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naurrr tell me why do i fully believe the bread thing with the priest can actually happen 💀 i can exactly imagine a pompous, self-important priest doing that. also might be a weird question to ask so feel free to ignore, but what Christian Denomination were you raised in? i'm not familiar with what's popular in america and even if i was, i'm sure american christian culture is different from mine's
there are certainly missionaries with good intentions at heart, but i've witnessed some of the wildest conversations about 'serving the least of these' where some deborah or another thinks herself a saint for going to mexico for a day or something. they don't come outright and say it but you pick up the vibe.
i grew up in a baptist church but after some drama with said church (no one ever told me what the drama was, much to my chagrin), i got booted over to nondenominational which is basically the same thing but the pastor wears skinny jeans and can make slightly frisky jokes about his wife now.
some fun facts about little lock's misadventures:
i tried swimming around when i got baptized but the pastor wouldn't let me go too far
my dad wouldn't give me a dollar to buy a muffin once at the church café so i prayed that i'd pass out from hunger so he'd feel bad
i thought my intellectual prowess above the unsophisticated veggie tale-esque lessons in the kid's wing (the place where parents stuff their children during the service if anyone is unfamiliar with the term). i petitioned my parents to go to the regular service instead so i could learn real theology. the sermons were so boring though that i'd fall asleep during each one
i apparently flipped the pastor off as a baby. no clue why
i got in trouble for asking jesus for a pet pig on a prayer request card. to this day i think i should have my records expunged for this non crime
#to this day one of the worst experiences of my life was a group trip to tennessee#in retrospect i find it hilarious but at the time it was so cursed#a kid got bit by a poisonous snake but he was being awful to a special needs kid so the snake kinda popped off ngl#lock lore#answered#Anonymous
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New Demigod Cabin: Aristaeus
Aristaeus is the son of Apollo and the huntress Cyrene, and the god of beekeeping. He's also associated with many rustic and pastoral arts and crafts, which he is said to have learned from his aunts and uncles and then passed on to humans. He married Autonoë, daughter of Cadmus of Thebes, and their son was the hunter Actaeon who was transformed into a stag and torn apart by his own hunting dogs after seeing Artemis naked. Aristaeus accidentally caused the death of Orpheus' wife Eurydice when she stepped on a snake while he was chasing her.
Aristaeus' cabin at Camp Half-Blood is warm and cozy, with and endless supply of honey and a beehive outside the back.
Following the deaths of his son Actaeon and later his mortal wife Autonoë, Aristaeus retreated from the world for many years. But a simultaneous decline in bee health and populations and increased interest in amateur beekeeping in recent decades has caused Aristaeus to begin mingling with mortals once again.
Aristaeus' demigod children are good with words and speeches. They have a strong work ethic and also have faster reflexes, even for demigods. Bees are associated with prophecy and as grandchildren of Apollo, these demigods have a limited degree of foresight, often being able to anticipate opponents' moves.
Cabin Members:
Ambrose Ashbee Melissa Ashbee Hugh Honey Deborah Honey Head Counselor: Melinda Huckabee
#pjo#pjo series#pjo cabins#camp half blood#pjo moodboard#pjo aesthetic#percy jackon and the olympians#percy jackson cabins#pjo new cabins#pjo fan cabins#percy jackson new cabins#aristaeus#aristaeus cabin#pjo fanfiction#percy jackson fanfiction
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Outside the California State Capitol last month, a fitness trainer turned school board president fired up the crowd at a parental rights rally, telling them they were all fighters in “a spiritual battle” for their kids and must answer the call from God.
Sonja Shaw, who was elected to the Chino Valley Unified School District board of education last November with an assist from a local megachurch and its Christian nationalist pastor, didn’t equivocate in naming the enemy: state Democratic officials who are challenging her right-leaning policies—and drafting laws that hinder book bans and protect teachers from harassment.
“Today we stand here and declare in his almighty name that it’s only a matter of time before we take your seats and we be a God-fearing example to the nation, how God is using California to lead the way,” Shaw crowed, adding, “We already know who has won this battle. You will be removed in Jesus’s name! You, Satan, are losing.”
Now Shaw is in the national spotlight in wake of her Chino school board passing codes that ban pride flags in classrooms and force educators to inform parents if their children identify as transgender���the first such policy to be passed in the state.
This summer, Shaw’s school board meetings, about 35 miles east of Los Angeles, became chaotic spectacles, ones that attracted the Proud Boys and other right-wing extremists and pitted them against students and parents protesting what they’re calling anti-LGBTQ practices that endanger children. When California superintendent of schools Tony Thurmond appeared at the July meeting in opposition, Shaw unceremoniously silenced him.
Weeks after state Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a civil rights probe into Shaw’s “gender disclosure” policy, his office sued the school board. Bonta said the policy violates the California constitution and state law, and would cause LGBTQ+ students, “mental, emotional, psychological and potential physical harm,” according to a press release.
Other right-leaning school boards across the state have followed Chino Valley Unified’s lead. Shortly before filing suit against the Chino board, Bonta issued statements denouncing the Anderson Union High School District, Temecula Valley Unified and Murrieta Valley Unified school boards’ decisions to pursue “copycat” anti-trans policies.
“These students are currently under threat of being outed to their parents against their will, and many fear that the District’s policy will force them to make a choice: either ‘walk back’ their constitutionally and statutorily protected rights to gender identity and gender expression, or face the risk of emotional, physical, and psychological harm,” Bonta said.
To concerned observers in Chino, Shaw’s tack is not unlike what’s happening at school boards across the country, with brawls over curriculum, social emotional learning, and the banning of books that focus on race and LGBTQ issues. Extremist groups like Moms for Liberty have spawned a mainstream narrative that public schools are “indoctrinating” children with “woke” ideology and into believing they’re a different gender.
But in Chino Valley, the school board’s new direction appears to be spurred on by a man behind the curtain: Shaw’s megachurch pastor Jack Hibbs.
Indeed, three of the board’s five members belong to his church, Calvary Chapel Chino Hills.
At the Sacramento rally, Hibbs boasted of his congregation’s work in electing Shaw. Calling her a “true modern-day Deborah,” Hibbs said the soccer mom “heeded the call to run for the school board” and that “when churches get involved and get informed, people vote.”
God, Hibbs said, installed Shaw into her position.
“Get on your knees every night,” Shaw told the crowd. “All day I talk to him. People probably think I’m crazy, but I’m really just talking to God all day.” After reciting a Bible verse, she added, “I have looked demons straight in the eye and with God’s authority rebuked them back to hell where they belong.”
“You can do that too, trust me.”
Residents have long raised alarms about the school board’s religious bent. And Pastor Hibbs and members of his megachurch congregation appear to be more involved than ever in Chino’s public schools.
Last week, in an interview with right-wing provocateur Charlie Kirk, Hibbs said that he brought the policy language to the school board after Republican state Assemblyman Bill Essayli’s “parental notification” legislation died without a hearing.
“He came back thinking he was defeated,” Hibbs said. “What we did is that we read his bill and we took the verbiage from that bill and then introduced it to our unified school district school board and they voted and adopted the verbiage.”
“Guess what happened?” Hibbs continued. “We found out something, Charlie, that the most powerful politics is local…”
Hibbs then turned to Bonta’s lawsuit against the board, saying, “We’re going to take that on, we’re going to make sure that this goes to the U.S. Supreme Court.”
The pastor, who hasn’t returned messages left by The Daily Beast, wasn’t shy about his fight on the school board’s behalf.
Before he signed off, Hibbs told Kirk that children are “groomed” into trans ideology in the classroom and that schools want to ��castrate your children” and “mutilate them.”
Ahead of the parental notification vote in July, Hibbs also urged people to flock to the fiery board meeting. “We’re asking people to show up by the thousands,” he said in a video announcement on the church’s Facebook page. “Please make it a priority.”
Meanwhile, Calvary Chapel has boasted on social media of collecting tens of thousands of ballots for state and local candidates endorsed by Hibbs. The church’s ballot collection, a practice it’s engaged in for years, is conducted with help from Hibbs’ political organization Real Impact.
A teacher in another district—who alleges she was fired for refusing to follow her school’s gender identity protocols—heeded Hibbs’ call. “I could no longer be both a Christian and a public school teacher,” she said at the board meeting. “Then I remembered what Pastor Jack Hibbs taught me, that the word of God says… that being a coward is a sin.”
Still, Shaw claims that neither she nor the school board follow Hibbs’ orders. “Absolutely not. No one has a direct line to Pastor Jack Hibbs. Pastor Jack has never said, ‘Hey, guys, I want you to bring this policy forward.’ Never ever did he do any of that,” she told The Daily Beast. She added, however, that she couldn’t speak on Hibbs’ involvement with the board of education prior to her election.
The mother of two daughters—a freshman and junior in high school—Shaw was a Bible study leader at another church before joining Hibbs’ Calvary Chapel Chino Hills about two years ago.
Last September, Shaw told the San Bernardino Sun that she wasn’t running for election on the behalf of the 10,000-member Calvary Chapel. “They keep calling me ‘the church’s choice.’ I’ve never met Pastor Jack (Hibbs). I’ve never been brought up on stage,” she said.
One month later, however, Hibbs introduced her at the pulpit, telling his Sunday service that “she’s truly going up against the machine” before leading a prayer for her victory. Shaw bowed her head as Hibbs lifted a hand in the air and declared, “She has decided, Lord, to take on the woke-ism that is attacking our children.”
Hibbs has emboldened supporters to fight progressive education bills and prop up Christian candidates. In his sermons, he has tearfully prayed on stage for Donald Trump to win the 2020 election, said COVID-19 vaccines would lead people into accepting “the mark of the beast,” and called “transgenderism” a “sexually perverted cult” and “an anti-God, anti-Christ plan of none other than Satan himself.”
On education, he’s claimed that he and his acolytes are “trying to rescue kids from a system that is sexualizing them,” that kids “come out of school questioning their gender but they don’t even know how to do simple math” and “are being raped by the public school system.”
Hibbs has also taken aim at California’s abortion protections, describing them as “Infanticidal Death Policies,” in a document circulated to his congregation in October 2022, just before Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s re-election.
“If God does not intervene in this upcoming election through His people, which has always been his MO, and, if Newsom has his way, then this will certainly be proof that judgment has begun in California if not the United States,” the document reads. It ends by encouraging followers to return their ballots to the church.
“We should be able to stand against the school board,” Hibbs said in May. “We should be able to stand against some teacher that is molesting your child—if not physically, in their minds.”
In July, Hibbs delivered a skewed history lesson claiming that some founding fathers “inherited” slaves but actually cared for them. “Before you call them rich white guys who were slave owners,” Hibbs preached, “you need to finish the sentence: They were rich white guys who were slave owners who clothed, fed, and in many cases took very good care of their slaves while at the same time juggling two worlds…”
The megachurch has also tried to meddle in Chino Valley public school classes and teachings. Calvary Chapel members once funded textbooks for an elective course in two public high schools on the Bible as history and literature and tried to alter rules for sex education curriculum.
The church also runs a Christian “Released Time” program, where public school students can duck out of class for weekly one-hour Bible lessons held in buses outfitted with tables and chairs. This program had a table at the district’s back-to-school night, and a volunteer in a Calvary Chapel Chino Hills T-shirt handed out candy and Bible coloring books.
“This is a national movement and it’s intentional,” former school board president Christina Gagnier told The Daily Beast. “I think Chino Valley is a cautionary tale.”
District parent Glory Ciccarelli condemned Hibbs’ words on slavery at the August board meeting, urging Black parents to leave his church and “wake up and realize that what our ancestors went through is slowly getting phased out of the curriculum to the point where our kids will eventually be taught that literal slaveholders were nice guys…”
Ciccarelli told The Daily Beast that her biggest issue with Chino Valley leadership is “the apathy they have for the Black kids in the district,” and that the board needs professional development training relating to race and culture and diversity in hiring.
But she believes that Hibbs’ influence over certain board members could derail any progress in the district. In addition to Shaw, two other school board members—James Na and Andrew Cruz—are also members of Calvary Chapel.
“Cruz and Na are quite literally acolytes of Jack Hibbs at this point,” Ciccarelli said. “In my opinion, everything they say and believe as it relates to the school board is basically something they have heard from him.”
Hibbs, she added, “reminds me of Jim Jones with the way he is so easily able to control so many people at the same time.”
At the July board meeting that attracted far-right extremists like the Proud Boys, some local parents pushed back against the church’s connections to the school board.
“Madam President, board, cabinet, and staff,” quipped one father of a queer child, “I didn’t know I came to church tonight. I thought it was a board meeting.”
So many citizens had signed up to speak, waiting in a line outside in 100-degree weather, that the board cut the public comment period from three minutes to one minute per person.
Lisa Greathouse, a local mom and former school board candidate, defended teachers against claims they were “indoctrinating” and “grooming” kids. “Make no mistake,” Greathouse told the auditorium, “what this board is pushing through now is just the tip of the iceberg. They are taking their cue from their megachurch…”
Outbursts from hecklers interrupted the proceeding, which had a heavy police and security presence. Speakers from out of town and from Calvary Chapel preached about God and the Devil, facing off with parents and students who warned Shaw and her board they would have blood on their hands should the “outing” policy pass.
One moment in particular was so explosive it made headlines: Shaw excoriated Tony Thurmond, California’s state superintendent of schools, who’d asked her to reconsider the policy about notifying parents if their children identified as trans. He said it might run afoul of student privacy laws and jeopardize kids who “may not be in homes where they can be safe.”
Thurmond wasn’t finished with his remarks, but Shaw cut him off for time like she did anyone else. “Tony Thurmond,” she seethed, “I appreciate you being here, tremendously. But here’s the problem: We’re here because of people like you. You’re in Sacramento proposing things that pervert children!”
After Thurmond tried to continue, Shaw yelled into her mic that she wouldn’t let him “blackmail” or “bully” her district. Video of the scene showed Thurmond exchanging words with a group of cops before walking away.
In a statement, Thurmond told The Daily Beast that a group of concerned students contacted him about Shaw’s proposal, and he rearranged his schedule to be there. “Let’s be clear about these policies—a small group of anti-LGBTQ+ politicians like Ms. Shaw believe they have the right to dictate when and how students and their families talk about their sexual orientation or gender identity,” Thurmond said. “They are trying to turn our public school educators—who are already overworked and underpaid—into the gender police.”
“Choosing when to come out and to whom is a deeply personal decision that LGBTQ+ young people have the right to make for themselves.”
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Ashlee Peters, the parent of a child in the district, watched the scene unfold. “As an educator and as a mom, you just sit there and go, ‘I can’t believe this is happening in my community,’” said Peters, who has been a public school teacher for 22 years.
Peters was also in line when far-right activist Bryce Henson, who also goes by Ben Richards, walked around trying to bait people into reacting on camera. “He would come up to you and be like, ‘I just want to talk to you, why can’t we just have a conversation about this?’” It was a sneak preview of the testimony to come.
Inside, people proselytized and spewed hatred, calling LGBTQ people “terrorists” and warning “demons are after our children.” Richards called transgender, Black Lives Matter and Juneteenth flags flying outside his San Diego school district a symbol of “systemic radical leftist indoctrination." One mother ended her speech with, “As Jason Aldean would say, ‘Well, try that in a small town.’”
When it was her turn, Peters warned that the “outing” policy would “create a hostile environment” for LGBTQIA+ students and that the board’s “reckless pursuit of personal agendas” could bring about “expensive lawsuits.”
The atmosphere was so tense that security escorted a person out who put hands on someone else, Peters said. “It seriously feels like I’m in some sort of weird dystopia,” Peters told The Daily Beast. “I don’t know how this happened because it does not feel real.”
Peters believes that what’s unfolding in Chino Valley Unified is a wake-up call to monitor school board elections. “I just didn’t think it was going to happen in my community because I live in California,” she said. “I feel relatively safe living in a blue state—that religion wasn’t going to suddenly take over my public school system, and it has.”
Even though the involvement of Hibbs and his megachuch in local public schools has been center stage in Chino Valley this year, it’s a battle that’s been brewing for at least a decade. Back in 2014, the Freedom from Religion Foundation filed a lawsuit on behalf of parents in Chino Valley over prayers and Bible readings at school board meetings, arguing these practices “constituted an establishment of religion in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments.”
The prayers and Bible verses were being led by Calvary Chapel members James Na and Andrew Cruz, who were elected to the school board in 2008 and 2012 respectively.
According to the prayer lawsuit, Na once told spectators of a school board meeting that their “lives begin in the hospital and end in the church, and urged everyone who does not know Jesus Christ to go and find Him.” In 2013, Na sent out a letter to school district “family member[s]” that referred to Hibbs with an excerpt from “Pastor Jack’s Christmas story.”
“The community is going to rise and create a war chest to help you,” Hibbs told the board in 2016 in the midst of the legal battle, though a crowdfunding drive affiliated with the church apparently never delivered. A school board spokesperson previously said that funding was intended to bring the case to the Supreme Court.
A federal judge ultimately ruled in the parents’ favor, and the board lost its Ninth Circuit appeal, leaving the district with $282,000 in legal bills.
This apparently hasn’t stopped Cruz’s Christian commentary. In April, he went on a rant wherein he said that if he were governor, he’d mandate citizens be trained in firearms and that, “I do love one man, I really love this man, and that is Jesus Christ. It’s in my head.”
Since his election, Cruz has especially ignited parents’ ire and weathered calls to resign as a result of his offensive remarks and chemtrail conspiracy theories. In 2015, Cruz said mothers who don’t vaccinate their kids are wrongfully vilified while “illegal aliens” bring infectious disease to America. In 2018, Cruz infamously said that “it wasn’t Hitler that was bad, it was the people that follow the laws and the agenda” while discussing “parents rights.”
That year, Na and Cruz (and Hibbs) proposed that parents have the ability to opt kids out of sex-ed discussions on gender identity, sexual orientation, and discrimination—and for schools to notify parents when a transgender student uses a locker room or shower. Those measures failed.
Na is also not without controversy. Aside from his religious musings at the board, he’s also been accused of trying to recruit at least one student to Calvary Chapel.
At a June board meeting, a statement was read on behalf of Esther Kim, who was the panel’s student representative in the 2021-2022 school year. “In sophomore year, I met Mr. Na through a personal phone call where his school board role and my school were acknowledged,” Kim said. “During an unrelated conversation, he attempted to persuade me to go to his church.”
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Federal law explicitly prohibits churches from engaging in political campaign activity.
Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, where Jack Hibbs is pastor and school board member Sonja Shaw is a parishioner, should immediately have its tax exempt status revoked under 501 (3)(c).
File a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service HERE. Email the completed form to [email protected].
Specific info for the IRS form:
• This church's EIN (Tax ID #) is 33-0419808.
• Address: 4201 Eucalyptus Ave, Chino, CA 91710
• Complaint Against: Jack Hibbs, Pastor
• Date Of Violation: April 19, 2023
• Description: Pastor Hibbs held a political rally outside the California State Capitol in opposition to a specific bill pending in the legislature. Also published a notice in the church newsletter soliciting attendees for this political lobbying rally under the headline, "California Lobby Day: Stop AB 2223."
• Evidence #1: Political Lobbying Violation on the church's newsletter (include link)
• Evidence #2: Archive.org snapshot of the newsletter article (include link)
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Chapter eighteen, part five
Deborah started cooking for diner. Making Aidan even more angry wasn't on her wishlist. She would make something he really liked so he hopefully forget what she had or actually hadn't done. Hopefully her family would react so happy that he would still be happy when he came home.
She didn't try to provoke him more that night. During diner she agreed with everything he said. He clearly liked what she had cooked for diner but he had no compliments that night. After diner she made the kitchen clean and then started to read a book in the livingroom. When they went to bed she didn't say no to him. She had tried to say no whenever he wanted more then just laying side by side. But everytime he had quoted scripture to her about how it was her job as a wife to satisfy him. Whenever he came with scripture she had nothing more to say. He was the pastor and therefor the expert on scripture. She couldn't go against him with that. So she had no other choice but to let him go his way. Even if she was tired or nausious because of her pregnancy.
Back I Spreadsheet I From beginning I Next
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the dolls in 1974 by Deborah Konczal Pastor <3
#70s rock#punk rock#punk music#70s punk#early punk#new york dolls#johnny thunders#david johansen#sylvain sylvain#jerry nolan#arthur kane#arthur killer kane#glam punk#glam#70s glam#glam rock
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Books Read in 2022
January
The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: The Landscape of Celtic Myth and Spirit by Patricia Monaghan
The Unpassing by Chia-Chia Lin
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine
February
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West by Catherine Fletcher
The Desolations of Devil’s Acre (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #6) by Ransom Riggs
Eifelhelm by Michael Flynn
The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer
March
The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley (reread)
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow by Natasha Pulley
April
The Parted Earth by Anjani Enjeti
Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
The Last Blue by Isla Morley
Lone Stars by Justin Deabler
All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South by Ruth Coker Burns
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
May
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (reread)
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
LaRose by Louise Erdrich
A History of Native American Land Rights in Upstate New York by Cindy Amrhein
June
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties by Dianne Lake and Deborah Herman
These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W.E.B. Dubois
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
July
No Exit by Taylor Adams
The Wanderers by Meg Howrey
A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes
Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu
Calypso by David Sedaris
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The First English Actresses: Women and Drama 1660-1700 by Elizabeth Howe
English Animals by Laura Kaye
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
August
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman (reread)
The Latecomers by Helen Klein Ross
Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
September
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Country Roots: The Origins of Country Music by Douglas B. Green
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Golden Gates: The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning for the American Dream by Conor Dougherty
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson (reread)
J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys: The Real Story Behind Peter Pan by Andrew Birkin
The Lost Ones by Anita Frank
October
A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw
When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates
The Reddening by Adam Nevill
My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
November
It Happened in the Smokies... A Mountaineer’s Memories of Happenings in the Smoky Mountains in Pre-Park Days by Gladys Trentham Russell
Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey by James Rebanks
Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres
I Was Told There’d be Cake: Essays by Sloane Crosley
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin
December
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter (reread)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (reread)
Mrs. Death Misses Death by Salena Godden
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
#books in 2022#books#booklr#reading list#just finished moon of the crusted snow#i haven't even thought about which were my favorite books that i read this year yet
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RHAPSODY OF REALITIES DAILY DEVOTIONAL
Sunday, 11th December 2022
SINGERS OF HIS PRAISE
Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works (Psalm 105:2).
PASTOR CHRIS OYAKHILOME PHD
All the great men or women of God you find in the Bible were singers of the Lord’s praise. No wonder they lived an extraordinarily victorious life in every way. It’s time for us to learn to praise and sing unto the Lord Most High; we’re to sing songs of the Spirit, for we’re singers of His praise!
For example, after crossing the Red Sea and witnessing how the Egyptian warlords perished in it, Moses broke out in songs of praise: “…I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously…The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him a habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him. The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name” (Exodus 15:1-3).
When the Israelites fought against King Jabin and destroyed him, Deborah and Barak sang to the Lord with these beautiful words: “Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel…Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel” (Judges 5:2-3).
How about Miriam’s poetic acknowledgement of Israel’s miraculous deliverance from the charging Egyptians: “…Sing to the LORD, because he has won a glorious victory; he has thrown the horses and their riders into the sea” (Exodus 15:21 GNB).
Over in the New Testament, we read the prophetic utterance about Jesus that says, “...in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee” (Hebrews 2:12). The prophetic utterance about Jesus declares that He would sing praises to the Lord in the midst of the church, among His brethren. And He did. Hallelujah! The night before He was betrayed, after He had served His disciples the Holy Communion, the Bible says, “They sang a hymn and went directly to Mount Olives” (Matthew 26:30 MSG). Then in Luke 10:21, He did something beautiful: He sang a psalm. Psalms are spiritual songs. Glory to God!
PRAYER
Dear Father, I praise your Name, and worship your majesty, for you’re the healer, the supplier of all good things, and you’re greater than all. Thank you for granting me the grace to prevail always over circumstances, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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“You’re a beautiful enigma, and I want to unravel every secret you hold.” + “Let me lose myself in you; I want to know every part of your being.” - fnaftm anna to niel. :3.
niel's brows furrowed hard , finding himself immediately being drawn towards to the idea of being reserved rather than listening to a word that the redhead spoke ; yet , parts of him felt DRAWN to her , felt INCLINED to listen , to open up . as if she had somehow DESERVED the intimate , private parts that composed nathaniel . surface level , he was a previous delivery boy and night guard who used humor and laughter as a weapon that was skillfully weld to hide another deeper . he had never wanted to be anything more than just a guy , yet . . . HERE he was . months after everything happened , he'd found himself in the position of trying to push away everyone he had deemed friends to keep them in secrecy of what was happening behind the scenes .
niel had told everyone he was fine , that he wasn't worried , that he held no ill feelings about anything that happened to him when these were all lies . months of anger , rage , fury had culminated and boiled to a point where nathaniel had heavily considered murdering that rat bastard in the cell where he stood , and then . . . nothing . nate hadn't told anna anything about the creature that plagued him , the vicious entity that hunger for the blood of their very shared ex-boss , and right now he wasn't sure if he could allow himself to elaborate . but . . . she was so nice , she asked so eloquently , and who was nate to deny her ? so , despite everything in his body threatening to close off right there , the raven gives a deep , shaky sigh and nods his head .
" okay , sure . . . i'll . . . tell you as much as i can , i promise . " the man gives her a tight lipped smile , trying to get comfortable on his couch as his hands idly picked at the seams of his jeans . " if you want me to start from the very beginning , i'm the son of a single mom , deborah . great lady , a bit religious , she uh . . . she thought there was something off with me when i was little , i was talking to myself , she said i'd started to lie and hide from her , but all i can really remember funny enough is my imaginary friend i had at the time . " he chuckles , shaking his head and adverting his gaze.
" she took me to the pastor , took me to sunday school , prayed and asked ME to pray every night , the whole nine yards . . . she passed when i was 15 , hung herself about a week into my sophomore year . and since she was the only family i had , i was basically toted around foster care homes until i hit 18 , couch hoped until i turn 21 , and then started up at freddy's as a delivery driver . . . you know the rest of that story though , " niel snorts , bringing his attention back onto her . " but , after all the shit went down at freddy's , i just . . . i got so mad , i was so angry , and scared , and i didn't know what to do . . . "
nate swallows thickly , eyes going vacant for a moment , trailing to the entity that stalked eerily in the corner of the room before focusing back onto anna . " i hid , i ran , i fought , i did what i thought was right and would make me feel better , but every night i would STILL go to bed terrified and enraged , and then . . . it was like it all stopped , i woke up and i was fine , and i felt like i could move ON finally ; but , the lord had other plans for me and i'm in another vat of hot water dealing with a different beast . " niel swallows thickly , hands fidgeting idly now with each other . " and i don't know if i'm able to explain that part . . . " he hears the creature that plaged only his vision titter , jaw locking up and emitting a soft sigh .
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Sunday School Lesson for Nov 3 2024 Jonah Repents
Pentecostal Power of Deliverance Video Sunday School
284 Weyl Street – Rochester, NY 14621
Overseers and Founders:
Bishop Melvin C. Cross Sr. & Pastor Dr. Beleader D. Cross
Sunday School Lesson | 11/3/24
“Jonah Repents”
Jonah 2:1-10
Teacher: Elder Deborah Miller
What is Repentance? Repentance is the act of acknowledging and feeling remorse for past or current wrongdoings, and then taking steps to change for the better. It involves a change of heart and mind, turning away from sin, and seeking forgiveness and help from God, via His Son, Jesus Christ. In Christianity, repentance is a key part of walking with God in holiness after turning away from sin. In some Christian traditions, repentance is central to confession and absolution. In today’s Sunday school lesson, the prophet Jonah repents. Question, “Couldn’t God have just chosen one who would have obeyed?” Join me for Sunday school.
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Nicole Kardar, 40, grew up in the small, conservative city of Andersonville, Georgia. Raised by strict, religious parents, Michael Kardar (68), a high school principal, and Deborah Kardar (65), a church secretary, Nicole’s childhood was deeply rooted in faith, discipline, and academic achievement. Her older brother, David Kardar (42), became a youth pastor, and her younger sister, Rebecca Kardar (36), is a high school math teacher, reflecting the values of structure and responsibility that their parents instilled in all of them.
Nicole excelled academically, earning a scholarship to the University of Kentucky, where she began her studies in education. However, during her second semester of freshman year, Nicole became pregnant after a short relationship, a life-altering event that forced her to drop out. Fearing her parents’ disapproval, she chose not to tell them about the pregnancy, cutting off contact and setting out on her own to raise her daughter. She took a job at a daycare to provide for herself and her child, seeing it as the best option for balancing work and motherhood.
At 21, Nicole met Robert “Bob” Carter (then 34), an older man who owned a used car dealership. Bob provided Nicole with stability, and they quickly married. Their marriage was highly traditional. Nicole adopted the role of a stay-at-home mom, cooking, cleaning, and caring for their daughter, Lila, while Bob took on the role of the breadwinner. Nicole found comfort in the structure of her life, embracing activities like knitting, sewing, baking, and reading as hobbies to fill her time. Despite the outward appearance of a perfect life, Nicole always felt a bit unfulfilled but didn’t want to ruffle any feathers. She preferred to maintain the status quo, avoiding confrontation and doing her best to keep everything peaceful.
After twelve years of marriage, Nicole began to feel increasingly restless, feeling as though she could achieve more. She believed her life had become stagnant and initiated a separation from Bob, even though they tried counseling on and off for three more years before eventually divorcing. Their split, however, was amicable, with Nicole still valuing the role Bob had played in her life, but knowing she needed more for herself.
Now divorced, Nicole has decided to return to school to pursue a degree in health care administration, eager to make something of herself outside of her traditional homemaker role. Her return to academia has reignited the ambition she had in her youth, and she’s determined to build a career that both challenges her and provides a sense of accomplishment.
Nicole is reserved, highly organized, and careful not to disrupt the balance in her personal or professional life. Though she prefers not to stir up drama or confrontation, Nicole is quietly determined and knows what she wants for her future. Her daughter, Lila (20), is now in college studying psychology with the aim of becoming a therapist. Nicole is incredibly proud of Lila and has focused much of her energy on supporting her daughter’s ambitions, just as she is beginning to focus on her own.
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John K. Bonczewski
John K. Bonczewski, of Edwardsville, passed away on Thursday, June 20th, at Allied Hospice Meade Street, Wilkes-Barre.
John graduated from Kingston High School in 1959. Afterwards, he attended Wilkes- Barre Business Academy and embarked on a career as a salesman for Central Warehouse Corporation,
As a well-respected salesman, John showcased his strong work ethic and charismatic personality.
John’s impact extended far beyond his professional achievements. He was active in the community coaching and mentoring countless young athletes in Ed-Lark Little League and Edwardsville Eagles football. Additionally, he served as a member of Edwardsville Council for many years.
Outside of sports, John devoted countless hours to his faith community. First Welsh Presbyterian Church. He served as treasurer of the church for over 30 years; as well as participating in numerous church activities reflecting his generous spirit and commitment to serving others.
He was preceded in death by his sister, Madeline Golembeski.
John is survived by his beloved wife, Roberta, with whom he celebrated 58 years of marriage. He is also survived by his two devoted sons, John (Jack) and his partner, Karen Stempowski, and Robert and his wife, Karen; and cherished grandchildren, Abby and Jillian. He is also survived by brother-in-law, Robert Roberts, and his wife Deborah, along with several nieces and nephews.
Family and friends are invited to visit from 4 to 7 PM on Monday, June 24th, at Hugh B. Hughes & Son, Inc. Funeral Home, 1044 Wyoming Ave., Forty Fort.
Funeral service will be held at 10 AM on Tuesday, June 25th, at First Welsh Presbyterian Church, 398 Main St., Edwardsville, with Pastor Jack Griffiths, officiating. Interment will be held at Evergreen Cemetery, Dallas. Family and friends are asked to go directly to the church.
The family would like to extend their deepest gratitude to Dr. Michael Rupp, Kaci Wall DNP, CRNP, and Dr. Devin Carey for their diligent, compassionate care, and support.
Memorial contributions can be made to First Welsh Presbyterian on Main Street in Edwardsville or SPCA of Luzerne County.
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Chapter eighteen, part one
Deborah ran away from her parents house. Pain and grief made her run until she couldn't anymore.
The nature around her was beautiful even though it was clouded that day. Still it didn't seem to make her feel better. Finaly she though about asking her parents for the phonenumber of her grandparents. She longed to call her grandmother and tell her about all things that happend since she traveled back home. Deborah walked closer to the stream that flowed between the trees.
Her mother gave her the number of her grandmother. But not the right one. The one who lived close by, mother of her father. That was not the number Deborah wanted. She wanted the one from her grandmother of her mothers side. When she mentioned that she wanted her other grandmothers number her mother had frowned. Her mother simply refused to give her the number with the message that she shouldn't stay in the past. She had to start living in the present. Her mother mentioned the beautiful life she had now as the pastors wife.
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syl ?? and david!!
(if anybody knows who it is or what year please do tell! i'm guessing around '75-'76?"
photo credit to Deborah Konczal Pastor <3
#70s rock#punk rock#punk music#70s punk#early punk#new york dolls#johnny thunders#david johansen#sylvain sylvain#glam punk#glam#glitter rock#glam rock#70s glam
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JUNE 7, 2024
Something for Everyone
Deborah Ormay (Pennsylvania, USA)
"While physical training has some value, training in holy living is useful for everything. It has promise for this life now and the life to come." - 1 Timothy 4:8 (CEB)
"I enjoy watching the birds outside my home-office window. From this vantage point, I have learned about the feeding styles and food preferences of various birds. Slate-colored juncos hop backward on the garden floor to reveal food. Mourning doves poke around on the ground to find millet seeds that have fallen from the feeders. Downy woodpeckers take a seed from the feeder and hammer it against a tree branch to crack it open. Goldfinches can’t get enough thistle seeds. Nuthatches peck away at suet. Black-capped chickadees like everything!
Watching the birds reminds me of the many spiritual disciplines we use to stay close to God and grow in faith. Fasting, prayer, daily Bible reading, meditation, walking a labyrinth, worship, and Bible study are some ways we can feed our faith. Personally, I keep a prayer journal and use The Upper Room as part of my daily spiritual practice.
Anytime is a perfect time to try a new spiritual practice. Whether it’s walking a labyrinth for the first time or joining a Bible study, whatever we learn from these new practices will stay with us and serve us in the future." Spiritual growth comes from prayer, Bible study, meditation and discussions with other Christians. You feed yourself with the information you need to push ahead through life.
TODAY'S PRAYER
"Gracious God, thank you for the many ways we can learn about you and grow in our faith. Bless us and keep us close to you." Amen.
1 Timothy 4:6-16
"'6 If you point these things out to the believers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus who has been trained by the words of faith and the good teaching that you’ve carefully followed. 7 But stay away from the godless myths that are passed down from the older women. Train yourself for a holy life! 8 While physical training has some value, training in holy living is useful for everything. It has promise for this life now and the life to come. 9 This saying is reliable and deserves complete acceptance. 10 We work and struggle for this: “Our hope is set on the living God, who is the savior of all people, especially those who believe.” 11 Command these things. Teach them. 12 Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young. Instead, set an example for the believers through your speech, behavior, love, faith, and by being sexually pure. 13 Until I arrive, pay attention to public reading, preaching, and teaching. 14 Don’t neglect the spiritual gift in you that was given through prophecy when the elders laid hands on you. 15 Practice these things, and live by them so that your progress will be visible to all. 16 Focus on working on your own development and on what you teach. If you do this, you will save yourself and those who hear you." Being fully aware of spiritual activity around you every day will help you stay grounded in faith. Practice things from scripture, explore an idea from a pastor/religious leader, and just remain aware of the things that can make a spiritual difference. We can always learn. Bless you! Joe
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