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A New Years Wish List for the Church in Scotland
By theweeflea December 31, 2013 January 5, 2014
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A New Years Wish List for the Church in Scotland in 2014
"No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people, than to have God's word taken from them, or falsified, so that they no longer have it pure and clear. God grant we and our descendants be not witnesses of such a calamity." (Luther – Table Talk).
As I prepare to head for Crieff to hear Don Carson and have fellowship with many different brothers and sisters it seems as though the New Year is as good a time as any to reflect upon the state of the Church in Scotland. What is God saying to us? What is happening? How have things developed over the past months? What is the 'trajectory'?
What Happened in 2013?
In a number of articles in 2013 I tried to assess what was happening and look ahead. I don't intend to repeat all that was said there – feel free to read them through the links at the end of this article. The bottom line is that that the 'trajectory' that some of us predicted has largely been followed through. The C of S General Assembly made a fool of itself by proclaiming that it stood for the position that people in same sex relationships could not be ordained as ministers and then in the same breath stating that those who were in same sex relationships could be ordained as ministers. A few churches left, several ministers have come to the Free Church, and others are in the process of leaving. There is no sign that 2014 or 2015 will see any kind of reversal of the road the C of S is going. Another new Presbyterian denomination has been started in Scotland, and the steep decline in C of S membership continues. Another new evangelical grouping within the C of S has been set up, trying to turn back the tide – though whether its purpose is primarily to turn back the tide of apostasy, or turn back the tide of evangelicals leaving, is not as yet clear. There is an impending crisis in terms of up to one third of ministers retiring and very few young people being called into ministry to replace them (a crisis meeting about this was held earlier in the year in Perth).
Meanwhile as the church in general gaily plays its loony tunes on the decks of the Titanic, the society in which it sails continues to plummet downhill – as the salt stays in the saltshaker and the light is hidden under a bushel. Our New Fundamentalist Atheists have a metanarrative birthed in the tearooms and academic wineries of Oxford and Harvard. For them life is great, and life is getting better. Humanity is progressing with just about the only thing holding us back being the virus of religion. Our secular elites are dominated by either this narrative or just the old fashioned human hubris of 'course things will get better now we are in charge'. Where this leads to can be seen in the debacle of Same Sex Marriage that occurred in 2013. Politicians who ten years ago would never even have thought of SSM suddenly found that all along it had been a life long principle and a fundamental aspect of equality. Watch for more of the same to come in 2014.
The dumbing down of our political classes and the mild conformist acquiescence of our media went hand in hand with a growing economic inequality and a moral and social confusion. Instead of the church as a whole seeking to be salt and light, she played along with the rather pathetic view that she was some kind of essential force in the corridors of power. Claiming to be radical and using all the buzzwords of the zeitgeist, she has been weak, pathetic and incredibly conformist.
But there have been signs of life. There has been a shaking up and realignment. To some extent we are waiting to see what the picture will be like when the dust settles, but one thing is for sure – those who are hoping to go back to the 'glory' days of the 1950's, can forget it. I am certain that the shaking up that is going on in both church and society in Scotland provides us with new opportunities as well as threats.
Where are we going in 2014?
Because I believe that the story of the Church in Scotland in 2014 will largely be the same as that of 2013, we need to take a look at what is happening in the Church of Scotland- although I should point out that the story is moving on much more rapidly than most people think and the importance of that particular story will fade. I write as a friend and brother of my fellow Christians in the Church of Scotland and as someone whose passion and desire is to see the whole Church grow and extend in Scotland. Nothing would please me more than to see a revival and renewal of biblical Christianity in what remains of the once national Kirk.
Are we for Real?
I need to return to the question of unreality and to asking the question what are we really about? In the November edition of Evangelicals Now in 2012, Norry MacIver of Forward Together gave the rational for staying within the Church of Scotland. It is a well-put case but sadly suffers from the unreality that seems to be endemic within the Church. At this point I should declare that I support Forward Together and I hope and pray that they will be successful. However looking back on Norrie's article over a year later, helps us to see why that is not going to happen, at least not without a change of mentality and action.
The State Church that reaches parts others cannot reach?
He declares – "We are the state church with our on-going commitment to provide the ordinances of the Christian religion to every part of the nation". But this fails to recognise that the reality of the 'state church' has long gone. And if 'providing the ordinances of the Christian religion to every part of the nation' is the raison d'etre of the Church of Scotland then it has failed spectacularly. There are many parishes within the Church of Scotland where the Good News is not preached, in many it is in effect denied. One of the worst things you could ask a non-believer to do would be to go to a church where the Gospel is not preached. In my own city I could take you to churches where it is taught that the Bible is not the Word of God, that the atonement is barbaric and that Jesus did not literally rise from the dead. What is sometimes just as bad is not so much what is said, but what is not said. The spineless liberals who keep quiet about what they really believe and instead deal in truisms and meaningless platitudes.
Many people do not have access to the Gospel because either the churches or the ministers are spiritually dead. When I became a Christian most of my friends thought they would go along to church just to see what it was all about. Most went to the church their parents were at least nominally affiliated. Those who went to evangelical churches in general became Christians; those who went to self-styled 'liberal' (although I prefer the word 'poisonous') were put off Christianity for life. Providing baptism, communion and a smattering of lightly frothed public worship, combined with deistic legalistic moralism is not bringing Christianity to every part of the nation. The view that the Church of Scotland reaches parts that other churches do not or cannot reach is an illusion.
What amazes me is how many evangelicals still buy into this 'only show in town' narrative. In my experience these tend to be older men who have grown up with the idea that the best hope for the Gospel in Scotland is a renewed Church of Scotland. I think of one elder who told me that his minister gave him a row for praying in public for someone who was not 'one of us' – meaning not an evangelical within the C of S. If you have held this mentality all your life, and believe it was the only way to go, it is hard to admit that it has not worked. Which is why some evangelicals who are continuing within the Church of Scotland are supportive of those within the establishment who are playing hardball with those who leave. They hide behind legalise and many fine sounding words, but the bottom line is that there is an anti-gospel viciousness and pride within the establishment which evangelicals should be protesting against, not going along with. Here are a couple of examples.
If the Church of Scotland were really concerned about the ordinances of the Gospel being provided within every parish in Scotland – why hinder those who are seeking to do precisely that? There was an interesting couple of articles towards the end of the year in The Herald, pointing out that the Rev Ian Watson of Kirkmuirhill had failed to get a sufficient majority to leave and take the buildings. The newspaper reported that 114 of the churches 282 members wanted to leave, and 104 wanted to stay. This was a vote carried out not by the local Kirk Session but by the Presbytery – doubtless including the many 'members' who never attend church, and who have no real interest in the church. What struck me was that the Herald had the figures and the story so quickly. Forgive me for being cynical but I suspect that the C of S leaked this and were indulging in what has become a pretty nasty game of politics and spin. Why could the C of S not have said, we have plenty half-empty churches in the area, lets give this one to the Kirkmuirhill congregation and those who want to stay in the C of S can go elsewhere? They will probably end up linking them anyway. But no – this is about territory, money, image, preserving the institution and revenge. It has nothing to do with the gospel. Lets not pretend otherwise.
St Andrews-
Or take St Andrews. Ten years ago when we started the Free Church there we were using Martyrs Church of Scotland (a former Free Church). The then minister of the parish church told me that when she left, the congregation would be finished and that the future was with us. And so it turned out to be. As the Free Church has grown and the C of S in St Andrews has declined it became apparent that we needed more space and they had too many buildings. The Baptists also had the problem of not having enough space. Anyone with any interest in the Gospel can see that there is an obvious solution. The C of S should have sold Martyrs to the Free Church or the Baptists, so that a gospel witness could continue there. But no. It is apparently to be sold to the University to be turned into a library. Now I kind of expect that from the liberal establishment but what is profoundly depressing is that evangelicals seem to be supporting this and going along with it. I have heard several men say 'but its charities law you see. They have to get the best price possible or they would be breaking the law.' I consulted a charities lawyer about this and she said it was complete rubbish. All the Trustees of the charity have to do is ensure that the purposes of the charity are being met – not get the maximum amount of money they can. My understanding is that the purpose of the Church of Scotland is not to make money or maintain a property portfolio! Sadly some would rather a secular institution take over a church, than a 'rival' church flourish there. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face!
The Tron –
One other example – The Tron. Because I love the Tron and even more the cause of the Gospel in the great city of Glasgow I have been really interested in this and wrote several updates and analysis on what was going on.
http://www.stpeters-dundee.org.uk/so-where-is-presbyterian-evangelicalism-in-scotland-today-a-response-to-louis-kinsey/
http://www.stpeters-dundee.org.uk/why-i-no-longer-call-myself-an-evangelical/
http://www.stpeters-dundee.org.uk/the-kirk-without-the-people/
But where are we now? Having expelled the existing congregation and seeking to start up a new 'evangelical' congregation, what has happened? One of the saddest things for me has been travelling through Glasgow, going out of Queen St and walking past an empty and largely unused building – with locked doors in the middle of the day. Where once there had been a thriving biblical witness. The C of S took a huge financial hit and has now obtained a building that is useless to them because they have no people to fill it. Glasgow Presbytery statistics show that The (New) Tron has an income of £1,251 for 2012/13. And they will have very few people. It is a tragedy that it is the Church that has, in a spirit of delusional pride, cut its own throat. I once had a friend who bought an old Church of Scotland manse (there are by the way many up for sale and even more churches). He told me somewhat bemusedly of one condition of the sale – which forbade him from holding a religious service or bible study in the 'former' manse. It's kind of a parable of how the Church of Scotland (even with all its talk of ecumenicism) brooks no opposition.
The Mission Strategy Committee for the December Glasgow Presbytery pointed out some sobering facts – more than half the congregations in Glasgow have fewer than ten people in the 16-40 age group attending. Whilst 45% of the population are in that age range, only 13% of those attending church are. The report states " The Committee is deeply concerned about this imbalance and is investigating ways of resourcing, inspiring and encouraging individuals and congregations to reach out effectively to younger adults with the Good News of Jesus Christ." This is great. But there is a problem – Sally Fulton Foster, who often appears as a C of S spokesperson said on the BBC this year that the message of the C of S was about welfare reform, climate change and nuclear weapons! – "the only side we are on is the side of the poor, the marginalised and the oppressed – as it always has been". Really? That's not how the C of S is going to fill churches, its how it is emptying them! Might I suggest that if you want to be on the side of the poor, the marginalised and the oppressed, you set them free by telling them about Jesus?! Once people know who Jesus is and what he has done, that is what resources, inspires and encourages. Confuse that. Confuse people about the Word of God. And you will end up with empty churches.
This is not a new problem. Robert Murray McCheyne wrote this of the Church of Scotland in his day – "It is confessed that many of our ministers do not preach the gospel –alas! Because they know it not. Yet they have complete control over their pulpits, and may never suffer the truth to be heard there during their whole incumbency. And yet our church consigns these parishes to their tender mercies for perhaps fifty years without a sigh! Should not certain men be ordained as evangelists, with full power to preach in every pulpit of their district – faithful, judicious, lively preachers, who may go from parish to parish, and thus carry life into many a dead corner?"
Denying the Word of God or just encouraging a more liberal attitude?
Moving on – Norry then states that the Church of Scotland "is not formally denying the authority of the Word of God, but rather that some with influence, are encouraging a more liberal attitude to Scripture, not least on issues of morality". This sounds nice but when a church declares that it knows better than the bible then yes it is formally denying the authority of the Word of God. To pick and choose from the Bible and leave its interpretation entirely up to whoever happens to be voting at a General Assembly is to raise the Assembly above the Word of God. I was horrified to hear at the Assembly in 2009 and 2011 outright mockery of the Bible. It is unrealistic to deny that the Church of Scotland assembly has flatly contradicted the Word of God.
The Vast Majority of Ministers, Members and Elders are committed to the spread of the Gospel of Jesus?
The third unreality comes in the statement that "the vast majority of ministers, elders and members of our Church, and that includes most Bible-believing evangelicals, are committed to seeing the renewing of our denomination and the spread of the Gospel of Jesus in our nation and beyond." I so so want that to be true. But how can it be? Does it include the two thirds of ministers who do not even profess to be evangelical? The 200,000 members who rarely if ever attend church or read the bible? Are they all committed to spreading the Gospel? Nothing illustrates the fantastical attitude of so many evangelicals sleep walking through disaster. I was once involved in a joint committee with some from the Church of Scotland seeking to look at ways of working together. We all agreed that we were committed to spreading the Gospel. The trouble is we got nowhere because we could not agree what the Gospel was. The evangelicals in the C of S knew. We knew. But the others did not. And yet here is the director of Forward Together basing his policy on the illusion that the vast majority are committed to the Gospel of Jesus. That too is unreal.
One More Push?
The fourth unreality is what I call the one more push and we are there' mentality. Norry argues that "as we have seen our Lord increasingly bless evangelical ministries over recent years, now is not the time to leave." As I have said before, I think there are good reasons to stay within the Church of Scotland, but this is not one of them. The evangelical movement in the C of S has been largely stale for at least two decades. There were great advances in the post war decades but the last two decades of the 20th Century and the first of the 21st Century have not seen major advances. Yes there are now about 400 ministers who would call themselves 'evangelical' but the church is not just about congregations. How many churches are evangelical? How many elders? How many congregations are growing, evangelising and planting? Thankfully there are some, but the number is small.
Influence or Reformation?
The danger also is of a watered down evangelicalism where we are invited to the table, but only on condition that we don't directly try to change the substance of the menu. This is reflected in Norry's comment "prayerfully, but humbly and openly, we will seek to influence for good our internal theological and moral debates. This is for the health of the nation and ultimately the glory of our Saviour." I know this is well meant but it begs the question – is this what we have been reduced to – seeking to 'influence' a liberal establishment within the Church? Surely the need today is for something far more radical? Should we be playing politics whilst the people of Scotland are starving from a famine of hearing the Word of the Lord? Was it said of the early church 'these are they who have 'influenced' internal moral and theological debates?!' Whatever happened to 'these are they who have turned the world upside down'? I am not interested in influencing church establishments, except insofar as it enables us to proclaim the Gospel. The trouble is that it is precisely this lack of a radical agenda which has neutered the Church and curbed the effectiveness of our proclaiming the Gospel.
All of this is I repeat not to suggest that anyone who stays in the Church of Scotland is spineless, or denying the Gospel. There are good reasons to stay, not least seeking to care for a particular flock or using it as an opportunity to evangelise. But if you are going to stay then you really do have to fight – not using the weapons of this world, but rather the Word of God and the divine power that demolishes arguments and takes every thought captive for Christ.
So where do we go from here? Can I suggest this is a Kairos moment – a unique gospel opportunity? It will require all of us, whatever denomination we are in (including those of the non-denominational denominations), to really go for it. We will need Gospel boldness, genuine repentance, self-forgetfulness, Christian humility and passionate love for Jesus, his people and the people of Scotland. There is no time for sitting on the fence, compromise, or playing at church or church politics. We will all have a price to pay. Christendom has gone. The 20th Century has gone. Welcome to a renewed Church in a renewed Scotland. That at least is the vision. How do we go about it? I'm not sure but let me at least suggest some possibilities.
The Church of Scotland
Those evangelicals who remain have to forget about 'quiet' infiltration. Every inch of ground must be fought for and every opportunity taken to proclaim the Gospel within and outwith the church. If the Church continues its slide then this means you will be kicked out – but by that stage that probably won't be that great a loss! Some are determined to stay whatever – but others suspect that the time will come in the not too distant future when they too will leave. Meanwhile they need to do as much as they can to prepare their congregations, lay the groundwork and make sure any split does as little damage to their own congregations as possible. The Free Church of Disruption did not happen 'spontaneously'. It took the Ten Years Disruption to prepare for it.
I have written many other times about my own denomination. There are major issues that need to be dealt with. We have sleepwalked to the edge during the last decades of the 20th Century, and although things seem to have turned around in the first decade of the 21st and are far more encouraging than in any decade in living memory, we are still fragile. Major problems include public perception of us as primarily if not solely an ethnic Highland church; our financial condition; the fact that at least 40% of our congregations are not really viable as independent congregations; the cost of the college and there is still the embattled 'wee free' mentality. And yet there have been some real green shoot signs – more than just a couple of congregations bucking the trend. There are a significant number of growing congregations; the change of position on worship was carried out without a split and has been generally implemented sensibly; the quality of some of our ministers is improving; a number of churches are carrying out innovative and encouraging projects with youth and community workers becoming part of congregational teams; and there is a good team at the Free Church offices, including the wonderful work done by Neil Macmillan. Perhaps most encouragingly has been the beginning of change and development in the Free Church College. If I was writing this a year ago we would be talking about zero Free Church students, enormous costs and the possibility of closure. 12 months on that has changed. The College is about to become Edinburgh Theological Seminary, new students are coming and it is beginning to hint that it might fulfil its potential as the leading centre in Scotland for theological education. Whilst this is not THE answer to Scotland's problems I believe that the Free Church may be a key part of the renewal of the Church in Scotland – but we too really have to go for it.
Other Presbyterians I really know very little about the United Free Church so can say nothing – except that it too is declining. The others (Free Presbyterians, Reformed Presbyterians, APC and the Free Church Continuing) are so tiny that there is little they can do. Only a handful of congregations are viable and again we must do what we can to help the likes of John Ferguson in the APC in Inverness). It is possible that they might all get together under the leadership of Kenny Stewart but I doubt it. Which leaves us with the new kids on the block – the ARP and IPC. Despite the fine work of Atholl Rennie and Grace Community Church in Leith (which I hope we will support and encourage), the vision of an ARP presbytery with several church plants in Scotland under the auspices of Reformission Scotland is fading. The wonderful vision of Reformission may be able to continue through different denominations.
The IPC seem to be the default denomination for those C of S evangelicals who can leave with their congregations but cannot stomach the thought of joining the Free Church. I remain convinced that it is a major mistake to start yet another Presbyterian denomination in Scotland, one which will inevitably be defined by what it is not (we are not the Church of Scotland, we are not Free Church, we are not…), rather than what it is. But what alternative is there? Some say they could not join the Free Church because they have women elders (although they would have the same problem with IPC which also does not ordain women elders), because of the perceived Highland ethos, because their congregations would not stomach it, and because denominations don't matter anyway. If the latter is the case then why start another one? The Highland ethos is a false perception (unless you are in the Highlands). Congregations need to be educated – and this needs real relationships, not perceptions, bad history and even worse folk memories. The woman elders is a real problem, although it does depend on what you mean by elders. In addition there is a danger of being seen to have left a denomination because it ignores the Word of God on the question of homosexuality but then turning a blind eye to what it says about male eldership in the church, thus leaving one open to the charge of inconsistency. But let me suggest that the best thing to do, rather than start another new denomination, would be to have independent congregations that seek to have meaningful relationships with other denominations with the eventual aim of joining together. To suggest that you first form a new denomination then as a group join up with others is, in the light of Scottish history (and the reason for forming a new denomination in the first place) a forlorn hope. If such a union were to occur it would result in three new denominations not one. For example if the IPC and Free Church were to join you would end up with the joint church plus the IPC Continuing, and the Free Church not quite Continuing!
But let us not stick with the quarrelling sub tribes of Judah – what about the other tribes of Israel? Any vision for Christian unity has to include all of the Lord's people. It is too much to hope, John Owen like, for a national state church incorporating all the Trinitarian Christian churches, but we must at least seek to co-operate.
The Charismatics
Defining and uniting charismatics is as difficult as defining and uniting Presbyterians –it is like herding cats. The charismatic movement has not made anything like the inroads that networks like Vineyard, New Wine and New Frontiers have made in the South East of England. The charismatic movement in the Church of Scotland is a fraction of what it was and still is in the Church of England. Nonetheless there have been some significant movements, along with the usual excesses, heavy shepherding and rather silly and exploitative theology. CLAN has been perceived as the primary vehicle for the charismatic movement but it has peaked at 4-5,000 and in order to grow beyond that (which it needs to do in order to survive) it needs to move outwith that limited constituency. CLAN 2012 was cancelled and for the foreseeable future it looks as though it will be a series of nationwide events, rather than a week long residential. We will see how it all pans out.
Independent Evangelicals –Banchory evangelical church, Harper Memorial, Deeside Christian Fellowship, are examples of churches which have come from a variety of backgrounds (often ex-Brethren, charismatic) and who are growing. It is estimated that the number of Independents will rise to around 50,000 in 2015. It looks as though, with the encouragement of Paul Rees of Charlotte Chapel and other similar minded brothers and sisters, FIEC in Scotland could be rejuvenated.
Baptists – The Baptists have been around in Scottish church history for as long as the Free Church. Their numbers are fairly static at around 20,000 (the Baptist Union would claim to be about the same size as the Free Church at 12,000). Again most major Scottish towns and cities have at least one significant and influential Baptist church. Morningside Baptist has just morphed into Central Baptist in Edinburgh, Charlotte Chapel is just about to take over the old St Georges West Church of Scotland (the birthplace of the Free Church) and others such as Central Baptist in Dundee are bursting at the seams. I was at the Baptist Assembly last year where Central Dundee's church plant in Carnoustie was welcomed into the Baptist Union as a newly constituted church (along with three others).
AnglicansAlthough there is nothing like the influence of evangelical Anglicans in England, there are important and influential Anglican churches in Scotland. St Silas in Glasgow and St P's and G's in Edinburgh, being just two.
Roman Catholics There are those who would be surprised and horrified that I would include the Roman Catholics in this list. I again take comfort from the worlds of McCheyne, that he would rather have pastor Martin Boos preach in his pulpit even though he was a Catholic, than 'some frigid evangelical from our own church'; and from something that the late great Professor Finlayson once said in the Free Church College – that he would not be surprised if the Lord in his sovereignty was to use people in the Roman Catholic church to bring revival to Scotland. The Roman Catholics have the enormous advantage of having their own schools and it may be that a renewal of biblical preaching and teaching might occur amongst them – though one suspects that if it does then the old wine will not be able to contain the new wineskins. On the other hand it may be that the sexual abuse scandals will do far greater damage to the Catholic Church and that many disillusioned Catholic believers will find themselves a refuge in another church.
Something New And God could do something completely different. Every now and then someone comes along and pronounces 'this is a new thing that God is doing' and of course it starts with a bang and fades in a whimper. I suspect that if God is doing a new thing then we will see it before He announces it. Mez McConnell 20 schemes is one example. I continued to be encouraged by the work of interdenominational groups like SU, Bethany, Tear Fund, UCCF and of course Solas CPC. Although I am somewhat less encouraged by the observation that the less Christians we have, the more Christian organisations and ministries we seem to have!
Who Knows What God will do?
It is a wonderful thing being a practical biblical Calvinist, one's theology does not, or at least should not, allow us to constrain or limit God. We are to proclaim the Word and stand back in awe as the Holy Spirit ensures that it does not return empty. In my life I have been surprised by grace and joy from many different sources – Free Presbyterians, Baptists, Catholics, Anglicans, Charismatics, Brethren, Pentecostals, Church of Scotland and Free Church. I hope in 2014 to experience and see more of the same.
I leave you with my personal hopes for the Church in Scotland (and St Peters) in 2014. I pray-
1) That there will be many new and renewed biblical churches proclaiming and living the Word to the people of Scotland.
2) That there will be fewer denominations as real unity becomes the order of the day.
3) That there will be a renewal and revival in the Church of Scotland.
4) That there will be fewer middle class 'professional' evangelical churches in city centres and prosperous suburbs. Because several will unite into bigger churches so that they can avoid duplication of resources and use the saved money and people to church plant and evangelise in areas where the church has long ceased to reach.
5) That St Peters will continue to grow and develop and that we will be able to plant new churches and have a new Tayside Free Church Presbytery.
6) That Sinclair Ferguson will continue to encourage us from Gods Word throughout the year.
7) That Solas will continue to flourish and see many more churches becoming equipped for persuasive evangelism.
8) That the Gospel will be proclaimed through the secular media.
9) That Magnificent Obsession and Why I am not an Atheist will be the bestselling books in 2014 and that many will become followers of Christ because of them.
10) That this time next year I will be writing about the reformation, revival and renewal of the Church in Scotland!
Happy New Year. One closer to Eternity…..
The following are the articles I referred to earlier.
On May 16th pre General Assemblies I suggested that there might be some hope for the situation changing – http://www.stpeters-dundee.org.uk/the-church-of-scotland-and-the-free-church/
On May 21st – Post Assemblies – I wrote about the suicide note the C of S had written at its Assembly – http://www.stpeters-dundee.org.uk/the-church-of-scotland-rip/
On June 20th – I wrote about the new gathering of Evangelicals which met at Perth – http://www.stpeters-dundee.org.uk/the-trajectory-of-god/
On August 27th – I wrote about Eric Alexander's call to stay in the Church of Scotland – http://theweeflea.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/alexander-leaving-eric-alexander-on-leaving-the-church-of-scotland/
On September 24th – I responded to Alistair Morrice's appeal to evangelicals to 'be faithful' and stay in the Church of Scotland – http://theweeflea.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/secession-or-being-faithful-is-this-the-real-choice-facing-c-of-s-evangelicals/
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Crawford Mackenzie says:
This is a timely, clear and courageous word and, possibly more than these, immensely encouraging. I am looking forward to 2014.
grrod says:
Can I just say that as an ordinary member of the CoS this is one of the best analyses I have read of where the church in Scotland is today. The leadership of the CoS has been cowardly in the way it has led its flock into the wilderness over the past 30 or so years. You have nailed Dr Sally's non-Gospel based view of the church's role and the damage this attitude will inflict on Scotland.
Interestingly, this article in yesterday's Guardian, although about the CoE, also says something about Scotland http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2013/dec/26/church-of-england-unglamorous-local-future
Thanks,David, for a fair and penetrating analysis ofthe Scottish scene. Reads well south of the border. Many similar concerns inEnglish scene. Thanks also for including Non-presb churches in your scope. @JDSayersMish
James Robertson says:
Thanks for posting this interesting article. I live and work overseas, so really appreciate your insight into what is going on in the homeland.
The section about women elders is a little confusing though. It was my understanding that neither IPC or the Free Church permit women to become elders…
Not sure I get your point. The Free Church don't and rightly won't ordain women's elders. Not sure what road you think we are going down.
My point is that IPC don't ordain women elders either. The article seems to suggest that they do. Apologies if I'm not reading your meaning right.
I can see how you get that. My understanding is that the IPC don't ordain women elders either. MY point was more that there are some C of S congregations who want to leave but who have women elders. Where do they go? But I have added a line to ensure that it is not misunderstood…
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The hermit's tale
Reader uses oral history approach to get details on 'The Maine Hermit'
The April issue of The Working Waterfront featured two photos from the Library of Congress depicting the self-described Maine Hermit, who lived in Freeport. Terry Sue Allen, also of Freeport, noticed the photos and interviewed her father-in-law, Nathan Allen Sr., who lived across the street from the hermit.
Here is what she learned:
Charles Coffin, the hermit, was born in 1894 and died Nov. 15, 1941 at the age of 47. Allen wasn't sure if Coffin was from Freeport, "but his parents, John and Florence Coffin, lived further up in the woods behind where Charles lived, so there is a good chance he was from the area. There are lots of Coffins in the Freeport area," she said.
"He lived in a shack on the Desert Road across from the Leonard and Marion Allen farm," where her father-in-law grew up. "He was a musician and singer, and he played the piano, organ and an instrument called a 'sweet potato,' also called an ocarina," Allen said.
"And he was an artist. He painted on canvas, rocks and tree mushrooms. At the time he lived there, the Desert of Maine was a very popular tourist attraction," she continued. "The cars would be bumper to bumper going to the Desert and would get backed up, so the Allens decided to earn some money off the backed up traffic and built a cabin for Coffin," where he would play music and sell trinkets. Admission cost 15 cents.
"My father-in-law remembers how robustly he would sing and play, especially when performing 'The Old Rugged Cross' and when playing songs like 'Casey Jones' on his 'sweet potato' instrument."
Nathan Allen Sr.
Her father-in-law said he remembers the Hermit telling him, "It's harder to stay out of work than to just go to work."
The Freeport Historical Society is mounting an exhibit that opens on May 15 featuring past Freeport artists, and work by Charles Coffin, The Maine Hermit, will be included.
The Working Waterfront thanks Terry Sue Allen for sharing the story with us.
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S Club's Tina Barrett was stunned by bandmates after wearing infamous red dress
By Zoe Delaney & Lottie Gibbons
Tina Barrett said she had no idea her iconic red dress would cause such a huge stir.
The S Club singer made headlines in 2003 when she appeared in a daring red dress while walking the red carpet for her band's movie Seeing Double.
Tina, now 45, was just 26-years-old when she appeared in the now infamous ensemble.
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Reminiscing about the event, Tina said she had no idea or bandmates - including Rachel Stevens, Hannah Spearitt and Jo O'Meara - would be wearing more conservative outfits for S Club's big night.
Speaking to Gareth Howells on The Hundamental Guide To Life podcast, Tina said: "To be honest it was like one of those moments that sort of happened so fast because I was thinking "What should I wear? What should I wear?
"I wanted to go big, I wasn't planning on going as big as I sort of ended up. I can't believe people are still talking about it – it's crazy."
With her abs on display, and the dress featuring super-high leg slits and asymmetrical shoulder detail, Tina's daring outfit was always going to attract attention, reports the Mirror.
But the Reach singer didn't anticipate quite how much - thanks to believing her bandmates would be rocking similarly eye-catching creations.
However, while Tina flashed some flesh on the red carpet back in 2003, the S Club lads Jon Lee and Bradley McIntosh and Jo O'Meara wore nondescript suits - with Dancing On Ice star Rachel Stevens opting for a slightly muted satin strapless dress, and Hannah Spearitt donning a simple pink halter neck creation.
S Club, from left to right; Jo O'Meara, Jon Lee, Tina Barrett, Bradley McIntosh, Hannah Spearitt and Rachel Stevens arrive for the Gala Celebrity premiere of the S Club movie 'Seeing Double' (Ian West)
Tina told podcast host Gareth: "To be honest, I thought the others were going to go dressy but they weren't at all!
"They were literally covered from head to toe so it looked even more crazy."
At the time of the premiere, S Club was one of the biggest bands in Britain - with the group's stint on the big screen being released worldwide and opening at the U.K box office at #4.
Looking back on the band's heyday, Tina - who now performs with Jo and original member Paul Cattermole as S Club 3 - admits people today are missing out on "uplifting" pop music.
She said: "That period of time, the music was so uplifting and so positive – I think people are missing that because you don't have those fun bands where the music is a little bit tongue in cheek and lots of fun.
"At the minute we're doing Freshers which has really been really interesting because they're eighteen years old and know all the words. I don't know how that happened but it's amazing."
Elsewhere in the audio interview, Tina admitted all seven original members of S Club 7 keep in contact via a WhatsApp group and haven't ruled out a reunion.
She said: "I have to say, some of the members are up for it! Like, I can actually say who; I know Rachel wants to do it, Hannah wants to do it, I'd definitely love to do it and Brad but obviously, we need all seven.
"More than half are up for it. You never know."
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If Kashmiris Are Happy, Why Are They Locked Inside: Asaduddin Owaisi Targets Govt Over Article 370
Wednesday, August 14, 2019 by Indian Defence News
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi lashed out at the Narendra Modi-led government for abrogating Article 370 while he addressed an Eid Milap gathering at his party's headquarters in Hyderabad. Asaduddin Owaisi also took a jibe on actor-turned-politician Rajinikanth for comparing Narendra Modi-Amit Shah duo with Lord Krishna and Arjuna
Asaduddin Owaisi questioned the communication restrictions in J&K. Owaisi also hit out at Rajinikanth for comparing Modi-Shah duo to Lord Krishna and Arjun. Owaisi said government made a historic mistake which is against constitution and federalism of the country
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief and Hyderabad (TS) MP Asaduddin Owaisi lashed out at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government for its Jammu and Kashmir policy while addressing an Eid Milap at his party's headquarters 'Darussalam'.
The parliamentarian also took a jibe on actor-turned-politician Rajinikanth for comparing Narendra Modi-Amit Shah duo with Lord Krishna and Arjuna.
Taking potshots on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Asaduddin Owaisi said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has no political wisdom like Jawaharlal Nehru or Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, adding that Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) also once supported the existence of Article 370 and 35A existence in Kashmir.
"I know this government has no love for Kashmiris, they love the land of Kashmir but not its people, they love power but not the justice. They only want to retain power. But I shall remind them that no one lives or rules for eternity," Asaduddin Owaisi said while over government's Article 370 move.
Asaduddin Owaisi also questioned the decision of scrapping Article 35A and asked if it has been removed from Kashmir then why states like Assam, Mizoram and Nagaland still have it.
He said that the government made a historic mistake which is against the constitution and federalism of the country.
"The government is painting a rosy picture of Jammu and Kashmir then why people are locked inside there? why are they deprived of communication? If they are so happy then let them come out and celebrate," Asaduddin Owaisi said while claiming that none of the Muslim journalists in Kashmir are with the government.
Reacting to megastar Rajnikanth's comments on PM Modi and Amit Shah, wherein the actor turned politician called the duo "Krishna and Arjun" for abrogating Article 370 from the valley, Asaduddin Owaisi asked whether the government wants another 'Mahabharat' in the country.
"Who are the Pandavas if Narendra Modi and Amit Shah are Krishna and Arjun? Does the government want another Mahabharata in the country?" Asaduddin Owaisi questioned.
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Too often, I find myself in situation where I argue something that I know to be the case, only to find out afterward—in the face of incontrovertible evidence— that the opposite was true. How did I ever end up thinking one way, and finding out that what I had reported—and, worse, acted upon—was contrary to fact?
A recent item may give a clue: It seems that the human brain is not only capable of real-time editing, but it actually does it. As described in the referenced article, despite all best hopes, the human cognition system is not a simple data-acquisition-and-retrieval construct. There's more going on than we are commonly aware.
Such phenomenology shouldn't be a surprise. It has long been known that eyewitness accounts are notably fraught with inaccuracies, and perceptions can be altered by the smallest of contributions, as noted here.
Clearly, we must be on guard against apparent certainty!
Questions: How do you know that what you think is so, is so? In what kinds of difficulties have you found yourself because of misremembering or misperception? How can you dig yourself out of such a hole, should you find yourself so located? How can you prevent such positioning in the first place?


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«Kill Bill» es una canción de la cantautora estadounidense SZA de su segundo álbum de estudio, SOS lanzada como sencillo el 10 de enero de 2023. La canción toma el título de Kill Bill: Volumen 1 (2003) y Volumen 2 (2004), una duología de películas de artes marciales que se centra en una asesina llamada the Bride y su búsqueda de venganza contra su ex novio asesinándolo. Reflejando el argumento de las películas, la letra de la canción habla de la fantasía de SZA de matar a un ex novio y a su nueva novia por celos.

Se identifica como una canción pop y R&B construida en torno a un ritmo de medio tempo, groovy y una melodía desafinada. Está respaldada por bajo eléctrico, guitarras y una flauta. Usa de sample una pieza producida a partir de un Mellotron.

Los críticos elogiaron el trabajo de SZA por su claridad narrativa de emociones violentas y sin filtro. Sus fantasías de asesinato les parecieron extremas, pero hasta cierto punto comprensibles, debido a su sentimiento subyacente de hacer lo que sea necesario por amor. Impulsada por su éxito en los servicios de streaming, «Kill Bill» superó a «Kiss Me More» como la canción más vendida de SZA en Estados Unidos, alcanzando el número 2 durante cinco semanas, y se convirtió en su primer número uno en las listas Streaming Songs y Billboard Global 200. La canción alcanzó el top 10 en más de 10 territorios de todo el mundo, con números uno en seis países.

Tras su rendimiento en streaming, RCA Records comenzó a promocionarla en la radio estadounidense el 10 de enero de 2023, como quinto sencillo de SOS. Ese mismo día se estrenó un vídeo musical para la canción; dirigido por Christian Breslauer, reimagina varias escenas de las películas de Kill Bill, con SZA como una interpretación de la Novia y Vivica A. Fox, una de las actrices protagonistas de la duología, en un papel secundario. El vídeo termina cuando SZA se enfrenta a su ex novio y le arranca el corazón, matándolo.

Antecedentes

SZA lanzó su álbum de estudio debut Ctrl, en 2017. Principalmente un álbum de R&B que trata temas como el desamor, Ctrl recibió elogios generalizados por sus interpretaciones vocales y su estilo musical ecléctico, así como por la cercanía, el impacto emocional y la naturaleza confesional de sus canciones. El álbum lanzó a SZA a la fama, y los críticos le atribuyen el mérito de consolidar su estatus como figura importante de la música pop y R&B contemporánea y de ampliar los límites del género R&B.

SZA aludió a la posibilidad de lanzar su segundo álbum proximamente en agosto de 2019 durante una entrevista con el DJ Kerwin Frost.   Comentando sobre el proceso creativo detrás del álbum, declaró que sería tan sincero y personal como Ctrl: "Este próximo álbum es aún más de mí, con menos miedo de enseñar de quién soy cuando no tengo otra opción. Cuando no estoy tratando de controlarme y contenerme". Cuando SZA colaboró con Cosmopolitan para su número en febrero de 2021, habló de su proceso creativo en la concepción del álbum. Dijo: "este álbum va a ser la mierda que me ha hecho sentir algo en mi... aquí y aquí", señalando su corazón y sus tripas.

Como se mencionó antes, la canción toma su título de Kill Bill: Volumen 1 (2003) y Kill Bill: Volumen 2 (2004), una duología de películas de artes marciales dirigidas por Quentin Tarantino y protagonizada por Uma Thurman.  La trama se centra en una asesina llamada Beatrix Kiddo (la novia) y sus planes para asesinar a Bill, el jefe de los asesinos de Víbora Mortal y un antiguo interés romántico que intentó matarla en el día de su boda..  Mientras veía las películas, SZA encontró una gran curiosidad por Bill como personaje, lo encontró como alguien complejo y lleno de matices, dijo: "Siento que no entiende por qué hizo lo que hizo. Está vacío de emociones, pero quería tanto a la Novia que no podía soportar que estuviera con nadie más".

Composición

Música y producción
Los periodistas musicales han descrito «Kill Bill» como predominantemente pop y R&B, inspirándose en géneros asociados como el pop psicodélico, pop soul,  y doo-wop.  Presenta corcheas básicas e incorpora un ritmo de medio tempo, groovy  y una melodía desafinada.   La canción fue producida por Rob Bisel y Carter Lang. Mientras que el trabajo en SOS había comenzado en 2019, «Kill Bill» se grabó en 2022 junto con un número significativo de otras pistas debido a ráfagas de productividad por la presión del tiempo de entrega. Lang comentó: "Fue entonces cuando [nosotros] empezamos a sentirnos como, hey, 'Tenemos que hacer esta mierda de alguna forma, han pasado varios años'. Reprimimos esa energía y todo fue una especie de preparación para ese momento".

La producción comenzó cuando Bisel grabó una flauta en el Mellotron, un teclado electrónico en el que cada tecla reproduce cintas pregrabadas de diversos sonidos. Envió el clip de audio a Lang, que creó el ritmo de la canción empezando con una batería de estilo boom bap. El resto de instrumentos, la guitarray el bajo eléctrico, se añadieron después de la batería.Varias semanas después, SZA pidió a Bisel que tocara el ritmo de la canción mientras estaban solos en el estudio de grabación. Tarareando melodías vocales, empezó a escribir el gancho en su teléfono, se dirigió a Bisel para decirle sobre la letra: "Tengo una idea. Puede que sea demasiado loca, pero dime qué te parece".

Letra
SZA declaró a Glamour en 2022 que muchas canciones de SOS giraban en torno a temas de venganza, desamor e ira. Y añadió: "Nunca me he enojado de esa forma. Esta es mi época de villana, y me siento muy orgullosa de ello. Está es la forma en la que digo no [...] Está en la lista de cosas jodidas que no pido perdón". En la letra, SZA expresa resentimiento hacia su ex novio tras una ruptura, al tiempo que intenta mantener la compostura mirando la situación desde una perspectiva lógica. La premisa de la canción se basa en gran medida en las películas de Kill Bill, ya que sigue a SZA mientras planea vengarse de su ex novio mediante el asesinato. SZA canta la letra con una voz suave, como un croon, lo que crea una yuxtaposición entre el tono inocente de sus melodías vocales y la naturaleza violenta de la letra.

A pesar de su odio y celos, el amor por su ex continua, la canción explora cómo el amor intenso y el intenso vitriolo hacia alguien pueden coexistir a menudo el uno con el otro. Intenta navegar por sus problemas a través de consultas de terapia, lo que la lleva a pensar que es madura y se felicita burlonamente por ello.  Aunque su terapeuta le ha aconsejado que busque otros hombres, ella lo quiere hasta tal punto que seguiría prefiriendo estar con él que con cualquier otra persona. SZA canta que si ella no puede tenerlo de vuelta, entonces "nadie debería"; lo que sigue es el estribillo, en el que fantasea con matarlo a él y a su nueva novia Reconoce que es una mala idea y se pregunta: "¿cómo he llegado hasta aquí?.

A medida que avanza la canción, empieza a planear su venganza: examina cuidadosamente viejos mensajes de texto con su ex que podrían implicarla en el asesinato. Al llegar al estribillo final, ha procedido al doble homicidio y razona que ir a la cárcel es un destino mejor que estar sola. SZA justifica aún más sus acciones diciendo que asesinó a su ex por amor. En la última línea de la canción, admite que preferiría ir al infierno que vivir sin él.  Debido a la naturaleza violenta de la letra, algunas emisoras de radio reprodujeron una versión censurada, reemplazando la palabra "matar" con el sonido de un cuchillo.

Recepción de la crítica

Referencias

Sencillos de RCA Records
Sencillos de Top Dawg Entertainment
Canciones de SZA
Canciones sobre violencia doméstica
Baladas pop
Canciones de música pop de Estados Unidos
Sencillos número uno en Nueva Zelanda
Sencillos número uno en Australia
Sencillos número uno en Billboard Global 200
Sencillos de 2023
Canciones de 2022
Sencillos número uno en Streaming Songs

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A growing number of scientists admit that eating fat does little harm and can be beneficial when combined with a diet including fewer processed sugars and carbs. This is partly due to greater access to research papers and also to social media, including YouTube, which help connect research practice with public interest. It's a situation where informed and well-read lay-people are helping change perceptions.
Watch British cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra talk things through with the RTE channel.
The core message of recent times: "eat less fat and exercise more" plainly hasn't worked.
Science is by definition evidence based, so you'd expect scientists to change their mind when new evidence emerges. And that time appears to be 'now' when it comes to saturated fat. Don't think that your local GP will get that message for a while yet though. There are still too many companies, institutes and institutions interested in preserving the status quo.
Human nutrition is by definition a highly complex area with people's diets often reflecting personal and religious beliefs as well as commercial and political interests. It is a young and developing field where those involved are quite frankly still learning the basics, more often than not dealing with correlations and hypotheses than pure science. And a misinterpretation of these correlations has quite literally led us too far down the wrong path over these last 50 years or more. Although just correlations, they have been translated into established government guidelines across the Western world, as if they represented conclusive research based evidence. And of course, personal reputations continue to frustrate the change process (it's difficult to admit being wrong at the best of times) and commercial interests perpetuate the established wisdom.
What is now pretty much accepted is that the diet-heart hypothesis originally put forward by Ancel Keys in the 1950's was and is flawed. It only ever was a hypothesis but it sounded just too believable to many and it was presented with a hard sales approach by Ancel Keys. The simple message that saturated fat raises blood cholesterol and as a result contributes to the risk of a heart attack seemed in a way to be logical... fatty plaques in blood vessels must be caused by ingesting the exact same substance (that being fat), mustn't they?
Cholesterol in the blood is associated with coronary artery disease; so eating dietary cholesterol must have a strong impact... but now we know that the ratio of 'good' to 'bad' cholesterol is much more significant.
Fat is calorie dense compared to carbs and proteins on a weight-by-weight basis so that must also be what makes you fat (4:9 is the approximate ratio)... but that ignores the satiety factor (feeling full).
As saturated fat intake has reduced, so have levels of cardiovascular death... it's a correlation at best.
Replacing saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats has been shown in scientific studies to be healthy... highly questionable given the Omega-6 levels in most pufas.
Reducing dietary saturated fat intake has been one of the most successful public health interventions of the last 40 years. And while it is true that there have been modest reductions in cardio-vascular death, there have also been large changes in other risk factors such as smoking. Also, the general levels of access to good healthcare have improved and of course many more people now take medicine for hypertension.
More importantly and more or less simultaneously, we've seen a massive rise in obesity, diabetes, cancer, dementia and neurological problems. Even in establishment circles, these are now being seen as metabolic diseases that are strongly related to diet and lifestyle.
Stability: "Saturated fats, having no double bonds to react with oxygen don't oxidize or form dangerous aldehydes when heated."
Certain fats in the blood are associated with heart health. Dietary carbohydrate, including of course sugar & polyunsaturated seed oils high in Omega 6 fatty acids increase levels of oxidised LDL (so-called 'bad cholesterol') which are the molecules that can transport fats into the arteries. They also decrease 'good' HDL, the ones that transport fat away from arteries.
There is simply no known mechanism where saturated fat contributes to the formation of oxidised LDL. In fact, indigenous populations eating diets high in saturated fat such as the Inuit and groups in the Pacific Islands, do not suffer a high incidence of coronary artery disease. Such south-sea diets can be very high in saturated coconut fat which was poo-pooed until recently by the medical and diet community – yet in those communities, there is an associated absence of chronic diseases.
As human beings, we evolved in a variety of environments and learned to deal with a range of protein, fat and carbohydrate intakes. But in earlier days, with availability of food being an important issue, we had to become good at storing and burning fat seasonally.
Dietary carbohydrate helps us with this kind of fat storage by elevating insulin and creating leptin resistance and this regulates energy intake and expenditure. In the words of Dr Robert Lustig, author of 'Sugar; the bitter truth': "Leptin resistance means your leptin is high, which in turn means you're fat, but your brain can't see it. In other words, your brain is starved, while your body is obese. And that's what obesity is: it's brain starvation." That being said, in evolutionary terms, this may have been a useful mechanism for us when food availability was restricted.
In experimental trials carried out where people eat more fat, including saturated fat, in the context of a lower carbohydrate diet, all their cardiovascular disease risk factors improve.
Professor Schofield believes that we need to take a broader look at the evidence for the links between fat and human health. The message to reduce saturated fat has been a communications success, but the consequences are that we now eat more refined carbohydrate and Omega 6 fat which has been a public health disaster. It's time to stop defending dogma and to start conducting better research into human nutrition.
In a nutshell: Saturated fat does not cause heart disease. Total fat intake also has little or no association with heart disease. It seems more and more likely that it is the polyunsaturated omega-6 fat linoleic acid found most commonly in plant oils and trans-fatty acids (industrially highly refined oils) that have a causal relationship with heart disease risk... particularly when heated to higher temperatures.
More here on Professor Schofield - recently appointed in New Zealand as the Ministry of Education's first Chief Education Health and Nutrition Advisor.
I'm sure that signs likes these, jointly condemning trans-fats and saturated fats, all come from a good, well-meaning place but it's disappointing how ingrained such messages are. Industrially produced trans fats are not in any way similar to healthy saturated fats.
Yet after so many years of the 'fat is bad for you' message, it's only too easy to mislead with pictures and headlines placing all trans fats and saturated fats in the same basket.
Dairy provides one of the highest inputs of saturated fat in our diet. If you can, by now, get over that:)... This is the remarkable story of a maverick farmer and his unruly cows, filmed over four years on the marshes of the Pevensey Levels. In an attempt to save his family farm, Stephen Hook decided to turn his back on the cost cutting dairies and supermarkets, and instead stay small and keep his close relationship with the herd.
However farmer Hook's plans to save the farm did not always go down well with his 55 spirited cows. The result is a laugh-out-loud, emotional roller-coaster of a journey.
Special thanks to Michael Joseph at www.nutritionadvance.com for this graphic.
Never forget: Saturated fat can be found in all fats and all oils - even olive oil.


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This legislation would join together the Game Commission and Fish and Boat Commission into one 'large' agency and is a concern.
Title: Combining the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission and the Pennsylvania Game Commission; and making editorial changes.
Description: An Act amending Titles 3, (Agriculture), 18 (Crimes and Offenses), 22 (Detectives and Private Police), 23 (Domestic Relations), 25 (Elections), 27 (Environmental Resources), 30 (Fish), 34 (Game), 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure), 58 (Oil and Gas), 66 (Public Utilities), 71 (State Government) and 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, combining the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission and the Pennsylvania Game Commission; and making editorial changes.
Last Action: Referred to GAME AND FISHERIES
Last Action Date: November 16, 2017
14 sponsors: Martin Causer (R); Robert Godshall (R); Donald Cook (R); Joseph Emrick (R); Seth Grove (R); Dawn Keefer (R); John Lawrence (R); David Millard (R); Bradley Roae (R); Greg Rothman (R); Ryan Warner (R); Katharine Watson (R); Jeff Wheeland (R); David Zimmerman (R)
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Tres Fronteras (en portugués: Três Fronteiras  y  en ticuna: Tamái-pi três Nazones) es el nombre del área amazónica donde se encuentra el hito fronterizo de las ciudades fronterizas de Tabatinga en Brasil, Leticia en Colombia y Santa Rosa de Yavarí en Perú.

Cultura
La región se caracteriza por sus manifestaciones culturales que reflejan una mezcla de influencias de las culturas de los tres países, además de la influencia de los pueblos originales como el Ticuna.

Los habitantes de la región usan en su habla palabras provenientes del español y del portugués, lo cual se conoce regionalmente como el portuñol leticiano.

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Triple Frontera
Cuatrifinio
Trifinio

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Human mobility in the triple border of Peru, Colombia and Brazil, Márcia Maria de Oliveira - São Paulo, mayo/agosto de 2006  - .

Frontera Brasil-Colombia
Frontera Colombia-Perú
Frontera Brasil-Perú
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Obama thinks he knows how to solve Obamacare's problems — by making it more liberal
By Dylan Matthews Jan 6, 2017, 2:20pm EST
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President Obama being interviewed by Vox's Ezra Klein and Sarah Kliff on January 6, 2017.
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When President Barack Obama was pushing for passage of the Affordable Care Act, he went out of his way to court the right, making repeated concessions to moderate Senate Democrats and wasting months on an ill-fated effort to win Republican support. Seven years later, with Obamacare on the brink of repeal, he's going the opposite direction.
In an interview with Vox's Ezra Klein and Sarah Kliff, Kliff asked Obama why the Affordable Care Act had not become more popular. He replied not by citing the concerns of conservative opponents, but those of the left.
"Whenever you look at polls showing 40 percent are supportive of the law; 40 percent or so are dissatisfied — in the dissatisfied column are a whole bunch of Bernie Sanders supporters who want a single-payer plan," he said. "The problem is not that they think it's a failure; the problem is that they don't think it went far enough. That it left too many people uncovered; the subsidies were not as rich as they should have been; that there was a way of dealing with prescription drug makers in a way that would drive down those costs."
He also offered a few specific suggestions. To inject more competition, he argued, Congress should reconsider establishing a public option. To address spiking premiums on marketplace plans, Congress ought to offer more generous subsidies to better insulate consumers against price increases. He conceded the somewhat convoluted nature of the law, saying, "If I was starting from scratch, I would have supported a single-payer system because it's easier for people to understand and manage."
None of these pronouncements were new, per se. He's expressed similar sentiments about single-payer before. He spent most of 2009 fighting for a public option. But the choice of what tweaks and principles to signal support for was revealing. Again and again, Obama went out of his way to express sympathy for the ideas and concerns of the left flank of the Democratic Party, people who like single-payer and supported Bernie Sanders and now find themselves politically energized but faced with defending from annihilation a law that falls well short of their ideals.
Some of this is an attempt to minimize the scale of opposition to the law, of course. But it also serves the purpose of reaching out to the vast grassroots Sanders mobilized last year and encouraging them to join the fight against repeal. And it encourages unity at a time when Republicans are fracturing over how to do repeal, and what replacement plan to offer in its wake. A divided GOP and united Democratic party offers liberals their best hope of preserving the law.
Why it makes sense for Obama to energize the left
If Obamacare is to stand any chance of surviving in its current form, a prerequisite is absolute, complete Democratic unity — much as Senate Republicans, led by Mitch McConnell, were nearly able to sink the bill in the first place by holding absolutely firm and never wavering in their opposition.
But strong opposition, as McConnell learned then, won't be enough. Because Republicans want to use the budget reconciliation process to undo most of the tax and spending aspects of Obamacare, they will only need a simple majority in the Senate and House to pass legislation; Democrats can't filibuster. With 52 Republicans in the Senate, and Mike Pence around to break ties, and a still larger House majority for the GOP, some repeal legislation can pass with absolutely no Democratic support whatsoever.
But cracks are already showing in the Republican coalition. At least six GOP senators — Rand Paul, Susan Collins, Tom Cotton, Lamar Alexander, Bob Corker, and Bill Cassidy — have expressed doubts or outright opposition to Republican plans to repeal and delay without first crafting an actual replacement bill to supersede Obamacare. Even if just three of those people defect, Republicans won't have enough votes to make it through the Senate.
Democrats in those Senators' states have an important role to play in showing up to town halls, calling into congressional offices, writing letters to the editor, and otherwise using their influence as constituents to pressure their elected representatives. It may sound surprising, but senators actually listen to this stuff; local activists can make the cost of defying a senator's constituents greater than the cost of defying his or her party leadership.
What's more, if some Republicans continue to waver, it's probable that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will start trying to peel off some moderate Democrats in deep red states like Joe Manchin (D-WV), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), and Joe Donnelly (D-IN). Local Democrats will have, if anything, even more influence trying to keep representatives of their own party, already disinclined to buck their caucus, in line.
But the key to these strategies is getting a lot of high-information, high-interest Democrats to take costly, high-value actions like showing up to town halls. And more than 40 percent of Democrats active enough to show up in primaries voted for Bernie Sanders. If you limit the analysis to the subset of Democrats likely to work the phones or write letters to the editor, the share is probably higher. The strategy just doesn't work if those people, many of whom share or have absorbed Sanders's view that the Affordable Care Act doesn't go nearly far enough, aren't a part of it.
The best hope Democrats have organizationally, then, is to reach out to Sanders voters and throw them a few rhetorical bones — yes, premiums should be more subsidized; yes, there should be a public option; yes, single-payer would in principle be better — to let them know that they're welcome and needed in the anti-repeal coalition. If the only people fighting are people who think Obamacare is great and in need of, at most, some modest tweaks, Democrats' resistance will be seriously hampered. If a broad popular front emerges, the odds are better.
Leaving the door open for more left policy
Nearly as important is the policy signal this sends to Democrats less inclined toward the Sanders view. After the nearly decade-long, emotionally draining experience of first passing and then defending Obamacare, it'd be reasonable for more centrist-leaning Democrats to not be super-enthused about future efforts to expand health access.
Obama's comments tell these people, in essence, "The battle's not over. There are still policies we need to implement. We're not where other rich countries are, not yet."
On a federal level, that helps sustain interest among Democrats in expanding and improving upon Obamacare. But the more important signal might be at the state level. If Republicans do succeed in repealing Obamacare, and replace it with a policy that covers far fewer people and reduces access to health care, then it will be incumbent on liberal states like California, New York, Connecticut, and Oregon to come up with their own policies, or else see their residents lose coverage.
In theory, they could simply pass their own versions of Obamacare — much like Massachusetts did in 2006 before the national effort even began. Indeed, if, say, California decided to respond to Obamacare repeal by continuing to run an exchange, offering identical subsidies, and paid for through identical taxes, then the status quo for residents would not change a whole lot.
But it'd be unfortunate, from Obama's perspective and that of most Democrats, for things to end there. California, after all, twice passed single-payer bills through its legislature, only to meet a veto from Arnold Schwarzenegger. The most Democratic-leaning states are probably capable of passing health legislation that goes substantially further than Obamacare.
In this worst-case national scenario, a potential silver lining would be renewed energy for more aggressive state-level policies that could cover more people, more simply, at lower cost. By welcoming more aggressive approaches, Obama is refusing to foreclose that option, and instead branding it as in keeping with the spirit of his own health reform effort.
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HRT after Hysterectonomy (surgical removal of the uterus) (Transcription is attached below).
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Hi, I'm Dr. Maura McGill. I'm an expert in natural hormone treatments.
Today, I want to answer your questions about HRT treatment after a hysterectomy. The central question is, have your ovaries been removed? If they have, then you need to know whether you are in perimenopause, menopause, or even premenopause. You need urgent hormone replacement if your ovaries have been removed because you will be plunged into sudden surgical menopause.
Surgical menopause comes on not gradually, but comes on in a really great rush. If you are well past menopause, it's not such a big deal to remove your ovaries, but you should consider having some progesterone because of the good benefits that come from progesterone, like bone strength, mood control etc. The symptoms of postmenopausal removal of ovaries are very minimal, but if you are premenopausal and your ovaries are removed, then you are going to need help in a hurry. If, however, your ovaries have not been removed and only your uterus has been removed, you may still need to know if you are premenopausal or whether you are on your way to being menopausal. You may still have ovarian cycles.
Some women tend to know when they ovulate, and they know that they are having an ovarian cycle even though they are not having periods because they have lost their uterus. To find out if you need HRT, you need two lots of tests, one here and one two weeks later. One of those two tests will be in the right phase of the ovarian cycle to make an assessment, and those results will tell you if you need HRT, even though you still have your ovaries. You may not. You may be well premenopausal, and you may not need any HRT, but at least those tests will tell you if there is an imbalance and they will tell you if it needs to be corrected.
If you have not yet had your hysterectomy, you have to decide whether to leave your ovaries in or take your ovaries out. My policy is not to remove a healthy organ, and I know that lots of my gynecology friends would disapprove of this statement because they see a lot of cancer of the ovaries and they say, "Well, the ovaries are not useful, therefore take them out in case cancer comes on later." If you did that, you would remove your bowel because you might have cancer of the bowels, you'd remove your brain because you might have cancer of the brain, and you would remove your throat because you might get cancer of the throat…it makes no sense.
If your ovaries are diseased, multiple cysts, a querying tumor, or problems with it before, then certainly consider removing them, but if your ovaries are all right, leave them alone because they may have a minimal function to help you get through the phase of menopause.
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Caraglio is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about  southwest of Turin and about  northwest of Cuneo. As of 1 January 2018, it had a population of 6,782 and an area of .

The municipality of Caraglio contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Bottonasco, Cascina Bianca, Cascina Sottana, Grassini, Monturone, Oltre Grana, Palazzasso, Paschera San Carlo (Soprana), Paschera San Defendente (Sottana), Roata Bacias, Roata Borghi, Roata Bruno, Roata Chiabò, Roata Delfino, Roata Fresia, Roata Galliano, Roata Ghio, Roata Lorenzot, Roata Muschia, Rosata Armando, San Lorenzo, Tetto Bellino, Tetto Bianco, Tetto Boscasi.

Caraglio borders the following municipalities: Bernezzo, Busca, Cervasca, Cuneo, Dronero, Montemale di Cuneo, Valgrana.

Demographic evolution

Museums
 Silk Mill of Caraglio

Notable people
 Arnaldo Momigliano, historian, born in Caraglio

Twin towns — sister cities
Caraglio is twinned with:

  Laboulaye, Córdoba, Argentina

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Two people killed, another injured in crash after fleeing from traffic stop near Hilliard
Monroe Trombly, The Columbus Dispatch
September 30, 2022, 1:46 PM ·2 min read
A man and a woman were killed and another woman was injured early Friday morning after fleeing from police and crashing into a light pole on Columbus' Northwest Side.
The vehicle they were in ― a lime-colored SUV ― was pulled over by a Hilliard police officer in the area of 3600 Fishinger Road, near Park Mill Run Drive, shortly before 3 a.m. for a traffic violation, Columbus Police Sgt. Joe Albert said in a statement.
Dashcam footage released Friday morning by the Hilliard Division of Police shows the SUV speed off about 20 seconds after being pulled over. The officer then begins to follow the vehicle at a distance instead of chasing it.
"The officer continued driving eastbound at a top speed of 40 mph, keeping a distance from the vehicle," Hilliard police said in a news release.
Not a minute later the officer comes upon a downed light pole and the SUV can be seen further up the road, its emergency lights flashing. The officer quickly exited his cruiser and went over to an occupant of the crashed SUV lying in the grass median.
"Hilliard police department, can you hear me?" he said several times.
Albert said in his statement that a woman was pronounced deceased at the scene of the crash at 3:23 a.m., while a man was pronounced deceased at 4:21 a.m. after being transported to the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
Another woman was transported to OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital in critical condition. Her condition on Friday afternoon had been upgraded to stable.
As of Friday afternoon, Columbus police had not identified the crash victims.
Hilliard police also are investigating whether the occupants of the SUV were connected to a break-in at a gas station convenience store on the same morning of the fatal crash.
At 2:56 a.m., a different Hilliard police officer responded to Certified Gas Station, 4656 Cemetery Road, for a report that the station's burglary alarm had been activated. The officer found the glass door of the station's convenience store had been shattered and several cartons of cigarettes were missing.
Hilliard police said in their news release that cartons of cigarettes were found inside the SUV that fled from their officer.
"The Hilliard Division of Police continues to investigate the breaking and entering, and the connection between the two incidents," the release said. "At this time, no charges have been filed."
Monroe Trombly covers breaking and trending news.
mtrombly@dispatch.com
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This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Two people killed in crash after fleeing from Columbus traffic stop
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