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The 2009 Princeton Lectures on
Youth, Church, and Culture
Sharing Not Only the Gospel, But Also Our Lives
The Princeton Lectures on Youth, Church, and Culture are designed to foster original scholarship pertaining to youth and the contemporary church. The lectures are delivered as a series at the Princeton Forum on Youth Ministry and are published online annually. Lecturers include scholars who are not directly involved in the practice or study of youth ministry but who can bring the fruits of their respective disciplines to bear on ministry with the young.
The theme for the 2009 lectures is "Sharing Not Only the Gospel, but Also Our Lives," from 1 Thessalonians 2:8. Youth leaders in today's church can easily speak Paul's words to believers in Thessalonica, written two thousand years ago. "So deeply do we care for you that we are determined to share not only the gospel of God, but also our own selves, because you have become very dear to us." The 2009 lectures address this passage through discussion of relational youth ministry, the transcendence of God, and the question of what gospel, "which Jesus" will we share.
2009 Lectures
- From an Incarnational Model of Ministry to Being Ministers of the Incarnate One OR Justin Versus Jan
- Encounter with the Transcendence of God: The Shape of Faithful Place-Sharing for Youth Ministry
- Which Jesus Shall We Teach?
Which Jesus Shall We Teach?
I was brought up in a wonderful Christian home. My parents were devout Christians. My father was a church trustee and my mother was so faithful and devout that in her later years the congregation bestowed upon her the solemn honorific "Mother of the Church."
Throughout my childhood, I was taught what it means to be a Christian. First on the agenda were the rudiments of upright personal moral character, what my community called "home training," which insisted that I be polite and respectful to all, especially my elders. Indeed, the more elderly they were, the more respectful I was expected to be. I was also taught not to be unnecessarily argumentative and confrontational, especially with those in authority (a lesson, I must admit, I learned very poorly—just ask some of my former PTS professors and classmates). I also was expected to be pleasant, for anger could lead to sin. Good Christians do not get angry, I was taught, except at the tormentors of Jesus, whom we knew to be "the Jews," even though it was the Romans who tortured and executed him, and at most there was only a handful of Jewish elites who had anything to do with it at all. And it went without saying that there were to be absolutely no drugs or public nudity (partial or otherwise); no promiscuous sex or cussing; my sister and I would earn a stern corrective if we even said "darn."
Then there was the etiquette of citizenship and community. We were instructed to treat the flag almost as if it were as holy as the cross, and to believe wholeheartedly that God favored America over every country on earth. Also, that killing was not murder if we only killed those whom our political and religious leaders said it was alright to kill, such as folks who didn't think like us or worship like us or dress like us or who were unwilling to bow to what we were told was America's indisputably God-ordained superiority. One thing we were not taught to do was to spend our energy obsessing about homosexuality like folks do today, because we were still under the naive understanding that we should spend our energy trying to love everyone; you see, the religious right hadn't yet adopted the denigration of gay Americans as a political strategy in their quest to rule the country and the world, as is so ably chronicled in Randall Balmer's revealing book Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts Faith and Threatens America (Basic Books, 2006).
Then there were the church teachings of my youth, which were of two kinds, which I will call spiritual and ecclesial, or better yet, spiritual and institutional. I heard the terms "the Spirit" and "the Holy Spirit" all the time, but it was never clear what these were. What I learned through observation is that the Spirit is something that made you cry, shout and lose control, and that you felt better, maybe even closer to God, when you were through. I was told that I must be spiritual and have spiritual experiences, but what spirituality is was never directly addressed, except that I would know when I had a spiritual experience because I would feel it. Yet from what I witnessed in worship it was difficult to tell the difference between a spiritual experience and a strong bout of emotional catharsis.
As important as what I was taught about spirituality is what I was not taught about it. In Paul's authentic letters such as Galatians and the Corinthian correspondence he reveals himself to have been a mystic who experienced illumination and page 2 ascended states of God-consciousness and who tried to move believers beyond the milk of their churchly experiences to the meat of real experiences of God-consciousness. He described one of his mystical experiences in his second letter to the Corinthians:
I must boast; there is nothing to be gained by it, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. And I know that this man was caught up into Paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows—and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter (2 Cor. 12: 1-4).
Jesus himself demonstrated the importance of engaging in spiritual ministrations in order to be fully in touch with who we are and what God would have us do. In Luke 4:1-13, Jesus is shown going off on a spiritual quest to experience God even more deeply now that he is the baptized Messiah. In that Lukan narrative Jesus engages in the deep spiritual ministrations of solitude and silence, prolonged fasting and self-abnegation, contemplation of the recorded word of God and silent meditation in his own spirit, all in order to hear the ineffable truths behind and beneath the utterances of men and women. The Letter to the Hebrews sums it up:
In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard for his godly fear. Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered; and being made perfect he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him (Hebrews 5:7-9).
Yet, despite the spiritual witness of Jesus and his apostle Paul, in church my peers and I were not taught to explore the fecund spiritual terrain within us; we weren't even told that it existed. We were not taught to engage in prolonged meditative striving to achieve a higher God-consciousness. We were not taught how deeply important silence and solitude are for hearing the still, small voice of God. Fasting was sometimes mentioned, but never as a regularized spiritual practice. Anyway, how could we hear God's voice within us when we and everybody around us were busy preaching, singing, testifying, and—yes—shouting?
And as part of our spiritual instruction, of course, we were taught that we must develop faith in God and in his son, Jesus Christ. In fact, faith was stressed much more than spirituality. But it wasn't just any old Christian faith for us, mind you. It had to be a guided faith that was defined by those who knew better, because faith that developed organically, unmediated by some outside authority, was not considered true Christian faith, no matter how deep or personally transformational it might be. It had to be an externally sanctioned faith in God, which also meant faith in and assent to certain prescribed dogmas and doctrines. In other words, faith meant having faith in "the faith" and all its trappings. Thus, we not only were to worship God, worship Jesus, and believe Jesus died for our sins. We also had to accept doctrines formulated by mortal men, many contrived under the auspices and financial sponsorship of the same Roman empire that centuries after Jesus' death still executed those who threatened its unjust power just as it had executed Jesus.
The teachings about faith that I and those like me were taught said that faith is not a dynamic, ongoing process or the long winding path of an insatiable spiritual seeker. Instead it was presented to us as a place, a stance, an identity we could embrace, plant our feet upon, claim as our own. It required no effort, no striving, no fruits of transformation. We had only to declare our faith and not deny it, and viola! We were there! We were in the faith.
That was the so-called spiritual aspect of the teachings I learned in church. The other aspect of my church instruction was ecclesiastical, or institutional. This taught me that salvation lay comfortably planted within the church's four walls and that those of us ensconced there were saved and privileged insiders, while those outside were lost. Our church, I was taught, was not just another building of brick and stone. It was the House of the Lord. Although the witness of numerous scriptures tells page 3 us that God does not dwell nor can God be maintained in any product of human hands or ingenuity, I was taught that our church and every church—at least the churches of folks that believed as we believed—were all certified Houses of the Lord. Therefore, because the House of the Lord was where God dwelled more than any other place on earth, it was my duty as a Christian to maintain our particular worship edifice at virtually any cost of time and treasure. This was a divine duty. In other words, to be a good Christian meant being dedicated to institutional maintenance. It was our duty to take care of the church. Let others take care of the rest of the world.
Thus for me and those who were taught like me, spirituality and faith were all about worship and belief, not actions, except for a minimal standard: No missing church or Sunday school, no asking faith questions or requesting explanations of the immaculate conception, the holy Trinity, or miracles, and no asking why the world is still racked with war and suffering despite Jesus' salvific death. And—this was very important—no questioning the pastor! Each of these forbidden actions was treated as a major sin.
These teachings helped to shape who I and so many others like me in churches across America ultimately became. Generally speaking, if we took these teachings to heart and were not knocked off course by some overwhelming trauma or seduced by things that dulled our moral sharpness and somehow discredited our belief in an omnipotent, merciful, yet judgmental God, we became good people, good churchgoers; if we are not paragons of society, at least we are not serious troublers of it. We say grace before meals, pray whenever we think of it (especially when we are in trouble), and honor and worship Jesus with constancy of word, though less often of deed. We have become American Christian patriots, thankful to be the new chosen people of God, proudly sporting a cross in one lapel and a flag pin in the other. We have become important sources of support and governance at our local churches, act as if church is the most important thing in the world and, when we have any funds left after tithes and offerings, might even consider donating to some worthy cause to help those Jesus called "the least of these" (more usually, we give them our discarded clothes and furniture and piously imagine that we are loving our neighbors as ourselves). We love and obey our pastors, accept them as God's spokespersons, and do not flinch when they live more like Caesar than like Christ; we don't flinch even when they tell us that their own agenda or "vision" is really God's vision. We shout, cry, and laugh in church and pronounce our tears and laughter evidence of the Holy Spirit's presence in our midst and look askance at anyone who sits through morning worship too still or too silent. In short, we have grown up to love our Lord our God with all our hearts, minds, spirits, and souls, or at least have convinced ourselves that we have. We have grown up to be good vertical Christians, one-dimensional Christians in a multi-dimensional world. That is, we spend almost all of our time looking up at God and obsessing about Jesus, building a veritable personality cult around him, calling his name constantly, singing about him, making pictures, license plate holders, movies, bumper stickers, key rings, and every kind of trinket bearing his name or likeness or a cutely pious slogan. We worship and obsess about Jesus, but there is one thing we do not do: we do not try to follow him. Yes, he told us to follow him, but how can we? He is divine, we have been taught, akin to God himself, and we are only human. So we conclude that we cannot follow him, that there is no bridge upon which to reach him so high in the celestial sky, so we just stand on the mortal shore and hang out in the church and worship our own mode of worship.
This is the Jesus Christ and the faith bearing his name that I was taught. But my early experience probably is not unique. In fact, it is probably quite typical. Many Christians see nothing wrong with it. Growing up with teachings that are so focused on personal piety and church institutional maintenance can be quite comforting and can make you feel quite righteous, but it is not particularly challenging. In fact, one reason the typical church teachings are so comforting is precisely that they are not challenging. Let's face it, those who were taught as I was taught really were not challenged to make serious changes in the world. That is why we can so easily feel good and justified and on our way to heaven without doing much: because all that was required of us was not to rob or kill or steal (although I don't recall charging exorbitant prices or booking obscene profits being included in that admonition), and that we should obey authority and not rock the ship of status quo. To my mind, this is exactly what Bonhoeffer meant by "cheap grace." It entails no cross to bear, no spirit of struggle, no hunger page 4 and thirst for justice. It lets us allow pastors to feed us weak pablum weekly while they run our churches like fiefdoms and entertainment enterprises. It has us engage in loud, enthusiastic monologues with "the Spirit" in which the great noise of our cymbals and drums, loud praying, preaching, shouting, and overwrought singing makes us unable to hear the voice of God speaking to the silent place in our spirits, because there is no silent place. This cacophony of church noise even renders us unable to hear God's voice in words and teachings from other Christians if they don't embrace the exact same doctrines and dogmas in the exact same way as we do.
In sum, we might have grown up to be good about our stewardship of the church and the rudiments of personal piety, but we are not so good about our stewardship of the world and our responsibility to change it. As far as we were concerned, it wasn't up to us to change the world, that's Jesus' job. Our responsibility as Christians was just to worship Jesus, praise his holy name, and leave the real work to him. That's right. Just leave it to Jesus. He'll fix it. So forget about hungering and thirsting for justice or liberating the oppressed. As far as we knew, our lot was to lift our voices in praise: halleluyah! Praise him with your lips, but save the power of your limbs for doing other things.
There are details that differ, sometimes significantly, but by and large, this is still today what our young are being taught in our churches. Yet is this the kind of Christian we should be making of our youth? Is this the kind of believer Jesus lived and died a torturous death to make? Is this really what Jesus taught, or have we misunderstood what he would have us understand?
Worse, have we cleaved to an interpretation, a persona, and supposed message of Jesus that, in the final analysis, is little like him or the teachings of his ministry? Indeed, is the message of the church really the message of Jesus? Or is there another Jesus with another message?
Because we love our young people so, we owe it to them to find out if there is another Jesus whose teachings can transform our youth into fuller partners in the establishment of God's kingdom of loving justice on earth as in heaven and make their spirits to soar. In fact, the gospels do tell us of such a Jesus. Or more precisely, a sober, unsentimentally honest, historically informed reading of the gospels gives us another picture of Jesus, and he is a political revolutionary. Yes, Jesus was a political revolutionary. That certainly is not all that he is, but he is that.
Now, to say that Jesus was "political" doesn't mean that he was "involved in politics" in the sense that we know it, with its bargaining and compromises and power plays. Nor does it mean that he wanted to wage war or overthrow the Roman Empire by force. To say that Jesus was a political revolutionary is to say that the message he proclaimed not only called for change in individual hearts, but also demanded radical change in the political, social, and economic structures of colonized Israel in which he lived. It means that if Jesus had his way, the Roman Empire and the ruling elites among his own people either would no longer hold their positions of power, or if they did, they would have to act very, very differently. It means that an important goal of his ministry was to radically change the distribution of authority and power, goods and resources, so all people—particularly the little people, or "the least of these," as he called them—might have lives free of political repression, enforced poverty and hunger, and undue insecurity. It means that Jesus sought not only to heal people's pain, but also to inspire and empower them to remove the unjust social and political structures that too often caused their pain. It means that Jesus had a clear and unambiguous vision of the healthy world that God intended and that he addressed any issue—social, economic or political—that violated that vision. This aspect of Jesus' ministry can be seen throughout the gospels, but is particularly in evidence in what is arguably the central teaching of Jesus' ministry, a proclamation that hundreds of millions of Christians worldwide recite weekly, if not daily. What is that proclamation? It is the Lord's Prayer.
In the opening decade of the first century, the Roman emperor Augustus declared his reign the Pax Romana, that is, a season of total peace in the Roman Empire. Josephus recounts that rather than a period of peace in Israel, the so-called Pax Romana page 5 really was a time of numerous violent uprisings against Roman rule. One account by Josephus is worthy of particular note. He reports that roughly contemporaneous with the birth of Jesus, the Roman military crucified some 2,000 people in the Galilean city of Sepphoris as punishment for rebelling against Roman rule ( Ant. 17:295).
Another significant factor in Jesus' setting in life was widespread, sometimes extreme poverty. Indeed, the presence of poverty in Israel pervades the gospels. Even a cursory reading of the gospels reveals that the plight of "the poor" was a primary concern for Jesus, from his loving affirmation of the worth of the struggling masses in the Beatitudes: "Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God" (Luke 6:20; cf. Matthew 5:3); to Luke's account of "a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man's table" (Luke l6:19-31); to Judas' complaint that the cost of the expensive perfume used to anoint Jesus' feet should have been "given to the poor" (John 12:4-5).
It was into this landscape of hunger and poverty, political turmoil and tumult that Jesus of Nazareth was born and his ministry forged. The suffering that the Romans visited on the Jewish people was so pervasive and so brutal that its influence on the political consciousness and social witness of Jesus was inescapable. It must not be forgotten that even while he is worshipped as the Son of God, until his last earthly breath Jesus was also an oppressed Roman colonial subject with all that meant and implied. Thus more than any other factor, it was the Roman colonial occupation of Israel and its deleterious effect on the people's lives that was the context for the formative years of Jesus.
There are no reports of anything particularly striking about the appearance of Jesus. Not even Paul, his unfailing advocate, made such claims. In such a time of upheaval and insecurity, what drew people to Jesus and established his credibility must have been his selfless service and concern for their plight. The depth and the breadth of his dedication to serving the needs of the people are reflected in the Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:7-13; Luke 11:2-4). That Jesus offered this prayer as a model prayer indicates that it includes and summarizes his foremost spiritual concerns and, indeed, articulates the central principles of his ministry.
Jesus begins his prayer instruction by telling his disciples to start their entreaty to God not with "my father," but with "our father" or simply "father" (Matthew 6:9; Luke 11:2). Missing are instructions to pray for personal concerns; in no sense was this to be an individual prayer. It could be personal, but never individual, never private, never for one's own needs alone. In fact, there are no individual petitions anywhere in the Lord's Prayer; it is always "our" or "us" or "we." In this way Jesus makes certain to focus the disciples' gaze not on their personal needs and circumstances, but on the plight of their people. Moreover, although this is a prayer taught by a Jew to other Jews, there are no explicitly Jewish pronouncements in it, such as "God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." Neither does it contain any explicitly self-referentially Christian phrase. Nowhere to be found is "in my [Jesus'] name" or any sort of messianic mention. Thus the prayer is also a purposely universal prayer. Jesus himself had already begun to model universal concern for humanity by ministering to the needs of Samaritans, the age-old enemies of Jews (e.g., John 4:7-42), and by even extending his healing hands to the hated Roman military, as in his healing of the Roman centurion's servant (Luke 7: 1-10). In no uncertain terms Jesus declared his understanding of God as father of all: "God makes the sun to shine on the righteous and the unrighteous" (Matthew 5:45).
Next Jesus tells his disciples to pray, "Hallow your name," or "Sanctify your name." Because Roman state religion required that Caesar's name alone be hallowed, this was a radical call (one of Caesar's Greek titles was actually Soter, "Savior"). Yet Jesus had recognized the sanctity and holiness of God's name throughout his life, so it is unlikely that he would have his disciples ask God to become what God already is. It makes more sense that Jesus is telling them to ask God to demonstrate God's holiness, as in "Our father in heaven, demonstrate your holiness." When we consider that in the Bible God's holiness is often coupled with God as judge, i.e., vanquisher of injustice, we get a fuller flavor: "Our father in heaven, demonstrate your holiness by manifesting your judgment." Or "Our father...we are ready for the judgment of your justice."page 6
Judgment upon what? Upon Caesar's unjust kingdom. That this is Jesus' meaning is indicated by his instruction to disciples to pray, "your kingdom come, your will be done." The manifestation of God's holiness, the arrival of God's kingdom, the enacting of God's just will, all mean the same: that Caesar's kingdom must go; Caesar's rule must no longer be left unchallenged. Why? Because it did not treat the people's needs as holy.
The "kingdom" of which Jesus speaks here is the kingdom of God, the malkuth shamayim (Hebrew), or "sole sovereignty of God," the declaration that only God is worthy of worship and fealty. No emperor, no king, no president is to be given ultimate obedience—only God. Thus, malkuth shamayim—the sole sovereignty of God—is both a religious principle and a political principle. It is a fundamental statement of the uncompromising monotheistic faith of Israel, yet its insistence on freedom from all human domination meant that in practice it was a political tenet as well. In this way, the revolutionary sentiment evoked by "thy kingdom come" is multi-dimensional.
However, Jesus not only preached the primacy of the kingdom, the sole sovereignty of God; he demonstrated it by the very act of teaching the necessity of the demise of Caesar's kingdom. This also was one of the reasons he so consistently and publicly rejected the legitimacy of the Temple priesthood: because rather than working to establish God's kingdom of liberation and wholeness, many priests cast their lot with the interests of their Roman overlord, as evinced by their offering of daily sacrifices in the Temple on Caesar's behalf (cf. Josephus, Jewish War, 2:197). The Gospel of John even recounts the highest ranking priests as uttering "we have no king but Caesar" when Pilate questioned their loyalty (John 19:15).
Jesus' total dedication to the sole sovereignty of God is also seen in his refusal to accept the kingship so enthusiastically conferred upon him by five thousand of his fellow Jews (John 6:1-15). Possibly the most poignant demonstration of Jesus' commitment to the sole kingship of God is his uncompromising rejection of the sovereignty of Caesar even as his own life hung in the balance: "You have no authority over me unless it had been given you from above" (John 19:11).
Each of the gospels narrates Jesus demonstrating his concern that the people have enough bread by feeding those around him who were hungry, thus also providing an important model for his followers to emulate. That is why when Jesus told his disciples to pray, "give us enough bread for the day;" it was a prayer for the end of Caesar's kingdom, because by its very nature Caesar's kingdom would never let there be enough bread for everyone. This was a basic fact of the political economy of Roman imperialism.
Because with subsistence farming there is no surplus left after basic consumption, large numbers of peasants had to borrow funds from the wealthy in order to pay Roman taxes. Similar to the experiences of sharecroppers in America, many farmers had no choice but to repeat this pattern of borrowing every year until their burden of debt became so great that they were no longer able to meet their debt payments and thus were forced into default. A terrible consequence of defaulting on debts is reflected in Matthew 18:21-34 which, when correctly translated, matter-of-factly mentions that a lender seized his indebted worker and, "delivered him to the 'torturers' (basanistais) till he should pay all his debt."
So when Jesus taught his disciples to pray "release us from our debts" (the Greek word here, aphiemi means both "forgive" and "release"), it was also a prayer for the end of Caesar's kingdom, because Caesar's kingdom could not stand without the yearly monetary tax tribute that was both its lifeblood and the major factor underlying the unjust debt system.
The prayer's concern about debt raises another issue as well. Forgiving the debts of others means not only decrying the exploitive ways of commerce and empire, but also refusing to participate in them any longer. It is a declaration to once again honor the biblical commandment not to steal, cheat, or hold others hostage to debt, or to even charge interest for necessities they might need to borrow. This held the important spiritual lesson that those who follow Jesus must clear their own consciences and transform their own practices so they can honestly declare that they themselves honor the dictates of God and not the ways of usurers.page 7
Parenthetically, this teaching on debt in particular might seem impractical in our complex world, but it has as much saliency today as it did in Jesus' time. Businesspersons can refuse to place profits before people. They can refuse to participate in unfair business dealings, refuse to pay substandard wages, refuse to force workers to labor without healthcare or pension benefits, refuse to charge exorbitant interest rates and rental costs. Lawyers can refuse to press unjust prosecutions, refuse to defend corporate wrongdoing, refuse to pursue laws and measures that are not in the best interests of the masses of God's children. In the final analysis, to pray "We have also forgiven others" means we have chosen to give others the same justice, the same freedom, the same measure of life unencumbered by the onerous weight of unjust policies that we seek to receive ourselves.
And when Jesus told them to pray, "Lead us not into temptation," he was not teaching his disciples to ask God not to tempt them, because God is not a temptor, as we are reminded in the letter of James (1:13-14). Rather, Jesus was instructing his disciples to ask for strength to resist the temptation that, in the context of the rest of his prayer, could only be the temptation to serve Caesar instead of God; the temptation to give up their struggle for justice and accept the empire as the god it had made of itself, thus treating the rulers' needs as holy, instead of the people's.
By instructing his disciples to bring the people's needs before God ("give us our daily bread," "release our debts"), Jesus taught them to treat the people's needs as holy. He taught them that using their strength, their gifts, their spiritual ministrations to make this a just world was the most important service they could render to God. He taught them to serve God by making sure that everyone has enough daily bread, that everyone is free from economic violence and exploitation, that everyone is delivered from the clutches of unjust kingdoms, principalities, and powers. In this way Jesus showed that the salvation that all followers of Jesus should strive for is the salvation of everyone. In essence, what Jesus taught his disciples, then, was to strive for revolutionary change on earth as in heaven as their righteous service to God. Revolutionary change that honored God by doing indiscriminate justice, by lifting up "the least of these" on the altar of God's justice and mercy. A revolution of love and holistic spirituality that demonstrates love for God by treating the people's needs as holy.
This is the Jesus we must give to our young, the Jesus who taught all who would follow him to change the world so all might share in life's fullest fruits. The same Jesus who, for all his moral and ethical teachings in the Beatitudes and the parables and paranetic instructions, gave just one criterion for judging the righteousness of our lives:
Then he will say to those at his left hand, 'You that are accursed, depart from me...for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.' Then they...will answer, 'Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick in prison, and did not take care of you?' Then he will answer them, 'Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.' And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life (Matthew 25:41-46).
This is the Jesus we must teach to our young people, the Jesus who proclaimed without equivocation that it is not religious practice, or memorization of scriptures, or even attendance at church or temple by which our lives will be judged, but by this measure instead: whether we have tried to relieve the plight of the hungry and dispossessed and those stripped of their freedom; whether we have tried to change the war-torn world to a world free from oppression and exploitation and consignment to inferior social and economic status, so that all of God's children might have life, and that more abundantly. This Jesus is not the Jesus of dogma or the Christ of doctrine. This is the Jesus of Nazareth who shows who he really is by his words and his deeds. It is this Jesus we must teach our young so they might one day be able to build the kind and loving world that we, their elders, have not.


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You'd think that billions of dollars in government spending would be hard to hide, especially from the Members of Congress who voted for it. Think again.
Buried in the 2,700 pages of last year's Obamacare legislation lies $105 billion in appropriated funds that bureaucrats are already using to implement Obamacare. On Sunday's "Meet the Press," Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) brought that news to light when the subject turned to budget cuts.
REP. MICHELE BACHMANN: …There was a Congressional Research Service report that just was issued in February, and we discovered that secretly, unbeknownst to members of Congress, over $105 billion was hidden in the Obamacare legislation to fund the implementation of Obamacare. This is something that wasn't known. This money was broken up, hidden in various parts of the bills. And we have worked very hard to discover $61 billion in cuts that we could put forward, get to the president. So, in effect, David, we've taken one step forward and two steps back because we've found now that $105 billion had already been implemented.
Word of the $105 billion is particularly relevant as Congress tries to find ways to cut spending, with Republicans calling for $61 billion in cuts, while the White House has agreed to only $10 billion. Defunding Obamacare and pulling the plug on the billions of phantom funding is a good way to start. Former Congressman Ernest Istook, who helped uncover the appropriation, explains how to cut the funding:
There is major money that could be pulled back immediately. Congress could rescind the $5 billion appropriated in Section 1101(g) to create high-risk pools, the $5 billion appropriated in Section 1102(e) for a re-insurance program, and the $6 billion in Section 1322(g) to create insurance exchanges. The CRS report details billions more in current and future funding equally available for the cutting.
Rescinding that funding would steer the United States to a more fiscally responsible future, but it would also help put the kibosh on Obamacare. That's not bad for a day's work.

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I have a weird problem with databindings and the datetimepicker in C# (winforms). Or at least I think it is weird.
I got a WinForm and on it I placed two DateTimePickers, one named BeginDatePicker, another one named EndDatePicker.
I also got a viewModel which has 2 properties declared:
I put 2 breakpoints on the places marked in the code sample above (bp1 and bp2).Code:private DateTime _beginDate; private DateTime _endDate; public DateTime BeginDate { get { return _beginDate; } set { if (value != _beginDate) //I have a breakpoint here, bp1 { _beginDate = value; RaisePropertyChanged(Utilities.GetNameOfProperty(() => BeginDate)); } } } public DateTime EndDate { get { return _endDate; } set { if (value != _endDate) //I have a breakpoint here: pb2 { _endDate = value; RaisePropertyChanged(Utilities.GetNameOfProperty(() => EndDate)); } } }
Next step is binding the properties to the DateTimePicker. I do that with the next code:
When I run my program and I change the date in the BeginDatePicker, nothing happens (the code doesnt break at breakpoint pb1.) When I change the date in the EnddatePicker, something happens, the code does break at breakpoint pb2.Code:BeginDatePicker.DataBindings.Add(Utilities.GetNameOfProperty(() => BeginDatePicker.Value), _viewModel, Utilities.GetNameOfProperty(() => _viewModel.BeginDate)); EndDatePicker.DataBindings.Add(Utilities.GetNameOfProperty(() => EndDatePicker.Value), _viewModel, Utilities.GetNameOfProperty(() => _viewModel.EndDate));
Why does the code not break at bp1 but it actually does break at bp2? I cannot figure out why. I checked it on typo's, I even write the code over again but no result.
the GetNameOfProperty Method is method I found on the internet:
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It's not often that I come across something creepy that totally astounds me, mind body and soul! When routing around crappy youtube videos today I stumbled across this totally awful homemade comilation of the Top 20 places to visit in the world, I don't know what made me watch it but I'm so glad I did. In clicking this horrifically boring, highly inaccurate (it named the Giant's Causeway in Ireland "The Stone Pillars" tut tut) and frankly god awful slideshow with the ever depressing Evanescence -Bring me to Life in the background, where was I? yes… In clicking this video I came across what is possibly the best piece of sculptural art I have ever come across in my life.
Jason deCaires Taylor
He is British Yo!!
Truly in my opinion,
the best modern day sculptor.
Now you may ask, L.J what the hell do you know about sculpture and I will be frank with you my friends, diddly squat!
I know not how you take a lump of coal and fashion it into a beautiful diamond, I know not how to use a whizzing spinnign very sharp blade to delicately carve intricate features, I do however know how to shape a milkshake carton out of blu-tac (thank you duration of my psycholody AS exam!).
I may not be an expert in the art of sculpture but I, as an admirer of art I feel I can tell when someone is displaying true talent and Jason certainly does that!
The majority of his works are mainly in Cancun, staged as the underwater museum called MUSA (Museo Subacuático de Arte) a project founded by Jaime Gonzalez Cano of The National Marine Park, Roberto Diaz of The Cancun Nautical Association and Jason deCaires Taylor, located in the waters surrounding Cancun, Isla Mujeres and Punta Nizuc, now, here comes the clever bit.
The sculptures are as much entertainment for the scuba divers who flock to the mexican shores as they are a viable environment to sustain and improve the coral reef that resides in the waters.
Jason's sculptures provide a beautifully clever alternative to the possibility of losing the reefs and act as an artificial reef, encouraging plants, coral and sealife into the otherwise vacant area.
All of Jason's works really tell a story and get to the heart of us as a modern species, from a couch potato enjoying a snack, to an exact replica of a Vaulkswagen Beetle, all of Jason's pieces in some way open a doorway to our world that in years to come will be studied and analysed to figure out who we were!
The piece that I find the most awe-inspiring and let's face it most impressive, is the piece named The Silent Evolution.
403 life sized, TO SCALE, figures.
Occupying 402 square meters of the sea bed, cast from real life humans.
The spookiest, creepiest yet strangely calming piece of art I have ever come across, it's effect on me was phenomenol, I honestly could never imagine swimming up to life sized people underwater, like forgotten people.
Their atmosphere is so quiet, their demeanour so epically strange it honestly took my breath away.
Can you imagine getting lost underwater and coming across this?
Or being in the year 3012 and discovering these figures cloaked in precious coral and protected by creatures of the deep?
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Few issues evoke such strong opposition as the taking of private land through eminent domain for a public use. When it comes to eminent domain, the government is playing in their arena; they do this every day. They know what the rules are, they know how the rules affect them and they know how the rules affect property owners. If the government is taking your land, make sure that you become informed so that you know what you can and cannot do.
Your initial question might be, can I stop the process? In most cases, you won't be able to prevent the government from acquiring your land, but you are entitled to just compensation under eminent domain law. Learn more about eminent domain generally and what you're entitled to receive, or continue reading to learn about the Mississippi eminent domain process, your rights as a property owner and hiring a Mississippi eminent domain attorney.
Did you know that most eminent domain attorneys work on a contingent fee basis? With this fee structure, the attorney assumes the risk of earning a fee.
In the state of Mississippi, the eminent domain process can only be stopped if the proposed taking does not meet the requirements for public purpose or public necessity. If you have determined that the proposed taking does meet these requirements, then you should learn more about the Mississippi eminent domain process.
Remember, even if the government has the right to condemn your property, they cannot dictate the price they are willing to pay; compensation is determined by the highest and best use laws for your property.
The eminent domain abuse dialogue often centers on policy issues involving the right to take property for economic development and blight. Since the landmark case of Kelo v. City of New London in 2005, many states have taken measures to help curb eminent domain abuse. Some states were very successful at passing meaningful reform, and other states failed to pass any legislation at all. Most states fall in the middle by passing legislation that looks good on paper but does little to level the playing field between property owners and the government.
The Castle Coalition, a nationwide grassroots property activism project by the Institute for Justice, released a comprehensive report in 2006 that graded each state based on eminent domain legislative changes which expand and protect property rights.
Did you know that the Castle Coalition gave Mississippi an B+ when it comes to property owners' protection against eminent domain?
Learn more about Mississippi Property Rights
If your instincts tell you that the offer from the government is low, then it probably is. However, determining just compensation often involves an attorney to identify damages and help guide you through the Mississippi eminent domain process. Additionally, other experts are needed such as an appraiser, and sometimes an engineer or planner to provide evidence and expert testimony on your behalf.
Most eminent domain attorneys work on a contingent fee basis. With this fee structure, the attorney assumes the risk for earning a fee. Property owners are generally only responsible for paying costs, with the primary cost being the appraiser who values the property. Because of the contingent fee structure, most eminent domain attorneys will conduct a free case evaluation for property owners prior to recommending representation.
In Mississippi, your attorney's fees may be recoverable if the condemning authority fails to pay the property owner within 90 days of the final judgment, or if the court determines that the condemning authority may not take the property through eminent domain; or if the condemning authority dismisses the suit. (Miss. Code Ann. § 11-27-37)
If you're affected by eminent domain, you should obtain a consultation so that you know and understand your rights before taking any action. Remember, the government is like any buyer, they will want to purchase your property as cheaply as possible, and their appraisers may neglect to consider damages that can lead to a larger amount of just compensation.
Very few attorneys can claim expertise in the area of eminent domain law. To determine if you have a case, make sure you consult with an eminent domain trial attorney who can effectively identify damages and select the necessary experts. Your attorney should also be able to interface with the condemning authority and be willing to take your case to trial if negotiations can not be reached. Contact us for a free case evaluation.


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CENTER VALLEY, Pa. -- Penn State Lehigh Valley, in conjunction with the Lehigh Valley Writing Project, is pleased to announce a call for proposals for the sixth annual Diverse Literacies Conference, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 28, at the Bear Creek Resort in Macungie, Pa.
This year's conference theme is "Nurturing Diverse Learners through Student-Centered Instruction." Yetta Goodman, noted scholar in the English as a second language field, will be the keynote speaker for the event.
To submit a presentation proposal for this conference, visit http://www.diverseliteracies.org/submit-a-proposal.html to complete the proposal submission form. The deadline for proposal submission is May 24.
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Schroders Quickview: Dollar strength tips Fed towards later rate rise
Schroders Quickview: Dollar strength tips Fed towards later rate rise
The latest statement from the US Federal Reserve (Fed) had something for everyone, with both hawks and doves claiming it confirmed their views on the future path of interest rates. However, although it remains a close call, we are pushing our forecast for the first US rate rise out from June to September 2015.
As expected, the Fed dropped its pledge to be "patient" before raising rates thus creating the opportunity to move for the first time in nearly a decade. Although this supports the view that the first rate rise will come in June, any hawkish sentiment was softened by a dovish assessment of the economy. The Federal Open Market Committee cut its forecasts for growth, inflation and future interest rates. In short, the Fed sees more slack and less wage pressure than before, meaning that it can take its time in making its first move.
From our perspective the timing of the first rate hike is still a close call. The labour market will continue to tighten, with unemployment set to drop significantly further and we expect activity to pick up after the recent soft patch, which owes much to the one-off effects of bad weather and the West coast dock strike. Against this have been concerns about low headline inflation (which includes items whose prices change a lot, such as food and fuel) and the risk of contagion to the emerging markets from higher US rates. However, low headline CPI prints are a consequence of low energy prices (which we see as positive for the economy) and contagion risks are always with us and will only build if rates never rise.
In our view, the factor tipping the balance toward a later move is the strengthening of the US dollar. Whilst a strong dollar has been part of our forecast we did not expect the scale of the move seen since the start of the year. As a result monetary conditions have tightened by more than expected, putting downward pressure on activity. In particular, imported goods prices will be lower, thus weighing on core inflation and allowing the Fed more leeway on tightening.
We still believe that rates need to rise as the economy is getting back to normal with unemployment near equilibrium and credit growth resuming. However, the Fed is clearly happy to be cautious and keep the liquidity flowing for a little longer.
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Heat the oil in a large saucepan and cook the fennel, onion and carrot for 8-10 mins until softened. Stir in the garlic, crushed chillies, fennel seeds and tomato purée, cook for 2 mins, then add the canned tomatoes, stock and sugar. Simmer, uncovered, for 15 mins or until the vegetables are completely soft.
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Ask space shuttle astronauts to call up memories of their time in orbit and they're not likely to focus on the data they gathered or the payloads they launched. They might talk instead about a meal shared with crewmates in weightlessness, or the beauty of auroras viewed from above, or the sense of community they felt with everyone looking down at Earth from space. That's a uniquely human perspective. Satellites have no such feelings.
We tend to focus on the machine when we think of the space shuttle—the raw power and the intricate engineering. But the people inside were always the point. The shuttle carried human society into orbit, a few individuals at a time, for 30 years. The astronauts lived and worked in a most unusual environment for short periods, seeing things the rest of us will never see. Until orbital tourism companies start launching people in greater numbers, the shuttle program will remain the high-water mark of human space exploration.
And as this sampler of stories (most of which appeared in our 2002 book, Space Shuttle: The First 20 Years) shows, the astronauts who've been to orbit have tales to tell. Click on the gallery above to read some of them.
Pictured above: Dave Williams and Jay Buckey, both first-time space fliers, look out Columbia's aft flight deck window during the STS-90 mission in 1998.
Jack Lousma: We Were Going to Rescue Skylab
In the late 1970s, while the shuttle was still in development, Fred Haise and I were assigned to do a Skylab rescue attempt on the third flight. We had already abandoned the Skylab space station, which had been in orbit since 1973. They'd stopped listening to it, and were just tracking it as an object in space. From the tracking it was clear that the station was coming down sooner than we thought it would, because solar eruptions were periodically heating up and expanding the atmosphere at that altitude, which had a drag effect. So they decided, "Gee whiz, we've got to figure out a way to either bring it down in a controlled way or put it higher." So they contacted the Skylab, and found that, sure enough, they could control it.
On the third shuttle flight we were going to go up and rendezvous with the Skylab, then we were going to pop this booster package out of the shuttle and fly it over and hook it on the space station, where the Apollo command/service module was normally docked. The package had a television camera on the front, so you would get a view as if you were flying the command/service module in for a docking. The picture would be relayed back to the space shuttle, where I would have had a hand controller. I would fly the booster package over to Skylab, dock it, then stand off somewhere and fire the engine either to make the station go higher or make it go in the water.
That was the plan. I worked on that for about a year, knowing that I was going to fly the third flight. This is what I was doing while the STS-1 and -2 crews were training for their missions. Originally we were planning to fly the first shuttle in 1978 or thereabouts, but the STS-1 launch kept slipping. And Skylab was coming down so fast—it finally reentered in 1979—that we realized STS-3 might not launch soon enough. So Fred and I were assigned to STS-2, because there was still a chance of making it. But the first launch kept slipping, to the point where they decided not even STS-1 could get there in time.
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Beat A Dead Horse
"In Soviet Russia, dead horse beat YOU!"
Beating the dead horse is the new thing. It's fun, everybody is doing it, and it achieves a lot of tasks. Wouldn't you like to beat the dead horse? Well, I'm sure the answer to that question is yes, so this handy guide was created so by the time you finish reading, you'll be an expert in beating the dead horse.
How to beat the Dead Horse[edit]
While beating the dead horse is easy, it requires experience nonetheless. Is it possible to play a song composed by Beethoven when you're first learning how to play the piano? No it isn't, you'd learn songs like "Marry Had a Little Lamb" first and than you'd gradually learn more difficult songs. Beating the dead horse is the exact same thing, you need to know how to beat the dead fly, cat, dog, pig, and so on first. When you know how to beat those animals, beating this animal should be a piece of cake and shouldn't require an explanation.
Beating a dead fly[edit]
First off, ignore the hyperlinks in the previous thing. They were added by someone without as much extensive experience as I do.So, you gotta start on something, and dead flies are the bottom of the barrell. But you can do it kid. I believe in you. You'll be beating dead horses before you know it. First, you have to find a dead fly. You can't kill the fly yourself. That would make you a MURDERER! Your best bet would be to get your friend to kill a fly for you. Then their sinful ass will burn in Hell while you are beating dead things. If you do trick your friend into eternal damnation for your own.. needs, you still need to find flies, which are only a little more plentiful then dead flies. Horses have a lot of flies. You know what would be a good idea? What?! Seriously? That's a God awful idea. You should be ashamed of yourself. What I was thinking was that you could trick your friend into killing a fly that's on a horse. Then after it's dead, and you ask your friend kindly to leave, you can start beating that dead fly. Then, you are also practicing beating dead horses while you are beating dead flies though. Be careful however, as beating live horses is slightly more illegal, and doesn't give you nearly the rush as beating dead horses. So after you are done practicing beating dead flies, you can go find some dead.. what was next? Cat? Whatever, cat.
Beating a dead cat[edit]
This is significantly easier then the last step. If you are like me, you have dead cats all over your house. Just find one and start beating it. DONE!
Beating a dead dog[edit]
You are halfway there. How does it feel champ? But don't get cocky, dead dogs are the hardest thing you've had to beat so far. First off, people have larger issues with killing dogs then they do flies. And dead dogs aren't nearly as plentiful as dead cats. You wish. No one likes cats, so they would have killed one of them faster then the fly. Anyway, I digress. Actually, to be honest, I skipped this step. I just couldn't get past the cute look on their face. I had to kill like 47 cats to make myself feel better after seeing the one dead dog. Do this step at you own risk, you heartless bastard.
Beating a dead pig[edit]
Last one before the pig.. big. Sorry. That was just stupid of me. Big day. It's funny because we are talking about beating dead pigs now. The hardest part about beating dead pigs is that they are generally getting beaten anyway by the slaughterhouse. So you have to beat the dead pig, while it's being cut up and mixed into quality products that Spam and Aunt Sheqyua's Instant Heart Attacks. I used a frozen slab of bacon to beat the dead pigs. I just found it the most amusing. Maybe it's just me. Try not to lose any fingers, or limbs. Be warned though if you did not lose at least one limb, you obviously hadn't beaten enough dead pigs yet.
Beating the dead horse.. no, snack time[edit]
You've been beating a lot of dead things. You deserve a reward. Go home and have some cookies. Maybe take a nap. You could practice beating more things but this is break time, so so I understand if you don't want to. Ready for the big finale? Calm down champ, it's still cookie time. Christ. Ready? Ok, we've ready now.
I need to use the bathroom first. Shut up! I could go now, or in the middle of your big day.
La-di-da-di-dizz. Takin' a whizz.[edit]
Hey! Get out of here! I'm taking a piss! You aren't making this go any faster. Yeah I sing and rhyme while peeing. What's it to you? It relaxes me.
Beating a dead horse.. really now[edit]
All your training has brought you to this. You cannot fully appreciate the experience though, unless you do it yourself. I have brought you this far. Good luck!


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Without giving away the ending, Steve Carell and Tina Fey's "Date Night" closes with a four-and-a-half minute kiss – an embrace Steve called "pure heaven."
"That was on the second day of shooting," the actor told Access Hollywood at the New York premiere of his new film on Tuesday night. "Tina had the idea to have the longest kiss to roll over credits in history. We were talking to each other the whole time, we never broke the kiss but we were talking out of the sides of our mouths. 'Now, I'm going to lie down, follow me, right, get on top of me.'"
While Steve may have enjoyed the moment, Tina joked with Access that the scene "was not erotic at all."
The two comedians also had a difference of opinion on whether or not Tina was a diva on the set.
"Yes, now that I finally am on camera, I'm just going to say it, she's a horror show," Steve joked. "[No,] she lived up to every expectation that I had, and more."
"You know what it is, he doesn't understand what the word means," Tina said of the "diva" question. "He just thinks it means fancy."
While the two NBC stars may seem like a big-screen match made in heaven, Steve told Access that he didn't think his "The Office" would ever crossover with Tina's "30 Rock."
"Never will happen — ever," he said emphatically, joking it was the "worst idea." "I think they exist right next to each other perfectly. That would be a weird melding of worlds."
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How Will History See Bernanke's Legacy?
Friday Jan. 31 is Ben Bernanke's final day at the Federal Reserve after eight years at the helm, and Fed watchers of all stripes are weighing in on his legacy. (See a photo slideshow of his tenure at the Fed)
The Journal's Jon Hilsenrath dug into the chairman's tenure in an article late last year: "After a financial crisis he didn't see coming, Ben Bernanke steered the U.S. away from a potentially devastating panic. Yet five years later, the recovery he helped engineer with extraordinary policies remains frustratingly weak," Mr. Hilsenrath wrote.


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Miami's squatter problem has garnered national media attention over the past year and a half, as the foreclosure crisis threatened to transform the Magic City into something resembling a lawless, "Mad Max"-esque landscape.
The squatters mostly kept a low profile, moving in -- with the help of activist group Take Back the Land -- to neighborhoods where they could take over unnoticed.
Take Back the Land placed squatters in Belle Meade, Opa Locka, Liberty City and Overtown, finding modest dwellings for families without a place to live.
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But now come reports that squatters are seeking out more ritzy neighborhoods, including the pricey, tree-lined streets of Coral Gables.
"They seem to be squatters, I don't think that they pay rent. I don't think that they own the house, the house is in total disrepair," said Gables by the Sea resident Bruce Hornik, who said he couldn't believe his eyes when he saw a family set up shop in the waterfront neighborhood.
"The screens are all torn, the windows are broken, the yard is not cut, there's trash in the back yard. It's terrible," Hornik said.
A check of county records found that the home went into foreclosure over a year ago, just about the time residents said the alleged squatters showed up.
The bank which owns the property hired a realtor to sell it last month, and the realtor said they have no idea who could be staying in the home. A man was spotted out in front of the home a few days ago, but no one answered the door yesterday.
Max Rameau, head of Take Back the Land, said the squat on the home wasn't part of his effort but that he supports filling up the vacant houses, no matter the price range.
"We think that wherever there are empty homes there should be people in them," Rameau said. "The housing crisis is impacting people on all kinds of income levels."
With over 44,000 foreclosed properties in Miami-Dade this year and thousands in Broward, real extate experts say the potential of sqauatters is there no matter where you live.
And there's little authorities can do about it.
"The police department, if you check the records, have been out there numerous times. They cannot go into the house they say," Hornik said.
Real estate experts say the only way to get squatters out is to have owner get them evicted, which requires going to court.
Until then, Gables residents will just have to get used to their new neighbors.


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In Our Time, BBC Radio 4. A discussion of Tess of the D'urbervilles. On iPlayer https://uk.pinterest.com/longvictorian2/thomas-hardy/
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Chris Brown says it "hurts" when his charity work is questioned as a ploy to garner public support.
The headline-making singer, who turns 21 on May 5, told AOL's PopEater.com that his efforts to raise funds for the community of Richmond, Virginia, and those affected by the earthquake in Haiti is "not for PR or press."
"When it's a question of, 'Oh, is he doing this to gain fans or get his image back?' it hurts," he said. "When you do something genuinely from your heart, it's not for PR or press. If that was the case, I'd try to get Obama or somebody."
The singer, who is currently serving five years probation related to the February 8, 2009 assault of then-girlfriend Rihanna, said wants to lend his support to his hometown with an upcoming charity concert.
"It hurts because it's from my heart and I'm from Virginia and want to help my community out. I'm always here, and I always want to help out," he continued. "Even with the Haiti stuff I'm doing… I wanted to do my own so that some of the proceeds would benefit them."
On May 15, Chris will host and headline a charity concert, "Virginia Stand Up! A Call to Action" with Trey Songz, Keri Hilson, T-Pain, Mario and Ryan Leslie also performing.
"I always wanted to do something in my community," he said when asked about the concert. "Richmond and Virginia isn't the wealthiest place, there's a lot of poverty and people struggling, so I always wanted to give back from my community."
According to the singer, the reaction from his fellow Richmond residents has been overwhelmingly positive.
"The response has been incredible," Chris said. "I still live out here, so people come up to me if I'm in the store and tell me, 'I think it's great what you're doing.' It's going to be incredible. Everybody's happy about it."
The R&B singer might be just shy of 21, but feels he's already accomplished so much in his short life, that it's time to give back.
"Kids are rebellious and a lot more concerned with their own personal lives than anybody else's, so I can understand why a lot of younger artists tend not [give back] until they get older," Chris explained. "But I've done everything… been a pop star, traveled the world, movies, the whole nine, so I feel like as a young guy, so many people look up to me. Kids, adults, parents – from my position, it's about helping out. Why not? I've got everything else. Everyone's been supportive of me, so why not help other people in need who need it more than I do?"
Over the weekend, Chris performed the National Anthem prior to the Shane Mosley/Floyd Mayweather Jr. boxing match at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, causing some to question whether or not a boxing match was an appropriate venue for the embattled singer to perform.
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Dear Kelly,
Now that you're off to your dream job in the big city, I don't seem to be hearing from you anymore. I'm sure you're busy, but your old aunt would love an update.
Love, Aunt June
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Dear Aunt June,
Sorry I've been out of touch. Life is crazy right now! First I had to find an apartment, and then I started my job. Work is so busy! I end up spending extra hours there, trying to learn the trade. On the good side, there are five other college graduates at work too, which is fun and a real stress-buster! We all go out after work. I've been spending lots of time with Ryan, an Indiana State graduate. He's a total goof and keeps everybody cracking up. He and I hang out on weekends, too, so it seems like there's never a spare minute! That's all the news here.
Love, Kelly
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My dear niece,
I might as well say it: I hear alarm bells. You don't sound like my levelheaded niece. Honey, I want you to enjoy your new job, coworkers, and independent life. I don't want to be a killjoy. But I am concerned that your message seems to center around "fun." Yes, you're spending extra hours at work, but you don't mention any activities besides going out with coworkers, especially Ryan.
Kelly, are you going to church? Do the people at church mean something to you, or are you forming relationships only with coworkers? Are your coworkers Christians? If not, then you can have a wonderful impact on them, but make sure you are grounded in the church, so that you stay strong in the faith. You want to influence them, not the other way around. Proverbs 13:20 says: "Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm."
Is Ryan a Christian? If not, then Kelly, you shouldn't spend time alone with him. We are not to be "unequally yoked" (2 Cor. 6).
You're probably thinking, "Oh, for Pete's sake, Aunt June, I'm not marrying him!" But you are setting yourself up to fall in love with him if you are spending time alone with him.
Love, Aunt June
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Aunt June,
That sounds nice, but tell me: how am I supposed to find a Christian guy these days—somebody who actually wants a relationship? All the guys I meet want to party until they're 35. I feel like I have to give in some or I'll never meet anybody. It's not like there's some single guy at church; practically everybody is married with four kids! And if I don't join my coworkers, I'll end up sitting in the break room with a book and brown-bag lunch every day. I need some kind of a social life!
I don't mean to insult you, but you've been married with kids for years, so I don't think you know what it's like to be single anymore.
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Oh, Kelly,
Honey, you are right that it's been a long time since I was single. Maybe I don't know what it's like. But Jesus does. Hear me on that. Your Savior, who died for you, knows what it is like to be single! He didn't have a spouse. He didn't even have a roof over his head!
The Bible tells us that Jesus, while on earth, suffered the same things we suffer: "Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted" (Heb. 2:17–18).
Jesus suffered your singleness! When you feel lonely, imagine how lonely he was. Even his closest friends didn't understand him until he had left them and gone to heaven. You might say, "Well, he had the fellowship of the Father." But he lost even that—gave it up willingly, for you—on the cross. There is no greater love than this. No earthly guy—no party boy from work—can ever love you enough to make it worth giving up Christ.
I am not making light of your circumstances. You are legitimately lonely. There is perhaps no more confusing time than young adulthood—trying to find your life partner, establish your career, and determine your place in this world. Please just remember that this world is not your home, and the Lord will not abandon you. Seek him.
Thank you for being honest with me, Kelly. Please write again and tell me how things are going. I love you.
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Selena Gomez, Disney starlet and girlfriend of Justin Bieber, has been named in a million dollar lawsuit involving the chorus of her 2010 hit song "A Year Without Rain."
Plaintiffs Tom Luce, Brian Kroll, Lawrence Riggs and Matt Blackett, of the band Luce, claim the tune is "virtually identical" to their 2005 song "Buy a Dog" which appeared on the group's second album "Never Ending."
Gomez, 19, who starred in the Disney Channel series, "The Wizards of Waverly Place," performed the song with her band, Selena Gomez & The Scene, also named as a defendant in the case, which was filed in the San Francisco Superior Court.
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Courthouse News Service reports the complaint states that "The melodies in the chorus of both songs are virtually identical," and that the tune "was a No. 1 record on several radio stations around the United States, including WRLT in Nashville and KFOG in San Francisco, at both of which it was among the 10 most played records for the entire year of 2005".
"A Year Without Rain" was also released as a single in Spanish ("Un Ano Sin Lluvia").
Gomez made further headlines in February when she attended the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on the arm of Bieber, ending months of speculation over whether or not the pair are a couple.
In 2009, Gomez was appointed a UNICEF ambassador, making her the youngest ambassador for the charity in the United States.
Gomez' reps have yet to comment on the lawsuit.


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The people in the entertainment industry want Congress to pass a bill to censor the internet. It's called "Protect IP" and the "Internet Blacklist" and it will kill all social sharing sites, just for starters. Yes, here in the land of the free, where freedom of speech is our first Amendment, people with way too much money want to make sure no one gets in the way of them making even more that they can waste on frivolous stuff while pretending to care about the rest of us.
Contact your Congressional Representative now, and tell them to vote against this special interest bill, or you could become a felon, just for recording yourself singing along to the radio, or doing any of the other silly things we do online that entertain us for free on a daily basis.
Don't let Hollywood and Congress kill the internet!


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Southeast Mo. Man Charged in Assault, Kidnapping
CAPE GIRARDEAU (AP) - A southeast Missouri man has been arrested in the abduction of a man and his girlfriend.
The Southeast Missourian reported that the suspect is accused of repeatedly striking the boyfriend after an argument outside an Oran business.
The Scott County Sheriff's Department says the suspect then forced the alleged victims into the girlfriend's vehicle and drove them toward Morley.
Sheriff Rick Walter says that along the way, the suspect twice stopped the vehicle to beat the man. Ultimately, the suspect left the boyfriend lying in the roadway unconscious while he forced the woman to drive him home and released her.
The woman returned to help her boyfriend. But the suspect followed her and beat the man more. The woman ultimately sought medical help for her boyfriend and summoned authorities.


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Luxury appliance maker Jenn-Air has partnered with ELLE DECOR, House Beautiful and VERANDA for the sixth annual Designer Visions. Showcasing the best in interior design talent and trends, this year's Designer Visions has transformed residences in an historic Manhattan building into three elegant, contemporary homes, each reflecting the distinctive style of the participating magazines and top designers.
Designer Visions -- Designer: Antony Todd -- Photographer: Max Kim-Bee -- Veranda.com/DesignerVisions. (PRNewsFoto/Jenn-Air)
The homes – part of a 106-unit luxury condominium conversion now underway at 250 West Street – will be featured editorially in the magazines, profiled on their web sites, and used as special event venues in the next few months as part of the Designer Visions showcase. The homes also served as movie sets for six short films produced in association with 48 Hour Film Project, an organization that works to advance filmmaking and promote filmmakers. The film projects, including three that integrate Jenn-Air® appliances into their story lines, required filmmakers to complete the entire process, from writing and filming to editing and scoring, within a 48-hour period.
Designers participating in the Designer Visions showcase include Matthew Patrick Smyth for ELLE DECOR, David Rockwell for House Beautiful and Antony Todd for VERANDA.
Smyth's ELLE DECOR kitchen, described by the magazine as a "modern-day Grand Tour-in residence," features the seamless look of a paneled, built-in refrigerator and a perimetric ventilation hood designed to hang on the wall like a piece of sleek, modern art. Designed for a serious cook, it includes the Jenn-Air® Pro-Style® wall oven and a five-burner, high performance gas cooktop.
Rockwell's House Beautiful kitchen, characterized as a "bohemian-chic aerie," was designed with entertaining in mind. It features cabinetry with no visible hardware and a sleek, induction cooktop paired with a sculptural ventilation hood. The double wall oven incorporates full color, touch-screen technology with an industry-exclusive Culinary Center that provides suggested settings for achieving the best possible cooking results.
"Casual elegance" is the guiding vision behind Todd's VERANDA kitchen, which features an open floor plan and stunning Hudson River views. Appliances include an integrated, paneled refrigerator, a sophisticated Euro-Style double wall oven and an unobtrusive ductless downdraft ventilation system that cleans the air without the need for ductwork.
"Each of the kitchens showcases a different selection of appliances and a very distinctive look," notes Brian Maynard , Director of Brand Marketing for Jenn-Air. "Together they reflect the breadth of our luxury appliance collection, with each offering specific ideas and inspiration for pairing various appliances with different kitchen designs and lifestyles."
"Beyond high style, the appliances offer the high level of performance and precision that one would expect in a luxury residence built for entertaining," he adds.
Designer Visions will open with a VIP gala celebration on January 29. A virtual tour and behind-the-scenes video, as well as feature interviews with the editors and designers will be available online at elledecor.com, housebeautiful.com and veranda.com. Video highlights of the kitchens will be featured on jennair.com.
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7 Apple Stores to Visit Before You Die
Apple opened its first retail store in 2001. Since then the number of brick-and-mortar Apple stores has soared to more than 320 worldwide, with the most recent one opening in New York's famed Grand Central terminal.
In fact, there's even a Web site, ifoAppleStore that exists for the sole purpose of reporting Apple store news. A recent report from the site suggest that Apple will soon further expand its sphere of retail influence when it adds a store in Moscow. The rumored shop would be located in the historic Hotel Moskva at the north end of the Red Square, just a stone's throw from the Kremlin. In fact, the façade of the hotel is the same image printed on the label of Stolichnaya Vodka. It's a high-trafficked, must-see area for Moscow visitors, and it would no doubt be a slick location for an Apple retail store.
Apple has not confirmed that it's setting up shop in Moscow, but if it did, it would be the company's easternmost European location, both the first in a former Soviet republic and the first in a former communist state.
Before Grand Central, Apple hadn't expanded to a new region since 2007, when it opened a store in Rome. It also lacks a presence in Central and South America, Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe.
Shopping in an Apple Store is a unique retail experience. Customers can spend hands-on time with a product and seek advice from knowledgeable Apple Geniuses. Beyond that, the stores themselves are often inspired examples of modern design.
Among the hundreds of existing Apple stores, there are some very unique locations, and Apple has even won architectural awards for some of them. In 2003, its store in New York City's SoHo neighborhood won a BusinessWeek/Architectural Record Award.
If you're traveling, there are some cities where the Apple store is definitely worth adding to your sightseeing list. Here are the top seven.


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On Sunday, October 4 at 3:15 pm at Temple Beth-El the San Antonio Chamber Music Society opens its 66th season with a FASCINATING program by the Lark Chamber Artists. I'm so disappointed that I can not attend, but the Symphony is opening our Family Series at Trinity University that same afternoon. Maybe I can rush over after Peter and the Wolf and catch the end of the Lark's performance.
What makes this such a compelling program? It is an excellent example of the great things that are happening in contemporary classical music right now. No, don't be scared! The label "contemporary" can be intimidating, especially if followed by even scarier words like "atonal," "twelve-tone" or "Second Viennese School."
When some arts patrons hear the contemporary label they immediately think of the challenging music of composers like Arnold Schoenberg. Schoenberg was born in 1874 in Austria and died in Los Angeles in 1951. His early works are clearly an extension of the German romantic traditions of Brahms and Wagner. (One of my all-time favorite compositions, Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht¸will be performed by Camerata San Antonio in April.) But later in his life his music became more and more dissonant and less connected to traditional key signatures. After centuries of music always being a specific key like D major or F minor, Schoenberg declared, "I have made a discovery which will ensure the supremacy of German music for the next hundred years." His discovery was a "method of composing with twelve tones which are related only with one another." Or, in other words, no more D major, just what some listeners would call chromatic and dissonant music. (You can tell from these quotes that Schoenberg wasn't known for his modesty!)
For the next fifty years this compositional technique dominated classical music. It still is very influential in Europe. But along with this style of music another movement was afoot–neo-romanticism. It wasn't very prominent for a long time, but it was always there. (Think of the Samuel Barber Violin Concerto the Symphony played last weekend.) But suddenly, especially in America, this romantic style is now big news. Some critics are even starting to use the term, "The Atlanta School" to refer to a group of composers supported by the Atlanta Symphony and their music director Robert Spano. Leading this Atlanta School is Jennifer Higdon.
The Lark opens their program with a perfectly titled work by Higdon–"An Exaltation of Larks" for String Quartet. This is anything but dissonant. You can visit the Lark's home page by clicking here and listen to this incredible work.
Another trend in new music is modifying traditional forms, like the string quartet, by adding instruments more often heard in World Music performances. On October 4 the Lark Quartet is expanding to The Lark Chamber Artists by adding percussionist Yousif Sheronick. For more information be sure to visit the San Antonio Chamber Music Society's web site.
And don't be afraid. The Lark will convince you that new music is for you too.
Jack Fishman
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Tributes to British teacher after Air Algerie plane crash
Tributes have poured in for a teacher after he was named locally as the British national killed in the Air Algerie plane crash in Mali.
ITV News understands David Morgan was among the 118 victims of the crash. Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "deeply saddened" by the death of the British national.


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[Where: Brooklyn Flea, Vanderbilt Ave & Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn 11205]
I've never been a cheerleader of the flea. But that may have changed today. Maybe the difference is that I actually needed something specific (some work-appropriate jewelry) but I also think the endeavour finally fits in with Fort Greene. The deejay playing everything from Michael Jackson to Fela Kuti to British House may or may not have contributed to that. And then there were these unexpected treats:
- Cocoa and Agave together i.e. "good for you chocolate" –
Sadly I can't remember the dark chocolate merchant's name who sold me the cocoa ice cream.Got a rich cocoa ice at the Fine & Raw Chocolate booth. I was enchanted to recognize the wrapper of the chocolate bars on the table as I bought some at Choice Greene last sunday. Both the "ice cream" (which is dairyless) and the chocolate bars are made with agave syrup and 70 to 80% cocoa.
- McClure's pickles – Not something I set out to get. But the merchant sought me out and was quite charming. He explained that the pickle company employed three people: him in NY and the owner's parents in Detroit. There were dill pickles and hot (capsaicin) pickles. There was also a lovely grainy mustard. So fresh. Sulfite free. I was in heaven. Now in my fridge, the pickles are irrestible and I'm eating them as snacks.
- Oh and I should mention I tasted some excellent ricotta from Salvatore, a ricotta maker which sells to restaurants but not yet to stores. They were serving it on bruschetta with prosciutto and in canolis. Yum.
The name will come back to me eventually.
- Bracelets made out of old records – Didn't get to buy any but may end up going back for these.


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In papers filed as part of a lawsuit in Cook County, Ill., Leo Burnett has described in detail just how much trouble it is in on its Kellogg account.
Go straight to our blow-by-blow retelling of the walkout >
Kellogg spent a total of $710 million last year on ads, according to Ad Age, and Burnett regards it as one of its "flagship" pieces of business. (It has served the company for 60 years.)
But on Friday, Nov. 2, eight staffers working on the customer relations management portion of the business resigned en masse — and Leo Burnett then sued them, alleging it was an act of sabotage.
The executives who left were Amanda Ashley, Nate Buechler, Allison Chaplain, Jeremiah Dy-Johnson, Kristy Gibbs, Lisa Hamming, David Rasho and Matthew Johnson.
The complaint — obtained by Business Insider today — goes into detail about how the resignations went down, and how much financial damage there could be. Among the allegations:
- The agency and its Arc Worldwide unit has lost svp Kristy Gibbs, the only executive at Leo Burnett who actually understands how the Kellogg CRM database works.
- Gibbs was pitching other clients for Leo Burnett, and the agency may now lose that business, too.
- Also resigning was director of optimization David Rasho, who holds the key client relationships with Kellogg's CRM staff.
- That Leo Burnett believes it may lose the CRM business as Kellogg has not guaranteed it will stay with the agency.
- And that the agency believes Kellogg cannot tolerate a delay on its CRM assignment.
- Leo Burnett waited four days — across a weekend — to tell Kellogg what had happened.
We've compiled a blow-by-blow account of the resignations, the financial impact it could have on Leo Burnett, and the agency's confession to Kellogg from the lawsuit. We were unable to reach the defectors for comment; they have not yet filed papers in their defense. Currently, we only have Leo Burnett's side of the story. Presumably, the eight have a different interpretation of events. Nonetheless, this is the most detail available on what the agency describes as the "crisis" that hit on Nov. 2.