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Tuesday, November 11, 2014
sermon on justice, water, Edward Snowden, and Amos 5
Since my sermon from this week is a single page of messy notes, enjoy a change of pace and LISTEN to it instead: http://goodshepherd.com/Portals/0/Podcasts/14_11_09Podcast.mp3
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Saturday, October 04, 2014
retreat address on the Song of Songs
Readings from the Song:
Woman: 1:5-6 (don't despise me because I am black)
Man: 4:9-16 (you are beautiful and you smell sexy)
Woman: 5:2-8 (ready for "bed" and can't find lover)
Man: 7:1-9 (you're beautiful, this time with food)
I joked with my students in describing this retreat
that it was going to be about the sexy, sexy Bible. Was I kidding?
For centuries, we've tried to figure out this poem.
Some see it as a kind of performance art,
reenacting a fertility rite to bring good fortune to crops.
Others as an allegory
—a one-to-one metaphor for God's love for recalcitrant Israel.
It's read on Passover in many Jewish households because,
in the words of my friend Rabbi Yitz,
"Passover is the dating process
of the just-born Jewish nation with G-d,
culminating in the Marriage Ceremony
under the canopy of Clouds at Mount Sinai."
For many Christians, it's been God dating the Church instead.
Others see it as a celebration of physical and romantic love, God-given.
Still others wonder why it's in our Scriptures at all
—God's not mentioned once.
Do we ever read it in church? Not much.
And then only the least racy parts.
Like, not the bits with dripping nard or channels or bellies
and breasts and lips.
That stuff is best kept far away from Sunday morning.
Only, why? Are we embarrassed?
We are certainly embarrassing as a Christian people
to non-Christians who don't understand why
we're so embarrassed about our bodies and what they do.
The Song of Songs is, at least a little bit, all these things.
The woman who wrote the Song
and the men who included it in the canon of scripture
and the millions of Jews and Christians who have read it
across the centuries have already voted.
This Song is scandalously specific and ambiguous.
It is almost pornographic and deeply spiritual.
The Song of Songs is about sustaining relationships
and about constantly striving
and it is about the love which is the ground of all our being
in one way or another.
First, it's poetry. Some of your eyes are lighting up at the thought,
others are bracing yourselves for a long, boring lecture
and ultimately not understanding any more than when you began.
Don't worry, I only mean that it means more than it seems to mean.
Like the TV show Lost. Or whatever your favorite pop song is. Only better.
So, The Song of Songs is about a woman
who is deeply in love and lust with her beloved
who may or may not be King Solomon. Probably not.
And they have frequent trysts but apparently don't live together.
And they have frequent trysts but apparently don't live together.
Or maybe they're married,
though the text doesn't offer much support for that.
Or maybe their relationship is scandalous somehow
since she gets beaten at one point for trying to find him.
It's not a straightforward story-poem
with a beginning, middle, and end,
nor is it entirely clear who the characters are.
It reads a bit like a series of monologues
between the man and the woman
but they don't always flow from one to another.
The language, as you might expect, is heightened, is metaphorical;
"your teeth are like a flock of goats,"
"your neck is like a tower, all it's stones in courses."
It's like saying, "your skin is as soft as a kitten's fur"
or "your hips are as curvaceous as the Guggenheim Museum
and truly, they don't lie."
Her neck is not a tower, not really,
and her teeth aren't hairy like a flock of goats.
It's about taking inspiration
from the natural and human-made world
—what's beautiful to you?
That's what you compare your love to.
"Your body," she says in one place, "is like ivory."
Which, it turns out, is a lot like other places in scripture
when someone sees someone else's "feet," meaning genitals.
The Hebrew word translated "body"
means a man's midsection,
so the woman is speaking of the man's penis as like ivory,
like an elephant's tusk.
Yes, in a lovely, poetic way, she's saying,
"my beloved is well-hung."[1]
Second, the Song of Songs is part of a theology called "Bridal mysticism,"
the theology derived poetically
that Jesus is our collective and individual boyfriend.
If you think of it literally, it's a bit creepy.
But also beautiful and has a long history in the church.
We see married people all the time
—certainly we see broken marriages,
but also connectedness and reliance and mutual giving.
Of course we'd use it as a metaphor for our relationship with God.
Bridal mysticism takes Jesus as the boyfriend to its logical extreme
and puts the mystic or the reader in the place of the bride
—when we read these passages, when we pray,
we can experience the great hope a bride feels,
the anticipation of new life,
the excitement of being with the one our heart most desires
—you know this feeling.
Not just the heart palpitations of a crush,
but the deep connectedness to someone we truly love
and who loves us back.
For some of you, that might be a romantic or married partner,
for others it might be a deep soulfriend,
for others it could be the relationship you have
with a parent or sibling.
These are beautiful experiences and we ought to want them—
but they require a certain vulnerability on our end.
We have to be able to be vulnerable to God.
Bridal mysticism requires us to present ourselves
exactly as we are to our bridegroom Jesus.
Third, and maybe most important,
"the protagonist in the Song is the only unmediated female voice in scripture."[2]
Meaning, every other woman's story is told by someone else,
either by another character in a story or by the writer of the book.
Here, the woman speaks in the first person,
she is a woman in touch with her own heart and mind,
a woman in touch with her sensuality,
a woman empowered.
And so, because her story needs to be heard, I'll tell it to you,
at least, an imagined story of how she came to write this poem.
I was told I had to work in my brothers' vineyards.
I was told I had dark, ugly, black skin.
I was told I'd never amount to anything, that I was unloveable.
I was told I would have babies and that would make me valuable.
I was told to be quiet in church, to submit to my husband, to lie back and think of England.
I was told it was all in my head, that it was my fault.
I was told.
And now I will tell.
When I saw him the first time, I came over all giddy.
I was talking to my friend and suddenly I was stammering
and my hands were shaking and my nipples were hard
and I couldn't stop staring.
When he talked to me the first time,
I looked down at my shaking knees,
knowing he couldn't possibly find me pleasant to look at,
but he lifted my chin with a finger and looked at me
like no one else ever had.
He really saw me—what did he see?
He said that I was more beautiful than a flock of goats on the hillside,
more sweet than persimmons dipped in honey,
more elegant the Temple Mount itself.
He said, "she's a brick house!"
He compared my breasts to round baby sheep
nursing at their mother's side.
He said my heart was bigger than the Jerusalem marketplace,
that my mind was sharper than the rocks at the shore
which tear up the hulls of boats,
that my ass was as round as melons
and how he wanted to take a bite.
How could he see this when I am, at best, average?
He saw me and he loved me.
And I saw him and I loved him.
We devour each other with our eyes.
When we see each other around town, from yards and yards away,
we cannot resist seeing, we cannot resist knowing.
I know that last night we spoke of philosophy and the nature of God,
we spoke of politics and farming and birds and bees,
we spoke of our fears and of our darkest fantasies.
And we touched each other
—we removed each other's clothes slowly, achingly slowly,
fingers tracing the hollow of the throat,
like the curve of a spoon dipped in custard,
fingers circling wrists vulnerable as newborn puppies,
fingers caressing inner thighs,
open like a book revealing its secrets.
And today, when we see each other,
we know, deeply, what the other looks like under their clothes,
how they respond to kisses and challenges.
We devour each other with more than our eyes.
Yet I cannot see him now.
And so often, I cannot find him.
He doesn't respond when I text and our friends have not seen him.
I run across sidewalks and fields,
through the autumn trees smelling of wet leaves and death
and I weep.
I meet people as I wander and they look at me in disgust.
They speak harshly, telling me no one could love me as he does,
telling me I'm making a fool of myself,
telling me to not to speak up for myself,
telling me to go home.
And so I return to my bed, to my empty apartment
which still smells of his soap and his skin and sex.
I return to my shower and wash away my tears in hot water.
I rub lotion into my skin and put on my pajamas,
giving in to exhaustion.
I tell myself it will be better tomorrow.
I tell myself he will return.
I tell myself to fall asleep.
I give in memories and touch myself.
And just on the edge of sleep, I think I hear him next to me,
his hand on my belly, his lips at my ear.
I wake with a jolt but he is not here.
I run to the door,
my hands still slick with lotion and my own moisture,
my feet bare,
but he is not there.
And later we have carved out time to lie on the grass,
feeling the warm sun on our skin,
seeing the red glow of it through our eyelids,
smelling burning leaves and each other's familiar scent.
Cloves and eucalypus and nard filling my nose and my heart.
His hand in mine, our only touchpoint, yet containing multitudes.
I bask in my beloved's presence and he in mine.
And tell him,
Many haters cannot quench your love for me.
Many insults will not quench my joy in my own body
nor the want I feel for you, my beloved.
Many sorrows and arguments will not quench our commitment.
Many wars cannot quench the spark of the divine and the hope of peace.
Many waters cannot quench the fire of my love,
neither can floods drown it.
For the holiness of all that is love, hear me tell you my story and know this same love.
[1] http://www.relevantmagazine.com/life/what-bleep-does-bible-say-about-profanity#DSeOAuW9zxew2TM4.99 Accessed 1:06 pm, 10/2/14
[2] Women's Bible Commentary, "Song of Songs" by Renita J Weems, 164
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014
sermon on Romans 12:9-21, conversation, and jerks on campus
This past week at UC has been crazy. A week and a half ago, the students returned to campus and the university put on a ton of events to welcome them, to help them make friends, to encourage them to join extracurriculars, to encourage them to do things other than drink themselves silly. It's called Welcome Weekend and they say, if you're not completely wiped out by the end of it, you're not doing it right.
Check out some of the people who came to the-Edge-House-sponsored Board Game Extravaganza—I stopped counting at 200.
We took our espresso set-up onto campus to give out free iced lattes and we had some great conversations with some of the 150 folks who partook.
Earlier in the week I got to speak again to a roomful of technical theatre students at CCM about spiritual wellness. I don't have a picture of that, I'm afraid, but it was all about how, just like a play needs actors and costumers and set-builders and stage managers and lighting designers and all the people to make it work, so do our lives. Don't do it alone.
And so it goes. Days on end of deeply emotional and draining events. Ya'll should come next year, it's great!
One of my students has been working for a year on a collaboration between DAAP design students and both the Women's Center and the UC counseling services called #consentculture. It's in response to the statistic that 1 in 4 collegiate women are sexually assaulted in their college careers. And that first couple weeks of the school year is what they call the "red zone"—more of the assaults happen when folks are new and vulnerable. So my student Heather and others have created this amazing brand and set-up where people can come over and learn about it and pledge to support consent—verbal, ongoing consent. Beautiful. Wednesday, I went to sign the board. As I turned to speak to the woman staffing the table, a young man came up and said, "consent culture? I believe in consent to rape." Yeah. I figured he was a freshman, didn't know how offensive he was, so I said, "that's not funny. Please don't say that." And he proceeded to spout a lot of garbage—and that's the nicest way I can say it—garbage about men and women and our place and men's right to receive something back. When I noticed aloud that his argument wasn't logical, he insulted us by saying that lesser minds wouldn't understand his argument nor his entitlement. Maybe you're familiar with some of the rhetoric another young man in California spoke before he shot up a sorority house recently? It was like that. And. It was…alarming. And disgusting. And we who were there at the booth did an admirable job of not flying off the handle but I'm going to be honest with y'all: I was angry. I was furious that he and anyone else could believe that women were objects who owed him something. And I was furious that there is a culture that would teach him this. And, weirdly, of all the things in that moment, what was the most frustrating was his unwillingness to allow anyone else to speak. He approached alone, looking for a fight; he left alone, having gotten one.
I'm not offering a treatise on feminism today, nor a travelogue on the Edge House's Welcome Weekend adventures. But I am going to insist that we talk to and listen to one another.
Paul's words in his letter to the church in Rome have been bouncing around in my brain all week. Paul says a lot of things about how to live in Christian community—look back at that in your bulletin [on the screen]. "Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor. Do not lag in zeal, be ardent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly; do not claim to be wiser than you are. Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all. If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all."
This may seem to be a kind of grocery list of virtues that we want to do but know with that sinking feeling that we can't hope to live up to. And we Lutherans—ahem, y'all Lutherans…—might even go so far as to get comfy with that. You might think that since there's no way we can check off all that blessing and persevering and living peaceably with everyone, and since we are saved by God's grace, let's just not worry so much about it. Our everyday failures to be kind and forgiving aren't such a big deal in the end.
Yes and no. I mean, yeah, it's good not to be so nitpicky of ourselves and others—we don't want to become micromanagers of other people's lives—it's exhausting for one thing. And we don't want to end up hating ourselves for our failures. But. But.
What this is about is how much we need each other. How much we can't do it alone. Paul is talking about being present, about showing up to our relationships and working to release our own self-interest. He's talking about reflecting back grace and love and forgiveness rather than our normal, easily-justifiable rejection and annoyance. I won't go so far as to say that we're hateful people—seems like our day-to-day sin is annoyance, it's eye-rolls and unwillingness to engage with the humanity of those around us. None of us here want to destroy the people we meet, but neither do we want others to disrupt our comfortable routine. And Paul's all about disrupting that comfortable routine and requiring the believers to engage day-to-day kindness. He wants them, basically, to recognize that they need each other, like those theatre students need each other to produce a play and to, you know, live their lives well. Paul's not saying, "go out there, team, and save the entire world!" He's saying, "next time you meet that one lady you don't care for so much, try to be a little gentler, know she's struggling as well." He's saying, "next time you find yourself knowing you're right, maybe allow for the possibility that you're not, know that the other person has a story to tell."
This storytelling and, maybe more importantly, story-listening, might be the thing that saves us. And really listening to someone else's story is not easy. You might hear something that makes you uncomfortable or something you want to combat. You might hear something that resonates with your own deepest truth and it makes you weep. You might hear something that opens your brain or heart to something unexpected and transforming.
For us to be able to do what Paul's saying, to love with mutual affection, rejoice, be patient, persevere, extend hospitality, and live in harmony, we have to be vulnerable with each other. We have to be willing to actually talk to each other about more than the weather and the budget and our children and grandchildren. All good things, all good things. But we have to be willing to disagree about how to live out this divine love we've been given and still sit down to worship together.
So I want you to partner up. Turn to someone near you and if you need to add a third person because of where folks are sitting, great. Pulling from Paul's letter to Rome, I invite you to share with your partners when was the last time you extended hospitality to a stranger? What difference did it make? I'll give you 4 minutes to talk…
…friends, I invite you to turn your faces and hearts forward again.
Without sharing confidences, what was that like for you? What did you learn?
Now, that was only 4 minutes. Imagine if our lives were shaped by listening to each other and to looking for the ways in which we need each other? Imagine if we weren't so concerned with looking for big burning-bush signs and looked for the signs in each moment of God's action? If a single smile from your mother suggested God's toothy grin. If the bubbling laughter of a vacation reminded you of God's playfulness in creating us in the first place. If a frown or a tear reminded us of God's brokenheartedness at our self-centeredness. If doing the dishes reminded you of your baptism.
Friends, the church only functions because we have musicians and readers and ushers and offering counters and council members and Habitat for Humanity volunteers and students and teachers and prophets and apostles. It doesn't function because we've all got it figured out. Just like how this place runs, so are our lives. Don't do it alone. Know that no matter what things look like in any given moment, you are not alone. You are welcomed into the Kingdom. And the people who annoy you or you roll your eyes at or you avoid, they're not alone either. Because they have you. We are a people of welcome. Let's offer that welcome in the ordinary moments of our lives.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014
sermon on Israel/Palestine, BS, and Romans 8
I bring you greetings, friends,
from the students at The Edge House campus ministry at UC
—we are always grateful for you
and your continued ministry here at Prince of Peace.
Alas, my students could not be here
because of work and classes and not-being-in-Ohio,
but they send their love.
They also send me as an emissary
to share with you a little of our pilgrimage
to the Rocky Mountains at Spring Break this past year.
Each year we offer our Spring Break as a tithe of sorts
—time away from our normal schedules and busy-ness
to observe God's action in the world
and to give back what we have been given.
This year, we restructured our trip as a pilgrimage.
Pilgrimage is a journey to a place of special spiritual significance.
There's a fine line between that and being a tourist
—the idea is that we're going somewhere
to see something powerful with our own eyes,
not just taking pictures and moving on.
Used to be, folks walked hundreds of miles
to a cathedral or even the Holy Land,
others have needed to go to Ground Zero or to Auschwitz
to see it with their own eyes
—for us, it was the Rocky Mountains.
We were able to worship with our friends at HFASS,
to spend retreat time in the deeply snow-covered mountains,
to work with the Boulder parks department,
and to walk several labyrinths.
For me, the most beautiful moment came
when we were walking our second labyrinth
—our work had been cancelled for the day due to high winds,
so we were at loose ends.
I admit to being angry about the loss of a workday
—aren't we here to help out?
We searched out a labyrinth in the very public lobby
of a large office building.
It was laid out in the stonework of the floor
—a life-sized recreation
of the 11-circuit labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral.
After walking it, we explored the art gallery
just off the lobby where the building's developer
had donated his and his wife's art collection.
It was beautiful.
Sculpture and watercolors and furniture
—just amazing to have it there in a public space
for the folks who came in and out of the office building.
A security guard came over and told me
that the old lady who had just come in was the developer's wife
and that she had dementia.
Her husband pays for a pianist to play for her in the lobby
twice a week and she sits there,
a look of delight on her face as she dances in her chair.
And then. And then.
On my way out of the gallery, I saw a small painting
of a boy in tall grass next to some large text.
It was a quotation from the developer
saying that their collection had many critically-praised pieces
worth millions of dollars.
And that when one critic visited, he stood still,
taking in a wall of this magnificent art and then said,
"I really love this small one here, the boy in the tall grass."
And the developer said, "That's one of my favorites as well.
My wife painted it."
His wife, who was right there, unaware.
I wept for their life together and for the gift he had given her.
If we had not had our work called off,
we would never have experienced that love.
Dementia cannot separate us from the love of God.
Anger with plans changing cannot separate us from the love of God.
Last week, I helped celebrate at the funeral
of a young adult from Good Shepherd.
Jackie died of a heart attack at 34.
She was a lovely, committed, active woman and she just suddenly died.
At her funeral, I did what I expect most of us do,
grieve her loss but also wonder what I was doing with my life
—what risks am I taking for the Kingdom? Am I?
And then I stood up to read the lessons,
including one of my most favorite passages, Romans 8:
"For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation,
will be able to separate us from the love of God
in Christ Jesus our Lord."
And I thought, "yes, yes. Nothing can separate us.
This is our hope, this is my experience.
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil."
Death cannot separate us from the love of God.
Misery and grief and even anger at such a young person dying
cannot separate us from the love of God.
And then. And then.
Thursday this past week, I got a call from my hair salon
saying that the man who has been doing my hair for years,
J who was 49 and snarky and lovely, had died.
I couldn't process it. I still can't.
And then I was at the gym on the elliptical,
what's on the morning show on the TV right in front of me?
A grainy video of a man in India beating a small child.
Played on repeat as the commentators discussed how terrible it was.
And then another video of a nanny doing the same thing.
I couldn't look away—it was right in front of me and I couldn't look away.
We know these things happen,
maybe we even try to stop them in a vague kind of way,
but to see it with our own eyes, to really see it…
And then to hear of the death tolls in the current version
of the Israel/Palestine conflict
—yesterday, the BBC reported that of the more than 800 people
who have died so far,
at least 278 are Palestinian women and children.
The UN says 73% of the Palestinian dead are civilians.
I'm very aware that talking about this is going to make someone mad.
I imagine at least one of you out there right now is seething already.
One of the reporters I heard talking about it said that
reporting on anything at all related to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict
will get you death threats
Israel is not a superhero. Palestine is not just a victim.
—it's so fraught, so complicated,
so emotional for everyone involved,
and even for us who aren't involved.
What are we supposed to think as Christians
—not as a religious sect or as Christian Americans,
but as followers of Jesus Christ
who preached peace
and also preached not letting oppressors get away with oppression?
What are we supposed to think
when Israel accuses Hamas of using human shields
and Hamas accuses Israel of firing first
and intentionally attacking civilian targets?
And both sides have been fighting over the same tiny plot of land
since at least 539 BCE.
I remember hearing a WW2 vet speaking brokenly
of the invasion of Normandy when the Germans
had put women and children on the tops of the gun turrets
along the beach so the Allies would have to shoot them.
Can you imagine? Who would do that?
If we stop to think about it at all,
if we do any research (and not in the comments section of news articles), we know it's so very complicated and so very tragic.
So many people are dying and being displaced
there and Syria and Sudan and everywhere over what?
Really, though, over what?
I'm calling BS.
Because it sure looks like something can separate us from the love of God.
Is it easy for us here in safe middle-America
to say nothing can separate us from the love of God
when children all over the Middle East
and even here in our inner cities grow up with PTSD?
Is it ridiculous for us to say that neither things present nor things to come
nor powers can separate us from the love of God?
When our own savior Jesus Christ hung on the cross and cried out
"eloi eloi lama sabacthani
—my god, my god, why have you forgotten me?"
What the hell are we doing to ourselves as human beings? There and here?
What is keeping us from recognizing God in each other?
What is allowing us to insist on our own way
like toddlers refusing to share toys
when those toys are basic nutrition and access to health care
and, I don't know, not living in fear for your life,
whether it's in Gaza or Sandy Hook?
This is a difficult time to preach grace. And, really, it always is.
The problem is that grace is staring us in the face.
These moments, these years when we are destroying each other
and ignoring how we're destroying each other,
this is when Jesus is all up in our business,
refusing to break eye-contact,
standing in front of us awkwardly and saying,
"Please" and "It's ok."
And then. And then.
We see with our own eyes, even for only a moment,
that this is not how it has to be.
This is not how it always is.
There's a moment at the wedding of an Edge House alum
when he blushes at the loving things his best man is saying to him,
and their friendship,
the friendship between an atheist and a Christian,
is the shape of the Kingdom.
There's a moment when your child snuggles into your bed with you
when you are not annoyed because she's out of bed
but overwhelmed with love simply by the smell of her sweaty hair.
There's a moment when slaves in the American South
jumped the broom and got married
because they found love in the midst of terror.
There's the moment when a mother whose son was murdered
takes the murderer into her life
and they grow to love and forgive one another.
There's a moment when women in concentration camps
wrote down recipes for foods they would never eat again
because doing so was their resistance, their way of saying,
"this is not the end of our story. You cannot destroy our hope."
It's not that Gaza and Sudan and my friend's death don't matter
because they really do—but that something else is going on.
We are fooling ourselves if we think we can define it completely
and we are fools if we can define it by what we value here in America,
but our great hope, the good news that Jesus brought and still brings,
is that something else is going on,
something better,
something life-giving and creative
and that God is doing something with our suffering.
Not that God planned our suffering or somehow wills it,
but that God can make something beautiful
with even the worst parts of our lives.
And we can participate in that.
And then. And then.
Paul says "For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height,
nor depth, nor anything else in all creation,
will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Terror cannot separate us from the love of God.
Entitlement and complacency cannot separate us from the love of God.
Liberalism or conservatism, patriotism and protest,
rejection and retaliation cannot separate us from the love of God.
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Kick off the week's event with the Human25 photograph (celebrating CSUSM's upcoming 25th anniversary!) and Pep Rally on Tuesday, October 18th, from 12-1PM on Kellogg Plaza. Check out the rest of the events at the Homecoming Week website.
The Other Wes Moore
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For a look at the latter, travelers should head to the Trubetskoy Bastion, where prisoners were held. The bastion's first prisoner was Aleksey, Peter the Great's son, who was executed there in 1718. Other famous prisoners who spent time in the dreary cells, which often featured one small window, a thin cot and a side table, included Dostoevsky and Lenin's brother.
Peter and Paul is also, however, one of two places where Russian coins and medals are minted. For an inside look at the money making machine, visitors can tour The Mint. The fortress' other fine sights include the Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul, a towering yellow cathedral featuring an impressive Baroque design that Peter the Great deliberately used to differentiate the building from traditional Russian church designs.
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State Rep. Parkey Strader said battling liver cancer has given him a change in priorities, and "you will not see Parkey on the ballot again."
The Republican who represents the 14th District in northwest Knox County disclosed last week that he will not seek re-election after two terms. He previously served as property assessor, first getting elected in 1972 and serving until 2000. He then became chief deputy in the assessor's office.
Strader was diagnosed with cancer on July 5, 2006. A doctor at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston told him he could expect to live 13 months. It's now going on almost 1 1/2 years, he said. He's had multiple surgeries and other treatment.
"Prayers do work," he said.
Strader announced he is resigning as chief deputy to Knox County Property Assessor John Whitehead effective Dec. 7 over a dispute in supporting Phil Ballard for Whitehead's job in 2008. Whitehead and Strader had both supported Ballard, a county commissioner, but when Ballard voted against a plan Whitehead favored to make appointments to 12 vacant county offices, Whitehead withdrew his support. Strader didn't, but he also felt Whitehead's chief deputy "should support his boss," he said.
Strader first went to work in the office in 1968 when he was a student at the University of Tennessee and a newlywed.
He was offered a job at the former Hamilton Bank for $250 a month and a job in the assessor's office for $275 a month. "Twenty-five dollars determined my future," Strader said.
He went to work at a time when an appraisal job was being done by Cole-Layer-Trumble of Dayton, Ohio. The appraisals were a disaster, Strader said, with those making appeals forming long lines around the Knox County Courthouse.
Strader said he took office - after being discouraged by old-timers because he wore long hair - determined that "if it was within my power, I would never let another outside appraisal company do work again." It took some state legislation, but then he became the first assessor to use a local appraiser, he said.
As a legislator, Strader said he's been learning his way around while others learned about him. He hasn't always been successful, citing a bill to give grandparents the right to be considered by a judge in child custody cases.
"Man, it bloomed into something wild" and he was accused of upsetting the adoption process and other things, he said.
As for his future, he has no plans except to spend as much time as possible with his wife, children and grandchildren.
"I've bought a little place down in Daytona. I'm going to enjoy that," he said.
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According to CNN, "gender bias might actually kill you." A new study released by the National Academy claims that "feminine-named hurricanes (vs. masculine-named hurricanes) cause significantly more deaths, apparently because they lead to a lower perceived risk and consequently less preparedness." The liberal media was thrilled to find this supposed scientific proof of sexism.
Ed Yong of the National Geographic found that the study lacked credibility. While it looked at the death tolls of hurricanes dating back to the 1950's, when hurricanes only had female names, male names weren't introduced (due to cries of sexism of course) until 1979. Meanwhile, Yong writes, "hurricanes have also, on average, been getting less deadly over time." Yong's source, scientist Jeff Lazo, claims that the correlation may just be a statistical fluke, and "it could be that more people die in female-named hurricanes, simply because more people died in hurricanes on average before they started getting male names."
According to CNN, "gender bias might actually kill you." A new study released by the National Academy claims that "feminine-named hurricanes (vs. masculine-named hurricanes) cause significantly more deaths, apparently because they lead to a lower perceived risk and consequently less preparedness." The liberal media was thrilled to find this supposed scientific proof of sexism.
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, who routinely hypes forecasts declaring climate change an imminent threat to humanity, made a rather stunning admission on Thursday night's broadcast while touting the 2014 predictions from the National Hurricane Center: "Overall, they're predicting eight to thirteen so-called named storms....One or two hurricanes, they predict, will be major, meaning category three or above. But, as you know, it is always the case in the inexact business of any forecast beyond five days, we shall see." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
NBC Nightly News is at it again, trying to scare its audience about the impending dangers of climate change. Following two reports in early May, the Tuesday, May 20 Nightly News hyped how there's "a new warning about some iconic American treasures including the threat to Lady Liberty herself."
Fill-in host Lester Host introduced the segment by declaring that our "American treasures... might one day be something we read about in history books rather than places we visit." [See video below.]
Once again, NBC was out to scare its viewers about the threat of man-made climate change. Appearing on the Sunday, May 4 NBC Nightly News, Ann Curry narrated a 2 minute 30 second piece that attempted to instill panic in its viewers about the supposed dire state of the world's climate.
Curry began her report by showing video of cars falling off of a street in Baltimore, Maryland after a heavy rainstorm before bemoaning that this "is one example of extreme weather events that may be more common in the future." [See video below.]
MSNBC's Chris Hayes is not happy that skeptics of the catastrophic anthroprogenic global warming (CAGW) theory, in particular, Matt Drudge, have been pointing out that in this age of global warming, it often seems very cold.
As the Washington Examiner's Charlie Spiering explained today (link includes video of Hayes):
Print, broadcast or web, the media sure aren't Nostradamus. In spite of their best attempts, the news media have gotten it wrong prediction after prediction on a wide range of business and economic issues in 2013.
Just in the past year, reporters warned of "economic doomsday," thought Healthcare.gov was going to be "easy" just like Amazon.com, and warned of melting polar ice, even as a new record was set for ice mass.
For years, climate alarmists have dishonestly accused global warming skeptics of taking money from Big Oil to do their bidding.
On CNN's 11th Hour Tuesday, when Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune made such a claim, Climate Depot's Marc Morano marvelously fired back, "The Sierra Club took 26 million from natural gas and Michael has the audacity to try to imply that skeptics are fossil fuel funded" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Hurricane season ended Nov. 30, with an all time-low for hurricanes. The weak outcome didn't fit the environmental disaster narrative the media had concocted leading up to hurricane season. ABC, NBC and CBS devoted broadcasts to scaring viewers with news of "devastating tornadoes, searing heat waves, withering droughts" and "powerful hurricanes." But they became strangely silent once the season finished … and next to nothing had happened.
Reporters gobbled up the news when the NOAA predicted "more and stronger hurricanes" this season. In May, forecasters predicted seven to 11 Atlantic hurricanes, but the area only saw two storms become hurricanes. In fact, there were no hurricanes until September 11 this year, almost beating the 2002 record for the latest start to the hurricane season on record.
On Tuesday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank joined host Al Sharpton in lambasting Republican Senators Mitch McConnell and Tom Coburn for attending a fund-raiser in New York City the day before the first anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. Sharpton griped:
While climate alarmists and the media continue to link everything, including storms like Hurricane Sandy, to climate change, one scientist recently admitted to HuffPost Live that accuracy of forecasts is deteriorating.
Jane Long, Berkeley researcher and associate director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, cast doubt on climate change forecasts in an Oct. 29 HuffPost Live segment.
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During the 2008 banking crisis, then-Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel famously said, "Never allow a crisis to go to waste." The broadcast networks certainly followed his advice when reporting on Hurricane Sandy since the storm became a hurricane one year ago, hitting the New Jersey coast on Oct. 29.
Network reporters and experts have repeatedly claimed that the storm was either caused or worsened because of climate change. In fact, 100 percent of the 32 news stories and briefs in the past year that mentioned climate change and Hurricane Sandy claimed global warming directly impacted the storm – even though "no single weather event can be linked directly to a long-term driver, such as global warming," according to climate change activists.
Striking the Northeast on Oct. 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy tragically devastated communities causing an estimated $50 billion in damages. By the end of January 2013, a relief bill was passed for Sandy aid, after the bill was delayed because of wasteful spending.
House Republicans opposed a pork-ridden $60 billion Senate bill ($10 billion higher than damage estimates) and chose not to vote on it. Politicians, including some Republicans, and the media criticized them for delaying this legislation. A $51 billion bill was passed by both houses of Congress by the end of January, after a $9.7 billion flood insurance bill passed in early January.


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A follow-up assessment of data from the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project B-31 (NSABP B-31) clinical trial showed that adding trastuzumab (Herceptin) to combination chemotherapy treatment raises the risk of heart problems, but they are not long-term.
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A study of 12,500 women treated for HER2 positive breast cancer showed an association between the use of an anthracycline, trastuzumab (Herceptin) or other chemotherapy and the development of heart failure or cardiomyopathy, disease of the heart muscle. Through analysis of existing medical records, the results support findings of past clinical trials.
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Congratulations to Mickie James and Brutus Magnus. They're now parents to a new baby boy named Donovan Patrick Aldis. Mickie has been on a hiatus since becoming pregnant, only making sporadic appearances during the beginning. Magnus is expected to still be on the road with TNA, but that schedule is a bit easier now that the company is taping Impact Wrestling in advance.
September 25, 2014
In a bit of news that is sure to disappoint the millions of guys that were lusting after her, Christy Hemme has revealed that she is pregnant with her first child. The TNA Knockout is five months into the pregnancy. Christy should be giving birth by the end of the year or the beginning of next year. She also revealed that she and her husband have had baby names picked out since they initially met.
August 21, 2014
There are a lot of rumors floating around right now that AJ Lee is pregnant. No substantial evidence has been found, though, so the belief is that the speculation was started by fans who have been wondering why she has not made her return to WWE yet. She reportedly got married to CM Punk over the weekend. There is no timetable for her return. Nor does anyone know if she will actually come back.
June 15, 2014
A picture of Mickie James showing off her pregnant belly. The former WWE and TNA star is expecting her first child later on this year.
June 1, 2014
A picture of pregnant Stacy Keibler posing on the cover of the next issue of Fit Pregnancy.
May 24, 2014
While it is almost all but certain that she will be making a return to the company this summer, there are also rumors floating around that TNA is going to give Taryn Terrell a huge push when she does come back. Expect to see her being thrown into a feud with Angelina Love for the Knockouts Championship. TNA has always been pretty high on her work, especially during the period before she left after becoming pregnant.
May 20, 2014
Since the company has already given the honors to Lita and Trish Stratus, two of the more known WWE Divas over the last two decades, management is said to be looking for another female performer to induct into the hall of fame at Wrestlemania 31. A name being tossed around right now is Mickie James, who is currently pregnant but should be available by next spring.
May 14, 2014
Rumors have been floating around for a couple of months now about Mickie James being pregnant, and the former TNA Knockout has now confirmed it during a recent interview with Totally Driven Radio. Mickie also revealed that she is due to give birth to her first baby some time in September. Former world champion Brutus Magnus is said to be the father.
May 9, 2014
The tabloid magazines have been reporting on rumors that Stacy Keibler is upset with George Clooney for getting engaged to a British lawyer last month. The former WWE diva dated Clooney for a couple of years, and the two of them split up because the actor would not settle down and get married. Keibler herself has gotten married since then and is currently pregnant.
May 8, 2014
While Taryn Terrell was pregnant, she always kept the door open for a TNA return, stating that she has not accomplished everything that she wanted in professional wrestling. It looks like that comeback will be taking place this summer, as Taryn recently did a photo shoot for the company. The Knockout appears to be in great shape already.
May 7, 2014
Since she has scaled back on her duties within WWE, some rumors have sparked that Stephanie McMahon could be pregnant. That is not the case. She simply wants to spend more time with her kids and focus on other areas of the company. The longtime WWE executive is said to be satisfied with three kids and no longer wants to get pregnant.
April 21, 2014
Back in January, it was revealed that Eva Marie was hospitalized and needed some time off from Monday Night Raw and Smackdown. The latest episode of Total Divas has shed further light on the situation, as it has now been revealed that Eva had an ovarian cyst that had ruptured. The medical condition might prevent her from ever being pregnant.
April 21, 2014
A picture of Taryn Terrell wearing a shiny gold bikini. The blonde bombshell took this really hot picture before she left TNA due to being pregnant. The former Knockout is expected to return to the company some day.
April 13, 2014
Since Mickie James had to pull from the show because she is pregnant, Angelina Love has been given a new opponent at an independent wrestling event that is taking place in Louisiana during Wrestlemania 30 weekend. The recently returning TNA Knockout will now be challenging Barbi Hayden, who happens to be the NWA Women's Champion.
April 3, 2014
Since she is pregnant and will have a hard time traveling once the baby is born, Mickie James is loading up on appearances right now. The former WWE diva still has enough name value for independent wrestling promoters to book her in autograph sessions. She was recently at an event with Mick Foley, Kevin Nash, Tommy Dreamer and the Godfather.
March 26, 2014
Since she quickly married her boyfriend and kept the truth hidden from her family, as seen on the first episode of the second season of Total Divas this weekend, there are rumors spreading that Eva Marie might be pregnant. While the decision was abrupt, the WWE diva is not expecting a baby anytime soon, as her career is her main focus at the moment.
March 17, 2014
While she did not show a lot of interest since Stephanie McMahon personally approached her with a contract in New York City, it has now been all but confirmed that Stacy Keibler will not be appearing at Wrestlemania 30 now that she is married and pregnant. WWE had initially been interesting in her showing up and being the host of the event, but Hulk Hogan has been given that role.
March 17, 2014
Since she is pregnant now, Mickie James is being forced to cancel some appearances on the independent wrestling circuit. The former WWE star was actually booked for a pretty big match against Angelina Love, who recently returned to TNA, in New Orleans during Wrestlemania 30 weekend. No word yet on what the replacement match will be for that show.
March 17, 2014
It is now being reported that Mickie James is pregnant. She has been telling independent wrestling promoters that she is willing to make appearances, but she can no longer take a bump in the ring. The former TNA star recently revealed that she is back with Brutus Magnus again. The two had split up for a period of time.
March 13, 2014
Earlier this month, the wrestling world was shocked when it was discovered that Stacy Keibler had secretly gotten married to her boyfriend. The New York Post has now revealed that the reason why they decided to make things official is because the former WWE diva is pregnant and expecting her first child. No confirmation from Keibler yet, though.
March 12, 2014
In the past, Vickie Guerrero was receptive towards a potential return to WWE some day, but her tone has definitely changed since starting a new career. Guerrero was recently contacted by the company to make an appearance on the special episode of Smackdown that aired this week. She rejected WWE and stated that it was time for her to move on with her life. John Laurinaitis and Theodore Long worked the segment instead.
October 11, 2014
Unless something drastic happens with her new career, do not expect Vickie Guerrero to be making a return to WWE anytime soon. However, the door has been left open by the company for that to take place in the future if she wishes to do so. Management surprised a lot of people by giving Guerrero a positive sendoff on Monday Night Raw, which solidified the belief that the company would welcome her with open arms again some day.
August 13, 2014
Based on what she has accomplished, Vickie Guerrero has inspired several of the performers backstage in WWE. She was able to leave the business and start a new career. Guerrero went to college while working on the road for WWE. A lot of performers have long been worried if it would be possible for them to leave the road and settle into a new life.
August 8, 2014
It didn't take Vickie Guerrero long to find a new job. About a month after her release from WWE, the former on screen general manager is now working for a pharmaceutical company. Guerrero revealed that she is now processing patients for treatment through an insurance company. She sounds really excited to be working with doctors in her new career.
August 2, 2014
When he announced his sudden decision to retire, Santino Marella teased WWE fans that he might be taking over as the new general manager of Monday Night Raw and Smackdown. While the role is vacant due to the departure of Vickie Guerrero from the company, there has been no confirmation of what Marella is claiming. The belief is that he was simply teasing the audience at this point.
July 7, 2014
Anyone that follows professional wrestling closely, knows that WWE performers spend a ridiculous amount of time on the road for the company. Vickie Guerrero became one of the latest people to grow weary of that lifestyle and requested her release from her contract. Now that she is free of that hectic obligation, the former WWE diva is now on vacation in Hawaii.
July 6, 2014
Hector Guerrero, who is the older brother of the late Eddie Guerrero, is continuing his feud against Vickie Guerrero. He posted a message on Facebook to let fans know once again that Vickie sold out on the family after Eddie passed away. He also revealed that Vickie does not bother to keep in touch with Eddie's mother, either. Vickie has not responded with her side of the story yet.
June 30, 2014
Since she was given a respectable departure from the company, the belief is that Vickie Guerrero is highly regarded by WWE management. The speculation has even more credibility now that the company is airing a special tribute show for her on the WWE Network. The show is basically a highlight reel of her best performances during her longer than expected tenure with the company.
June 29, 2014
Earlier in the year, Vickie Guerrero attempted to leave WWE, so that she can focus on the next chapter of her life. Even though she has not been featured in a big role over the last year, management convinced her to stick around for a bit. She agreed, but has repeatedly told management of her desires to move on. It looks like WWE is finally agreeing to allow her to walk away.
June 17, 2014
While Eddie Guerrero and Vickie Guerrero both became big stars for WWE, their daughter Shaul Guerrero was simply not able to follow in their footsteps. After being released twice from the company's developmental program, she has decided to take a different career path. Shaul has signed up for veterinarian school and has reportedly started attending classes for that.
June 16, 2014
There are rumors floating around right now that Shaul Guerrero was released by WWE because the company wanted to punish her because her mother is leaving soon. Vickie Guerrero has been going to school and focusing on other business ventures. Some are saying that WWE does not want to keep Shaul around if Vickie is not going to be a part of the company.
May 3, 2014
While she did not leave the company after Wrestlemania 30 like rumored, Vickie Guerrero still intends on moving on from WWE at some point in time. She has already given notice to management, and she still continues to work on her college degree and business ventures. Guerrero wants to maintain a good working relationship with WWE.
April 17, 2014
After being heavily rumored to be leaving the company after Wrestlemania 30, Vickie Guerrero has continued to be on the road for WWE. This week, she worked the Smackdown taping. Afterwards, the wrestlers got together and threw her a little birthday party once the television taping was done. She turned 46 today.
April 16, 2014
During Wrestlemania 30, rumors spread that Vickie Guerrero was finishing up her tenure with WWE and moving on to a different chapter in her life. However, it appears that she might have had a change of heart, as the former on screen general manager posted a message on Twitter, stating that she will be on Monday Night Raw and Smackdown this week.
April 12, 2014
Wrestlemania 30 and perhaps the next Monday Night Raw will be the last hurrah for Vickie Guerrero, as she is finishing up her tenure with WWE this weekend. The former on screen general manager has been focused on college over the past year, and she has also been trying to get a few business ventures up and running as well.
April 6, 2014
Since management wanted to test out the developmental wrestlers to see if they were ready to be called up to the main roster, the Ascension, a tag team consisting of Conor OBrian and Rick Victor, were given a match against Diego and Fernando at the big live event in New York City this weekend. WWE even paired Vickie Guerrero up with them. Unfortunately, though, the crowd was silent and indifferent towards the duo, thus hurting their chances of being promoted.
March 9, 2014
Despite not having a big role on Monday Night Raw and Smackdown, Vickie Guerrero is still on the road for the company. Along with several other performers who are not frequently used, she is present backstage at all the television taping. WWE likes having people around in case they change up the story line at the last minute.
March 5, 2014
Since she is now focusing on her education, new career and business, there is backstage heat towards Vickie Guerrero from a couple of people backstage in WWE. It has become apparent that she plans on leaving the company after she graduates from college, so management has decided not to push her much on television from here on out.
February 22, 2014
Over the weekend, several wrestlers, including Chris Jericho, Howar Finkel, Jim Ross, MVP, Diamond Dallas Page, Mason Ryan, Chavo Guerrero, Michelle McCool, Vickie Guerrero, JBL and others, noted the passing of Frank Bullock, a WWE employee who did audio for the company. He had been battling cancer before his death.
February 10, 2014
The belief is that Vickie Guerrero will leave WWE in the near future, quite possibly around the time that she graduates from college and receives her medical administration degree. The feeling is that her character has already reached its peak and that the widow of Eddie Guerrero simply wants to stop being on the road every single week of the year.
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Jennifer Hudson Says David Otunga Saved Her Life, Comments on Recent Rumors
by Staff - November 22, 2011
- Actress and singer Jennifer Hudson revealed to Ebony magazine that her fiancee WWE Superstar David Otunga saved her life by convincing her to go to Florida with him where he was working for WWE's Florida Championship Wrestling, rather return to her family's home in Chicago back in 2008 when they were brutally murdered.
"He wanted me to come out to Florida with him instead of going to Chicago. I flew out to see him; that's why I'm still here. I've never said that before, and I can't believe I just said that now."
Hudson talked about rumors of problems between her and Otunga's wedding due to him not wanting to sign a prenuptial agreement. Hudson said the rumors weren't true and that she has to deal with some personal issues before she does anything else.
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