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The human person: central controversy of the ageThe present age is a time of great controversy about the human being, controversy about the very meaning of human existence, and thus about the nature and significance of the human being. We know that such situations in history have frequently led to a deeper reflection on Christian truth as a whole, as well as on particular aspects of it. That is also the case today. The truth about the human being, in turn, has a distinctly privileged place in this whole process. After nearly twenty years of ideological debate in Poland, it has become clear that at the center of this debate is not cosmology or philosophy of nature but philosophical anthropology and ethics: the great and fundamental controversy about the human being.
Karol Wojtyla
The Person: Subject and Community
Jun. 22, 2009, at 5:29pm
The next question had to do with the definition of prudishness. Both Healy and West were asked to give concrete examples, and thereby clarify their meaning.
• On prudisness (opens in a small popup window)
By the way, some discussions on prudishness have already taken place in the Linde. Clicking the appropriate tag above will lead to those.
Jun. 22, 2009, at 5:28pm
Some critics of West have argued that he underestimates the role of concupiscence in human life, and that he sometimes even goes so far as to suggest that it can be rooted out completely (in this life). A question was raised concerning this very issue, which gave West a chance to clarify his position.
• On concupiscence (opens in a small popup window)
Jun. 22, 2009, at 5:27pm
The last question we thought was worth posting has to do with the way in which "sexual activity" can become an expression of love and a gift of self.
Jun. 22, 2009, at 2:23pm
Sarkozy says that burqas are not welcome in France.
I would like to know what personalist philosophers say to this. We favor the free expression of religion, while we oppose the oppression of women in Islam embodied in the burqa. What's a pluralistic society to do?
Jun. 21, 2009, at 1:21pm
Even though I agree with Katie's point (in the previous post) about there being legitimate (even desirable) ways of being "out of step" with Catholic tradition, I would still like to see some evidence for claims such as that "liturgists and theologians from the early days of the Church have understood the Easter Candle just as West does."
Does anyone know of any?
Jun. 20, 2009, at 8:41pmSee below for the 4th part of the comments elicited by Fr Geiger's latest on the West debate.
Jun. 20, 2009, at 8:40pmSee below for the 3rd part of the comments elicited by Fr Geiger's latest on the West debate.
Jun. 20, 2009, at 8:39pmSee below for the 2nd part of the comments elicited by Fr Geiger's latest on the West debate.
Jun. 20, 2009, at 8:38pm
Yesterday a friend sent me Fr. Angelo Geiger's latest guest post at the Dawn Patrol on the controversy surrounding Christopher West. I have less sympathy with it than I did with his first piece. I think he is unfair to West and his defenders.
For instance, in his first paragraph he identifies part of the debate as being over whether CW's approach is "out of step with Catholic tradition." I find this an unhelpfully ambiguous phrase. It seems clearly meant to indicate unsoundness. But there are ways of being "out of step" with the tradition that are thoroughly legitimate. Wasn't Joan of Arc's taking on the role of a soldier rather out of keeping with tradition? Couldn't Dietrich von Hildebrand's emphasis on love as the meaning of marriage be seen as in some sense novel? Doesn't Mass in the vernacular represent a certain break with the past? Don't many people dismiss the charismatic renewal as a whole on the grounds that it is unlike what we are used to in the Church?
In other words, to show that a person's methodology or "line of thought" is heterodox and "dangerous" (as David Schindler implied of CW's), it is not enough to show that it is new or unusual or "out of step" with the tradition; you have to show (it seems to me) that it is incompatible with the tradition. I don't think either Schindler or Fr. Geiger comes close to doing that.
Even if we grant that the Easter candle is primarily meant to symbolize the light of Christ; even if we acknowledge that its form follows its function, why should that preclude the possibility that it may have other connotations as well? If the conjugal union is an icon of the Holy Trinity and the source of new life in the world, why should we be startled or offended by the idea of phallic symbols? Why should we see them as in themselves vulgar or prurient? Does noticing a phallic aspect in a thing mean we are dirty-minded? Is sex something dirty? I think anyone who thinks so DOES (sorry) betray an element of prudishness.
Then there is Fr. Geiger's strange treatment of Janet Smith. He "rolled his eyes" as she "confessed" to her prudery and says that "she tells us we should all be ashamed if we don't like the idea of the Easter candle being a phallic symbol." Where does she tell us anything of the kind? Why must he twist and belittle her remarks? What is wrong in her saying that she has felt challenged by this discussion to consider whether her own reaction might not be somewhat prudish?
Then, I dislike intensely his derisive-sounding use of the term "copulation" in reference to liturgical symbolism. Here I am with Damian Fedoryka. Among persons there is no morally indifferent physical act. There is only either the marital embrace or sexual sin. Hence the dousing of the Easter candle in the holy water font, if it has sexual connotations, would be a symbol of self-giving, procreative spousal love, not "copulation." Copulating is for animals.
Finally, Fr. Geiger seems to take it for granted it that his own reaction against the idea of sexual imagery intertwined with liturgy and prayers is the normal, natural and right one for all Catholics. But I'd like to know how he can be sure of that. Is it not at least possible that CW is right that we are all much more under the influence of prudishness than we realize; that we are missing a depth dimension in a lot of liturgical symbolism because of it; that we are lacking altogether an adequate appreciation of the centrality and greatness of human sexuality in God's plan of salvation for the world? Or, if you think that goes too far, what about this: Isn't it possible that some people are just much more sexually charged and alert than others, so that they notice "signs and symbols" that others miss? And if so, isn't it great that they find those signs and symbols in their religious life, and not separated from it?
Jun. 20, 2009, at 11:04am
But are we free? Do we possess freedom? And can we know this with our pure human reason or only accept it on faith? We need to distinguish here five questions, two general and three more specific ones:
(1) What is the nature of freedom? In what does it consist? This we must understand not only in order to assert the existence of human freedom but also in order to deny it. If we did not know WHAT freedom is and what we mean by this word, we could neither assert nor deny the existence of freedom because we would not understand at all what we are saying when we say "We are free" or what we are stating when we claim "We are not free." Both judgments make no sense without understanding what freedom is.
(2) The second fundamental and quite independent question is: Does freedom exist?
This second question can again be divided into three distinct questions:
(a) whether human (and angelic) freedom or
(b) [only] divine freedom or
(c) both human and divine freedom do exist.
A most fundamental question for all our understanding of the human person, is no doubt whether WE are free, whether human freedom exists.
But can we truly know that we are free? Before we can answer the question whether we are free and how we can know this, we have to inquire into the nature of freedom, as we have already said. But this first huge question has to be tackled another time.
Jun. 19, 2009, at 12:36pm
A couple of weeks ago the Personalist Project hosted its first advisers and directors retreat. We gathered for three days of leisurely philosophical communion on the theme of forgiveness in beautiful Spring Lake, NJ. I hope to share some of the fruit of our discussions soon. Meanwhile, here is a photo of the participants.
From left to right:
- Mike Wallacavage, who received his MA in philosophy from the IAP.
- Jill Burkemper, PhD, of Saint Louis University.
- John Henry Crosby, Founder and Director of the Hildebrand Legacy Project
- Peter Colosi, PhD, of Charles Borromeo Seminary
- Michael Healy, PhD, of Franciscan University
- Wendy Laurento, West Chester lawyer, who also has an MA in theology
- Peter Damgaard-Hansen, PhD, Danish licensed psychologist
- Maria Fedoryka, PhD, of Ave Maria University
- Katie van Schajik
- Fr. Philip Forlano of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia
- Jules van Schaijik, PhD
Jun. 13, 2009, at 7:39am
Because some of our discussions of questions of sexual morality were becoming rather too detailed and explicit for so open a forum, we have closed them temporarily while we figure out how to continue them without crossing lines that shouldn't be crossed.
Just what those lines are is open for discussion. On the one hand, the Christian personalists of this forum recognize and wish to defend and cultivate in ourselves and others a sense of the essential mysteriousness and intimacy of the sexual sphere. On the other hand, there is a growing feeling, at least in many of us, that much more and much more open discussion is called for as part of the ethical task of Christian philosophers in our day.
It may be seen as a valuable and necessary service to those who have honest questions, to those who are burdened by false or inadequate teachings, to those who are infected (perhaps without realizing it) by an inhibiting prudishness, to those who are in vocations (like priesthood, medicine, psychology) where sound and detailed ethical information is urgently needed…
The internet, while it has the "problem" (in this case) of being highly public, also has at least three distinct advantages for our situation.
1) It allows like-minded thinkers and questioners who are geographically far apart to "meet" each other in one place.
2) It allows for genuine dialogue, which is an especially fruitful way of approaching difficult ethical questions. Thinkers can offer tentative opinions, raise questions, and challenge each other's reasoning without having to dedicate months or years to research toward a fully-developed idea. Ideas are worked out in communion with other minds. "Onlookers" naturally imbibe a sense of how philosophy works and of how not open-and-shut many questions are. Everyone learns.
3) The "virtuality" factor can be seen as a kind of protection. Readers can enter the discussion and bring their experience to the table anonymously. I know if I had a "sex issue" in my marriage, I certainly would rather go online for information from Christian ethicists whose basic vision and moral seriousness I trust than go to my parish priest and discuss it with him!
I'd love to know what others think.
Jun. 11, 2009, at 8:20pm
A friend sent an email with some thoughts that technical difficulties prevented her from posting. Here is part of her note:
A sense of innocence is a good thing [A]lthough I supported all the wonderful, life-changing good he [another chastity speaker] did, I wouldn't want my (then) 11 year old son attending his presentations. When asked why, I said I had been very innocent going into my own marriage (I had, maybe, once seen a naked woman; I know I had never seen a naked man, or even knew what to expect), and I wouldn't have wanted all the distorted, diseased photos of human anatomy which [this speaker] shows his audience for shock value to follow me into the honeymoon suite. And he said he had never thought of it that way before (i.e., that a teenager in today's world could still be that innocent), and that I had very legitimate point.
I think so too. And a week ago I would have agreed with all of it without reservation. I must say, though, this whole discussion has caused me to reconsider somewhat. I am wondering, specifically, whether such "extreme innocence" might not be hindering the Christian witness in the world in which we live? I mean, might there be such a thing as too much innocence? Might it (for instance) cause us to hold ourselves too aloof from the culture around us? I ask because I'd like to hear others opinions on the point. My own is unsettled. But I am thinking of St. Patrick. Suppose that to protect his own chastity he had chosen to stay in England rather than return to hedonistic Ireland, saturated as it apparently was in sex and the occult?
Jun. 10, 2009, at 11:15am
1. Without acknowledging freedom of the created person, God would be the origin of all evils and thus a hyper-demonic being: Each metaphysics, which denies the freedom of humans and of angels, and more precisely the abuse of freedom, as source and first cause of all the manifold evils that obviously exist in the world blames these evils on God or, if he is an atheist, on an unfree natural cause. In either of these two cases moral evil would not exist at all in humans. Because if humans and angels were determined to be evil, they would be innocent like lambs or like puppets; God, however, as long as his existence is not altogether denied, as the source of all evil and suffering, would be himself evil. Therefore each denying of human and angelic freedom either leads to atheism or to polytheism, or to a transformation of God into a super-demon (infinitely more terrible than Satan, because all evils from the beginning to the end of the world would be God's fault alone, which cannot be said of Satan. In contrast to Satan's limited causal role regarding other evils besides his own). If man and angels were not free and if therefore, granted his existence, God had brought into the world all meanness, all lies, all adulteries, all perjuries, rapes, murders, thefts, tortures, hate and envy, genocide and other crimes (including Satan's and his angels' sins) or if He had determined angels and humans to commit them, He would be the only ultimate source of evil (which cannot be said of Lucifer). One cannot imagine a more terrible destruction of the idea of God. God would be an Anti-God. In this case, Ivan Karamazov's rebellion against God as responsible for all evils would be wholly justified.
2. Without divine freedom there could not be any contingent world and particularly no created free person: The origin of non-necessary beings in the world, and particularly of created free agents, could not be explained without creation being a free act of God, because a contingent and temporal world cannot proceed from God by a necessity rooted in the eternal and necessary divine nature but only from a free divine choice, and even more clearly: never could unfree causes in nature or in God explain the wonder of a free will in finite beings. Freedom in the world can come into being only from a free act of the absolute Being. Therefore, if God were not free, neither the contingent (non-necessarily existent) world nor free agents in it could exist. Therefore, do deny God's freedom of choice, still retaining His existence, will lead to some form of pantheism that dissolves human personhood and freedom. Moreover, if the world and even evil flows necessarily from God, God would, if not freely, so necessarily, become the cause of evil as well, as Schelling suggests in his thesis that everything flows with absolute necessity (at least moral necessity) from God.
3. Without divine freedom there would also be no divine holiness: Each adequate idea of God implies His freedom also for another reason: as the condition and origin of His justice, mercy, and Holiness as the highest perfection of any person qua person: Without God's supremely perfect freedom the core of divine perfection would be null. God would no longer be just, merciful and holy, and hence not God.
4. By denying divine, angelic and human freedom the entire Judeo-Christian revelation is being denied and Holy Scripture rendered a worthless book:
Without freedom, God would not be our creator, nor our redeemer, nor would there be divine forgiveness of sins, nor any reason for gratitude towards God for our creation, redemption or for the forgiveness of our sins, because if these were not works of divine free choice, they would be nothing.
Likewise without freedom of God, of angels and of humans all anthropological contents and teachings of Sacred Scripture and of the Church would lose their foundation: We would not be creatures but some moments in a necessarily self-unfolding life of God. There would be no original sin, no personal sin, no redemption from them, no meaning of the divine commandments, nor of any divine promises. The Sermon on the Mount and the call to holiness would not have any sense any more let alone eternal rewards or punishments. All talk of a purgatory, of moral conscience, of the sacraments of confession and baptism or the unction of the sick would be senseless babbling.
In a word: without freedom no Christianity! And also no Judaism and no Islam which recognize many of the same truths about God and man!
Therefore hardly any truth is more important not only for the metaphysics of the person and our personal life, but also for the Christian and any other theistic faith than this one: that the person, whether human and finite or divine and infinite, is free.
Jun. 10, 2009, at 4:02am
As far as Saint Paul's passage cited in the letter to Katie van Schaijik (it being better to get married than to burn) (1 Cor. 7:9) is concerned, I believe that what she indicates in her reply is the deepest, truest and most personalistic interpretation (also found in Pope John Paul II) of this text and of the teaching on marriage as "remedium concupiscentiae": that the true remedium against concupiscence is the inner transformation of human sexuality into a mutual gift of love that is not just for lust or concupiscence and that, being informed and transformed by "love for the sake of the other person herself", becomes thus "healed." Nevertheless, there is still another more obvious and literal meaning of this text that has also to do with the marital rights and duties. If the refusal of marital intercourse leads one's spouse to sin because of his or her "burning," it is also for this less noble reason and less sublime meaning of "remedium concupiscentiae," a serious matter to refuse the spousal act to one's spouse directly or indirectly by leaving him or her against the other's will. Also Christ refers to this, and not to marriage as highest spousal communion of love, when he says that a husband who dismisses his wife (which is the most radical way of such refusal), "makes an adulteress of her".
But of course, to the utmost extent possible to a person, the spousal act should never be just sought and even less conceded just for the sake of stilling the sexual desire of oneself or of the spouse, but be an expression and unique fulfillment of spousal love, a love which Christ compares with the supreme self-giving love of Christ and the Church.
Thus fully agreeing with Michael Healy's and Grisez's remarks on "a more literal meaning" of the married person's rights and duties, I would regard it, like they do, as a grave violation of my married love and marriage vows ever to refuse this "right of my wife over my body" for less than serious reasons, and like Healy I would understand this quite personalistically: not as having myself made into my wife's sex-slave, but as being part of the "totality" of the gift of my married love, a gift I give to no one else until death shall part us (this of course does not exclude but include the consideration which especially the husband owes to his wife in this regard).
I would only add to all these excellent remarks of Healy that it is a false though widespread idea that Pope John Paul II's and Hildebrand's personalist and grandiose vision of marriage as a communion of love has, because they hardly speak of it ever, abolished the meaning of what Saint Paul expresses when he says that no longer the man has a right over his body but his wife and quite equally not the wife but her husband. To bestow this right on the spouse is itself, or ought to be, a unique act of deep love: a perpetual and undivided self-donation.
Hence, while a personalist understanding of marriage and spousal rights will more radically exclude any kind of slave-interpretation of Paul's words as if the spouses would have an unrestricted right over the other body, to use the other as a mere sex-object, for sex-games or for impure and unworthy acts, that are opposite to the dignity of the marriage act, the personalist understanding implies even more than just a right over each other's body: namely a certain right over the soul and heart of a person that ought to be given with and in this act: correspondingly, the spouse's duty is not only to lend his or her body to the other coldly "for the purpose of intercourse," or "for the purpose of acts which by their nature are capable of being procreative," but he or she is bound to do so lovingly, to give his or her heart, as deeply as he or she is capable in a certain moment, to the other. Thus, the right I give to my spouse in the consensus involves much more than giving her a right over my body: namely a claim over my loving will and intention, and even over the love of my heart, inasmuch as the voice of my heart, the actualization of my superactual spousal love, even in its affective dimensions, depends on my indirect or cooperative freedom. Therefore, the fulfillment of the spousal duties never must be just that: fulfillment of duties; and the rights over the other's body are never just that: a right over a body.
In this double way (of excluding a right over the spouse's body for impure or perverted acts, and of demanding infinitely more than "merely being ready to have intercourse"), I see the personalist vision of love and marriage as a perfection of the traditional teaching on the marriage rights and duties, but as a perfecting it that does not cancel and does not even change but fulfill this teaching such that in its highest form, the spousal act includes but goes beyond all rights and duties, and show itself truly to be that "great mystery" of which Paul speaks and a true image of the perfect loving union and desire for union between Christ and the Church , and a true reflection of God's own inner-trinitarian, freely given, uncoerced, mutual and perpetual love.
Josef S
Jun. 9, 2009, at 8:44pm
Kissing the Koran: To What Extent can Christians Regard it as an Inspired Book?
As one of his many acts of reconciliation, Pope John Paul II at one point in his reign accepted a copy of the Koran from an Imam and kissed it "as a sign of respect." Here is the reference: http://www.traditioninaction.org/RevolutionPhotos/A055rcKoran.htm
The Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Rafael, who was present at the time, affirmed that this "gesture" demonstrates that the Pope "has also great respect for Islam."
Now such a profound gesture of respect also raises the question of the exact status of Mohammed as a "Prophet" and of his "Revelations" (the Koran) from a Christian point of view. Mohammed did seem to receive some special religious messages in his cave and the book itself carries an outspoken "numinous" or religious power to it. However, as Catholics we believe absolutely that God's public revelation ended with the death of the last Apostle John. So how is a believing Christian to interpret Mohammed and the Koran? I wish to review a few possibilities that have arisen historically or that reason might suggest:
1) Some say Mohammed was simply deceived by a demon to promote a "new" religion as a rival to Christianity and with the purpose of stamping Christianity out. Thus the reference in Christian history to "the imposter Mohammed." There seem to be vast times in Christian history when the name Mohammed is scarcely used without this prior designation. Now in light of the Pope's gesture, in light of a valid ecumenism, and in light of world situation demanding fraternal respect and cooperation in order to avoid horrors, this would seem to be a very destructive, insulting, and unacceptable approach in the present day. Of course, such a way of speaking, insulting their deeply revered founder, is also not at all helpful toward attracting and converting Muslims, toward inspiring them to take a fresh look at Christ as really the God-Man, rather than merely a highly respected forerunner to Mohammed. Nor is this approach justified in light of the fact that there is much good and truth in their religion (even if as Christians we believe these dimensions go back mainly Old and New Testaments and the early years of the Church, i.e. borrowed from the Judeo-Christian tradition itself).
2) Some think Mohammed simply deceived himself into thinking he was having revelations and was a victim of his own pride and vanity here (or even epileptic fits). Again, not the best first step in trying to appeal to Muslims to think seriously about taking a fresh look at Christ, i.e. simply calling their founding hero either sick, a psycho, or an egomaniac. All of the objections raised in Point #1 count here as well. We as Christians know that if someone opens up insulting Jesus Christ, our natural reaction is to turn away from or be highly suspicious of their further message. It follows that Muslims would react in the same way if we insult Muhammad.
3) I think it could be argued that Mohammed may actually have received private revelations from above in his cave near Mecca. However, a difficulty here is that the standard Muslim interpretation is that Mohammed was a pure vessel of the revelation of God directly, i.e., that nothing in his personality or milieu touched or effected the "revelations" in any way, but that they are God talking directly from heaven through a chosen mouthpiece. This interpretation, of course, Christians would have to reject. But Christians could accept that Mohammed did receive private revelations from a messenger of God but that in fact those revelations were filtered through the human vessel of his personality. Thereby those private revelations may have been misunderstood, misinterpreted, and distorted: a) by Mohammed's own personal faults, b) by his reception of the revelations in light of his surrounding milieu through which he would naturally have interpreted them, and c) by interpreting his private revelations in the context of his incomplete, faulty, and distorted contact with Jewish and Christian scriptures and beliefs. I think this third possibility is a real one that acknowledges some supernatural origin to the Koran (the OT and NT as remote causes, private revelations interpreted by a fallible human being as the immediate cause).
4) However, a problem arises with Point #3 even within the Islamic tradition itself (often not a popular topic of discussion, and disputed by some as to historical accuracy, but with evidence for the historicity of the account) in that Mohammed himself admitted at one point that he was deceived by Satan in certain of his revelations (the "Satanic verses"). In a crisis situation, while under persecution by the Meccans, he seems to have proclaimed that the 3 goddesses worshipped by the Meccans were valid objects of worship for his followers (contradicting his monotheism). This caused the Meccans to stop the persecution of the Muslims and to flock to Mohammed. However, he later claimed he was deceived by Satan in this proclamation about the three goddesses and rejected this "new" teaching. Then the persecution returned. Yet Mohammed himself seems to admit error here in being deceived by Satan. [Note that some Muslims today deny the historical accuracy of the "Satanic Verses" account, and threaten with death anyone who speaks of them. However, some even within Islam accept the historicity of the account.]
So in light of all this, it seems to me that in trying to interpret the status of the Koran as a holy book, we may have some entangled combination of (now listed in order of importance):
1) some genuine remnants of God's true revelation as delivered to the prophets and patriarchs of the Old Testament and fulfilled in Christ in the New Testament (yet distorted, misunderstood and only partially known by Mohammed),
2) some actual private revelations from a divine messenger to Mohammed (yet again at times distorted and misunderstood in various ways in their interpretation by both Mohammed and his followers when passing through the human vessel),
3) some interjection of purely human dynamism via Mohammed's own charismatic and complicated personality and human faults, and …
4) some possibility of deception by Satan himself, as seemingly admitted in at least one case by Mohammed himself.
It seems to me the most fruitful attitude to adopt today in a respectful and ecumenical approach to Islam would be to more emphasize the positive possibilities of the above and then to try to show how Islam and the Koran actually point toward and are fulfilled by Christ, despite Muslim claims that it is the other way around. [One can also build such arguments to some extent from within the Koran itself, though of course this is not the "orthodox" Muslim mode of interpretation. My son Michael happens to be working on just this perspective for his doctoral dissertation for the International Academy of Philosophy.]
So we as Christians can acknowledge that the Koran contains many elements of God's genuine supernatural revelation traced back to the Old and New Testaments and the early centuries of the Church, some private revelations to Mohammed, and some insights on the level of human experience and reasoning, together with distortions, exaggerations, omissions, and deceptions that may have come from human or devilish origin. Pope John Paul II seemed to think there was enough good here to give the book a solemn and respectful kiss.
Jun. 9, 2009, at 12:29pm
Since we launched the Personalist Project, I have heard by email from the Amazon jungle, from China, from the Phillipines, the Middle East, and Europe. The other day we heard from someone who had found us through Google. He's Polish, working on an Australian oil rig, and reading Josef Seifert's book, Back to Things in Themselves.
Jun. 9, 2009, at 11:26am
I just got this good question by email from a friend who studied personalist philosophy as an undergrad. It's one that comes up often in Catholic circles.
Dear Katie,
Have just happened upon the excitement on your website as I was searching for a good definition of Personalist philosophy to send to someone here in—.
Just out of interest (and because I am working two jobs for the foreseeable future and don't have time to explore all the good links on your website), can you tell me if the issue of "It is better to marry than to burn with passion" 1 Corinthians 7:9 has come up yet in your discussions. This has always rankled, as it seems to condone the using of one's spouse as an object. However, in certain Church circles, I am told that this is morally acceptable. This is closely allied with the concept of "conjugal rights", which also mystifies me. If a woman (and it is almost always this way around) has had her trust in her husband eroded by anger and/or violence, subjectively, for her, conjugal relations can become something akin to physical violation. As a sponsor [in a 12-step program], I come up against this problem a lot.
Here is the response I sent:
Our discussions are just getting off the ground, so only a few topics have been raised. Maria Fedoryka has some great thoughts on "conjugal rights", which I'll see if I can entice her to share. Basically the idea behind "better to marry than burn" and "remedy for concupiscence" is that true spousal love can overcome the tendency to treat sex as a mere appetite and another person as an object for my pleasure.
As for conjugal rights I see it this way: when a woman pledges herself to her husband she is his alone. She had no right to give herself sexually or romantically to anyone else. It does not mean that her husband has a right to enjoy her sexually whenever he pleases. He still has a duty in love to try win by his love a response of love in her. She has a duty to be open to his love, not necessarily his sexual advances—especially if she senses that they are impure.
Jun. 8, 2009, at 11:34am
There is a fascinating article in the current issue of the Middle East Quarterly on the question of violence in religion. Its author, Raymond Ibrahim, takes issue with those who contend that there is no significant difference between the place of violence in the Muslim and Judeo-Christian traditions.
Here's an excerpt:
In light of the above, as Armstrong, Esposito, Jenkins, and others argue, why should Jews and Christians point to the Qur'an as evidence of Islam's violence while ignoring their own scriptures and history?
Bible versus Qur'an
The answer lies in the fact that such observations confuse history and theology by conflating the temporal actions of men with what are understood to be the immutable words of God. The fundamental error is that Judeo-Christian history (which is violent) is being conflated with Islamic theology (which commands violence). Of course, the three major monotheistic religions have all had their share of violence and intolerance towards the other. Whether this violence is ordained by God or whether warlike men merely wished it thus is the key question.
Old Testament violence is an interesting case in point. God clearly ordered the Hebrews to annihilate the Canaanites and surrounding peoples. Such violence is therefore an expression of God's will, for good or ill. Regardless, all the historic violence committed by the Hebrews and recorded in the Old Testament is just that: history. It happened; God commanded it. But it revolved around a specific time and place and was directed against a specific people. At no time did such violence go on to become standardized or codified into Jewish law. In short, biblical accounts of violence are descriptive, not prescriptive.
I would love to see this question, too, taken up by personalist philosophers, especially in view of the imperative of inter-religious dialogue and the problems related to freedom raised, for instance, in Josef Seifert's post below.
Jun. 7, 2009, at 12:51pm
Speaking of Newman:
Last week the Personalist Project sponsored its first Directors and Advisers retreat in beautiful Spring Lake, NJ. Eleven of us gathered for three days of leisurely philosophical communion on the theme of forgiveness. To get us in the right frame of mind for approaching such a mysterious and fearful reality, Michael Healy read us Newman's sermon, "Secret Faults" on Sunday evening.
I yield to no one in devotion to Newman. To me he is the great thinker of the whole modern period, as well as an unsurpassed personal influence. But I have doubts about this sermon. I remember John Crosby once saying that the more he reads Newman's Anglican sermons, the more he feels in them "a certain limit." Specifically, John thought, they seem to lack a certain "Catholic fulness" in the sense of God's mercy. I felt that limit Sunday.
While I agree line by line with what Newman says in this sermon, I wonder whether in its general drift it doesn't incline toward a kind of moral heaviness, even skepticism—as if I must at all times cultivate such a lively awareness of my own sinfulness that I must constantly doubt my moral condition and shrink from objecting to wrongs.
This is an unfinished thought, needing much more clarification, but I am wondering whether others on the retreat reacted similarly.
A verse from the second reading at today's liturgy jumped out at me in this connection:
"The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if only we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him."


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By Ross Colvin and Jim Vicini
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel withdrew her name from consideration on Friday after Republicans strongly opposed her nomination.
The White House said Obama accepted Dawn Johnsen's request to withdraw her bid for confirmation after it became clear that Republicans in the Senate would not allow her to be confirmed.
"After years of politicization of the office during the previous administration, the president believes it is time for the Senate to move beyond politics and allow the Office of Legal Counsel to serve the role it was intended to -- to provide impartial legal advice and constitutional analysis to the executive branch," said White House spokesman Ben LaBolt.
Johnsen, an Indiana University law professor who served as acting head of the Office of Legal Counsel under President Bill Clinton, had repeatedly criticized the Bush administration's use of harsh methods to interrogate suspected terrorists.
Johnsen also argued strongly in favor of abortion rights and was the legal director of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League from 1988-93.
In a statement in March, Republican senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee singled out Johnsen's views on abortion and the war on terrorism, saying her "record of extremism and partisanship makes her completely inappropriate to lead the Office of Legal Counsel."
"Even in a Senate as committed to partisan pursuits as this majority has been, Dawn Johnsen's nomination was a bridge too far," Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Friday.
"There was bipartisan opposition to this nominee and we welcome the withdrawal," he said.
Johnsen said in a statement that the Office of Legal Counsel must provide advice "unvarnished by politics or partisan ambition." In her new role, she had hoped to restore the office "to its best nonpartisan traditions."
"Unfortunately, my nomination has met with lengthy delays and political opposition that threaten that objective and prevent OLC from functioning at full strength," she said.
The White House's LaBolt praised Johnsen as a highly respected constitutional scholar.
"Her credentials are exemplary and her commitment to the rule of law has been proven time and again, but it is now clear that Senate Republicans will not allow her to be confirmed.
Obama is working on naming a replacement and will call on the Senate to act swiftly to confirm the nominee, he said.

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It's the nature of this year's Georgia team that for every performance or trend that gets fans excited there's something disturbing to fret over. Here are the more notable ones from this week. …
The offensive line so far is only average. They did a pretty good job of protecting Joe Cox Saturday night, keeping ASU sackmeister Dexter Davis at bay, but Cox was hurried several times, including on the first of his interceptions when a blocker failed to pick up a stunt by one of the Sun Devil defenders. The run blocking was also poor, expecially in short yardage situations. Every time the Dogs needed just a yard, it seemed the line got no push at all. Yes, there's been some reshuffling by coach Stacy Searels in the wake of the loss of Trinton Sturdivant in the opening game, but considering the collective experience and versatility of this bunch, you'd have expected the OL to be further along at this point. And the false starts just have to stop.
A.J. Green is phenomenal. As long as he's on the field, Georgia fans should feel optimistic.
Joe Cox is running hot and cold. He made some great throws Saturday night, particularly to A.J. Green and Rantavious Wooten, but he also threw two boneheaded picks on the same skinny post pattern to the same defender and threw into double or triple coverage too many times. Cox is still a relative rookie and hopefully will learn from these mistakes.
Turnovers. Argh! This merits a separate discussion, but it's a trend that can't continue. The fact that Georgia is 3-1 after giving up three turnovers in each of its games is mind-boggling. How long can Georgia defy the odds?
These Dogs are comeback kids. This may explain why the turnovers haven't proved fatal since the opener. Unlike last year's Dogs, this team refuses to give up. They've come from behind in each of their three victories. That trait, combined with Georgia's obvious talent, is a reason to be extremely hopeful.
But where did the running game go? Neither Caleb King nor Richard Samuel seems to want to lay claim to the job fulltime. King so far is the more productive runner, but he's plagued by fumbles and dropped passes. Samuel showed what he can do with a big opening against Arkansas, but he doesn't run hard consistently and still goes down to easily. I think King is our best bet, but he needs to step his game up a couple of notches.
Which defense will show up against LSU? Hopefully the one we saw Saturday night and not the one from the two previous games, since the Tigers are likely to come out throwing long after their success in that aspect of the game this past week. Georgia did get a lot more pressure on the QB against Arizona State, but they weren't facing a first-rate offense. And while the pass defense was better this week, the rushing defense lapsed a bit. Still, progress was made. Now let's see if Willie Martinez can dial up that kind of performance from his players two weeks in a row.
By the way, it was great to see Geno Atkins get a couple of big stops. It seems like starting Kade Weston over Atkins lit a fire under him.
Players I look forward to seeing in action more: Rantavious Wooten, who had a couple of clutch catches Saturday; Justin Houston, who gives the Dogs a legitimate pass rush; and Cornelius Washington, who shows the potential to complement Houston in that area.
What else did you see that makes you feel good or has you concerned?
September 28th, 2009
10:44 am
Rambo needs to start
IF we insert Logan Gray try something besides the option please
If we have a short yardage situation try a play action fake and hit one of those big tight ends for a first down
Put #30 in the slot and throw it to him in space
September 28th, 2009
10:50 am
ugag should feel good because they don't have to play Tech until late November.
ugag should feel bad because they know the Tech game in November in inevitable.
45-42…glad it hurts so bad….and it is only the beginning.
There is a new sheriff in town…his name is Paul Johnson…and he is the real deal.
September 28th, 2009
10:51 am
When UGA gets a lead for Mike Bobo to not shred his offensive play book and to keep using what is working. ps… We are not fooling anyone anymore with the anticipated full back dive.
Also. a ASU field goal was make after a pooch kick gave ASU the ball on their 38. Scrap the pooch kick already.
September 28th, 2009
10:52 am
Blair Walsh may be (may be) the best kicker in America. Glad to have him. Gray needs more PT and please dont run the read option every freakin time!!! Cox stares down his recievers wayyy to much, need to work on looking people off. The running backs carry the ball in the wrong hand still, that is awfully unacceptable!!! fundamentals fundamentals fundamentals
September 28th, 2009
10:54 am
September 28th, 2009
10:56 am
I'd like to see Bobo back on the sidelines coaching QBs and let Tony Ball or Stacy Searels call plays for a few games. 22 rushing attempts by our RBs on a rainy day like that in the SEC? I'm sick of QBs calling the plays, let a RB coach or OL coach call the plays for a minute.
September 28th, 2009
10:56 am
Looking at the Top 25 this year (or at least #4 -#25), you have just described every team in the nation. It's gonna be a crazy year in CFB. I'm glad this team fights to the end…that's great team leadership that started in the off-season.
September 28th, 2009
10:57 am
Tech fan here. I will hand it to UGA's players, they are resilient and never quit…they remind me a little of some of the old Dooley teams that always seemed to find a way to make their own breaks. That should breed a lot of confidence as they move through the season. See you on the Flats in November!
September 28th, 2009
10:58 am
m, you are an idiot. where were you last week? I am glad beating a sorry NC team in a sorry conf makes you feel good.
P.S. CPJ needs to cut down on the G— D— word in the sideline.
September 28th, 2009
10:59 am
Always been a big fan of Coach Richt but something isn't right here. To be as sloppy, careless and/or inept as we are much of time is inexcusable. The AZ State QB could barely throw the ball yet on 3rd & 7+ we rush only 3 guys? That's absurd. There is absolutely no threat of our D forcing a play… pretty pathetic.
The turnovers are mind boggling. We are undisciplined to a point that it's bizarre. We have talent so the spotlight in on this staff. To be 3-1 is amazing. If we don't clean up just about every aspect of our game, LSU will whip us… and they aren't even that good. If we play well we'll win but through 4 games we've played well zero times.
September 28th, 2009
11:01 am
Didn't I read where LSU hired the former UT DC? If so, man, he is tough on the Dawgs. He shut down the high powered '07 team…..
September 28th, 2009
11:02 am
I'm afraid that Bobo sometimes falls into the habit of extreme predicatability. Sometimes it looked like the ASU defenders were in the huddle when the play is called. I realize that the OL needs to run block better but it appeared that the usually correctly guessed when we were going to run it up the gut and crowded the line and also correctly guessed when we were going to throw deep and put in a nickel package. We also seemed to get away too quickly from the few plays that worked consistently, ie. those that were short, quick passes to our athletes in space that let them capitalize on our superior athletic abilities. Overall, just a disconcerting offensive game plan.
Kudos to the defense though. They really stepped up.
September 28th, 2009
11:03 am
Play selection on the 4th and 1 was not very good to say the least. Blame the offensive line if you want but the whole ASU defense was jammed up right in the middle. Fake it to the full back and toss it outside to the tailback bet he would still be running. Offense played against a good solid defense and had an off night. Not surprising considering the fact that two previous games were shootouts. This week will be a big test. Can we run the ball against a tough defense? Short play action passes w/ occasional long balls would open up the running game. Saw improvement in the defense especially in getting more pressure on passer so was encouraged by that. Run defense was off at times. I disagree w/ you that we played a sub-par offense. I think their offense is pretty good and well coached. They also have alot of seniors on the team. I like the fact that we don't give up and go for 60 minutes. However, would be nice to watch w/ the game not being in doubt in the 4th qtr. If we don't get alot better by Saturday it may be that way but on the bad side.
September 28th, 2009
11:03 am
TIMMY'S HURT-TIMMY'S HURT-TIMMY'S HURT. Notice- The University of Florida has announced that they will not acknowledge any losses they may incur since their fabled quartetback, Tim Tebow, was hurt in Saturday's game against Kentucky. Just like losses incurred in the 07 season when Timmy's shoulder was bothering him they do not count against mighty Florida. Urban Meyer has notified both the BCS and Lee Corso they will not be responsible for lost games or even close games even if Timmy complains of a slight headache. While other teams struggle and improvise with injuries to key players this is not going to happen to Florida. Florida must remain the #1 team in the country even if it loses the rest of its games.
September 28th, 2009
11:05 am
"m" 45-42 doesn't hurt near as bad as 1-7 and from what I've seen so far this year UGA has nothing to fear as far as GT is concerned. LSU and Miami have both shown that GT's offense is a flash in the pan. I respect Paul Johnson and what he's trying to accomplish at GT, but he's going to have to get a lot more creative if he hopes to compete successfully in the ACC and against SEC teams. Tech is an 8-4 team at best this year and could do worse than that.
UGA starts it's next 7 game win streak this year against Tech.
September 28th, 2009
11:06 am
Here is a reason to feel bad: Our players were dancing in the huddle on the last drive…when we were not even winning. I was embarassed. Another: After kicking a field goal to beat a team we should have defeated handily, our players celebrated like they just won the Super Bowl. I was again embarassed.
Standing in the rain screaming for the home team to make a play for 3 hours. I should have been screaming for them to show some class.
September 28th, 2009
11:07 am
Player I'm looking forward to seeing more action: Bacarri Rambo. Bryan Evans, I think you might have lost your starting job.
September 28th, 2009
11:13 am
You highlight King's fumbles???!????? King is light years ahead of Samuel as a runner AND a blocker. And if we are going to have to suffer through rookie mistakes we might as well let an ACTUAL freshman with upside make and learn from those mistakes. Sit Cox and Evans and play to win now and for the future.
September 28th, 2009
11:16 am
I agree Reebok, except Dooley's teams were fundamentally sound. He would have run these players ragged in practice for the penalties and turnovers…
September 28th, 2009
11:17 am
Brian I agree! King has played two games and even Coach Richt says the fumble was from Ben Jones hitting him. I wouldn't call that "plagued". Comparing the productivity, I don't think it's fair to conclude there's no difference between King and Samuel. King has shown he wants the job and he's not *plagued* by anything yet – he's only played twice this season!
September 28th, 2009
11:18 am
Any Washaun Ealey sightings?
Can he run to the right side on a sweep and carry the ball on his right side? If so ….put him in coach…
September 28th, 2009
11:20 am
A bunch of 18-22 year old kids dancing to the music blaring over the loud speaker is classless? Ummm why else do think they would play a song like "swag surfin?" Surely not to fire up the alumni. Let the boys have some fun. It's a football game.
September 28th, 2009
11:27 am
MARLON BROWN – anyone know why he is not getting playing time? I see Wooten out there but was wondering if anyone knew about Brown?
September 28th, 2009
11:28 am
still scratching my head on these Dawgs- this game, D looked good, but the O was horrible. TURNOVERS will cost us the season. Playcalling has been mind-boggling- dont know if Bobo or Richt are making these calls. All i can hope and pray for is that this is a rebuilding year and we will improve as the games go on.
September 28th, 2009
11:29 am
Yes, DawgGirl32 it was classless! Uuugh is correct.
September 28th, 2009
11:32 am
can logan gray throw the ball
September 28th, 2009
11:40 am
My wife and I did stand in the rain from after the Dawg Walk till the Walsh field goal. We stayed and watched the team celebrate with the students that were amazing in their support through out that miserable day of weather. I was not a fan of the dancing during the game no matter if they were winning or losing as their time should have been focused on the next play. But with the thousand minutes of ESPN running commercials, stopping the game for anything including someone sneezing, there was way to much time with nothing to do except stare at each other. I would think the coach's may address this this week and maybe not as much in game till appropriate times. I have NO problem with what type of music they want to celebrate with. I seem to remember listing to the PA system playing "Another One Bites The Dust" during the eighties and "Who let the Dogs Out?" when that was the in thing. To be honest I don't pay much attention to what is being played as it is for the students and if it pumps them up then good for them. You have to remember that the band had to put away most of their instruments and couldn't play due to the weather thus the increase of PA music. The volume could be tempered a bit I agree (have to let the 50 year old in me come out ) but IMHO I think the music is there for the students as I know they wouldn't want to hear what I grew up with either. I just think the players got caught up with the other kids and that was all there was to it. Let the coach's take care of it as I'm sure they will.
September 28th, 2009
11:41 am
Dawggirl I agree with you. Momentum is key and standing on the sidelines being mopey zaps momentum. Just think about high school pep rallies – the music and the noise… I would rather see them wound up than not!!
September 28th, 2009
11:43 am
Where in the World is Marlon Brown??
September 28th, 2009
11:48 am
Another decade is about to pass without a national championship….I wonder how long before Richt is run out of Athens?
September 28th, 2009
11:48 am
I agree but all this needs to be confined to the sideline not on the field during the game. The side line dancing was a better sight than seeing them throwing helmets, screaming at each other and pointing fingers. I love seeing the confidence in their team even if they are losing or tied.
September 28th, 2009
11:49 am
lock of the week- UGA beats LSU with ole' third and Chavis running the show at LSU.
September 28th, 2009
11:50 am
let the kids have fun, that's what its all about, right? go dawgs…
my source, nephew, was right last week,,, Rambo did make some plays.. i'll talk to him later this week to see how things are going at practice. another kid he said is pretty darn good but flies under the radar is brandon wood..
September 28th, 2009
11:52 am
Bobo play calling is predictable. At least 5 times Sat. night I turned to my son sitting next to me and called the play. Do you think the ASU DC was able to do the same thing? Hey Bobo, the fullback dive play on short yardage is no longer a surprise to defenses. We never went down the middle to the tight end. One time Charles went down the middle and was open by 10 yards but Cox threw an out pattern that went incomplete to a covered receiver. Does he know how to look for open receivers? Often I get a sense he will throw to the designed receiver on a play regardless of the coverage. Our team still needs to mature in many areas before they can be called good.
September 28th, 2009
11:54 am
m you are trying to be fuuny right? Talk to David Letterman, he might get you on his show. He likes nonfunny humor.
September 28th, 2009
11:54 am
I can only speculate, but my guess is that Marlon Brown is not quite ready for SEC football. He went to a small private school in Memphis that is probably equivalent to a tiny GISA school—the guys he looks great against in his highlight reels are 5′8″, slow and unathletic—-probably didn't play against any college bound DBs and certainly not D-1.
I think with some time, he will be good.
September 28th, 2009
12:01 pm
Agree that Caleb King may deserve the starting tailback job next week. He's had some setbacks in his career but it looks like he may have come back down to Earth and won't become another Jasper Sanks.
Every team is different but if dancing is what it takes to keep their energy level high during interruptions in play, then so be it. Also, I have no problem whatsoever in a team celebrating a last second win snatched from the jaws of defeat. These are not professionals – let them enjoy the moment. Monday practice is when that kind of celebration should be run out of them.
September 28th, 2009
12:02 pm
Top three things I see a needing improvement or change:
1) Penalties
2) Turnovers
3) Play calling
a) Calling Logan grey to run the option read…EVERY time on his one and only offensive appearance.
b) Running the wide out pass when the corners and OSL have obviously diagnosed it every time.
c) Directional kicking.
Top three things that are right:
1) A. J. Greene
2) Blair Walsh
3) Justin Houston
September 28th, 2009
12:07 pm
Jerry Springer nation had a close game !!!!!!!! hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
September 28th, 2009
12:08 pm
Joey, don't know if you're still out there, but talking about Dooley got me thinking about Erk Russell…deal god…can you imagine the pain and fear he would have inflicted on this defense???
September 28th, 2009
12:11 pm
LSU will win this one with ease."Book It"
September 28th, 2009
12:12 pm
Logan Gray also falls under my previous predictability comment. Either you trust him to make a throw or you don't. If you're just putting him in there to run, you might as well direct snap it to the tailback. At least that might catch the defense off guard.
September 28th, 2009
12:13 pm
Sorry to upset y'all…the dancing during the huddle struck me as showboating. And frankly our guys do WAY too much of it. Do they really think that performance was worth celebrating? The defense, who admittedly looked better on Saturday, is especially guilty. For 2 or 3 years they make a good play on 2nd down and get up jumping around like the made a sack on 4th down or recovered a fumble. It is like they don't understand the down and distance or how the game is going. You can't take 8 plays off, look terrible doing it, wake up for a play, then dance around after you make a tackle. Why on earth do the coaches think it is acceptable for our players to celebrate a tackle after giving up 8 yards!? "Hooray they didn't score a touchdown!" Is that what we are celebrating!? Maybe "Hooray its 2nd down and 2 to go…Our odds are much better for a stop now!"
If you want to celebrate, do it in the locker room, after the game. We celebrate so much it helps to motivate the teams we play. Just win baby and don't showboat while you are doing it.
It has been suggested that the music gets the players motivated. I thought that was the coach's job…not to mention the fact that their free education should be motivation enough. What about not losing or school pride…doesn't that provide any motivation?
Play the music if that is what the students like during the breaks…but I would hope that we are trying to coach the kids up on the sidelines. Maybe trying to fix some of the mistakes that we make every single game!? That seems like a better use of that time than dancing…but then again that's just me.
September 28th, 2009
12:16 pm
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September 28th, 2009
12:17 pm
Samuel goes down too easy? From my view, it usually takes more than one to bring him down. I wouldn't call that too easy.
September 28th, 2009
12:18 pm
Also…can we refrain from using the tired "Book it" to punctuate your post? It doesn't add any gravity to your post…and at this point is more annoying than "God and Greyhound."
"God and Greyhound" still not funny since 1992.
"Book it" removing any semblance of intelligence from blog posts since 2001.
Uuugh single handedly trying to make this blog a nicer place.
September 28th, 2009
12:19 pm
DawgGirl82, playing the game IS the fun part.
September 28th, 2009
12:20 pm
To all tech fans:
North Carolina is a football joke ………always has been and always will be. At season's end, they will be sitting on a 7-5 year. They will lose to no good Va Tech, to FSU, also no good and to Miami, also no good and to Tech ……..Yes, also NO GOOD> the ACC is a clown conference and ALL of the ESPN announcers giggle when the ACC is mentioned. A laughing stock. Clemson got slaughtered by mighty TCU and VA TECH got pounded by Bama. See?
September 28th, 2009
12:21 pm
I agree DawgGirl32. The T.V. timeouts are long and suck to say the least. There's nothing wrong with them dancing and enjoying themselves. The players deserve that at least, after all they're the ones that have sacrificed all year long. I hear alumni screaming for ASU's QB to break his leg and some were booing our guys. That is classless.
September 28th, 2009
12:24 pm
Whatever happened to that quick-count, jumbo package we ran successfully a few years back on 3rd/4th and short? Seemed like that worked better than the fullback play we now run.


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Welcome to our Mathematics section. On this page you will find teaching presentations for each lesson taught, except problem solving activities, additional information about specific math skills, links to practice skills, and homework sheets that can be printed out if you have forgotten your homework book. Due to changes in the curriculum the lesson power points have been removed from the site. If you would like these power points sent to you please send me an email request.
We will be using the Math Connects program to learn. To see an online addition of our textbook, a math glossary, a tool chest, and a media center go to http://www.mhschool.com/math/mathconnects/grade4/sg4c1lesson1.html. To access the online textbook go to the link given and then click on the 4th Grade textbook and put in the code given to you on the Math Connects magnet that was sent home.
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Chapter 1: Use Place Value to Represent Whole Numbers
Chapter 2: Solve Addition and Subtraction Problems
Chapter 3: Organize, Display, and Interpret Data
Chapter 4: Apply Multiplication and Division Facts
Chapter 5: Describe Algebraic Pattern
Chapter 6: Multiply One-Digit Numbers
Chapter 7: Multiply Two-Digit Numbers
Chapter 8: Divide by One-Digit Numbers
Chapter 9: Identify and Describe Geometric Figures
Chapter 10: Understand and Develop Spatial Reasoning
Chapter 11: Measure Length, Area, and Temperature
Chapter 12: Measure Capacity, Weight, and Volume
Chapter 13: Describe and Compare Fractions
Chapter 14: Use Place Value to Represent Decimals
Chapter 15: Add and Subtract Decimals
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Longtime Oconomowoc superintendent, Neudecker, announces retirement
Oconomowoc Area School District - Longtime Superintendent Pat Neudecker plans to retire at the end of the school year.
Neudecker has been with the district for 13 years, serving the last nine years as superintendent.
She came to the district as principal of Oconomowoc Middle School in January 1999 and was made director of curriculum in 2000.
She holds a master's degree in administration and a doctorate in educational leadership and policy analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Neudecker send an email to board members Dec. 12 in which she noted that she planned to tell her staff the following day. Her resignation is expected to be accepted at the School Board meeting tonight.
"It's difficult to find words to explain how you'll miss Pat. She has been such a steadying force for the district and is so connected with the community and has so much respect from the community. It's hard to let go," said School Board President Don Wiemer.
Neudecker has steered the district through challenging times that included failing facilities and dire financial straits. She is credited with shepherding the district out of a perilous financial condition that she inherited when a $2.7 million deficit was discovered in 2004.
Under her leadership, the district reorganized its business services department, made budget cuts, placed a freeze on expenditures and hired Mike Barry to be assistant superintendent of business services.
Neudecker saw positive results from efforts she led to build new schools and construct additions to Oconomowoc High School.
It was on her watch that the community passed a $49.6 million building referendum after several previous failed attempts by her predecessor. Two new intermediate schools, a new performing arts center and a field house addition at the high school were greenlighted by voters in 2006. In addition, Neudecker has led the district to become the fastest-growing school district in the county, and among the fastest-growing districts in the state.
Since 2003-04, enrollment has surged by about 1,000 students.
Other accomplishments for the superintendent include a three-year, $1.4 million plan for technology improvements, which broke the project into three phases. Phase 1 included upgraded electrical service and routers. The second phase installed wireless receiver technology and network switches in each school, and lastly a fiber-optic network connected the schools.
"I understand Pat's motivation. She has parents and children and grandchildren, and she wants to spend time with them," Board member Mike Bickler said of her retirement.
"She's been working very, very hard for a long time in Oconomowoc, and it's time for family. Part of me is very selfish and sad to see her go, and another part is happy for her. I'm very conflicted," Bickler added.
Wiemer said the board will have to meet to decide how to proceed in looking for her replacement.
"What is so great is that I believe the School District will attract top people looking for a superintendent job. We have newer facilities, growing enrollment and great staff. Pat's got the foundation, the walls built and the roof on. Now we have to move it forward," Wiemer said.
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