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Jeffrey Simon
Director, MA Recovery & Reinvestment Office
As part of my ongoing effort to see the Faces of Economic Recovery across the state, I recently paid a visit to the Lowell Police and Fire Departments. I knew that both departments received Stimulus awards and I wanted to see firsthand the kind of impact the awards had both on their departments and the great city of Lowell.
Driving through Lowell's downtown, I could see both the city's vibrancy and diversity in its stores and in its people. Police Chief Kenneth Lavallee told me that the Lowell Police Department played a part in the city's revival in the 1990s, through proactive programs like a community policing initiative.
But both Chief Lavallee and Lowell Fire Chief Ed Pitta told me that the current recession meant deeper cuts in both their departments. Chief Pitta said his department was down 9 men going in to July. Chief Lavallee said that he was facing having to lay off another 26 officers this month, and this was on top of attrition the department had already suffered.
"If we had lost those 26 officers, we would have been absolutely devastated," Chief Lavallee told me. "The community policing program that we have in place, everything we do to be proactive, to prevent crime to keep the city safe would have been impacted. We would have been a 911-driven police department, emergency only. Without these positions quite honestly we would have been in deep trouble."
It's really gratifying to hear how stimulus awards helped both these departments be able to continue to serve the people of their city.
"It's significant because on a daily basis we close certain fire companies so I'm hoping to be able to keep at least one extra company open on every shift by spreading these people out," said Chief Pitta. "That's significant because when a station is closed some part of the city is without their fire protection."
Chief Lavallee was able to retain all 26 police officers on his force. He said that means he won't have to shut down many of the commitments his department has to the city such as substations, youth programs and proactive services.
Chief Lavallee was determined that we meet Tim Roussell, a 26-year old police officer who was slated to be laid off. He actually grew up in Lowell. We found Roussell on a police detail but he gave us a few minutes and I was glad he did because his story is what stimulus is all about. Roussell is a Navy veteran who spent time serving in Somalia and the Perisan Gulf. He told me he
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wanted to be a police officer his entire life. When he heard his name was on the layoff list, he shelved his plan to buy a house and take advantage of the $8K first time home buyer's tax credit.
"I am so relieved I was retained," Roussell told me. He also told me he plans to buy that house now.
Does it get better than that?
Keep checking back here often. I'm still traveling around the state and bringing you back stories of how stimulus funds are being used.
Do have a stimulus story you want to share? Let me know in the comments.
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Osho continues:
"This possibility is there because man is conscious. But remember, the problems of life, the anxiety, the tension, the anguish, or the final decision to commit suicide, do not come out of consciousness – they come out of a fragmentary consciousness.
"This has to be understood deeply. A Buddha is also conscious, but he cannot commit suicide, cannot even think about it. Suicide doesn't exist for a Buddha, but he is also conscious. Why? Animals are unconscious totally; Buddha is conscious totally. With total consciousness there is no problem, or, with total unconsciousness there is no problem. In fact, to be total in any way is to be beyond problems.
"A man is fragmentarily conscious: a part of him has become conscious. That creates the whole problem. The remaining, the greater part, remains unconscious. Man has become two. One part is conscious, the remaining whole is unconscious. A discontinuity has happened in man. He is not one whole. He is not one piece. He is double. The duality has come in. He is just like an iceberg, floating in the ocean: one-tenth is out of the water, nine-tenths is hidden underneath. The same is the proportion of human consciousness and unconsciousness: one-tenth of consciousness has become conscious, nine-tenths of consciousness is still in the unconscious. Just the top layer is conscious, and the whole being remains underneath in deep darkness.
"Of course there are going to be problems, because a conflict has arisen in the being. You have become two; and the conscious part is so small that it is almost impotent. It can talk, it is very articulate; it can think but when the moment comes to do something, it is the unconscious which is needed because the unconscious has the energy to do it. You can decide that you will not be angry again, but this decision comes from the impotent part of the mind, that part which is conscious; which can see that anger is futile, harmful, poisonous; which can see the whole situation, and decide. But the decision has no power behind it, because all power belongs to the whole which is still unconscious. The conscious part decides, 'I will not be angry again,' and it is not – until the situation arises."
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College road trip
Andy and I explored new territory last week.
We traveled 1,595.5 miles round trip in the Explorer Sport Trac. We covered parts of five states – Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan.
Our 17-year-old (like his dad) has always been a collector of athletic shirts and caps – no matter the team. A couple of years ago, he discovered a church-affiliated school near Detroit called Rochester College. That Christmas one of his gifts was a Rochester Warriors T-shirt.
In the past few months, he has gotten more serious about picking a college he wants to attend. Some nearby ones are on the list of possibilities and one very far away.
He decided to apply to Rochester, a small college not far from Canada with a student population of near 1,000, and see what happened.
He received an acceptance letter and then phone calls from Brian Bowers, an admissions recruiter at Rochester and a super nice guy.
Andy was notified of some scholarship money he could receive based on his ACT score and grades. Then he got another call asking him to come up and interview for an even bigger scholarship – leadership based.
I told him if he really wanted to make the trip, I would take off work a few days and we would make the 12- to 13-hour drive together.
We worked it around high school classes and basketball games the best we could. It's the first time I've missed both a Monday and Tuesday (newspaper production days) at The South Reporter since I moved here 10 and a half years ago.
With our route mapped out on the iPad, we left Holly Springs about 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15, with hopes of getting about six hours up the interstate, and at least on the other side of Nashville.
Traffic, on a Sunday night, was no problem.
We spent the first night a few miles north of Louisville.
Monday morning, Jan. 16, we were back on the road, going toward Cincinnati. One of the most memorable and breath-taking parts of the trip was topping the hill and seeing the skyline of downtown Cincinnati. It was awesome.
We had kept an eye on the weather from day one of planning the trip. About 80 miles from Toledo, we starting seeing snow on the ground.
We passed some signs for colleges we'd never heard of – the Northern Iowa Polar Bears and the Bluffton Beavers.
On the outskirts of Toledo, we enjoyed great pizza at Ralphie's Sports Pub and also watched part of the Memphis Grizzlies versus New York Knicks game on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
We arrived at our destination, Rochester College, about 4 p.m. (eastern time). There were sighs of relief.
The temperature, for Detroit, was summer-like – in the low 40s. We drove around campus, and then waited a bit on our host, Brian.
That evening he and his wife took us out to eat at a sandwich shop in beautiful downtown Rochester with Cole, a junior at the college who Andy was going to be staying with overnight in one of the dormitories.
I had a dorm room, too – all to myself in a different location on campus. It was hot, very hot, and I could not control the thermostat.
Our tour of Rochester College and Andy's scholarship interview were set for Tuesday, Jan. 17 (to be continued next week).
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Crocodile Chop - Neil Cicierega
A flawless System of a Down / Elton John mash-up.
Crocodile Chop - Neil Cicierega
A flawless System of a Down / Elton John mash-up.
By Carol Rossetti (originally in color, I hope she forgives me!)
These photosets keep circulating and they make me so happy. Because constantly I feel afraid about things I enjoy or do and these make me feel so much better
This is so awesome
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Long Time - Cake
"Do you remember the happiest moment of your life?"
"When I got my college degree."
"Do you remember the saddest moment of your life?"
"When I figured out I couldn't use it."
the look
So the internet just gave my tumblr name a whole new (literal) meaning. I was alerted to a photo of me gathering massive attention via a friend who linked me to a Reddit post titled "Don't worry guys, I'm taking hipster to the next level."
Apparently some guy on the train uploaded this photo to twitter it has been spreading like wildfire since. Surprisingly when I read the thread on Reddit a lot of it was positive/supportive. I'm surprised by how unfazed and genuinely funny I find the negative comments. People's theories as to why I am dressed like this, and who I really am are also really interesting.
I'm dressed like this for a number reasons. Firstly, and fore-mostly, I genuinely like the clothes I am wearing. I've described my look as "anywhere from hipster chic to kawaii gangsta Harajuku princess". This is the epitome of the latter. I love sailor moon, I love pink, those converse are kawaii as fuck and yeah fuck you I'm wearing Prada sunglasses. I don't really dress like this all the time, but I wish I did more often. I mostly don't because I want to keep the look fresh. I wore this outfit because I had an art exhibition at my college and wanted to express myself.
I also find men's fashion extremely limiting in both types of clothes, cuts of clothes and colours. Women have so many beautiful options. So I pillage their aisles a lot because I wanna look pretty.
This was also a statement. As an artist I think fashion is incredibly important. This day, I wanted something that not only reflected my personality and artistic sensibilities but also have some social commentary. A lot of my work, or what I want my work to speak about, is sex and sexuality and notions of gender and gender roles. How many of you knew pink actually use to be associated with boys, not girls? Personally I think the idea of "This is a boy colour", "This is a girl colour" or "Barbies are for girls", "Power Rangers are for boys" is dumb as fuck. Creating social and cultural boundaries does nothing but limit the potential of a person. By dressing like this I am breaking that boundary for myself and attempting to reflect that sentiment.
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Keeps getting better. Rock on, man.
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Cassowaries' low-frequency sounds may give insight into dinosaur communications NEW YORK -- A family of huge forest birds living in the dense jungles of Papua New Guinea emit low-frequency calls deeper than virtually all other bird species, possibly to communicate through thick forest foliage, according to a study published by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society. Published in the recent issue of the scientific journal The Auk, the study says that three species of cassowaries – flightless birds that can weigh as much as 125 pounds – produce a "booming" call so low that humans may not be able to detect much of the sound. The researchers draw similarities between the birds' calls and the rumbling elephants make to communicate. "When close to the bird, these calls can be heard or felt as an unsettling sensation, similar to how observers describe elephant vocalizations," said WCS researcher Dr. Andrew Mack, the lead author of the study.
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by Ewen Callaway The canine phrase book has collected its first entries. Dogs understand the meaning of different growls, from a rumble that says "back off" to playful snarls made in a tug-of-war game. Proving that animal vocalisations have specific meanings – and what they could be – is challenging. In 2008, Péter Pongrácz, a behavioural biologist at Eötvös Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary, monitored dogs' heart rates to show that they seem to notice a difference between barks aimed at strangers and those directed at nothing in particular. Now he has gone a step further and shown that dogs respond differently to different vocalisations. Pongrácz's team recorded growls from 20 pet dogs in three different situations: a tug-of-war game with their owner, competing with another dog for a bone and growling at an approaching stranger. Growls may convey more meaning than barks, says Pongrácz: wolves rarely bark, and he says dogs may have learned to bark to get human attention. The team played the recordings to 36 other dogs that had each been left to gnaw on a bone. Only those that heard the food-guarding growls tended to back off from the bone and stay away. "It seems dogs can understand something about the context," Pongrácz says. Back to the bone © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd
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By Virginia Morell A few years ago, researchers discovered that the babies of at least one species of bat make babbling sounds, much like human infants. Now, it turns out those babbling baby bats aren't just mindlessly cooing--they're imitating the songs of the big guys in their colonies: adult males with territories and harems. Such vocal imitation is rare in the animal kingdom, and it has never been found in nonhuman primates. The discovery should open a new window on the evolution of speech and language, scientists say. Scientists define complex vocal imitation as the ability to learn a call or song from a tutor--and they regard this talent as a key innovation in the evolution of speech. The rarified list of complex vocal imitators includes birds, elephants, cetaceans, seals, and humans. Researchers had long predicted that bats might also be capable of such imitation because of their extraordinary vocal flexibility; they use echolocation calls to navigate the physical world, for example, and social calls to communicate with their fellow bats. As behavioral ecologist Mirjam Knörnschild of the University of Ulm in Germany listened to sac-winged bats (Saccopteryx bilineata), she thought she heard complicated vocal imitation. These insectivorous Costa Rican bats live in harems of one male and as many as eight females, each of which can have one pup annually. The males defend small territories in their day-roosts with unique multiple-syllabic songs. Adult females don't sing, but their pups (males and females) do plenty of babbling. During such "babbling bouts," the pups often sing nearly complete renditions of the territorial songs, Knörnschild says, albeit shakier renditions. But were the pups simply combining fragments or actually listening and imitating their complete songs? © 2009 American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Roxanne Khamsi Birdsongs are so distinctive they are often used by ornithologists to identify individual birds. Now a novel study shows that birds are not "pre-programmed" to sing their song – rather, birds listen closely to their tune to keep their songs note perfect. The same mechanism may operate in humans, perhaps shedding light on speech disorders, the researchers say. Songbirds do not start out life as virtuosos: they often begin by 'babbling' random pitches and then advance to sing sophisticated tunes with the help of a tutor. Once they develop their own particular melody, they use it to announce territorial claims or to attract a mate. The slight variations in the song identify one bird from another, so birds take great pains to preserve their unique tune throughout life. To establish how birds keep tabs on their singing, scientists have conducted experiments that involved disabling the birds' ability to hear by removing a collection of sensory cells known as the cochlea. Over time, each animal produced songs that diverged further and further from its particular identifying tune. But an operation that leaves birds deaf could have other unintended cognitive effects that affect song production, argues Jon Sakata at the University of California in San Francisco, US. He and his colleague, Michael Brainard, set up an experiment that disrupted the hearing of the birds without an invasive procedure. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Male bullfrogs communicate with other bullfrogs through calls made up of a series of croaks, some of which contain stutters, according to a new Brown University study which describes a pattern not previously identified in scientific literature. Researchers recorded 2,536 calls from 32 male bullfrogs in natural chorus and analyzed the number of croaks in each call and the number of stutters in each croak. It is known that the male bullfrog's call attracts females for mating, maintains territorial boundaries with other males, and indicates that the frog is healthy and aggressive. "Some animals have evolved large, complex vocabularies to communicate, while others say a lot with very limited numbers of calls," said Andrea Simmons, professor of psychology, who presented the findings at 75th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America Monday, May 24, 2004. "A fundamental question in the study of communication by sound is 'how much information can a sender convey in a single sound'?"
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Link ID: 5508 - Posted: 06.24.2010
by Holly Hight OREGON, U.S.: The high-pitched, maniacal 'laugh' of the hyena is not used by all individuals equally, but mostly by subordinates as a sign of frustration. "The hyena's laugh is a multi-informative signal," said Nicholas Mathevon, a biologist at the University of Jean Monnet, in Saint-Etienne, France, who studied captive hyenas, recording their laughs and subjecting them to sophisticated acoustical studies. The hyena has up to 20 vocalisation types, but only two had previously been studied. One is a 'whoop', used as a long-distance call, while the other is a groan, used for communication over short ranges. Mathevon found that the laugh tends to occur when subordinate animals are attacked or chased away by dominant hyenas during feeding times and "is mainly emitted when [the animal] is frustrated," said Mathevon, who presented his results this week at the Acoustics Society of America's annual conference in Portland, Oregon. The spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta), which is found widely across Africa, has a complex social structure – as complex as the social systems of primates such as baboons and macaques. It is a savage hierarchy; subordinates are frequently attacked and denied access to food and mates. ©2007 Luna Media Pty Ltd,
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry
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Link ID: 12887 - Posted: 06.24.2010
Matt Kaplan The splashes, barks and grunts of baleen whales carry much more meaning than biologists thought, according to the latest survey of the marine mammals. The scientists behind the study say that these noises could be the ideal characteristics for conservationists to monitor to understand the growing impact of noises made by humans on the underwater environment. The songs of baleen whales — which have characteristic mouth combs, which they use for filter feeding — have been studied extensively, as have the non-song communications of toothed whales. But non-song communication in baleen whales has received little attention. "Most people focus on the song," says Rebecca Dunlop at the University of Queensland in Australia. "It is simply amazing how much we were missing by not paying attention to all of the other [sounds] that the animals actually make." Although studies of humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae, in the 1980s had noted these sounds, Dunlop and her colleagues took things a step further by monitoring a population of humpbacks every year between 2002 and 2005 as they migrated from Australia's Great Barrier Reef to the Antarctic. © 2008 Nature Publishing Group –
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry; Chapter 6: Evolution of the Brain and Behavior
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 15: Language and Our Divided Brain
Link ID: 11859 - Posted: 06.24.2010
Debora MacKenzie Chameleons are famed for changing colour to blend in with their surroundings and hide from predators – but new research on chameleons in their native habitat shows some of their colour changes evolved for exactly the opposite purpose – attracting attention. African dwarf chameleons live in habitats in southern Africa ranging from grassland to rainforest. They engage in complex social signalling, with bright colour changes along their flanks used by females to signal interest or rejection to males, and by males to signal aggression or submission to other males, and interest towards females. Males even square off in rapid-fire, colourful signalling duels. "Chameleons use colour change for camouflage and communication, but we don't know why some species change colour much more than others", says Devi Stuart-Fox of the University of Melbourne in Australia. She and colleague Adnan Moussalli reasoned that if these differences evolved solely to enable the chameleon to match itself to its surroundings, chameleons living in backgrounds that vary a lot in colour should produce a wider palette, whereas chameleons in less colourful environments should not. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 15: Language and Our Divided Brain
Link ID: 11248 - Posted: 06.24.2010
In a new study from The American Naturalist, researchers from the University of Zurich studied vocal communication between fallow deer mothers and their offspring. They found that only adult females have individually distinctive calls, meaning that fawns are able to distinguish their mother's calls from those of other females, but mothers are not able to distinguish between the calls of their own offspring and other fawns. This is in contrast to previous studies and provides a novel insight into parent-offspring recognition mechanisms. "Newborn fawns lie concealed and silent in vegetation away from their mothers to avoid detection by predators, and mothers return intermittently to feed them," write Marco Torriani, Elisabetta Vannoni, and Alan McElligott. "Vocal communication is very important for ungulate hider species because mothers and offspring rely on contact calls for reunions to occur." The researchers tested vocal recognition on Swiss fallow deer farms using recordings and playback experiments. Similar research on domestic sheep and reindeer has shown that both mothers and offspring are able to recognize each other based on individually distinctive contact calls. However, reindeer and sheep tend to populate open habitats lacking cover, and the researchers argue that the recognition system employed by deer evolved in habitats providing abundant cover for newborns. While sheep and reindeer are mobile soon after birth – and thus remain in constant close contact with the mother – mother-offspring contact for deer is limited during the first few weeks of life to when nursing occurs.
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry; Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases
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Link ID: 9295 - Posted: 06.24.2010
Hardly bird brained, the diminutive black-capped chickadee sings one of the animal kingdom's most intricate alarm calls, a new study reveals. These palm-sized puff balls increase the number of syllables in their battle cry depending on the deadliness of a sitting predator, says a team of US researchers. "We really were surprised at just how sophisticated the alarm call system is and how sophisticated the judgment of predation risk was," says lead author Christopher Templeton at the University of Washington in Seattle, US. Templeton and his colleagues tested the alarm call responses of a flock of six chickadees against the presence of 13 birds of prey predators, which ranged in size from the 40-centimetre wingspan pygmy owl to the 140-centimetre wingspan rough-tail hawk. They also tested responses against two mammals, a cat and a weasel. Each predator was inserted into the chickadees aviary and tethered to a perch. After analysing 5000 recorded alarm calls, the team found that the number of "dees" in the bird's trademark "chickadee-dee-dee-dee" call corresponded to the size of the poised predator. Smaller hunters – which pose the greatest risk - received the most vociferous response. The alert causes the flock to mob their sitting foe in an attempt to drive it away. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 15: Language and Our Divided Brain
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By Robert Sanders, Media Relations BERKELEY – The tropical mantis shrimp has the most sophisticated eyes of any creature on the planet, yet it often lives at murky depths where the only light is a filtered, dim blue. Why does it need such complex vision? Marine biologists and physiologists have now discovered at least one use for these eyes in the deep, blue ocean: to see the fluorescent markings mantis shrimp use to signal or threaten one another. The shrimps' characteristic spots are easy to see in shallow water but only dimly visible 40 meters (131 feet) down, so on the ocean floor the crustacean's spots fluoresce yellow-green to enhance their prominence in the dim blue light. Copyright UC Regents
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 15: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress; Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 11: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress; Chapter 15: Language and Our Divided Brain
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Herring aid DAVID ADAM Fish living in the murky rivers of West Africa have evolved their own hearing-aids. A tiny gas-filled bubble inside the ear of the mormyrid electric fish vibrates as mating calls or alarm signals pass through the water. The fish hears the sounds because the bubble brushes against sensory hairs. Deflating the bubble renders the fish deaf, Lindsay Fletcher and John Crawford at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, now report. Biologists have suspected that the bubbles are crucial to mormyrid hearing since the 1930s, but advances in surgery have only now allowed the idea to be tested. 1.Fletcher, L. B. & Crawford, J. D. Acoustic detection by sound-producing fishes (Mormyridae): the role of gas-filled tympanic bladders. Journal of Experimental Biology 204, 175–183 (2001). 2.Yan, H. Y. & Curtsinger, W. S. The otic gasbladder as an ancillary auditory structure in a mormyrid fish. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 186, 595–602 (2000). .© Macmillan Magazines Ltd 2001 - NATURE NEWS SERVICE Nature © Macmillan Publishers Ltd 2000 Reg. No. 785998 England.
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 8: General Principles of Sensory Processing, Touch, and Pain
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 5: The Sensorimotor System
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by Virginia Morell East Africa's elephants face few threats in their savanna home, aside from humans and lions. But the behemoths are terrified of African bees, and with good reason. An angry swarm can sting elephants around their eyes and inside their trunks and pierce the skin of young calves. Now, a new study shows that the pachyderms utter a distinctive rumble in response to the sound of bees, the first time an alarm call has been identified in elephants. "It's an important finding," says Karen McComb a behavioral ecologist at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. "It not only provides the first demonstration that elephants use alarm calls but also shows that these may have very specific meanings." Indeed, the study suggests that this alarm call isn't just a generalized vocalization but means specifically, "Bees!" says Lucy King, a postgraduate zoologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and the study's lead author. Several other species, including primates and birds, make calls that warn others of danger. Because elephants also have an extensive repertoire of vocalizations, researchers have long suspected that certain calls have specific meanings. But it's not easy for researchers to link the pachyderms' calls—many of which are beyond the range of human hearing—to particular events. A few years ago, however, King and colleagues documented the fear elephants have of bees via a series of playback experiments: When they hear buzzing bees, the pachyderms turn and run away, shaking their heads while making a call that King terms the "bee rumble." © 2010 American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry; Chapter 6: Evolution of the Brain and Behavior
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 15: Language and Our Divided Brain
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By Clara Moskowitz Some songbirds can contract their vocal muscles with the fastest muscle movements yet described — about 100 times faster than humans can blink an eye, according to new research. The study found that two types of songbirds produce their tunes with superfast muscles, similar to those used by rattlesnakes, several fish and the ringdove (a type of pigeon). "We discovered that the European starling (found throughout Eurasia and North America) and the zebra finch (found in Australia and Indonesia) control their songs with the fastest-contracting muscle type yet described," said Coen Elemans, who conducted the study as a postdoctoral researcher in biology at the University of Utah. © 2008 LiveScience.com.
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry; Chapter 11: Motor Control and Plasticity
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 15: Language and Our Divided Brain; Chapter 5: The Sensorimotor System
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By NATALIE ANGIER WOODS HOLE, Mass. — It is summertime, when people everywhere honor the 40 percent of body mass devoted to skeletal muscle tissue by doing what they avoid doing the other 75 percent of the year — putting those muscles to strenuous, possibly dangerous use. They hike, bike and run very long distances, or they take up a new hybrid water sport like kitesurfing, which sounds sweet in concept but often looks embarrassing in execution. They may even make an inexcusably heroic sprint through four lanes of high-speed traffic, as my husband did the other day when the bicycle rack on our car broke and he decided he had to retrieve my instantly totaled bike from the middle of the interstate because, he said, "somebody could get hurt." Yes, dear, like you, or the woman hyperventilating hysterically on the side of the road. This is why I argue that, when it comes to a sensible display of excessive muscular activity, the male toadfish has the right idea. A male toadfish may not look the part of an animal Olympian. He spends his time sitting nearly motionless on the bottom of a marsh, his body like a smeared scoop of pudding and old coffee beans, his full, fleshy lips pulled downward in a perpetual Churchillian scowl. Yet it turns out that inside the belly of this gelatinous, seemingly languorous beast are some of the fastest muscles in the vertebrate world, and the most instructive. Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases; Chapter 11: Motor Control and Plasticity
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex; Chapter 5: The Sensorimotor System
Link ID: 11789 - Posted: 06.24.2010
By HENRY FOUNTAIN Songbirds have long been studied for insight into how the brain learns motor tasks — in a bird's case, singing its characteristic song. Juvenile birds babble in screechy random bursts before they eventually develop a tonally and rhythmically precise song. Researchers have long known that a pathway called the high vocal center, or H.V.C., controls adult song, but whether that same pathway is responsible for babbling and changes as the bird ages has been an open question. "The general view that I had and others in the field had is that vocalization at any age is a function of the H.V.C.," said Michale S. Fee, an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has studied bird song for about a decade. But Dr. Fee and two graduate students, Dmitriy Aronov and Aaron S. Andalman, have reached a different conclusion. In experiments on zebra finches, they showed that the H.V.C. had no bearing on babbling. Instead, they report in Science, the behavior is controlled by a different circuit, with the tongue-twisting name of lateral magnocellular nucleus of the nidopallium, or LMAN. Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 15: Language and Our Divided Brain
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By Noreen Parks It seems the harder scientists listen to animals, the more they end up eavesdropping on their conversations. Take butterflyfishes—flamboyantly colored, hand-sized denizens of coral reefs, known for their monogamy, gregariousness, and fierce territoriality. New research, reported Wednesday at the joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan, shows that butterflyfishes make a variety of sounds to communicate among themselves. The fish may have evolved unique anatomy to enhance their use of sound, the researchers say. All fish have internal "ears," air-filled swim bladders sensitive to sound waves, and "lateral line" sense organs that detect motion in surrounding water. However, only in one genus of butterflyfishes are these body parts connected—a discovery made some years ago. Scientists have speculated that the unusual anatomical arrangement is involved in sound perception, but no one knew what role, if any, sound plays in butterflyfish lives. To find out, marine biologist Tim Tricas of the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and colleagues dove to a Hawaii reef and located several pairs of banded butterflyfish (Chaetodon multicinctus) observed maintaining feeding territories. In multiple experiments, the researchers placed one pair in a glass bottle and positioned the bottle inside another pair's territory for up to 40 minutes. The results, recorded by a video camera and underwater microphone, revealed territory defenders aggressively charging the intruders, while making rapid, sound-generating moves, such as flicking and erecting their fins, "jumping," and turning. In response, the bottled fish grunted repeatedly. Only paired fish grunted—not single individuals—so Tricas suspects grunts are distress signals to mates. © 2006 American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 15: Language and Our Divided Brain
Link ID: 9682 - Posted: 06.24.2010
Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News — Termites are known to send underground SOS signals to each other by banging their heads against tunnel walls, and now scientists have filmed them in the act. The high-speed video, which captured the frantic behavior at 10,000 frames per second, reveals that some termite species are faster head bangers than others. With each hit, the Formosan subterranean termite raises its head about 1 millimeter off the ground before slamming it into tunnel walls at a rate of about 100-200 millimeters per second. A termite native to New Orleans is even faster, with head bangs at around 400 millimeters per second. Their heads bounce and rebound off the walls like a rhythmic drum roll. The researchers suggest the rattling noise — audible sometimes even to people — could help locate infestations. "If a house is very infested with termites, you might be able to hear them head-banging (without special equipment), especially if you removed an infested board or crushed their galleries or part of their carton nest," said Tom Fink, who will present his findings on the head-banging behavior Saturday at the Acoustical Society of America Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. © 2006 Discovery Communications Inc.
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 15: Language and Our Divided Brain
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Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News — It may not be language as we know it, but whales have no shortage of ways to make themselves understood. So broad is their vocal repertoire, in fact, that whales can call to their young, woo potential mates and even express emotions, according to researchers who have identified 622 social sounds in humpback whales. Their work will be presented at the upcoming joint meetings of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and the Acoustical Society of Japan in Hawaii. Social sounds are brief, unpatterned sounds that are distinct from lengthier, complex whale songs. The new research adds to a growing body of evidence that whales convey more meaning through vocalizations than previously thought. "I wouldn't say (whales possess) language, as that's a human term," Rebecca Dunlop told Discovery News. Dunlop, who worked on the study, is a researcher in the School of Veterinary Sciences at the University of Queensland, Australia. "Whales don't string these sounds together like words and form sentences. It's more like a simple vocabulary," she said. The scientists visually tracked 60 pods of whales migrating along the east coast of Australia. The researchers used a static hydrophone array — sensitive equipment that detects sound waves — linking the whale sounds to various activities and contexts. © 2006 Discovery Communications Inc.
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 15: Language and Our Divided Brain
Link ID: 9635 - Posted: 06.24.2010
Susan Milius On his first trip into Namibia, Chris Faulkes woke up in his tent with a peculiar kink in his back. The ground beneath him had been flat enough when he went to sleep. Yet the next morning, "there was a whopping great lump," he says. A mound of dirt had arisen under Faulkes. He'd inadvertently found—or been found by—Damaraland mole rats, the very creatures he'd come to study. With one of the oddest social systems yet found in mammals, these sub-Saharan rodents spend their lives in networks of underground tunnels that they continually excavate. These mole rats and a better-known species called naked mole rats survive in land that goes months without rain. When rain finally comes, the animals go into a frenzy of digging to expand their tunnels before the ground bakes again. With the mole rats' extreme social system, individuals labor for the sake of the colony. Since the early 1980s, mole rats have been used as models of social organization. The wrinkled, hairless rodent known as the naked mole rat has achieved celebrity status even outside science. In Faulkes' office at Queen Mary College of the University of London stands a cardboard cutout of the Disney-cartoon character of the naked mole rat Rufus. Even the Wall Street Journal has run a page-one story on naked mole rat charms. The subhead read: "What Is Whiskered and Ugly and Has Little Squinty Eyes?—No, Not Your Former Spouse. . . ." Copyright ©2006 Science Service
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Category Archives: Post-Modernity
It's All About A Relationship …
The biggest lies involve half-truths, like the current fad of saying that "it's all about a relationship with Jesus."
But that begs the question: A relationship on whose terms?
Yes, Jesus wants a relationship and for us to feel His presence – as our Lord, on His terms, as we obey Him by doing the will of His Father.
Any other "relationship" is a lie and the day eventually will come when He declares: "I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!" (Matt. 7:21-23)
Jesus: He's more than a feeling.
~ Jim Wright
Truth Tellers
We either seek to redefine Jesus, or we let Him redefine us and our world – on His terms, in His way, through His Word.
Really, this is the major fork in the road.
Which Jesus?
Which Jesus?
This is a burning question for the organic church community – as well as other reform movements.
Do we embrace a fabricated Jesus, or the authentic Jesus?
A Timely Warning by Steve Hill
The Seven Great Lies in the Church Today, by Steve Hill
Amen and amen. I stand shoulder to shoulder with Steve Hill on this important article.
If you've read Crossroad Junction for very long, you've seen me also tackle most of these same, out-0f-balance issues. I'm glad to see others raising identical warnings, now to a broader audience, regarding:
- Overemphasis of Prosperity
- Exaggerated View of Grace
- Antinomianism
- Deification of Man (or, as I put it, creating Jesus in our own image)
- Challenging the Authority of the Word
- Rejecting Hell
- Universal Reconciliation
Really, folks, it's kind of simple: He defines what is ultimately true, real and right, not us.
He's God. We're not. Get over it!
~ Jim
Resurrection Sunday
Forty-eight years young in the Lord!
On Resurrection Sunday, 1965, I had a deep, deep conversion experience as I totally surrendered to the Lord. I'm told the tears on that old wooden floor made permanent stains.
Wow, how time has passed. It's been – and continues to be – a wonderful adventure, and even during some tough times I never once regretted belonging to Him.
Through it all, I've always felt His hand on my life and was blessed with a solid foundation from Godly parents and mature teachers, which has served me well over the years.
In an age of crazy doctrines and postmodern spiritual angst, that foundation yet stands firm for those willing to surrender their sensibilities to the Living Word and His written Word.
Really, it's just not that complicated, but it does mean letting go of your own impulse to define Jesus – and what ultimately is right, real and true – on your own terms.
My life is a living testimony to His sovereign Lordship, and His passion is my very life.
I invite you to also surrender, and find life.
~ Jim
Related article
- Conversion (crossroadjunction.com)
Feed the Need
Sorry, Frank Viola, but when your "revelation" of Jesus looks a lot like your own sensibilities, I'm not impressed.
And when "deeper life" merely reinforces your own postmodern proclivities, I'm likewise not impressed.
Nor do I find a persistent failure to be a functional part of any healthy, local fellowship – despite all your books and blogs on organic church – to be a virtue.
Really, didn't you get the memo? Postmodernism and existential angst just ain't that compelling or counter-cultural anymore.
Christocentric Buffoonery
Tyranny and Murder by Presidential Decree
In America, we've lost the right to be born, the right to practice our faith without government dictate or penalty, the right to proclaim moral sanity in the public square, and now the right to due process of law against a president who thinks he literally can pull the trigger and execute fellow citizens at his whim.
In a bizarre "legal memo", President Obama has asserted that he can target and assassinate Americans – at will – simply on his belief that they are subversives.
The memo's specific focus is Americans who President Obama has unilaterally concluded are affiliated with al-Qaida (not that this makes it right), but its rationale and justification can now be applied to anyone else who he likewise concludes is a non-combatant subversive.
America was once a great nation, ruled by law under a Constitution that was consciously written to embody a Judeo-Christian worldview.
The bedrock of our constitutional republic – rooted in Biblical principles articulated by men like James Madison and his mentor John Witherspoon – was the liberty to pursue virtue by imposing checks and balances against the evil of unrestrained government power.
I'm having an interesting online (but private) conversation with someone, talking about the state of things in his part of the country.
Here was my observation:
"My impression from interactions on Facebook with various folks in the [deleted] area is that there is a lot of angst that has driven folks from institutionalism and legalism, but not much in the way of any solid foundational Biblical principles operative among them.
"Your area seems to be a hotbed for interest in 'organic' things, but mired in lots of unrealistic sensibilities. They seem to have idealistic expectations rooted in those sensibilities but can't seem to find traction, yet they are not willing to change and so they keep trying and trying without success."
I wonder if this describes other areas around the country as well?
~ Jim
Related articles
- Organic Dead Ends (crossroadjunction.com)
- Finding Ekklesia (crossroadjunction.com)
- Organic Idols (crossroadjunction.com)
The Existential Cliff
Be wary of modern day pied pipers of existential theology, who say "Christ is All" but deny all of Christ in order to promote their own limited view of Christ.
Hyper Grace – Part 3
In our fellowships, grace is real, raw and unmerited.
But we also understand that although grace is freely given, it costs everything to accept – because when it is authentically received, we then take up our cross as we die to self and follow Him.
Hyper Grace – Part 1
Many Christians have lost their way by embracing "hyper grace", which is really half grace – it robs them of the power to become mature disciples and the confidence needed to go forth as ambassador's of God's full grace.
Election Postmortem
Leading up to Tuesday's elections here in the United States, I often used this blog and Facebook to urge Christians to vote. (See Does Jesus Want You to Vote?)
When I did, I always got heated push back – mainly from other Christians who oppose Biblical civic engagement.
Generally, they think God is only interested our personal relationships with Him, or that He is solely focused on the Church.
Postmodern Idolatry
Does God do what is right, or is it right because God does it?
Many think God is subservient or subject to external standards – that He does what is right because there is a higher moral code that even He obeys.
This denies God's sovereignty, and as a result many today seek to hold Him to the standard of their own sense of right and wrong.
Beyond Scripture? (Part 2)
Jesus Loves Me
(An existential version of that favorite childhood song.
I encourage you to have some fun by singing along as you read it.)
Jesus loves me, this I know,
Postmodern grace has made it so.
With His Spirit in my heart,
External truth now has no part.
Did Jesus tell me?
Oh, how can I know?
I feel Jesus told me,
I hope that makes it so.
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The Bible says that I must go,
Proclaim His Word – oh no no no!
Now existential I've become,
'Cause His commands just leave me numb
My sense of Jesus is true light,
I do not worry what is right.
With my sensibilities,
I do not need moralities.
The Bible's NOT the Word of God.
My own perceptions earn my nod!
The Jesus I have come to see,
Surprisingly looks just like me.
I only want the Living Word,
The Bible seems just too absurd.
Now I perceive reality,
The way I want it all to be.
The Power of God
We don't go looking for or emphasize miracles, but in our fellowships we've been seeing the miraculous happen time and again.
We had one man collapse and then die right in front of the paramedics and the fellowship he had been helping to start in the jail – and then come back to life shortly thereafter on the gurney in the jail infirmary after brothers gathered together to pray for him.
Organic Dead Ends
I've been thinking a lot about why significant segments of the organic church community in the Western hemisphere have failed to achieve Biblical viability – becoming instead anemic, self-focused and insular.
Even a casual observer must acknowledge that "organic" or "simple" churches in the West (unlike other parts of the world) seldom exhibit dynamic spiritual power; consistent reproduction, growth and maturity; or tangible, transforming impact.
A False Love
You tell me how in Christ love is everything.
How it transcends morality, truth and even scripture itself…
How if we just expressed your concept of love, the world will beat a path to Jesus…
Yet you recoil at basic truth, like the reality of sin and moral precepts.
And you reject much that God has revealed in His Word to help us understand His own nature and thus the parameters of authentic love – for the good not just of individuals, but whole societies.
Somehow, you have been deceived into thinking that authentic love is freedom from truth, when actually it is truth set free.
I Confess: I Ate at Chick-fil-A
It hasn't taken long for the Christian postmodernists among us to start accusing their brothers and sisters in the Lord of bigotry, intolerance and hate simply for eating yesterday at Chick-fil-A.
In the last 24 hours, I've seen several blogs and related Facebook comments along those lines.
Really? Bigotry, intolerance and hate? I saw no evidence of that yesterday.
Have some become so trapped in their postmodern sensibilities that it now is wrong to stand up in a civil, respectful manner against those who want to use the power of government to silence a man of faith – and block his businesses?
And his "sin"?
Simply this: Affirming his personal support of marriage as God has ordained it in His written Word, while nonetheless being open and embracing of all who patronize his establishments regardless of their sexual orientation or differing views.
Let's get a grip, folks.
I Want More Religion (Part 3)
I figure that if half of the folks reading my blog say "amen!", and the other half say "oh my!", then I'm right where God wants me.
The consternation and angst – in blogs, Facebook comments, podcasts and the like – generated by this series have convinced me that what I said needed saying.
My point is simple, and 100% Biblical:
I go, do and obey because of who I am in Christ. It is His life in me, expressed through me.
But here's the kicker: If I do not "do"or obey as Christ commands, then the life of Christ in me is a lie – at least in those areas where I choose to disobey or stay trapped in my own sensibilities.
Post-modern Rage
My recent blog on "I Want More Religion" provoked a degree of rage which only served to prove the point I was trying to make.
In a lengthy online discussion, one podcaster (whom I will not grace by identifying) commented that my blog made him so angry that he wanted to "kill" me.
Seriously. He said he felt like killing me because I dared say that Jesus was not all about relationship, but also obedience and holiness.
And he kept repeating it…
I Want More Religion (Part 2)
I've heard privately from some who were offended with my use of "lazy-assed" in my blog, I Want More Religion (Part 1).
In my own defense, I was going to say "stinkin' white-washed sepulchres" and use a whip to toss some tables, but I thought I'd tone it down and used "lazy-assed" instead. ;-)
Seriously, if we don't get out of this post-modern, introspective, insular, Jesus-is-all-about-affirming-my-own-sensibilities funk, then there is no hope of redemption and wholeness – for ourselves, for those He calls us to tangibly love and bless with real deeds, or for our culture.
"Beyond Evangelical" by Frank Viola: A Review
I just finished reading, from cover to cover, Frank Viola's new book "Beyond Evangelical".
Although it largely consists of re-prints of his prior blogs, it has lots of good stuff … so long as you take it in context.
That context is a repeated emphasis by Frank on an way of relating to Jesus and the world which is sometimes called Christian existentialism, which is hardly surprising given his repeated praise in his blog of existentialist theologian Karl Barth. That existentialism seems to be rooted in the belief that all externals (social problems, cultural problems, family problems, church problems, etc.) will be resolved as we internally connect with the person of Jesus. When we do this collectively as "ekklesia" (the Greek word translated "church"), we then fulfill God's "grand epic".
Although this sounds good, most problems throughout church history come from truth out of balance. Presumably, anything outside of Frank's understanding of who Jesus is, and what Jesus is about, is a distraction. (See my prior blog series, Beyond Evangelical?) Frank Viola nonetheless goes to great length justifying his existentialism by proclaiming the truth that "Christ is all", but then makes the mistake of interpreting that truth in ways which limit Christ and thus lead to a new legalism.
Whereas the old legalism, which he does a good job of picking apart, was all about "doing" and "not doing", the new legalism is all about telling folks what Jesus should look like in us, and thus who we can "be" and "not be" in Christ. Along those lines, his book is an apologetic for how Christ from his "beyond" perspective should be the new norm, combined with a polemic against how Christ is expressed in others.
As I've noted before, however, the "all" in Frank Viola's "Christ is all" looks and feels to many of us who've been around longer than Frank to be little more than a narrow set of sensibilities that are essentially millennial and post-modern in attitude. This is in contrast to the differing concept others of us embrace – of a multi-generational, multi-graced, multi-called and multi-gifted Body of Christ that includes all "tribes" (to use Frank's term).
I've said it before, and it bears repeating: I am not beyond any other segment of the Body of Christ. I have yet to meet a brother or sister in Christ who can't teach me something of Christ, because something of Jesus is expressed in all of us. I have something of Christ to offer you, and you have something of Christ to offer me. That, in a nutshell, is the Body of Christ in all of its multifaceted glory.
This book, at its heart, is Frank Viola's apologetic defense of his "beyond" tribe as against all other flavors of evangelicalism. Rather than seeing the strengths of other tribes and how they have much to teach and add to his "beyond" tribe's own grace, gifts and calling, he keeps talking in very general terms about how his "tribe" is beyond them.
He does this by putting folks into very artificial categories – often with somewhat inaccurate characterizations, sometimes grossly distorted histories (the errors of which I can personally attest to based on my own direct involvement) , and repeated warnings about all the problems found among other classes of Christians. Yet those other believers who he keeps characterizing in unflattering ways (yet with a measure of charm) candidly look nothing like any fellow believers I know.
In essence, Frank Viola puts everyone into categories to contrast the rest of the Body of Christ with his own tribe – while also paradoxically going out of his way to say we should be beyond categories.
For example, I kept reading his descriptions of all those bad "fundamentalists" and "Religious Right" boogie men – with stereotypes that seemed to be lifted more from the editorial pages of the militantly secular NY Times or the diatribes of MSNBC talk show host Rachel Maddow than from any real fellowship with real brothers and sisters in Christ – and just shook my head over and over as I kept trying in vain to think of anyone I actually know who actually fit his prejudicial caricatures.
But hey, let's not let real brothers and sisters in Christ – with real lives – get in the way of a good narrative on how my group is "beyond" everyone else. Right?
My point is not to defend those who he disparages – they can defend themselves. Rather, it is to call him to task for his polite yet nonetheless divisive, sectarian and dismissive rhetoric, while he repeatedly decries others who are divisive, sectarian and dismissive towards him.
In pointing out all the flaws of others – in a very charming and nice way, which I couldn't help but admire – Frank Viola then fails to give a single real life or practical example of how his "beyond" approach would look or do things differently. Again, there is not one concrete, real world, real life example in the entire book. None, nada, zip. It is simply a litany of aspirational platitude after aspirational platitude – some good, some naive, and some certainly open to a more balanced, inclusive perspective.
"Beyond Evangelical", like much of Frank's blog by the same name, legitimately raises valid questions. I agree with him on the need to move from isolated individualism to a more comprehensive expression of "ekklesia". I commend him for that, although I have a broader view of Christ and His Body than the existential theology my "Beyond" brethren might allow. Nonetheless, this critique of his book comes from the perspective of "ekklesia" – as my life is devoted to finding, experiencing and working out what ekklesia looks like with an active and diverse community of fellow believers here in Virginia.
Yes, Christ is all, but our "all" looks a lot bigger in our fellowships than Frank Viola's "all".
Otherwise, from a purely aspirational point of view there is not much to dislike in Frank's book. But if you are looking for substance and – like me – looking for him to articulate clear alternatives beyond his platitudes and his contrasting negative stereotypes, then you will be left hanging.
It is the easiest thing in the world to point out the splinters in everyone else, but to not see the log in one's own eye.
In my experience, there are some big log's in the eyes of the "Beyond" tribe. My challenge to Frank Viola is to prove me wrong: Give us examples. Surely, after all these years of touting what I see as a somewhat myopic existential view of what "Christ is all" means, he can start to point to examples of how real people are doing real things to express his "beyond" platitudes in the real world – beyond their own individual faith and beyond what strikes many of us as their insular fellowships and tendencies toward a rather insular faith. Both his blog, and this book, utterly fail to do so.
Rather than build relationships between various parts of the Body of Christ as we learn to esteem one another above ourselves, my overall concern continues to be that Frank feeds the growing alienation of his tribe from the broader Body of Christ. Of course, in the book he denies this, but it's there and is a glaring blind spot nonetheless.
I think the ultimate criteria for evaluating "Beyond Evangelical" is this: After reading the book, would a typical millennial Christian (according to Frank, this is his primary focused audience) – who may be steeped in post-modern sensibilities and feel alienated – be more likely to seek out and press into a multifaceted, multi-generational and multi-"tribe" expression of Body of Christ, or less likely?
Some may disagree with my specific critique of the book, but that bottom line question fairly well sums up all of my concerns.
I believe Frank Viola still has much to offer the rest of us so long as he grows beyond the stark limitations of his Karl Barth Christian existentialism and its associated post-modern sensibilities. But I fear, instead, that this book will only reinforce the trend within Frank's "beyond" tribe to remain mired in its millennial post-modern sensibilities by dismissing much that the rest of the Body of Christ has to offer them.
Fathers and Teachers
I keep hearing from folks who have felt troubled and marginalized by authors and bloggers who seem unable to go beyond their own sensibilities and who seek to make their own gifts and limitations normative for the entire Body of Christ.
In response, I can't shake this urge to proclaim what I see in scripture and experience daily in our own fellowships: The multifaceted, multi-gifted, multi-called Body of Christ.
I am convinced that God's heart is passionate about releasing His people to be all that He created them to be – not just in our churches, but in all spheres of life.
Our collective failure to do this – both within the institutional and organic church communities – and the insular, anemic fruit that has resulted, is one of the biggest challenges facing the West today.
Individual Limitations
Here's the problem I see daily among individual Christians:
Those who are primarily motivated by the heart, feel all must be the same. Those primarily motivated by renewed minds, think all must be the same. Those primarily motivated by transformed wills, act as though all must be the same…
We are post-modern in our sensibilities, so all must be the same. We are called to this, or to that, and so all must be the same. We not are called to this, or to that, and so all must be the same…
Please, everyone, can't we just stop this nonsense!
Yes, Christ is all. But is He just Lord of YOUR all, or Lord of all?
Is He just heart, or just mind, or just will?
Is He just mercy, or just prophetic, or just ruler, or just giver, or just relational, or just whatever you want or seem to need Him to be?
Is He just generation X, or generation Y?
And let's get down to the nitty-gritty: Has He really surrendered His Lordship over all creation, culture, spheres of human endeavor, nations and history itself, just so He can be all about you and your sensibilities?
For real???
Leadership Limitations
It is bad enough when individuals try to make their own strengths and limitations normative for all. But it is an order of magnitude worse for a leader to do so.
The more I contemplate and reflect on this, and seek the mind of Christ, the more I am coming to believe that these problems are rooted in the difference between a teacher verses a father in the faith.
Both are needed.
But teachers are primarily motivated to reproduce what they have only personally comprehended or experienced. They tend to minister from whom they are, and are very good at laying a foundation based on what they personally understand, but often are not very good at taking us much further.
Fathers (and mothers!) often stand on the foundation laid by the teachers, and may themselves engage in didactic teaching, but their motivation is very different. They tend to focus on who you can be, and are good at helping others be more than themselves and to exceed their own understanding and experiences.
Where teachers delight in replicating what they have personally figured out, fathers delight in us going beyond their own abilities, comprehension, biases and sensibilities.
Now, don't get me wrong. This is not an absolute either/or. But there are different core motivations, even though some can operate in both arenas.
Maybe a hands-on father in the faith won't be motivated to burrow down into all the details to bring us deep understanding on this or that – or be motivated to write many books – like a teacher. Rather, his greatest joy is releasing others to be more than himself.
The joy of a father is for you to exceed him by helping you find your own – and often very different – abilities and calling. He delights in watching you conquer the unknown as you venture into new spheres of endeavor in areas he may not even comprehend, rather than simply conveying and replicating his own motivations and understanding.
Moving Forward
We have wonderful teachers, writers and bloggers, and they have taught us much from the perspective of their own journey, their own comprehension, and their own sensibilities.
But we have too few fathers in the Body of Christ these days.
As a father who has birthed and mentored many in the Lord, I make this plea to the gifted teachers among us who have taught me much: Keep writing, blogging and teaching. You have much to offer. But understand that Christ, as head of His body, never intended for your own understanding and experiences to become limiting factors, or God forbid, the new legalism.
He calls all leaders in His Church to enable and equip others. And yes, Christ is all. But "all" is not defined by or limited to your own understanding and sensibilities.
Unless we all grasp this truth – individuals, teachers and fathers alike – we will never become the wonderful, amazing Body of Christ.
This is my passion. This is my calling.