influencing it, or whatever. If it happens, it happens as you very well stated by the vivifying presence and power of the Holy Spirit.
Dever: My concern and I think the concern of the more Calvinistic types in this is simply to say that we don't want to fall back into this Roman Catholic error of assuming that we are saved because we have cooperated with the grace of God. We just really don't want to go anywhere near that. We know that we have to repent and believe but we want to make sure the glory of that goes entirely to God. Whereas the Roman Catholics are quite clear in saying that they want God to be glorified, but they think He has made us such a way, and the fall has not been so bad that we can't of our own nature still cooperate with God's grace.
Patterson: No, they have misunderstood the scripture completely because even after you are saved Jesus said "without Me you can do nothing." If that's even true after you're saved, then what is it before you're saved? So I agree with you completely and the only rejoinder I would make is that the reason some of us fear the more Calvinistic expression of it is that we fear that what often happens is that people don't preach hard for repentance and faith. Certainly some Calvinists do, and I don't have a problem with that. But I do have with those who don't preach hard for repentance and faith because they say, If God's going to do this He's going to do it regardless of what I do.
Dever: I have to say as somebody who's a Calvinist who preaches all the time, I do feel that tension. You're not just making that up. I understand that because I do know it is God who saves and I don't want to manipulate a false conversion because I think that hurts evangelism and deceives that person, but at the same time Jesus used a lot of imperatives. If we are going to be biblical Christians and preachers we cannot be scared to use those imperatives.
Patterson: I guess my concern is that we keep it in proper tension. We don't know how to explain all those things for each other or for a lost and listening world. We wish we could, so we have to, in effect, preach with an intention. Spurgeon was one of the best at that, actually. He'd write a book against Calvinism but then he himself would pretty well preach Calvinistically. So I think he saw the tension that has to be held.
Dever: So on evangelism I am hugely concerned that some of the ways that we've done evangelism have actually been some of the things that have most damaged our attempts to spread the gospel. In other words, if I simply share the gospel with somebody, lead them in praying to receive Christ, and then quote 1 John 1:9 to assure them that if they confess their sins that they're forgiven, and ask them, "Have you confessed your sins?" and they say, "Yes, I just did," and I respond, "Then you're forgiven. If you doubt that you doubt the word of God." I fear that we have filled up our churches with millions and millions of people who genuinely don't know Jesus from a hole in the wall. They give every evidence of it in their lives, and we preachers and pastors are partly to blame for the way we've done the evangelism. I'm not talking about all the preachers who are not obedient in doing evangelism at all. You know, there was the Great Awakening rejoinder that somebody said, I'd rather do my poor evangelism than your no evangelism. Well, me too. But, for those who are doing evangelism, it does seem to me like there are a lot of people sitting in our churches who think they are going to heaven. Well, they're sitting on our rolls but they don't sit in our churches, and some who sit in our churches don't really seem to know the Lord.
Patterson: Regrettably I have to believe that anytime you stand up and face a congregation these days in the average church you're looking at 30-40% that have never been born again and are not genuinely saved.
Dever: You mean in the evangelical church?
Patterson: I'm talking about in Baptist churches where we supposedly emphasize nothing in the world but regeneration. Lord knows what it is in some others, but I think that's true of us and I think it's because we have been very careless. We've been more concerned about numbers to report to the denominational press than we have been about genuine conversion. So, yes, I'm very concerned about it. Matter of fact, I've got to where, going into churches, I preach hardly anything else but the new birth anymore from one of 18-20 passages that I work from, just because I'm so concerned about that. So, yes, I do share your concern about that. It can't be any other way for us to have as much of the world in the pew as we presently have.
Dever: So, what can a pastor do to help sort that out? Is that where taking church membership and taking that seriously comes in?
Patterson: It is true that church discipline is a major part of assuring that we have a redeemed church membership. However, it is also true that in the handling of people when they initially come forward. I've come to believe, for example, that in an evangelistic invitation most people who come forward have not yet really made a commitment of their lives to Christ. They are coming forward out of an honest interest. Usually that is true, but I think if you put them down on the front pew and give them a card to fill out that you have probably done a tremendous disfavor to them if that's the sum total of what you're going to do. I think those people need to be taken and counseled very carefully and walked with until there is some evidence that a genuine conversion has taken place. If I were counseling pastors today I would say don't receive anybody into the church or for baptism or anything else at the moment they come forward. Get them into a counseling program. By counseling I am not talking about professional counseling.
Dever: Examining them?
Patterson: That's right. I am in favor of baptizing the new converts as quickly as possible because I think that's the New Testament way, but I am also in favor of putting in the careful approach both at the front and the back.
Dever: I think a lot of this can be helped just even by the front and you don't even have to talk about discipline. You just need to examine the way you take in members. So you're saying you don't think it is wise for some of these pastors who may be listening who tend to take in members of the churches at the end of the service? You encourage them not to do that?
Patterson: I really have my growing doubts as to the wisdom of that.
Dever: I heard about one church recently, and I don't know if you know about churches like this or not, in order to encourage baptisms among children the baptistry is shaped like a fire truck and they've got confetti cannons that go off whenever a kid is baptized. Do you know about any of this?
Patterson: This is my first time to hear this. This is blasphemous!
Dever: Anyway, it's a church in America. It's an evangelical church and they mean to preach the gospel so I want to be real quick to say their intentions are good. That's going to get kids of course, because they want to come forward, get in the fire truck and make the confetti cannons go off.
Patterson: I do not view [positively] the huge number of child baptisms that Baptists are now guilty of–Baptists are some of the worst paedo-baptizers there are.
Dever: I know the average age of baptism has dropped, I think, about 10 years in the last 100 years. When you read biographies from the 19th century, they're always getting baptized at 17, 18, 19, 20. J. R. Graves was baptized when he was 19. John Gill was that way. John A. Broadus was that way.
Patterson: It's out of hand in our churches.
Dever: I don't think we have to say that children can't be saved, we're not saying that at all. But the difficulties to us are knowing that they're saved
Patterson: Because of the difficulties of communication.
Dever: Is the fastest way to get fired in a Southern Baptist church is to begin to practice church discipline?
Patterson: Probably that's true. When I tell my students about it I tell them, Do not go do this next Sunday.
Dever: Are there Southern Baptist churches that are doing this, that are practicing church discipline?
Patterson: Yes, there sure are.
Dever: A growing number?
Patterson: A growing number, yes. I would say right now probably we're at the 100-200 level. So, at first you think, Wow, that's wonderful, that's great. But we have over 42,000 churches, so we're just beginning to make a dent in it. But I think more and more are realizing that you cannot have a meaningless church membership and expect to make any impact on the world.
Dever: How do you encourage a pastor at Southeastern Seminary in their classes? Does the seminary encourage young ministers to help churches move toward church discipline?
Patterson: Yes, we absolutely do. I tell them to begin preaching it as you come to it in the text, don't back off from it. Preach it straight. Then I tell them when the day comes when you're actually going to begin practicing it, the place to begin is not with somebody who's been caught in some heinous iniquity, because you're going to have sympathy problems there. The place to do it is on every one of these church rolls where you have huge numbers of people that are not attending church . That is something that people can understand. If folks have not come in five years and they are obviously not intending to come then we owe them, if we love them, a confrontation. If they choose not to respond to that confrontation then we're doing a disservice to them and the church to continue to consider them members.
Dever: What about the argument that in doing this you are cutting off a relationship with them that could be evangelistic?
Patterson: I think many people believe that, but these are generally people that just have no understanding of the fact that there is a confrontational element in Christianity that is unavoidable.
Dever: I know one Southern Baptist church that has 1100 members with about 40 attending. I think there are a lot like that. So if we really did this over the next year you might not be president of the biggest Protestant denomination in America.
Patterson: You know, this came up last year. Last year for the first year in our history we had a little drop in membership. The press kept coming to me and saying, Aren't you concerned about this? I said, Well, no, as a matter of fact I'd like to see a year when we dropped about 3 million more. The press would say, What's that you say? You wouldn't mind 3 million more dropped? I would say, No, we're having a boasting membership of 15 million people, there are at least 3 million of those that we can't even find. Some of them are in heaven, some probably went the other way, some of them are just in L. A., and we don't know where they are. For us to count them as church members is absolutely unfair to these people. It's one of the most unchristian things we could do. So, if we love them, we must stress to them that following Jesus Christ is a matter of trusting Him as Lord and doing what He says. Why do you call me Lord and do not the things I say? We can't help people live that way. We've got to help them see the better way and we need to lose about 3 million that are not really associated with us. Maybe more.


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CLEVELAND, Ohio – John McDonald didn't feel like there was heavy contact between Michael Brantley and him on Monday night at second base in the third inning. Certainly not hard enough to cause the concussion that has sidelined Brantley until Saturday at the earliest.
"It's unfortunate, but sometimes you just hit a guy in the wrong spot," said McDonald, the Angels veteran infielder.
After hitting a run-scoring single in the Tribe's 4-3 victory Monday, Brantley slid into second base to try and break up a double play on grounder by Jason Kipnis. Second baseman Howie Kendrick threw to McDonald, who was playing shortstop, as Brantley slid into the bag feet first to try and disrupt McDonald's relay to first.
McDonald turned the double play and tried to clear Brantley and that's where the contact took place. Brantley left the game in the fifth inning and has not played since.
"We had a little bit of a collision when I was trying to break up two," said Brantley, after Wednesday's game between the Indians and Angels was rained out at Progressive Field. "That happens."
No makeup date has been announced for Wednesday's rainout. The series concludes Thursday at 12:05 p.m. game with Justin Masterson facing Angel left-hander C.J. Wilson. Masterson and Wilson were scheduled to start Wednesday night.
"I tried to get up over him after I made the throw," said McDonald, who was drafted and signed by the Indians in 1996. "I didn't feel a whole lot of contact.
"I knew there was some sort of contact. I didn't know if it was with my body or with my glove. I put my glove down on the runner so he doesn't hit me too hard."
In 2010, Twins first baseman Justin Morneau slid into second base where McDonald was trying to turn a double play for Toronto. Morneau's head and McDonald's knee collided, giving Morneau a concussion that bothered him for three years.=
"After we turned the double play, I asked him (Brantley) if he was all right," said McDonald. "I tend to ask guys just to make sure nothing was happening. He said he was good and I didn't think twice about it.
"It's just unfortunate, especially where he is right now."
Brantley is on the cusp of not only an All-Star season, but a career season. He's hitting .323 (86-for-266) with 17 doubles, 11 homers and 46 RBI. He's scored 49 runs and stolen nine bases in nine attempts.
The 11 homers are one more than Brantley hit last season and he ranks second in the AL with eight assists from left field.
Brantley was examined Monday after the collision and the Indians were told he did not suffer a concussion. Manager Terry Francona added that the possibility still existed, "because it wasn't ruled out."
On Tuesday, Francona had two lineups – one with Brantley, one without him. Brantley didn't feel right and did not play. The Indians sent him back to the hospital for more tests and a "mild' concussion was diagnosed.
"I just didn't feel perfect," said Brantley. "It's a day-by- day process. I look forward to getting back out there with my team as soon as possible. I'm just going to listen to what the medical staff says and go from there. "
Wednesday was a good day for Brantley. He played catch and hit off a tee. If he continues to progress, he could do some work on the field before Thursday's game.
"Michael is doing very well," said Francona. "Everything that has been introduced to him (Wednesday) . . .the reaction tests . . .he's done very well with. Each activity that has been given to him he's handled without an occurrence (of concussion-like symptoms).
"With that being said, the doctors, trainings and Michael think Saturday is realistic. So as opposed to missing seven games (if he was placed on the seven-day concussion list), he could maybe miss five."
The Indians host the Tigers in a three-game series this weekend.
As for returning to the lineup Saturday, Brantley said, "I don't want to put a deadline on anything. My goal is to get back out there with my team as fast as possible. That involves listening to the medical staff and making sure that I'm ready to go 100 percent."


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Replay updates from reporter John Scheerhout at Preston Crown Court as the trial continues of Dale Cregan and nine other men
The jury has been sent home for the day and the trial is scheduled to resume in the morning.
Mr Kamran said two or three customers got into his taxi and said they wanted first to go to the New Inn pub in Hollingworth. He was asked repeatedly if he knew the names of the customers. Mr Nazir said he did not know any of their names.
The next witness, private hire driver Kamran Nazir, has told the court how he went to The Organ pub to pick up a customer, Luke. The fare had originally had been called in as a job to Droylsden.
The jury has been sent out for a 10-minute break
The driver reported Luke had not shown up when he arrived at The Organ, said Ms Adshead.
Lesley Adshead, a manager at private hire firm Radio Cabs, has explained to the court how a call was received from a man who called himself Luke who ordered a taxi to attend The Organ pub in Stalybridge on May 25 before the shooting at the Cotton Tree. The Crown say Luke is the defendant Luke Livesey, who the Crown say was with Dale Cregan and Damian Gorman in the Ford Focus which took the gunman to the pub later in the evening. A recording of the telephone call was played to the jury.
The jury is back in court for the afternoon session
The trial has been adjourned for lunch
A letting agent, Eric Rostron, is the next witness. He has told the jurors he let a property at Moorfield Terrace in Hollingworth to one of the defendants, Damian Gorman, and his girlfriend Sarah Clark between May, 2011, and March, 2012. The court has previously heard how the alleged getaway car for the Cotton Tree shootings was found burning in Hollingworth, close to Moorfield Terrace, just after midnight on May 26.
Mr Rostron said he agreed to let the property to new tenants and when he went to check its condition found a broken rear window which had had a brick or a stone thrown at it. A TV aerial was laying in the yard, he said.
The witness is telling the jury he was told "Damo" had threatened a friend if they went to the police. "I didn't know who it was at the time. She told me she had been threatened not to say anything" the witness told the jury.
The prosecution say "Damo" is Daman Gorman, one of Dale Cregan's co-defendants in the trial. Another witness has told the jury that Mr Gorman was a cocaine dealer who had threatened them with the "one-eyed Scotchman" if they went to the police. Mr Gorman, 37, from Glossop, denies murdering Mark Short, 23, in the Cotton Tree pub in May, and three counts of attempted murder relating to three men who were also shot in the pub. The Crown allege he was with Cregan and Luke Livesey in a Ford Focus which delivered the gunman to the Cotton Tree. Mr Livesey, 27, from Hattersley, also denies murdering Mark Short and three counts of attempted murder. Ryan Hadfield, 28, from Droylsden, and Matthew James, 33, from Clayton, also deny murder and three counts of attempted murder. They are accused of acting as "spotters" at the pub, allegedly directing the gunman to the right place.
The jury is back in and another witness is giving evidence from behind screens.
The jury is sent out by the judge for an early break. The court is being prepared for the next witness, who is due to give evidence from behind screens.
Earlier, the jurors heard a statement from firefighter Kevin Eckersley, who was called out with his crew shortly after the shooting at the Cotton Tree and found the Ford Focus said to have been the getaway car on fire near Ellison Close in nearby Hollingworth. The vehicle was "totally engulfed in fire" when his crew arrived at the scene at ten minutes past midnight on May 26. He said the cause of the fire was "probably deliberate ignition".
The jurors also heard that the Ford Focus had been stolen on May 1. The owner of the car had parked it up overnight and woke to find it had been taken. The keys had been through the letter box.
The first witness to give evidence is under 16 and cannot be named for legal reasons. She is giving her evidence by video link. After being sworn in, her police video interview is now being played to the jury.
Court one is filling up in advance of day eight of the trial of Dale Cregan and others. The prosecution is still focusing on shooting at the Cotton Tree pub in Droylsden in May.


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WHITEHOUSE STATION -- Perfect Peanuts Child Care will open at the end of the month. Calling itself the first of its kind, Perfect Peanuts offers child care exclusively for children with food allergies. Its slogan is: "We don't feed our peanuts peanuts."
Jenifer Santoro is starting small -- as a state-certified in-home program limited to five kids, but she hopes to build a child care center later on.
Eliminating peanuts, tree nuts, egg, fish and shellfish from their daily menus helps to reduce the risk of an allergic reaction or anaphylaxis, a serious allergic reaction that is rapid in onset and may cause death, she said. Milk, wheat and soy round out what is commonly known as the "top eight" allergens and will only be served to those children not allergic to them, as to not unnecessarily restrict their diets.
Santoro began this process when hearing of her own son's food allergies. He was diagnosed at just 7 months. After an exhaustive search for a satisfactory daycare center left her underwhelmed, Santoro saw an opportunity to not only help her son, but other children as well.
She reached out to NORWESCAP for training as a family child care provider. She is now state registered and her in-home child care facility is set to open in Whitehouse Station on Aug. 31.
"It was an easy decision to offer what no one else is offering right now. So many parents are reliant on child care so that they may work, especially these days with trying to make ends meet. However, many of them spend their whole day at work worrying about the potential risks posed to their children. Some families are even in the unfortunate situation of bringing in only one income because their child's allergies are so severe they can't bear the thought of putting them in daycare. They would rather lose one income for the security of being able to watch over their children themselves."
This is what makes Perfect Peanuts different. By enrolling only children affected by food allergies, they are reducing the risk of a child coming into the facility with potential food contamination on their clothing.
"By forbidding any outside food in the facility, we control our environment a bit further," she said. "We prepare all meals on-site and offer breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. All food is part of a balanced, nutritious diet and meets all standards and regulations given by the state."
A child must be diagnosed with a peanut allergy to be accepted into the program.
And it's a program she would like to expand. "Our mission is to reach as many families as possible affected by food allergies and opening a center would allow us to reach dozens and possibly hundreds of families," she said.
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If you have normal blood sugar concentrations (from 70mg/dL to 120mg/dL) but are experiencing hypoglycemia symptoms (palpitations, sweating, tremors, anxiety and nausea), you could be suffering from adrenergic postprandial syndrome.
What is Adrenergic Postprandial Syndrome?
Adrenergic postprandial syndrome is caused by abnormalities in the autonomic adregenic counterregulation system in your body. The adrenergic syndrome gives you the same symptoms as hypoglycemia but avoids the actual blood sugar crash by using epinephrine and adrenaline to counter the biochemical mechanisms that would have caused true hypoglycemia. It isn't a "false" disease — you're still experiencing actual symptoms due to an excess of hormones and chemicals in your body.
What causes Adrenergic Postprandial Syndrome?
Adrenergic postprandial syndrome is a dysregulation of your autonomic nervous system. It's sometimes called pseudohypoglycemia or non-hypoglycemia but in fact, hypoglycemia isn't involved in the process at all.
Why Do I get Symptoms if I don't Have Hypoglycemia?
When blood sugar gets too low, the body produces epinephrine and glucagon to counteract the low blood sugar and return levels to normal. In normal people, this counterregulation happens at under 50mg/dL. However, in adrenergic postprandial syndrome, the response occurs at much higher levels. Epinephrine (adrenalin) is the hormone that makes you feel jittery when something suddenly happens (like being in a fender bender). Put simply: the symptoms you experience with adrenergic postprandial syndrome are due to the release of epinephrine into your bloodstream.
What is the Treatment for Adrenergic Postprandial Syndrome?
Although you don't get a blood sugar crash, the syndrome has the same root cause as reactive hypoglycemia: your diet. Therefore, you should eat a reactive hypoglycemia diet, free of simple carbs (like sugar and white pasta) and full of protein, vegetables, nuts and other healthful choices. See this article on the reactive hypoglycemia diet for where to start.


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It's never too early to talk about Cy Young Award and MVP Award candidates. In this case, players from every team are the beneficiaries.
With the first month of the 2013 MLB season now in the books, it's time to give these players their just desserts.
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Each team had players performing at a high level from Opening Day throughout the entire month. The phrase "slow start" simply wasn't in their vocabulary.
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Red Cross and BEN-FM Host Blood Drive
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95.7 BEN-FM is teaming up with the American Red Cross to host a life-saving blood drive event. The event will be held on April 30th from 1p-7p at the Valley Forge Casino in the Independence Ball Room.
Everyone who donates will receive a $25 "Free Slot Play." All donors will also be entered to win a dinner certificate valued at $50 to the Valley Tavern, which will be raffled off at the end of the blood drive. All presenting donors will receive a voucher for $20 toward fitness classes at Aim High Studio. Other prizes includes a pair of concert tickets and an iPod.
"We are extremely fortunate to have partners like 95.7 WBEN-FM and Valley Forge Casino, who recognize the importance of blood drives and the lives they save," said Anthony C. Tornetta, Regional Communications Manager, American Red Cross. "It is because of great partners like these that the American Red Cross has been able to have such a high success rate." Some four million people give blood—the gift of life—through the Red Cross, each year, making it the largest supplier of blood and blood products in the United States.
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After its in-house order management system has placed high-risk orders into a queue, a member of the 20-person Ice.com risk management staff telephones or e-mails the customer to explain that the retailer needs proof of identification before processing the order. By placing the customer's name and all or part of the customer's Social Security number into the IDlive system, which consolidates information from thousands of public records, the retailer receives three questions based on the customer's personal records. The questions, about such personal histories as past home addresses or past jobs, are designed to be known only by the true person the online customer claims to be.
Ice.com then enters the customer's answers into the IDlive system and waits a few seconds for an authentication of the customer's identity.
Positive reaction
The IDlive system can be set up to automatically interact with an online customer, who fills out a pop-up form of questions and waits for an approval, but Ice.com wanted to conduct the process manually to directly learn how customers would react, Schaff says. "So far they've been pleasantly surprised that we're doing this," he says, adding that customers say they appreciate Ice.com's taking steps to prevent fraudulent use of their identities.
IDology's IDlive service connects with a database of more than 4,000 sources of public records, including Social Security numbers, to verify that an online customer is the true holder of the credit card account being used for a purchase, says vice president and chief marketing officer Raye Croghan. She adds that the system can check specific details needed by particular types of retailers, such as when online wine sellers need to check a purchaser's age.
IDology charges a one-time application fee of $100 plus per-transaction fees of 25 to 85 cents depending on volume, Croghan says. Other vendors providing similar forms of identity authentication include Verid Inc. and StikeForce Technologies Inc.
Also on the prevention front, eBay and PayPal have developed anti-fraud software that checks for inconsistencies in their regular users' transactions and flags them for review. "EBay and PayPal have done a lot of sophisticated work in fighting phishing attacks," says Jevans.
Vendors that offer similar software and services include Cyota Inc., The 41st Parameter and Retail Decisions. "These systems can detect patterns and then detect anomalies in customer behavior, such as when a customer usually makes three purchases a month for $50 each, then suddenly makes a $10,000 purchase," Litan says.
Another security company, PassMark Security Inc., has developed a system under which a consumer chooses an image that gets recorded with her personal information when she opens an account. Each time (or occasionally, depending on the account provider) the customer prepares to make an online transaction, the system requires her to identify the chosen image.
EBay and PayPal have also distributed for free to 1 million customers a toolbar with technology from WholeSecurity Inc. that alerts consumers when they go to a suspicious site or receive an e-mail that appears to be phishing. The toolbar flashes red if a user finds himself on a spoofed web page or if incoming e-mail has the characteristics of a phishing e-mail mimicking the eBay or PayPal brand. It flashes green if all appears legitimate, or gray if legitimacy is unclear.
WholeSecurity's Phish Finder system automatically transmits a message with details of suspected phish e-mails and spoofed web sites to a management console on an eBay back-end server, says John Ball, product manager at WholeSecurity, where risk managers can decide whether to pursue the site operator. They can also forward details of the phish e-mails and spoofed web sites to WholeSecurity's Phish Reporting Network, where the information is shared with other subscribers, including Microsoft Corp. and Visa.
Other security systems, such as from Quova Corp. and MaxMind, use geolocation technology to identify from where a consumer or suspected e-mail is operating.
Deployed either separately or as part of risk management systems from companies like eFunds Corp.,CyberSource Corp. and Retail Decisions, geolocation can alert a merchant whenever a credit card is being used from a location not typically used by the authentic cardholder, such as a country known for a high rate of online fraud.
Ever vigilant
Efforts to overcome phishing and other methods of fraud may never be completely successful, experts say, because the business case-the ease of launching and changing attacks and the size of potential rewards-is too attractive to too many criminals. But there is reason to have hope, Jevans says, particularly as ISPs, retailers and law enforcement agencies cooperate in sharing information and using the latest fraud-prevention tools. "There may never be a complete technological solution, but we can make online fraud a lot harder to do," he says.
The trick is to never let down your guard, says Schaff of Ice.com. In addition to using technology and active risk management staff to catch phishers wherever they pose a threat, Ice uses Ambrion Software to conduct constant internal tests of its web site firewalls and e-mail filters and also retains an outside auditing firm to conduct manual audits of its security systems. "Criminals are getting more sophisticated, but we, too, can be trend-setters," Schaff says. l
Help from Congress
With a number of bills addressing data security and identity theft submitted in the U.S. Congress, among those attracting most attention are legislation introduced this year by Sens. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.).
Feinstein has introduced the Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act, which requires companies holding consumer data to notify consumers whenever their data has been breached. The bill requires companies to produce a detailed description of data that may have been compromised and imposes a penalty of $1,000 per individual that a company failed to notify, or up to $50,000 per day.
Schumer and Nelson have introduced an identity theft prevention bill, the Comprehensive Identity Theft Prevention Act, that would create an office of identity theft in the Federal Trade Commission, require data providers to register with the FTC, and require additional safeguards to prevent fraudulent access to data.
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The festival will fill the fairgrounds off Route 234 near Arendtsville 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday and Oct. 10-11, rain or shine.
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Section I: Contracting authority
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Offsetting the climate impacts of flights.
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The establishment of a framework agreement.
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Framework agreement with a single operator.
Duration of the framework agreement: 12 months.
|Short description of the contract or purchase(s):
The EEA has been introducing measures to reduce the need for travel, in particular by air, and to encourage the use of less environmentally harmful transport modes such as rail and other public transport. In 2006, the EEA committed itself to offset the climate impacts of all remaining flights on behalf of the EEA by introducing a carbon credit scheme. The EEA evaluated several options for a carbon credit scheme, including buying allowances from the EU Emission Trading Scheme (ETS). Due to the high allocation of allowances within the ETS' first trading period, the EEA does not wish to buy ETS allowances for the years 2006 and 2007. Instead, the EEA seeks to buy carbon offsets from a company or institution that provides such offsetting services outside the ETS.
The EEA will be communicating its carbon credit policy widely and will encourage partners and clients to follow its example of offsetting the climate impact of travel activities.
The selected contractor shall ensure a sufficient level of activities to offset the aggregated climate impact of all flights on behalf of the EEA for the years 2006 and 2007. This applies to around 4,000 flights a year, mostly within Europe. The contractor shall provide transparent information about the offsetting activities and their proper implementation.
The result of this call for tender may also be used by other European institutions/agencies to buy carbon offsets.
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Candidates or tenderers shall be excluded if:
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(b) they have been convicted of an offence concerning their professional conduct by a judgement which has the force of 'res judicata';
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(d) they have not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions or the payment of taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which they are established or with those of the country of the Agency or those of the country where the contract is to be performed;
(e) they have been the subject of a judgment which has the force of 'res judicata' for fraud, corruption, involvement in a criminal organisation or any other illegal activity detrimental to the Communities' financial interests;
(f) they have been convicted for an environmental offence in the exercise of the profession;
(g) following another procurement procedure or grant award procedure financed by the Community budget, they have been declared to be in serious breach of contract for failure to comply with the contractual obligations.
(h) they are subject to a conflict of interest;
(i) they are guilty of misrepresentation in supplying the information required by the contracting authority as a condition of participation in the contract procedure or fail to supply this information.
Candidates or tenderers must certify that they are not in one of the situations listed above. The tenderer shall provide an auto-declaration, preferably made on oath before a judicial or administrative authority, a notary or a competent professional or trade body by a person competent to do so on behalf of the tenderer, which states that none of the grounds for exclusion apply to the tenderer (see Annex 1).
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Producer: Trimbach
Style: White Wine
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Origin: France
Region: Alsace
92 Points | Stephen Tanzer's IWC - July/August 2001
Aromatic nose of cinnamon and rose petal. Very rich and spicy; already displays compelling inner-mouth perfume. Lovely ripe acids give this supple, fruit-filled wine terrific finesse. Finishes very long and spicy, and less sweet than its 18 grams/liter residual sugar would suggest. Pierre Trimbach feels it will be the best vintage for this bottling since the '90, with better acidity than that earlier year.


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Tulane will meet Brigham Young in a nationally televised game Sept. 12 in the Superdome, it was announced Tuesday.
The Green Wave originally was scheduled to play host to Alabama on that date, but ESPN put together a game between the Crimson Tide and Virginia Tech in Atlanta on Sept. 5 with the agreement to find a replacement game for Tulane that it would air either on ESPN or ESPN2.
"It's a challenge, but it's also a big opportunity for us," Tulane Coach Bob Toledo said. "We've played BYU when I was at Texas A&M and UCLA and New Mexico and I've always had the utmost respect for their program.
Two of the Wave's other three non-conference games are set - at Army on Oct. 3 and at LSU on Oct. 31. Tulane also will play host to McNeese State on either Sept. 19 or Sept. 26.
Tulane's Conference USA schedule will be announced in the spring, but the Wave will open on Sept. 5 against a league opponent. Home conference opponents are Texas-El Paso, Houston, Tulsa and Marshall. The C-USA road games are at Rice, Central Florida, Southern Methodist and Southern Miss.
The game against BYU will be the third between the two schools.
Tulane defeated the Cougars, 41-27 in the 1998 Liberty Bowl which capped the Wave's unbeaten season. BYU won 70-35 in the 2001 Black Coaches Association Classic which opened that season.
The Cougars, who were 10-3 this season, will play Oklahoma on Sept. 5 in the first game in the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium.
The game against McNeese will be the first for Tulane.


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Nice apartment near the Old Town of Prague
Size30 m²
Floor No.
- Family/child friendly
- Internet/WiFi
- Kitchen
- Pets allowed
- Washer/dryer
- Parking available
- Smoking allowed
|Kmochova, 150 00 Prague, Czech Republic
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|Property ID
|Acceptance rate
|Response time
|A few hours
|Calendar updated
- vestibule with wardrobe
- bathroom with shower and toilet
- kitchenette with refrigerator and microwave oven
- optimum occupancy 2 people
- maximum occupancy 3 persons
This apartment with a size of 30 square meters is equipped with two single beds and a folding sofa bed. Inside the apartment are also a small hall with cloakroom, a kitchenette and a bathroom with shower and toilet.
- located in the center area of Prague
- final cleaning, city fees and all utilities are included in the price
- free and unlimited internet access in the apartment (wireless)
- all apartments with satellite TV (Astra and Hotbird digital) with about 1400 TV channels and 700 radio channels
- additional radio with CD player
- Fully equipped kitchenette with refrigerator, stove, microwave, coffee maker, kettle, toaster etc.
- complete equipment of cookware, cutlery, plates, cups, different glasses, bowls, salt, pepper, spices, etc.
- the breakfast can be prepared and ingested in the apartment (coffee and tea are available for free)
- use of our washing machine possible for a small fee
- good shopping and several inexpensive and local restaurants in the immediate vicinity
- largest shopping mall (supermarket open daily until midnight) in the city centre of Prague just 400 meters away
- detailed journey description
- free parking in front of the house
- cheap, secure parking nearby
- bed linen, towels and dishtowels are placed (beds made up on arrival)
- additional amenities (hairdryer, iron etc.) available depending on the apartment or on request
- nonstop tram service (no overpriced taxis required)
- english language support
|Price for > 2 guests
|11 € per guest/night extra
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A nice, quaint flat not far from the main sights in Prague. The flat was more than sufficient and well supplied with all that we needed. Previous tennants had broken the flat's interior doors so that they wouldn't lock but that was really not a problem for us. A wall safe was included, which was a pleasant surprize. All in all, I would stay there again. It was very nice to have our own place whilst visiting another city. We'll definitely do it again!!!
Had a fantastic stay here. Host was kind and informative and kept in touch to make sure everything was fine with us. Apartment was clean neat and tidy, very spacious Close to public transport and shops. Recommended!
The apartment is so nice and clean. The location is good. It's easy to access Department Store and the city. Moreover, I like the idea that my family could stay together in the same 3 rooms apartment. Bernhard is so friendly and knowledgeable. We also like the restaurant, he suggested. We were there the first evening and again we went back there the day after as the food and atmosphere were so good. Thank you Bernhard...we are sure to stay there again when we will go to Prague.
Apartment near the center, ideal for two, but also for a family with a child. In the immediate vicinity there is a park, a supermarket, tram and metro. The room itself spacious, fully equipped kitchen.
Of course, I recommend :)
Apartament blisko centrum, idealny dla dwójki, ale także dla rodziny z dzieckiem. W bliskim otoczeniu znajduje się park, supermarket, przystanek tramwajowy i metro. Sam pokój przestronny, kuchnia w pełni wyposażona.
Oczywiście polecam :)
Went there on mid august and we had a really nice week! The apartment is great and really close to city center, and Bernhard is a really great host... When we arrived he showed us the apartment and gave us some useful information about praha.
Recomended 100% :)
Nice apartament close to the city centre (20 min by walk). Good and cheap restaurant nearby.
Really Nice host who helped us when we needed his help
The appartement is cosy and the landscapes we can see throught the window is really beautiful ..
Bernhard is a very friendly en helpfull host. He showed us our room en told us some tips about praha to. The appartement is clean and has everything you need.
You can easy reach the appartement by tram. I really recommend the appartement!
Appartment was very nice and clean. We also enjoyed the location, on walking distant from the city center & there is a big shoppingmall around the corner. Bernhard was very friendly. He gave us a citymap with some hilights of prague and he took all the time to explain us things about the appartment and also gave us some tips about nice non-touristic restaurants, clubs etc. Very friendly man, very neat and good appartment. Recommended!
Very nice stay. The place is conveniently located if you want to explore Prague's old town on foot. Never had to take the public transport anywhere. :) Recommend.
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CNJ staff photo: Tony Bullocks Joe Smith, owner of JD Technologies, installs a computer hard drive Monday. Smith is the first occupant at the Clovis Business Incubator.
By Sharna Johnson: CNJ staff writer
There's a hatchling in the Clovis Business Incubator.
Joe Smith, owner of JD Technologies, recently moved his computer repair business from his home to the facility, marking him as the first small business to take up residency there.
Monday began Smith's second week in his new office and he said it is a perfect fit for him.
"It has everything that a business could ever want all in one place," Smith said.
"At this price and with these amenities this was the best option."
Smith said he has access to everything from coffee pots to fax machines and has enjoyed the proximity to the Small Business Development Center just two offices away.
"I've used that several times if I had questions," he said.
About three months ago Smith started his own mobile computer repair business catering to homes and offices.
Working from his home, Smith chuckled when he said, "Whenever I first started out I promised my wife I would keep it all in one room."
But as time went by, Smith found himself having to move his business stuff around the house to accommodate company and family activities, and knew he needed a place outside his home to conduct business.
Plus he said the added convenience of giving customers a ready location they could stop by was important.
"I was looking for something that was more convenient for me and the customer," he said.
Located at 105 E. Grand, the Clovis Business Incubator is a joint project of two larger tenants of the building: The Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce and the Clovis Industrial Development Corp.
"The Business Incubator program is dedicated to improving the start-up, growth and survival rates of technology-based and other businesses in the project area," according to a press release from the chamber of commerce. "The ultimate goal will be to "graduate" companies (which) will continue to contribute to the project area's economy through the creation of jobs and taxable opportunities after leaving the facility."
The center's below-market lease rates and ready-to-use spaces are the draw for those just entering the business world, chamber officials said.
Tenants also have access to the Internet, conference and meeting rooms, and a kitchen.
Leases start at $1 per square foot per month and increases over a three years to prepare business owners for the transition to the outside world.
Smith said he expects his three years there will be more than enough to grow his business and hopes that he will eventually occupy a store front to use as a home base.
Employees are part of the goal too, he said.
"Without a doubt it will (grow in volume)," the 30-year-old said.


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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – The biblical King David writes a prayer in Psalm 139:13, 15 -- "You are the one who created my innermost parts; you knit me together while I was still in my mother's womb…My bones weren't hidden from you when I was being put together in a secret place" (Common English Bible).
That was among the Bible verses used Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, during the 14th annual Stand for Life in Huntsville to show a biblical basis for believing that life worth protecting begins at conception.
The annual rally protests the legalization of abortion in all 50 states through the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, which celebrates its 40th anniversary today, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013.
On Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., is expected to draw, at minimum, more than the 50,000 that the organization seeks a permit for from the National Park Service, and, at maximum, around 400,000, according to the March for Life's own estimates.
But regardless of how many people are on the street in D.C. Friday or were at the courthouse in Huntsville on Monday – about 120 at its most crowded – it's likely that no other single issue in American life since slavery has used more religious language in debates.
Religious and legal prohibitions seem less effective for preventing abortions than good access to contraception and birth control information.
Non-religious abortion rights debaters love to point to statistics that seem to indicate that more religiously conservative countries – which are more likely to restrict access to sex education and contraception as well as be less developed in general – produce more women seeking abortions than more secular countries.
Leaders from most of the world's religions have issued guidance about abortion. Of course, no matter what a religion officially teaches, the decisions people make in the middle of their own muddled lives may or may not follow those teachings.
Here is a round-up of teachings. The information below largely comes from links collected by the Pew Forum in an article on the teachings of various faiths. A similar study is also posted at BeliefNet.com on "World Religions on Abortion," and also at individual denominational websites.
Hinduism – Condemns abortion, except when the life of the mother is in danger otherwise, because the fetus is a person, even though it's undeveloped, who needs protection.
Sikhs – Life is sacred. While Sikhs do not state when life begins, since every pregnancy is a potential child, abortion should be considered only if the pregnancy threatens the mother's life or health, even in cases of rape.
Islam – Prohibits abortion, except to save the life of the mother, particularly after the fourth month, when the fetus is believed to have a soul.
Buddhism – Fetuses are considered to have consciousness, and any life with consciousness, including insects, is to be protected, according to most Buddhist teachers. In Zen Buddhism, the deity Jizo is believed to take care of aborted children until they can be reborn in another incarnation.
Baha'i – The soul joins the body at conception. Choosing abortion just because a child is unwanted is forbidden. But Baha'i guidelines leave it to individuals to decide.
Judaism – The fetus is considered part of the woman's body, and Jews are not to voluntarily harm their bodies unless crucial for the life of the mother. However, "An existing life takes precedence over a potential life, if there must be a choice between them," according to a statement posted at the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.
Unitarian-Universalist – Every woman has the right to safe, affordable, and, if necessary, federally funded abortion services.
Roman Catholic – Every human being should be protected from the moment of conception. Getting an abortion means automatic excommunication from the church.
American Baptist – Against abortion just to eliminate an unplanned pregnancy, but the denomination officially defers stating when life begins and whether it should be up to the government to restrict access to abortions.
Southern Baptist – A fertilized human egg is a new human being, the bearer of God's image, and deserves protection, no matter how it was conceived (even through rape).
Presbyterian (USA) – Opposes abortion as birth control, but acknowledges cases, such as rape, incest, severe deformity and threats to the mother's health, that might be situations in which abortion is an acceptable alternative. While the state should regulate somewhat, the church's official position is that abortion needs to remain legal, safe and affordable.
Evangelical Lutheran – Abortion should be only a last resort.
Lutheran – Missouri Synod – Abortion is contrary to the Bible, except when it's necessary to save the mother's life.
Episcopalian -- Church does not condone it, but does not support government prohibition.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – Elective abortion is sinful, but not necessarily murder, and only should be chosen for situations of rape, incest, severe handicaps or when continued pregnancy or birth would threaten the life of the mother.
Seventh-day Adventist – While focusing on the sanctity of life and ways that the church can encourage a healthy family life, including the responsibility to use family planning, the church's guidelines come down to respecting each woman as the person who should make a decision in the case of a crisis pregnancy: "She should be aided in her decision by accurate information, biblical principles, and the guidance of the Holy Spirit" – all this, ideally, within the support of a loving family.
United Church of Christ -- Church statements are that the group is a "firm advocate" of reproductive rights, including the right to choose abortion.
United Methodist – Church's official statement "believes in the sanctity of unborn human life," but also points out the sanctity of the mother's life as well. Balancing those concerns, the statement opposes late-term abortion except in extreme circumstances, but says the church continues to support the legal option of abortion under extraordinary circumstances. The church also encourages support for adoption.
"Governmental laws and regulations do not provide all the guidance required by the informed Christian conscience," the Methodist statement concludes. "Therefore, a decision concerning abortion should be made only after thoughtful and prayerful consideration by the parties involved, with medical, pastoral, and other appropriate counsel."
Kay Campbell, religion reporter for The Huntsville Times and www.al.com , can be reached at email@example.com and 256-532-4320.
For more Huntsville Times coverage of the abortion issue, go here:
Pro-choice activists obtain more warrants against pro-life supporters for spraying holy water, 'chest bumping'
Huntsville Stand for Life 2013 includes Bible reading
World religions teach that life is sacred; differ on legality of abortion
Huntsville's abortion rights activists -- pro and con -- claim moral, religious high ground
Not so civil war: Huntsville's abortion clinic activists need to defuse powder keg (Anthony Cook)
Woman sprays pro-choice supporters with 'holy water' outside Huntsville abortion clinic (Video)
Huntsville Stand for Life urges stronger pro-life, anti-abortion bills in Alabama
Alabama abortion laws require sharing photos of growing fetus, ultrasound before abortion


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Talk about a super sequel.
Four years after New York stunned previously undefeated New England in the Arizona desert, the Patriots and Giants are going at it again at the Super Bowl this time in Indianapolis.
Brady and Belichick. Eli and Coughlin. Both teams rolling through the playoffs.
Yep, here we go again.
New England opens as a 3-point favorite for the Feb. 5 game.
It's familiar territory for Tom Brady and the Patriots (15-3), who are playing in the Super Bowl for the fifth time in 11 years. New England is in the big game for the seventh time overall, second only to the eight trips by Pittsburgh and Dallas.
But it's the Patriots' first appearance since Eli Manning and the Giants (12-7) upset New England's pursuit of perfection in 2008.
NFC Championship – Giants 20, 49ers 17, OT
Lawrence Tynes booted the Giants into the Super Bowl again.
Tynes kicked a winning 31-yard field goal in sudden-death overtime and New York beat the San Francisco 49ers 20-17 in the NFC championship game Sunday night to reach its second Super Bowl in five seasons.
Eli Manning and the Giants (12-7) will face the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl on Feb. 5 in Indianapolis, just as they did when they won it in 2008.
Tynes also kicked the game-winning field goal in overtime at Green Bay in the 2008 NFC title game that put the Giants in the Super Bowl.
Devon Thomas put the Giants in position. He recovered his second fumble of the game after Jacquian Williams stripped the ball from fill-in return man Kyle Williams.
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) celebrates after scoring a one yard touchdown during the second half of the AFC Championship NFL football game against the Baltimore Ravens Sunday.
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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) celebrates after scoring a one yard touchdown during the second half of the AFC Championship NFL football game against the Baltimore Ravens Sunday.
AFC Championship – Patriots 23, Ravens 20
Tom Brady waited out the final tense minutes on the sideline and somehow his fourth-quarter leap into the end zone held up, sending the New England Patriots back to the Super Bowl.
With New England leading by 3 points with 11 seconds left, Billy Cundiff missed a 32-yard field goal attempt and the Patriots escaped with a 23-20 win Sunday in the AFC championship game.
On his 1-yard scoring dive with 11:29 left, Brady took a huge hit from Ravens star linebacker Ray Lewis, then emphatically spiked the ball as he walked away. Earlier, Brady showed his fire by barking at Lewis following a hard tackle on a 4-yard run.
Next up as the Patriots chase their fourth Super Bowl trophy in Brady and coach Bill Belichick's tenure in New England is the winner of Sunday's NFC championship game between the Giants and 49ers. The Super Bowl is Feb. 5 in Indianapolis.
In their last trip to the big game, the Patriots had an 18-0 record when they were stunned by the Giants four years ago. They won the NFL championship for the 2001, 2003 and 2004 seasons. This time, they had to the Sup Bowl with a 10-game winning streak.
Brady's fifth trip to the Super Bowl will equal John Elway's achievement with Denver.
"We're going to try to go out and kick some butt in a couple of weeks," Brady said.
via Giants, Patriots Headed To Super Bowl XLVI : NPR.
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