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The Son, Jesus Christ, is God
The Bible present Jesus of Nazareth as possessing the attributes of God. In addition, the Bible says directly that Jesus is God.
|Jesus Christ
|Who is omnipotent (all powerful)?
|1 Chronicles 29:11
|Philippians 3:20-21
|Who is omniscient (all knowing)?
|1 John 3:20
|Colossians 2:2-3
|Who is omnipresent (present everywhere)?
|Proverbs 15:3
|2 Corinthians 2:14
|Who is Lord of Sabbath?
|Genesis 2:3
|Matthew 12:8
|Who is the great "I am?"
|Exodus 3:14
|John 8:58
|Who is the only creator?
|Isaiah 44:24
|John 1:3
|Who is the only savior?
|Isaiah 43:11, 45:21
|Acts 4:12
|Who will judge mankind?
|Isaiah 3:13, 14
|2 Corinthians 5:10
|Who will judge between the sheep and goats?
|Ezekiel 34:17
|Matthew 25:31-33
|Who sent the prophets?
|Jeremiah 7:25
|Matthew 23:34
|Who resurrected Jesus?
|Acts 4:10
|John 10:17-18
|Who is "coming in glory?"
|Isaiah 40:5
|Matthew 24:30
|Who is our Father?
|Isaiah 63:16
|Isaiah 9:6
|Who is the "first and last?"
|Isaiah 44:6
|Revelation 1:17
|Who is Rock of salvation?
|2 Samuel 22:32
|1 Corinthians 10:4
|Who is Stone of stumbling?
|Isaiah 8:13-15
|1 Peter 2:8
|"One crying in the wilderness" came to prepare a way for whom?
|Isaiah 40:3
|Matthew 3:3
|Who is eternal?
|Genesis 21:33
|Micah 5:2
|Who is the fountain of living waters?
|Jeremiah 17:13
|John 4:10-14
|Who resurrects the dead?
|Acts 26:8
|John 6:40
|Who gives rewards to man?
|Isaiah 40:10
|Matthew 16:27
|Who has all authority and power?
|1 Chronicles 29:11
|Matthew 28:18
|Who gives power and authority to man?
|Psalm 68:35
|Luke 9:1
|Who forgives sin?
|2 Chronicles 7:14
|Matthew 9:6
|Who sent the Holy Spirit?
|John 14:16
|John 16:7
|Who has the greatest name?
|Nehemiah 9:5
|Philippians 2:9
|Whom are we to worship?
|Exodus 34:14
|Revelation 5:12-13
|Who is the good Shepherd?
|Genesis 48:15
|John 10:14
|Who searches for the lost sheep of Israel?
|Ezekiel 34:11
|Matthew 15:24
|Who is "Lord of Lords?"
|Deuteronomy 10:17
|Revelation 17:14
|To whom shall every knee bow?
|Isaiah 45:22-23
|Philippians 2:10
|Who is the righteous branch of David?
|Jeremiah 23:5-6
|Jeremiah 33:15
|Who alone is Holy?
|1 Samuel 2:2
|Acts 3:14
|Whose blood cleanses us?
|Acts 20:28
|1 John 1:7
|The world was created for whom?
|Proverbs 16:4
|Colossians 1:16
|Who is above all?
|Nehemiah 9:6
|Romans 9:5
|Who is forever the same?
|Psalms 102:24-27
|Hebrews 1:8-12
|Who is our light?
|Psalm 27:1
|John 8:12
|Who is the way or path?
|Psalms 16:11
|John 14:6
|Who is in charge of the angels?
|Psalms 103:20
|2 Thessalonians 1:7
|Who gives us rest?
|Exodus 33:14
|Matthew 11:28
|Who gives eternal life?
|Proverbs 19:23
|John 3:36
|We are the bride of whom?
|Isaiah 54:5
|2 Corinthians 11:2
|Who tests the heart and mind?
|Jeremiah 17:10
|Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel, which translated means, "God with us."
|Matthew 1:23
|And fear gripped them all, and they began glorifying God, saying, "A great prophet has arisen among us!" and, "God has visited His people!"
|Luke 7:16
|In the beginning was the Word...and the Word was God.
|John 1:1
|No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.
|John 1:18
|He [Jesus]... was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.
|John 5:18
|I and the Father are one.
|John 10:30
|The Jews answered Him [Jesus], "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God."
|John 10:33
|You call Me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am.
|John 13:13
|Jesus said to him, "...He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how do you say, `Show us the Father?'"
|John 14:9
|And now, glorify Thou Me together with Thyself, Father, with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.
|John 17:5
|Thomas answered and said to Him [Jesus], "My Lord and my God!"
|John 20:28
|"The word which He sent to the sons of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ (He is Lord of all)
|Acts 10:36
|For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him
|Romans 10:12
|the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory
|1 Corinthians 2:8
|...the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
|2 Corinthians 4:4
|...Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,
|Philippians 2:6
|...to Christ. For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,
|Colossians 2:9
|God was manifest in the flesh...
|1 Timothy 3:16
|...our Lord Jesus Christ, which He will bring about at the proper time-- He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords;
|1 Timothy 6:15
|God...in these last days has spoken to us in His Son...And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature...
|Hebrews 1:2-3
|But of the Son He says, "Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever...
|Hebrews 1:8
|...the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus;
|Titus 2:13
|Simon Peter ... by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
|2 Peter 1:1
|And on His robe and on His thigh He [Jesus] has a name written, "KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."
|Revelation 19:16
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The gay ARTS are sutely under attack!This is what happened in Cornwall by HOMOPHOBIC CORNWALL POLICE who DESTROYED a gay Art business.Watch the video's.
Arts Council cuts to The Drill Hall and Queer-Up-North send a message that queers are not of value in our culture or included in culture diversity. It is experimental political cutting-edge theatre that struggles to survive in our society; so why cut funding from those who make innovative work happen ? As the Artistic Director of an emerging queer theatre company who is supported by both organisations, I am shocked, outraged and devastated.
Malcolm, was this 'gay art business' also engaing in experimental political cutting-edge theatre? If not, then it looks like you're just jumping on another bandwagon to further your own agenda against Cornwall police
such an important part of gay culture that I've never heard of it until today.
gay ARTS are also a part of human's wealth.we should struggle for our rights.i am a gay and my profile is on gaysinglehunt.com where i look for gay partner
I hate to say this but the Drill Hall management is out of touch, They dont produce anything interesting or provocative anymore – just far our weird stuff for people stuck in the 80s. There is plenty of great gay stuff going on but none of it is there.Why wasnt the revival of Beautiful Thing there?Why isnt it holding gay comedy nights?Why isnt it doing what Duckie does?Theres so much the could be doing but arent. I havent been there in years – i look at the programme and it bores me to tearsSomeone pleasse take it over because we cannot lose this great venue.
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So that's it then, we're all going to die.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Such insight. What talent. How very thought provoking.
Well, it IS an accurate commentary on the level of thinking more than occasionally displayed.
Oh… They didn't tell you about that? It was in the contract… ;)
Sorry this strip is wrong. Gun violence has fallen from 7 in 100,000 in 1993 to 3.6 per 100,000 today during a time of mass gun buying. Also 77% of all inmates who used a gun in the commision of their crime got the gun from a family member or from illegal means.
From NPR:
Washington DC was the murder capital of the world now Chicago with the toughest gun laws in the country, which is fighting tooth and nail to keep its own gun laws. In my own opinion crime will continue to fall that all states now have concealed carry permit laws.
This country says we have a right to life, that means we have the right to defend ourselves. How a person decides to do that is their own business. The rancher living on the U.S. Mexican boarder who has illegal aliens and drugs being traffic through his property needs yes an assault rifle the same way an Alaskan living in or close to the wilderness needs big bore hunting rifles for bears. These people have nothing in common with the reporter who reports gun crimes while living in a secure building in New York with an armed guard out front.
Now let the character attacks begin.
So that's it then, we're all going to die.
We already know that.
Over all crime had been falling in the major cities with or without strict gun laws. However since 2009 gun massacres have been going up averaging one a month. That 4 and over deaths.
To the first I say no, explain Chicago & LA. Strick gun laws and some of the worse violence. As for assault weapons, please give a post.
what happened on jan. 20+/- 2009??!
Instead of getting caught up in the same old debate about gun laws, how about if we focus on fixing the economy and the utter imbalance in wealth so people aren't driven over the edge by despair? Hopelessness kills more people than guns do.
Back up your comment with facts, please!
what happened on jan. 20+/- 2009??!
Why ask me? You answer it.
Add the Drug war to the mix. Also unless they stop ever vehicle coming and going such weapons will still enter.
Call your own self a "kook" if you want to. I won't. Just stop with the name calling. Or do you want to be like Omnius?
One positive of when the plutocrats take over is that they will use our military to kill off every single gang member. What they learned all over the world they will bring back here. So that only one gang will stand, their gang with badges.
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The real reason Ferguson has military weapons
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Who knows!
Enjoy the draft.
If the trade stays as-is, Kevin Pelton of ESPN Insider gives OKC a C+: "Depending how much the Thunder spend to re-sign restricted free agents Enes Kanter and Kyle Singler, they were looking at paying 3.25 times Lamb's $3 million salary in taxes, so moving his contract for the $1 million guaranteed portion of Barnes' 2015-16 salary enables them to save about $8.5 million. Given how unlikely Lamb was to contribute, trading him was a no-brainer. It was just a matter of what, if anything, Oklahoma City could get in return."
Darnell Mayberry with some new details: "Previous reports indicated that the Thunder would receive the non-guaranteed contract of Matt Barnes in exchange for Lamb, with OKC immediately waiving Barnes to shed salary. But neither Barnes nor his contract is coming to OKC, The Oklahoman has learned. The Thunder is in pursuit of a draft pick for Lamb, although his lack of playing time over the past three seasons has sabotaged his trade value. Charlotte owns the ninth overall pick in Thursday's draft, as well as the 39th overall selection. The Thunder, however, isn't expected to receive either of those picks. The more likely scenario under the proposed deal is Charlotte sending OKC a future draft pick." Keep Reading…
The Thunder are sending Jeremy Lamb to the Hornets in exchange for Luke Ridnour's non-guaranteed contract as well as a conditional 2016 second round pick, the team announced Thursday. Ridnour will not be joining the Thunder as he'll be waived by the July 10 deadline, if not traded again.
It's a pretty clear move to free a roster spot, likely to add whoever the 14th overall pick is tomorrow night.
So, Lamb's career in Oklahoma City appears over. As the key piece in the James Harden deal, he never found footing with the Thunder, falling out of the rotation any time he got in it. There was expectation that he might find new life under Billy Donovan, but clearly, the Thunder are ready to move on.
Initially, the deal was reported as being Matt Barnes sent to the Thunder.
Russ Bengston of Complex on the new KD8: "Take the heel counter as an example. Deep into the design process, Chang had to rethink them, as what he'd come up with was too close to one of Kobe's designs for Durant's taste. Sketching one night, he was inspired by Durant's latest tattoo—a saber-toothed tiger on his right calf. Which, of course, comes back to Durant himself. 'Obviously the saber-toothed [tiger] was around in the ice age,' Durant says, 'and I feel I'm a cold-blooded killer.'
Cam Payne in a Q&A: "I don't know what to think. I'm just ready for it to happen. I can't wait till June 25, because I mean, like you said, people have been talking about trades and all this other stuff, and I have no control over it. So I'm just sitting here waiting and listening, and I just can't wait. I'm happy, but I'm just impatiently waiting." Keep Reading…
When the draft process started and it was official the Thunder were picking 14th, Stanley Johnson was my guy. I loved his defensive ability and two-way NBA potential. Strong, tough, physical, and a little Jimmy Butler-ish.
Nothing has really changed to sway me, but problem is, it looks less and less likely the Thunder would have a chance to take him.
It's not that Johnson's stock has soared from impressive workouts or draft buzz. He's just steadily been in the top 8-10 of the draft, leaving the Thunder with an unlikely chance to grab him. Still: He's probably my favorite fit for the Thunder in the range they're picking. Keep Reading…
Anthony Slater on Billy Donovan's draft influence: "This season, he faced Oubre and Kansas, Bobby Portis and Arkansas and, during the SEC slate, loaded Kentucky three separate times. After those games, Donovan called Trey Lyles a 'major problem' because 'there is no one in college basketball who can match up with him' and labeled himself a 'huge fan' of Devin Booker's. Both are considered possible Thunder targets at the 14th pick. Over the next few years, Donovan's fingerprints are expected to be all over the future of the Thunder. The first ripple may materialize on Thursday night, where his advice may help lead to OKC's newest player."
Rob Mahoney of SI.com on draft needs: "Regardless, perimeter defense needs to be a bigger teambuilding priority. Center Enes Kanter, who will be a restricted free agent, puts a strain on Serge Ibaka and the Thunder's interior defense. Alleviating the pressure coming from the perimeter seems the best way for OKC to vault back into the top 10 in defensive efficiency after a shaky showing on that end last season. Waiters, Morrow, D.J. Augustin, and even Russell Westbrook create problems within the Thunder defense. Should Oklahoma City enter next season with the same basic perimeter rotation, it risks running so many potential liabilities as to burden its title contention." Keep Reading…
While so many focused in on the soaring stock of Cameron Payne, with rumor-y rumors linking the Thunder with the Murray State guard, there hasn't been much talk about Jerian Grant, who would appear to be a strong fit for Oklahoma City.
And the fact is, he looks pretty nice on the Thunder's roster.
Grant was a four-year player at Notre Dame, blossoming last season into a scoring point guard that led the Irish to an ACC Tournament win and within a whisper of upsetting Kentucky. He attacks the basket extremely well, has solid defensive potential, and the biggest thing, as the Draft Express video lists, is size at his position. That's a big Presti checkmark. Keep Reading…
Berry Tramel: "That's why I find free agency much more interesting. A bunch of players swapping teams. The occasional superstar — this year, LaMarcus Aldridge and Marc Gasol are on the market — but even far less-talented players make a difference. For instance, restricted free agents make a deal, then the original team has to counter (Enes Kanter). Or role players branch out (Anthony Morrow arrived in OKC last July)."
ESPN Stats and Info: "According to ESPN Stats & Info's NBA Draft Projection Model, Payne is projected to have a statistical plus/minus of minus-0.60 in years 2 through 5 of his NBA career. Statistical plus/minus is an estimate of a player's contribution to his team's point differential per 100 possessions. An SPM of zero is considered league average (weighted for minutes), and replacement level players have an SPM of about -2." Keep Reading…
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Sermon for the 1st Sunday after Christmas/St. John the Evangelist
Billy Jenkins
Today, the church celebrates the feast of St. John the Evangelist. Which of course means, our readings, despite being the first Sunday after Christmas, do not sound particularly Christmassy. But that's alright, we still have occasion to speak of the events of Christmas today. For the reason St. John's feast is the 3rd day of Christmas is because he spent much time elaborating on the themes of light in darkness and that the Light of the world was the Incarnate Son of God. The Word, the 2nd person of the Trinity, took to himself a body and became God in the Flesh.
I hope all of you have taken some time to be lost in the wonder of this mystery over the last few days. I know for me it takes some effort; the seminary classes I teach spend a good amount of time talking about the Incarnation and I'm quite positive I could bore you to tears with some of the tedious thoughts that surrounded the person of Jesus Christ in the earliest church. But it's more than that; I struggle because this idea that God came down at Christmas and was born of a Virgin in a stable has been so engrained in me that I take it for granted. I'd like us to consider a couple of thoughts; first, from C.S Lewis. In his book, Miracles, he spoke of the grand miracle being the Incarnation of the Divine Word. And he wrote, to get your mind wrapped around this event consider this analogy: God becoming man, is like one of us deigning to take on the existence of a slug. Think about that: a slimy, gross slug-small, living under wood and rocks. A creature I think many of us look at and either don't think twice about, or who give a short and succinct exposition of our feelings by saying "ew"! And so, the Incarnation is a great condescension. We should reflect on that.
But it's more than the humility of God's Son. It's also a mystery as to how it even took place. How does one who is eternal step into time? Micah's prophecy tells us that his goings have been of old and that he is from everlasting. How does this work? Furthermore, this is the God who made everything, and as its Maker, exists outside of all his creation. We sing this somewhat regularly at communion "whom all the world could not contain". And yet, he takes on the limits of space which is common to all men. To use the theological term, God becomes circumscribed in the person of Jesus, he takes boundaries to himself. Again, how is that even possible? I won't pretend that I can explain it-but I want us all to marvel at this. We may not understand the "how" but with the blessed Mother, we too can ponder all these things in our heart."
In reflecting on God becoming man, it is not only his humility and the mystery of it all, it is the wonder of God establishing a way for men to return to him. I would like to stitch together several passages to help make this point. One of my favorite verses of Scripture is from Isaiah 40, where the prophet wrote "the Glory of the Lord of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together." Perhaps, on the surface, this verse does not strike you as odd. But I have to imagine that any Jew who heard or read what Isaiah had to say would have been shocked. After all, this privilege of seeing God's glory was not accorded to Moses, the man who stands next to Abraham as the two pillars of Jewish tradition. Do you remember that story? It comes from the end of Exodus 33. It is filled with anthropomorphic figures of speech to describe Jehovah, it is dark, it is mysterious and terrible. Listen to these verses:
And he (moses) said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
21 And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
Moses, the meekest man on the earth, by all accounts deserving, if any man were, to see the glory of God, was forbidden. He was able to see a little bit of the back end of it, but the sheer weight and luminosity of God's glory would have killed him according to verse 20. While this is certainly true and the clearest understanding of the text, I want to suggest that there is also an element of timing involved in God's decision. First, St. John clearly teaches in his first epistle that there will come a time in the age to come, that men will see God "as he is". At that time, the Glory of God will not be too much a burden for us to bear, but we will revel in it. Set free completely from sin, we will no longer feel the piercing of his holy eyes. That is why heaven has long been described in the church as the "beatific vision", to behold the face of God. That is what we long for. But must we wait for death to attain the vision of God?
We return again to our Old Testament reading; "the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together." When is it that this glory will be seen? Does Isaiah say at death? Recall the verses that immediately preceded it: "The voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare ye the way of the Lord. Make straight in the highway a desert for our God." We've just concluded the season of Advent where we see this passage featured in the gospel and call to worship. We know this is the voice of John the Baptizer. So if we read this passage carefully we can determine that, after the Baptist, those of low estate would be lifted up, those who esteemed themselves highly would be made low, and those who were crooked and rough would be straightened and smooth by the call to repentance. And after this had been done, the glory of God would be revealed. Well what did John prophesy? Yes, he was a prophet in the sense of calling the people to repentance. But he also pointed ahead to something, or in this case, someone. We read just a week ago the words "there stands one among you whose shoe I'm unworthy to unloose." When Isaiah said the "glory of the Lord shall be revealed" on the heels of John the Baptist, he meant Christ. Christ is the glory of the Lord. This is why on Christmas day we read that great verse from Hebrews 1 the Son is "the brightness [or radiance] of the Father's glory".
But as clear as the author of Hebrews may be, this passage is trumped, as it were, by the Gospel for Christmas day. What our beloved St. John teaches us at the end of his prologue is this: "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory of the only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." John teaches his readers that we have seen the glory of God in the person of Jesus Christ. That which Moses was blocked from seeing, that which Isaiah some five hundred years later said would in the future be revealed,is manifested forth in the child of Bethlehem.
Friends, you should wonder at our Lord's humility; you should stand amazed in contemplation of the mystery of the incarnation; but I urge you to step beyond this and consider that Isaiah says all flesh will see the Glory of the Lord revealed. In the older covenant, not even Moses, who shared intimate communion with God in the mountain, not even Moses, was able to see this glory. But we have that right! In taking humanity unto himself, God has made a way of access for us to the glory of the Father which we in our fallen state cannot behold. That is an enormous part of the beauty of living in the newer covenant.
You might ask, and fairly so, what's the big deal? So God in his mercy chooses in the fullness of time to show his glory in a way he had previously not, why does that matter? I think the key to understanding this lies in Jehovah's answer to Moses upon Moses' request to see God's glory. The Lord answered him "I will make all my goodness pass before thee." Shortly thereafter, the Lord hides him because he can't see this goodness. The puritan commentator Matthew Henry explicitly states, "the goodness of God is his glory." Which means that the child in the manger is God's goodness. And this makes perfect sense; in Exodus 33:19 as the Lord describes the goodness that will pass before Moses, he says "I will be gracious to those whom I will be gracious and I will show mercy on those whom I show mercy." In other words, goodness of God is the grace and mercy which saves us. While the older covenant had rituals which looked ahead to the coming of the Messiah, God's glory, or goodness, were not yet fully revealed. Beloved, in the Christmas seasons, we rejoice that that which the holy seers and prophets saw not, has been revealed to us.
And that pronoun, "us" is interesting. In the limited vision God gave Moses, he made one thing absolutely clear: his grace and mercy would remain partially shrouded and would extend only as far as God deemed it should go, namely Israel. But Isaiah foresaw that "all flesh would see it". When the Word took flesh to himself, the fullness of God's plan was revealed. The limitation of salvation to the house of Israel would be blown wide open as the Gentiles would be welcomed in to the fold. Friends, we must eschew any sense of self-importance and deserving. The holiest man of the Israelites was denied what the most common of all Gentiles has now seen.
One of the unfortunately neglected saints in the Christmas season is Simeon. The end of Luke chapter 2 tells us that he was a holy man who was promised that he would not taste of death until he saw the Lord's Christ. He lived in the Temple and when Mary and Joseph brought him, Simeon sang the most lovely of songs. "Lord, now let thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word. For my eyes have seen they salvation." Simeon looked upon the newborn and saw the salvation of God; which is to say he saw the goodness of God; which is to say, he saw the glory of God. And he knew Isaiah's prophecy: which is why his song continues with the theme that Christ would be a "light to lighten the Gentiles and the glory of thy people Israel." Simeon knew all flesh would be able to see what he saw.
In a little while, we will sing again the carol of Charles Wesley, Hark! The Herald. And we will sing that magnificent line "Veiled in flesh, the Godhead see, Hail! The incarnate Deity." The glory which St. John labored to explain , the glory now available for all men to behold, is there in the Christ child. O come, let us adore him. Alleluia. Amen.
In Love Himself
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Why Classical Music Is Unpopular
This week, a colleague of mine summarized the work a portion of Joseph Pieper's work "Leisure: The Basis of Culture" with the words "for the ancients…true and pure leisure is attained the moment we no longer have to work to conform our mind to truth, our will to goodness, and our emotions to beauty." The implication in this statement is that our minds, wills, and emotions are not always naturally inclined toward the Transcendentals. In the place of truth, goodness, and beauty we gravitate toward lesser things. These lesser things may participate to some degree in truth, goodness, and beauty, but not in their fullness. What is it that that causes us to accept that which is less than ideal and substitute it with something less?
Perhaps one reason for this is that we often choose the simple over the more complex. This is not to say that simplicity is not sometimes to be preferred. Indeed, I have found it to be so. A Robert Frost poem and one by T.S. Eliot each have their place and I love both. And while my goal is not to demean Frost, he is, objectively speaking, much easier to understand on first blush than Eliot is. T.S, Eliot requires you to read, reread, and read again in order to even begin broaching the depth of his thoughts. The complexity of Ash Wednesday dwarfs that of the Road Not Taken. As such, it requires time, effort, and thought to appreciate its subtleties. My argument is that we are often not willing to give these and that that is particularly true in the realm of music.
Flipping through my radio stations is sometimes an exercise in futility. Rhyming phrases devoid of meaning, strong sexual overtones, or thoughtless drivel are common. These are then set to oft repeated chord structures, boring instrumentation, and melodies which lack creativity. Before I go further, allow me to say that this is not intended as a blanket condemnation of modern music. I'm more than happy to listen to Bastille's Pompeii, I own Celine Dion's greatest hits CD, and I've been known to say or sing "Turn Down for What" when I am excited about something. Musically and lyrically, however, these songs pale in comparison to what we broadly call "Classical" music. Yet, love for classical music appears from all my experience to be at an all time low. Why? As hinted at above, learning to love classical music requires time, effort, and thought. It is rarely easy listening. But I would argue that acquiring the musical knowledge necessary to enjoying this music and immersion in it will, in time, produce a deep love for its beauty which you will not always have to strive for; it will become natural.
Structure is important to classical music. And it isn't as simple as "Verse-Chorus-Verse-Chorus-Bridge-Key Change-Final Chorus" There are Rondos, Sonata Form, A-B Form, Theme and Variation and several other prominent forms which classical music takes. Understanding which you are listening to can help you organize in your mind what you are hearing. If you are listening to choral music, recognizing the process of text painting will enlighten your understanding. This does require study of historical musical trends and of basic music fundamentals, but again, appreciating the beauty present in this music takes time and effort. For instance, in Beethoven's Mass in C in the Credo, three E-flat chords, each dotted-half notes, precede the line "Deum de Deo, Lumen de Lumine" that is "God of God, Light of Light". The phrase is one which helps explain the Divinity of Christ. It is thus a reference to the truth that while God is one, he is also more than one, that is, he is Three Persons. Three chords, each three beats, one note in each measure, perfectly conveys the idea, through the music, that God is Three and yet One. Further, the fact that Beethoven used E-Flat is significant. For Beethoven it is the key of royalty. The Eroica symphony, dedicated to Napolean, was written in E-Flat. The Emperor Piano Concerto is written in E-Flat. This seemingly innocuous transition between phrases in the Creed is teeming with symbolism. It is a musical painting of the text. But gleaning this means years of study. In addition to learning various structures and text painting, one should also study the differences between homophonic and polyphonic music, the nationalism of Romantic music, and so many other aspects.
The likelihood of this though is small. For many, the work required to appreciate the beauty is overwhelming and admittedly, it doesn't happen overnight. But if you have enough patience to immerse yourself in it, and can take the time to learn even some of the background and fundamentals that make up classical music, your appreciation for its depth, quality, and complexity will soar. My oldest son, whose musical tastes are generally not my own (and that's alright) has, through repeated exposure, come to love the musical/pop opera Les Miserables. This music is not classical, but it is decidedly more complex and intricate than most of what he listens to. I have been listening to Puccini's La Boheme of late and was listening to it in the car earlier this week with both boys. They've heard the section we were listening to before and I could tell, looking in the rear view mirror, that they didn't mind what they were hearing. Their first choice? I highly doubt it. But one they are beginning to appreciate and even like? Yes. As they get older, I'll explain to them the details that make these works great. I don't think full comprehension of their beauty is possible until then. And, until as a culture, we make the commitment to love that which is beautiful and complex, classical music will continue to wane in popularity. But if the effort and study is made, over time beauty will be preferred and listening to and appreciating classical music will truly be an act of leisure.
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Thursday, January 2, 2014
Baptism: As Illustrated by a Little Story
I was listening to a short portion of a Christian radio program on my way home this evening. It was narrated by a man who sounded vaguely like the narrator in Disney's Charlotte's Web. He relayed a story about a young 1st grader who, as 6 year old's are wont to do, had a bladder accident at his school desk. Fearful of being called out by the approaching teacher, and subsequently humiliated in front of his peers, the boy began to panic internally. A young girl sitting next to him must have noticed him fidgeting. It happened to be show and tell day and the girl had brought her goldfish to class. Knowing that within seconds the teacher would ask what was under the boy's chair, thus potentially ruining the rest of his elementary school experience, the girl dropped her fish bowl between them. The water mixed with the urine, and while the smell must have still been slightly pungent, it destroyed any evidence of the voided bladder. The girl confirmed later that the dropping of the fish bowl was not an accident. The boy had been saved by water. Water, which you might say, had been poured over his transgressions. I Peter 3 reminds us "Baptism now saves us". The epistle to Titus confirms this teaching when it speaks of the "washing of regeneration." Other passages could be offered in support of the Baptism's effects, but the point here is not an in depth theological discussion. Rather, to point out the obvious. Water cleans things. Whether it be dishes or bodies, that's what water does. The spiritual application is the same: something is being washed. The 1662 Book of Common Prayer leaves no doubt about that which is washed. Almighty and everlasting God, who of thy great mercy didst save Noah and his family in the Ark from perishing by water, and also didst safely lead the children of Israel thy people through the red Sea, figuring thereby thy holy baptism; and by the baptism of thy well beloved son Jesus Christ in the river Jordan didst sanctify water to the mystical washing away of sin: We beseech thee for thine infinite mercies, that thou wilt mercifully look upon this Child, wash him, and sanctify him with the holy Ghost, that he being delivered from thy Wrath, may be received into the Ark of Christ's Church, and being steadfast in faith, joyful through hope, and rooted in Charity may so pass the waves of this troublesome world, that finally he may come to the land of everlasting life, there to reign with thee world without end, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. How it is that physical elements communicate spiritual riches to us is a mystery all its own. Nevertheless, they do. May the story above remind us that the water which came from Christ's side is every bit as much a part of redemption as the blood. And may we take comfort in the Water which initiated us into the Kingdom of God and those other physical elements, Bread and Wine, which help us remain therein.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Detachment, Desire, and Death
My wife and I had a rather long talk with one of our sons about sharing last night. His attachment to certain toys and unwillingness to let others play with them brought this about. Easily, I could write an entire post criticizing him for this and list all of the things we taught him to help other parents struggling with the same thing. It's easy, however, to point out a stingy child and make him an example. What's a little more difficult is looking inward and seeing where you are either stingy or too attached. God is gracious to his children. When we are too attached to things other than him, he reminds us. On the surface, these reminders may seem like punishments. A piece of technology we love, breaks. The money we were saving (perhaps hoarding) has to be used for a car repair or medical bill. We may view these as chance events or as God exacting revenge on us, but ultimately I think God uses events like these to detach us from things that keep us from him. He does it because he loves us and wants us to love him. It's only when we have been torn away from the things in this life that we love, that our soul's desire can be properly focused. Insofar as things can die, death needs to take place in order for the true fulfillment of desire to happen. Today, I was thinking about my own earthly attachments. If I may be so bold, there are few things I'm overly attached to. My computer might be one (which, I suppose, makes this post supremely ironic). But really more than any thing, I'm attached to people. Specifically, I'm attached to my family and a few very close friends. I long for the time I get to spend with these people. I can't wait for the weekends when I actually see my wife, or my parents. Family and friends are wonderful blessings and I think attachment to them is of a different nature than that of material objects. But they can still keep us from God if we are more attached to them than the One who gave them to us. As I said above, God is gracious to his children. Sometimes death occurs in our families. Ones we love are taken from this earth. We grieve. Not as those who have no hope, but still we grieve. Yet, this can be a time to draw closer to the Lord. All believers will meet again in the Kingdom of Heaven. But we must get there first. This is the beautiful thing about proper priorities. If we put Jesus before everything, we get him and all the other riches of this life in the end. If we prefer even the smallest of trifles to Him, nothing, in the end, is ours. What is the point of all this? Attachment to anything other than God will not fulfill any of our desires. Our inordinate desires, our attachments, have to be crucified and our souls rightly focused on him who alone can satisfy. Death then leads to life. Sometimes this means something as simple as sharing what is ours (for it is truly only in the act of sharing that anything is ours) or it could be the cessation of breath in a human being we treasured. As painful as loss can be, it may be the removal of an obstacle to heaven.
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Friday, January 18, 2013
Rethinking Artificial Contraception
I've intentionally titled this lecture what I have to dispel any notions that my plan is to stand before you and condemn anyone who ever has or ever intends to use a contraceptive. While I firmly believe it to be wrong, it is in Anglican thinking one of the areas where the Christian conscience must make a decision to exercise its freedom or to not. What I hope to present to you today is a compelling case for abandoning artificial contraceptives and truly embracing a culture of life. To do so, we will examine relevant scripture on sexuality, the purposes of marriage, and the role artificial contraception has played in promoting the culture of death in which we all live. From a scriptural perspective, Genesis 1 &2 presents us with a fascinating picture of why men and women were created. "God created man in his own image in the image of God created he him, male and female he created them. And God blessed them and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply." We were made to be the image bearers of God; to be reflections of the divine. This image entails much that we cannot broach today, but it certainly includes the ability to make choices. Of these wonderful choices we are given to make, the conscious decision of giving oneself wholly to the other ranks very high. Indeed, this is what Genesis 1 demands of us. Adam and Eve were made with the express purpose of giving themselves to each other in order that human life might be perpetuated. Notice, the propagation of the human race is considered the priority within marriage, even before the broad ideas of companionship or friendship. In Genesis chapter two, we are told that there was a mate found for every creature in the garden, save Adam. It is there that we read the account of God taking the rib from Adam's side and forming his wife, Eve. This passage has given rise to the oft quoted thought on Eve's creation "not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near to his heart to be beloved." Genesis two can be read as both heart-rending and heart-warming; Adam searching helplessly for a mate and, through an act of God, given one. In every way his equal, Eve emerged onto the scene of history to be the helper and lover of Adam. Yet it has been well said that marriage and conjugal love were instituted for two reasons, babies and bonding. There is an "inseparable connection, established by God, which man on his own initiative cannot break, between the unitive and procreative significance" of sex. Genesis one and two support this thesis, but the priority is given to the procreative part of the formulation. In fact, the Book of Common Prayer supports this reading of the opening chapters of Genesis as well. When we read through the liturgy for the Solemnization of Holy Matrimony we find that marriage is not something to be entered into lightly but in deep reverence "duly considering the cause for which Matrimony was ordained. First, it was ordained for the procreation of children, to be brought up in the fear and nurture of the Lord, and to the praise of his Holy Name." (BCP 490) Indeed, the ideas of companionship which we are most wont to associate with marriage aren't even listed until third in the "purposes" section for marriage. As the liturgy indicates, procreation presents us with one of the greatest opportunities for evangelism and expansion of the Kingdom. The point is very simply this, while the dominion mandate of Genesis 1 does not specifically forbid the use of contraception, it clearly teaches as normative that marriages were made for the creation of children who would grow to love the Lord. We were made male and female to make this a biological possibility. Have you ever wondered why it is that God forbids homosexual unions? It is not because God is a killjoy. It is not because God does not want all people to have companionship. Rather, the most logical explanation for the injunction against homosexuality is that the Lord expects at least the possibility of life with each act of intimacy. This is not to intimate that heterosexual couples using something like the pill are committing the same sin as homosexuals do, rather it is to point out the priority of procreation within the marriage covenant. Albert Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, puts it this way, "Every marriage must be open to the gift of children. Even where the ability to conceive and bear children may be absent, the will to receive children must be present. To demand sexual pleasure without openness to life, is to violate a sacred trust." Now as I said, this does not prove that God frowns upon contraceptives, just that procreation should be a significant consideration in marriage. I would like now to transition to a consideration of God's people as Bride. Whether you consider the prophecy of Hosea or our Lord's teachings in wedding parables, the Scriptures have established an analogous relationship between matrimony and the salvation that has been brought by Christ. Nowhere is this more clearly seen than in St. Paul's epistle to the Ephesians. After laying out the pattern of Christ as head of the Church and the husband as head of the wife, and the responsibilities this entails for the woman, Paul writes "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it." By his description of marriage as a participation in the love of Christ for the Church, a paradigm has been set up. Christ gave up his own body in order that we, the Bride, may have life. Indeed, that is what we hear each time we come to communion "This is my Body broken and given for you". And St. John reminds us that this Body is given "for the life of the world." If our earthly marriages are to be reflections of Christ giving his Body so that humanity might have new life, so too the possibility of life must be present in the conjugal act imitating it. The husband and wife must fully surrender themselves to each other, imitating Christ's surrender to death in order to bring life. He held nothing back. Husbands and wives should not withhold the ability to create life from each other. Doing so violates the paradigm set up in the Scriptures. It is also undeniable that the Scriptures present children as a blessing from the Lord. This is not an injunction against contraceptives, but a test of our opinion of children. The Psalmist, depending on your translation, refers to them as "gifts" or a "heritage". It is truly baffling why we have chosen this area to deny the blessings of God-to turn them away. The Lord calls "happy" the man who has a quiver full of children. I am well aware of the stressfulness that children can cause. Whether it be through stubborn behavior, an increased financial burden, or a lack of space in your home, it seems that being open to children can be anything but a blessing at times. In response to these objections, however, I remind that the same God which calls children "gifts" promises to supply for our every need, and he gives perfect peace to those whose minds are stayed on him. Why then, in light of these promises, should we reject the blessings of God by intentionally trying to frustrate his purposes? Furthermore, since the Lord is ultimately the one who opens and closes the womb, can a couple practicing contraception fully say "we wanted this blessing", when the contraceptive fails? I know many babies are conceived this way and their parents love them dearly. But without an openness to God's gift, would not some of the joy of the new life be diminished? Wouldn't it necessarily be an intrusion, albeit one that ultimately would be welcomed? We should want children. I hope that, in reflecting on these passages, you have seen that sex between married persons should be open to life. It is here that we have to call to mind the story of Onan. Onan was commanded by his father to go into his brother's wife, Tamar and conceive a child. But you may recall that during the sexual act, Onan intentionally spilled his seed on the ground. The author informs us that this angered the LORD who slew Onan for his act. Now this is clearly a case where Onan failed to be Tamar's kinsman redeemer. You can ascribe many sins to Onan here including disobedience and selfishness. But I think it is impossible in the light of other Scripture to see God winking at the act of spilling the seed. This was the thought of John Calvin who wrote in his commentaries on the tenth verse: I will contend myself with briefly mentioning this, as far as the sense of shame allows to discuss it. It is a horrible thing to pour out seed besides the intercourse of man and woman. Deliberately avoiding the intercourse, so that the seed drops on the ground, is double horrible. For this means that one quenches the hope of his family, and kills the son, which could be expected, before he is born. This wickedness is now as severely as is possible condemned by the Spirit, through Moses, that Onan, as it were, through a violent and untimely birth, tore away the seed of his brother out the womb, and as cruel as shamefully has thrown on the earth. Moreover he thus has, as much as was in his power, tried to destroy a part of the human race. When a woman in some way drives away the seed out the womb, through aids, then this is rightly seen as an unforgivable crime. Onan was guilty of a similar crime, by defiling the earth with his seed, so that Tamar would not receive a future inheritor. Calvin is clear even though many have tried to hide his thoughts on this matter. His commentary has been edited in virtually all modern editions, omitting his thinking on verse 10. But no words are minced, Onan did what he could to destroy a human life, which leads well into the next part of our discussion: Contraception has fostered greatly the culture of death. In his encyclical letter Evangellium Vitae Pope John Paul II, while distinguishing between the evils of birth control and abortion, nevertheless demonstrates how closely they are tied one to another. He asserts that "the pro-abortion culture is especially strong, precisely where the Church's teaching on contraception is rejected." The rationale behind his statement is not particularly difficult to figure out. When having children is seen as an evil to prevent, in order that an almost hedonistic life-style can be continued unfettered, what recourse other than abortion is available to those who have been failed by contraceptives? John Paul II had the advantage of hindsight. He was able to see the havoc wrought by wide-spread acceptance of artificial contraception. One of his predecessors, Paul VI, wrote his encyclical letter entitled Humana Vitae in part as a warning about what would follow a society's practice of contraception. It would not just be an increase in abortions, though that has certainly proven to be the case. Rather, a general decline in sexual ethics was what he foresaw. How many of his predictions have proven prophetic? Paul VI was clear that this would lead to "marital infidelity and a general lowering of moral standards." "Another effect that gives cause for alarm is that a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods may forget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires." It would be hard to dispute that these claims are in many cases a reality. Again, you could argue that sexual immorality or abortion can be divorced from a discussion of contraception. Birth control can be safely practiced without falling into any of these grave errors. But it is undeniable that separating sex from procreation has, at the very least, conditioned our cultural mindset away from life and toward sin, and in many cases death. We've discussed the culture of death in terms of abortion only. It extends far beyond that. "Unless we are willing that the responsibility of procreating life should be left to the arbitrary decision of men, we must accept that there are certain limits, beyond which it is wrong to go, to the power of man over his own body and its natural functions—limits, let it be said, which no one, whether as a private individual or as a public authority, can lawfully exceed." This statement from Humana Vitae is a reminder that once we take control over something we shouldn't, it is only a matter of time before someone else (the public authority) will wield this same power we've taken, over us. It is precisely this topic which C.S. Lewis addresses in his lectures turned book, The Abolition of Man. In speaking on contraception, Lewis writes "Each new power won by man is a power over man." The freedoms of scientific progress always have a cost. In this case, by dictating who will be born and when, artificial contraception means that we have the power to withhold existence from a future generation. Indeed, the powers that be could bind us to do so. How close does the HHS mandate of the Affordable Care Act come to doing this? Lewis seeks to make plain that taking this power over nature will, in the end, result in natural forces and impulses taking power over men. You see Lewis was concerned about changes in the education models of post WWII England. Believing these changes would usher in a new era of Subjectivism and a rejection of Natural Law, Lewis feared what would govern man in the future. Once the Natural Law was gone, only the aggregation of power would matter. One of these powers was the ability to manipulate future generations. Through selective breeding, a race of men would be born wholly subservient to the generation which had permitted them existence. You see, man would be exercising power over man. This combined with a lack of Objectivity in education, would allow the generation practicing contraception to produce children who were slaves both to the men who allowed them existence and to the impulses of their nature. In short, humanity would be stripped from their posterity. It's not simply that artificial contraception can lead eventually to a culture of death by abortion. It is all by itself a culture of death because it seeks to prevent life and the life that is eventually allowed is not free, but born a slave. It seems that everywhere we turn we are confronted with sexual sin. The explosion of pornography, aided by the rise of the internet, the widespread problems of marital infidelity, homosexuality and other aberrations from the biblical norm, all speak of a culture saturated in sex. While there have been some successes, on the whole the Church has failed in responding to this tide. Could it be that the reason we have such trouble countering the sexual revolution is that we have nearly without question, accepted one of its central tenets? The Anglican Church was the first branch of the Church to officially condone the usage of contraceptives at the Lambeth Conference of 1930. I think if we heed the biblical evidence, the tradition of the Church (both Catholic and Reformed) and look at the very clear consequences the contraceptive culture has produced and will continue to produce, we will see that it is high time the Anglican Church and all men of goodwill reconsider and rethink the usage of artificial birth control.
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Electoral College Projection
While I've not had time to write as extensively on the election as I did in 2008, I have been following very closely. Below I would like to give my electoral college projections for tonight's election. I will start with the same phrase virtually every journalist has in the last week, I'm not sure who is going to win tonight. In 2008, my final projection was a "best case scenario" for John McCain, which still had him losing. I couldn't see a way to 270 votes for him. 2012 is very different. I still think Obama is the favorite to pull this out, but Romney created a path for himself in the first debate. Without further ado, here are the projections. Romney will win comfortably in the heartland, Big Sky country, and the Deep South. He will also claim Arizona and the Tennessee Valley states totaling 191 electoral votes. Obama will carry the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast (New Hampshire possibly excepted, see below), the west coast, New Mexico, Illinois, and Michigan. Bringing his total number of EV to 217. Obviously, this makes the road to 270 easier for the president, which is why I think he is still the favorite. I basically see 10 states in play. I do not buy any chance of a Romney win in Minnesota or Michigan. Nor do I see Obama picking off the 1 electoral vote from Nebraska's Omaha district. Here are my thoughts on the ten states below, with a winner picked in each one. North Carolina-From the beginning of this election, I thought Indiana and North Carolina would go solidly for the whomever the Republican candidate was. The states were too red in 2004 to support a democrat in a non-wave election. Obama carried both states by less than 1 percent in 2008. However, the president has had some impressive staying power in NC. While he will probably not win here (I think owing to tamped down enthusiasm among young voters at NC's expansive university system) the fact that he made Romney spend time and money here is strategically important. 15 votes for Romney. Florida-The state that so many predicted would slip the president's way after the Paul Ryan VP pick had other ideas. Florida was again a state that the president did not win definitively in 2008. Just 2.5 percentage points separated he and a very weak candidate, John McCain. Recent polling has been fairly consistent that Obama will lose this big prize. 29 votes to Romney Virginia-Several weeks ago there was a flurry of articles indicating that the Obama campaign was conceding losses in VA, NC, and FL. This meant a much closer race than prior to the first debate. Romney had a real shot at winning the electoral college. But while Bush won VA in 2008 by 8 percent and it is a traditionally red state, Obama has maintained a narrow advantage in state polling. He has lead in 9 of the last 10 polls of the state...albeit barely. However, that kind of consistency has to mean something. A number of columnists have pointed out to low early voter turnout in democratic strongholds of Northern Virginia. But I think that, while this might be the closest vote in the entire country tonight, Obama wins. 13 Votes for Obama. That would give Romney a 235-230 vote lead in the electoral college. New Hampshire-The one Northeast holdout (unless you count PA) is set to go Obama. Romney should be doing better here. This was his firewall in the primaries. He owns a house here. He spends his summers here. But he simply has never been able to close the deal. The polling here again shows a small but consistent lead for the president. 4 votes for Obama Iowa-This state has been a trap for Romney since 2008 when Mike Huckabee came out of nowhere, upsetting Romney's tremendous organization in the state in the GOP primary. Rick Santorum and Ron Paul again kept him from garnering all of the Iowa delegates in 2012. Along with New Mexico, Iowa was one of the traditional battleground states where everyone knew John McCain never had a chance. The state was Obama's then, I believe it is now also. 6 votes for Obama Ohio-Much ink has been spilled on the importance of this state. Republicans have never won the presidency without it. The auto bailout seems to have put Obama in position (possibly helped by Romney's 47% comment) to win Ohio. While I thought Catholics in Ohio would turn on Obama (and they have) and that white working class voters might think twice about pulling the lever for Obama, it has not been enough. Like New Hampshire and Virginia, the state is close but I think it's Obama's. 18 votes for Obama Colorado-This week's polling has shown Obama re-emerging with a very small lead. However, the president's team weeks ago wrote off Colorado as a sure thing. In fact, they seemed less certain of a win here than in any of the southern 3, FL, NC, or Virginia. Some of Romney's rallies here have also been overwhelming. I think Colorado will shift back to the red column for this year. 9 votes to Romney That would mean a 258-244 lead for the president in the electoral college. IT also means that Romney would have to win both Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Wisconsin-I think Romney pulls off the upset here. It's close. Romney's internals, released last night, show him tied with Obama. Paul Ryan represents a democratic district in a democratic state. If he can carry his district, I think Romney wins here. Wisconsin has certainly jerked rightward with Scott Walker winning his recall election and Russ Feingold being booted from the senate. It'll come down to the wire, but I predict a narrow win for Romney. 10 votes for Romney Nevada-Those afore mentioned Romney internals showed him trailing in Nevada. I'm not aware of any public polling showing Romney ahead and early voting in Clark County, the democratic stronghold has been on pace. The expansive Mormon vote in the state will keep it close, but I think Obama by 5 or 6 in Nevada. 6 votes for Obama Pennsylvania-Romney has been making a strong effort here in the closing days of this election. The race for these 20 votes has narrowed much in the last two weeks. Most public polling still shows this race as Obama's to lose and the fact that no Republican has won this state in the last 5 elections casts doubt on Romney's hopes. I believe that Romney knows that his chances in Ohio have waned. He needs another state. This seemed like the best shot. I would not be shocked if Romney wins, but I would be surprised. 20 votes for Obama 284-254 in favor of the president is my projection. I will point out, that of the 10 tossup states, I truly feel 100% confident in only North Carolina, Florida, and Nevada. The other 7 states could go either way. If Romney were going to win, the most likely paths would be a narrow win VA combined with a win in either NH or IA. I could actually see that. But I'm sticking with the 284-254 projection. Let me know your thoughts.
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My Personal Thoughts on Voting
I will go to my polling place this morning and I will be voting on questions 4-7 here in Maryland. I will cast my vote for Rob Sobhani, the independent candidate for Senate. And, on the recommendation of my brother, vote to keep our current judges. What I will not be doing though is casting a vote for president. I've thought a good deal about this and have simply come to the conclusion that there is not a candidate on the ballot worth my vote. This is not because I'm too big of a purist. Many of you who will read this know that I have supported Ron Paul in the last two elections. This was despite the fact that I had disagreements with his positions on legalizing all drugs, prostitution, and his vision of a complete dismantling of all safety nets. (I do think we need to move a LOT closer in that direction, and very soon, for the sake of our economy, but not all the way.) But one thing I could always say about Ron Paul is this: his platform did not include any grave sins. This is a low bar for a candidate to have to clear, but unfortunately, all four candidates on my ballot include immorality in their party platforms. Dismissing the Greens, Libertarians, and Democrats is quite easy because of their embrace of abortion rights. See the post below this one if you want to see why I'm adamant about abortion. Barack Obama is also quite easy to ignore because of his appalling failures in Benghazi, and "judge, jury, executioner" mentality in drone strikes...particularly, the one against an American citizen. Romney is a little different, but equally bad. I will accept at face value his claim that he is now pro-life even though that didn't seem to happen until he decided to run for president. What bothers me about Romney, aside from his serial flip-flopping, is that during the foreign policy debate, there was not a substantive difference with the president. He would continue the same interventionist policies that lead to the consulate attack in Benghazi. If anything, Romney would pursue Obama's policies more harshly. As one commentator noted, Romney's foreign policy was Obama's, just screaming a little louder. With Iran on the horizon as a potential threat, the last thing I want is another president leading us into a middle eastern war. I fear that with Romney. So today I vote by abstaining from voting. It's not a waste, as some will say. It's a conscious choice to declare my independence and to say "enough is enough."
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Sinema calls for action following VA report findings
PHOENIX — Arizona Rep. Kyrsten Sinema says she is shocked at what she learned from the interim report on the Phoenix VA Health Care System.
Sinema encouraged health care providers in the Valley to offer services to VA to make sure all veterans at risk have timely access to quality care.
"The Phoenix VA managers responsible for this unconscionable behavior should be fired. Most importantly, the VA must take swift action to provide immediate access to appropriate care for the 3,100 Arizona veterans awaiting care," she said in a release.
Sinema said the average wait time for a first primary care appointment was unacceptable and putting veterans at risk.
"When I saw these numbers of veterans who had been deliberately left out of the scheduling system and the unconscionably long delays in getting first appointments, I was horrified," she said.
She is also calling for VA Secretary Eric Shinseki's resignation.
The VA report also discovered several accusations of harassment and abuse by managers.
KTAR's Martha Maurer Contributed to this report.
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Suit Says Transplant Error Was Cause in Baby's Death
Published: March 12, 2003
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''The timing of the lawsuit had nothing to do with debate on the legislation,'' Mr. Carl said. He added that his group did not try to influence the timing, but did publicize the case in hopes of showing that victims of malpractice would be penalized by the limits on awards.
In a case at Vanderbilt University in 1999, a man was mistakenly given a lung transplant from a donor with the wrong blood type, but doctors there treated him aggressively to prevent rejection, and he survived.
Dr. Pierson, then at Vanderbilt, performed the transplant, and said he was stunned after the operation to hear that it was a mismatch.
The error occurred, Dr. Pierson said, because the man had Army dog tags and medical records that stated his blood type incorrectly, and the hospital used those records, failing to notice that its own blood typing differed.
''The crosscheck at the lab never went before the eyes of the same person who filled out the form,'' Dr. Pierson said. ''We all learned a memorable lesson.''
He added, ''Fortunately the patient is alive and well and doing beautifully, and he still comes back to see me.''
In 1989, Dr. David K. C. Cooper, then at Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City and now at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, surveyed 77 heart transplant centers around the world. Of 4,895 transplants reported by 66 centers, 6 patients had mistakenly been given donor hearts that were incompatible by blood type. Survival among the recipients was poor. Only two of the mistaken transplants had been reported in medical journals, and no one knows how many cases occurred at the 11 centers that did not respond to the survey.
Two mismatches that occurred soon thereafter bore striking resemblance to the case of Ms. Santillán. All three recipients had Type O blood and received a heart from a Type A donor -- the most dangerous kind of blood type mismatch.
In 1990, a 43-year-old man died at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. A spokeswoman said the hospital could not comment further on the case because of legal restrictions.
In 1991, a 41-year-old man received a mismatched heart at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland after a transplant nurse coordinator miscommunicated the donor's blood type. The error was not caught until the transplant operation was well under way. Four days later, the man received a second heart transplant and survived for five years.
Officials immediately imposed a double testing system at the donor site and at the hospital and also required that written confirmation of the donor blood type from the donor site.
Three years later, in 1994, the system prevented a 15-year-old boy from receiving a mismatched heart. But surgeons had opened the boy's chest before the error was caught, and they had to sew up the incision without giving him a new heart. He died 10 days later. The error was attributed to miscommunication in a telephone call between the donor site and the hospital transplant team.
Hospital officials then added additional testing as a further requirement before a organ transplant could begin to prevent such an error from happening again, said Dr. Donald Trunkey, Oregon's chief of surgery at the time. Dr. Trunkey did not participate in the operation.
Three independent reviews found the hospital not negligent, but one review expressed concern about miscommunication during transplants.
''The outside review team thought that, overall, we were doing things much like any other'' transplant center, Dr. Trunkey said in an interview. ''You cannot design a perfect system with humans.''
Photo: Jeanella Aranda died after liver surgery and a later transplant. (Aranda family)


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The 17th Judicial District has a new District Attorney General.
The office of Gov. Bill Haslam announced that Robert Carter of Fayetteville will replace current 17th Judicial District Attorney General Charles Crawford, who is resigning effective July 31.
Crawford announced in March he was leaving the position, saying he was "physically and emotionally drained." The 17th Judicial District includes Lincoln, Bedford, Marshall and Moore counties.
"Robert represents the full picture of what we were looking for as the new district attorney general, and I appreciate his willingness to serve the citizens of the 17th District," Haslam said in a recent statement.
Carter was raised in Lincoln County and has been an assistant district attorney since 2010, working in the child support division and, most recently, as the state DUI grant prosecutor.
"I'm humbled and excited about the opportunity before me, and I appreciate the governor's confidence in me," Carter said. "I look forward to any challenges that lie ahead and serving the citizens of the 17th Judicial District."
In the child support division, he established, prosecuted, enforced, reviewed and, when appropriate, modified all child support matters for the district. As the DUI prosecutor for the district, he prosecutes in all courts and has responsibility for all criminal charges associated with each DUI defendant.
Before working as an assistant district attorney, Carter was with the firm Smith, Cashion & Orr PLC from May 2006 to December 2010, handling complex construction disputes and litigation.
He has been admitted to the U.S. District Courts for the Western, Middle and Eastern Districts of Tennessee and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and he is a member of the Tennessee and American Bar Associations.
Carter, 31, is a magna cum laude graduate of Cumberland University and earned his law degree from the University of Memphis' Cecil B. Humphreys School of Law in 2006.
He lives in Fayetteville with his wife Kristin, four-year-old son, Bruce, and one-year-old daughter, Sophie. He is an assistant baseball coach at Fayetteville high and middle schools.