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Posted on January 16, 2018 by Piqua Daily Call
Troy man sentenced in overdose death
Alspaugh to serve six years in prison
By Melanie Yingst - myingst@aimmediamidwest.com
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MIAMI COUNTY — Miami County Common Pleas Judge Christopher Gee said the case surrounding Michael Henderson's death was "a poster for the ravages of drug addiction" prior to sentencing Jeremy Alspaugh to serve six years in prison for involuntary manslaughter on Tuesday.
Alspaugh, 34, of Troy, had entered a plea of no contest to the charge with a joint plea agreement with the state to serve four years in prison. Judge Gee said the court takes recommendations "very seriously," but in this case, "four years is almost insulting to the family of Mr. Henderson."
Alspaugh was also sentenced to serve two years for tampering with evidence, corrupting another with drugs and trafficking drugs. which will run concurrently with the six-year involuntary manslaughter charge.
Alspaugh turned to the family of Michael Henderson, 44, of Piqua, and apologized for contributing to his accidental overdose death on March 25. Alspaugh shared how he has struggled with drug addiction for 13 years.
Miami County Assistant Prosecutor Janna Parker said she hoped Alspaugh would "make good on the promise to turn his life around."
Henderson's daughter and ex-wife spoke about their family's loss.
"My dad deserves justice — he could have been saved," said his daughter Britney Henderson. "I can't forgive (Alspaugh) now, but I know my dad forgives him because that's just who he was."
Alspaugh, 34, was indicted by a grand jury on first-degree felony manslaughter in October 2017 in connection with the overdose death Henderson last spring.
Henderson's ex-wife Tina said all Alspaugh had to do was call 9-1-1 and their three children would still have a father.
"Michael was his friend and (Alspaugh) left him for dead," she said.
Upon his release from prison, Alspaugh will serve five years of post-release control. Alspaugh had no prior felony record and showed genuine remorse during the sentencing. He was given 10 days jail credit for a felony domestic violence charge, which he was also sentenced to serve one year in prison for during the hearing. That sentence will also run concurrently with the six-year manslaughter charge.
Alspaugh allegedly played a role in the overdose death of Henderson on March 25. According to previous Piqua Police Department reports, there was a report of a male subject not breathing at a residence in the 300 block of Ridge Street in Piqua on Sunday, March 26. Henderson was then found deceased.
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Early-season Tropical Cyclone "Alcide" forms near Madagascar
November 8, 2018 by admin 0 Comments
Tropical Cyclone "Alcide" formed November 6, 2018 as the first named storm of the 2018/19 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season. Over the next 48 hours, this system strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane equivalent. Its formation comes 9 days before the official start of the season which runs through April 30.
At 06:00 UTC on November 8, the center of Intense Tropical Cyclone "Alcide" was located about 530 km (330 miles) E of the northern tip of Madagascar. Alcide's 10-minute sustained winds were 165 km/h (105 mph), 1-minute sustained winds were 185 km/h (115 mph), with gusts to 230 km/h (145 mph).
The minimum barometric pressure was 965 hPa and the system was moving west-southwestward at 13 km/h (8 mph).
Tropical Cyclone "Alcide" at 13:00 UTC on November 8, 2018. Credit: UW-CIMSS, TW
While Alcide is not expected to make landfall over Madagascar, or any of the nearby islands, gusty showers and dangerous surf will affect its northern regions during the week.
Animated multispectral satellite imagery depicts a compact system with an increasingly ragged, disorganized eye that is filling with clouds, JTWC forecasters said.
Sea surface temperatures remain favorable, near 27 °C (80.6 °F). However, ocean heat content values are extremely low, near single digits.
A quasi-stationary period is expected after 06:00 UTC, November 9.
Featured image credit: Tropical Cyclone "Alcide" at 13:00 UTC on November 8, 2018. Credit: UW-CIMSS, TW
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WINTER 2001 • VOLUME 8: NUMBER 1
Egypt - Persecution
Disappearing Christians of the Middle East
by Imad Boles
Winter 2001 , pp. 23-29
https://www.meforum.org/23/egypt-persecution
A'tini hurriyati
Itla 'yaddaya
Innani a'taytu ma abqaytu shay'an
(Give me my freedom/Let go of my hand/I have given and nothing remains)
Umm Kalthum, the famed Egyptian singer, in Al-Atlal
Egypt's Copts are an endangered minority. Exposed to continuous and subtle pressures, their numbers are dwindling. Thousands have emigrated; no official figures are available as to their numbers in the diaspora today, but reliable sources count two million living in the United States, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, and other countries of Europe.1 Thousands of those who are left behind convert to Islam every year to escape persecution; for example, between 1988 and 1990, 50,000 Coptic university graduates did so.2 Those who stay faithful to their religion in Egypt find themselves increasingly marginalized and alienated in their own country.
Coptic Christians are Egypt's largest religious minority, constituting at least 10 percent of the population, or about 6 million out of 64 million.3 Certain Coptic circles, based on church statistics, put their percentage of the population at 18 percent,4 which would mean they number almost 11 million.
Most Copts live in upper Egypt. They also tend to concentrate in bigger cities and towns, such as Cairo, Alexandria, Asyut, al-Minya, and Sohaj. They are represented in all social classes in Egypt, with a considerable number in the middle and upper classes, a result of their interest in education.5
Over 90 percent of the Copts follow the tenets of the Coptic Orthodox Church which was, according to ancient tradition, established by Saint Mark the evangelist who introduced Christianity to Egypt in the first century. Catholic and Orthodox denominations (e.g. Syriac) represent 9.5 percent of Christians in Egypt; Anglican Copts make up 0.5 percent.6
As with many problems in the Middle East, tension between Egyptian Copts and Muslims has long historical roots. Indeed, it goes back to the Arab invasion in A.D. 641 which first brought Islam to Egypt. Copts lived with dhimmi status, members of a protected minority but without full rights. Despite idealization of the dhimmi system by some modern writers, the dhimmi system was, in fact, a system of political exclusion, economic exploitation, religious persecution, and social degradation.
In the nineteenth century, the Copts' position began to improve under the stability and tolerance of the Muhammad 'Ali dynasty.7 The Western powers also began to pressure the Ottoman Empire and Egypt to improve the plight of their Christian subjects. As a result of the Crimean War (1853-56), the Copts saw the dawn of their emancipation. Their main mark of inferiority, the jizya tax, was lifted in 1855, and in the same year they were allowed to join the army. In 1856, Sultan 'Abd al-Majid (r. 1839-1861) issued the Hatt-i Humayun decree, conceding in principle of equality before the law of all the subjects of the Ottoman Empire regardless of religion. In 1866, the Copts served in the inaugural session of the Consultative Council, establishing a process of Coptic integration into the Egyptian political system.8 Ensured of their political rights, and freed from all social restraints, the Copts flourished. This Coptic civil revival was accompanied by a religious awakening, triggered by their enlightened Patriarch, Cyril IV (1854-1861), and it had the effect of raising their moral and educational standards, and a kindling re-discovery of their distinct identity.
Twentieth-Century Plight
Despite this reawakening of Coptic identity, the twentieth century has seen distinct periods of extreme hostility between the Copts and the Muslim majority. The British high commissioner, Sir Eldon Gorst (1907-11), in an effort to placate the Muslim majority, introduced a system that effectively barred Copts from senior government positions.9 Muslims hardened their position against the Copts, adopting the idea that Egypt is a Muslim country and that it is scandalous for Copts to discuss their problems outside Egypt.10 In protest, the Copts convened an historic Congress in Asyut in 1911, demanding better representation; equal access to civil service positions; equal access to state education; provision of Christian religious instruction in state schools; and designation of Sunday as a holiday. The British occupation and the Muslim majority described the Coptic demands as "fabricated grievances"11 and rejected them all.
Things then improved with the 1919 Revolution, when Copts and Muslims, united against the British occupation, worked together to build a new political order and mutual relationship. Neither before or since has Egypt witnessed such an upsurge in fraternization between Copts and Muslims, the credit for which goes largely to two Muslims: Ahmad Lutfi as-Sayyid (1872-1963) was the enlightened father of Egyptian patriotism who emphasized that "Egypt is for the Egyptians," and that religion should have no role in Egyptian politics; he was, perhaps, the first Egyptian Muslim to suggest that the Egyptian character was built around a Pharoanic core, rather than an Arabic one.12 Sa'd Zaghlul (1856-1927) was the leader of the revolution; "His tolerance and lack of any connection with pre-war communal tensions inspired the Copts to trust him and Muslims to welcome Coptic participation."13 When Copts joined the revolution with enthusiasm, they reaped the harvest of their good work in the 1920s and figured prominently in the post-revolutionary era. This proved to be the last peak of Coptic-Muslim relations.
By the 1930s, Islamist influence was on the increase, with the inevitable costs for Copts. "A natural accompaniment to the use of Islam was sectarian propaganda, which was aimed at the new role the Copts were attempting to play in the society and polity. This auxiliary weapon was potentially extremely damaging to both opponents and the political system."14 What appeared in Egypt in the 1930s was, however, more than the usual ethnic propaganda (unflattering statements, sporadic violence); "it was a more concerted and organized attempt to gain and keep power, in part by relying on prejudices. This new outlook threatened to upset the new and fragile political system."15
This dark period of the Coptic-Muslim relationship continued for more than two decades, ending only with the 1952 revolution. But the autocratic rule of Gamal Abdel Nasser merely suppressed the Islamic elements of discord in Egyptian society, without addressing the roots of the Coptic question – namely the exclusion of the Copts from the Egyptian polity. In retrospect, Abdel Nasser only complicated matters by adding a new political factor—Arab nationalism—into the Egyptian polity which further alienated the non-Arab Copts. Furthermore, his misguided nationalization policy, introduced in 1961, hit the Copts hard and led to the loss of 75 percent of their work and property.16 As a result, by the time of Abdel Nasser's death in 1970, the Copts found themselves in a much worse situation than just a decade earlier. Things then got even worse when Anwar as-Sadat followed and implemented policies friendly toward Islamism, as enshrined in the 1971 constitution that proclaimed "Islam is the religion of the state, Arabic its official language, and the principles of the Islamic Shari'a a principal source of legislation." (Article 2). The 1980 constitution went a step further and made the Shari'a the principal source of legislation. This introduction of the Shari'a as a principal source of legislation was entirely novel—and it alarmed Copts, who saw in it the transformation of Egypt from a secular-style state into an Islamic theocracy with a return to the dhimmi status, so deeply at odds with the modern concepts of equality, freedom, and fraternity.
Sectarian strife quickly re-ignited. On November 6, 1972, an Orthodox church in the Nile delta town of Khanka near Cairo was burned. When Christians held a special mass at the site of the badly damaged church on November 12, anti-Coptic riots erupted. The rioters destroyed homes and shops of local Christians.17
This incident marked the beginning of a series of anti-Coptic attacks, fueled primarily by the agitation of the militant Jama'a Islamiya. Growing out of the Muslim Brethren organization, created in 1929, the attitude of the young militants, in the words of the journalist Mohamed Heikal, was quite simple:
If, as continually being told, religion was the basis of the state, they understood better than anyone else what this meant and how to implement it. But if, as seemed in fact to be the case, the basis of the government's policy was not Islam but an alliance with the Americans, peace with the Jews, and fraternization on equal terms with other religions, then they knew who was the real enemy.
Their attitude towards the Copts did nothing to foster religious peace. In their eyes they should be treated in the same way that certain privileged categories of non-Muslims used to be treated in the early days of the Arab empire—as dhimmi.18
In many cases the Egyptian police and security forces showed either incompetence in preventing the attacks, or even worse, collusion with the attackers.19 According to Baha' ad-Din Hasan of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, "There is only one priority for the security services, to defend the regime, but not to defend civil society against anti-democratic groups."20 Since 1981 more than thirty massacres of Copts have taken place,21 leading to the deaths of more than two hundred persons, as documented by human rights organizations.22 The attacks continue and are getting worse because they are no longer confined to terrorists. For example, on January 1-3, 2000, Muslim villagers of Al-Kosheh in upper Egypt killed twenty-one Coptic men, women, and children, and wounded scores of others.23 According to media reports, that violence resulted from a financial dispute between a Muslim and a Christian shopkeeper in the village. Three days of religiously motivated killing, rioting, and looting tore through the predominately Christian village and spread, without challenge from the Egyptian security forces, to nearby hamlets of Dar as-Salam and Awlad Tog Gareb.24 This police laxity and failure to accept responsibility drew criticism from Bishop Marcos, whom Pope Shenouda had sent to the area to investigate. "The local security forces could have prevented the sectarian violence from spinning out of control if police had acted quickly and decisively when the problem began on Friday (first day of rioting)," he said.25 The head of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, Hafiz Abu Sa'da, concurred: "The police ought to have secured the village; instead they left it."26
Many Copts see the al-Kosheh massacre as the most pernicious and serious development in the relationship between ordinary Muslims and Christians in Egypt. More than any other incident, it epitomized the criminal negligence of the Egyptian administration, represented in its police force, when it comes to protecting Coptic lives and properties.
American Pressure
While the Copts do have recourse under international law, namely the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and subsequent agreements on minority rights, given the current weakness of the United Nations, these are unlikely to be activated and implemented in the Egyptian case by the international organization in the foreseeable future.
The real international force is not the United Nations but the United States, where a significant change in policy has recently occurred. In 1997, President Clinton proclaimed that the United States would "support the aspirations of ethnic and religious minorities in other nations as they strive for their own right to worship freely."27
In 1998, the United States government enacted the Freedom from Religious Persecution Act, sponsored by Representative Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.) and Senator Arlen Spector (R-Pa.), proclaiming: "Governments have a primary responsibility to promote, encourage, and protect respect for the fundamental and internationally recognized right to freedom of religion."28 To aid the new U.S. policy, the act established a U.S. Commission on International Religious Persecution, which submits an annual report, starting in September 1999, with policy recommendations; it also created a new office in the White House, the Office of Religious Persecution Monitoring to recommend sanctions against countries engaged in a pattern of religious persecution. The Freedom from Religious Persecution Act also empowered the president to prohibit all exports used to carry out acts of religious persecution29 or to prohibit financial assistance to the sanctioned country from the United States.30 The president can waive the sanctions for reasons of national security.
If it remains to be seen to what extent the Freedom from Religious Persecution Act will assist religious minorities worldwide, in the Egyptian case, it has already had an impact. Egypt has been defined as a "Category 2 Persecuting Country," meaning that persecution occurs there as a result of lack of protection. Partly because of U.S. pressure, the Egyptian government has embarked on reforming its policies towards its Coptic citizens.
The subject of Coptic religious freedom has been raised at all levels, including by the U.S. secretary of state, assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs, the U.S. ambassador, and other embassy officials. President Clinton raised the issue with President Mubarak during Mubarak's visit to the United States in mid-1999. In February 1999, the secretary of state's special representative for international religious freedom visited Egypt and met with official interlocutors and community activists. Other senior U.S. government officials, including the secretary of defense and the undersecretary of economics, business, and agricultural affairs, had also raised the issue.31
As a result of this pressure, three effects are noticeable. First, the Egyptian government more frequently permits dilapidated Coptic churches to be repaired. In 1998 President Mubarak delegated authority to governors to approve permits for repair of church facilities. A year later he issued a decree effectively placing churches and mosques on equal footing before the law, greatly facilitating church repairs. Secondly, a government crackdown on Islamist militants has benefited the Copts. In sharp contrast to the previous decade, 1999 witnessed no major terrorist activity directed against the Copts.32 Thirdly, since 1996, more than 800 acres of the approximately 1,500 acres of land seized in 1952 by the government from the Coptic Orthodox Church and granted to the Ministry of Awqaf (a government bureau that handles property belonging to Islamic institutions), has been returned to the church and the ministry is looking at ways to return the remaining property.
While credit must be given to Mubarak for pushing through these reforms, it is difficult to imagine that he would have acted in this way had he not been put under considerable international pressure. And many more areas of dispute remain. Attacks and massacres against the Copts recommenced in 2000 in al-Kosheh. Copts are still underrepresented politically and administratively at all levels. They are practically excluded from the judiciary. Discrimination in education and employment is still rife. The media and press in Egypt continue their anti-Coptic propaganda. The state refuses to acknowledge the existence of a unique Coptic identity, and consequently hinders the conditions required for the promotion of that identity.
Events of the past few years do show that Egypt responds to international pressure in matters of religious rights. It is important to realize that Egypt needs the support of the international community, or it will nosedive economically. With more international pressure and the lingering threats that political and financial cooperation will end, Egyptians are likely to abandon the dhimmi system.
In addition to welcoming U.S. pressure, Copts should welcome sensible alliances with Jewish organizations. If the Egyptian government and the Palestinians have recognized Israel, surely Copts need not stay aloof from Jews. There is much sympathy between the two peoples, whose suffering, sacrifices, and needs through the centuries have been similar. Dealing with Jews can be done in such a way that neither threatens Egyptian national interests nor entangles Copts in the Arab-Israeli conflict. As a minority in need of international support, Copts can hardly ignore the Jewish voice. And yet, this cooperation should not lead the Copts to forget the non-violent nature of their struggle; neither should it emulate the Maronite model.
What the Copts Want
The Copts have initiated a non-violent civil rights movement in some ways comparable to that of American blacks in the 1950s and 1960s. While fighting the injustice inflicted upon Copts, it sticks to its Christian calling and avoids hatred and violence. The Copts, who have no territorial ambitions, believe in the possibility of eventual co-existence with the Muslims of Egypt. Their demands are moderate and legitimate, as they have been since 1911: equality and freedom within a united Egypt, plus cultural autonomy. They want equality before the law; safety for their lives; security for their property; full economic and social opportunity; and freedom to express their religion, language, and culture without hindrance. They want integration without assimilation. They seek accommodation without incurring loss in the distinctiveness of their identity.
The Coptic movement is concerned with the well-being of all Egyptians, whether Christian or Muslim. But Copts, being excluded and marginalized, cannot contribute fully in the national struggle to advance Egypt until their full emancipation. In turn, the realization of their dream of full equality and freedom in Egypt largely depends on the success of the overall Egyptian struggle for liberalism and democracy. The fight is between the forces of reaction and those of progress; in this battle are millions of enlightened Muslim Egyptians who could be counted as natural allies. The Copts must broaden the objectives of their struggle by fighting, with other Egyptians, for a modern, democratic and prosperous Egypt. The Muslim Egyptians, for their part, ought to welcome the continuing agitation of the Copts for equality and freedom; for religious liberty, once achieved, in Egypt will undoubtedly pave the way for wider respect of the fundamental freedoms of the population at large by an Egyptian state notorious for autocratic, irresponsible, and unaccountable behavior towards its citizens.
Thus is the situation of Copts in Egypt a litmus test for liberalism and democracy in that country, offering the best indicator of the relative strengths of the forces of bigotry and aggression versus those of progress and peace. A liberal and democratic Egypt that respects the human rights of its citizens is an Egypt that can become prosperous and stable. Further, an Egypt that respects international law internally is bound to abide by it externally.
The complete emancipation of Egypt's Copts will meet with resistance from Islamists, making yet more sacrifices and suffering necessary. Even if things do get worse before they get better, Egypt will surely make progress. Eventual freedom for Copts is in the works, and when it finally arrives, it will be a blessing for all Egyptians.
Imad Boles is chairman of the British Coptic Association.
1 Personal interviews with Coptic religious and civil rights leaders in the diaspora.
2 Stranglehold on Egypt's Christians (London: Jubilee Campaign, 1994), p. 3.
3 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom for 2000: Egypt (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of State, Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, 2000) at http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/irf/irf_rpt/irf_egypt.html.
4 David B. Barret, ed. World Christian Encyclopedia: A Comparative Study of Churches and Religions in the Modern World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), p. 2740.
5 Saad Eddin Ibrahim, et al, The Copts of Egypt (London: Minority Rights Group International, 1996), p. 6.
6 Stranglehold on Egypt's Christians, p. 2.
7 Barbara L. Carter, The Copts in Egyptian Politics: 1918-1952 (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1986), p. 9.
8 Theodore Hall Patrick, Traditional Egyptian Christianity: A History of the Coptic Orthodox Church (Greensboro, N.C.: Fisher Park Press, 1999), p. 133.
9 Kyriakos Mikhail, Copts and Muslims under British Control (Egypt) (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1911), pp. 57-77.
10 Report by the Heliopolis Congress's Organizing Committee, quoted in Carter, The Copts in Egyptian Politics, p. 14.
11 Report by the Heliopolis Congress Organizing Committee, quoted in Carter, The Copts in Egyptian Politics, p. 14.
12 Salama Mousa, a Coptic intellectual of great stature, attributed in his book 'Today and Tomorrow' the unprecedented unity, that was witnessed in the 1919 Revolution, between the Copts and Muslims, to Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid; rejecting the claim of some of the Copts that that unity was the result of the World War. See Mikhail, Copts and Muslims under British Control, p. 65.
13 Carter, The Copts in Egyptian Politics, p. 65.
14 Carter, The Copts in Egyptian Politics, p.17.
16 Ibrahim, The Copts of Egypt, p.16.
17 Christians in Egypt: Church under Siege (Zurich: The Institute for Religious Minorities in the Islamic World, 1993), p. 20.
18 Mohamed Heikal, Autumn of Fury: The Assassination of Sadat (London: Corgi Books, 1983), pp. 230-1.
19 Christians in Egypt: Church under Siege, p. 20.
21 Important ones included al-Zawia al-Hamra (1981), al-Minya (1989), Abu-Quorqas (1990), Samaloat (1991), Ain Shams (1991), Imbaba (1991), Alexandria (1991), Tama (1992), Asyut (1992), Manshyat Nassir (1992), Dayrout (1992), Quina (1993), Alexandria (1994), Quosia (1994), al-Minya (1994), Alexandria (1995), Malawi (1995), Asyut (1995), Quina (1995), Kafr Dimiana (1996), Ain Shams (1996), al-Fayum (1996), al-Minya (1996), Asyut (1996), Tama (1996), Tahta (1996), Abu-Quorqas (1997), Bahjoura (1997), Kafr Zubair (1997), al-Minya (1997), and al-Kosheh (2000).
22 Shawki F. Karas, The Copts since the Arab Invasion: Strangers in their Own Land (New Jersey: American, Canadian, and Australian Coptic Associations, 1986), pp. 107-156, 179-204; Christians in Egypt: Church under Siege; Egypt: Violation of Freedom of Religious Belief and Expression of the Christian Minority (New York: Human Rights Watch, Middle East, 1994), pp. 19-31; Stranglehold on Egypt's Christians, pp. 10-12; Ibrahim, The Copts of Egypt, pp. 17-21.
23 Al-Kiraza, Jan. 21, 2000.
24 "CNN Newsroom," Jan. 4, 2000.
27 The Washington Post, Jan. 12, 1997.
28 Freedom from Religious Persecution Act, Sect. 2: b, (H.R. 2431, 105 Congress, Second Session, May 8, 1998).
29 Freedom from Religious Persecution Act, Sect. 6: b, 2; 7: a, 1-2, 12.
30 Freedom from Religious Persecution Act, Sect. 7: b, c.
31Annual Report on International Religious Freedom for 1999: Egypt (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of State, Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Sept. 9, 1999) at http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/irf/irf_rpt/1999/irf_egypt99.html.
32 1999 Country Report on Human Rights Practices: Egypt (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of State, Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, 1999) at http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/irf/irf_rpt/1999/irf_egypt99.html.
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With Cinema Oasis, filmmaker Ing K gives artists a censor-free platform
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Interviews > With Cinema Oasis, filmmaker Ing K gives art…
Amidst the sprawling urban metropolis of concrete and skyscrapers, Bangkok can be a surprising city with moments of calm, of colorful local chaos, and of green oasis.
Ing Kanjanavanit's Cinema Oasis could not be more apt a name for what it is. Tucked away in an alley on Sukhumvit Road, the building, with its minimalist form but elaborate facade, welcomes you into a space that stands at stark contrast to its immediate environment—one that thrives on commerciality. The house used to belong to Ing's family; she grew up in the Sukhumvit district when it was still orchards and small roads. Today, it's home to the non-profit cinema and art space, repurposed to promote neglected and oppressed films, and to inspire filmmakers and other artists to openly talk about freedom of expression and issues such as the role of cultural colonialism, deep history, and propaganda.
Ing started her career as an investigative journalist, concerned with the impact of unheeded tourism, AIDS, and human rights abuse in Thailand. Frustrated with restrictions posed on writers she turned to filmmaking, believing that real footage does not lie. Being a filmmaker in her country, however, doesn't come with less challenges: Ing's first fictional film, the experimental feature My Teacher Eats Biscuits, was banned—the government considers it an insult to all religions. The 2008 documentary, Citizen Juling, about a teacher in Southern Thailand who was murdered in the midst of extremist violence that engulfed the region, won her numerous awards; her following project, Shakespeare Must Die, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth is also banned, seen as "a national security threat."
Will you show Shakespeare Must Die at Cinema Oasis?
The film has been in jail for six years. Everything is allowed on the internet but films can be jailed forever, though it has been screened in Lebanon and Paris last year.
If the Berlinale had not rejected it, it would've been in the same year as Caesar Must Die! Unfortunately, the Berlinale thinks I'm some kind of Thai Leni Riefenstahl after they showed my Southern Unrest film Citizen Juling in 2009 and pro-Thaksin (Thai Trump-Duterte-Hun Sen) Western academics staged a hate campaign against it. This is probably why there is no other film directly on the Thai Southern Unrest and the war on drugs despite thousands of deaths and missing persons, because any factual, truthful film on these issues would inevitably make Thaksin look bad—other Thai filmmakers do not want my fate.
Have you taken any actions to change that?
We sued the Film Censorship Board in the administrative court, which tries power abuses. We lost in the first court and filed an appeal, which is being considered in the Supreme Administrative Court.
With the case still pending, where has your energy been focused?
During the censorship process I kept following my producer, Manit Sriwanichpoom, around with a camera and I ended up with another film called Censor Must Die. The censors made this historic ruling for Censor Must Die, citing the Film Act clause 27.1 that "films made from events that really happened" are exempt from censorship. That was an historic ruling: It freed up all the documentaries that were made from real events; no propaganda, just cut, cut, cut.
But then they said we had no permission to film them (the subjects of the film!) in their office and threatened to sue any cinema that would release the film. As long as you have the film banning law there is fear—everyone is afraid—and we aren't officially able to show our films.
Shakespeare Must Die trailer
"As long as you have the film banning law there is fear—everyone is afraid—and we aren't officially able to show our films."
But Cinema Oasis still does.
It's a refuge for people with the same predicament. If you have something to say and you are good there is at least one place for you. All the cinemas in this country are owned by something like three people, and those people are also the studios. It's like an anti-trust law that is broken beyond, but who is going to fight it as long as there is this film banning law?
What happens when you show your films there?
I've tested the ruling with the first part of Bangkok Joyride and we got away with it. Then I played part two and three. The censors have not come calling. We've played other Southeast Asian documentaries as well with no problems so far.
What is Bangkok Joyride about?
I filmed some crowds during the [anti-government] protests in 2013 to use the material for another movie and realized that there was nothing normal about it. Something felt so free and natural and pure about these people who were getting over their fear of death.
Can you describe the scene?
They were living their lives in the open for seven months. It was uniquely cinematic. You have to be sensitive though. I shot one woman who was living under a transparent pink mosquito net and who put a potted plant into her tent to make it seem like her garden. And there she was brushing her hair, whether there was tear gas or not, or whatever. I shot her from the back—a little creepy but, I mean, she was in the street and I had the right to shoot her—and it was really moving. I didn't have to see her face. Bangkok Joyride became full of moments like that.
In 2017, the King, Rama IX, died. Have you documented the event's impact?
Yes, on a blog, as a moment of transition. I was a best-selling writer but I have no more space to do that. It's the same with many other experienced journalists who care about facts; no more print space for them either.
I think it changed in 1998, that was the year we lost our battle to save a sacred island national park from being re-landscaped with bulldozers for Danny Boyle's movie The Beach owned by 20th Century Fox, which is owned by the Murdoch media empire. The way they used the media to obliterate Thai environmentalists was unbelievable. This coincided with the rise of the internet. I realized then that a new day has dawned when facts and the truth mean nothing. We were on the frontline and the first victims, but this is standard media practice now. The whole democracy machine is being undermined by subversion of social discourse.
I switched to filmmaking because no one believed my investigative reports on the environment. I was one of the first to write about the evils of tourism; for me, it's the real-estate industry and hotels that are destroying national parks. Even when I said that AIDS is fatal they accused me of starting a panic, of scaremongering. Hard to believe now, right? I had to fight for each piece and it was so tiring, so I started shooting—that allows you to take people with you.
How do you depict what you witness today?
My family witnessed the forbidden history so we know the injustice of distortion. For me it's enough to be a witness in this life, that's all I do. That's what these films are about and it's just chronological editing. When people saw part two [of Bangkok Joyride] in a test screening, and there was a scene with an angry woman yelling at police officers, they asked: why didn't you put that as a climax at the end? I can't do that because it happened at the beginning. It's the sequence in which it happened chronologically.
"My family witnessed the forbidden history so we know the injustice of distortion. For me it's enough to be a witness in this life, that's all I do."
Were your films more metaphorical before?
This one is based on facts but it's still subjective; it's my lens. With Shakespeare Must Die I wanted to express emotions.
And so you switched to fiction?
Yes, because I thought it would be freeing. My Teacher Eats Biscuits was banned as an insult to all religions. It's set in an ashram where people worship a dog. It's a comedy, because I was sick of people feeling angry after seeing my documentaries; I wanted to do something fun.
With fiction I'm used to writing to the edge of the cliff, to the very edge of what is allowed. I forget that with a script it's only the beginning. Once you have the footage and see people in pink gowns worshipping this dog, saying 'dog god' in front of an animal, it's so much more potent than lines on a page. Therefore, I can see how the censors felt so freaked out by it. When I saw it again, in Paris, that was quite hardcore.
It's funny, no?
It's very black humor. It's satire, that's what Likay [Thai folk opera] is about: They go around villages and ask for gossip to incorporate it into their performances. We are like sponges, we absorb what's happening.
A selection of films from director Ing K
Your upcoming exhibition of paintings is called Apocalypso. What is scarier to you, reality or fiction?
All the movies played at Cinema Oasis are apocalyptic. One thing that really scares me is social media, though: how they can hack, manipulate, and make people feel like the whole world is a high-school popularity contest. It's not so much fake news; I reckon you can't stop people from saying hate speech and fake news because then you would censor everyone. There is this scene in Shakespeare Must Die, with Goddess Durga, during which all the school kids come in and sing to the dear leader, as if in a trance. That's scary.
Bangkok-based filmmaker Ing K is the founder of Cinema Oasis, dedicated to showcasing works in a a space where oppressed and overlooked movies are shown.. Her portfolio counts fictional stories, such as Shakespeare Must Die and My Teacher Eats Biscuits, and real-life documentaries.
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Former Manchester United star Wayne Rooney has said that Liverpool look the strongest team this season and they should have the edge over Manchester City in the title race. The Reds missed out on the Premier League crown by the single point to the Citizens last term but they have made a big statement this season as they hold an eight-point lead at the top after just eight games.
In an interview with IFL TV, Rooney said that both teams will be in the hunt for the top-flight title but the Reds should have the advantage after making a much better start to the campaign, he told: "In my opinion, Liverpool look the strongest.City are a fantastic team. I think Liverpool have improved on last year, whereas City have stayed at that level of great consistency, so I think Liverpool."
Liverpool have won each of the opening eight games this season and that has helped them secure a significant eight-point lead over the Citizens, who have already suffered shock defeats to Norwich City and Wolverhampton Wanderers. Still, they can't afford to show any complacency, given they squandered a seven-point advantage during the backend of the previous campaign.
The Reds are scheduled to face Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur shortly after the international break and that should provide a test of their title credentials. On paper, the Merseyside giants should get the better of United at Old Trafford but historically, that has not been the case and they have managed just one victory from the past 10 league meetings.
United have made their worst-ever league start in more than 30 years and they are currently lying at the bottom end of the table with just two points separating them from the drop zone. Still, the Red Devils players should be motivated when they come up against their fierce rivals and they will be aiming to end the Reds' 17-match winning league streak.
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By Joseph Neff | Published: November 26, 2019
Part five of the TVD Record Store Club's look at the new and reissued releases presently in stores for November, 2019. Part one is here, part two is here, part three is here, and part four is here.
REISSUE/ARCHIVAL PICKS: V/A, Land of 1,000 Dances: The Rampart Records Complete Singles Collection (Minky) Here are four compact discs tucked snugly into pockets inside an essay and picture-packed hardcover book spotlighting the label that gifted unto the world the Los Angeles-based '60s Mexican-American rock impulse, aka the "West Coast East Side Sound." The larger intention of owner-producer Eddie Davis (who's also credited with stewarding into existence the all-time classic "Farmer John" by The Premiers via his other label Faro) was to build an equivalent to Motown for Chicano performers, and if he didn't reach Gordy's levels of success, his company did carry on into the '90s while adapting stylistically to the times.
That means there's disco from Eastside Connection and even a cover of Richard Marx's "Right Here Waiting," in English and Spanish by Didi Scorzo. I'll confess to having no use for that one as the later stuff is hit-and-miss, but roughly half of the set derives from the '60s and is a stone blast of R&B instrumentals, vocal group sounds, Chicano soul, and yes, Mexican-American rock, of which Cannibal and the Headhunters' cover of Chris Kenner's "Land of 1000 Dances" is a prime example. Other highlights include The Blendells' cover of Stevie Wonder's "La La La La La," and The Village Callers' killer "Hector Parts 1 & 2." The background info is welcome, and the photos are pretty special, including previously unpublished shots the Headhunters' '65 tour as openers for The Beatles. A valuable thing. A-
New Riders of the Purple Sage, Thanksgiving in New York City (Live) (Omnivore) Captured at the Academy of Music in NYC on November 23, 1972, this is six sides of country-rock hippie style for Black Friday, though the 2CD and digital aren't available until 12/6. In their hippie comportment the New Riders (by this point sans Jerry Garcia on pedal steel, replaced by Buddy Cage) could get a little eccentric, but mainly through vocalist John "Marmaduke" Dawson and a few of his song selections (like R.B. Greaves' "Take a Letter Maria," which they later cut in the studio). The rest of the members; alongside Cage, that's guitarist David Nelson, bassist Dave Torbert, and drummer Spencer Dryden (Nelson and Torbert also sang), were busy being crack instrumentalists. The pleasure offered here never ebbs. A-
Edan, Beauty and the Beat (Lewis Recordings) Edan's 2002 debut Primitive Plus endures as a mainstay of alt-underground-indie hip hop, but his '05 follow-up is even better as it enters into psychedelic realms without the negative connotations that frequently emerged when druggy expansiveness mingled with rap's intensity and forward momentum. Indeed, Edan continues to explore the classic structural launching pad of late '80s-'90s hip-hop in a manner that's far deeper than the typical cred-establishing nods to the past (making this a true extension of his first album), but more importantly, his approach to psychedelia is never shallowly, stereotypically trippy. Truly bent, there are more ideas in the consecutive "Rock and Roll" and "Beauty" than in many hip-hop records twice this one's length (a tidy 34 minutes). A
Alex Chilton, "My Rival" (Omnivore) There is perhaps no more enticing a phrase in music fandom than "newly discovered tape reel." That is the scenario here, with the contents grooved into 10-inch vinyl and offering what might be the last collab between Big Star bandmates Chilton and Chris Bell. It was during this period, late-'75, with Sister Lovers recorded but shelved because nobody wanted to release it, that Chilton sang backup on Bell's "You and Your Sister." Bell was briefly visiting Memphis between stays in England with a notion to maybe reunite Big Star. As Chilton was at a low point, that didn't happen (in Bell's lifetime, anyway), but these four tracks (and an aborted take) of Chilton with Bell engineering did. It's scrappy but not as surly as one might think. A worthwhile acquisition for the Chilton-passionate. B+
Patsy Cline, Sweet Dreams: The Complete Decca Studio Masters (1960 – 1963) (Third Man) On the infrequent occasions when I'm asked where I'm from or where I currently live, I answer Winchester, VA, which mostly elicits no further retort, but every once in a while someone perks up and says "Hey, Patsy Cline," for my city is where she was born, and I usually respond with something like "yeah." Now, the brevity of my rejoinder is not due to a low opinion of Cline or indifference over her work but the basic reality that I've been cognizant of her music for a good long time; in fact, I was a teenager when the 1985 Cline biopic Sweet Dreams came out, and you can probably imagine the hubbub that transpired in her hometown around the time said flick hit theaters.
Later in the '80s I made the acquaintance of folks who were openly disdainful, vociferously even, over the pop malady in country music. This perspective helped to kickstart the early alt-country movement, elevated the visages of Outlaws past to Rushmore-like status and championed the authenticity of Dwight Yoakum, Lyle Lovett, and Steve Earle. I tend to agree with this viewpoint, but with the caveat that pop and legit country aren't necessarily incompatible. Amid the Bakersfield verve, people tend to miss or maybe just choose to ignore that Merle and Buck both had some sharp pop instincts (they just did it on their terms), to say nothing of George Jones. The Countrypolitan impulse did churn out an assload of subpar material, but the '60-'70s non-Outlaw country scene wasn't a total wasteland.
Kitty Wells preceded her, and she had contemporaries like Brenda Lee, but Cline's Decca discography, which began with "I Fall to Pieces," was for decades essentially the pop crossover blueprint for women in country music. The biggest reason for her success was vocal strength and control when delivering prime material, with her interpretations of songs by Willie Nelson now deeply ensconced in her biography (poor song selection was the main reason for her early commercial struggles). There's also Owen Bradley's string arrangements adding dimension to the proceedings rather than coating them with syrup, vocal support from The Jordanaires, and piano by Floyd Cramer. Issued on 2CD in 2010 by Hip-O Select, that was the first time all the Decca material was released together. Here it is on vinyl. A
CRIME, "San Francisco's First and Only Rock 'N' Roll Band: Live 1978" (Superior Viaduct) The main attraction here is a 35-minute DVD (in color, region free) of a live performance by this essential early Bay Area punk outfit, captured in 1978 at Mabuhay Gardens. However, my digital promo came with no encoded video footage, so the grade below specifically pertains to the double 7-inch, with its runtime totaling nearly 25 minutes. The audio isn't pristine but it's better than bootleg quality and it really underscores how massive this band was early on. In case you know them only through "Hot Wire My Heart," which was covered by Sonic Youth on Sister, that song's not here, but its flip side "Baby You're So Repulsive" is. Another prime cut "Murder By Guitar" closes out the set with a bang. A-
Fight, War of Words (Real Gone) I like Judas Priest and have in fact paid to witness them perform live, but I must admit that the band released quite a few more records than I've kept track of over the years, which is partly because the ones I did hear beyond their canonical stuff didn't impress me that much. I did check out this 1993 album, the first of two from the band Halford formed after temporarily leaving Judas Priest, back when it came out; I liked it then and I like it a little more now, largely because of its consistency. There are similarities to the Priest, but this is mostly its own very thrash metal-informed thing, and it should be added that it's a smart record, though it doesn't go out of its way to draw attention to this aspect. They could've shaved off a few tunes and released them as an EP, however. B+
Josephine Foster and The Supposed, All the Leaves Are Gone (Fire) In this reissue's short promo text by Steve Krakow (aka Plastic Crimewave), the illustrator-writer-impresario mentions that only a small number of heads were in tune with All the Leaves Are Gone upon its initial 2004 release. Krakow was surely amongst the enlightened few, as he contributed the album's cover art. On one hand, this notion seems off base, as the '00s were flush with records exploring the intersection of folk, psych, and rock, which, along with Foster in powerhouse vocal mode, are the elements at play on this LP. But on the other hand, rarely has acid-folk been offered up with such intensity, with Brian Goodman whipping off some magnificent guitar burn and Foster's singing capable of triggering a rash of goosebumps. A
Herbie Hancock, Directstep (Get On Down) Hancock went to Japan to cut this album, released only in that country in 1979, Direct-To-Disc; later, it was one of the first compact discs. Direct-To-Disc meant the session was immediately preserved as a high-quality acetate as the possibility of any overdubs was nixed. Obviously, Hancock and his band could handle it, though he brings in keyboardist Webster Lewis so they could both effectively double on the array of state-of-the-art synths. That brings us to the fusion nature of the whole shindig, which decidedly falls somewhere outside my bag. With this said, the live nature helps render portions of this as fairly appealing, though just as much can be aptly described as tough sledding, e.g. the extended vocoder hijinks in the 15-minute "I Thought It Was You." B-
The Prefects, Going Through the Motions (Call of the Void) Most of this spotlight on a storied (they took part in The Clash's White Riot tour) but underheard early punk band from Birmingham, UK was on Amateur Wankers, a 2004 compilation released by Acute Records, but that was CD only. Featuring Robert Lloyd, later of The Nightingales (this was his first band), The Prefects' entire recorded output emerged posthumously, including their Rough Trade 7-inch and Peel Sessions, all of which are sequenced here and comprise the bulk of the record (not included: their 13 second song "VD"). The contents hit a sweet spot between ragged art-punk and the shambolic nature of UK DIY, so if you dig Swell Maps and Desperate Bicycles, it's a safe bet you'll want this one around the house. A-
Buffy Sainte-Marie, Illuminations (Craft) Originally released on Vanguard as the sixth album from this often-overlooked folksinger, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Illuminations makes abundantly clear that she was also an experimenter, at least for a little while. A cult record in large part due to Sainte-Marie's use of electronics including the then novel Buchla synthesizer, the results are appealingly psychedelic in effect, which is to say, she avoids cliché while getting beyond mere surface applications. This is not to infer that Illuminations doesn't sound like it was created in the '60s (this reissue celebrates its 50th anniversary); it surely does, and that's just fine. Productively broadening the record's range are her dives into psych-rock on side two. A-
Tony Joe White, That on the Road Look "Live" (Real Gone) This set was recorded to multitrack tape in late 1971 while White was touring as the opener for Creedence Clearwater Revival, and the claim that it just might be his best album isn't hyperbole. All of White's stylistic ingredients; blues, rock, soul, country, and swamp funkiness, can go down a storm when well-rendered in front of an audience, and that's exactly what transpires here. The band is tack-sharp (featuring Duck Dunn on bass), with White in fine voice as his always considerable swagger level is only heightened in this setting (the large crowd is receptive). His guitar and harmonica are tight, too. Unreleased at the time, this was belatedly available online but can now be purchased in stores on 2LP (while vinyl, natch) with notes by Ben Vaughan. A-
The Wrens, Silver (Craft) If you are a vinyl-loving fan of The Wrens, this reissue of the band's debut, initially released by Grass Records in 1994, is undeniably a big deal, as it's getting its first edition on wax, coke bottle clear across four sides in fact, for RSD Black Friday 2019. Now, it took me a while to check out this record, and for a fickle reason, as Grass' initial logo was crappy (look it up and see), and I therefore avoided their releases (they did have some other quality bands including Brainiac and The Karl Hendricks Trio). Actually, it took me a good long while to hear this record period, as it was kinda scarce for a stretch due to some well-documented label troubles with the guy who bought Grass. Changing the name to Wind Up, he then turned it into a mersh rock entity (ever hear of Creed and Evanescence?).
The Wrens didn't want to go that route and the fallout of parting ways is that their first two albums landed in limbo. They've only put out three, this one, '96's Secaucus, and '03's The Meadowlands for Absolutely Kosher. Well, there was the self-released tape Overnight Success in '98, but good luck finding that one. And for a time, good luck was what you would've needed to score a copy of Silver and Secaucus; I stumbled onto both in a used bin circa 2002. I agree with the consensus that The Meadowlands is The Wrens' best record and that they got better with each successive release. That would make Silver the least of 'em, but it's still a pretty special thing. In a nutshell, its sound is emblematic of '90s indie rock at its best. But like many CDs from the era, it's too damned long. A-
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After graduating from Lanier, I attended Auburn University where I majored in Mechanical Engineering. In 1973, while at Auburn, I married Karen Franklin, also a Lanier grad. I graduated in late 1974, then entered Air Force active duty in July 1975. My first Air Force assignment was in the base civil engineer squadron at Minot AFB, ND.
I left Minot in early 1978 for RAF Chicksands, UK, where I worked as the Chief of Programs. In June 1981, Karen, our two children, and I relocated to Eglin AFB, FL where I conducted operational test and evaluation of Civil Engineer-related equipment and procedures. Soon after my promotion to Major in November 1986, I traveled to the Great White North of Thule AB, Greenland, as the Base Civil Engineer.
In 1988, I was re-assigned to Arnold AFB, Tennessee, as the Director of Facility Maintenance for the Arnold Engineering Development Center. Four years later after promotion to Lt Col, I went to Yokota AB, Japan, as the commander of the 374 Civil Engineer Squadron. After two years there, I was reassigned to the Air Force Inspection Agency at Kirtland AFB, NM, as the Air Force's Senior CE Inspector. That turned out to be my last assignment prior to my Air Force retirement.
In December 1998, I retired from the Air Force to accept a position with Florida Community College in Jacksonville, FL as their Associate Vice President for Facility Management & Construction. I resigned that position after 3+ years to accept a job offer from TRW (now Northrop Grumman).
In 2002, my employment with TRW returned me to Eglin AFB. After selling our home in Jacksonville, Karen and I re-established roots in Niceville, FL in October 2003.
After six years with Northrop Grumman in positions at Eglin, Tyndall AFB, and Hurlburt Field, I accepted an offer from Innovative Technical Solutions, Inc., a California-based Design-Build construction firm, for a program manager position.
After 37+ years together, Karen and I are still wondering what we'll do when we grow up. Our children are doing well. Michael, his wife Dawn, and our granddaughter Stella live in Orlando, FL where Michael owns Blaise Built, Inc., a general contracting firm. Lindsay and her husband, Chris Auger, are both Air Force officers stationed at Nellis AFB, NV.
When I reflect on my time at Lanier, so many of my memories involve music--the Lanier band, The Soul Division during my sophomore year, Southern Comfort during my junior year, playing in Bye Bye Birdie as a sophomore, and conducting the pit band for Lil' Abner my senior year. Good times!
Music continues to play a major role in my life even today! I've been involved with contemporary church music for the past 30+ years (guitar & voice) and still play trumpet in a local swing band. Actually, let's make that trumpets as you just can't have too many!
In my senior year, I convinced a gullible sophomore (Laurie Pater, if I remember correctly) that I was twins, Peter & Tom Blaise. After several weeks, she would see me in the hallway, smile, say "Hi," then ask, "Which one are you?"
I'm not sure I ever confessed the truth to her.


To offer testimonio is inherently political, a vehicle that counters the hegemony of the state and illuminates the repression and denial of human rights. Claiming Home, Shaping Community shares testimonios from and about the lives of Mexican-origin people who left the rural, agricultural Imperial and San Joaquín Valleys to pursue higher education at a University of California campus.
While symbolically their journeys embody the master narrative of the "American Dream," Claiming Home, Shaping Community does not echo the "rags to riches" trope reified in dominant culture, but rather, it asserts the need to rehumanize the purpose and heart of education. In each chapter, the narrators illustrate myriad supports that allowed them to move forward on their academic and professional journeys: hard work, affirmative action, inclusionary practices, mentors, and their communities' cultural wealth. Each trajectory is unique, but put together as a collection, the commonalities emerge.
Denoting a sense of political and social urgency that responds to the current accentuated economic disparities between the haves and the have-nots, these essays illuminate the broader societal benefits of federal legislation and resources for state-funded public higher education and policies that broaden access and resources. By telling their stories, the contributors seek to empower others on their journeys to and through higher education.


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So you've found our website. Maybe it was a fluke, maybe it was just lucky, maybe you don't know how you got here, but I'd like to think of it as a blessing. A blessing for us because every guest is a blessing. We value that, we value you. More importantly, God values you.
And then we believe that we don't just live for ourselves, so we hope that we can be a blessing to you.
Perhaps you will find here something useful, interesting, or inspiring. Hopefully you will see that while this site has many purposes we'd mostly like this to be an invitation, an invitation to believe but also to explore the Christian faith. Maybe, if you live close, you'll find a reason to drop in in person. We would be very glad if you did.