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Life in Stevens Point
Life in Stevens Point was different. If you weren't Polish or Catholic you
had a hard time fitting in. It was a nice town but if you weren't connected
to the college or were not polish, things didn't seemed to go along very
well. My parents were both college graduates and the three of us, went to
the campus school, when we were in grade school. It was a very religious
town, in fact basically, the majority was made up of Catholics.
My father was born in the town of Linwood and he meant my mother in college. He was majoring in dentistry, and my mother was a home economics major and taught at the Mid State College as a Home Economics Coordinator. We lived for awhile with my father's mother and dad and at times, my mother would say it was hard raising 3 girls, because my grandmother had a lot to say about it. They had their differences on how children should be raised, but other than that they seemed to get along fine.
Life at the campus school was great. We had all the student teachers that were majoring in education. We did have a head teacher, but most of our classes were taught by college students. The classes were small and we all knew one another, almost like an extended family. Most of the kids had parents as college graduates like my parents, so we all seemed to have the same life style. Most of us were protestant, but we did have two students that were Jewish and we celebrated their holidays along with ours. Art class was my happy time, don't get me wrong I liked the other classes, but art was my favorite. Edna Carlsten was my art teacher and she got me interested in going into the field, and I went on to major in art at UWSP.
My mother was a teacher so she had summers off and we would spend our summers in Barnum, where my mother was from. She would go down there to visit her mother and the place was country like, so she could let us kids roam free without worrying about us. My father also had a break because he would have the whole summer away from us kids and he seemed to enjoy the time to himself. We would go down to Barnum, right after school was out and not return until school began in the fall. We loved it down there, it was so peaceful compared to the city life. We could find so many things to do, without actually spending a lot of money and it gave my mother time to be with her mother and her family because some of her family lived down there also.
High School was a lot different than grade school. It was PJ Jacobs High School on Main Street. You either liked it or you didn't and I choose not to care for that section of my life. I came from a small interwoven grade school and liked that environment. I was also in the school band playing the clarinet and my friends were cheerleaders, and I was disappointed. But I enjoyed college and just forgot about my high school years of misery.
My father's parents Thomas James Porter died in 1947 and Elizabeth (Lizzie) Ault died in 1949 and my father took over the store. The store was a two-story brick building with an apartment flat above it. The flat had a place for two living quarters. Kitchen, dinning room, living room, 2 bedrooms and a bathroom and then a separate quarters for extra living conditions, which became remodeled into a two extra bedrooms after my grandparents died. My cousin Lavern Marion Junior came to live with us after my grandparents died and he went to college and eventually we got another college student Rose Mary and she took care of us kids, which gave our parents sometime off. Then we seemed to have female college students stay at our place and help my mother out with us kids and we use to have fun, because they were into the school thing and helped us with our home work and entertainment.
Porter's Market was sold in 1966, and the building was demolished for another retail business. My father took on another occupation and mother continued teaching, They moved to a house on Jordan and Sommers streets in Stevens Point. Us three girls eventually moved out and went on to college and formed our own lives..
There were many different things about Stevens Point. The Market Square was one attraction. Farmers from all over the county would bring their produce and sell them as fresh, home grown products, which the whole town seemed to appreciate. My mother was down there a lot. You could buy produce very reasonable and the vegetables didn't contain the preservative spray that was found in the food stores. She would always say, it was so much healthier for you, that preservative spray was not good for you, but she understood why it was used.
Portage County was also known for growing potatoes, and if you want to have the potato thing, live in Stevens Point and you can have potatoes in every variety , shape and form. It's interesting in how you can make a whole meal out of potatoes and a few added extra's. But you have to live in Stevens Point, in order to get educated in Polish Potato meals.
A beautiful place in Stevens Point is the territory on the Wisconsin River by the Mill. Spillway is a unique picturesque dream land. The water flowing over the rocks is so soothing to the mind and a beauty of God's creation, but it is also a very dangerous place, because there has been many fatal accidents of fisherman going over the spillway to their death. People in the area loved to fish and they love to fish in the area of spillway and the many islands. It is a beautiful peaceful haven, a dreamland where someone can relax after a stressful, hard working week.
The town was also known for Paper Mills, years ago they use to rolled the logs down the Wisconsin River, over Big Bull Falls, Little Bull Falls and Spillway, from the logging camps north of Stevens Point and park them in the slough or the booms and then transport them to the Mills. The Wisconsin River log drivers became known as "white water" river Pilots because in the spring, the snow thaw and run off caused the river to become a raging torrent, and that is what was needed to transport these logs to the mills. The Legend of the River pilot was one such story and his grave is along the river side near Spillway.
Then there is Hertiage Park, south of Stevens Point in the town of Plover. It is the result of Maurice Perrets's and John Anderson foresite the late 1970's. It consists of old buildings and structures that are intended to be preserved and show what life was like in Portage County between 1870 and 1910.
Stevens Point is considered a small unique, different type of a town, small enough to be out of the big city life, for crime is scarce, but big enough to have some existence and entertainment in a different way.
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Look for RPO clarinetist Robert DiLutis on tonight's broadcast of the New York Philharmonic's broadcast from North Korea on WXXI-TV at 9:00 p.m.
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Check out this picture of North Korea taken by satellite at night. It says a lot about the country's insular, repressive regime. This morning I got the chance to interview clarinetist Robert Dilutis of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. He's traveling as a sub with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
RPO clarinetist in North Korea
Word on the street is that Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra clarinetist Robert DiLutis is in North Korea with the New York Philharmonic. He was tapped to sub for someone who couldn't go.
On Tuesday, the orchestra will play in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. This is the first visit by an American cultural group to that country since President Bush lumped it into the "axis of evil." According to the State Department, President Bush is encouraging the visit.
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This week, when she plays the same piece with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, she'll hear it in a whole new light. Read my concert preview in this week's City newspaper here:
Cellist wonders what to do next
I discovered a blog kept by a cellist living in Houston, studying at Rice University. He's preparing to audition in Rochester for a spot with the RPO. He writes:
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I was going to write a blog today that started with the line, "facebook is evil."
But I need more time on that subject. Check back later.
Instead, here's an interesting news item about the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.
Less than 1 percent of the repertory that orchestras played last year was composed by a black or Latino composer. The RPO has joined a new, national consortium of orchestras to commission major orchestral works from minority composers.
It's enigmatically named the Sphinx Commissioning Consortium.
Read more here:
On Saturday night, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra opened with Fantasia on an Ostinato by John Corigliano, a short piece based on a famous repetitive passage by Ludwig van Beethoven (the second movement of Symphony No. 7.)
I loved it, but others reacted differently.
A Rochester blogger who went to the concert with her husband wrote,
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The RPO's Annual Meeting, Having Been Held in Rochester's Opulent Eastman Theatre, Later Discussed by The Busts of Bach and Beethoven Over the Exits
Johann: Grüß dich! That brass quintet, sehr gut! Don't you think, my old friend?
Ludwig: Ja, ja, I almost heard it! I think it was almost as compelling as the players' rousing performance of The Firebird by the Russian Wild One, Herr Stravinsky. (He pauses, leans over, whispering) But I believe the young man who spoke afterward, Herr Owens, may have a Napoleonic complex. Did you catch all his mumbling about fame and glory, making the RPO famous around the world?
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This afternoon at 4:00 p.m., the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra reveals artistic and financial data during an annual meeting. Check back for more on this later.
The U.S. government issued a 2007 patent for colored polymer instrument mouthpieces for brass players, and these are starting to pop up in instrument cases all over Western New York. Prices range from $21 for a trumpet mouthpiece to $32 for a tuba mouthpiece.
Crystal ball
Happy New Year! Our Distinguished Committee on Future Delights presents these cultural events for you to look forward to in 2008:
You don't even have to leave the house. Tonight (January 2nd) at 8:00 p.m., hear the final broadcast concert from the 2006-2007 season of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra on Classical 91.5 FM (or streamed at wxxi.org.) Christopher Seaman conducts Pictures at an Exhibition.

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This is one of the most refreshing, tasty drinks I've ever had. It was hard for me to not drink the whole batch. It's not pretty, but it's full of so much fresh fruit and the rum is not overwhelming. You could certainly add more if you wanted a more pronounced rum flavor. I don't even like kiwis because I think they're pretty flavorless, but in this drink it all works!
Honeydew-Kiwi Daiquiris
A pitcher of slushy daiquiris is a great way to start the weekend. You'll use about half of the melon for this recipe and the rest in Sunday's fruit salad. If you don't think your rental place will have a blender, whir these up before you leave town, and freeze overnight in a zip-top plastic freezer bag. Thaw for a few minutes before serving (knead the bag to break up big pieces). If you brought extra orange liqueur, add a splash to the mix for more flavor.
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Amount per serving
- Calories: 183
- Fat: 0.6g
- Saturated fat: 0.1g
- Monounsaturated fat: 0.0g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.3g
- Protein: 1.6g
- Carbohydrate: 29.7g
- Fiber: 3.4g
- Cholesterol: 0.0mg
- Iron: 0.5mg
- Sodium: 26mg
- Calcium: 35mg
- 3 cups chopped honeydew melon
- 4 kiwifruit, peeled and coarsely chopped
- 2 cups crushed ice
- 1/2 cup light rum
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon grated lime rind
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 1. Arrange melon in a single layer on a baking sheet; freeze at least 30 minutes or until firm.
- 2. Combine the frozen melon and the remaining ingredients in a blender; process mixture until smooth.
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- CUISINE: American
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Fruits
- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Low Cholesterol, Low Fat, Low Sodium, Low Saturated Fat
- COOKING METHOD: Blender
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The victim reported the theft of diamond necklaces, diamond bracelets, watches and other jewelry valued at approximately $26,500, according to deputies.
On December 21, Joseph Amato was arrested and charged with burglary and grand theft.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Epizyme, Inc., today announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") relating to the proposed initial public offering of its common stock. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not been determined.
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text: Back in 1994 I decided to give up the motorcycling for a Mustang convertible. I ended up buying a 1969 original owner convertible, restored it that summer and started cruising with my wife and two small daughters. In a few years we found ourselves driving the convertible more and more enjoying the open ride. I decided when I turned 50 in 2003, I would buy a newer Mustang that I could drive all the time. After shopping and comparing I decided on a Cobra convertible. The only issue was I couldn't find one I could afford having three children and a family to support. I settled on a low mileage 1995 GT convertible in 2004. Even though we were having a blast with the 95 GT, I still wanted a Cobra. In 2005 I found a 98 Cobra convertible that needed some repair but was one that we could afford. I bought it and fixed it with the intention of selling my 95 to recoup some of the cash spent on the 98. Mind you, we still own the 69, that's my baby. One day my wife asked what I had planned for the 95 as she loved that car. I told her I had intentions of selling it and actually had someone interested. She then told me she liked that car and wanted to know if we could afford to keep it as she was using it in the nice weather. So that's the story of our three ponies to date. We have a 69, 95, and 98 convertible in the barn. Fun cars!


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On 11/16, when B1 units first entered final functional testing, we were there to watch what failures occurred. Fairly quickly, a few units appeared which had keyboard failures where groups of keys would not work. Which keys would not work varied from machine to machine. Though the keyboard appeared to be at fault, continued investigation revealed that the keyboard scanning microprocessor on the touchpad assembly was sometimes seeing latchup on its pins. Latchup is a condition in a CMOS IC where a pin will be "stuck" at a high or low voltage. When this occurs, the stuck pin prevents the keyboard microprocessor from seeing keys change state. Note that latchup only happens when excessive voltages are present, as when ESD (Electro-Static Discharge - i.e. a "static zap") occurs.
The root cause of this problem is that the mechanical design in the B1 systems does not properly ground the keyboard baseplate. While an attempt was made to do this in the design, the metal components do not make proper contact with the grounded hinge assembly. As a consequence, any static buildup on the keyboard can only discharge through the keyboard controller's scanning pins, then back up the PS/2 cable to the motherboard. This leads to some keys on the keyboard not responding.
While this was found and fixed on the same day, the true resolution was identified just as the last few B1 units were being built on the line, so all B1 units are susceptible to this failure. The workaround is to power the system off and on again, which will reset the latchup condition in the keyboard microrocessor, and allow the keys to function once again.
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Review Train (Panasonic LX5, Canon S95, SX30 IS, Nikon P7000, and other fixed-lens cameras)
We are breaking today's "Review Train" in two pieces so we can keep it to a readable size! In part #1, we take a look at fixed-lens cameras!
We start with the Canon S95 getting exercised at Serious Compacts and juxtaposed to the Samsung EX1/TL500. The side-by-side of the two cameras is quite telling in terms of body-size differences.
Next up, the Panasonic LX5 has a brand new review at CNet US, and it also has an ISO te^te-a-te^te with the Panasonic LX3 at Focus Numerique. As usual, be sure to note that FN makes available both the full size RAW and JPEG files of their comparisons so you can open them up on your favorite monitor and with your favorite pixel-peeping tools so you can analyze them on your own terms! I can still see Monet from my house? ;-)
Next up, the Nikon Powershot G7000 (aka Coolpix P7000) has an experiential photographer review with photographer Gianni Galassi.
Back to Canon, the G12 samples gallery at DC Recourse has been refreshed and the G12 will be the next review published there, probably by the end of the week.
Zoom! Zoom! Canon's 35X IS megazoom, the not-so-aptly named SX30-IS (how about SX35-IS?) got a new review at Photography Blog, which as usual, includes plenty of full-size real-world samples. More SX30 action, it has a field test at CNet UK.
Lightning Round
+ Casio EX-fH100 at Optyczne
+ Nikon Coolpix P100 at Cameras UK
+ Panasonic FZ40/FZ45 at Cameras UK
+ Sony TX5 at DigitalReview.ca
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Quiting my tumblr. I just can't take the online and rl abuse. I'm sick off it and I'm not able to contribute to anything online at all. I really will miss snow owl!! I'll find u if I ever decide to rejoin tumblr! Thanks for the chats! Your a good person! U have a beautiful spirit and a lovely daughter. I need to clear all the bad messages I get online from my already depressed mental state. I hate being harassed so I'm done.
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As some of you might know, Richard Griffiths (the man who played Uncle Vernon in the Harry Potter films) has died.
In honor of him, I'd like to ask my fellow Potterheads to not make any posts on tumblr this Sunday, March 31.
I know going without tumblr is hard- but it's about time that we made sure that there was absolutely no post on Sunday.
Reblog to spread the word.
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THE ITCHYWORMS' newest single, "Ayokong Tumanda", directed by my one and only love (tamis tamisan lang) Wincy Ong. :)
Enjoy, boys and girls!
Patience Dear Juggernaut "Forget About Her" Music Video!
Patience Dear Juggernaut "Forget About Her" Music Video!
Hello boys and girls! Here's a new video from Patience Dear Juggernaut for his new single "Forget About Her", from the album Girl, The Impaler. Can't help but feel proud not only because he's my boyfriend, but because I did some of the cinematography. All autumn shots are by yours truly. ;-)
Don't forget to reblog and download the free album! :)
Song For The Leftovers by A Camp
Its a good feeling to find a song that seems to be telling your story.
And the video is quite great too - I like the simplicity and the Victorian and Taxidermy motifs. Makes me think of the directors Wes Anderson, Tim Burton and Brad Siberling.
Don't Look Back by She & Him (from Volume 2 album)
I'm fascinated by the production design and the supers! :) It's very cute and fun to watch!
WASAK WALTZ, Full MV!!!!
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WASAK WALTZ, Full MV!!!!
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Ang ganda! Shawn Yao kinda reminded me of Faye Wong in 2046.
I feel lucky to have worked with Jayson Tan.
US-2 EVIL-0's Our Weekends Dissolve
Second single from Dirty Debutantes album
Director: Ramon de VeyraDOP: Dan GilPD: Vicky VelascoAD: Mihk VergaraPM: Adi LopexEditor/Colorist: Wincy OngProduced by: Watusi Productions and PMS RecordsSpecial thanks to: Nokia
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by Eric Hankins, Ph.D.
Eric Hankins is pastor of FBC, Oxford, Miss.
He is the primary author of "A Statement of the Traditional Southern Baptist Understanding of God's Plan of Salvation."
Article 6 (of the Traditional Statement) rests on the reality that election is clearly taught in the Scriptures and is an essential component of the doctrine of salvation. Election emphasizes the fact that salvation is accomplished through the Father's initiative, guaranteed by the person and work of Christ alone, and actualized in the lives of sinners through the power of the Holy Spirit. Election, therefore, communicates that salvation is completely gracious. It signifies the lavish generosity of God, who will save not just a few but an innumerable multitude. Election's announcement of God's sovereignty in salvation includes the role of the sinner's repentance and faith. God has chosen to bring into existence a people who belong to Him by faith in a world where their decisions for or against Christ really matter. Rather than determining these choices Himself, God has gloriously and sovereignly decided to accord to each sinner the responsibility of surrendering to the Holy Spirit's leading in the preaching of the gospel. Since gospel proclamation is the means by which God brings His elective purposes to bear, election cannot be understood apart from the plan of God to bring salvation to the world through His chosen people and their sharing of the gospel with the lost.
by Eric Hankins, PhD
Pastor, FBC, Oxford, Miss.
Dr. Hankins is the primary author of
"A Statement of the Traditional Southern Baptist
Understanding of God's Plan of Salvation."
The Southern Baptist Convention was formed in 1845 and is comprised of forty-five thousand churches, sixteen million members, ten thousand home and international missionaries, and six large seminaries with ten thousand students preparing for ministry.[1] Last year, over six hundred thousand people were baptized in Southern Baptists churches and ministries in the United States and around the world. The SBC has survived and thrived in a kaleidoscopic and increasingly secular American culture. While mainline denominations are collapsing under the weight of modernism's flight from biblical authority,[2] Southern Baptists' unique identity, polity, and theology have seen us through difficult days in unparalleled fashion.[3] All of these reasons and more provide a sufficient warrant for the articulation of a theological perspective that is uniquely our own. Not a Baptist theology, for we do not speak for all Baptists, but a Southern Baptist theology. This needs to be done not for the purposes of separating ourselves from others or demonstrating our superiority. Rather, it is right for us to codify and contribute to the wider Christian world what we understand to be the basis for the sustained cooperative kingdom reach that is unique to us. Moreover, because the SBC is being challenged by the threats of fragmentation and decline, it is needful to understand clearly what it is about our identity that should be maintained as we seek to make our message meaningful in an ever-changing world.[4] Finally, because no theological paradigm is perfect or eternal, ours needs to be publicly articulated so that it may be evaluated, improved, and retooled for future generations.
by Dr. Eric Hankins, pastor
FBC, Oxford, Miss.
So much about the way we envision the First Christmas distances us from the reality and message of Jesus' birth. Our Christmas cards and crèches are bathed in soft light, framed by friendly farm animals, drummer boys, and earnest shepherds all focused on the little Lord Jesus, "no crying He Makes." We are simply more comfortable with a Savior born "inside," quietly occupying a warm nook somewhere on the margin of our lives, a lullaby playing while He sleeps on the hay.
This picture, however, bears little resemblance to what happened that night. In fact, Luke is at pains to contrast the humiliation of Christ's arrival with the power, prestige, and privilege of Caesar Augustus and the security of Rome. Jesus came into the world squalling, naked, and covered in afterbirth. His parents had no place to stay because news had already come to Joseph's ancestral home (which would have been filled with relatives obligated to take them in) through the tightly woven gossip system of Judea that the circumstances of Mary's pregnancy were too shameful to warrant any hospitality.
So, Jesus was born outside, on the ground, with the warm, pungent smell of manure hanging in the chilly air. Mary delivered her first child with no anesthesia, no skilled midwife, so the night was probably not "silent," "calm," or "bright," and it completely redefined the word "holy."
The first recipients of and witnesses to the glory of the Advent were shepherds, men whose reputation as liars and thieves was so ubiquitous that they weren't allowed to give testimony in court. They lived their whole lives outside— geographically, socially, morally, religiously.
So, Jesus was born outside, to outsiders, for outsiders. He ministered outside, observing that while even animals had homes, "the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head" (Luke 9:58). He died outside between two outsiders, fulfilling the destiny foreshadowed in His birth. How, then, do we celebrate Christmas in a manner faithful to the First One? The writer of Hebrews tells us: "Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside the gate. So, let us go out to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach" (Heb. 13.11-12). Let the Christ Child call you away from the cozy Christmas of our own creation and out into the Adventure of mission to those still outside.
by Dr. Eric Hankins, pastor
FBC, Oxford, Miss.
For years, I have loved re-reading Dylan Thomas' "A Child's Christmas in Wales" during this time of the year. It opens with a line so evocative of my own memories of Christmas:
"One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six."
As adults, we spend a great deal of energy trying solve the puzzle of our longing for the past, trying to recapture wholly those experiences that return to us only as a fleeting glimpse or a whisper just between our waking and sleeping. For me, these moments of "homesickness" are never more acute than at Christmas. I believe the reason for this is that these memories are uniquely imbued with the reality of my ultimate home, heaven. Christmas in a Christian home weaves the best of life (faith, hope, and love) around the deep reality of the gospel: God in Christ for us.
Thomas closes his poem with these words:
"Looking through my bedroom window, out into the moonlight and the unending smoke-colored snow, I could see the lights in the windows of all the other houses on our hill and hear the music rising from them up the long, steady falling night. I turned the gas down, I got into bed. I said some words to the close and holy darkness, and then I slept."
It is the desire to connect to "the close and holy darkness" to which our lives are drawn, around which our memories orbit, that guides us to the solution of the puzzle of our past. The only way home is not backward, but forward, is not in the futile attempts to recreate what has disappeared, but in the faithful decision to believe and to share with others that the best is yet to come, that there is a Father, a Brother, a family, a feast, and a home prepared for us.
by Dr. Eric Hankins, pastor
FBC, Oxford, Miss.
Speaking recently at Southern Seminary reinforced some observations that have been coming clear to me during the last year of my involvement in the Southern Baptist discussion of Calvinism. As I interacted with a number of faculty and students who consider themselves Calvinists, it was apparent that they believed exactly the same thing I do about who needs the gospel: every single person. I believe this conviction characterizes the vast majority of Southern Baptist Calvinists, and it is deep, wide, and glad-hearted. Certainly, there are a few who shuffle their feet when asked if they can say to any person "God loves you and wants to save you," but those Southern Baptist Calvinists really are the minority, best I can tell, and I get the sense that most Calvinists hope they remain a minority. Therefore, it does not help to make bald accusations that Calvinists do not believe that God loves and wants to save every sinner.[1] It is inaccurate to charge them with believing that God causes people to go hell or that He is the cause of evil.
But that does not mean there is not a significant problem.
While I do understand better than ever that most Southern Baptist Calvinists believe exactly as I do about the extent of God's love and saving desire for sinners, I am just as convinced that they cannot hold those shared soteriological convictions without falling into contradiction and putting themselves at serious theological, exegetical, practical, and apologetical risk. This is because their entire system demands a particular and quite problematic presupposition concerning the relationship between divine and human action called "determinism." Now, Calvinists prefer the term "compatibilism" and, technically, that is correct. But to the uninitiated, compatibilism appears to communicate the very welcome and biblical idea that God's sovereignty and human freedom are compatible. This is what every Southern Baptist believes, including me.
But that is not the meaning of compatibilism. Compatibilism is the view that divine determinism (not merely sovereignty) and human freedom are compatible. Compatibilism asserts that God is the cause of all things, including the "free" decisions of humans. This claim is made by redefining God's permission and human freedom in highly unusual and suspect ways. For the compatibilist, God causes some things and permits others (like sin). But this permission is "efficacious" so that things could not have happened any differently from the way they do. God's decision to permit specific events is in no way affected by human choices because those choices are determined by God. On this view, there is no, I repeat, no difference between God "causing" an event (like the Holocaust) and God "permitting" it.
The compatibilist's definition of freedom is equally specious. Freedom is not one's ability to choose between two qualitatively distinct options but the ability to act on one's desires. This sounds fine except the compatibilist believes one can't freely choose his desires. Only those who are given the desire to trust Christ will be able to respond to the gospel. God gives the desire to trust Christ to some, and He withholds it from others. The giving or withholding of the faith to respond has nothing whatever to do with the individual. As philosopher Jerry Walls points out, God could just as easily have given the desire to trust Christ to every sinner rather than just a few, but He doesn't. This undeniable implication of compatibilism raises tough problems for the basic morality of God.[2]
Compatibilists simply cannot effectively obviate the charge that their view makes God the cause of evil. Again, compatibilists are convinced they can (by insisting on things like "permission" and "secondary causes," etc.), or they think they can just declare it a mystery how God is the cause of all things and not the cause of evil. But it's becoming clear that these solutions don't work. That's why it's hard to find compatibilists in any philosophy department of any school not already committed to Calvinism. Now, it is easy to find determinists in philosophy departments, but they tend to be atheists. Most world-class Christian philosophers (including several who are Southern Baptist) think compatibilism is a huge problem. Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Thomas Flint, William Lane Craig, Ken Keathley, Bruce Little, Jeremy Evans, and John Laing, just to name a few, are thinkers who have an appreciation for Reformed theology and are serious about God's sovereignty but view compatibilism as riddled with insurmountable logical problems. Moreover, it is a disaster when it comes to engaging skeptics about the truth-value of the Christian worldview.
Before Southern Baptist Calvinists start getting upset, let me say again that I understand better than I ever have that they truly don't think they are at risk. They really believe compatibilism works biblically, philosophically, and theologically. They believe it gives them a good way to speak of God's love for and desire to save all, real human freedom, and the significance of personal engagement in the Great Commission. They believe it provides an intelligible response to the problem of evil. Ken Keathley argues brilliantly that infralapsarian Calvinism is actually engineered for the purpose of providing a basis for all the things we all want to say theologically, but it just can't get it done logically.[3]
If it is the case that there are serious problems with compatibilism, then why do Calvinists maintain their commitment to it? Calvinists will say they insist on it because the Bible insists on it, then they reel off a zillion verses about God's strong sovereignty. But none of these verses, individually or collectively, demands determinism, which is a complex, post-biblical philosophical system. And there are a zillion verses that allow for libertarian freedom, unless compatibilism is presupposed. The main reason that Calvinists insist on compatibilism is because it is essential to their theological system. Augustine was a determinist, and the Augustinian-Calvinist theological synthesis demands it. To abandon it would be to abandon classical, consistent Calvinism.
Before the eyes of non-Calvinists begin to glaze over at the prospect of another abstruse, terminologically dizzying discussion of metaphysics, they need to grasp the concept that their fundamental problem with Calvinism is compatibilism. Let me burn some straw men and fry some red herrings. Southern Baptist Calvinists aren't demonstrably worse than non-Calvinists at evangelism and missions—we're all in need of significant improvement. Calvinists aren't cavalier about certain Scriptures. Calvinists don't think that prayer, evangelism, and faith don't really matter. They just have a very problematic philosophical basis for affirming those things. In a real sense, the salient critiques of Calvinism that I've read lately are simply criticisms of compatibilism. Olson's Against Calvinism could just as easily (and perhaps more helpfully) be called Against Compatibilism. The "ROSES" of Keathley's Salvation and Sovereignty is "TULIP without compatibilism." Allen and Lemke's Whosever Will could have been entitled Whomever He Wills in the Libertarian Sense. I might even just start calling myself a "Non-Compatibilist" rather than a "Non-Calvinist." With complete integrity, I can speak of the utterly ruined and ruinous sin nature of humans, the unconditional sense of election, the limitations of Christ's atonement, the absolute necessity and power of initiating grace, and the guarantee of salvation for them that believe. I just do so while rejecting compatibilism.
Therefore, as the discussion moves forward, it would be helpful to establish as often as possible one's position on compatibilism and libertarianism rather than merely Calvinism and non-Calvinism. This will bring order to some of the terminological confusion in the debate because, while there are still a variety of opinions about what specifically Southern Baptist "Calvinism" and "non-Calvinism" mean, there is virtual unanimity about what compatibilism and libertarianism mean. Second, this moves the discussion away from biblical proof-texting, which quickly becomes both circular and emotionally charged. Third, this reframing requires everyone to acknowledge that theology involves philosophical presuppositions in service of systemization. Frequently, I'll hear people say, "I don't believe in a system, I believe in the Bible." That is actually a false and unhelpful dichotomy. Everyone is working from a systematic grid based on an extensive set of presuppositions. The question is, then, what are my presuppositions, and are they justifiable biblically, theologically, and philosophically? In this debate, the choices are pretty simple: you are either a compatibilist or a libertarian. Southern Baptist Calvinists and non-Calvinists arrive at most of the same important soteriological destinations, but the Calvinist route takes a path that I believe most Southern Baptists are unwilling to go, and for good reason.
[1] As the T5 states: ". . . we agree that God loves everyone and desires to save everyone . . . ."
[2] Jerry Walls, "Why No Classical Theist, Let Alone Orthodox Christian, Should Ever Be A Compatibilist," Philosophia Christi 13 (2011): 98-99.
[3] I also understand that Calvinists will respond by saying that my libertarianism makes me vulnerable to an over-inflated view of human freedom and even to the charge of Open Theism. This sort of response is not only quite difficult to demonstrate, it also does not suffice as an argument for compatibilism.


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Next month, Jordan Brand will bring back the classic "Fire Red" Jordan 3 models in the market. Of course, on the Fire Red series which will release next month also include the Fire Red Jordan 5 Black Tongue that release at the end of August. Here, let us look at the 2013 model Air Jordan 3 Retro "Fire Red" since this pair Jordan sneaker not much to stay about the classics colorway expect little to no changes has been made. And this pair Air Jordan III "Fire Red" will come out at August 3rd in a retail price at $160 with family size. Here is a chance to win one pair of Air Jordan 3 "Fire Red" in a size 8.5 to size 13. You can answer the following question creatively as a post to this thread:
What do you like most about the Air Jordan 3? You can talk about the history of the shoe, you personal experience, whatever. You can write a short essay, compost a song, pull together an image- it's up to you and creativity is key! And if you are the winner, then you can get a pair of Air Jordan 3 "Fire Red" sneaker for free in a size 8.5-13. And the steps and rules to win the Fire red Jordan 3 to registered member of NikeTalk. The contest is open to NikeTalk community members and legal residents of the US ages 18 and older. The contest ends August 2nd. 2013. What do you think about it? Will you going to win this pair Jordan 3 Fire red? If you are interested in this pair Jordan sneaker, Don't waste time now, come on! Flight for the favorite Fire Red 3s 2013.


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