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By Jamie Greenthal | KF 17 | Philippines
I must admit that I've avoided writing this post for two months. It's been particularly challenging since the topic has been the "elephant in the room" of my mind. Until now, I've been hesitant to communicate how I used to feel about religious businesses because I've been working at one. In the spirit of the daily prayer sessions that I've participated in, here's my first confession:
Confession 1: I was wary of organizations that mix religion and business.
From early February to mid-April, I worked at the microfinance institution, Community Economic Ventures, Inc. (CEVI), a Kiva partner that's headquartered in Tagbilaran City, Bohol, Philippines. I'm fortunate to have been placed with a Christian organization because I've made some pre-judgments about these types of institutions in the past; and I hate prejudice.
I strongly encourage all thought and religion; however, I come from a place, both figuratively and literally, where the separation of church and state has been drilled into me for 30 years, and I guess I've put "state" and business in the same bucket without much thought. I think my innate wariness stems from the fact that I am a non-religious liberal from New York City, and this background has influenced my views.
Confession 2: I don't go to church.
I've been to church services a handful of times, half of which were for Midnight Mass while on winter break during college because it was fun to see old friends from high school there. While I grew up observing Christmas and Easter, these holidays meant celebrating family gatherings rather than Jesus Christ. Needless to say, I was apprehensive about working for a Christian organization because, well, I'd be the only non-Christian in the office by a wide margin and I came into the experience with preconceived notions. With that as my religious baggage, I hoped for an awakening.
Confession 3: From the start of my work at CEVI, Christianity was everywhere and I was comfortable (and having fun too).
Christianity underpins the work of CEVI's employees and the provision of its microfinance products and services. For example, its core values are:
"But Remember the Lord your God for it is He who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirm this covenant which He swore to your forefathers, as it is today" (Deuteronomy 8:18)
"Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to share" (Proverbs 20:13)
"A man should provide for his family" (1 Timothy 5:8)
"Men are only stewards of God's resources who are expected to face the master on the day of the reckoning" (Luke 19:11-12)
"Hard work brings profity, but mere talk leads only to poverty" (Proverbs 14:23)
Each weekday morning around 9am, the various departments at CEVI gather for devotional, which lasts about 45 minutes. Here's the agenda:
- We sing a Christian song (or two). My favorite is "I Give You My Heart". Most often, someone from the office accompanies the song with an acoustic guitar.
- A designated staff member reads a passage from the Bible, and then delivers an inspirational message that relates to such passage. The message often includes personal stories or references to pop culture.
- We create a list of prayer requests, which range from praying for the safe travel of staff members to the successful surgery for a friend of mine from New York.
- We sing another Christian song.
- We pray silently for the items on the prayer requests list, and then a staff member closes the devotional with another prayer, giving thanks for the day ahead of us.
On Friday mornings, the entire office comes together for an extended devotional. This gathering includes the agenda listed above, but also starts with a game. My favorite is when we divide into teams, and each is given a few minutes to study a few verses from the Bible. We then close our Bibles and the team that recalls the most from memory wins candy.
I would almost always each lunch with my fellow staff members at the "turo-turo" across the street from CEVI. Before these meals, we would bow our heads and say grace. We also said thanks as a group before eating spaghetti and cake for in-office birthday celebrations, and prayed prior to a drive around Bohol to enjoy local tourist attractions.
Christianity is woven into the relationship between CEVI and its clients. At the beginning of each loan disbursement and repayment meeting, the loan officer reads a passage from the Bible to the borrowers, and for the next 15-20 minutes interprets its relevance to the group.
Christianity is equally embedded in the local community. In the BQ Mall in Tagbilaran City, the "Hail Mary" prayer is broadcast over the PA several times each day. The first time I heard it I didn't know what was happening, so I kept shopping. I quickly realized what was going on when I saw that the heads of my fellow shoppers and mall employees were bowed (except for the department store staffer who was helping me pick out a fan). I whispered "sorry" and bowed my head as well.
The tricycles in Tagbilaran each have a religious message painted on the back. Out of the hundreds of tricycles I saw during my time there, I think I saw two that didn't have such a message. At one point, I was told by a CEVI employee that despite the messages, the rumor is that some of the tricycle drivers are "bad" because they don't really believe the messages painted on their vehicles.
Confession 4: After working for 10 weeks at CEVI, I've shed my preconceptions about Christian businesses.
I still take longer than everyone else to flip through the Bible and find a particular passage, but I agree with many of the messages that I heard during the daily devotionals, which promoted gratitude, kindness, love, and service. I was unfamiliar with Christian music, but now like most of the songs because we sang them together and no one was shy about belting out the lyrics. (Even if I had chosen to observe, and not participate in, the devotionals, I still would have been accepted by my colleagues just the same.) I never dreamed that I'd be part of an office that sits in a circle and sings together each morning. I now hope that I find such camaraderie at future employers.
I am no longer skeptical of religious organizations. I like to think that I jumped into the deep end of practicing religion in the workplace and learned that I could keep my head above water. I prayed, sang, and solicited prayer requests during devotional. I learned my lesson during that first Hail Mary in the mall, and from that time on I bowed my head just like everyone else. Since the conclusion of my assignment at CEVI a couple of weeks ago, I've missed saying grace before each meal. I now think about how lucky I am to have three full meals a day, and regardless of whom I thank, I will no longer take it for granted.
Confession 5: I attribute the amazing time that I had working at CEVI to the fact that it is a Christian organization.
I loved working at CEVI because of the kindness, selflessness, and grace exhibited by my colleagues, both toward each other and me. While they may have learned these admirable characteristics from their families and friends, I think that these traits have been reinforced by their Christian beliefs. I contend that Christianity has helped to make them great human beings, and that's a belief in which I have unwavering faith.
Jamie Greenthal is a Kiva Fellow working with Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation in Bacolod, Negros Occidental, Philippines. He previously worked with Community Economic Ventures in Tagbilaran City, Bohol, Philippines.


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Isabel Allende, (born August 2, 1942, Lima, Peru), Chilean American writer in the magic realist tradition who is considered one of the first successful woman novelists from Latin America.
Allende was born in Peru to Chilean parents. She worked as a journalist in Chile until she was forced to flee to Venezuela after the assassination (1973) of her uncle, Chilean Pres. Salvador Allende. In 1981 she began writing a letter to her terminally ill grandfather that evolved into her first novel, La casa de los espíritus (1982; The House of the Spirits). It was followed by the novels De amor y de sombra (1984; Of Love and Shadows), Eva Luna (1987), and El plan infinito (1991; The Infinite Plan) and the collection of stories Cuentos de Eva Luna (1990; The Stories of Eva Luna). All are examples of magic realism, in which realistic fiction is overlaid with elements of fantasy and myth. Her concern in many of these works is the portrayal of South American politics, and her first four works reflect her own experiences and examine the role of women in Latin America. The Infinite Plan, however, is set in the United States, and its protagonist is male.
Allende followed those works of fiction with the novels Hija de la fortuna (1999; Daughter of Fortune), about a Chilean woman who leaves her country for the California gold rush of 1848–49, and Retrato en sepia (2000; Portrait in Sepia), about a woman tracing the roots of her past. El Zorro (2005; Zorro) is a retelling of the well-known legend, and Inés del alma mía (2006; Inés of My Soul) tells the fictionalized story of Inés Suárez, the mistress of conquistador Pedro de Valdivia. La isla bajo el mar (2009; The Island Beneath the Sea) uses the 1791 slave revolt in Haiti as a backdrop for a story about a mulatto slave who is forced to become her owner's lover after his wife goes mad. El cuaderno de Maya (2011; Maya's Notebook) takes the form of a teenage girl's diary, written in the wake of a disastrous episode of drug use and prostitution. In El juego de Ripper (2014; Ripper), Allende tells the story of a teenage girl tracking a serial killer. Her later novels included El amante japonés (2015; The Japanese Lover), which traces a decades-long love affair between a Polish immigrant and a Japanese American man, and Más allá del invierno (2017; In the Midst of Winter), about the friendships that form after a car accident in Brooklyn, New York, during a blizzard. In A Long Petal of the Sea, a man and a woman become exiles following the Spanish Civil War and flee to Chile aboard a refugee ship chartered by poet Pablo Neruda.
Allende's first nonfiction work, Paula (1994), was written as a letter to her daughter, who died of a hereditary blood disease in 1992. A more lighthearted book, Afrodita: cuentos, recetas, y otros afrodisíacos (1997; Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses), shared her personal knowledge of aphrodisiacs and included family recipes. Mi país inventado (2003; My Invented Country) recounted her self-imposed exile after the September 11, 1973, revolution in Chile and her feelings about her adopted country, the United States—where she has lived since the early 1990s—after the September 11 attacks of 2001. She published another memoir about her extended family, La suma de los dias (The Sum of Our Days), in 2007.
In 1996 Allende used the profits from Paula to fund the Isabel Allende Foundation, which supports nonprofit organizations targeting issues faced by women and girls in Chile and the San Francisco Bay area. She was awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura (Chilean National Prize in Literature) in 2010, the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014, and the PEN Center USA's lifetime achievement award in 2016.

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Unlocking Andrzej Pomian's London Archive
Last month I had the privilege of participating in a conference titled "Documents of the Polish Underground State 1939–1945" organized by the Central Archives of Modern Records in Warsaw. My presentation was on the Andrzej Pomian papers, which I organized and which were recently added to the Hoover Archives. The conference was held in the historic PAST building which was captured in a fierce battle by the Home Army during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. I was somewhat nervous about giving my talk; it was in Polish and I'd never spoken before an audience such as this. As usual, my worries were unfounded and my presentation was well received. I met a number of interesting historians and archivists, nearly thirty of whom also spoke during the two-day conference. Below is the translation of my presentation. Let me know what you think in the comments below.
Andrzej Pomian, who died four years ago in Washington, DC, at the age of ninety-seven, was a Polish journalist and author who spent many years working for Radio Free Europe. During World War II, he was a member of the Bureau of Information and Propaganda of the Home Army the largest underground organization in Nazi-occupied Europe. Evacuated from Poland in April 1944 in one of the most spectacular flight operations of the war, Pomian worked in the Polish government in exile in London for the next ten years. He then moved to the United States, bringing with him a large metal trunk filled with notes, documents, underground publications, and reports on the Home Army's activities. Those documents, untouched for more than fifty years in accordance with Pomian's wishes, were sent to the Hoover Institution Archives as a large addition to a small set of Pomian's papers donated earlier.
Andrzej Pomian (the name he adopted during the war) was born in 1911 as Bohdan Sałaciński in the Polish village of Black Ostrów in Podolia, which became part of the Soviet Union after 1920. Escaping from the Soviets, the family moved to Warsaw, where Bohdan became a student, completing his legal studies at the University of Warsaw in 1932, where he remained as a lecturer. From the beginning of the German occupation, Pomian was involved in underground work. He taught law at the underground university and worked in various units of the resistance, ending up at the Bureau of Information and Propaganda, which coordinated the work of intelligence and underground newspapers, broadcast underground radio programs, and operated photographic and film units.
Operation N, an initiative of the bureau, published documents in German aimed at weakening the morale of German soldiers and colonists in Poland. Several of the magazines and proclamations created under Operation N are in Pomian's collection. The Home Army was involved in sabotage, self-defense, and retaliation against the Germans. It also provided the Allies with crucial information in the field of intelligence, monitoring the movement of troops in the east and the development of the secret German V-1 and V-2 rockets. The primary goal of the Home Army, however, was to prepare for the expected collapse of the Nazi occupation and the liberation of the country.
After the Allied landing in Italy and the encroachment of the Red Army into prewar Polish territory, a national uprising was planned, to be centered in Warsaw, for the second half of 1944. In connection with this plan, the Home Army and the underground civil authorities ordered several officers, including Pomian, to report to the Polish and British authorities in London to discuss the preparations' progress. These contacts were usually carried out by encrypted radio transmissions or by individual couriers and emissaries, but this important mission required a different method.
At that time regular night flights from England and southern Italy, with parachute drops of weapons, documents, money, and agents, were made into occupied Poland. A new joint Polish-British operation, Wildhorn I (Operation Most [Bridge] I in Polish), intended to land a plane in occupied Poland, was carried out in the evening of April 15, 1944. A Douglas Dakota aircraft, unarmed but equipped with eight additional fuel tanks, left its base near Brindisi in southern Italy. Crossing the Balkans and the Carpathian mountains en route to Poland, it landed, under difficult conditions, in a beet field near Lublin, southeast of Warsaw. The so-called runway was marked by bonfires and protected by several forest units of the Home Army. Couriers and bags of dollars were unloaded, and Pomian and other passengers, including Brigadier General Stanisław Tatar came on board, barely avoiding an intense and bloody firefight between soldiers of the Home Army and Wehrmacht units. The return flight to Brindisi and then Gibraltar brought Pomian to England twenty-four hours later.
Pomian followed the tragic epilogue of the war in Poland from distant London. The Warsaw Uprising, lasting sixty-three days, failed due to lack of support from the Soviet Union—the Red Army that came a few weeks after the uprising began stopped on the Vistula River, just across from burning Warsaw. Poland's allies, the British and the Americans, could not do much to help but didn't even protest the Soviets' treacherous behavior. Among the tens of thousands killed were most of Pomian's colleagues and friends. Warsaw was virtually razed to the ground, and Poland became a Soviet dependency. Western powers not only failed to protest but, in the following year, withdrew recognition of their loyal wartime ally. The uprising, not surprisingly, dominated Pomian's thoughts; the majority of his collection consists of documents related to that tragic event (including typescripts, manuscripts, poetry, newspapers, and government documents).
During his ten years in London, Pomian continued working for the Polish government in exile, coordinating contacts and financial support for the anticommunist underground in the country and veterans of the Home Army. When, in 1955, he decided to move to the United States, he packed everything into a big trunk, apparently never opening it again. Shortly before his death, he decided to pass it on to the archives of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in California.
The Andrzej Pomian papers consist of twenty-two archival boxes. A significant portion of those materials are postwar newspaper clippings, newspapers, and magazines, often commemorating consecutive anniversaries of the Warsaw Uprising. Documents concerning the activities of the Bureau of Information and Propaganda and underground resistance are in the first six boxes.
This collection is now available to researchers. We plan to microfilm this collection and pass it on to the Central Archives of Modern Records, as we recently did with the microfilmed collection of Jan Karski.
I also wanted to share some scans from this collection. Here are examples of propaganda from Operation N. This cover suggests that it is an anti-Soviet brochure, but the text is devoted to the Nazi crimes in Poland. Several items from this collection, including this brochure, are showcased in an exhibition of World War II propaganda currently on display at the Hoover Institution.
Andrzej Pomian's later work is also well documented in the collection of the Polish station of Radio Free Europe The corporate and broadcast records of RFE/RL are housed at the Hoover Institution. Most of our collections on World War II were microfilmed, transferred to Poland, digitized, and made available online. The best guide to our Polish collections is the book by Professor (and Poland's director of the National Archives) Władyslaw Stępniak, Polish Archival Materials in the Collections of Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
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The Wow of Wagyu
Written onJune 01 , 2012
On an early January morning in Springfield, the snow-covered pastures of Spring-Rock Farm sparkle in the sun and a small herd of cattle dot the fields like black velvet buttons. From a distance, it's hard to tell that these animals are anything out of the ordinary.
They are, however, Vermont's first herd of 100 percent Wagyu cattle, a Japanese breed that is prized for its succulent, heart-healthy, high-end cuts of beef, found in the world's foremost restaurants and steakhouses. According to Spring-Rock owner and farmer Sheila Patinkin, they are the caviar of the beef world, yielding filets and steaks so tender you can cut them with a fork. The magic, Sheila explains, is in the intramuscular fat, which delivers not just superior taste and texture, but also a good dose of Omega-3 fats, the fatty acids found in salmon and nuts that are essential to brain development and the prevention of cardiovascular disease. It's no wonder that discerning chefs and diners alike are willing to pay top dollar for the famed Wagyu (also known as Kobe) beef, which is attracting the attention of a few Vermont niche farmers like Sheila and her neighbor Mary Beth Fischer.
Six years ago, after her husband unexpectedly passed away, Sheila Patinkin returned home to family and friends in Vermont from Chicago, where she had lived for more than 30 years. A pediatrician who went to medical school while raising four children, she knew little about farming but a lot about hard work and determination. When she found a farm for sale just down the road from her alma mater, Springfield High, she immediately felt at home. Originally known as the Fletcher Farm, it was established in the 1790s in the Parker Hill settlement and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today it consists of 100 acres straddling the Springfield-Rockingham line (hence the farm's name, Spring-Rock), with idyllic views of the Connecticut River and New Hampshire beyond. A large lilac bush planted in 1790 by Mrs. Fletcher, the original owner, still flourishes just outside the kitchen window of the restored farmhouse.
Once on her new land, Sheila, now an energetic 59, began to look for ways to make her new farm both economically and environmentally sustainable. "I thought maybe raising sheep would be fun. They would look beautiful, not big and intimidating," she laughs. Then she met her neighbor Mary Beth Fischer, an experienced farmer and livestock handler. Mary Beth, who has raised Simmental and Angus since 1983 and now also has her own herd of half Wagyus, convinced the newcomer that cows were the way to go. Sheila's father-in-law had raised Red Angus on his farm in Illinois, so she was not unfamiliar with cattle, but she wanted to explore the idea further.
She took a trip to visit a cousin on his ranch in Montana and he enthusiastically suggested that she invest in Wagyu, a breed he himself was raising. "I spent the whole day touring his farm, asking a thousand questions. Then he served me a Wagyu hamburger and I thought, wow, these are really good! I'd eaten a lot of different kinds of beef on my father-in-law's farm, but always thought beef was beef. These were completely different."
Back home she discovered that Wagyu, which means Japanese cow, were originally bred in the late 1800s in Japan as draft animals, crossing Asian and European cattle including Holstein, Simmental, Swiss and Angus until the breed was well established and closed to outside bloodlines in 1910. The breeding produced an animal with the high endurance and quick energy needed to pull carts and plows or serve as pack animals. Their power derived from the deep intramuscular monounsaturated fat that makes them so highly sought after today.
Sheila's cattle are rich chocolate brown, deep-chested, and small-rumped, resembling their distant cousins the Holsteins. Their stature makes them good breeders that give birth easily to relatively small calves with an average birth weight of 65 pounds. "Also," Sheila says, "unlike most American and European breeds of cattle, the Wagyu have gentle, docile temperaments. Out West you never handle the beef cows except to castrate them. They're totally wild. My animals you can get up close to, touch them. They've gotten even more friendly over the years." Mary Beth, who began breeding her own herd of half Wagyu-half Angus just before Sheila, thinks it is more a chicken and egg thing. She believes the cows are quieter because they are handled so often on small farms. Touching does seem to be a key ingredient for the Japanese farmers who are said to massage their Wagyu with beer and sake to develop the shiny, healthy coats that signal superior meat to the Japanese market.
As Sheila learned more about the breed, she also discovered that acquiring stock was no easy task. Except for a few bulls released to the U.S. in the 1970s and again in the 1990s, Japan has slammed the door shut on exports of livestock, embryos, and semen of this breed they consider a national treasure. Today, there are only 200 registered U.S. breeders, mostly in the Northwest and Texas, with a total of only 3,000 to 5,000 head of cattle compared to the U.S. Angus herd that totals 30 million. Most of the western Wagyu are actually crossed with Angus (the USDA allows beef with 50 percent Wagyu to be sold as American Wagyu or American Kobe). Because there are so few, a full-blooded heifer for breeding can cost between $5,000 and $13,000, and some go for as much as $30,000, as compared to $2,000 to $3,000 for an Angus breeder. Low supply, high demand, and the superior quality of the meat all play into the high price that customers pay for Wagyu on their plates. Sheila plans to sell her 100% Wagyu beef for prices ranging from $6 to $8 a pound for hamburger up to $50 a pound for high-end steaks, considerably less than Wagyu is advertised for online, but certainly more than you would pay for conventional prime Angus.
Eventually, Sheila bought one steer from Washington State, but her herd really began in 2009 when she acquired 13 embryos and implanted them in Jersey surrogate mothers. "They're great mamas. They raise the babies as their own and even have milk left over for us to use on the farm," she explained. After adding another herd from Washington, she now has 28 heifers. This year they produced a crop of 19 calves, including a set of twins. Ideally, she'd like to grow her herd to 24 head, giving her one a month to sell to restaurants, a female to sell as livestock, and a couple of heifers left over for breeding.
Using this three-pronged strategy of selling embryos, livestock and meat, Sheila, with the help of her assistant, seventh generation cow handler Phil Ranney, hopes to make Spring-Rock Farm economically self-sustaining by 2013. Their success will rest on both nature and nurture. "The 'wow' in the meat comes from how we breed and how we feed," Sheila says. As a pediatrician, she specialized in genetics, and this has helped her choose embryos and semen for artificial insemination from cattle that have consistently yielded the well-marbled meat and gentle temperaments that make Wagyu such a valuable breed. Currently, she is building her own embryo stock, which will be advertised for sale this year. By selling embryos and calves and sharing her own expertise, Sheila hopes to build a vibrant and profitable Wagyu community in northern New England.
Raising livestock for sale as meat is another challenge. Sheila and Phil have restored the farm's neglected 10 acres of pasture through carefully planned rotational grazing, slowly replacing buckthorn and milkweed with a rich cover of clover and legumes. Initially the cattle are grass fed, but as they get closer to slaughter, at two and a half or three years, they are put on a diet of grains and corn for the final six months to improve the marbling of their meat. "We don't need to feed them beer or sake like they do in Japan," Sheila says. "Here we have good pasture and I'm learning more all the time about the best grain mixtures to get the highest grade beef."
A chart of marbling scores on the barn door shows just how the meat will be graded according to fat content. The chart is from Australia, where most of the world's Wagyu are presently raised. "The USDA only recognizes three levels of prime marbling," Sheila notes, pointing to the chart's first two pictures of bright red beef slabs. "But Australians have 12 grades." She moves her finger up the chart to a piece of pinkish meat deeply interlaced with an intricate network of white Omega-3 fat. This is grade eight, and Sheila hopes her particular methods of breeding and feeding will yield this grade or above.
Finding restaurants to buy the beef, however, has been more of a challenge than she imagined. "It's amazing with all the hoopla going on about direct farm-to-table, it's really hard to get their attention." Because Sheila is selling very high-quality, expensive 100 percent Wagyu, her search for markets has concentrated on New York City rather than the local Vermont market. After many frustrating cold calls to New York's three-star Michelin restaurants, she is finally in discussion with a network of chefs who are showing preliminary interest in her product. Chef Mike Anthony of Grammercy Tavern recently committed to trying half of her first steer. The other half will be carved in the kitchen of Chef Greg Lang at the Killington Grand Resort Hotel on March 21st, where an educational carving session with a butcher is planned.
Sheila looks forward to the day she can sell her high-end beef locally. In the meantime, to promote sales of Wagyu in Vermont, she is helping neighbor Mary Beth Fischer market her half Wagyu, half Angus cattle in Vermont. Mary Beth had been able to sell her grass-fed Angus and Simmental to local customers but had yet to break into Vermont restaurants with her Wagyu. The two farmers thought lower-priced ($6 a pound hanging, for retail) but still excellent above-prime cuts of 50 percent Wagyu would do the trick. The women held a Wagyu tasting for a number of Vermont chefs a couple of years ago, using steaks, roasts and burgers from out-of-state producers because they didn't have their own product yet. A year later Mary Beth finally got an order from The Inn at Essex's new executive chef Shawn Calley, who had found her card in a drawer not quite emptied by his predecessor. Since then he has ordered two sides of her beef and proudly offers it to customers in his restaurants. In the informal Tavern, he serves up pub-style Wagyu steak and chips, burgers, and shepherd's pie. He serves the finer cuts in his high-end restaurant Amuse, where he offers only locally raised meats. "I walk around with the beef before I cook it, show the diners what they are eating to educate them about the marbling. I cook it right in front of them and they come away saying it was amazing."
That doesn't surprise Sheila and Mary Beth. They already know they have a superior product and they are proud to bring the wow of Wagyu to Vermont farmers, chefs and diners alike.


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by Barbara Sherf
The architect overseeing the new Chestnut Hill Friends meetinghouse gave a walking tour of the 1.8-acre site on East Mermaid Lane to several journalists this weekend and spoke of the impact the new art installation will have on the area.
James Bradberry, founder of the 20-year-old firm James Bradberry Architects, of Bryn Mawr, spent more than an hour outlining details of the 8,500-square-foot "green building" that will be home to a nearly 10-foot-square James Turrell Skyspace. As winds blew leaves onto the tabletop model, Bradberry and the small entourage stood near the existing 4,000-square-foot Quaker Meetinghouse built in 1925.
Described as a light artist, Turrell began his series of "skyspaces" or enclosed spaces open to the sky through an aperture in the roof in the 1970s. Inside, viewers sit on benches along the edge to view the sky through an opening in the roof.
A lifelong Quaker, Turrell designed the Live Oak Meeting House for the Society of Friends in Houston, Texas, with an opening or skyhole in the roof, wherein the notion of light takes on a decidedly religious connotation.
Campaign co-chair Signe Wilkinson and her daughter, Nikka Landau, who is assisting with outreach on the project, joined Bradberry for the tour.
To date, $2.8 million of $5.8 million has been raised among the Friends and private benefactors, and the group has just embarked on a public campaign to raise $400,000 from the community. Groundbreaking is set to take place this spring and construction will take between 12 and 18 months to complete.
Bradberry noted the impact the new Skyspace will have on bringing visitors to Northwest Philadelphia.
"I don't think people in this area fully realize the impact this will have in terms of tourism," Bradberry said while walking up a steep slope on the property adjoining Fairmount Park. "There will be buses full of Japanese tourist and art enthusiasts coming to visit and experience this significant art installation. I think 100 years from now people will look back and see how exceptional this was, similar to what happened with the Barnes Museum."
Bradberry has worked on more than a dozen Quaker projects throughout the Delaware Valley. On a personal level, he noted that the current project has been the most spiritual in nature. While he and his firm designed the drawings for the L-shaped structure, Turrell had input at every stage.
"It has been a collaborative effort," Bradberry said. "He would say 'that looks good, but have you thought about this?'" adding that Turrell "was very easy to work with in the spirit of artists and architects working together."
The two-story section of the building will contain four classrooms, a large social room, kitchen, bathroom and shower facilities, office space and a gathering room/library that will be open to the public. A garden with flowerbeds, a playground, and woods will be sited adjacent to Fairmount Park.
Landscape architects and Chestnut Hill residents Carol and Colin Franklin and their team at Andropogon Associates will design the outdoor areas.
A circular driveway coming off of Mermaid Lane will serve as a drop-off point for visitors, with ample parking to the rear of the property. The main meeting room will be just one level situated to receive the southern sun. It will be surrounded on three sides by windows and a covered porch with a partially retractable roof.
The site is about a block from Germantown Avenue and is located near three bus routes and two train lines. Ten secure bicycle parking spaces and four parking spaces reserved for fuel-efficient vehicles and carpools will be near the meetinghouse entrance.
Wilkinson noted that the tree mulch and trunks on site are there because the lot is currently used as a staging area by a local tree care firm.
"We really didn't take out many trees and the one's we did were non-native species," she said, adding that the beauty of a Skyspace is that you see nothing but sky. In inclement or severe weather, a covering electronically slides in place over the opening. The Skyspace will be open several days a week for the public to sit in quiet meditation.
While Bradberry is following platinum-level guidelines for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating for sustainability, the Friends have decided not to get the actual accreditation from the Green Building Council. Bradberry noted the costs could be $20,000 to $30,000 extra.
"Many nonprofits and institutions follow the guidelines, but don't actually go through the process and get the plaque on the wall for budgetary reasons," he noted.
The site will have state-of-the-art storm water management systems installed and a lawn outside of the meeting room linking it to a stand of 60-year-old pine trees.
According to Wilkinson, the Friends hope to have solar panels installed on the steel roof "down the road." Bradberry noted that the split-heating system would have eight separate zones.
"It sounds like a lot, but it will really be more efficient to just heat up the spaces that are in use," he added.
According to a statement put out by the Friends, "the 21st Century meetinghouse will continue a 350-year-old tradition begun by William Penn by offering a safe and welcoming place for people of all faiths to gather in quiet reflection, worship and fellowship."
Two public meetings have been held recently, and two more are scheduled to discuss the project with the public. The first will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov 30, at the Chestnut Hill Library, 8711 Germantown Ave. The final meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 5, at the Springfield Township Library, 1600 Paper Mill Road, Wyndmoor.
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Today we see first images of a new purple colorway of the Nike Air Yeezy 2. Up until now we have mostly seen Kanye or Jay-Z wear the upcoming Air Yeezy 2 to some events. Also we have seen Kanye wear the Zen Grey colorway and we have gotten a detailed look already at the black colorway.
Read more after the jumpThe purple colorway seen here seems a little bit unexpected and therefore we can also not confirm at this point if it is real. We have to say though that it looks very real in terms of materials and quality, at least what you can tell from the images. Also we like the idea of a dust bag coming with the sneakers. In terms of colors these definitely seem to have been inspired a little bit by Kobe's footwear.
The Nike Air Yeezy 2 should release in the next month, only then we can confirm if these are part of the drop or not.
UPDATE: So it turns out that these were made specifically for Kobe and will probably not see a general release.


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Scrum Values
- Focus: The work is focus only a few things at a time to produce an excellent work and deliver valuable items sooner.
- Courage: Since the work is done as a team, the members feel more supported and have more resources to undertake greater challenges.
- Openness: By communicating daily, the team concerns are expressed and addressed adequately.
- Commitment: Chunked work is easy to control, therefore the team is more committed to success.
- Respect: A great since of mutual respect is built in the team.
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This certification covers the fundamentals of the Scrum framework. A certified Scrum Master helps project teams to properly use Scrum by applying its values, practices, and applications.A Scrum Master possesses a level of knowledge and expertise above the typical project managers.
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SET 1: Runaway Jim, Foam, Fee[1] > My Friend, My Friend, My Sweet One, The Sloth, The Squirming Coil > Llama, Fluffhead > Run Like an Antelope[2]
SET 2: Suzy Greenberg > The Curtain > Stash, Paul and Silas > Big Ball Jam > Bathtub Gin, You Enjoy Myself, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, Lengthwise, Carolina[3], Cavern
ENCORE: Possum[4] -> The Vibration of Life -> Possum
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March 27, 1993
25 years ago
Warfield Theatre
Set 1: Llama, Guelah Papyrus, Rift, Stash, Reba, My Friend, My Friend[1], Uncle Pen, Sample in a Jar, I Didn't Know[2], David Bowie[3]
Set 2: Buried Alive > Halley's Comet > It's Ice > Bouncing Around the Room, Chalk Dust Torture, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Hold Your Head Up > Cracklin' Rosie > Hold Your Head Up, Poor Heart > Golgi Apparatus
Encore: The Squirming Coil, Carolina
[1] Beginning featured Trey on acoustic guitar.
[2] Fish on trombone.
[3] All Fall Down signal in intro.
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Wade scoops unique award double
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May 22, 2013
Christian Wade has scored a host of tries for Wasps this season © Getty Images
Wasps flyer Christian Wade completed a unique awards double on Wednesday night when he was named the Rugby Players Association's Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year.
The feat of winning both in one season has never been achieved before with Jonny Wilkinson the only player to have scooped both awards, but with a four year break in between them. Wade has enjoyed a memorable season on the flank for Wasps and finished the campaign with 18 tries to his name.
And Wade has been honoured by his fellow professionals after they opted for him for both awards. For the Player of the Year gong, Leicester's Julian Salvi finished in second with Saracens' Mako Vunipola in third. For the Young Player of the Year award, Wade won with Mako Vunipola in second and his brother Billy in third.
Elsewhere on the evening, Wasps' Joe Launchbury was named England Player of the Year while Dan Norton scooped the equivalent award for Sevens. Emily Scarratt picked up the England Women's Player of the Year while Ieaun Evans was inducted to the RPA Hall of Fame.
Leicester's Geordan Murphy, who will retire at the end of the season, was given the Special Merit Award with Michael Lynagh the recipient of the Blyth Spirit Award. And Ben Youngs' try against Bath for Leicester was given Try of the Season.
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Advocates ask federal court to speed up work on Canada lynx recovery after long delay
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) � Wildlife advocates want a federal judge to force the government to move more quickly on a recovery plan for imperiled Canada lynx.
The U.S. government declared the snow-loving big cats a threatened species across the Lower 48 states in 2000. But officials haven't come up with a mandated recovery plan.
After a federal judge criticized the delay, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed completing the plan by early 2018.
A coalition of wildlife advocacy groups says that's not soon enough. They're asking U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy to order the work done by late 2016.
Lynx are rarely seen, and there's no reliable estimate of their population. Their 14-state range includes portions of the Northeast, the Rocky Mountains, the Great Lakes and the Cascade Range of Washington and Oregon.


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One of my Muggings
I worked for the Postal Service as a time keeper/Data Collection Technician for about a dozen years. I worked at the Federal Annex in Atlanta, across the street from Rich's. And on the other side of the street, down a block was the Southern Railway building (above).
For years my reporting time was midnight. The official place us postal employees were to park was about a block behind the Southern Railway building next door to an old fire station. A street from the fire station led over a long railroad bridge and came out on Spring Street. The street went between the two Southern Railroad buildings. The two buildings were jointed up a couple levels by an multi level office bridge making it one big building.
One night it was drizzling rain and I was walking across the bridge about 11:30 when a man coming in the opposite direction crossed over the street to the same sidewalk I was on. We were approaching each other face to face and I noticed something not quiet right about the guy. He seemed nervous and staggering. When we got even he smiled and asked me if I had a cigarette. I said yes, and took out my pack of Winstons and hit the bottom so a cigarette would pop up so the man could take one.
He reach out but didn't take the cigarette but grabbed my arm. He told me he wanted my raincoat. I told him he couldn't have it. He grabbed around my body to take it anyway and we got into a scuffle. I flung him and he lost his balance and tripped on the curve and fell down. He didn't get up but was moaning.
I started to run. I have always been a one-track mind kind of person - once I start to do something I focus on that task. While running away from the fallen man I realized I did not complete what I sat out to do.
I U-turned myself and ran back to him and threw him my pack of Winstons and said, "Here! Take the whole pack!" And then ran all the way to the Federal Annex.


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While the flesh and blood Doctor was busy saving Christmas in Victorian London, the Doctor Puppet got his very own Christmas special, one set in New York City that, coincidentally, features a (much friendlier) talking snowman.
Animator Alisa Stern says she actually wrote the script for How the Doctor Puppet Saved Christmas and made the snowman puppet before the BBC announced Doctor Who's "The Snowmen." Her snowman, however, evokes the Rankin-Bass stop-motion specials, especially Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, rather than the murderous snow creatures Matt Smith fought this week.
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Your Elite Geek necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 26 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
Your Elite Geek
I am a a computer technician that holds 7 computer repair certifications and counting. I just formed a business that performs computer repair services like: virus removal, data recovery, tune-ups. We also perform remote assistance services, server installations. We have also set a few businesses up from the ground up with computers, software, servers, and training. My business is a new high tech company looking for a logo to match. We are a young group of individuals that have a strong "can do" attitude.
We am targeting any user with a computer problems. From home users to businesses, we can fix it all. We not only target beginner computer users, but we have quite a few advanced computer users that just cant seem to fix their computer on their own. We would like to eventually move into a remote assistance business only because of convienience.
I would love to see what you can come up with for a:
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A front a back business card would be nice too!
Heres the info:
Name: Jason Gazdik
Title: Geek
Phone: 888-790-GEEK (4335)
Website: http://www.YourEliteGeek.com
Service area: Roswell, Artesia, Remote Support
Examples or templates of the items i would like are attached.
I am open to any type of color scheme due to the website in its infant stages. The logo must have our business name: "Your Elite Geek". I attached a business card that i had already tried to design myself. I think it looks decent, but i'm not sold on any type of design yet (thats why im here). The "Specializing in Data Recovery and Virus Removal" is not that important to me, if you have a good "motto" i wouldnt mind to see it. My remote assistance program has a "call me card" that requires my own icon for branding. So having a characteristic on the logo that i could use as part or all of the icon would be handy. I am completely open to design ideas though.
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From the 16th floor of the Imperial
Pit Palace in Las Vegas, which was Gizmodo's base of operations for CES when not in press-room hell. Or swank-ass parties. Which means when we fell into comas at the end of each day, running nonstop from 8 am to 10 pm (or later). It was intense, tiring, stressful, pure madness and a hell of a lot of fun, all at the same time. We hope you loved our coverage as much as we loved covering it. And apparently a lot of you did, so thanks and look forward to post-show analysis in the coming days.
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Liberty News
Beloved religion professor dies
|Dr. Paul Fink (center), who taught 34 years at Liberty University School of Religion, with Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Ron Godwin (left) and President Jerry Falwell, Jr. as he is honored at Liberty's annual Years of Service Banquet in July.
Dr. Paul Fink, 83, a longtime professor at Liberty University School of Religion, died Saturday, Sept. 7 at Lynchburg General Hospital. Fink, of Madison Heights, Va., served at Liberty for 34 years, teaching students to both study and teach Scripture. He was very popular among his students and colleagues.
"Dr. Paul Fink was a truly esteemed colleague, mentor, and friend to faculty and students alike," said Dr. Gabriel Etzel, interim dean of the School of Religion. "His passion for teaching Scripture both inside and outside of the classroom is a model we encourage the entire School of Religion faculty to follow. He poured himself into his students, and it is nearly impossible to convey the influence Dr. Fink had over our faculty and students. His legacy is engrained in the very fabric of our school because of how many students and faculty he has mentored. He was a great friend, and he will be missed."
Fink is fondly remembered for his quick wit and humor, making the most difficult material in his courses engaging and interesting.
"The sheer number of students impacted directly or indirectly by Dr. Fink is staggering," alumnus Joseph Short ('04), of Gretna, Va., wrote on Fink's guest book at www.Legacy.com. "The man's impact on the church will never be fully realized this side of eternity, but will be felt for years, dare I say generations, to come."
Fink retired from teaching in May. He was honored during Liberty's annual Years of Service Banquet in July.
"His knowledge in inductive Bible study and homiletics helped create the curriculum for the School of Religion," President Jerry Falwell, Jr. said of Fink at the banquet. "A former student in Dr. Fink's Greek 201 class said, '[Dr. Fink] kept the class interesting and meaningful. [He offered] lots of wisdom laced with humor and I still use his teachings 28 years later.'"
Fink was a U.S. Navy veteran and served in the Korean War. He is survived by his wife, Mary Louana Allen Fink, of 62 years. They have six children, 20 grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held Wednesday at Thomas Road Baptist Church at 11 a.m. Interment with military honors by American Legion Post 16 will follow at Fort Hill Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends from 6-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, at the Hancock Welcome Center on Liberty's campus.
Those wishing to make memorial contributions are asked to consider Liberty University School of Religion. Share a memory or sign his guest book at www.Legacy.com.


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DotA Allstars 6.62 Released. Official Download from IceFrogTuesday, August 25th, 2009
DotA Allstars 6.62 is released. IceFrog had to rewrite it's code due to Warcraft 1.24 new security system. DotA 6.62 and further more map versions will work only on patch 1.24, because now it's core code uses features which absent in earlier Warcraft 3 patches.
* Full map rewrite to the new 1.24 code architecture
Check my blog at http://www.playdota.com/forums/blogs/icefrog/ if you want to know more about 1.24 and 6.62.
Because of the amount of new code in this patch, I recommend tournaments wait at least a few days before adopting it.


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The humor is still there, and so is the glibness and the cool -- but the voice is a bit frail.
Don Ho has just returned from a lifesaving journey that not only has changed his life, but, it seems, his attitude.
"I was going to be a goner," Ho said yesterday. "Only 30 percent of my ticker was working, and getting worse. No choice, man. Had to get on that plane."
The entertainer, a Hawaii icon, arrived in Honolulu on Monday after spending some three weeks in Thailand undergoing a last-ditch experimental stem-cell procedure for his ailing heart.
"I never bothered about my age," Ho said, then laughed at his own naivete. "I walked around this planet like I was 40 forever. But when this whole thing happened to me, someone said, 'You know, you're 75,' and it dawned on me that I wasn't 40 anymore.
After hearing about the stem cell procedure, one of Ho's daughters did an Internet search for information. "Then we called the hospital in Thailand, and the doctors said I qualified," Ho said. He called it the "easiest decision I've ever made."
Dr. Amit Patel, a heart surgeon from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, oversaw the procedure in Bangkok, Ho said.
The treatment, which has not been approved in the United States, involves multiplying stem cells taken from the patient's own blood, then injecting them into the heart to strengthen the organ. The procedure was developed by TheraVitae Co., which has offices in Thailand and laboratories in Israel.
Ho said he is among the first patients with nonischemic cardiomyopathy -- a weakened heart muscle not caused by coronary artery blockages -- selected for the VesCell adult stem cell therapy.
Ho, who had a pacemaker implanted earlier this year, was admitted to a hospital in August with shortness of breath and treated for an abnormal heart rhythm.
About a month before he left for Thailand, he had been treated 12 times for "episodes" that caused his pacemaker to go off.
Once, Ho's pacemaker "went haywire" in the middle of his Waikiki show before an audience of about 300. The entertainer said he "flew off the chair."
"I couldn't say anything; I just slumped over," Ho said. "They had to drag me off the stage. That sorta tells you something is really wrong."
But it was an at-home incident that "sealed the deal" to seek treatment out of the country.
"I had climbed up on my roof to do some repairs, and all of a sudden my heart just took off and I wanted to slow it down but I couldn't," he said. "I learned that when your heart is only working at 30 percent, you're not supposed to make those kind of moves."
Dr. Edward Shen, Ho's cardiologist, called the Bangkok hospital where the stem cell procedure was done to talk to the physicians.
If there are no complications within six weeks -- ending Jan. 20 -- Ho's heart should be back to 75 percent capacity.
"Actually, I feel great right now, like Superman," Ho said. "But I've been told not to overexercise and give my heart a chance to adjust. I won't be repairing the roof for a while."
Instead, Ho is taking short walks, including one late Wednesday night in Waikiki. "It was beautiful with just me and the beach."
Ho doesn't know when he'll perform again and doesn't plan to push things. "I'll have to play it by ear. There's no rush. There's a market out there, and when I'm in good health I'll be back."
In the meantime his focus is health, family and friends. This year's Christmas celebration will be extra-special.
"My family and all the kids will be here," he said. "We'll all decorate the tree; that's been our tradition since they were little kids, though they're not little kids anymore.
"Time waits for no one. I am very, very focused on staying healthy and appreciating the moment."
Ho also has another mission.
"I want to get all the information out that I can about this stem cell procedure and try in some way to get the cost down so everyone can afford it," he said. "It's a miracle -- and I'm living proof."


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With the holiday season quickly approaching, many are making preparations for the feasts, gatherings, and fun to be had. But don't let the festivities let you forget that, according to the United States Fire Administration, the holiday season also means an increase of house fires. Therefore, in the midst of gearing up for the colder season it's important not to forget some crucial steps to keep your home safe. To help prevent fire hazards we've compiled some guidelines that will help you keep your home and loved ones cozy, cheerful, and warm – but not too warm.
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Because cooking is the leading cause of fires in the U.S., it's important to take extra precautions this time of year, whether it's the Thanksgiving feast or a traditional family meal. First and foremost, never leave your kitchen or home unattended while cooking. Check on your cooking frequently and be aware of what appliances are turned on. When children are in the kitchen, keep them away from hot food and liquids, as a splash from gravy or grease can cause serious burns. Consider keeping a fire extinguisher handy just in case and, if necessary, keep in mind that flour and baking soda can snuff out a grease fire while water can't.
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No matter the holiday, it seems as if candles are universally loved during the winter months. They bring a sense of coziness to a room, but also pose some risks if not carefully attended to. Make sure to always blow out candles before leaving your home or before you fall asleep. In fact, it's best to avoid using candles in the bedroom or somewhere you are likely to fall asleep. When placing your candles, choose a sturdy candle holder and place away from any curtains, blankets, paper, or plants. And of course, make sure your home's fire detectors are working correctly.
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As the months get colder, the houses get brighter. Before stringing up those twinkling lights, keep a couple things in mind. In older homes, electrical safety is important because most of them weren't wired to withstand today's electrical load limits. Avoid plugging too many items into an electrical socket, and don't string together more than three strands of lights. Make sure you purchase holiday lights that have been tested for safety by an independent laboratory. Also, don't hang indoor lights outside – or vice versa. Lastly, inspect your lights to make sure they are in good condition. This means checking for exposed wires or shattered bulbs, which should be replaced.
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"Mothers were given the talent to bear children. That talent doesn't belong to men," he said. "When God created Adam ... if Adam had desired a person like him it would not have made him any happier."
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According to an exclusive report by Hollywood Reporter, the Shadow of the Colossus movie just got a new writer!
The story about a boy, his horse, a whole lot of gigantic creatures has received a new writer. And that writer happens to be Seth Lochhead, the co-writer of the film, Hanna. The director of Chronicle, Josh Trank, is also attached to the movie, and will be working with Lochhead on the script.
An earlier draft was written by the man who wrote the screenplay for Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, Justin Marks. Let's just hope that they don't follow through with that draft, judging by the reviews for the Kristin Kreuk movie.
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Part 2: A look at Walter Brueggemann's groundbreaking book, "Reality Grief Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks."
The generation of Israelites who lived through and looked back on the destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem itself in 587 B.C. drew very close to despair.
Superpower Babylon dictated all terms. There was no respect for "local traditions." And a portion of the populace even submitted to slavery in Babylon. No wonder so many sat by the waters of Babylon, weeping and longing for better times.
Does our God no longer honor the chosen-ness of Jerusalem, its king, temple, city? Israel feels loss rather than the well-being promised, vulnerable rather than the political sense of guarantee, and abandonment rather than a sense of being exceptional.
The folks are either "left behind" in an impotent, denuded city or deported — slaves stuck in a foreign land. This was the new context for faith: emotional, political and theological free fall with no discernible bottom. Like our anxiety and despair after 9/11, it affected every part of common life. Israel dared to go deep into that despair; I'm not sure the U.S. ever has. The saving element for ancient Israel is that despair was kept in engaged conversation, which finally produced the antidote to despair, a resilient, surprising hope.
With People Near Despair, The Prophets' Burden: Buoyant Hope
With the people's sense of self destroyed along with the temple and city, with people sold into slavery, what is the prophet's task? Improbably, inexplicably, the words of the prophets are full of hope in a buoyant future, because that's just how this God IS. At zero hour, when all is lost, we hear phrases like "you will mount up like eagles," that God's arm is stretched out and not shortened, that a new history is possible amid the city in shambles, not restrained by the force of empire.
God's good news is coming, WAIT for it! Prophets of testaments old and new proclaim a new city, new covenant, new temple, almost outside the bounds of human imagining. "A newly nursing mother might forget her baby (unthinkable), before I will forget you," God says.
A new minority of followers arises, not everybody, but people start to imagine something other than empire. My questions for you: Can you name imperial images today? Can you name images that refuse empire?
Hope comes from the prophets in a torrent of promises. Jesus uses similar language to describe what he sees, what he names the "Reign of God." All the parables, most of his deeds point to the "Reign of God," what I define as "where God's way holds sway." Only seen by some, only lived by some, but all are welcome. Brueggemann sees that "not unlike the society of ancient Jerusalem after the destruction and displacement, contemporary U.S. society is at the brink of despair."