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Hate, intolerance, and quaker colleges
My undergraduate institution was chosen to learn about myself and the world. I wanted to go somewhere far away from home and to a Quaker institution. Guilford College in NC is where I ended up. I went there for a bigger purpose. There were many wonderful things that came with my time at Guilford. I met some of the most wonderful people in my life. I had amazing professors who ignited my love for a discipline I still work within. It was a time of great spiritual awakening, learning, and devotion.
I recently found out from another alum that over the weekend there was a racially motivated hate crime on the campus. The students who were attacked are Palestinian. They went to Ramallah Friends School, before coming to Guilford College. The attackers are from NC and are on the football team. It is a sad and sobering event. The college responded with this statement 72 hours after the event. More information in an article from the Greensboro News and Record. And the AP has picked it up.
I am having many mixed emotions at the moment that I should probably sit with until I know what is coming from a godly place and what is pure emotion. It pains me to see the media running stories connecting Quaker values and hate crimes. For now all we can do is to pray. Pray for the college community. Pray for the victims. Pray for the perpetrators. Pray for guidance in finding solutions to racism, intolerance, and ignorance. Pray for a day when we have true equality. Pray for a day when we have taken away occasion for war, strife, and violence. Pray for God's Kingdom here on Earth. Pray to be a vessel for God's work. Pray that the Spirit leads us to do good works to help create a more just and equitable and loving world.
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Thank you for writing this--it speaks to my condition this morning, as I woke to hear the news on NPR of my beloved Guilford College (I am an alum, too).
- 10:02 AM, January 25, 2007
Oh dear.... How troublesome! I just took a quick look at the various headlines that are out there; I hadn't realized that both the AP and NPR had picked up the story.
I'm an alum from Haverford (1985).
Liz Opp, The Good Raised Up
- 10:13 AM, January 25, 2007
- Elizabeth Bathurst said...
While I was a student at Guilford, I was witness to a much milder incident. A girl in my dorm pulled a silly and non-violent prank involving a banner, if I remember correctly. A boy took offense, and entered my dorm and threatened a group of us in a very vulgar and violent manner while brandishing a knife. It took some time for the administration and campus safety to conduct an investigation and expell the boy in question, and I believe that time was taken in order to make sure that justice was served.
My impression is that this was a heated encounter that became violent and that the brutality of the violence was escalated by ethnic/religious intolerance. If my impression is correct, I hope that all of the boys involved will be reprimanded and punished according to the intensity of their infractions, some of which appear to be very grave indeed.
It would be nice if we, as humans, were capable of enacting swift and immidiate justice, but it takes a little while to sift through the differences in eyewitness accounts and collect evidience to find the truth. I believe taking sufficient time to be deliberate in our actions, while making sure that our sadness, our horror and especially our anger are not influencing our enactment of justice is not only appropriate but essential.
- 12:36 PM, January 26, 2007
- Liberalgrrrl said...
Thanks for writing this. I think you captured what many people of us (Alums) are feeling.
Genevieve (1994)
- 12:37 AM, January 30, 2007

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Sonority and Aphasia
Challenging Sonority - Cross-linguistic Evidence - Martin J. Ball
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Many acquired neurogenic disorders have implications for accurate speech production. Some of these affect motor planning and motor execution (see Code and Ball, 1988), others have an impact on higher levels of speech organization. Speech problems associated with various types of aphasia have been the focus of sonority-based analyses for some time. Studies have included, for example, Christman's work on sonority and neologistic jargon (1992a, b), and Code and Ball's study of recurrent utterances (1994). In this chapter, we examine a range of data from aphasia and aphasia-like disorders. These include lexical and nonlexical recurrent utterances (or speech automatisms) in English, German and Chinese; patterns of gradual speech loss in progressive speech deterioration, and two cases of what Alajouanine (1956) and Perecman and Brown's (1985) would term undifferentiated or phonemic jargon, respectively. For all these cases we described where sonority does, and does not, seem to explain the data, and speculate on whether sonority is hard-wired into the brain.


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Therefore, O&M projects located in the upper left quadrant would indicate projects in need of risk mitigation, or possibly candidates for future R&D projects aimed at replacing legacy systems that have become difficult to support. The RAND PortMan Method 11 Cost Analysis The ability to chart the relative risk and reward of projects using a common set of metrics is fundamental to successful portfolio management. It provides a graphical representation of where current of projects are and generally where they need to go in order to achieve both high value and low risk.
This was defined as the Fiscal Year 2008 Case (FY08C). The second case included theoretical lifecycle costs that the project would incur over the five-year defense planning cycle out to fiscal year 2012. This was defined as the Fiscal Year 2008 to Fiscal Year 2012 Case (FY12C). For FY12C, RAND assumed a fixed 3-percent annual inflation of project costs over the five-year period and a flat ISS budget. If a particular program could not be supported over the entire five-year period, it was not included in the final portfolio selection, even if there were sufficient funds to afford it in the current fiscal year.
The remaining must pay projects were located near the center of the chart, and appeared to have a significantly higher degree of value and risk compared to the rest of the must pay projects. By contrast, the discretionary projects (green) had a more continuous distribution. However, it is important to note that the level of risk for all of the projects in the portfolio was low. , "Technical, personnel, resource, or process issues that may impede full implementation are difficult, but can be addressed using proven methods").


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Home, sweet home.
My friend Vlad, whom I have known for most of my life and who served as the best man at my wedding, posted pictures of his trip to our hometown on a Russian photo sharing site. This one shows the building I used to live in year ago. My former home is on the left side of the picture behind the green, corner building. I have a black and white picture of myself taken on the bridge in the foreground.
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Owing to non-completion of certain material conditions, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) has terminated its deal to acquire music broadcaster 9X Media. ZEEL, on 6 October 2017, had entered into an agreement to buy 9X Media and INX Music from New Silk Route (NSR) and other shareholders for an all-cash deal of Rs 160 crore. In a release to the BSE, ZEEL stated, "This is further to our communication dated October 6, 2017, providing relevant details of the proposed acquisition of 100% equity stake in 2 Media entities viz. 9X Media Private Limited and INX Music Private Limited (9X entities). In this regard, we wish to inform you that the said acquisition deal has been terminated/called-off by the Company inter alia due to non-completion of certain material Conditions Precedent."
9X Media, along with its subsidiaries, operates a bouquet of six music channels–9XM (Latest Bollywood), 9X Jalwa (Evergreen Hindi), 9X Jhakaas (Marathi), 9X Tashan (Punjabi), 9XO (English), 9X Bajao (Hindi Classics). ZEEL was to acquire 91.45 million shares of Rs 10 each of 9X Media for a total consideration of Rs 155.2 crore. Furthermore, the company had also agreed to acquire 29.15 per cent stake in INX Music for Rs 4.8 crore. Post the acquisition, INX Music would have become a subsidiary of the company since 9X Media holds 70.85 per cent stake in the company.


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Aight, GTA fanboys, here it is.
The GTA V trailer is finally out.
Opinions on this? I liked the golf part. But it reminds me of Wii.
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I printscreen'd a photo from the trailer and put it here. Also, I put in more enthuasism.


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Off to North Carolina
After a month of VISA application & processing as well as preparation, I will be leaving to the United States for my internship at Cisco Systems, Inc tomorrow.
This is my first overseas trip traveling alone out of the country to such a far and foreign land — all without my family members by my side. To think of, this trip seems to be not too short or long. It simply can't be described using words. I used to dislike the idea of having to travel alone without my family since I am quite reliant of them. This time round, it seems that I have set out to be independent and this will be both an endurance and independence test which is all part and parcel of growing up. I remembered that the last time I traveled to Thailand in 1996 with my third uncle and his family. I missed home so much although it was only a 1 week trip.
I won't be updating so often till I get my laptop, an internet connection and settled down. But I'll keep track of all the discoveries and post them when I have the time. I shall return on May 01, 2005
Extinguish the heat
You woke up one fine morning and find that your throat has a burning sensation. Your lips starts to turn dry shortly and the skins are starting to peel off. You are in immediate need for a lip balm to help prevent the lips from peeling. Ever had this kind of feeling? This was what happened to me yesterday when I woke up and found that my day will not be fine.
I am very prone to heatiness ever since I left secondary school (I have no idea why but it seems that my immune system is getting weaker). That's why I always try to avoid fried and oily food at all times and I certainly have no carvings for it as the consequence of eating these food will be too much a price to pay for. It used to be fine as long as I watch my intake but nowadays, just eating a little will cause my body to develop heatiness.
There might be several reasons why our body is prone to heatiness and here are a few I happened to come across while reading an article recently:
- Spending too much time in an air-conditioned environment, thus leaving our body and skin exposed to the dry air and lost of body fluid
- Lack of intake of water — Our body needs at least 2 to 3 litres of water daily, preferably plain water
- Dehydration
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To help prevent from falling sick because of heatiness, I have some *secret recipe* that may help to greatly reduce the body heatiness:
- Eat lots of star fruits or water chestnut
- Buy & drink Eno — helps to relieves indigestion and heatiness
- Boil and drink barley seeds with green bean seeds — the most effective method
- Use lip balm (oil based) every now and then to keep your lips moisturize
The above will definitely help to reduce our body heat but in all cases, please don't over consume any of the suggested remedy.
Machine for the museum
This morning, I received one of the most valuable and priceless asset from my polytechnic — an old Hewlett-Packard Pentium 2 notebook packed with 32MB of RAM, running on Windows 98 and the LCD display covered with a thick layer dust, enough for me to sketch an illustration on it. It weighs about 5 KG and I wonder should I bring along this machine with me while travelling.
Initially, I thought of bringing along a laptop while travelling to the United States for my Industrial Attachment Programme (IAP). As I am not sure if my host company would provide me with one, I went to loan one from my school. What it turned out to be was totally unexpected. Although the machine can run normal word processing programs, the speed is definetly slow and unbearable to use. What's more — I have to go through the hassle of finding the right power adapter before I can use it while in the states.
Now, I am seriously considering if I should bring along this machine or do away with it. Perhaps, I can loan it to the museum for their historical display while indirectly helping me to safe-keep it!
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It started when I got sick and tired of the design limitations I was experiencing while hosting my weblog with blogger (the free blogging tool). Being unable to do much customization, especially the lack of a good commenting system led to the search for a free web hosting service that enables me to install a more powerful blogging tool and customise my own layout without restrictions.
After 2 weeks of intensive template and style editing, I am proud to announce the launch of my new weblog — The revolution of A Bright Spark. This, as compared to my previous weblog has revolve from a simple and dull color website into a more eye-catching design. The layout has changed and this site is now feature the use of CSS. I have tried to ensure that the design caters for most of the common browsers that is on the market now. At this moment, this site seems to display properly on IE6, FireFox 1.0 & Opera 7. Should this site not display properly on your screen, do drop me a note.
I have wild ideas of further developing this site by completing certain links, tidying my design files and adding more content. However, due to time constraint, I may not be able to finish them anytime soon. With this in mind, it's time for me to stop tweaking and get back to more important issues in life.


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For this new moon, I have pulled one card from the Original Rider Waite Tarot as to what energy I should embrace during this next cycle of the Moon and I got the Six of Wands. This was quite surprising, because it is the exact same card as I pulled for the previous New Moon.
Honestly ,my good intentions to establish a free-flowing routine have completely fallen by the wayside. I became more and more reluctant towards building a daily routine. I just wanted to be free, to chose what I wanted to do and also when and where I wanted to do it. My whole life has been about maintaining a routine: School, work, raising children, and then work again. I realized that my freedom was more important to me than ticking of boxes from my to-do lists. The upside of this "failure" is that I now feel more in touch with myself than ever before. I have to check in regularly with myself to discover what it is that I want and need at this very moment; what it is that will make me happy and content.
So over to the Six of wands for this lunation. I got the distinct feeling that even though I "failed" to accomplish my goal, I gained something very valuable too. But the six of wands is not a stagnant card. It urges me to move forward after recognizing and celebrating my victories. It is so easy to keep dwelling in a pleasant state of mind but life is also about moving onward toward the next challenge (Seven of wands)
So for the coming lunation I will definitely be celebrating my new found sense of freedom but also focusing myself on how to become more and more the woman I am supposed to be.


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Well, Mormons think he is. A martyr for Catholicism, Fr. Miguel Pro was executed in 1927 by the Mexican authorities because he insisted on bringing the sacraments to persecuted Catholics. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II the same day Junipero Serra, the "apostle of California," received the title Beatus.But Mormons say Fr. Pro is now a Mormon, not a Catholic, because in 1986 he was baptized by proxy through one of Mormonism's "baptisms for the dead." The Mormons baptize lots of people who never would have adhered to Mormonism while alive.Presidents? Sure: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, both baptized in 1877. Dwight Eisenhower was baptized in 1973. And non-president Paul Revere became a Mormon in 1975.The literary world has not been overlooked. Edgar Allan Poe had to wait 41 years to achieve equality with Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), who was baptized in 1937.
"The Resurrection is an event of grace not involving in any way the corpse of Jesus." So writes Fr. David Coffey, president of the Australian Catholic Theological Association.Coffey has been making the headlines for several months--his pronunciamentos are being examined in Rome--having gone beyond the position of the men he claims as mentors, Karl Rahner and Edward Schillebeeckx.A decade ago the latter was saying that "whether or not the tomb was empty is irrelevant for us." Coffey drew what he thought was a logical conclusion: If it's irrelevant, he said, it must be because Christ never rose bodily from the tomb.Coffey admits the tomb is empty, but "the question of how the tomb came to be empty can be relegated to the domain of pure historical speculation." Probably Jesus' bones were transferred elsewhere by his followers; in any event, they're still somewhere in the Holy Land.Why mention Coffey and his views at all? Just to remind you that this kind of anti-miraculism still infects prominent people within the Church (and therefore lots of non-prominent people), and we have to take that fact into account as we engage in apologetics and evangelization.Lots of Catholics leave the Church for Fundamentalism, the Jehovah's Witnesses, or Mormonism because they've been turned off by what they perceive to be "absurd" positions held by people who call themselves believers but who don't seem to believe anything.If we want to keep these folks in the Church and away from the sects, we need responses to those who are embarrassed that God might intervene in history and who insist the Bible is fairy tale, not fact.The ironic thing is that real progress in biblical studies and theology, far from substantiating the anti-miraculist position, is rapidly undermining it, much as progress in the sciences is doing away with scientism, the notion that science and religion are at odds and that science can explain everything.
"His Holiness Plays 'Hide and Seek' with Muslims." That's the title of a brochure disseminated by the Islamic Propagation Centre International, headquartered in Durban, South Africa.The accompanying photo is that famous one of John Paul II peeking through circled fingers. On the back of the brochure is a photo of a laughing Ahmed Deedat, the chief spokesman for the Centre and a fellow who likes a good debate. He's laughing because he thinks he's won by default.The Pope wouldn't take up his offer to engage in a public duel, but that's all right with Deedat, who gets mileage out of the Pope's not having answered his challenge. Deedat thinks the world is going to turn to Islam in droves, communism having gone under.Is he right?
Good Bible Christians never let an opportunity for evangelizing pass them by. During the March for Life in Washington anti-Catholic tracts were distributed by The Church in White Hall (no, not the Whitehall where Britain's government offices are located, but White Hall, Maryland, a town not far from Washington, D.C.).One of the tracts, written by Ronn Heilig, is called Come Out of Her My People. The alert Catholic will know immediately its contents just by looking at the footnotes. Books cited include Alexander Hislop's The Two Babylons and Ralph Woodrow's Babylon Mystery Religion.Here are some of the subtitles, in case you still aren't sure of the tract's thrust: "Mother Worship," "Worshipping the Mother of Jesus," "Gods, Goddesses, and Idols," "The Supreme Pontiff," and "The Mystery Solved."The tract provides some blockbuster insights, such as the fact that, "although Mary was certainly a righteous woman, she is not God!" What's more, "God never intended for Mary to be reverenced any more than the other righteous men or women who have kept His word." (What about "Blessed are you among women"?)Oh, and the mystery that is solved? Easy: "The similarities between Catholic traditions and those of ancient Babylon are too striking to be ignored. Traditions such as transubstantiation, purgutory [sic], kissing statues, and many others, all have traceable pagan origins. Please write for details."Don't bother to write. It's the same old stuff, in a cheaper and more forgettable form than usually seen. Pray for people who swallow such claptrap.
We've heard the rumors too, but put little stock in them. So far as we know, the late Walter Martin has not appeared to Bart Brewer, advising him to dust off his old breviary.
The secular press is beginning to take notice of an interesting phenomenon within Evangelicalism: the movement of a small but prominent cluster of Evangelicals into Eastern Orthodoxy. Many of them are finding their way into the Antiochean Orthodox Christian Church, which has about 325,000 members in North America.These migrating Evangelicals first sought a more liturgical Evangelicalism, largely in response to their studying early Christian history and the writings of the Fathers. For a while they were in a way station church of their own fashioning, the Evangelical Orthodox Church. They applied around to traditional Eastern Orthodox churches, and the Antiochean accepted them.Peter Gillquist, formerly an executive with Bill Bright's Campus Crusade for Christ and now an Orthodox priest, said, "We felt we needed to become part of the church. The questions was, 'Which church?'"Catholics, when they hear about these conversions, are invariably surprised, and most of them ask, "Why did they become Eastern Orthodox? Why not Catholic?" As a rule, the answer is: the papacy. We might wish that these former Evangelicals had come "all the way over," but let's be grateful for how far they've come. The journey from Campus Crusade to a liturgical church can't have been easy. And let's keep these folks in our prayers too.
Brooklyn has a new bishop, Thomas V. Daily, and Fr. Richard McBrien doesn't like him. In an article for the New York Times McBrien complained that Bishop Daily is like almost all the rest of Pope John Paul II's appointments: "uncritically loyal to the Pope," "rigidly authoritarian," "solitary in the exercise of pastoral leadership," "reliably safe" in his theological views. (Daily's probably a lousy golfer too.)There is worse. Bishop Daily "is an adviser and strong supporter of the pietistic and censorious Mother Angelica." He is also "affiliated with the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars."Good grief! Is Daily entirely hopeless? Can nothing good be said of him? Is he going to hell? McBrien may remain silent on the third question (he may not believe in hell), but he answers Yes to the first two.The problem, you see, is that Bishop Daily is a believer. He believes in the Resurrection as historical reality. He believes in sin. He believes in redemption. He does not believe in the infallibility of the Usual Suspects who determine, in McBrien's language, "mainstream Catholic theological and biblical scholarship."In other words, Bishop Daily believes he's really a successor to the apostles and intends to act that way.McBrien claims that "the Vatican's pattern of episcopal appointments"--Daily is only the latest example--"is lowering the morale of the church's most engaged and effective priests, nuns, and lay members, many of whom are edging to the conclusion that the church's present leadership is irrelevant, if not inimical, to their deepest religious and human concerns."It depends, no doubt, on whom you define as the "most engaged and effective" priests, nuns, and laymen. How is that to be determined? How about by toting up conversions?Who has brought more people into the Church--Richard McBrien or Mother Angelica? (For that matter, Call to Action or Catholic Answers?) Such questions answer themselves.The fact is that the religion McBrien promotes, and the kind Bishop Daily opposes, is going nowhere. It simply doesn't appeal to the folks in the pews, who want to be loyal to Christ, the Church, and the Pope, and it is appealing less and less to the Church's intelligentsia, which no longer feels obliged to conform to the "assured results of modern scholarship"--especially when those results don't jibe with reality.Okay, so Richard McBrien is the house Catholic for the New York Times. Fine. But he doesn't speak for the great mass of Catholics, and what he offers them has no power. The religion he offers can't inspire anyone. It is dying, if not already dead.Think of the great battles in defense of Christendom--for example, the Battle of Lepanto, where, in 1571, the Christian fleet headed by Don Juan of Austria turned back the Turks. Can you imagine any of those Catholics putting out to sea to save McBrien's brand of Christianity?No, what they tried to save then--and were successful in saving--was the kind of Christianity promoted today by John Paul II, by Bishop Daily, and by many others written off by McBrien.What are we driving at? There are "name" theologians who no longer represent (to use a term they like) a "viable" form of Christianity. To follow them is to go nowhere. To follow the Slav successor to Peter is to go where God wants us to go.Does that sound corny, unsophisticated, "irrelevant"? Maybe so, but just keep in mind that you'll look in vain for a Beatitude that says, "Blessed are the relevant."
There's also no truth to the rumor that Loraine Boettner appeared to Bart Brewer in a vision and, from his place in the hereafter, advised Brewer to pray the rosary.
Christianity Today reported [March 19, 1990] that Evangelicals in Mexico have been attacked by mobs of Catholics:"[A]n interdenominational prayer meeting attended by some 160 evangelicals in the Mexico City area was violently broken up by a mob of several thousand Catholics armed with stones, machetes, and sticks....Townspeople were reportedly told the group consisted of squatters who had come to steal their land....Catholic officials in the neighboring suburbs...have made it clear that evangelicals are not welcome."What really happened? It's hard to say. Part of the problem, no doubt, is a kind of yanqui religious imperialism: Protestant missionaries bringing American cash to convert "unsaved" Mexicans to "real" Christianity.Unlike the U.S., Mexico is culturally Catholic (even if Mass attendance is low), and this is especially true among the poor. American missionaries are seen not just as religious outsiders, but as cultural outsiders.We don't approve of violence by either side, but we are suspending our judgment until more of the facts are in. It just seems unlikely that Mexican Catholics are going after Evangelicals merely because they dislike their religion. We suspect something else (or at least something more) is involved.
When we learn about the gung-ho activities of certain "Bible Christians," we sometimes get a bit depressed. Why aren't Catholics doing similar things? A case in point:South Padre Island, Texas is the place to go on spring break. Each March 100,000 college students descend on the resort area, most of them to get drunk, some of them to get "saved." The drinking they do on their own. The "saving" is done by the congregants from Island Baptist Church.Had too much to drink? Then call the church's hotline. One of five vans will pick you up and take you back to your hotel. While in the van you'll be preached at by two Baptist students. Last year 8,000 drunkards were picked up and preached at.Do you think that's pushy? Then consider the church's team of party crashers. They "invite" themselves to private parties, ask the host to turn the music off, and then give a "personal testimony." Conversions result.No one is neglected. Are students out in the water, waiting for the perfect wave? Baptist surfers swim out to them and share the good news while hangin' ten.On the beach Island Baptist sets up "burnt-aid stations." If the sun has cooked you to a bright red, stop by for complimentary water and aloe--and a complimentary spiel. Each day 700 students hear about Christ this way.At the end of the week the church has baptisms right on the beach. Each time a new convert comes out of the water, the crowd cheers. Granted, there are never many baptisms--only five last year--but about 300 students last year "made a commitment to Christ."How many of these "took"? It's hard to say, but no doubt today, a year later, some of those instant converts still practice their new faith. (Their names were sent to churches near their schools so there could be follow-up.)Okay, so you'd feel foolish being a "surfer for Christ" or aren't inclined to help pass out 75,000 hotline cards. But you have to admit these Baptists are doing something, which is more than can be said for many Catholics.Think of the great disadvantage the Baptists work under: Theirs isn't the Church Jesus established, and they don't believe everything he taught. What they have to offer is only a partial, not a complete, Christianity. Yet they're having measurable success.They know that students who take their spring breaks at places like South Padre Island are at a spiritual dead-end. When they meet up with these students about four days into the week (that is, when they're beginning to tire), the students are starting to admit to themselves that they need something more than suds.All in all, Island Baptist Church has a clever ministry, one from which we could take a cue. After all, not only are there more of us--we far outnumber the Baptists--but we have complete Christianity to offer students. So why don't we do it?
Of course, reading the breviary and praying the rosary are fine things, and we highly recommend them to ex-priest Bart Brewer, but he never takes our advice.
Christendom College will be holding a summer institute in apologetics from June 18 through July 23. College credit can be arranged. Speakers include Christendom staffers Timothy O'Donnell (who is dean of the summer institute), Warren Carroll, and Damian Fedoryka. Outside lecturers include Fr. William Most, Peter Kreeft, and Karl Keating. In all there will be at least a dozen top Catholics giving presentations.For information, you should either call Mark C. McShurley at (703) 636-2900 or write to the Christendom College Summer Institute, 2101 Shenandoah Shores Road, Front Royal, Virginia 22630.
The Franciscan University of Steubenville will have its own summer conference, but its will be shorter than Christendom's. Titled "Defending the Faith," the institute will run from June 1-3. Speakers include Fr. Mitchell Pacwa, Paul C. Vitz, Ronda Chervin, Alan Schreck, Fr. Peter Stravinskas, Keith Fournier, Chris Noble, Peter Kreeft, and Karl Keating.Topics range from the psychology of unbelief to the need for moral authority, from purgatory to Peter and the papacy, from justification to apologetics in the marketplace.For further information phone (614) 283-6314 or write to the Christian Conference Office, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, Ohio 43952.
Scripture scholar William Farmer, who lectures on the New Testament at the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, has converted to the Catholic faith. Farmer is best known for The Synoptic Problem, a book in which he casts off one of the "assured results of modern biblical scholarship."In that work and others Farmer has argued that Mark was not the first of the synoptic Gospels to be written. Instead, the order of the synoptics, according to Farmer, really was this: Matthew, Luke, then Mark. This is called the Griesbach hypothesis, after the eighteenth-century scholar who first popularized it.The traditional ordering of the synoptics (Matthew, Mark, and then Luke) is known as the Augustinian hypothesis. It still has backers among scholars, but it may be in third place if scholarly heads are counted.Most scholars today, both Protestant and Catholic, adhere to Markan priority: first Mark, then Matthew and Luke (more or less together). This isn't a new theory. It was developed by German Protestants in the nineteenth century and gradually came to be accepted as "gospel truth."But as the position of Markan priority was developed--along with its necessary adjunct, the notion that Matthew and Luke were dependent not just on Mark, but on a document commonly called "Q" (from the German Quelle, "source")--immense difficulties arose. The hypothesis seemed, to more and more people, to be internally contradictory--that is, any one of its necessary subpoints seemed to contradict some other necessary subpoint.Thus there has been a renewed interest not just in the Griesbach hypothesis, but even in the Augustinian hypothesis.Where are things heading? It's hard to say with any finality, but it looks as if the theory of Markan priority is the wave of the past. The more study that's put into it, the more glaring its defects appear.Yes, many scholars, having devoted their professional lives and reputations to this position, are reluctant to abandon it, but increased numbers are doing just that. It's probably fair to say that in the next decade we'll see greater respect given to both the Griesbach and Augustinian positions, even while the Markan position moves ahead on the momentum it's built up over the years.That momentum may dissipate more rapidly than many people suspect, as older scholars, who back Markan priority, retire and find their places taken by younger scholars who, influenced by writers such as William Farmer, aren't at all convinced that the "assured results" of modern scriptural scholarship are as infallible as some people think.
We reported two issues ago that Mission to Catholics International, one of the chief anti-Catholic groups in the country, is trying to raise funds for a new building. It will house the ministry's offices, will serve as a half-way house for converting priests and religious, and will also include a School of Roman Catholic Evangelism.Naturally, we're not looking forward to such a building project (frankly, we'd like to see Mission to Catholics go out of business), since it will cause mischief by extending anti-Catholicism's outreach.Our spirits were raised slightly when we learned that in March contributions to the building fund totaled less than a thousand dollars. The goal is $65,000, the amount needed to begin construction, and about $10,000 of that has been contributed so far.Another encouraging sign: Beginning in March Mission to Catholics had to start making interest as well as principal payments on the loan taken out to purchase the property. The result: lower income and higher outgo. This suits us just fine, since we hope the School for Roman Catholic Evangelism never gets off the drawing board.
Come to think of it, even if Bart Brewer doesn't take up the breviary and rosary again, maybe more of us should turn to them--and to other prayers as well--if for no other reason than that prayer works.
After all, what's happening in Central and Eastern Europe has been as much a consequence of prayer as of politics and economics. In fact, you'd be safe to conclude prayer has had more to do with the changes than has anything else. Yes, most people won't admit that, since they don't believe in the efficacy of prayer (having prayed for riches and not received them), but truth isn't determined by majority vote. We shouldn't let ourselves get discouraged; there's nothing wrong with being in a minority.
If anyone hears of further sightings of Loraine Boettner or Walter Martin, please let us know. These guys are Catholics now, as are all the dead, and we'd very much like to know how St. Peter greeted them.


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This one is for everyone who pets dogs while their owners are in the store.
For you, any dog photos posted by your friends are an automatic "like".
And that's not even counting all the profiles specifically for dogs that you're following on Instagram.
Instagram: @buda
In fact, almost everything you look at online is dogs.
Thanks, internet.
Twitter: @manubarem
But the worst part is that it seems like the internet only exists to break your heart, leaving you in a constant state of suffering since you don't have a dog.
Science needs to invent a way to send virtual hugs to dogs over the internet.
Aside from following them online, you even PHYSICALLY follow dogs – and their owners – on the street, until you can "coincidentally" stop for a pet (of the dog).
And in most cases, you totally forget to acknowledge the owner


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