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Life and death in the Bible
The power of God for Christians and Jews by Kevin JMadigan and Jon D Levenson
Reviewed by Spengler
Theology was dethroned as queen of the sciences two centuries ago. This splendid book supports the case for restoration. How are we to make sense of a world in which the raw issues of life and death - secular society’s failure to endure life, and traditional society’s embrace of death - overthrow the trifling calculus of political science? The world has buried Karl Marx’s economic man and Sigmund Freud’s libidinous man, and the shovel is ready for Martin Heidegger’s “authentic” man. Levenson and Madigan show instead Biblical man in his confrontation with death, and in so doing hold up a mirror to us.
Resurrection is among a handful of recent theological texts that radically affect our view of the world, including works by Michael
Wsychogrod [1] and Fergus Kerr [2], as well as a new translation of Franz Rosenzweig’s chief work [3]. It is doubly remarkable as the joint effort of a Jewish and a Christian scholar.
Life and death to the ancient Hebrews were a moral conditions more than medical one, the authors explain. Enslavement and looming cultural extinction were felt as the grave, as was childlessness. National redemption and the covenantal promise of continuity of Abraham’s line were a restoration of life, a resurrection in the earliest stirring of Hebrew religious sensibility. The modern materialist view of life and death, the authors remind us, has little in common with the way in which ancient readers of the Bible understood existence.
One might go farther, and assert that the Biblical understanding of life and death still prevails today among most of the world’s six billion souls. The materialism of modern political science sadly misjudges the demands of the human heart. Nations are willing to fight to the death because their national life already has become a living death, in just the way the Bible saw it. In their hearts they already have gone down to Sheol, and the world holds no greater terror for them than what they live each day.

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Church briefs: June 7, 2008
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St. John Missionary Baptist
The church will have a bake sale and yard sale items available from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the church at 1915 Buckeye St. The Senior Choir is sponsoring the event.
The church will observe its Auxiliaries Fellowship Day at 3:30 p.m. Sunday. Guests will be the Rev. Charles Harris and congregation of Pleasant Union Missionary Baptist Church in Indianapolis. For more details, call the church at (812) 232-2122.
The 9:30 Bible Teaching Time will feature Dick Triestram teaching the Adult Bible Class lesson titled, “More Gems From Proverbs.” This series of lessons from the Book of Proverbs is equipping the students to overcome many of life’s problems.
Lauren Lopez will continue her series of practical Bible lessons for the Junior Class. The Teen Class will again meet at McDonald’s, studying with lessons written by Dr. John Thompson. The class leaves Berean at 9:20.
At 10:30, pastor Larry Lilly will preach a sermon titled, “Living Between Two Thieves.” He will name the thieves and what they steal from you. Lilly will show from the Scripture why you need to move and how to do it. Dick and Judy Triestram will present special Gospel Magic Illustrations for the Family Integrated Service.
The Sounds of Victory and Betty Sontag will present special music.
At 6 p.m., Berean will continue the series “Gleanings From Daniel.” This series of sermons has touched many hearts by showing the biblical plan for the days in which we live.

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Ryan is chairman and CEO of the Chicago group bidding to host the 2016 Summer Games. On Wednesday in Athens, the IOC will trim the list of seven cities to three or four. The winner is to be selected in October 2009. Ryan has met with 81 of the IOC’s 112 members, and if Chicago advances as expected, he plans to get to know the others as soon as possible.
“We have not been pitching them on Chicago,” Ryan said. “They tend to want to share their beliefs.
“They have said, ‘Don’t assume anything,’ and I have made it my business over a long time not to assume anything.”
Ryan’s attitude is understandable. Three years ago the IOC rebuffed the last U.S. city that bid for a Summer Olympics. New York garnered only 16 votes and was eliminated in the second round of an election for the 2012 host city. London beat Paris by four votes.
After that loss, the U.S. Olympic Committee restructured to make international relations a priority, and it selected a 2016 city that officials think will deliver what the IOC wants.
“The leadership was one of the key factors that attracted us to the city of Chicago,” USOC vice president of international Bob Ctvrtlik said. “And the attitude that we have felt from Day 1 is, ‘What can we give back to the Olympic movement by hosting these Games?’
“What we have seen from the leadership and from the ability within the city is they would do a tremendous job of hosting the world.”
The other cities bidding are Baku, Azerbaijan; Doha, Qatar; Madrid; Prague, Czech Republic; Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo.
Ctvrtlik said he is “cautiously optimistic that Chicago will advance.”
That is another important statement. “IOC members say they like people to be humble,” Ryan said, “and not to take anything for granted. They don’t like arrogance.”

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - From concerts to somber ceremonies and a moment of silence, Americans from coast to coast will recall the sacrifices of military members who paid the ultimate price for freedom on Memorial Day, Monday, May 26.
“This is our nation’s day to remember its debt to those whose sacrifice in blood and battle secured a legacy of liberty for future generations,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dr. James B. Peake.
He reminded veterans to wear their military medals on Memorial Day, a practice called the Veterans Pride Initiative launched by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in 2006.
The personal exhibition of service medals on patriotic holidays is one way for veterans to show their support of the U.S. military and particularly those serving in the Global War on Terror, and to inspire conversation about military heritage with young people.
Information for veterans about the wearing of medals and how to replace lost medals is available at http://www.va.gov/veteranspride/.
A tradition dating to the 19th Century after the Civil War and originally called Decoration Day, Memorial Day is marked at VA facilities across the country, especially VA’s national cemeteries, whose commemorative events honor about 1 million American men and women who died in service during wartime periods, including more than 651,000 battle deaths.

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It’s mid-day on Sunday along the shores of the Pemigewasset River and Padraic Bean is taking in a little sun like the many who flocked to the region for Memorial Day Weekend.
However, unlike many who head to the Lakes Region for some shopping or a cookout, the 22-year-old New Jersey resident looks more like a fur trapper than a tourist and the type of character you wouldn’t want to come upon during a canoe expedition whether it be 1828 or 2008.
Padraic is half naked save for some tasseled buckskin pants, he is drinking beer out of a 1800s-style tin cup and he is grimacing as he gets ready to make his final toss of a bag of hay in a “dead sheep” throwing competition that once saw more primitive people’s chucking disemboweled sheep stomachs for sport.
Sound a little out of the ordinary?
It may be, but for those attending this week’s Northeast Primitive Rendezvous the man known as “Pad” is a dime a dozen except that — unlike most males attending the event — he doesn’t have a long mangy beard littered with remnants of the day’s meals.
During the next week hundreds of amateur historians will gather in Sanbornton for a “Rendezvous” event that brings participants back to the early to mid 1800s when fur traders and Native American craftsmen would gather annually to stock up on goods before they headed into the woods for what could be extended periods of lonely work.
Groups around the country come together for modern-day versions of the gathering and they take the events seriously dressing in period garb, making homes in tents and teepees and foregoing showers for a more primitive experience that has them trading handmade goods ranging from buckskin clothing to jewelry and pottery.
Bean was among the many children and men who entered in the Highland Games event at this year’s Rendezvous, which say competitors throwing doing their best to throw rocks, timbers and bags of hay as far as they could.

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My mom is going to be 93 this November, and for the longest time she has been a caregiver to foster children, my paternal grandmother after a stroke, my maternal grandmother after dementia, my father with Parkinsons and of course all of her children (4).
Her health is not so good and she rarely leaves her home, and she still lives alone, but my sisters and I go all the time to see her and make sure that she is alright and to help her with whatever. When I was a small child, we gave up our home to go and live with my dad’s mother who had a stroke and my grandmother who only spoke Italian was not very nice to my mom or any of us kids, but my mom still wanted to help her. My mom’s mother, at the age of 80 came to live with my mother and father because she could not live alone anymore and my mom did not want to see her in a nursing home. When my mom had a slight stroke or heart attack (can’t remember which) she had to put my grandmother in a nursing home, and shortly thereafter, my grandmother died. When my dad retired, he was diagnosed with Parkinson and mom helped him for over 30 years until she tried to roll him over in bed with her head, and fractured her back. We then had to put him in a nursing home and shortly thereafter he died. I think my mother is one of the most caring people that I know, and I only hope that I am following in her footsteps.
My mom was constantly refinishing old furniture. Not so much out of love of the activity, but from necessity. We were a poor family, a couple of us were placed in foster homes at times to help the others survive. My mother worked outside the home when she could but also took pride in her house. Her furnishings, from various charitable sources was old, but mom would find time to strip and re-paint things. Most everything in the house would eventually be graced with mom’s touch.

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Amitabh Bachchan plans a memorial for his father
London (PTI): Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan plans a memorial for his late father Harivansh Rai Bachchan, a distinguished Hindi poet whose contribution to literature, the actor feels “cannot be ever challenged”.
“We want to do things in his memory, be it in the field of remembrance, research or in any other field but we will do it,” 65-year-old Bachchan, who was here in connection with the launch of his forthcoming film ‘Bhoothnath’ on Sunday in an interview.
Declining to give details of the scheme, the ace actor said: “Yes, you will know about it. But his (Harivansh Rai’s) contribution to literature cannot be ever challenged”.
Harivansh Rai was a distinguished Hindi poet of ‘Chhayavaad’ (romantic upsurge) literary movement in early 20th century and was best known for his collection of poems ‘Madhushala’.
Bachchan said he derived his strength from his family, especially parents. “Yes, our parents have been our life and strength. They shall remain with us… I think of them and remember them every step of my day.”
Responding to the recent tirade launched against him by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena Chief Raj Thackeray, Bachchan said, “It is a free country. Everyone has a right to say and feel what they like. I must follow the law of the land and I must follow the Constitution. I must follow my conscience. That is what I have been doing.”
Talking about opening a school after his daughter-in-law Aishwarya in Uttar Pradesh, he said, “A promise to the people of the region was made a year ago. We kept our promise and have laid the foundation stone for the school. It will now be built and become operational. I will be involved in funding the construction and will be part of the administration through a trust.”

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The members of the Crapaud Women’s Institute met in the seniors common room for their April meeting.
Nine members were present. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved, and the treasurer gave out copies of the financial report.
Correspondence consisted of a thank-you card, letters from the Queen Elizabeth and Prince County hospitals and the Bedford MacDonald House and the WI Notes and News. 
The members were asked to bring grab bags to the May meeting to be sold at the provincial convention.
Members were also reminded of the bake sale to be held at the garden show.
Funds were voted to the Queen Elizabeth and Prince County hospitals and the Bedford MacDonald homeless shelter.
Members were reminded that the provincial convention will be held on May 28.
The members of St. John’s Anglican Church Women, Crapaud, visited Andrews Lodge in Charlottetown for their April meeting and social time and had as their guests Muriel Crosby and Annie Moore, former members of the group who are now living at the lodge.
President Marilyn Myers welcomed everyone and then read about how being an older women can be rewarding. She used as examples Mary and Elizabeth from the Bible as it was quite possible that Elizabeth gave Mary, the mother of Jesus, encouragement and support as she prepared for the birth of Jesus.
Gladys Lowther read a scripture lesson from Titus.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved, and members answered roll call with a verse of Scripture.
Some of the members also read some funny church stories, and lunch was served, provided by the members. Stories and reminiscences of the picnics, suppers, get togethers and friends past and present were enjoyed before the guests were helped back to their rooms,
Upcoming events include a Mother’s Day tea to be held at the old Canoe Cove School today, 2-4 p.m. Admission is $5 at the door. It is sponsored by the Canoe Cove Community Association, and proceeds will go towards the beautification and maintenance of the old school. Tea and sweets will be provided. All are welcome.

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NAZRAN, May 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russian police killed early on Thursday a militant who was reported to have been planning an attack during the upcoming May 9 Victory Day celebrations in the North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, a local police spokesman said.
The militant was killed in a shootout in the Kantishevo village near the republic's largest city of Nazran.
Ingushetia has seen a sharp increase in attacks by militants on police and members of the armed forces of late.
A Victory Day bomb in neighboring Chechnya killed the republic's pro-Moscow president, Akhmad Kadyrov, in 2004. Around 15 other people died in the attack.
Victory Day marks the final surrender by Nazi Germany to the U.S.S.R. in WWII, often referred to as the Great Patriotic War in Russia and other states in the former Soviet Union.

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The Lee County extension of the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences is asking the community to turn out the lights from 8 p.m. until 8:15 p.m. Tuesday, April 22.
The voluntary blackout will be held to commemorate Earth Day.
Downtown Fort Myers businesses and restaurants and stores in Lee County have been invited to participate in the blackout and Lee County schools are supporting this event as well.
The purpose of the event is to offer 15 minutes of respite to the environment, according to a press release.

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