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Need names please! I plan to eat a lot of pizza that week!
Not suggesting that Bianco does this, but I believe I read in Peter Reinhart's book, "American Pie", he suggested boiling pepperoni for a few minutes to lessen the grease on the finished pie. You might wanna try that and see if it is what you're looking for.
I had Bianco this past December on a pizza road trip and was not at all as impressed as the masses seem to be. It wasn't at all bad, but the hype built up around said establishment was not lived up to.Meh.
So Steve, when exactly is your trip out this way?

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An understanding of Easter from inside the Armenian Orthodox tradition that is at once mystical and literally down to earth. Vigen Guroian is a theologian who experiences Easter as a call to our senses. He is passionate about the meaning of grand ideas like incarnation, death, and eternity as revealed in life and in his garden.
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is professor of religious studies in Orthodox Christianity at the University of Virginia. His books include The Fragrance of God and Inheriting Paradise.
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"I once said that gardening began when God expelled Adam and Eve from Paradise. I was wrong. What I should have said is that after the first couple greedily consumed beauty, gardening got inextricably mixed up with labor and survival, and farming came into existence."
by Vigen Guroian
Two characters of modern literature in whom one finds a radical disjunction of agape and eros are Flannery O'Connor's Rayber in The Violent Bear It Away and Fyodor Dostoevsky's Ivan Karamazov. Both suffer from similar spiritual maladies. Both are haunted by a yearning for a transfigured world against which their reason rebels.
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When Adam gardened, he imitated his Maker in a purely recreative act of cultivation and care. He did not need to subdue the earth in order for it to yield fruit. Rather, the plants were Adam's palette, and the earth was his canvas. There was nothing but delight in the Garden, for Eden itself means "garden of delight."
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"Lilies and hyacinths signify the resurrection, and I can understand why. But I have a pair of turtles that plant themselves in my garden each fall like two gigantic seeds and rise on Easter with earthen crowns upon their humbled heads."
by Vigen Guroian
All summer a leafed canopy kept out the sun and left the path safe and secluded. It is the kind of place where children might play hide-and-seek, or Adam and Eve conceal themselves from God. On this day, however, I, in my middle years, all soiled and weary, ambled down it, playing a timeless gardener's game, imagining what beauty there might be in spring when the flowers bloomed. As I reached the bottom, it was as if I had entered a house of light. The walls were not solid, and the powder-blue sky was its dome. But the temple was tangible, nonetheless, in sheer luminescence; and Hungry Run flowed through it like a silver thread.
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Like the fragrances in his garden that are a blend of many forms of earth and life, so is Vigen. I thought atomist, animist, pantheist, Jew, Christian, Catholic, Armenian and...Jungian (he did use the term "collective-memory")! I just happen to be reading David Abram's, "The Spell of The Sensuous." What marvelous bedfellows this book and this program make. He spoke of the "walls" that steal from us the firmament and I thought of Dante's City of Dis. I thought of the James Joyce invention, the "momomyth." Easter is a beautiful myth that reaches well beyond any written words or for that matter any language.
Thanks for my Easter celebration.
"We live inside of God's own eternity, though we count the days." - Vigen Guroian
That beautiful image of God's existence in creation will stick with me for a long, long time.
Professor Guroian's appearance with Ms Tippett this morning was a perfect Easter Morning meditation. His emphasis on the spiritual connections available through metaphor, as contrasted with the deductive and inductive tediousness of some contemporary theology, suited my storyteller's prejudices. One moment toward the end especially lit me up. He described luring his students out of Charlottesville to work in his garden. I thought, "He's brilliant." My own students (in "The Literary Essay" an upper-level writing course at Towson University) have been working on an extended-definition-essay on the word "mystery." Last semester the same assignment was to define "game," but "mystery" seemed just right for Holy Week. I offered them the chance to write about mystery in the sense of a question that will be answered or a question eternally open. And I offered examples high and low: One could address "Incarnation" or one could ruminate about, "Why can't guys be more . . .." But Vigen Guroian's description of his students' work in his garden has led to a new plan. Next spring I will bring my Towson students here for a day of rich contact with the natural world, and then have them write an extended definition of "mulch."
In the Bible a garden was the first temple to God. Spirituality can be found in gardens everywhere and is universal to all without the trappings of any specific religion.
Working in the garden is a form of meditation for me. It involves so much more than mental reflection. It involves the whole body and refreshes the soul after the somber winter.
As a Greek Orthodox Christian and avid gardener, I have always suspected my love of the garden to be an outgrowth of my spiritual faith but was unable to explain this with adequate words. Until now, for me it has always been a silent connection—but one with deep roots. I am grateful to Vigen for expressing the profound connection between gardening and Eastern Orthodoxy and to your program for making it possible for all to hear. I look forward to reading his books and wish I had known about him when I visited Charlottesville last year. I would certainly have sought him out.
When Mr. Guroian was reflecting on his experience in nature he mentioned that walking beneath a canopy of trees reminded him of walking under a cathedral arch. This made me laugh as I recalled a similar statement by a friend of mine who frequents Las Vegas, mostly gambling and rarely noticing anything outside the casinos. When he finally stepped outside into the Nevada sunshine, he said "Wow, look at those beautiful clouds. It looks like they copied the ceiling in the Bellagio."
Western religions have always disappointed me in that they elevate man to such an artificial height, thereby belittling nature and science that are the true wonders of creation. The result, following millenia of abuse of our fellow humans and our environment as we have contemplated our own marvelous selves at the expense of all other earthly systems, is this sad and dying remnant of a glorious and unique planet and its millions of incredibly complex lifeforms that we are exterminating at an unprecedented rate.
Man's ego, man's edifices, our stories of miraculous birth and deities in the form of old human males, the crude tools we use to travel and communicate, may seem marvelous to us, but they are nothing compared to the wonder and complexity of nature itself.
Here's hoping that this Easter story will inspire some to take a new look at nature and help begin to turn the tide for the sake of all of us and Mother Nature herself.
I truly enjoyed the conversation with Mr Guroian today. It was timely for me, as I have been growing in my spirituality, but have felt confined by modern theology. He has highlighted many of my own feelings, and it has opened up my curiosity like a flower blooming in April. I am looking for a copy of some of Vigen's books to read. Thank you, this has been touching.
I was blessed by an Uncle, most would have called him a common man. But that he was not. Samll in stature but carrying inside one of the biggest hearts God ever gave a man. One of his blessing to me was walking together in his huge gardens. One of those casual walks brougnt a question from somewhere deep in my soul..."I said, LM, why do you plant such huge gardens?" He responded by saying, "well JR, I plant enough to get through the winter for me and Rhoda, all of the children, grand-children and also enough to share with those who either can not have a garden or can no longer plant their own".
As he spoke, he leaned on his well worn garden hoe, looked me in the eyes and from the gleem in his eyes his love of the land, his love of his fellow man, and his love of sharing with me poured into my being.
This Missouri farmer taught me more about life, love, and sharing, than I could ever put into words.
The conversation with Vigen Guroian was a "leaning on the hoe" event for me.
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Loved this guest and his topic was near and dear to my heart as an avid gardener and artist/physical therapist (day job). At one point in my life I was working on a masters of Liturgical Arts.
He hit upon so many themes that I feel at this time of year: creative renewal the never ending story, standing on the shoulders of those that go before and Resurrection as the transition/state of mindfulness vs sacrifice...etc...so much food for thought.
I was especially reminded of my grandmother in Iowa whe died 1 1/2 yrs ago 1 wk shy of 102 yrs old and taught me to garden in her little town lot and her community plot at the edge of town (Preston, Iowa population
As a child of the Columbus, Ohio suburbs my parents and my siblings slowly got out of the habit of having a garden. My Dad did try until I was about 7 to keep a garden but with 3 kids and their activities he turned in his gardening hat for chauffer hat. I always felt happiest and most spiritual even as a child in the garden or in nature...even when I was down and nearly hospitalized due to poison ivy (my grandmother was hospitalized at least twice in her lifetime due to poison ivy and I proudly share her genes). There is a power and a design to every living plant that I will spend my life learning about and probably only scratch the surface. I relish passing gardening knowledge on. There is nothing better than sharing the bounty or problem solving with a gardening challenged friend. When the neighborhood kids swing through my gate and hang-out with me as I tend my garden what peace and joy. We take time to share and talk while we garden. I learn more about the world in those encounters than any other time. Who knew the wonders of ice hockey or the pain of parents going through divorce. These same kiddos who spend most of their days with clean fingers tapping at keyboards, smartphones or gaming controls. I think they will remember getting their hands dirty with me and discussing their passions and their problems...it's all good when turning the earth.
I look forward to reading Mr Guorian's books. Thank-you On Being for lovely and relevant programming. I don't ever miss your show.
Mr. Guroian's story about the eucharist shared by the wandering Armenian villagers and their priest during the genocide was breath-taking for me. They had no bread and wine, so dirt (and water, I presume) had to be used instead. A bit of dirt blessed and eaten by fleeing refugees who are longing for justice, peace and a return to home. That is a story that I myself will re-tell to others many times over.
Choral Music while gardening has just become a great new passion, the gardening part is not new ... but the choice of music is. What an amazing choice each piece was. I herewith resolve to spend more time growing more food in my garden and tending to it. On Being has evolved so wonderfully over recent times. I think a lot of people worried that it might change as the name changed. I thought about it when you announced it, and decided to just trust the team of people you have.... Recently after being a long-time podcast listener, I made my first donation to the show, which made me wonder why I had not done it before... because I listen to many podcast shows, but yours is the one I most enjoy and so look forward to every week... WHy not do one with Nelson Mandela... Thankyou, so many times over.
I have listened to this presentation multiple times since it first aired a few years ago.
I am an Ukrainian Orthodox so what Vigen discusses in terms of Orthodoxy sticks home.
However, his dicsssion on gardening also strikes closely to home. So I usually listen to this program while tilling my own garden in the spring.
very comforting and offering a sense of well being and happiness to be scratching in the dirt.
My only regret is the fact that my garden is not the far along in terms of the magnitude although in my eyes just a beatiful as Vigen's.
I was moved by his discussion to investigate sitting in on one of his courses but found out that he is now at the University of Virginia and not in Baltimore.
After listening to the On Being broadcast "Restoring The Senses: Gardening and the Orthodox Easter" I found my senses were tingling. From the picture of the Armenian Easter service with the sounds of beautiful hymns and even the visual smoke from the incense touched most of my senses. Easter is the time of year for new beginnings, from the grass coming in and bulb plants coming up, to the budding trees and flowering of my favorite white ornamental crab tree. We are celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ not just in our churches but also in our garden and yard.
Vigen Guroian tells Krista about how "god is singing creation into existence" and this "song never ends" for there is always new creation. Take the garden as a prime example in the spring Vigen tends to the soil of his garden during the time of lent as a type of "sacrifice". He says "I'm cleansing my soul, making myself ready to receive the gift" those first flowers of the garden. I found that his sacrifice to pull weeds and more bears a beautiful reward.
The description of the Armenian Orthodox Easter Mass with its treasury of beautiful songs/hymns enhance the soul as we take in the sights of the icons that are displayed in the church. My church also adorns the icons with blooming plants. These feelings can also be found in the garden. The flowers and vegetables come up at different times and many go unnoticed to the naked eye, but not to the nose. Vigen can smell the presence of a new plant blooming in the garden. Much like smelling a flower to sense its presence in the garden, Vigen seems to sense the presence of God in the same way. After all the story of creation contains a beautiful garden created by God.
I found Vigens story of Adam and Eve and their expulsion from the garden to be inspiring. You were created and placed in a beautiful garden with one simple rule. You were then tricked and broke the rule finding yourself expelled into a place of darkness and gloom for six days, scared and alone with only your companion to hold you. Then day seven arrives and you're brought to "this world" which is not quite as nice as God's garden, but you're very thankful to have been lead out of the darkness. I cannot imagine six whole days in a scary dark place.
What I have taken from this broadcast is that the garden to the people of Armenia is an important part of their life. The one's that survived the genocide had some type of garden since then. Vigen explains that "the garden was a place where things came to life" and this gives them hope to sustain their faith to go on living. His stories were very inspirational to me and with today being Easter, I feel new again and I'm thankful for what I have and I will enjoy my flowering crab(that is about to bloom)even more this spring. Krista and Vigen, Thank you for this beautiful picture that your words have left in my mind.
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I am in awe every time a small plot of rich soil and a few seeds can produce BUSHELS of beautiful, flavorful nourishment. So basic and so sublime: when I eat these tomatoes, I taste all the days of sunshine and refreshing rain of the whole season. And there, in the flavor, also is the strange magic of compost, which teaches me that somehow, out of the action of something that appears old, used up, which might be considered waste, comes the richness that is essential to the new growth.
i went to Dumbarton Oaks in DC last week. it was in full bloom. but a close-up of one of the garden features captured my attention. it contained the words "Quod Severis Metes". i don't know Latin so i looked it up. it was the family Bliss' motto who owned the garden: As you sow, so you reap" it seems to be quite relevant to this weekend's interview.
For thirty-five years my husband and I have tended our front garden with such gratitude. As a young couple many years ago, our front yard soil could not grow lawn. We would scatter seeds and watch the water run down to the sidewalk and nothing would grow. We decided 35 years ago to create a habitat for birds, bees and butterflies. We live in an urban neighborhood, just 20 minutes from the Los Angeles airport. Our life has been blessed. Our garden holds in it's soil our history; Amaryllis bulbs and hydrangeas from my grandfather's fields in the 1930's, lilies from my mother-in-laws garden in the 1950's now gone, an 80 year old Camellia bush that belonged to my husband's grandmother. Each plant blooms every year and reminds me of life's perfect rhythm and cycles. Our Bottlebrush bush brings the hummingbird families each pre-spring and they nest right in front of our front picture window...a perfect view with our morning coffee. The bees come and feast on our rosemary bush that belonged to my mother and the butterflies feed on the nectar of my aunt Molly's favorite, St. John Firecracker blossoms. We tend to our garden daily. We weed and poke and water. Sometimes we are surprised and a long forgotten seedling we planted when our boys were small, finds it's way out from the years of benign neglect...I am reminded daily of life's perfection in the beginnings, endings and promises that our garden teaches us if we take the time to stop and listen. "I will sing to the Lord all my life; as ling as I live I will sing praises to my God. May he be pleased with my song, for my gladness comes from him." psalm 104
What a beautiful view of life and faith. I am Armenian Orthodox but didn't know a lot of the things Vigen pointed out, like the 8th day. This view of Christianity is so much more pleasant then the fire and brimstone version served up by many churches.
I am not a gardener, though
I am not a gardener, though Mr. Guroian makes it seem such a beautiful, spiritual practice. Sadly, I have neither the physical ability or means, to make green things grow. However, I am thoroughly enriched by Mr. Guroian's vision. Earth and spirit, joined in praise to the Creator, who imagined a garden, and a gardener, and brought both into being by his loving hands.
Late last year, a group of us
Late last year, a group of us at my church read Guroian's book _The Fragrance of God_. In fact, we used a variation of Lectio Devina with the book. At the end of the study I was challenged to write a song in response to our discussion. This is the result:


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Now you must go out into your heart
as onto a vast plain. Now
the immense loneliness begins.
This poem by Rainer Maria Rilke follows the course of change though seasons and captures the loneliness of uncertainty in everyday life. Yet there is a sense of connection to the earth and a feeling of humility in the final verse. How would you describe this sense of endurance that might sustain us through the changing seasons and through difficult times?
Onto a Vast Plain
You are not surprised at the force of the storm—
you have seen it growing.
The trees flee. Their flight
sets the boulevards streaming. And you know:
he whom they flee is the one
you move toward. All your senses
sing him, as you stand at the window.
The weeks stood still in summer.
The trees' blood rose. Now you feel
it wants to sink back
into the source of everything. You thought
you could trust that power
when you plucked the fruit:
now it becomes a riddle again
and you again a stranger.
Summer was like your house: you know
where each thing stood.
Now you must go out into your heart
as onto a vast plain. Now
the immense loneliness begins.
The days go numb, the wind
sucks the world from your senses like withered leaves.
Through the empty branches the sky remains.
It is what you have.
Be earth now, and evensong.
Be the ground lying under that sky.
Be modest now, like a thing
ripened until it is real,
so that he who began it all
can feel you when he reaches for you.
Reprinted from Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows' translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's Book of Hours


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Uproar Festival -- Albuquerque, NM -- September 30th, 2012
The Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival had it's second year in Albuquerque, and this time, it was the final show of the tour. The show itself was downright fun, filled with great performances. I look forward to next year. I missed Attika 7 because I desperately needed the restroom and checked out some of the booths, as well as grab more beer.
How They Were: These guys were the battle of the bands winner last year, and their grand prize was performing on the festival in its entirety. I actually enjoyed these guys. They had good energy and their songs were catchy. They were your typical Octane band, but I enjoyed what I heard.
Crowd Reaction: The crowd was into them. They were jumping up on cue and kept the energy going.
Rating: 7.5/10
1) Rise
2) Norma Genes
3) Ready
4) Relevant
5) We Are Stars
How They Were: Ever since I heard their cover of Neil Young's "Old Man", I found them to be quite an interesting group. Sure, it was a hip hoppy for a classic song, but I liked what I heard. They played all of their hits and had a splendid sound. They were a band that certainly surprised me.
Crowd Reaction: The crowd dug 'em. They sang to all of the hits and kept the cheering loud and wild.
Rating: 8.5/10
1) Comeback
2) City Life
3) Old Man (Neil Young cover)
4) Built To Last
5) Underground
6) Bullet In My Hand
How They Were: Another typical Octane band, but they had great energy on stage and kept the crowd moving during their 25 minute set. Another surprising band for me.
Crowd Reaction: The first pit of the day broke out during Candlelight Red's set, and the energy never let up. The crowd surfers started doing their thing and everyone seemed to enjoy them.
Rating: 8.5/10
1) In Your Hands
2) Demons
3) Cutter
4) Medicated
5) Closer
6) The Wreckage
How They Were: I had no means of seeing Deuce when I heard they were going to be on. I even had no means of enjoying him. I was going to use his set as a beer break. But I thought, "What the hell", and decided to check out one song. Sure enough, I ended up staying through the whole set. I'm not a Hollywood Undead fan, nor am really into the Hip-Hop/Rock phase (with the exception of HED PE), but Deuce surprised the hell out of me. His energy on stage was high, and the sound was actually very good. I had no idea I would end up enjoying the set.
Crowd Reaction: The crowd dug him as well. It was crowded around the stage, there were crowd surfers, everyone jumping, waving their hands, everything. Certainly a good turnaround for him.
Rating: 8.5/10
1) Undead
2) Let's Get It Crackin'
3) Story Of A Snitch
4) I Came To Party
5) The One
6) America
How They Were: One of the bands I came to see. Being a huge wrestling fan back in my childhood days, Chris Jericho was a major staple of it. Seeing him onstage rocking out to some balls to wall music was icing on the cake. The performance was high energy from beginning to end.
Crowd Reaction: There were two pits in front of the stage, crowd surfers, and a "Y2J" chant. The audience went crazy.
Rating: 9/10
1) Spider In My Mouth
2) Sandpaper
3) God Pounds His Nails
4) Sin And Bones
5) Enemy
6) Blood Happens
How They Were: It has been 10 full years since I last saw P.O.D. which was at Ozzfest 2002 in Phoenix. That was also during my Nu-Metal days. Seeing them again rekindled those old memories with excitement. Their set was ferocious as they went through song after song. Seeing them up close made the experience even more memorable.
Crowd Reaction: Two good sized pits broke out during the performance as well as tons of crowd surfers giving the barricade guards something to do. The stage was packed to entirety and everyone sang along with every song.
Rating: 9.5/10
1) Boom
2) Murdered Love
3) On Fire
4) Set It Off
5) Without Jah, Nothin'
6) Youth Of A Nation
7) Southtown
8) West Coast Rock Steady
9) Lost In Forever
10) Alive
11) What I Got (Sublime cover)
How They Were: I remember first hearing Adelita's Way on the radio when they were barely breaking into the Rock scene. I found their songs catchy and never held anything against them. It was cool to see how far they've come as a band and to perform on the Main Stage. They played through all of their hits, and they had good energy on stage.
Crowd Reaction: The crowd was fairly mellow as people were still recovering from P.O.D.'s set. The was, however, a good amount of people at the stage and those who knew the lyrics sang along to the songs.
Rating: 8/10
1) The Collapse
2) Hurt
3) Alive
4) Cage The Beast
5) Criticize
6) Invincible
7) Sick
How They Were: Staind was a band I've always wanted to see. I've always enjoyed their tunes. "Break The Cycle" was the first album I've owned by them and always liked them since. My first time seeing them was by all means not disappointing at all. They sounded great, the vocals were top notch, and all in all, it was just a great performance.
Crowd Reaction: The Pavilion was very packed by the time they came on. The crowd sang through all the songs and kept the place moving during the heavier tunes.
Rating: 9/10
1) Eyes Wide Open
2) Right Here
3) Now
4) For You
5) Paper Wings
6) It's Been Awhile
7) Not Again
8) Outside
9) Mudshovel
10) Something To Remind You
How They Were: This was my second time seeing Godsmack in about a year (the first time being Mayhem Festival 2011), and they did not disappoint. Their set was pretty much the same as Mayhem Festival, but besides that, they had the same energy and clarity as usual. They went through the casual drum battle sequence which was cool to see again, as well as going chaotic during the end of "Whatever". Another memorable performance.
Crowd Reaction: The Pavilion was packed this time around, definitely showing the majority of the crowd went for Godsmack. The crowd sang through all of the hit songs and the pits in the lawn broke loose.
Rating: 9.5/10
1) The Enemy
2) Keep Away
3) Straight Out Of Line
4) Crying Like A Bitch
5) Awake
6) Re-Align
7) Speak
8) Voodoo
9) Batalla de los Tambores (drum battle)
-Back In Black (AC/DC)
-Walk This Way (Aerosmith)
-Creeping Death (Metallica)
10) Whatever
11) I Stand Alone
How They Were: Shinedown was a first for me. They are another band I've always wanted to see and found their tunes to be very catchy. I've always enjoyed them. And what more can I say than....WOW! What a damn good show! If you have any chance in your life to see Shinedown, by all means, take it. Their performance was phenomenal and flawless. There's really not much else to say about that.
Crowd Reaction: The majority of the crowd left after Godsmack, leaving Shinedown to perform for half of a pavilion. Sure, Godsmack is definitely more popular, and even to the means that they maybe should have headlined. But Shinedown is a band that has come a long way in their career, and I found their headlining performance to be a hell of a finisher. For those who stayed sang along, cheered, and enjoyed the experience. For those who left, well, their loss.
Rating: 10/10
1) Sound Of Madness
2) Diamond Eyes
3) Enemies
4) If You Only Knew
5) I'll Follow You
6) Devour
7) Nowhere Kids
8) The Crow & The Butterfly
9) Unity
10) Amaryllis
11) Adrenaline
12) 45
13) Bully
14) Simple Man (Lynyrd Skynyrd cover)
15) Second Chance
With that, another year of Uproar has come and gone. I give kudos to John Reese for bringing a variety during the summer. I like the genre differences when it comes between Mayhem Festival and Uproar Festival. Whichever one you go to, a hard rocking time is bound to happen. What made me happy to see was all the folks wearing Pantera, Slayer, In Flames, Opeth, Kataklysm, and Arch Enemy shirts rocking out and having a good time to music that is the total opposite in sound. There was no elitism here. Variety doesn't hurt. Thank you Rockstar Energy Drink for finishing off the summer concerts for me as I look forward to 2013.
*Fun Fact: When I got back to my motel, I noticed there were two tour buses parked. Turns out, Staind and P.O.D. were staying at the same hotel as me, and they were all hanging out in the lobby when I walked in. I briefly gave my appreciation to Marcus, Wuv, and Traa of P.O.D. and told them their performance was fantastic. They are very nice guys and very open to their audience. I also met Mike of Staind as he was having a beer with Wuv and shook has hand too. He was also very nice and down to earth.
Shinedown is just as good live as Godsmack, so people really miss out.
Blink 182/ADTR
It is for sure.
Blink 182/ADTR
And they need to cut it out with Devour and Diamond Eyes already, play Save Me and Heroes instead.
Great review, dtgamerat! It was a nice read. I have to ask did Shinedown really close with Second Chance and skip Fly From The Inside? And are you positive the last song Adelitas Way played was Sick, instead of Invincible? Just asking these questions as I have been following the Uproar setlists for the last month or so.
Although I love three of the bands on the main stage (Adelitas Way, Godsmack, and Shinedown), I decided to skip this tour when it came to Tinley Park (near Chicago) in August for a few reasons. I had already seen Shinedown and Adelitas Way this April and the venue would have been about a two and a half hour drive. I ended up buying tickets to see Rise Against in September instead, as I knew they would play a full headlining set, plus the venue was only 15 minutes away. Godsmack is still very high on my list of bands I want to see live though.
Upcoming concerts I'm attending-
Twenty One Pilots (January 31)
Green Day (March 30)
Fozzy is def pushing their new album. cool. Anyone call him out for a cage match?
Blink 182/ADTR
Devour is the only Shinedown song I'm sick to death of, and Diamond Eyes is lame, even more lame that they played NOTHING from Us And Them.
Save Me is the best Shinedown song and a huge hit, and for some reason they are done with it.
Blink 182/ADTR
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Political Science 331; Section 2 Office: ZH-411
Introduction to Public Administration Office Hours: T-TH 4:00 to5:00 P.M.
Spring 2007 Otherwise by Appointment
Instructor: Dr. Steve Berg E-mail: email@example.com
Meeting in DU 461 6:30-9:10 P.M. Thursdays
Course Description:
Course Catalog definition of POLS 331: "Public Administration (3). Leadership, decision
making, organizational behavior, program effectiveness, and fiscal
management in public administrative agencies."
Expected Political Science Course Outcomes:
1. Content: Students should show familiarity with major concepts, theoretical perspectives and empirical findings as related to the course.
2. Communication Skills: Students should demonstrate effective oral and written communication skills.
3. Research Skills: Students should have an understanding of basic research skills and be able to apply analytical and research skills in written assignments for the course.
4. Critical Thinking: Students should use critical thinking and skeptical inquiry in problem solving.
Required Texts:
Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making (Second Edition), by James M. Banovetz.
The Modern Theory of Political Bureaucracy: An Intellectual History of U.S. Public Administration in the Post-New-Deal Era, By Paul J. Culhane.
Supplemental Readings:
When Appropriate, any such readings will be made available in the Reserve Room at Founders Library.
Pop Quizzes, Midterm and Final Examinations:
The Instructor reserves the right to have pop quizzes at any time and at his own discretion. There will be a midterm and a final exam in this class. These will be take-home tests, and will likely consist of short answer and essay questions. The final exam will be comprehensive. They are due at the beginning of the specified class period. Your Instructor has found over time that the take-home format works well. It alleviates test anxiety and gives the student time to compose a superior examination. Since the student is free to use any available resource, suitably noted, there is really no reason that every test should not be graded as an A+. Sadly, some students fail to appropriately seize the opportunities presented by this testing regimen. The advantage of these examinations for your Instructor is that he gets readable text with literate answers to the essay and short answer questions. He is not forced to try to decipher illegible scrawls on the pages of moldy blue books. However, this particular format requires that a student be literate and a competent writer. Amazingly, these are the same requirements that most of your future employers will have for you. This is a good training opportunity. There are few of us who cannot benefit from the services of a good editor. Seldom do we catch our own writing mistakes. So, make use of the writing clinics in the residence halls, or other venues. Have a friend read over and correct your tests and papers before you hand them in. Make needed corrections. This same advice applies to the case study papers, too.
Each Case Study Paper is your analysis of a case study in Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making, by James M. Banovetz. You are to select a case presented in the Banovetz textbook, excepting only Case Studies 1 and 21 which will be presented in the class by the Instructor, according to your interests. Each paper should be no more than 5 pages in length. If you quote something from the case study verbatim, you should cite it according to author and page number. You should discuss the background information of each selected case study and then how you would address and hopefully solve the problems in it. A good guide to this can be the questions at the end of each case study in the book. You are required to present your second case study paper to the class. This should take no more than 5 minutes, and a short period of questions and answers will follow each presentation. Each student will submit a draft of their paper immediately before their presentation. This will be handed back with the presentation grade on it. The final copy of each Second Case Study Paper will then be handed in on the last day of class. The tests and papers you hand in for this course are to be typed or printed by ink-jet or laser computer printers. Other computer printers can be used provided that the output is of letter quality. Papers and tests should be double-spaced, and preferably be in size 12 type in a standard font like Times New Roman. As this is a college level course, spelling, command of the English language, and grammar are important elements of your work, and will be taken into account during grading. Papers showing evidence of plagiarism will be dealt with harshly
All papers, such as the case study papers and the tests, are due at the beginning of the specified class meeting. Papers turned in after this, at the discretion of the instructor, will be docked at least one letter grade per day in arrears. Should a student have an emergency situation such as illness or family emergency, if possible, they should contact the Instructor prior to the class meeting where the paper is due, concerning the nature of the emergency. All such circumstances must be documented to the satisfaction of the Instructor. At his discretion the student may be allowed to e-mail the paper, and the reduction in grade due to lateness may be waived or reduced. I have had numerous problems with e-mailed papers. They may come in a format which is not readable by my software, or somehow the file gets corrupted during transit. Dead Trees tend to be a much more reliable basis for tests and term papers than are electrons. Every semester your Instructor has problems with students who apparently cannot handle or meet deadlines. Eventually you will have a boss, who being even more of a heartless tyrant than your Instructor is, will not accept late assignments. You know about the assignments for this course from the beginning of the semester. There is really no excuse for any late papers. It is to your advantage to get your assignments in on time.
For the class to be successful, all students must regularly and meaningfully participate. Of course, for this to occur, students must have completed all of the assigned readings prior to each class. Students should be prepared to discuss the readings and add relevant observations based upon their own experiences. Should participation not be present to the satisfaction of the Instructor, he reserves the right to assign topics to individual students for them to present in class. The Instructor also reserves the right to call on any member of the class to have them contribute to the discussion or to verify a suitable level of a student's preparedness.
Rather than considering you to be empty vessels which he will seek to fill with knowledge and virtue by means of lecturing, your Instructor believes that the course will be far more valuable, and much less boring, if we adopt as much of a seminar format as is possible in a class of this size. This means that you all must be ready to carry your side of the work by being prepared to intelligently discuss the course material extensively and in depth. Your Instructor has considerable experience in public administration, politics and local government, and you also have a wealth of experience to be tapped, and we shall make the most of it.
Students are expected to attend all of the classes. Since this class meets only once a week, and is fast paced, repeated absences are going to seriously and negatively impact your final grade in the course. If a student misses more than two classes or is chronically tardy, the instructor reserves the right to lower the participation portion of their final grade. Absent and tardy students miss class material and disrupt class discussion. Tardiness is strongly frowned upon. Chronic absence and/or tardiness may force the Instructor to administratively withdraw the offending student from the course.
Unless otherwise cleared with the Instructor in advance, all cell phones, pagers, and similar communication and entertainment devices shall be turned off during the class meetings. It is expected that class members will conduct themselves according to classically accepted norms of civility (as understood and exemplified by the Instructor). Students who fail to comport themselves in a courteous manner and are disruptive, obnoxious, or abusive will find themselves physically and administratively removed from the course and may face charges in the university judicial system.
The Instructor reserves the right to have a sense of humor, and to exercise it in class.
Cheating will not be tolerated in this course. This includes the offense of plagiarism. If there is any doubt, please cite the sources of your materials. Quotations need to be appropriately noted in a standard format, such that the original source can be readily determined. Works consulted for your papers need to be included in a bibliography. at the back of the paper. Respect for intellectual property is one of the core values of this University and also of your Instructor. It is also imperative that you do your own work. Those students caught committing plagiarism will at bare minimum forfeit all participation points for the course, and will at least receive a 0 (zero) on the assignment. At the discretion of the Instructor, the student may also receive a grade of "F" in the course and be turned over to the appropriate University authorities where expulsion is a real possibility. The Instructor of this course uses a number of effective methods to detect plagiarism. He is known to be sneaky, devious and adept at the detection of such abuses of intellectual property. This word to the wise should be sufficient. Your Instructor has also frequently been involved in group projects where he and a minority of the project team performed the lion's share of the work. Reflecting on this, he expects each of you to work independently and not copy, steal, or collude with others in the performance of the assignments for this course. This is not to preclude the laudable socializing and friendships that hopefully are being formed as you trudge through the labyrinth of your academic career. These are among the most important aspects of an education. I trust that you are getting together outside of class for socializing and discussions. Just do your own work. Marked similarities of work indicates possible cheating, and arouses my suspicions. Again, plagiarism and cheating will not be tolerated.
Grading Structure:
Final letter grades will be based upon the following:
Grading scale:
90% to 100% = A
80% to 89% = B
70% to 79% = C
60% to 69% = D
0% to 59% = F
The scale in use indicates that grading will not be done on a curve but as a percentage of successfully completed work. The following list shows the percentage toward your final grade for each graded exercise. The possible pop quizzes are counted toward the Participation and Attendance part of your final grade.
Case Study Paper #1 10% 10 Points
Case Study Paper #2 10% 10 Points
Presentation of Case Study Paper #2 5% 5 Points
Midterm Examination 30% 30 Points
Final Examination 30% 30 Points
Participation & Attendance 15% 15 Points
Total 100% 100 Points
Statement Concerning Students with Disabilities:
Under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, NIU is committed to
making reasonable accommodations for persons with documented
disabilities. Those students with disabilities that may have some
impact on their coursework and for which they may require accommodations
should notify the Center for Access-Ability Resources (CAAR) on the
fourth floor of the Health Services Building. CAAR will assist students
in making appropriate accommodations with course instructors. It is
important that CAAR and instructors be informed of any
disability-related needs during the first two weeks of the semester.
Religious Holidays:
Your Instructor has no way of knowing a student's religious affiliation. Consequently, if observances of your faith require your absence from a regularly scheduled class meeting, a prudent student will notify the Instructor in advance so accommodations can be appropriately worked out.
The Instructor of this course was a champion non-traditional student at this University. Consequently, he realizes that most students must work in order to afford to attend NIU, and that crises and emergencies crop up in the lives of students. Should these arise (and I surely hope they do not), prompt discussion of the situation with the Instructor is a Really Good Idea. There are very few of us in academia who have not had to deal with our own "Semester From Hell" and often ways can be worked out to prevent total disaster from coming about. Those students who are on scholarships requiring the maintenance of acceptable grade point averages are advised to contact the Instructor immediately should they suspect that they might be in some difficulty in the course. This is especially true for those students with athletic scholarships. Should any of you have a personal crisis of one sort or another that adversely impacts your performance in this course you are advised to see me immediately during my office hours. I do not need to hear the private details, but will try to work with you to salvage as much of your grade in this course as is possible. It is always much easier to make accommodations before the end of the semester. Due to norms of Justice and University policies, any leniency or accommodation offered to one student must be available to all the others as well. It is virtually impossible to do much after the semester is ended. In the hopefully unlikely event that anyone must be absent due to a death in the family or similar tragedy, please come talk to me and give me some documentation such as a newspaper obituary and problems relating with what you missed from class can usually be worked out.
Tentative Weekly Schedule:
There will likely be at least one guest lecturer during the semester. The date(s) for these lectures have not been confirmed before the due date for this syllabus.
Week 1 (January 18) Introduction to the course, explanation of the syllabus, and overview of the subject matter. Start going over Chapter one in the Banovetz textbook.
Week 2 (January 25) Read and discuss the Appendix on ethics in the Banovetz book and go over the case study number 21, "Fire or be Fired" starting on page 220 of the Banovetz textbook. Then start on Chapter 1 in the Culhane textbook.
Week 3 (February 1): Finish Chapter 1 in the Culhane textbook.
Week 4 (February 8): Start on Chapter 2 in the Culhane textbook.
Week 5 (February 15): Finish Chapter 2 in the Culhane textbook.
Week 6 (February 22): Start Chapter 3 in the Culhane Textbook.
Week 7 (March 1): Hand out Mid-Term Examination. Finish Chapter 3 in the Culhane Textbook.
Week 8 (March 8): Hand in Mid-Term Examination. Start on Chapter 4 in the Culhane textbook.
Week 9 (March 22): Recover from Spring Break. Finish Chapter 4 in the Culhane textbook. Discussion of the Case Study number 1, "Replacing the Police Chief" starting on page 15 of the Banovetz textbook. I will go over this one so that you have a better idea on how to handle public administration case studies.
Week 10 (March 29): Start Chapter 5 in the Culhane textbook. First Case Study Paper due.
Week 11 (April 5): Finish Chapter 5 in the Culhane textbook.
Week 12 (April 12): Discussion of the nature and importance of public budgeting.
Week 13 (April 19): In-Class presentations of the second Case Study Paper.
Week 14 (April 26): In-Class presentations of the second Case Study Paper.
Week 15 (May 3): Second Case Study Papers due. Review of the overall course. The Final Examination is handed out.
Final Exam Due Thursday May 10, 6-7:50 P.M.


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Threadless Tees from the week of February 25th
Published February 25, 2008 in T-Shirts Threadless. Comments (0)
So because of the launch of their Custom tees, Threadless is back on my list of sites to watch. I haven't actually received any of Threadless' new shirts, so I ask you, my readers: How are the new Custom shirts? Are they comfortable? Do they fit like American Apparel, or differently? Let me know in a comment.
Now for my two favorites from this week…
Ballad Of The Weekend Warrior – Threadless
Death's Sweet Seduction – Threadless
Don't forget to use a Threadless coupon when ordering.
Threadless Custom Tees Are Here
Published February 19, 2008 in T-Shirts Threadless. Comments (4)
Today marks the official release of Threadless' brand new line of Custom Tees. No more will Threadless devotees be forced to wear the uncomfortable (I think) Fruit of the Loom tees. The new custom tees are soft and somewhat similar to American Apparel shirts from what I've heard. I'll definitely be ordering some to check them out.
Also, today marks the release of a new pricing structure. Shirts will now be priced based on the techniques used on them, so it can vary from shirt to shirt. It appears the standard is $17, with some ranging up to $20. They've also released four new sizes. You can check out the brand new size chart.
I'm quite happy about this news, as it got to the point where I simply wouldn't buy Threadless shirts because they were printed on Fruit of the Loom. Now I can revive my Threadless addiction, whether that's good or bad is still to be seen.
Legend from Threadless
Published February 4, 2008 in T-Shirts Threadless. Comments (2)
It's a funky take on Godzilla. Buy it. I wish it was printed on their new custom shirts though.
Remember: Threadless coupon
I Wish I Were from Threadless
Published January 29, 2008 in Humorous T-Shirts Quirky T-Shirts T-Shirts Threadless. Comments (0)
I Wish I Were
Genius design from Ian Leino. I haven't been impressed with Threadless' offerings lately, but this is one that will bring me back (or will at least get a purchase out of me).
Check it out and remember to use a Threadless coupon.
Darwin Kick from Threadless
Published January 22, 2008 in Humorous T-Shirts T-Shirts Threadless. Comments (0)
Yeah…I posted about two mainstream competitions in a row, so maybe you're getting bored – but – I like both these shirts (this and the DBH one), so I think they're worth mentioning. I just wish Threadless had printed this on their new custom tees, and not those FOTL 50/50s that I hate.
Remember to use that Threadless Code for $3 off (as soon as they start working again).
Be A Panda T-Shirt from Threadless
Published January 7, 2008 in Humorous T-Shirts Quirky T-Shirts Random T-Shirts T-Shirts Threadless. Comments (1)
Be A Panda – Threadless
Lately, there haven't been too many Threadless designs that I had any interest in. Thankfully, Be A Panda breaks that trend – it's definitely one of my favorite designs from the past couple months.
Selling Threadless Gift Certificates for Cheap
Published December 1, 2007 in Cheap T-Shirts T-Shirt Coupons T-Shirt Sales T-Shirts Threadless. Comments (0)
Sorry, a bit of shameless self promotion here. I'm selling off a bunch of extra Threadless gift certificates I have sitting around. While, I wish I could be as generous as Karl over at tcritic and give them away for free (well, for submitting t-shirt news), I could use the money. That being said, I think my prices are pretty good.
Prices are $18.75 for a $25 gift certificate.
$37.50 for a $50 gift certificate.
$75.00 for a $100 gift certificate.
You can get in contact with me by leaving a comment, going through my "contact me" page, or going to my post at rethreaded.
I'm also selling a bunch of guy's medium Threadless shirts at this post.
Me Vs. Me Tshirt from Threadless
Published November 11, 2007 in Excellent Design T-Shirts T-Shirts Threadless. Comments (0)
I guess I'm a little late, but I really like this week's new Select t-shirt from Threadless, entitled Me. Vs. Me. Because it's a Select, it's printed on American Apparel and sells for $25.
Me Vs. Me – Threadless
Remember to use a Threadless coupon.


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Topic: Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005
I'm using a remote SQL Server 2005 and RoR running on my desktop (WEBrick) to develop my application. To get RoR to work with SQL Server I followed the instructions on the RoR Wiki (http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages tSQLServer). This works perfectly.
For testing I'd like to move the application to a server (Windows Server 2003). InstantRails (http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/) seemed like the easiest way to do this. I installed it as per the instructions and deployed my application. I started the application with Mongrel but I got the following error as soon as I tried to visit any page.
OLE error code:800A0E7A in ADODB.Connection
Provider cannot be found. It may not be properly installed.
HRESULT error code:0x80020009
Exception occurred.
It appears that the application is unable to connect to the database. Does anyone know what is going on here?
adapter: sqlserver
database: database
username: user
password: pass
host: 192.168.0.XXX
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You must be a thrifty shopper or perhaps a shop lifter all those grocery's for $12 bull hockey soy sauce is nothing but flavored salt, low salt you say? tend to use twice as much? take salt out of the equation, much more healthful.
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#78016 Feb 3, 2013
United States
#78017 Feb 3, 2013
Second to the liberal acceptance of homosexuality.
#78018 Feb 3, 2013
I hear he faked his death changed his username, two much drama.
#78019 Feb 3, 2013
Let the Super Bowl party begin. You should be here, lots booze and b00bs.
#78020 Feb 3, 2013
#78021 Feb 3, 2013
Is Jade working on his siding today? I'll bet he will make up lies about his house.
#78022 Feb 3, 2013
#78023 Feb 3, 2013
In Northern CA they do, but not in North East where Jade lives. I don't think they have any stores there.
#78024 Feb 3, 2013
Curteese tells some whoppers about all his vast real estate holdings too!
Probably rents out a room in is 2 bedroom apartment! Big shot landlord!
#78025 Feb 3, 2013
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#78026 Feb 3, 2013
I prefer, LMFAO!!!
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#78027 Feb 3, 2013
I thought maybe he had died of AIDS or something.
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#78028 Feb 3, 2013
#78029 Feb 3, 2013
Where's Curteese? Anyone know?
#78030 Feb 3, 2013
GOOD MORNING today sermon:
Romans 1:2428
Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. 28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper.
Astonishing Relevance
In our exposition of Paul's letter to the Romans, we come now to this astonishingly relevant section in 1:24-28 where Paul touches on the reality of homosexuality. It is relevant for many reasons. For example, yesterday there was conference called "Here I Stand" to address the issue of homosexually active clergymen in the ELCA (Star Tribune, 10/10/98). On the front page of the Star Tribune there was the story of what appeared to be a hate crime against a homosexual student at the University of Wyoming who was in critical condition after being tied to a fence and beaten. In August, 641 Anglican bishops from around the world gathered for the Lambeth Conference in Canterbury, England, and voted overwhelmingly to affirm that homosexual practice is "incompatible with Scripture."
Full-page ads were recently taken out in USA Today and the New York Times and the Washington Post showing some 850 former homosexuals who gathered last summer at the Exodus conference and who declared there is power in Christ to be changed. Here in Minnesota, legal cases continually crop up about child custody and adoption of children by homosexual people. And most immediate of all, here in our church there are people who have homosexual desires and many more people among us who have people in their families whom they care about very deeply who consider themselves homosexual. The reality of homosexuality is inescapable today, and this would come as no surprise to the apostle Paul, and therefore should not to us.
One of the things that makes matters unusual today is the effort on the part of some people to defend the legitimacy of homosexual behavior from the Bible. Most common, for example, is the claim that the denunciations of homosexuality in the New Testament are not references to committed, long-term homosexual relations, which these people say are legitimate, but rather refer to promiscuous homosexual relations and to pederasty, which are not legitimate. To use the words of one scholar, "What the New Testament is against is something significantly different from a homosexual orientation which some people seem to have from their earliest days. In other words, the New Testament is not talking about what we have come to speak of as sexual inversion. Rather, it is concerned with sexual perversion"
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#78031 Feb 3, 2013
Burning in hell with the rest of the dead queers.
#78032 Feb 3, 2013
Simply Denouncing Heterosexuals Engaging in Homosexuality?
With regard to our own text this morning, some would argue that what Paul is denouncing in 1:26b-27 is heterosexual people forsaking what is natural for them and engaging in promiscuous homosexual relations which are unnatural for them. Paul writes, "Their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts." So, the argument goes, it is not unnatural when a homosexual person has homosexual relations, it is only unnatural when heterosexual persons have homosexual relations and (by implication) homosexual persons have heterosexual relations.
There are at least three major problems with this way of interpreting these verses. I will mention them because the last one will take us into the overall exposition of this section of Romans. The first problem is that in verse 27 Paul says, "The men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another." Now if these were men who were by nature heterosexual, and who were going against their natural desires, what is the meaning of "they burned in their desire toward one another"? It is a very strong term. Does a natural heterosexual burn with lust for another man? If not, it is very unlikely that what Paul is dealing with here is the subject of heterosexuals engaging in homosexuality.
There is such a thing as a bisexual, who seems to have desires for both men and women. But if that were in Paul's mind, the interpretation we are talking about wouldn't work either, because then the burning of a man for a man and a woman would both be natural (according to this interpretation), and Paul would be unjust to denounce either one. But he does denounce this unnatural burning and the acts that follow. So the argument doesn't work that says, Paul is only denouncing homosexual acts by heterosexual people.
The second reason the argument doesn't work is that when Paul says in verse 27b, "Their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural," the Greek phrase for "that which is unnatural" (ten para phusin) is a stock phrase in Greek ethical literature of the time for homosexual behavior per se, not for homosexual behavior among heterosexuals - as though that's what made it unnatural. So it is very unlikely that Paul is arguing that what's wrong and unnatural about these folks is that they are heterosexuals by nature and acting contrary to nature by doing homosexual acts. "Contrary to nature" in this text, as it most Hellenistic literature of the time, meant homosexual behavior per se. That's what Paul regards as unnatural.
The third argument against this kind of interpretation is the most significant, because it takes us into the deeper meaning of this text. But before I develop it, let me explain where we are going in these two weeks. My aim today is to give as sound and faithful an exposition of Romans 1:24-28 as I can, which will leave me little time for application. That is why I plan to continue the message next week. We will need to broaden our Biblical base and to tackle some practical issues next week.
Pray for Biblical Balance
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My prayer for both weeks is that we as a church, and I in particular as the preacher, will find a Biblical balance between clear conviction about the sinfulness of homosexual behavior, on the one hand, and patient compassion to come alongside those of you who have homosexual desires, and your friends and relatives, and seek your good. I have no desire to drive homosexual people away. On the contrary, I would like to be able to say of our congregation what Paul said to the church in Corinth: after mentioning "fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, effeminate, homosexuals, thieves, covetous, drunkards, revilers, swindlers," he says in 6:11, "Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God."
I would like us to be a church like that - justified sinners battling together to walk in purity, with all of our differing genetic, hormonal, environmental disorders that incline everyone of us, in varying ways, to do sinful things. We will talk more about that next week. It's a very important issue. But the point for now is simply this: we want to be a church where homosexual people can either overcome their sexual disorder, or find the faith and courage and help and love and power to live a triumphant, joyful, celibate life with the disorder.
Triple Repetition of Three-fold Sequence of Thought
Now we turn to the third reason for rejecting the interpretation of Romans 1:26-27 which says that Paul is not denouncing homosexuals who do what comes naturally, but rather he is denouncing promiscuous heterosexuals who act unnaturally by doing homosexual acts. The reason is that the overall argument of the passage assumes another viewpoint.
Let's look at it. Three times in this passage Paul repeats a three-fold sequence of thought. The three-fold sequence of thought goes like this:
Step 1 - Human beings exchange God for what God has made; we prefer the creature to the Creator.
Step 2 - God hands us over to what we prefer.
Step 3 - We act out externally and bodily in our sexual relations a dramatization of the internal, spiritual condition of the fallen human soul, namely, the horrendous exchange of God for man and the images of our power.
Walk with me through the text. I will show you the three times that Paul gives us this sequence of thought.
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First time through the three-fold sequence - verses 23-34
Step 1 "They exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man ..." (verse 23).
Step 2 "Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity" (verse 24).
Step 3 "... so that their bodies would be dishonored among them" (end of verse 24). In response to the rejection of God's glory as their treasure, God wills that there be a disordering of their bodily life in dishonorable deeds. He hands them over to impurity "so that their bodies would be dishonored among them." The sexual disordering of the human race is a judgment of God for our exchanging him for the creature - all of us.
Second time through the same steps - verses 25-27
Step 1 "They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen" (verse 25). This parallels verse 23: they exchanged the glory of God for images. The "truth of God" is that he is glorious and to be desired above all things. The "lie" preferred by us humans is that the creature is more desirable than God.
Step 2 "For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions" (verse 26). That parallels verse 24: "God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity."
Step 3 "... for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts" (verses 26b-27). That corresponds to verse 24b: "... so that their bodies would be dishonored among them." So the dishonoring of the body that Paul had in mind in verse 24 is specifically homosexual behavior. And notice carefully, now we can say more specifically than in the first sequence of thought: The sexual disordering of the human race, especially homosexuality (but not only homosexuality) is a judgment of God for our exchanging the truth of God for a lie.
Third time through the same three-fold sequence - verse 28
#78035 Feb 3, 2013
Step 1 "They did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer" (verse 28). That corresponds to verses 23 and 25: they exchanged the glory of God for images and they exchanged the truth of God for a lie. Here: they simply don't want God in their knowledge any more.
Step 2 "God gave them over to a depraved mind" (verse 28b). That corresponds to verse 24, "God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity," and verse 26, "God gave them over to degrading passions." This was God's response to the universal exchange of God for the creature.
Step 3 "[He gave them over ...] to do those things which are not proper" (verse 28c). That corresponds to verse 24b: "...so that their bodies would be dishonored among them," and to verses 26b-27, where the women and the men are pursuing homosexual relations. So homosexual behavior is parallel with dishonoring the body and doing what is not proper.
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Today, Deputy Counselor for Refugee and Migration Affairs David DiGiovanna spoke at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, where he addressed the launch of the Regional Flash Appeal following recent events in Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. Mr. DiGiovanna said:
"Allow me to thank Undersecretary General Amos, High Commissioner Guterres, and Director General Swing for their remarks today. I also want to thank, in particular, the Director General and the High Commissioner for their leadership and their organizations' superb coordination in seamlessly providing needed and timely assistance in this fast-paced and massive movement of people from Libya. In addition, I want to commend the governments and citizens of Tunisia and Egypt, even as they go through their own political transitions, for their generous response to the needs of their nationals and others who have fled the unprecedented violence in Libya. The United States joins other nations in condemning the Libyan Government's violent assaults on its own people, which have precipitated the current humanitarian crisis, and will continue to join others in relieving the suffering of the victims of those assaults.
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About the Author: Mark Schlachter serves as Public Diplomacy Chief for the Bureau of International Organization Affairs.
The State Department's Dean Acheson auditorium rarely hosts a more excited and dynamic audience than assembled there on May 11 for the 2009 Global Classrooms Model United Nations conference. The 650 middle and high school students from around the DC area buzzed with interest and curiosity as they prepared for a day of debate, negotiation, and consensus-building. Before they began, however, they received a very personal endorsement from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The Secretary recalled the participation of her daughter in just such an event and polled the students on international issues of greatest concern to them. Energized by the Secretary's remarks, the students spent the rest of the day working on such thorny matters as climate change, nuclear terrorism, and migration. By the end of the day, the students were exhausted, the auditorium was empty, and the 2009 Model UN program was a smashing success.
This Model UN program is sponsored and coordinated by the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area as part of the Global Classrooms project. The U.S. Department of State hosted the daylong event.
Lorrie H. in Georgia writes:
Thanks for making my day a better one because of your message :0)
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For me law is done in levels like a tree...with ever nation connecting?
It's called the grate Law of peace on Turtle Island that govern peacefully 500 nations for 1000 years before European settlements...
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The successful learning programs should be interesting and moving. You should not expect all teenagers to care about all global issues like integrity politicians. However, you must tell them how global impact of their career and life will be in comprehendable way. The most important thing is not to panic them without solutions. At least, you should find the survive ways in all global problems yourselves first. I am working on free global classes for all people in the world. I do need help!
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I am so impressed by the increased emphasis of the Department of State on the use of technology in its programs! I hope that we can leverage similar resources in international programs to enhance partnership-building and build relationships around the world.
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This is definitely very nice arrangement. I would like to draw your kind attention to make it available for other parts of the world where future concerns are in big position.
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Will the final product of the students be public as a webdocument or something? If so, do you have a URL? Thanks & regards. Bernard
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@ Mark, I hope the kids were informed of their opportunity to continue the debate here on Dipnote.
Keep up the good work getting youth involved in foreign affairs, it's a good investment in future leadership.
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Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, I'm so proud of the work you're doing. It appears as if destiny placed you in a position to shape a global peace and diplomatic movement. I want to help, learn more and offer my support. I'm not a teenager or young college student. I'm nearing 70 years young. However, I was for several years a mediator for the Arizona Secretary of State and for the last 10-years I've been a mediator for the Supreme Court of Georgia. I'm also a doctoral student of Natural Health and have for over 40-years worked in promoting health and wellness and preventing disease. I'm an average person with visions of our youth using their phenomenal energy, creative enthusiasm, and vital resourceful curious intellect to help make our families stronger, communities safer and our world a far better place in which to live. I would love to volunteer in some capacity because, in my mind and heart, peace and diplomacy are much higher frequency calls than violence and conflict within the human family. Please let me know if an aging elder can contribute to the emergence of a new breed of national and global peacemaking youth.
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Global Classrooms, a program of the United Nations Association of the USA, is an innovative educational program that engages middle school and high school students in an exploration of current world issues through interactive simulations and curricular materials. Global Classrooms cultivates literacy, life skills and the attitudes necessary for active citizenship.
If you are interested in Global Classrooms and Model UN, please visit UNA-USA's website at:
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