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Open Letter #39 to Ricky Gervais on comparison of the Tony of AFTER LIFE to the Solomon of ECCLESIASTES, The parable of the Frog and the Scorpion
This is the 39th day in a row that I have written another open letter to you to comment on some of your episodes of AFTER LIFE, and then I wanted to pass along some evidence that indicates the Bible is historically accurate.
The Christian Scholar Ravi Zacharias noted, "The key to understanding the Book of Ecclesiastes is the term UNDER THE SUN — What that literally means is you lock God out of a closed system and you are left with only this world of Time plus Chance plus matter." Solomon and Tony both are guilty of following their own fleshly desires and it has led them to deadends in their lives. However, without God in the picture how can human behavior be altered without spiritual help?
In the 2nd episode of the second season of AFTER LIFE Tony tells Anne about his meltdown at the Zen Meditation workout which he went to as a favor to Matt but it turned out badly. Anne responds by telling this story:
Anne: Do you know the fable of the frog and the scorpion?
Tony: No.
Anne: Well this scorpion wants to get across the River so he asks the frog to give him a lift on the frog's back and the frog declines because he said the scorpion would sting me. The scorpion says why would I do that because we both would drown. So the frog said that is true so okay. Then halfway across the river the scorpion stings the frog and the frog says that we both are going to die. Why did you sting me? The scorpion says because I am a scorpion.
Tony: Yes I guess I can't change my nature.
Anne: No you are the frog.
Tony: Oh really. Why?
Anne: You knew you wouldn't enjoy that meditation thing but you went anyway to please someone else. Then you got angry and you even feel bad about that.You are the frog, sensitive and caring.
Notice that Anne is basically telling Tony not to go out on a limb and try to help someone if you think it will aggravate you. This comes back to what I have said in previous posts about atheists tackling tough issues that require spiritual answers. It reminds me of the shrink who tells Matt to just "Stop felling bad." Spiritual conversions in the case of Christianity has had major impacts on the world. There are millions of powerful Christian conversions that have impacted the world. __What if Jesus Had Never Been Bornby D. James Kennedy This book documents the positive impact Jesus Christ and the Christian Church has made on the world in nearly every conceivable area – morality, health, sex, hospitals, art, music, charity, economics, government, science, education and the founding of America.
I remember the day in the early 1970's when my father got home from hearing that John "The Bull" Bramlett had come to Christ and his life had radically changed. My father had several classes with him in college and he was shocked at how mean he was. However, when Christ got a hold of he changed dramatically. His life was put into a film.
Ricky here is letter I wrote to your good friend Richard Dawkins that discusses this more in depth.
Richard Dawkins c/o Richard Dawkins Foundation,
Dear Mr. Dawkins,
I know that you are good friends with Daniel Dennett and I have noticed how many times he quotes you in his books. He was kind enough to send me a very thoughtful response on January 12, 2017, and it just so happens that I am in the middle of reading his book DARWIN'S DANGEROUS IDEA. Of course, I have read several of your books such as The God Delusion, An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist, and Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science.
I also recently enjoyed watching both you and Dr. Dennett on Jonathan Miller's BBC program Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief. Francis Schaeffer used to quote Jonathan Miller back in the 1960's during his teachings at L 'Abri.
In your book The God Delusion on page 111 you stated:
I once was the guest of the week on a British radio show called Desert Island Discs. You have to choose the eight records you would take with you if marooned on a desert island. Among my choices was 'Mache dich mein Herze rein' from Bach's St Matthew Passion. The interviewer was unable to understand how I could choose religious music without being religious. You might as well say, how can you enjoy Wuthering Heights when you know perfectly well that Cathy and Heathcliff never really existed?
But there is an additional point that I might have made, and which needs to be made whenever religion is given credit for, say, the Sistine Chapel or Raphael's Annunciation. Even great artists have to earn a living, and they will take commissions where they are to be had. I have no reason to doubt that Raphael and Michelangelo were Christians – it was pretty much the only option in their time – but the fact is almost incidental. Its enormous wealth had made the Church the dominant patron of the arts. If history had worked out differently, and Michelangelo had been commissioned to paint a ceiling for a giant Museum of Science, mightn't he have produced something at least as inspirational as the Sistine Chapel? How sad that we shall never hear Beethoven's Mesozoic Symphony, or Mozart's opera The Expanding Universe.
I thought of that quote from you today when I was in church. Our teaching pastor Mark Henry of FELLOWSHIP BIBLE CHURCH in Little Rock, Arkansas, pointed out that the Holy Spirit has empowered many Christians over the centuries to empty their hearts of their own worldly desires and to serve God through their actions.
2 RESPONSES TO YOUR ASSERTION THAT AN EARLIER ACCEPTANCE OF EVOLUTION WOULD HAVE ENRICHED MUSIC AND THE ARTS.
First, we have the testimony of Charles Darwin himself concerning this.
Second, we have the actual result of what Christianity's impact on the world was.
Let us take a quick look at your idea of Mozart's opera THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE. When I read the book Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters, I also read a commentary on it by Francis Schaeffer and I wanted to both quote some of Charles Darwin's own words to you and then include the comments of Francis Schaeffer on those words.
CHARLES DARWIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Addendum. Written May 1st, 1881 [the year before his death].
I have said that in one respect my mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. Up to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry of many kinds, such as the works of Milton, Gray, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley, gave me great pleasure, and even as a schoolboy I took intense delight in Shakespeare, especially in the historical plays. I have also said that formerly pictures gave me considerable, and music very great delight. But now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry: I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures or music. Music generally sets me thinking too energetically on what I have been at work on, instead of giving me pleasure. I retain some taste for fine scenery, but it does not cause me the exquisite delight which it formerly did…
Charles Darwin photograph by Herbert Rose Barraud, 1881
This curious and lamentable loss of the higher æsthetic tastes is all the odder, as books on history, biographies, and travels (independently of any scientific facts which they may contain), and essays on all sorts of subjects interest me as much as ever they did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose, have thus suffered; and if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.
Francis Schaeffer commented:
This is the old man Darwin writing at the end of his life. What he is saying here is the further he has gone on with his studies the more he has seen himself reduced to a machine as far as aesthetic things are concerned. I think this is crucial because as we go through this we find that his struggles and my sincere conviction is that he never came to the logical conclusion of his own position, but he nevertheless in the death of the higher qualities as he calls them, art, music, poetry, and so on, what he had happen to him was his own theory was producing this in his own self just as his theories a hundred years later have produced this in our culture. I don't think you can hold the evolutionary position as he held it without becoming a machine. What has happened to Darwin personally is merely a forerunner to what occurred to the whole culture as it has fallen in this world of pure material, pure chance and later determinism. Here he is in a situation where his mannishness has suffered in the midst of his own position.
Let's take a closer look at the music by Bach that you call your favorite.
NO LUTHER, NO BACH
From Francis Schaeffer's How Should We Then Live? (p. 92):
Richard Dawkins & Daniel Dennett vs. Francis Collins & Benjamin Carson – Evolution Debate
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) was certainly the zenith of the composers coming out of the Reformation. His music was a direct result of the Reformation culture and the biblical Christianity of the time, which was so much a part of Bach himself. There would have been no Bach had there been no Luther. Bach wrote on his score initials representing such phrases as: "With the help of Jesus" – "To God alone be the glory" – "In the name of Jesus." It was appropriate that the last thing Bach the Christian wrote was "Before Thy Throne I Now Appear." Bach consciously related both the form and the words of his music to biblical truth. Out of the biblical context came a rich combination of music and words and a diversity of unity. This rested on the fact that the Bible gives unity to the universal and the particulars, and therefore the particulars have meaning. Expressed musically, there can be endless variety and diversity without chaos. There is variety yet resolution.
And this is why I love Bach.
IF JESUS WAS IN FACT A REAL MAN AND THE HOLY SPIRIT DID UPON HIS DISCIPLES THEN YOU WOULD EXPECT THE WORLD TO BE CHANGED.
D. James Kennedy
___What if Jesus Had Never Been Bornby D. James Kennedy This book documents the positive impact Jesus Christ and the Christian Church has made on the world in nearly every conceivable area – morality, health, sex, hospitals, art, music, charity, economics, government, science, education and the founding of America. Some critics believe that all these advances would have happened sooner or later, but there is little evidence to support this other then hopeful conjecture. Despite excesses by self proclaimed Christians over the ages, the problems have not been due to Jesus' teachings, rather the failure to follow those teachings. Even with imperfect people, Christianity has had a much more positive impact on the world than any other religion. This book is desperately needed to counter the constant attacks on the Christian faith.We need to understand that the changes made by Christianity did not happen overnight. Many people – most couldn't read or write – became Christian without examining or having the ability to examine current belief systems. At a time when books were only available to a select group of people – and then in limited number, it took decades for changes in morality to take hold of society as a whole.
It certainly is true that Christianity has had shortcomings. However, the sins of the Church were no worse then the pagan world. Christianity at its worst was far better then Paganism at its best. Whereas the pagan world could never advance morally, the shortcomings of the Christian church were an aberration that were corrected by itself over time. Excerpts from the book: "Jesus Christ, the greatest man who ever lived, has changed virtually every aspect of human life – and most people don't know it."
"Despite its humble origins, the Church has made more changes on earth for the good than any other movement or force in history. To get an overview of some of the positive contributions Christianity has made through the centuries, here are a fewhighlights:• Hospitals, which essentially began during the Middle Ages.• Universities, which also began during the Middle Ages. In addition, most of the world's greatest universities were started by Christians for Christian purposes.• Literacy and education for the masses.• Capitalism and free-enterprise.• Representative government, particularly as it has been seen in the American experiment.• The separation of political powers.• Civil liberties.• The abolition of slavery, both in antiquity and in more modern times.• Modem science.• The discovery of the New World by Columbus.• The elevation of women.• Benevolence and charity; the good Samaritan ethic.• Higher standards of justice.• The elevation of the common man.• The condemnation of adultery, homosexuality, and other sexual perversions. This has helped to preserve the human race, and it has spared many from heartache.• High regard for human life.• The civilizing of many barbarian and primitive cultures.• The codifying and setting to writing of many of the world's languages.• Greater development of art and music. The inspiration for the greatest works of art.• The countless changed lives transformed from liabilities into assets to society because of the gospel. • The eternal salvation of countless souls! The last one mentioned, the salvation of souls, is the primary goal of the spread of Christianity. All the other benefits listed are basically just by-products of what Christianity has often brought when applied to daily living. When Jesus Christ took upon Himself the form of man, He imbued mankind with a dignity and inherent value that had never been dreamed of before. Whatever Jesus touched or whatever He did transformed that aspect of human life. Many people will read about the innumerable small incidents in the life of Christ while never dreaming that those casually mentioned "little" things were to transform the history of humankind. Christ's influence on the world is immeasurable. The purpose of this book is to glimpse what we can measure, to see those numerous areas of life where Christ's influence can be concretely traced. Not all have been happy about Jesus Christ's coming into the world. Friederich Nietzsche, the nineteenth-century atheist philosopher who coined the phrase "God is dead," likened Christianity to poison that has infected the whole world. Nietzsche said that history is the battle between Rome (the pagans) and Israel (the Jews and the Christians); and he be-moaned the fact that Israel (through Christianity) was winning and that the cross "has by now triumphed over all other, nobler virtues." In his book,The Antichrist, Nietzsche wrote: I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all the accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruption; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worst possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul. Nietzsche held up as heroes a "herd of blond beasts of prey, a race of conquerors and masters." According to Nietzsche, and later Hitler, by whom or what were these Teutonic warriors corrupted? Answer: Christianity. "This splendid ruling stock was corrupted, first by the Catholic laudation of feminine virtues, secondly by the Puritan and plebeian ideals of the Reformation, and thirdly by intermarriage with inferior stock." Had Jesus never come, wailed Nietzsche, we would never have had the corruption of "slave morals" into the human race. Many of the ideas of Nietzsche were put into practice by his philosophical disciple, Hitler, and about 16 million died as a result. In Mein Kampf, Hitler blamed the Church for perpetuating the ideas and laws of the Jews. Hitler wanted to completely uproot Christianity once he had finished uprooting the Jews. In a private conversation "shortly after the National Socialists' rise to power," recorded by Herman Rauschning, Hitler said: Historically speaking, the Christian religion is nothing but a Jewish sect…. After the destruction of Judaism, the extinction of Christian slave morals must follow logically… . I shall know the moment when to confront, for the sake of the German people and the world, their Asiatic slave morals with our picture of the free man, the godlike man…. It is not merely a question of Christianity and Judaism. We are fighting against the most ancient curse that humanity has brought upon itself. We are fighting against the perversion of our soundest instincts. Ah, the God of the deserts, that crazed, stupid, vengeful Asiatic despot with his powers to make laws! … That poison with which both Jews and Christians have spoiled and soiled the free, wonderful instincts of man and lowered them to the level of doglike fright. Both Nietzsche and Hitler wished that Christ had never been born. Others share this sentiment. For example, Charles Lam Markmann, who wrote a favorable book on the history of the ACLU, entitled The Noblest Cry, said: "If the otherwise admirably civilized pagans of Greece and their Roman successors had had the wit to laugh Judaism into desuetude, the world would have been spared the 2000-year sickness of Christendom."… the point of this book is to say to Nietzsche, Freud, Hitler, Robert Ingersoll, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Madalyn Murray O'Hare, Phil Donahue, the ACLU, and other leading anti-Christians of the past and present, that the overwhelming impact of Christ's life on Planet Earth has been positive, not negative. What these people refuse to acknowledge is that civil liberties have been bequeathed by Christianity and not by atheism or humanism. Prior to the coming of Christ, human life on this planet was exceedingly cheap. Life was expendable prior to Christianity's influence. Even today, in parts of the world where the gospel of Christ or Christianity has not penetrated, life is exceedingly cheap. But Jesus Christ … gave mankind a new perspective on the value of human life. Furthermore, Christianity bridged the gap between the Jews – who first received the divine revelation that man was made in God's image – and the pagans, who attributed little value to human life. Meanwhile, as we in the post-Christian West abandon our Judeo-Christian heritage, life is becoming cheap once again. Children:In the ancient world, child sacrifice was a common phenomenon. Only about half of the children born lived beyond the age of eight, in part because of widespread infanticide, with famine and illness also being factors. Infanticide was not only legal, it was applauded…it was commonly held in Rome that killing one's own children could be an act of beauty. But then Jesus came. Since that time, Christians have cherished life as sacred, even the life of the unborn. In ancient Rome, Christians saved many of these babies and brought them up in the faith. Abortion disappeared in the early church. Infanticide and abandonment disappeared. Foundling homes, orphanages, and nursery homes were started to house the children. These new practices, based on this higher view of life, helped to create a foundation in western civilization for an ethic of human life that persists to this day – although it is currently under severe attack. And it all goes back to Jesus Christ. If He had never been born, we would never have seen this change in the value of human life. Women:Prior to Christian influence, a woman's life was also very cheap. In ancient cultures, the wife was the property of her husband. Prior to the Christian influences in India, widows were voluntarily or involuntarily burned on the husbands funeral pyres – a grisly practice known as suttee. Furthermore, infanticide – particularly for girls – was common in India, prior to the great missionary William Carey. These centuries-old practices, suttee and infanticide, were finally stopped only in the early nineteenth century… In other areas of the globe where the gospel of Christ has not penetrated, the value of woman's lives is cheap. How ironic that feminists today do not give any credit to Christ or Christianity. Slavery:Half of the population of the Roman Empire was slaves. Three fourths of the population of Athens was slaves. The life of a slave could be taken at the whim of the master. Over the centuries, Christianity abolished slavery, first in the ancient world and then later in the nineteenth century, largely through the efforts of the strong evangelical William Wilberforce. It didn't happen over night, and certainly there have been dedicated Christians who were slaveowners. Nonetheless, the end of slavery, which has plagued mankind for thousands of years, has come primarily through the efforts of Christians. "Once the gospel did spread, the seeds were sown for the eventual dissolution of slavery. Thus by reforming the heart, Christianity, in time, reformed the social order! "Robert E. Lee, who freed the slaves he had inherited by marriage, once wrote that the War between the States was needless bloodshed in terms of ending slavery, for he believed the evil institution would have eventually withered away because of Christianity." Compassion and Mercy:The world before Christianity was like the Russian tundra – quite cold and inhospitable. One scholar, Dr. Martineau, exhaustively searched through historical documents and concluded that antiquity has left no trace of any organized charitable effort. Disinterested benevolence was unknown. When Christ and the Bible became known, charity and benevolence flourished. While poverty has always been a part of life on earth, the Church of Jesus Christ has done more – and often still does more – than any other institution in history to alleviate poverty. Furthermore, it has set the pattern for relief that is copied worldwide. All charity points back to Jesus Christ, whether people recognize it or not. Capitalism:"If Jesus had never been born, it is unlikely that capitalism and the free enterprise system – which has brought unparalleled prosperity to billions of people – would ever have developed. In this chapter, I will trace the links between the Christian faith and the prosperity enjoyed in the West, particularly in the United States." Science:"Hasn't religion always been the enemy of science? No! Furthermore, many scholars agree that the scientific revolution that gained great momentum in the seventeenth century was birthed for the most part by Reformed Christianity."
Here is a list of some of the outstanding bible-believing scientists who founded the following branches of science:Antiseptic surgery, Joseph ListerBacteriology, Louis PasteurCalculus, Isaac NewtonCelestial Mechanics, Johannes keplerChemistry, Robert BoyleComparative Anatomy, Georges CuvierComputer Science, Charles BabbageDimensional Analysis, Lord RayleighDynamics, Isaac NewtonElectronics, John flemingElectrodynamics, James MaxwellElectromagnetics, Michael FaradayEnergetics, Lord kelvinEntomology of Living Insects, Henri FabreFluid Mechanics, George StokesGas Dynamics, Robert BoyleGenetics, Gregor mendelGynecology, James SimpsonHydrostatics, Blaise PascalNatural History, John Ray.When Christian Morals are removed from society:
Louis Pasteur below
Henri Fabre
"During one of the darkest periods of World War II, after the collapse of France and before American involvement, Churchill wrote that the question in the minds of friends and foes was: 'Will Britain surrender too?' At that time he made a speech that contained this sentence: 'I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization' The great statesman recognized the link between Christianity and civility, in contrast with new-paganism and tyranny. Providentially, Christian civilization won. But where it has lost, all manner of terrors have been unleashed."
"No century has been like ours in terms of man killing his fellow man. About 130 million . . . died because of atheistic ideology" – Hitler, Stalin and Mao of China. When a person denies the existence of God, you only have the material world. You've killed the spiritual world.
"The frightening thing about a humanist and atheistic state is that there is nothing beyond man to which one can make an appeal. The founders of this country said that men have been created equal and have been endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. We have an appeal beyond man, beyond the State, to God Himself, whereas in the humanist state there is nothing but man. The humanist state inevitably leads to tyranny and despotism. As Dostoevsky said, 'If God is dead, then all things are permissible.'"
"With atheism there are no objective moral standards. This is not to say that all atheists are immoral people. In reality, there are many nice people who are atheists, but their niceness isborrowed capital from Christianity; it is not because of their atheism, but despite it." If the atheist had been raised in an atheistic society, they would be very different people, while the Christian would be the same. The Christian who is unloving, is unloving despite of his professed Christianity, not because of it.
Historian Will Durant, who is a humanist, said in the February 1977 issue of the Humanist Magazine: There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
Boston College professor William Kilpatrick has written a book on the subject of morality in public schools. In Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong (1992) he writes: "Youngsters are forced to question values and virtues they've never acquired in the first place or upon which they have only a tenuous hold."
"When you devalue God, you devalue human life. How could Hitler ruthlessly exterminate six million Jews and millions of other? How could the Communists kill and torture over a hundred million people? How could they do that to other human beings?"
"The answer you give to the question 'What is a human being?' will determine precisely what you can do to one." ". . .when the restraining influence of Christianity is removed from a country or culture, unmitigated disaster will naturally follow."
"One of our Supreme Court Justices, Oliver Wendell Holmes said: 'I see no reason for attributing to man a significant difference in kind from that which belongs to a grain of sand.'"
"And yet we sometimes hear the statement that 'more people have been killed in the name of Christ than in any other name.'" This is simply a lie.
Where do we go from here?Is secularism inevitable? From Harvard University to the YMCA, so many of the institutions we discussed in this book were started by Christians for Christian purposes, often at great sacrifice and expense; and then eventually they drifted away from their original [intent]. Is this trend unavoidable? "Religion begat prosperity, but the daughter hath consumed the mother." Cotton Mather made this observation toward the end of the seventeenth century after the Christianity of the Pilgrims and Puritans had begun to wane. They had only been in the New World for three or four generations, and they were already beginning to allow the prosperity they enjoyed to crowd out the cause of that prosperity; Christianity. "Many of the good things we enjoy today grew out of the religion of Jesus Christ, but He is often denied the credit" The proof of this denial is in nearly every history book in public schools in America.
Source:1. http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/farewell/sd106-21.pdf
Everette Hatcher, cell ph 501-920-5733, P.O. Box 23416, Little Rock, AR 72221, everettehatcher@gmail.com
Is the Bible the Word of God?God and the Bible go together and you can not separate the two. God through men wrote the Bible. The Bible was written over a period of 1500 years in 3 different languages and by 40 different authors in about 20 different countries. The only way that the Bible could make sense and have one central theme is if it was written by God. The individual authors did have some input as far as style and rhythm goes, but they did not write the Bible. Look at this way. If there are two books written on a subject such as psychology there is vast differences in opinion. Now consider the wonder of the Bible and also the facts that support that not only did the people of the Bible exist but the prophecy that was made about Christ as far a 500 to 600 years before He was born came true to the last detail then you have to believe that the rest of the Bible is true and must be from God. The most important belief that you need to have is that Jesus died for your sins and that if you believe in Him then you can be saved. I hope this helps you and if you have any further questions then please ask.
Our English word for Bible comes from a Greek word "biblia," the plural of "biblion," meaning book, writing, or scroll. Therefore the word, Bible, means books. It is a collection of 66 books of various sizes, making one book.
The Bible is different from any other book because it is God's Holy Book, written by holy men of God as they were moved by the Holy Spirit (2 Peter 1: 19-21).
The first five books are said to have been written by Moses, who lived about 3,500 years ago. Parts of those books record history from about 2,500 years before Moses, such as the creation, history from Adam, the first man to Noah at the time of the great flood, histories of 9 or 10 generations to Abraham, and then from Abraham to Moses, a period of 500 to 600 years.
The last part of the New Testament was written about 1900 years ago, within the first century after Christ.
Therefore, the Bible was written over a period of about 1,600 years, by about 40 different writers. It was written in a number of different countries, like, Israel, Babylon (now Iraq), Persia (now Iran), Italy, and Greece.
The writers were of many different occupations: shepherd, military leader, king priest, farmer, tax collector, fishermen, tent maker, physician, prophets and apostles.
Can you imagine what a miracle of God it was for that many people, in that many countries, from that many occupations, over that long period of time, writing a book without previous planning or without being able to consult with each other, that is not contradictory, that is scientifically accurate before many of those facts of science were known. Only God could be the real author behind the writers.
The Bible contains history, law, poetry, prophecy, prayers, praises, wisdom, important instructions for success and living. IT IS GOD'S MESSAGE TO MANKIND.
It is divided into two parts — the Old Testament contains 39 books and was written before the birth of Jesus Christ. The New Testament contains 27 books and was written after the birth of Christ.
If you asked each state in the union to send a rock of the type found in their state, there would be different shapes and sizes and for it to look like a beautiful monument it would have to have designer.
What evidence is there that the Bible is in fact God's Word?Adrian Rogers
I want to give you five reasons to affirm the Bible is the Word of God.
First, I believe the Bible is the Word of God because of its scientific accuracy. The Truth of the Word of God tells us that God "hangeth the earth upon nothing" (Job 26:7). How did Job know that the earth hung in space before the age of modern astronomy and space travel? The Holy Spirit told him. The scientists of Isaiah's day didn't know the topography of the earth, but Isaiah said, "It is [God] that sitteth upon the circle of the earth" (Isaiah 40:22). The word for "circle" here means a globe or sphere. How did Isaiah know that God say upon the circle of the earth? By divine inspiration.
Secondly, the Bible is affirmed through historical accuracy. Do you remember the story about the handwriting on the wall that is found in the fifth chapter of Daniel? Belshazzar hosted a feast with a thousand of his lords and ladies. Suddenly, a gruesome hand appeared out of nowhere and began to write on a wall. The king was disturbed and asked for someone to interpret the writing. Daniel was found and gave the interpretation. After the interpretation, "Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom." (Daniel 5:29). Basing their opinion on Babylonian records, the historians claim this never happened. According to the records, the last king of Babylon was not Belshazzar, but a man named Nabonidas. And so, they said, the Bible is in error. There wasn't a record of a king named Belshazzar. Well, the spades of archeologists continued to do their work. In 1853, an inscription was found on a cornerstone of a temple built by Nabonidas, to the god Ur, which read: "May I, Nabonidas, king of Babylon, not sin against thee. And may reverence for thee dwell in the heart of Belshazzar, my first-born favorite son." From other inscriptions, it was learned that Belshazzar and Nabonidas were co-regents. Nabonidas traveled while Belshazzar stayed home to run the kingdom. Now that we know that Belshazzar and Nabonidas were co-regents, it makes sense that Belshazzar would say that Daniel would be the third ruler. What a marvelous nugget of truth tucked away in the Word of God!
Third, from Genesis to Revelation, the Bible reads as one book. And there is incredible unity to the Bible. The Bible is one book, and yet it is made up of 66 books, was written by at least 40 different authors over a period of about 1600 years, in 13 different countries and on three different continents. It was written in at least three different languages by people in all professions. The Bible forms one beautiful temple of truth that does not contradict itself theologically, morally, ethically, doctrinally, scientifically, historically, or in any other way.
Fourth, did you know the Bible is the only book in the world that has accurate prophecy? When you read the prophecies of the Bible, you simply have to stand back in awe. There are over 300 precise prophecies that deal with the Lord Jesus Christ in the Old Testament that are fulfilled in the New Testament. To say that these are fulfilled by chance is an astronomical impossibility.
Finally, the Bible is not a book of the month, but the Book of the ages.First Peter 1:25 says: "But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the Word which by the gospel is preached unto you." No book has ever had as much opposition as the Bible. Men have laughed at it, scorned it, burned it, ridiculed it, and made laws against it. But the Word of God has survived. And it is applicable today as much as it was yesterday and will be tomorrow.
It's so majestically deep that scholars could swim and never touch the bottom. Yet so wonderfully shallow that a little child could come and get a drink of water without fear of drowning. That is God's precious, holy Word. The Word of God. Know it. Believe it. It is True.
Authentic And DependableThe Bible is the best selling book of all time by a very wide margin with approximately 6 Billion copies in print. What is it that brings people to depend on this book? If the Bible is merely a book of helpful moral guidance and philosophy written by humans, then we can pick and choose what we want to believe. If it is actually God's word to us, then we should let it transform our lives. The evidence is overwhelming that the Bible is totally authentic in what it claims to be–the actual Word of God.
One Unified BookThe Bible is an incredibly unified piece of literature. It was written over a 1,500 year time period by over 40 different authors from various backgrounds and cultures, in 13 different countries, in 3 different languages, and in many different literary styles. Despite all of that, it contains one consistent theme from cover to cover, which is God's plan for the salvation of mankind.
Inspired By GodIt is appropriate to call the Bible the Word of God because that is what the Bible itself claims. "All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It straightens us out and teaches us to do what is right." (2 Timothy 3:16) The Bible was physically written by men by the inspiration of God (Hebrews 1:1). In other words, God used men to write exactly what He wanted to say. The writers are clearly claiming to be speaking from God as hundreds of times they use expressions like "says the Lord", "declares the Lord", "God said", and "The word of the Lord came to me". The ways in which God spoke to the writers included dreams (Genesis 37:1-11), visions (Daniel 7), audible voice (1 Samuel 3), inner voice (Hosea 1), and through angels (Genesis 19:1-29).
Writers Were EyewitnessesMost of the writers in the Old Testament and all of the writers in the New Testament were eyewitnesses to the events written about and their written accounts have been supported by hundreds of archeological finds. The writers were compelled to write only what came from God– "Do not add to His words, or He will rebuke you and prove you a liar." (Proverbs 30:6). In fact, most of the writers felt so strongly that what they were writing about was from God that they died for what they believed.
Historical Events ConfirmedThe Bible is also historically accurate. The events that took place, the places that are involved, and the people who are written about are confirmed by the majority of historians from thousands of years ago until today. Skeptics even agree that the New Testament is an outstanding account of history. The reason being is that the eyewitnesses were careful to record all the details accurately. For example, in Luke 1:1-3, it is noted that they "carefully investigated everything".
Importantly, the writers of the New Testament affirmed the unique history presented In the Old Testament. For example, Jesus confirms historical events such as the creation of man and women (Matthew 19:4), Jonah being swallowed by a giant fish (Matthew 12:40), and the flood in Noah's day (Matthew 24:37-39).
Archaeology Supports ClaimsArchaeology consistently supports even the smallest details to confirm the reliability of the Bible. Trained archeologists have previously set out to try and prove biblical facts to be wrong only to uncover more proof that supports the Bible's claims. Through many hundreds of years of discoveries, evidence consistently supports the authenticity of the Bible.
Scientific Facts AccurateThe Bible is completely accurate in all scientific facts. The amazing part is that all these facts were written many hundred years before human discovery. Only an all-knowing God could inspire these things to be written. Here are some examples:
The first verse of the Bible — "In the beginning," (Genesis 1:1) — Is a claim that the universe had a beginning, and that there was a time before which the universe didn't exist. Today, the vast majority of scientists also believe that the available evidence points to a universe that had a beginning
In Job 26:7, the Bible says that "God stretches the northern sky over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing." Today we know from indirect evidence and direct observation from space that the earth is indeed "suspended" in space "by nothing"
"The stars cannot be counted" (Jeremiah 33:22) — written before scientists proved this fact after the telescope was invented
"Earth is a circle" (Isaiah 40:22) — It was widely accepted that the Earth was flat rather the round until Magellan sailed around the world in the early 1,500's
"Blood sustains life" (Leviticus 17:14) — written before man realized this fact in the 1800's
Thousands Of Accurate Predictions Without ErrorAnother thing that separates the Bible from any other book is the fulfilled prophecies (predictions) of future events. It contains over 2000 prophecies (300 about Jesus) that have come true without even one error. It is virtually statistically impossible that the Bible's specific, detailed predictions could have happened by chance. It has been historically proven that the predictions were documented long before these events occurred. For example, the book of Daniel contains many specific prophecies that have been fulfilled in history, including:
The fall of Babylon to the Persian Empire
The fall of the Persian Empire to the Greek Empire
Details of the political intrigue and wars that plagued the Greek empire as it crumbled
The fall of the Greek Empire to the Roman Empire
The date when the Messiah would arrive in Jerusalem and be put to death
Predictions About Jesus Have Come TrueMicah predicted that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2). Daniel predicted when the Jesus would appear and be put to death (Daniel 9:24-26). Isaiah predicted over 500 years before Jesus was born that the Messiah would be virgin born (Isaiah 7:14) and He would be crucified with criminals (Isaiah 53:12). Some other prophecies include: The exact words Jesus spoke on the cross were predicted (Psalm 22:1), the piercing of His hands and feet on the cross (Psalm 22:16), and the soldiers' gambling for His clothes. (Psalm 22:18) These things were predicted about 400 years before crucifixion was even invented. Jesus even predicted His own death and resurrection (John 2:19-22). These are not general predictions, but incredibly specific. For any of them to come true would be almost impossible, never mind all of them. The Bible says "For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit" (2 Peter 1:21).
Contains Transforming PowerMost critics of the Bible are people who haven't taken the time to read it or study it. In fact, many critics who tried to disprove the Bible are now some if it's biggest supporters. If this book is truly the Word of God and we read it with an open mind, then we will experience the life changing power it promises. "For the Word of God is full of living power. It is sharper than the sharpest knife, cutting deep into our innermost thoughts and desires. It exposes us for what we really are." (Hebrews 4:12) This same book has the power to help people who are suffering, save people from their sin, give us direction in life, and satisfy our intellect. The Word of God has healed marriages, rescued people from addictions, given people reason to live, mended hearts and changed countless of other seemingly hopeless situations. See for yourself some examples of radicallychanged lives.
Worth Believing Due To Overwhelming EvidenceUpon close examination, it is clear that the Bible claims and proves to be the Word of God. Every scientific, historical, and prophetic word written reveals the accuracy and uniqueness of the Bible. That is reason enough to believe and follow God's Word at all times and with all of our heart. Jesus said "People need more than bread for their life; they must feed on every word of God." (Matthew 4:4)
Your Eternal DestinyIf you agree that the Bible is reliable and true, please know what it says about your eternal destiny. The Bible says that your sin has separated you from God (Isaiah 59:2) and that you will die in your sins (John 8:21) and be sent to Hell (Luke 5:12) unless you repent (turn from your sins) (Luke 13:3) and place your trust in Jesus (John 1:12) as the One who died on the cross to pay for your sins (1 Peter 2:24) and allow you to enter Heaven when you die. Life is short and you never know how many days you have left to live. Please consider receiving the greatest gift you can ever hope for in Jesus Christ.
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Residents join campaign to mend city's broken pavements
A campaign launched by Paralympic hopeful, Claire Connon and Cambridge MP Julian Huppert urging residents to report broken pavements across the city has drawn numerous examples.
People have been visiting the website www.fixourpavements.co.uk to log their complaints saying some pavements are so dangerous they are unusable.
Rower Claire, who is tipped for a place in the 2016 Rio Paralympics, took Julian and councillors on a wheelchair tour of the city last year to give them first-hand experience of how difficult it is to navigate cracked and broken pavements in a wheelchair.
Claire told them how she had fallen out of her wheelchair twice in 10 days in Cambridge, the second time landing on her wrists which could have ended her rowing career before it had even started.
Through the campaign people were invited to log trouble spots on a map and explain the problems many of which were found in the city centre and East Chesterton.
Jesus Green - pavement broken up
Thompson's Lane from Bridge Street to Park Street - "a disgrace"
Guildhall - pavement slabs uneven around the building
Alder Court, Chesterton - broken up pavement, dangerous for the elderly
Baycliffe Close - impassable in a wheelchair with water hydrant sticking up and overgrown shrubs forcing people to walk in the road.
Julian is collecting signatures on a petition calling for more investment in pavements which will be presented to highways authority Cambridgeshire County Council in March.
He said: "We have had an excellent response to this campaign. Clearly people are fed up with having to navigate their way through pavements which are cracked, broken and positively dangerous.
"The county council has to listen to what they are saying and invest more money in carrying out vital repairs before someone has a serious accident."
Claire said: "I am pleased to see people reporting problem areas, and hope we can highlight more and force the council in to taking action."
Cambridgeshire County Councillor, Ed Cearns who represents Cambridge's Market ward said many residents had contacted him about the state of the city's pavements.
"While we have successfully pushed for some areas to be sorted out, there is still a lot more to be done to make our pavements safe and fit for this great city," he said.
Julian is pictured with Claire Connon working to highlight the state of Cambridge's pavements.


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Nestled in the heart of central Europe, the Czech Republic is a magical land filled with charming medieval architecture and picturesque scenery. Wander through the enchanting streets of Prague – packed with medieval, Art Nouveau, and quirky modern architecture. Outside the capital, explore the castles and medieval towns that dot the lands of the Czech Republic. Join Odyssey Traveller as we take you on a journey through this wonderful travel destination.
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Touring Czech Republic
Odyssey travels by coach and occasionally uses local transport, including trains and ferries. Specifics are always outlined in your tour itinerary. The Czech Republic has one of the largest rail networks in Europe, with fairly affordable train services operating across the length and breadth of the country. Bus services are also widely available, and are often less expensive than trains. Taxi cabs can be found in many cities and towns, although beware of being ripped off by unscrupulous unofficial cab drivers.
In major cities, Odyssey stays in centrally located 3-4 star hotels, with easy access to public transport. In smaller towns or rural areas, we usually stay in family-run hotels or guesthouses. On our longstay tours, during which you spend the length of the tour in a single location, we use serviced apartments.
Odyssey always engages local guides with regional knowledge to ensure an authentic experience during which you can learn as much as possible about the history and culture of places you visit.
Geography environment and weather
The landlocked country of the Czech Republic covers a total area of 78,867 square kilometres. Two thirds of the country is occupied by the by the river basin of Bohemia, through which the Elbe and Vltava rivers flow. Low mountains and hills ring the Bohemian river basin, with the country's highest point, Snezka, situated in the Krkonose mountains in the northeast. The region of Moravia in the eastern half is hilly, and is drained predominantly by the Morava river.
The Czech Republic has a mostly temperate oceanic climate, with warm summers and cold winters. Depending on when you intend to travel, check the weather reports and dress accordingly.
There are 12 properties in Czech Republic listed on the World Heritage List. You can view the listed properties here: (https://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/cz). The Czech Republic's listed properties include:
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape, which features classical and neo-Gothic design principles and holds one of the largest artificial landscapes in Europe
Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc, the ornately decorated monument which stands in the town of Olomouc
Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at Zelená Hora, which features a truly unique architectural style.
The Czechs love to celebrate, with many different festivals and events held across the country throughout the year. Pagan rituals and and traditions that predated the arrival of Christianity in Czech lands are still preserved through distinctive festivals such as the Burning of the Witches, whereupon effigies of witches are burned to ward off evil spirits, and the Harvest Festivals, whereby a successful harvest was traditionally celebrated with singing, dancing, and feasting. The performing arts are celebrated in the Czech Republic, with events such as the Prague Spring International Music Festival and the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival showcasing the country's love for the creative arts. Given the Czechs love of beer, it would only be natural that an entire festival would be dedicated to the creation and consumption of the most popular beverage in the Czech Republic. The Czech Beer Festival is held over 17 days in May, with over 120 different beers on offer, and features people dressed in traditional Czech costumes and live music performances.
A History of the Czech Lands, by Jaroslav Panek and Oldrich Tuma
Magic Prague, by Angelo Mario Ripellino
Gottland, by Mariusz Szczygiel
The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
Like much of Central Europe, the fare in the Czech Republic is generally hearty, with soups and stews prominently featuring in Czech cuisine. Meats and vegetables are often cooked in the form of soups, with notable soups including kulajda (potato soup made with mushrooms, dill, vinegar and a poached egg) and rajská omáčka (tomato soup served with cooked beef and onions). The Czech Republic shares the guláš (goulash) dish with its Hungarian neighbours, though the Czech version tends to be more meat heavy and is more of a sauce than a soup. Sweeter offerings include palačinky, thin pancakes served with jam, fruit, or cream, and trdelník, a pastry made from wrapped around a stick, heated over an open flame and coated with sugar, nuts or cinnamon.
Beer consumption is an integral part of socialising in the Czech Republic, with the Czechs ranking as the biggest per capita consumers of beer in the world. Pilsener lager is the most common type of beer in the Czech Republic, though wheat beer and other types are also available. Other notable beverages in the Czech Republic include Fernet Stock (herbal bitters) and Slivovitz (a fruity brandy made from plums).
Generally speaking, Czech Republic is safe to travel in, though always exercise common sense while travelling. Beware of criminals using fake police ID asking to check the authenticity of your foreign currency and passports. Aslo be advised that pickpocketing does occur, so keep your valuables close and pay close attention to your personal security.
Whenever you travel overseas, it's always wise to take an appropriate travel adaptor. The electricity supply in Czech Republic runs at 220V and 50Hz. Czech Republic uses the Type D and Type M electric plug types, so make sure you have the right travel adaptor with you.
The best of Czech Republic
Charles Bridge, the iconic bridge spanning the Vltava river.
Prague Castle, the stunning 9th-century castle which has long stood as a seat of power for the region.
Kroměříž Gardens
Kroměříž Gardens, the elegant Baroque-style gardens located in the grounds of Kroměříž castle.
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From the mediaeval jewel of Cesky Krumlow to the grandeur of the Habsburg's summer palace in Vienna, we embark on a 21 night journey to learn about these vibrant and artistically rich cities. We delve into the history of the famous artists, musicians, writers, architects and composers from Austria, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic.
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What time zone is the Czech Republic in?
The Czech Republic has a single time zone, Central European Standard Time (UTC+1). Daylight savings in the Czech Republic commence on the last Sunday of March, and conclude on the last Sunday of October.
Is tipping customary in the Czech Republic?
If you're on an Odyssey tour, we take care of tipping so you don't need to give it a second thought. However, in your free time, or if travelling independently, it's essential that you tip an appropriate amount for services. Tipping is fairly common in the Czech Republic, with a tip of around 10% commonly expected amongst restaurant servers, hotel staff, and tour guides.
What is the internet access like in the Czech Republic?
Wifi should be freely available in most hotels, cafes and restaurants.
Can I use my mobile/cell phone while in the Czech Republic?
Check with your cell phone provider to see whether you're able to make calls and use data while in the Czech Republic. Many providers will allow you to pay a daily fee that allows you to make calls and check the internet while only being charged your regular rates. However, be certain to inform your provider that you're heading overseas, because just like a bank they can turn off your service as a result of unusual activity.
Articles about the Czech Republic published by Odyssey Traveller:
Music and the Austrian Hapsburgs: As an important part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Czech lands were home to many of its most famous composers, including Antonín Dvořák and Gustav Mahler.
Eight Amazing Rail Journeys: Including the Gdansk-Trieste Railway, which passes through the Czech Republic.
For all the articles Odyssey Traveller has published for mature aged and senior travellers, click through on this link.
External articles to assist you on your visit to the Czech Republic:
24 Hours in Prague: An Alternative Guide to the New East's Tourism Capital
CNN Travel: 11 Amazing Places to visit in the Czech Republic
The Guardian: Czech out Brno
Responsible travel tips for the Czech Republic
Learn at least the local greetings to break the ice. Although some locals speak English, the more you know of the native language, the greater your experience of the country will be.
Carry a business card in your wallet or purse from your local hotel, to assist you with the return journey if you do become lost.
Always ensure that you are covered by travel insurance. If you need advice on this feel free to contact Odyssey and we'll be able to help.
When travelling independently, make sure you check the opening hours of shops and museums so that you don't miss out! Museums and galleries are often closed on Mondays. Also be certain to check whether your trip coincides with any public holidays, so you can plan accordingly.
Consider contacting your bank to inform them that you may be making purchases overseas. Otherwise, they may flag any activity on your account as suspicious. Also, check which ATMs and banks are compatible with your cards, to ensure you can withdraw cash with minimal fees.
Before departing, make sure you have a number of koruna in a range of denominations. You don't want to be carrying around enormous amounts of cash, but take enough to make it easy to pay in locations that might not accept credit card. It will also help you avoid card transaction fees, and it makes tipping a breeze.
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We specialise in educational small group tours for seniors, typically groups between six to 12 people from Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada and Britain. Our maximum number of people on a tour is 18 mature aged travellers.We have some 150 tours and offer 300 scheduled departures on offer each year. Odyssey has been offering this style of adventure and educational programs since 1983.
Odyssey Traveller is committed to charitable activities that support the environment and cultural development of Australian and New Zealand communities.
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We are also pleased to announce that since 2012, Odyssey has been awarding $10,000 Equity & Merit Cash Scholarships each year. We award scholarships on the basis of academic performance and demonstrated financial need. We award at least one scholarship per year. We're supported through our educational travel programs, and your participation helps Odyssey achieve its goals. Students can apply for the scholarship by clicking on this link to find out more details.
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PaisaDukan.com Founder and CEO announced today joining of Mr. Rajiv Mittal in the Advisory Board. The company is launching a Peer-to-Peer Lending Marketplace along with the Mobile App. Based on the revised Guidelines from RBI in Oct 2017, BigWin Infotech (holding company of paisadukan.com) has applied for the NBFC P2P license. RBI has mandated all the P2P Lending Market Place operators to be complied with NBFC P2P Guidelines.
Rajiv Mittal is a Business leader with 30 years of corporate experience in domains of IT services, global consulting and education. Currently, Rajiv is advising and mentoring IT & Technology companies. He is former CEO of JKT Consulting Ltd and was on Board of two JKT subsidiaries. As CEO of the JKT Consulting (JKTC), he was responsible for strategic leadership and overall operational management of JKTC. He started his career with HCL and later was associated with BlueChip IT Company, Blue Start Infotech Limited, where is was the Global Functional Head – Delivery Organization.
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Nonprofit accountants help tax exempt organizations assure their financial accountability to their Board of Directors, their community and governmental agencies. While there are some similarities between for-profit accounting and nonprofit accounting, the professional accounting standards used in the United States include specific guidance for tax-exempt organizations. Consultants who specialize in nonprofit accounting know how to handle the numerous accounting areas which differ.
Tax exempt organizations have missions that address the needs of society while for-profit companies generate profit for their owners. Therefore, tax exempt organizations rely on contributions and grants, donated goods and services, program services, special events, and investment income as the source of revenues to cover the costs of providing their services to the community.
Tax exempt organizations are expected to account for their costs in three "functional expense" categories – program, fund raising, and general & administrative. Several rating agencies including Charity Navigator and Guidestar use this benchmark as one of the tools to assess the efficiency of the use of funds by tax exempt organizations.
Another key component that differs between for-profit and nonprofit accounting is the treatment of net assets. Because for-profit companies have owners, the value that they build up over time is called stockholders equity and is available to the owners to use in the business or distribute to themselves. The tax exempt organization builds up value over time to have a reasonable financial stability and continue to be able to perform its services for the community in perpetuity.
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Tyler Maloney
Wyckoff, New Jersey
Joined ABT 2015
Photo: Karolina Kuras.
Born in Wyckoff, New Jersey, Tyler Maloney started his training at a young age in different styles of dance including jazz, modern, contemporary, hip-hop, and later ballet at the local YMCA. At the age of 11, Maloney went to American Ballet Theatre's Summer Intensive and was accepted into the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, where he trained for the next 4 years.
In 2010, Maloney performed the role of the Nutcracker Boy in the premiere of Alexei Ratmansky's The Nutcracker at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Maloney joined ABT Studio Company in 2013, became an apprentice with the main Company in December 2015, and joined the corps de ballet in April 2016.
His repertory includes the Mandarin and one of the Three Ivans in Aurora's Wedding, Leady Gypsy in Don Quixote, the peasant pas de deux in Giselle, Harlequin in Ratmansky's Harlequinade, Let Me Sing Forevermore, Harlequin and Mother Ginger in Ratmansky's The Nutcracker, the Indian Prince and a Fairy Cavalier in Ratmansky's The Sleeping Beauty, The Boy in Whipped Cream, leading roles in AFTERITE, Serenade after Plato's Symposium, Souvenir d'un lieu cher, and ZigZag, and featured roles in AfterEffect, The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Deuce Coupe, Dream within a Dream (deferred), La Follia Variations, In the Upper Room, and Songs of Bukovina. He created Polycharmus in Of Love and Rage, a Satyr in The Seasons, and featured roles in Bernstein in a Bubble, Praedicere, and A Time There Was.
ABT is grateful to Steven Backes for supporting the Dancer Fund in honor of Tyler Maloney.
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AfterEffect (2015) - Featured Role
AFTERITE - Leading Role
Aurora's Wedding (Ratmansky) - Mandarin; Three Ivans
Bernstein in a Bubble - Featured Role*
The Brahms-Haydn Variations - Leading Role
Deuce Coupe - Featured Role
Don Quixote (McKenzie/Jones) - Lead Gypsy Man
Dream within a Dream (deferred) - Featured Role
La Follia Variations - Featured Role
Giselle (McKenzie) - peasant pas de deux
Harlequinade (Ratmansky) - Harlequin
In the Upper Room - Featured Role
Let Me Sing Forevermore - Leading Role
The Nutcracker (Ratmansky) - Harlequin; Mother Ginger
Of Love and Rage - Polycharmus*
Praedicere - Featured Role*
The Seasons - Satyr*
Serenade after Plato's Symposium - Leading Role
The Sleeping Beauty (Ratmansky) - Fairy Cavalier; The Indian Prince (Rose Adagio)
Songs of Bukovina - Featured Role
Souvenir d'un lieu cher - Leading Role
A Time There Was - Featured Role*
Whipped Cream - The Boy
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Conversations on Art & Why It Matters
The graphic novel as college textbook
Posted on September 12, 2021 by Maria Johnson
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Immediately above and below are images from a graphic novel created by UConn history Prof. Jason O. Chang about a 19th-century mutiny by Chinese slaves on a ship that ultimately wrecked on Japanese shores.
Today, we go beyond the Sunday funnies and explore the graphic novel with Prof. Chang and Prof. Charles Baraw, from Southern CT State University's English dept.
Graphic novels, for those unfamiliar with the term, take the comic book into the deep end of the pool. One graphic novel you may have heard of is Art Spiegelman's Maus, set in Nazi Germany. Another is Alison Bechtel's Fun Home, which was made into a Broadway musical.
As you'll hear, both of my guests, interviewed via Zoom, have developed creative approaches to reading, analyzing, and even creating graphic novels.
Prof. Jason O. Chang. One of his articles won the 2018 Koontz Prize for the most deserving contribution, tracing the role of Chinese merchants across successive imperial regimes in the Pacific. He also serves on the West Hartford Board of Education.
Prof. Charles Baraw. He is the recipient of the 2019 SCSU Board of Regents Teaching Award and the 2018 J. Philip Smith Outstanding Teacher Award. Below are covers of some of the graphic novels he teaches:
With this episode of Open Studio: Conversations on Art & Why It Matters, we close out our first year of visual art on the radio! I want to thank a few people who've been instrumental in keeping the show going, especially Leith Johnson for composing the opening and closing theme music as well as the station break music, for his stomping out all manner of technical fires, and for his all-round moral support.
Thanks, too, to WESU general manager Ben Michael, program manager Rick Sinkiewicz, and program director Ben Spencer for determinedly making community radio happen during the pandemic. Thanks to Sarah Bank and Mary Ahlstrom for promoting Open Studio on social media. Special thanks to all my brilliant guests – you're an inspiration — and finally, a big thank you to you, listeners, for tuning in.
I invite you to enjoy the first episode of the new season, on Sept. 26th, when I'll talk to Michael Crosbie, an architect whose books include a primer for children, called From Arches to Zigzags, an Architecture ABC.
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Johnny Depp – Fake English Accent or Foreign Accent Disease?
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Johnny Depp recently did an interview where he spoke about his upcoming role as Tonto in the new Lone Ranger movie. In that interview, a lot of people — including quite a few physicians — were shocked at his strange English-sounding accent and hints of other accents in his speech.
Seems as though there is no known reason for Depp to have acquired an English accent because when he lived abroad he didn't live in England, he lived in France, and while he did adopt an English accent for Pirates of the Caribbean, that was simply his job as an actor playing a part. Many actors have to either use or lose an English accent, but in Depp's case, a few doctors — one in particular — believe that the aging actor may have a disease called FAS, or Foreign Accent Syndrome.
FAS is a very rare brain disease where the victim emerges from some traumatic event with a foreign accent. Some doctor's think that it's a real disease and others think that victims are faking the accent for attention or some kind of mental illness. The disease did not exist until 1941, which is right about the time that most people throughout the world were exposed via motion pictures, of the various accents of the world, and this has many doctors wondering if perhaps the emergence of FAS is some kind of play acting. If this is true, Johnny Depp is either faking an accent for his own amusement or he has a brain disease.
"Johnny Depp is going through some kind of career crisis or aging process and, in my opinion, he is indeed suffering from Foreign Accent Syndrome or perhaps some variant of the disease," said Dr. Jason Burns MD, a language pathologist and neurologist.
"If he was simply playing with the idea of speaking with an accent to seem more sophisticated or worldly, his accent would sound decidedly British, but in Depp's case I think that his accent is a muddled mish-mash of several accents that are the result of some damage to the parts of the brain that control language skills and the pronunciation of certain syllabic sounds.
"The principal signature of FAS is that the accent seems odd or out of place. It might sound a little English and a little Irish and a bit Russian or German. In other words, it's either a deliberate attempt at an accent but poorly executed, or it's a brain malfunction. In Johnny Depp's case, it is clear to the American ear that he has done a rather good job putting on his English accent for Jack Sparrow parts in Pirates of the Caribbean, but now that the acting is over and the real brain has taken control, there may be residual damage. The actor Johnny Depp can indeed speak very well with the accent of an English pirate, but the real Johnny Depp — Johnny Depp the man — cannot speak very well at all with an English accent. This is the hallmark sign of FAS and it will only get worse as he gets older."
According to other experts, there is no cure for Foreign Accent Syndrome, and although a few of those afflicted have had brief remissions, the disease returns and the accent is either worse or completely different.
Foreign Accent Syndrome is very rare — less than 100 reported cases since 1941 — but it seems to be growing. Actress Kathleen Turner is another example of an actor who suffers from FAS, but her accent has no known derivation. One cannot tell if it's English or Russian or French or related to any language spoken anywhere on the planet.
Madonna, an American pop singer who did live in England for many years, had a acquired an English accent and it was feared that she was either mentally ill or suffering from FAS. It was soon determined that she was faking an accent so as to sound sophisticated because she had deep-rooted insecurities about her aging face and body and the fact that she was an ordinary American living abroad. When her fake accent drew criticism from her fans, she dropped it and went back to speaking with just a hint of her native Detroit, Michigan USA accent.
"We are praying for Johnny Depp and we hope he can overcome this affliction," said Sister Frances DeSalles, a nun in Ireland who works as a nurse for the deaf and mute. "Johnny Depp has brought so much joy to the world and to have him speaking like this is very sad and deeply disturbing. Perhaps if his American fans stood behind him and showed him the way, he would go back to his real voice. It would be a shame if his regular voice were to be lost forever."
By Damien on July 5, 2013 / Across America, Damien Zone, Featured Across America, Featured Hollywood, Featured World News, Health and Medical, Hollywood, Top Stories, World News / 9 Comments
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Third World Countryman
5:27 am on February 17, 2014
Why would he fake his accent?
Because it is a need of the film.
I am neither American nor British. English is my third language thus, I believe I can be impartial about this
In the Pirates of the Caribbean series, it has the plot of 17th century. There was no American accent at all at that time; not the one which we currently call 'American Accent'. It would seem logically retarded if Jack Sparrow speaks in American accent.
In the film 'Dark Shadows (2012)' his Vampire Character is born in England and the family moves to America. I find it natural if Barnabus Collins speaks in British accent.
In film 'Corpse Bride (2005)' the plot is set in Ancient Europe and hence, it is logical if he speaks in British accent for the same reason that of 'Pirates' series.
Same is the reason for 'Finding Neverland (2004)'. But if we notice keenly, that is Scottish accent he performs in it. (I find it Scottish, I'm not a perfect) that is not the RP British accent.
In the film 'Charlie And the Chocolate Factory (2005)' he speaks in American accent even though many other important characters speak in British accent.
He speaks in British accent only when there is a need of it in the film. He doesn't have any Foreign Accent Syndrome neither he's 'super-attracted' to that accent. He is simply fulfilling the necessity of the character.
Are you sure that ENGLISH is not your FOURTH language or do you have really bad reading comprehension? He speaks in America now with an English accent — in ordinary conversation. He is not English. He is from the American Midwest. This has NOTHING to do with accents required for movie roles — which I addressed in the story — which you SHOULD re-read. Also, if American English or English in any form is not your native language, you probably don't understand the entire concept — thanks anyway.
EricSwanson
11:02 am on March 9, 2014
Very interesting and well presented Damien. And ThirdWOrldCountryman, don't type in English if you can't truly speak it. You come off as a moron, which may not be the case, but you certainly sound stupid.
I don't think he has some obscure brain disease. I think it's simply leftovers from preparing for a movie role. I've heard other actors say that after they go through dialogue coaching to achieve or lose an accent it takes them time to return to their normal speech. I think it will just take a bit of time for him to sound like the Johnny Depp we all know. I am American and I did read the full article. I also think its ridiculous for a doctor to make a diagnosis or a hypothetical one having never met the person. Can you say quack?
OMG people.
Can you say "awesome"? or "irony"? or even "sarcasm"?
jeeez
LoriQ
I believe Johnny Depp is putting on the way he speaks. He's rich & famous now and he is acting like an ass. Like a spoiled rich kid that wants attention. I believe he does this for publicity. Look he's making us take notice and talk about it. I can't stand Johnny Depp because of his attitude. It doesn't matter how attractive someone is their personality can make them ugly.
5:34 pm on January 12, 2015
I think its for attention.. Look at the way he dresses for Christ sake.I remember watching a tosh stand up, ( don't judge me lol) where Daniel made a good point saying something to the jist of: when Jonny Depp goes out he has to make sure he's wearing 6 bracelets whilst making sure this and that is just so and that his bandana and hat must be tilted in just the right way.. I mean how old is this guy??
I just saw him on the Ellen Degeneres Show and I also think that he's doing it for attention. Mike is right. And I think he probably does it because it's working for him. Being in Hollywood, he must feel the pressure of needing to do something different in order to stand out. But he's also just really weird on top of that.
Carrie Ann Howser
he is nucking futz


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Hey Folks! Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend! Yesterday was a stat holiday here, so no news from Monday. Should be back to normal schedule now, though.
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Rozhdestvensky to replace ailing Muti; Tiknis to leave Harris Theater
Sat Feb 06, 2016 at 3:16 pm
By Lawrence A. Johnson
Michael Tiknis
The Russians are coming–to the rescue.
Gennady Rozhdestvensky, who is conducting tonight's Chicago Symphony Orchestra program of Shostakovich (Symphonies Nos. 1 and 15) has agreed to stay in town to lead next week's concerts as well, replacing the ailing Riccardo Muti.
The orchestra announced earlier this week that the CSO music director had cancelled his two weeks of February programs following surgery for a hip injury suffered in Europe following the recent Asian tour.
The February 11-16 program, now to be led by Rozhdestvensky, will remain the same: Ligeti's Ramifications, Arvo Pärt's Orient and Occident, Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings and Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with principal Stephen Williamson as soloist.
No conductor has yet been named to direct Muti's second cancelled week of concerts, which begins February 18.
The CSO announced that Matous Michal and Simon Machal have joined the second violin section, effective February 1.
The Czech brothers each served as concertmaster of the Verbier Festival. Matous Michal played in the first violin section of the Grant Park Orchestra last summer.
Both men completed undergraduate studies at the Prague Conservatory and received bachelor's degrees from Juilliard. Matous has a master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music while his younger brother Simon is currently completing his masters at the same school.
The Czech brothers will be the second pair of siblings in the CSO ranks, along with sisters Lei Hou and Qing Hou.
The Harris Theater has announced that Michael Tiknis will be leaving his post as president in December after 12 years.
"With the completion of the Theater's renovation and expansion, the culmination of a milestone twelfth season, and the strong progress made towards the $38 million goal of the Imagine campaign, I have decided it is the right and natural time for the Theater to begin the succession planning process," said Tiknis in a released statement.
"In these twelve years, the Harris Theater has become an internationally known institution, respected for its commitment to artistic excellence, collaboration and innovation. All of this has been accomplished by a team of remarkable Trustees and a skilled and dedicated professional staff, all of whom display overwhelming commitment to the complex mission of the Harris."
The Harris Theater board has already started the search process to select a successor.
"While Michael will not be an easy act to follow after his enormously successful 12 years of leadership, our search committee is confident we will find the best possible leader to guide the Theater through the next chapter of its growth," said board chair Alexandra Nichols.
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HF's owner, Jennifer Albaum, sits on the Ypsilanti DDA, and led the group that put together Ypsi's entry into Michigan's Cool Cities grant program.
Official website: http://www.henriettafahrenheit.com/
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I disagree. I think Henrietta Fahrenheit was just a business ahead of its time. Proof? Guess who co-organizes The Shadow Art Fair to rave reviews every year? Albaum et. al. Shadow's organizers were all connected through Henrietta Fahrenheit, and the Fair is what Jennifer hoped the store could have been. But she says she has no regrets, and would do it again. Except this time, she's going more mainstream - she wants to do a down-home southern vegan restaurant.