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<i>Welcome! The following is a citizens attempt to inform and build consensus around reasonable changes to the current PA fireworks laws and enforcement for the good of all. More resources will be added and if you have anything to share please contact me at asahelchurch at gmail dot com.</i><br />
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<b>HISTORY and BACKGROUND OF PROBLEM</b><br />
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Explanation of law and remaining restrictions, YDR, June 18, 2018<br />
<a href="https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2018/06/18/pennsylvania-new-fireworks-laws-make-bang-july-4th-safety-legal-illegal/697580002/">https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2018/06/18/pennsylvania-new-fireworks-laws-make-bang-july-4th-safety-legal-illegal/697580002/</a><br />
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<i>The Fire Rises: Refining the Pennsylvania Fireworks Law so that Fewer People Get Burned</i>, Sean Kraus, Dickinson Law Review<br />
<a href="https://ideas.dickinsonlaw.psu.edu/dlr/vol123/iss3/9/">https://ideas.dickinsonlaw.psu.edu/dlr/vol123/iss3/9/</a><br />
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<b>LAWS and REGULATIONS</b><br />
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The ATF oversees manufacture but not the sale and distribution of consumer fireworks. Most consumer fireworks fall below the threshold for federal guidelines regarding transportation of explosives.<br />
<a href="https://www.atf.gov/explosives/fireworks">https://www.atf.gov/explosives/fireworks</a><br />
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The DOT oversees transportation of fireworks.<br />
<a href="https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/hazmat/energetic-materials-approvals/fireworks">https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/hazmat/energetic-materials-approvals/fireworks</a><br />
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Glossary of Pyrotechnic Terms from the Industry<br />
<a href="https://www.americanpyro.com/glossary-of-pyrotechnic-terms">https://www.americanpyro.com/glossary-of-pyrotechnic-terms</a><br />
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In the past 10 years, the classification system for fireworks changed. There is still confusion and the old "class" designations are often still used. This handout, apparently given to firework stand operators to help them comply with ordinances, is helpful:<br />
<a href="https://www.shoalwaterbay-nsn.gov/assets/PDFs/Law--Order-Codes/Stand-Owner-Fireworks-classifications-in-the-United-States.pdf">https://www.shoalwaterbay-nsn.gov/assets/PDFs/Law--Order-Codes/Stand-Owner-Fireworks-classifications-in-the-United-States.pdf</a><br />
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<b>CONCERNS</b><br />
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<b><i>Noise Pollution and Peace of Neighborhood</i></b><br />
-LA on July 4th <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://twitter.com/KTLA/status/1279640387859218433?s=20">https://twitter.com/KTLA/status/1279640387859218433?s=20</a></span><br />
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<b><i>Pets</i></b><br />
-Fireworks: Awesome for Human, Terrifying for Pets <a href="https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/fireworks-july-fourth-tips">https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/fireworks-july-fourth-tips</a><br />
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<b><i>PTSD</i></b><br />
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<b><i>Safety</i></b><br />
-"On average 180 people go to the emergency room every day..." <a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/Safety-Education/Safety-Education-Centers/Fireworks">CPSC.gov</a><br />
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-"Fire cause by illegal fireworks causes fire displaces 10 in York City," YDR 7/5/20<br />
<a href="https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/2020/07/05/crews-responded-641-manor-st-reported-structure-fire-crews-arrived-and-had-visible-fire-2nd-floor-re/5380055002/">YDR News Fire 7-5-2020</a><br />
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-Lancaster City Building Fir Caused by Careless Use of Fireworks 7/5/2020<br />
<a href="https://cityoflancasterpa.com/blog/lancaster-city-building-fire-caused-by-careless-use-of-fireworks/">CityofLancasterpa.com Headline</a><br />
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<b><i>(Air) Pollution and Fireworks</i></b><br />
<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2019/12/31/festive-fireworks-create-harmful-pall-of-pollution/">Forbes article on fireworks and air pollution</a><br />
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<b>DATA</b><br />
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Consumer Product Safety Commission<br />
-publishes a report of firework injuries among other things each year<br />
<a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/Safety-Education/Safety-Education-Centers/Fireworks">https://www.cpsc.gov/Safety-Education/Safety-Education-Centers/Fireworks</a><br />
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<b>CURRENT LEGISLATIVE EFFORTS</b><br />
<b><br /></b>There is an amendment in the PA House to increase the first offense fine to $500 and subsequent to $1000 with confiscation. <i>In my opinion, this is not going to help in any significant way. It doesn't help cut off supply OR help local enforcement who still have to either see the individual illegally using fireworks or find a witness willing to testify - all of which is time consuming and is NOT what our police force should be forced to waste time on</i>.<br />
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PA Sen. Kristin Philips-Hill talks with York City Fire Chief Deardorf about the problem 7/2/2020<br />
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/senatorkristin/070220-firework-safety-with-york-city-fire-chief-chad-deardorff">https://soundcloud.com/senatorkristin/070220-firework-safety-with-york-city-fire-chief-chad-deardorff</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Survey Results from Phillips-Hill, 7-2020</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Phillips-Hill 07-2020 <i>"The survey mirrors calls and emails received at our offices over the last several weeks from concerned local neighbors.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>This feedback will be shared in your state Capitol. I will formally request a hearing to allow voices to be heard on this growing concern throughout York County and across the state to determine how we move forward to allow our community to safely and responsibly enjoy the Fourth of July holiday.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>You can view the 2017 vote on the law to permit “consumer fireworks” (e.g., bottle rockets, Roman candles, etc.) here: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/RC/Public/rc_view_action2.cfm?sess_yr%3D2017%26sess_ind%3D0%26rc_body%3DH%26rc_nbr%3D768&source=gmail&ust=1595108304373000&usg=AFQjCNGoz3MS3yue88BNk5wlz0rjsFmpnA" href="https://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/RC/Public/rc_view_action2.cfm?sess_yr=2017&sess_ind=0&rc_body=H&rc_nbr=768" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">House vote</a> | <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/RC/Public/rc_view_action2.cfm?sess_yr%3D2017%26sess_ind%3D0%26rc_body%3DS%26rc_nbr%3D324&source=gmail&ust=1595108304373000&usg=AFQjCNH49uqTlOF2Eg3GMTvlw7UUpn1KxA" href="https://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/RC/Public/rc_view_action2.cfm?sess_yr=2017&sess_ind=0&rc_body=S&rc_nbr=324" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Senate vote</a>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>As always, feel free to contact me with any opinion, suggestion or concern as it pertains to this issue or any state-related matter."</i></span></div>
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September 24, 2019 Committee Hearing<br />
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'It Sounds Like a War Zone' PA Post, July 12, 2019<br />
<a href="https://papost.org/2019/07/12/it-sounds-like-a-war-zone-why-a-bucks-county-fire-chief-and-lawmaker-wants-more-restrictions-on-pa-fireworks/">https://papost.org/2019/07/12/it-sounds-like-a-war-zone-why-a-bucks-county-fire-chief-and-lawmaker-wants-more-restrictions-on-pa-fireworks/</a><br />
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<b>Get involved!</b><br />
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Step 1: Talk to Your Neighbors<br />
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Sample letter to give to neighbors (coming soon)<br />
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Step 2: Sign the Petition<br />
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<a href="https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/end-fireworks-madness-in-pa">https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/end-fireworks-madness-in-pa</a><br />
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Step 3: Contact Your State Representative<br />
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Find out <a href="https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/findyourlegislator/" target="_blank">who your PA state rep.</a> is...<br />
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Step 4: Contact Your Local Municipality<br />
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<b>Local (York City)</b><br />
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Friendly reminder from YCPD of the law<br />
<a href="https://york.crimewatchpa.com/yorkpd/8395/post/fireworks-law">https://york.crimewatchpa.com/yorkpd/8395/post/fireworks-law</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Resolution</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">I am married to an older woman. And while there’s a certain
prestige that comes with this, one disadvantage is that there’s always a chance
that your wife’s biological clock will quickly outpace your own clock for
unencumbered, two income, pre-rugrat fun. But I love my wife and I did want
kids. So it was just a matter of time.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Getting pregnant was disappointingly easy. I remember that night
clearly- I had been doing some some soul searching lately and so I cuddled up
to my wife and said- “I want you to have the desires of your heart. So I think
I might be ready…” And just like that, she was pregnant.<span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Pregnancy was great. What I mean is, my wife, Laura, was a great
at it. Calm, healthy, glowing, pumpkinesque... And while delivery was not so
great, when our daughter was born after two days of labor, I really couldn’t
believe how lucky I was. She stared at us with deep thoughtful eyes that turned
out to be blue- just like mine.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Parenthood brought with it some positive changes. It
inspired me to stop complaining and get a new job. It brought me to York, PA, a
fabulous place to raise a family. But as the daily grind set in, I was
pretty miserable. I was in that pathetic stage of early fatherhood where your
cute kid is deep down basically competition for attention from your lover.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We tried to be hip parents- trucking our infant into bars
and packing her along on wilderness trips. We told our friends, “Parenthood
doesn’t have to change your life! Look at us!” But everything <i>was</i>
different. And harder. And took longer. The truth is, I became resentful and
lost sight of the precious gift I had received.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">In the fall of our daughter’s second year of life, we joined my
extended family for a weekend up at French Creek State Park. Our daughter was
running a fever on Friday as we arrived- and we didn’t have a reliable
thermometer. To make things worse, we had recently heard a story of a family
who fatally overdosed their infant on Tylenol. So we were using it sparingly
and hoped she would feel better. We were complete rookies. Of course, the hard
work fell to Laura, who spent a lot of extra time up at the cabin trying to
make sure our daughter was getting lots of sleep and nursing as much as
possible. I was alternately glum and oblivious.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Saturday afternoon we were all hanging out at the main camp
building. I was playing ping-pong inside and Laura was rocking our daughter,
her fever higher than ever, in a hammock on the porch. Suddenly our daughter
began to jerk wildly. In panic, Laura shrieked and stood up. She nearly threw
our daughter into the hands of my brother, a neurosurgeon resident who happened
to be standing nearby. My mother was yelling at him, “Do something! Do
something!” Of course there wasn’t anything to do at that moment but hold that
tiny little girl gently and wait for the seizure to pass. As I sprinted out the
door and on to the porch I saw a small bubble appear at the corner of her
mouth- and then she was still. She didn’t seem to be breathing.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Tears streamed down my face and all I could think of was how
poorly I had loved her, how profoundly I had failed to value my own child.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Someone ran for a wet towel while someone else stripped her down
to a diaper. Of course, she was far too hot. She lay comatose, but she was
alive. We waited for the ambulance, and then the long drive to Reading
Hospital, x-rays to check for infection, and ultimately the wonderful news. She
was fine. Nothing that the right dose of Tylenol couldn’t have probably
prevented. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">The upside of your child having a febrile seizure is that the long
term outcome is relatively benign while the event itself is an incredibly
effective wake up call to being a much better parent.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Since that day I have often thought of others, who have suffered
loss. To anyone who is childless and infertile, to the heartbroken parents who
have lost a son or daughter, I am sorry. How could I hold something so precious
to be so inconvenient? Somewhere in the panic of it all, a resolution had grown
in my heart. I wasn’t going to be the same. I was going to love our daughter,
Jericho Faye Church, just as much as I possibly could.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYtj_nywF5U&t=18s" target="_blank">Hear my oral telling of this story at StorySlam.</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/453458/texas-shooting-prayer-rational-response-evil" target="_blank">In the Face of Evil, Prayer is the Most Rational and Effective Response</a>, David French<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">"Either you believe that God intervenes in the affairs of men or you don’t. And if you do, then you know that no one and nothing is more powerful than the creator of the universe. That means that while prayer is not the only response to evil, it is both the most rational response and, in all likelihood, the most effective response. This is a very old truth."</span>heylucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087172384352134022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355641177143194521.post-32328316687724034602018-10-12T14:17:00.003-04:002024-02-05T07:16:52.634-05:00RJ and Sexual Violence<div id="hu2YQG" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4e4d; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2rem; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Interesting read on how things might be different. Interestingly, sexual violence is one area that even some RJ practitioners struggle to work in. How do you bring those experiencing harm face to face with those who are the cause of it? Why is it harder? </span></div>
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"I wanted what Ana María Archila Gualy, the survivor who <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/28/17913762/jeff-flake-kavanaugh-ford-sexual-assault-survivors" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f7177; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit !important; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s ease 0s, background-color 0.1s ease 0s, fill 0.1s ease 0s; vertical-align: inherit;">confronted Sen. Jeff Flake</a> when he stated he planned to vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, described: 'The way that justice works is that you recognize harm, you take responsibility for it, and then you begin to repair it.'</div>
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But for this to happen, <b>everyone impacted by sexual violence needs to feel they can speak openly. Expulsion hearings, tribunals, or courts of law are not designed to do this; rather, these forums disincentivize truth-telling</b> because those who harmed us know they’ll be punished if they admit what really happened. The risks are also high for survivors, who face social stigma for coming forward about their experiences and are often forced to undergo painful questioning."</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">(Emphasis mine.)</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/10/10/17953016/what-is-restorative-justice-definition-questions-circle" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full article here.</span></a></div>
heylucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087172384352134022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355641177143194521.post-21445282078384470102018-09-11T18:50:00.000-04:002018-09-11T18:50:13.105-04:00Judge a person in the context of their times..."A person is good not by avoiding those evils he already finds horrible, but by avoiding those evils that he finds attractive and available. We must measure a person's virtues by his circumstances, not our own." -Marc Barnes, <i>First Things, </i>December 2017<br />
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I read old copies of <i>First Things</i> as I am able, passed from my father on to me. This short article by grad student Marc Barnes expresses well something I've struggled to put into word myself- the concept that "a generation is good or evil according to its genuinely possible actions." Barnes argues that "Moral arrogance and historical ignorance reinforce one another. To ennoble ourselves, we make irrational barbarians our of our ancestors and ignore the complexities of their times."<br />
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There's something dissatisfying out of my own explanation, where I often find myself saying something along the line of- We ought to judge a person in the context of their times...<br />
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Read the entire article <a href="https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/12/historical-ignorance-moral-arrogance" target="_blank">here</a>.heylucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087172384352134022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355641177143194521.post-86657473459391435442018-08-27T08:24:00.000-04:002018-08-27T08:26:52.206-04:00"On Weight" YorkFest 2018YorkFest 2018 Adult Literary Contest<br />
Asahel Church<br />
1st Place Non-Fiction<br />
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Perhaps we were all born to fly. But gravity and mass make
for a formidable opponent. And the negative connotations of the word ‘weight’
surprise me. It conjures thoughts of excess and disability, Twinkies and
electric scooters. There’s also the seriousness that the word weight conveys.
It literally sits heavy on your tongue.<o:p></o:p></div>
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family of small people. Throughout my adolescence and early adulthood I was too
skinny. I used to sleep under a large heap of blankets, the steady pressure
from above keeping me safe and warm in our drafty attic. Much later in college,
sailing on blustery fall and spring afternoons through the daunting Lake
Michigan chop, I was always twice as cold and twice as bundled up. But I was
small for a reason. Small crew made for fast sailing and quick action in tight
spaces. I bailed water from the bottom of the boat furiously, fighting weight. <o:p></o:p></div>
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weight. The Egyptian pyramids, wonder bras, and airplanes. In the early 1700s,
Connecticut colonists traveled for miles to observe a “floating rock” –a
several ton boulder that inexplicably moved <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">up</i>
the slope of an embankment. I used to dream, re-occurringly, that I could fly.
Or float, to be more accurate. The dream seemed to be a combination of a
childhood aspiration for piloting, and the deep impression that a particular
“Diving Tony” left on me. He was a 2 inch plastic replica of Kellogg’s Tony the
Tiger mascot that due to some unknown physical (or metaphysical?) property
would dive to the bottom of a recycled two liter coke bottle when it was
squeezed. That squeezing action, combined with my desire to fly morphed into a
vivid dream that by squeezing the right muscles in my body, my rear end as I
remember, I could float up above the houses much the same way that Tony dove to
the bottom of the coke bottle. Weightlessness- that was what I dreamed about.
And it became so real that I more than once found myself testing out my new
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joke that the work involved in keeping up with it is worth it in exchange for
the misty looks and nostalgic complements of observers. We’re not likely to win
a lot of regattas with the old lady, but she is beautiful. It sits heavy on its
trailer and in a light breeze displaces the water sluggishly, the boom and
slack lines tangling and bumping into our heads as we crouch inboard trying to
keep the boat flat. But in a breeze, on the edge of a summer Chesapeake storm
or in a blow after, when the sky clears and the clouds are puffy, the dinghy
lifts up out of the water and fairly skims. Bryan clips in to the harness and
we hike out hard, abs and hamstrings screaming and souls thrumming. Then we
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I also wanted to get rid of the track electric on the wall and put the main light back into the ceiling. I started opening some holes to figure out what was going on with the electric....and suddenly the whole ceiling was torn out. Perfect chance to insulate though, in the place that matters most! My brother Aijalon helped out during these steps. He also did a nice job of cutting some inside trim for the window.<br />
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Also this winter, Laura suddenly warmed up to the idea of "re-finishing" the basement to make it into a playroom. Since we were lining up some professional help to work on the bathroom electric, we had Gladfelter put in new lights in the basement as well. The transition is going to be pretty pretty dramatic actually. So glad we are making this space usable.<br />
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<br />heylucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087172384352134022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355641177143194521.post-55645796162946168722017-08-23T11:53:00.000-04:002017-08-23T11:54:42.907-04:00Camping<i><span style="font-size: large;">Camping</span></i><br />
by Asahel D. Church<br />
2nd Place- 2017 Yorkfest Adult Literary Awards<br />
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I checked off each
item on Dad’s “Ultimate Camping List” as he arranged our gear in the back of
the Suburban. Matches, check. Sleeping bags, check. Bug spray, check. Hotdogs
for dinner, check… Waving goodbye to Mom, I had the strangest feeling as the
sound of silence engulfed me. With my father, it’s slim pickings when it comes
to conversation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe that’s partly
because I am hardly sure of what to say. I’ve got a million thoughts running
around in my head, but I can’t seem to sort them out. <o:p></o:p></div>
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By the time we
reached the campground, dusk was coming on, so we hurriedly unpacked the car
and set up. “Where should we put the tent?” asked Dad. “This spot looks good.
What do you think?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really couldn’t
tell if one spot was any better than the other. But the grass did look a bit
softer off to the left. I liked the way it seemed untouched. We put the tent
down right where Dad suggested. I looked for extra tent stakes, left by
careless campers before us. Dad had a rule; never leave a campground without an
extra stake or two.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was too late to
make a campfire dinner, so we ate burgers at a small restaurant just outside
the state park. Eating out is a luxury in my family. I wondered where Dad was
getting the money. “Eh, we’ll put it on the plastic. I’ll just have to explain
to your mother later,” Dad said with a grin. I guiltily ordered the Double
Cheeseburger Deluxe and Dad didn’t seem to mind. On those rare occasions at
home when Mom couldn’t bring herself to do any cooking we go to Taco Bell. 89
cent tacos and one large drink. Mom brings small cups from home for the kids.
It’s embarrassing. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Back at the site,
Dad got the lantern started and began to read his Bible aloud. I felt the nip
of night air on my nose and watched as the moths gathered, burning themselves
on the hot glass while the Scripture filtered down through my consciousness.
Tomorrow night we would build a great big fire, and cook hotdogs and roast
marshmallows. I don’t like marshmallows actually, but the real fun is in
cooking them. Too far from the flame and they stay cold; too close and they
burst into flames. Kind of like moths, I thought.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We walked in
darkness to the washhouse. The air was now cold and the stars were gaining
strength. Once my eyes adjusted, I could see everything: the stirring in the
woods, the Milky Way glowing across the sky, the uneven rocks beneath our feet.
<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
next morning I woke up alone, my face sweaty against the sleeping bag. The
campsite was deathly still except for the occasional drone of a cicada. The dew
was already burning off under the sun. Dad wasn’t in sight. Maybe he’d gone for
a walk, or to read, or to hunt mushrooms, or take a shower. <o:p></o:p></div>
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My father is the
pastor of the “little white church on the corner.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s what the neighbors call it at least.
But it’s not really small at all. Every summer, there’s a VBS (that’s Vacation
Bible School) during the week before the fourth of July. Last year a neighborhood
kid’s father accused me of ripping his son’s shirt during a relay race. That
was the only time I remember Dad raising his voice at me. “I know my son and I
know he can have a temper,” Dad huffed. That hurt. Maybe that’s why it sticks
out so much in my mind. Dad was stuck in one of those father-but-pastor
moments, and I was right there in the middle.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dad isn’t always the pastor; sometimes he does
other normal things. One time he let me play soccer with the big kids. Dad was
the coach—he wore white shorts and oil-stained hand-me-down golf shirts. During
the scrimmage I got the ball in a breakaway. I sprinted towards the goal and
poked the ball with my toe. It rolled in slow motion past Joel Johnson, the
tallest kid on the team. I was so happy when everyone cheered. Actually, now
that I think about it, they might have let me score. I was really young then. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Dad suddenly
appeared in front of me, whistling. His face was bright and covered with a
healthy dose of white scruff. He had been at the washhouse, but of course he
didn’t shave. We cooked breakfast on the camp stove. “What do you want to do?”
Dad asked, as if it really was a question. We went on a hike, hunting for
mushrooms.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There’s always
mushrooms on these trips. “Ah-ah!” Dad exclaims when he identifies one,
pronouncing the scientific name loudly. There’s the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Amanita</i>, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Agaricus</i>,
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cortinarius</i>…. I try hard to help
with the hunting, but mostly find what Dad called LBM’s -little brown
mushrooms. “Ooo- yeahhh,” Dad says, poking at the fungi with his shoe, “Some
sort of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Conocybe</i>…” By lunch there was
half a dozen mushroom caps, face down on white paper lining the picnic bench.
The spores drop overnight leaving a pattern on the paper. Each mushroom has a
unique mark.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The afternoon was
hot and Dad suggested that we go swimming at the pool on the other side of the
park. I felt bad because I knew how expensive it was but Dad insisted. I got
into the water slowly, and then let myself drift down to the bottom. You have
to let the air out of your lungs or you won’t sink. It’s sort of odd. The
simple act of breathing suddenly becomes all you can think about. I had to keep
coming up for air. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In the shallow
end, kids were playing catch with a foam ball. Dad swam out ahead. He likes the
water when it is very cold. I feel like going to the pool with friends makes
the cold water feel ok because you run around. The pool was full of people that
day but nobody I knew of course. Dad wasn’t really other people.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That night we made
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words and pictures in the air with a stick that had a coal on its end. He stood
far away from the fire, out by the edge of the campsite. I tried to guess what
Dad was writing, but I had no idea. “My turn, my turn!” I insisted. I made
figure eights over and over again. Later, we stopped putting wood on the fire
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Suddenly I was
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Look! We have a visitor!” he whispered. A set of beady eyes shot back at us,
caught in the beam of Dad’s flashlight. There were other eyes in the woods too.
“What’s that noise?” I asked nervously. There was a thump, and then the
occasional sound of crinkled plastic and another thump as the cooler lid opened
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The raccoons had
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woods. It was alright, since we were headed home anyway, but Mom would be
annoyed with the waste. I helped pack up the campsite. In the process we found
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I was looking
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“How did you sleep
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heylucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087172384352134022noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355641177143194521.post-81054656255034602942017-07-24T21:23:00.001-04:002017-07-24T21:23:07.790-04:00Why Group Work Matters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9NPIb_RYfAU/WXadeo48FyI/AAAAAAAAIts/kpCb2iU3YkwlTfgIjbi28-ovMW_hfzBfgCHMYCw/s1600/IMG_20170724_142528.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9NPIb_RYfAU/WXadeo48FyI/AAAAAAAAIts/kpCb2iU3YkwlTfgIjbi28-ovMW_hfzBfgCHMYCw/s640/IMG_20170724_142528.jpg"> </a> </div>heylucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087172384352134022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355641177143194521.post-55185076443453583172017-02-22T09:16:00.000-05:002024-02-05T07:17:13.984-05:00What is Restorative Justice? A helpful, short summary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm not familiar with this summer camp, but I found their short video to be very helpful in explaining Restorative Justice in a non-sensationalist way and without getting bogged down into the many RJ practices that you may associate with RJ.</div>
<br />heylucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087172384352134022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355641177143194521.post-33701189236135092972017-02-10T11:10:00.000-05:002017-02-10T12:56:00.900-05:00Teaching the EO<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Relevant to the legal challenge to the EO....</span><br />
<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">14th Amendment</span></a><br />
<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">U.S. Code 1182 (Federal statute passed by Congress)</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">So that you can be informed as you debate this EO, read it!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/27/executive-order-protecting-nation-foreign-terrorist-entry-united-states" target="_blank">Text of the Executive Order</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">The ACLU's argument regarding the "establishment clause," which relies heavily on intent</span><br />
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/well-see-you-court-why-trumps-executive-order-refugees-violates-establishment" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">We'll See You in Court</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">How controlling is intent?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/legal-arguments-trumps-immigration-ban/" target="_blank">Turley debates Katyal</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">"the justice Department attorneys are in a fetal position every time anyone like this talks about the purpose of a law"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Some sharp and helpful commentary...</span><br />
<a href="https://www.lawfareblog.com/how-read-and-how-not-read-todays-9th-circuit-opinion" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">How to Read and How Not to Read Today's 9th Circuit Opinion, Lawfare</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: , "georgia" , "times" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">"...the grounds on which this order was fought are not the grounds on which the merits fight will happen. Eventually, the court has to confront the clash between a broad delegation of power to the President—a delegation which gives him a lot of authority to do a lot of not-nice stuff to refugees and visa holders—in a context in which judges normally defer to the president, and the incompetent malevolence with which this order was promulgated."</span></span>heylucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087172384352134022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355641177143194521.post-76564514521201919842016-12-22T10:02:00.000-05:002016-12-22T10:02:55.163-05:00Expressive Individualism and a Christian Counterfeit<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: proxima-nova, "helvetica neue", helvetica, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">
<i>The following is excerpted from <a href="https://blogs.thegospelcoalition.org/trevinwax/2016/11/28/dont-settle-for-the-gospel-of-self-fulfillment/" target="_blank">this article</a> by Trevin Wax for the Gospel Coalition.</i></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Expressive Individualism</span></h3>
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The foundational issue, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.christianitytoday.com/women/2016/november/glennon-doyle-meltons-gospel-of-self-fulfillment.html?share%3DBdsP0zrWJgrZrCT%252foj6hHGBP%252fjC0MXeQ&source=gmail&ust=1482408236278000&usg=AFQjCNFkjBSwfGjRDJENA6XMhraCmvjptA" href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/women/2016/november/glennon-doyle-meltons-gospel-of-self-fulfillment.html?share=BdsP0zrWJgrZrCT%2foj6hHGBP%2fjC0MXeQ" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #79ae4a; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">as Jen Pollock Michel points out</a>, is the “gospel of self-fulfillment,” which is also described as “expressive individualism.” That’s a term given to us by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://amzn.to/2ggQLJQ&source=gmail&ust=1482408236278000&usg=AFQjCNFyBK07Sb3yPRZ_wpuoYEJAuXH5iw" href="http://amzn.to/2ggQLJQ" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #79ae4a; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Robert Bellah</a> and explored by other philosophers such as <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://amzn.to/2fOpGiB&source=gmail&ust=1482408236278000&usg=AFQjCNEvTrEKwdFlrZDgHZs5QkPdiylJXA" href="http://amzn.to/2fOpGiB" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #79ae4a; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Charles Taylor</a>.</div>
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According to this way of thinking, the goal of life is to discover and express your unique sense of self, no matter what others may say or do to challenge your freedom of personality. The narrative arc of your life is finding your personal route to happiness by following your heart, expressing your true self, and then fighting whoever would oppose you—your society, your family, your past, or your church.</div>
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This is one of the dominant narratives of our time. It shows up in movies and music, and increasingly, on the platforms of popular preachers and teachers—both male and female.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Christian Counterfeit</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"> </span></h3>
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The religious form of expressive individualism imagines the believer wrestling against the bondage of their past, or the expectations of their parents, or the legalistic regulations of their church. God’s rescue frees us from all these chains, and sets us on a journey to discover our true essence, which we then offer up as a gift to God and the world. Our goal is to become all that God has created us to be. Anything that gets in the way of this journey must be an evil barrier, overcome only through personal faith and reliance on Jesus.</div>
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Now, there are certainly some elements of Christian truth here. Like any good counterfeit gospel, it mimics the truth at key points.</div>
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Yes, God wants to free us from the sin and shame of our past, to rescue us from paralyzing guilt, to overcome the barriers that keep us from pursuing radical obedience to his command as we come to know him and his Word with increasing fervor. And yes, God wants us to lean into becoming all that he has created to be—conformed to the image of his Son. And yes, God wants us to be happy<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">, </em>not just joyful or blessed or holy. (See Randy Alcorn’s exhaustive work on <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://amzn.to/2fOnNm4&source=gmail&ust=1482408236278000&usg=AFQjCNHHQXVH6K4AhmXnksWtqA2j0oALqg" href="http://amzn.to/2fOnNm4" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #79ae4a; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Happiness</a> </em>in case you need biblical evidence or voices from church history.)</div>
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But note how this gospel of freedom redefines Christian teaching at key points.</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Sin is failing to reach your potential.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Shame is a subjective feeling you bring upon yourself and must set aside, not a state that results from objective sin against a holy God.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Guilt is what happens when you fail to accept yourself, to love yourself, or to sense your own worthiness of happiness.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">The barriers that stand in your way of pursuing your dreams must all come down, no matter where they are.</li>
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This is not Christianity. It’s a Christianized form of expressive individualism that you can find in just about any self-help book—an inspirational, feel-good message that makes perfect sense in Western cultures, but leaves traditional societies, many of them Eastern, aghast at its sanction of selfishness.</div>
heylucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087172384352134022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355641177143194521.post-51237870741985647522016-07-11T10:27:00.001-04:002016-07-11T10:32:55.044-04:00The Power of Stories<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Gq1TXoR8Ls0/V4OsplKwMDI/AAAAAAAABwM/BmlqhrNuO-EyGeBQcybiOtwCQryhACB5ACK4B/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2016-07-11%2Bat%2B10.26.01%2BAM.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="141" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Gq1TXoR8Ls0/V4OsplKwMDI/AAAAAAAABwM/BmlqhrNuO-EyGeBQcybiOtwCQryhACB5ACK4B/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2016-07-11%2Bat%2B10.26.01%2BAM.png" width="400" /></a><br />
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"In 2016 and beyond, those who wish to create a better world<br />
will have to make storytelling the center of their efforts, not an<br />
afterthought. It’s clear that economic and military might will<br />
always be the key levers of statecraft. But more than ever before,<br />
swift and dramatic change is being driven by powerful<br />
narratives that crisscross the world at the speed of a click or a<br />
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<a href="http://time.com/4154115/media-essay-james-murdoch/" target="_blank">Read the full essay here...</a>heylucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087172384352134022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355641177143194521.post-38456451423158689982016-06-13T08:24:00.001-04:002016-06-13T08:24:09.755-04:00The hero Gotham needs...<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;">"Jeremiah's refusal to accept any of the available roles and his eccentric insistence on living out the identity of his name [God exalts\hurls] put him in conspicuous contrast to <i>the eroded smoothness of those who were shaped by the expectations of the popular opinion </i>and gathered content for their message not by asking 'What is there to eat?' but 'What will Jones swallow?' <i>His angular integrity exposed the shallow complacencies in which they lived</i>."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;">-Eugene Peterson, <i>Run With the Horses </i>(emphasis mine)</span>heylucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087172384352134022noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355641177143194521.post-73692678107586751942016-05-11T22:18:00.003-04:002016-09-10T21:04:13.888-04:00Restorative Justice in Schools: Articles and Resources<br />
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<a href="http://www.iirp.edu/what-is-restorative-practices.php" target="_blank">What is restorative practices? IIRP</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/12/when-restorative-justice-works/422088/" target="_blank">When Restorative Justice in Schools Works, <i>Atlantic,</i> Emily Richmond</a><br />
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fania-e-davis/interrupting-the-school-t_b_8244864.html" target="_blank">Interrupting the School to Prison Pipeline, Huffington Post, Fania Davis (RJforOaklandYouth)</a><br />
<a href="http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/29_01/edit1291.shtml" target="_blank">Restorative Justice: What it is, and what it is not, Rethinking Schools</a><br />
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<b><i>South Central PA</i></b><br />
<a href="http://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/education/2016/01/18/york-city-schools-offer-alternative-suspension/78800990/" target="_blank">York City Schools offers alternative to suspension, 01/18/2016</a><br />
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<b><i>Contra</i></b><br />
<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/01/19/racial-bean-counting-is-making-schools-unsafe/" target="_blank">Racial Bean-Counting is Making Schools Unsafe, Betsy McCaughey, New York Post</a><br />
<a href="https://www.georgetown.edu/mccourt-school-reconciliation-research#.Vzc1h_3K4Is.twitter" target="_blank">Reconciliation Programs Worsen Psychological Health, Study Finds, Georgetown Universi</a><a href="https://www.georgetown.edu/mccourt-school-reconciliation-research#.Vzc1h_3K4Is.twitter" target="_blank">ty</a><br />
<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/highline-struggles-with-fallout-of-limiting-student-suspensions/" target="_blank">Highline struggles with fallout of limiting student suspensions, Seattle Times</a><br />
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<br />heylucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087172384352134022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355641177143194521.post-61312762801351226622016-05-10T16:02:00.000-04:002016-05-10T16:03:26.161-04:00Visual Literacy: Part 3A final set (for now) of doodle notes or visual notes from my students. These are 8th grade History students and I would say that overall, they've greatly improved. I've been encouraged and continue to feel like visual literacy is a skill that can be learned.<br />
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If you're interested in learning more, check out <a href="http://sunnibrown.com/doodlerevolution/">http://sunnibrown.com/doodlerevolution/</a><br />
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<br />heylucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087172384352134022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355641177143194521.post-15055070165873832192016-04-12T09:37:00.000-04:002016-04-13T09:51:47.632-04:00The Heart Rending Gospel: A Response to Michael Minkoff<i>The following is a response to Michael Minkoff's excellent essay </i><a href="http://michaelminkoff.com/psychopathy-christian-rationalism/" target="_blank">"How Christian Rationalism Turned Me Into a Psycopath, or a Biblical Defense of Feelings."</a> <i>The essay has resonated strongly with many of us who grew up in a reformed church during the 90s. However, it appears to this reader that Minkoff's diagnosis is misplaced. While the extremes of rationalism and emotionalism in the church can be traced throughout history, one following and reacting to the other, the constant through it all is the depravity of both mind and heart. Just as the diagnosis has fundamentally remained the same, so has the cure- the transforming power of the Gospel. The response shared below is written by Rev. Thomas Church (my father), a reformed minister who has spent 40+ years sharing that Gospel.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After reading the Michael Minkoff Jr. essay on Christian rationalism I found myself quite seriously discouraged. And I actually <u>feel</u> (rationalist reformed minister though I be ) very badly for the man.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Certainly the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, if not other reformed churches, has been beaten with this stick (though not so eloquently) for as long as I can remember. I recall it was a surprise for me when I first heard it because it has never been my experience. I don’t say that defensively or proudly. It just has never been so in any Orthodox Presbyterian Church that I’ve pastored or been associated with. <u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But I don’t mean to say that I don’t doubt this is an issue in many reformed churches. I have certainly seen a certain tendency toward heartless rationalism and heard the “Don’t trust your feelings” mantra used many many times. In fact I’m sure I have said it myself… and to myself. And sometimes it was very helpful and needful to have heard. To be truthful, it is hardly unique to reformed churches. In point of fact the first time I saw the famous “Faith…Facts…. Feelings” diagram (the choo-choo train being driven by the engine labeled “Faith”, fueled by the coal car labeled “Facts” immediately behind it, with the caboose labeled “Feelings” tagging along at the end)- was in a tract that came from Campus Crusade for Christ (now curiously renamed as CRU) -which could hardly have ever been accused, particularly back then, of being reformed. But I get Minkoff's point… We need to strike a balance in worship and in proclamation between intellect and emotions. They both must be appropriately engaged. And I don’t doubt that there are many particular reformed churches that have failed to do this. They have been driven doubtless in part by reaction to the anti-intellectualism of fundamentalism in the 30s through the 60s, and partly by theology.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So far as the theology side of it - I will gently and tentatively say that Mr. Minkoff appears to show little appreciation for the doctrine of the depravity of the human heart. I don’t believe that’s an invention of late 17<sup>th</sup> century rationalism. I think it’s pretty well-established from cover to cover in the Bible- and profusely illustrated by the lives of every one of us! Perhaps in reformed churches we overplay this - but I think there is good biblical reason for the conviction that the nature of man has been vitiated by sin in every regard and this, more than anything else is what has driven a suspicion with emotions. We are <u>equally</u> suspicious of our intellect as well as our emotions, but we DO believe that God’s word, empowered by the Holy Spirit is supernaturally endued with the power to speak truth first to our intellect. Yes- I confess to being convinced of the primacy of the intellect. I learned that from Dr. Van Til (NOT a rationalist). But our emotions are also addressed through his word. Rationalism does not trump the power of Scripture. I am sure Mr. Minkoff would confess that.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am no theologian or historical scholar but I suspect what killed the New England churches wasn’t simply rationalism. It was more broadly the depravity of the human heart that ruined her theology. America has not been saved by Pentecostalism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Again I take his point. But what I really want to say is that after reading the article, by the grace of God I turned to the Scriptures also this morning- reviewing some current memory passages such as 1</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Timothy 4:7 -10 and Hebrews</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1612142808" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; text-indent: 0.5in; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">10:19</span></span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">-22, and reflecting on my evening sermon from 2</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Samuel</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1612142809" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; text-indent: 0.5in; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">23:13</span></span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">– 17, I thought to myself- Did this poor man never hear the gospel? Did he never hear of the love of Christ in his reformed church? Were there never any tears spilt for the sweet love of Christ! Did he never hear an exposition of the account of Jesus interaction with the sinful woman who anointed him with tears of love-</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><u style="text-indent: 0.5in;">please</u><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">pause to read the “punch line” in Luke</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1612142810" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; text-indent: 0.5in; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">7:47</span></span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">! It sounds to me as if what this good brother really suffered from was legalism! Maybe all he heard about was the law and doctrine of sanctification and little about justification. Reformed churches make that error… But so do other Evangelical churches.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The doctrine of the active obedience of Christ is instructive. It teaches me that I am completely righteous- and <u>delightful</u>- loved- graciously received in the sight of God, that I’m clothed in the righteousness of Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I need to say that I never heard Romans</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1612142811" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; text-indent: 0.5in; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">5:19</span></span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">nor anything about the imputation of the Righteousness of Christ in the decidedly non-rationalistic fundamentalist churches I attended when I was first</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">converted… Never. I learned that at Westminster seminary and in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. It changed my life!</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’m not gainsaying this man’s experience- I get it. But the antidote is not to be found in emotionalism - not even in listening to our hearts. What will save Mr. Minkoff from being a psychopath is the gospel! The gospel recognizes the depravity of man, and then moves on quickly to a description of a loving Savior, and the loving God who sent him! The gospel teaches me that the more I see of my sin the more I see the corresponding love of Christ. Did this man never hear the gospel in a reformed church? Perhaps not. I’m very sorry for that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps I am missing Minkoff's point. All I know is that I have the privilege of serving in a very loving church where people feel secure and free and loved enough to show it. <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1612142813" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">This Sunday</span></span> morning during our prayer time three people publicly admitted to addictions… One of them, a drunk who walked in the door, lives a few blocks away and grew up in our church 50 years ago. <u>This is not my doing.</u> I’m not a particularly loving person. But, by the grace of God I do love to preach the gospel. And that answers all. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm sorry Mr. Minkoff couldn't have found a church where the love of the gospel might have penetrated his wounded heart.</span><br />
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heylucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087172384352134022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355641177143194521.post-29158305123434983622016-04-04T15:41:00.002-04:002016-04-04T16:09:02.505-04:00Intention, not substance?<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oSuAXzm9Sew/VwK8YVv2OYI/AAAAAAAABrc/u-Omc4EdWC85kX9-vs4VWTGrfkA2EecWA/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2016-04-04%2Bat%2B3.10.00%2BPM.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="156" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oSuAXzm9Sew/VwK8YVv2OYI/AAAAAAAABrc/u-Omc4EdWC85kX9-vs4VWTGrfkA2EecWA/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2016-04-04%2Bat%2B3.10.00%2BPM.png" width="400" /></a><br />
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In <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/supreme-court-rejects-attempt-dilute-minority-voting-power-n550276" target="_blank">this opening sentence from MSNBC today</a>, the writers indicate that an idea had been proposed as part of an effort to "reduce the voting strength of the nation's Latino population." The Texas appellants argued for a novel idea that in redistricting, the state ought to use the voting population instead of the total population. The journalists have confused what may very well be an effect of the proposal with its substance.<br />
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The opening sentence is written as a judgment of the <i>supposed intention </i>of the proposal, not a statement of fact. The SCOTUS <i>did not</i> reject the reduction of "voting strength" of a particular ethnic group (though I hope and trust that they would have, given that it is unconstitutional). They instead rejected the argument that states are <i>required</i> to use total voters for redistricting rather than total population. The Supreme Court explicitly did not rule out the use of total voters as unconstitutional, leaving it as a question to be dealt with later if necessary.<br />
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Does the wording of the journalists make a difference? I think this is a case where sensationalism has overtaken clarity, to the detriment of the reader. Yes, the appellants were political activists and intention is relevant. But the appellants believe the principle of "one man, one vote" would be <i>upheld </i>by defining representation by total voters instead of total population. The substance of their proposal is not ethnic voter dilution. The article in essence assumes from the outset that the appellants were racially motivated (of course, since they are Republicans). To be fair, the news article does improve as it goes on, explaining a bit more of the actual ruling. However, the damage has been done. This is how an article can feed the perception of "liberal media bias," regardless of how right or righteous the facts are.<br />
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To read more about what it at stake in this case and a good analysis of "representational equality" and "electoral equality, <a href="http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/07/symposium-misguided-hysteria-over-evenwel-v-abbott/" target="_blank">read this essay</a>.heylucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087172384352134022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355641177143194521.post-87685341864894404012016-04-01T08:13:00.000-04:002016-04-01T08:13:04.113-04:00Living With a Mind, Roger Scruton<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;"><b><i><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Ideas beg to be shared, and by sharing them, you come to know the other person far more intimately than through adventure or sport."</span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> What<a href="http://eppc.org/publications/living-with-a-mind/" target="_blank"> a profound, entertaining, and though provoking essay from Roger Scruton</a>. Scruton argues for the inherent value of a thoughtful life and the companionship it brings through a community of thinkers. This is truly counter-culture. Mixed in is a quaint neo-agrarianism, in reaction to the noise of the modern world, and a curmudgeonly defense of classical music. If I could live in this essay, I would.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;"><b><i><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"The joy of the intellectual life arises partly from the search for truth, toward which the thinking person turns as a flower to the sun. As you turn it is inevitable that you should question orthodoxies, be suspicious of opinions that serve the interests of those who adopt them, and explore the problems that confront us without fear of being proven wrong. To take the life of the mind seriously, therefore, you may have to reconcile yourself, as Spinoza did, to circulating your thoughts among your soul mates, and to avoiding their public expression. You may have to recognize that truth is a threat to a culture created by the mass expression of unexamined opinions, and is best kept to the circle of those for whom it really matters." </span></i></b></span>heylucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087172384352134022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355641177143194521.post-77713921747109599462016-02-09T10:50:00.000-05:002016-02-09T10:50:31.708-05:00The Necessary Three: Justice, Mercy, HumilityIn <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ethics-Teaching-Edition-Thinking-Education/dp/0807749818" target="_blank">The Ethics of Teaching</a></i>, by Kenneth Strike and Jonas Soltis, the authors contrast consequentialist theories of ethics versus non-consequentialist theories. Ultimately, their stance is that "the distinction between consequentialist and nonconsequentialist theories... enable[s] us to ask good question about hard cases. These different questions permit us to be clearer concerning what is at stake." The chart below organizes the questions that Strike and Soltis are referring to:<br />
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<br />As I've been considering this contrast between two perspective in ethics, it occurred to me that the consequentialist view might be identified with the word "mercy." When thinking like a consequentialist, you are focused on the outcome for all those involved. You aren't constrained by the so-called letter of the law, but by the effect. As <a href="https://www.emu.edu/personnel/people/show/mcy446" target="_blank">EMU Professor Michael Young</a> has pointed out, the consequentialist is the Jean Valjean of life. He/she does not deny the existence and necessity of the law, but believes that consideration of the consequences of ones actions necessitates bending of the law- and yes, mercy. <div>
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On the other hand, we might identify the nonconsequentialist view with the word "justice." The word justice in this case representing principles and universal moral truths. Consistency is a major concern of the nonconsequentialist, typified by Javert. The Javert's of life see ethics as a system that is fixed in the stars, unbending and inflexible- and thus fair. </div>
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So does mercy and justice belong side by side? Are they compatible? Micah 6:8 seems to suggest so.<br /><br /><div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="text Mic-6-8" id="en-NKJV-22657" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; position: relative;">He has shown you, O man, what <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">is</i> good;</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="text Mic-6-8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; position: relative;">And what does the <span class="small-caps" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> require of you</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="text Mic-6-8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; position: relative;">But to do justly,</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="text Mic-6-8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; position: relative;">To love mercy,</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="text Mic-6-8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; position: relative;">And to walk humbly with your God?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Justice and mercy- a delicate balance that must find an essential but uneasy co-existence in this flawed world. But not just these two things, one more essential ingredient: humility. Since the balance is not a simple one, since it is fraught with conflict and tough choices, humility must be at the forefront. </span></div>
heylucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087172384352134022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355641177143194521.post-91117145181851460452016-01-28T18:40:00.002-05:002016-01-28T18:40:30.261-05:00This is a Special Place<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/147547370" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/147547370">Whitegrass (2016 model)</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/thewolpertinger">the Wolpertinger</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>heylucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087172384352134022noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2355641177143194521.post-26804433122923472212016-01-26T13:41:00.000-05:002016-01-26T13:41:33.220-05:00To JerichoShe who is brave, curious and kind<br />
Uncommon traits for a girl just turned five<br />
Blessed to be your Papa if only on loan<br />
Praying that you'll know the Father<br />
And call him your own<br />
So whether climbing or diving<br />
Singing or rhyming<br />
The very purpose of your life-<br />
his own glory-<br />
Will be your reward.heylucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087172384352134022noreply@blogger.com0