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The Devil's Hole - A Haunted House
Folklore: Paranormal/Hinsdale
Screams in the Night
Folklore: Machias
Inn in Ellicottville not Accepted by Holland Land Company
Baker Leonard was contracted by the Holland Land Company to build an inn to accommodate prospective purchasers in Ellicottville, NY. When finished in 1817 the Holland Land Company refused to accept the building. It was deemed to have cost too much to build. The excessive cost came from the fact that the lumber used in the construction had to be hauled from a saw mill in Kill Buck, eleven miles away. The trail was marked by blazed trees. There were no bridges to use and the "road" was obstructed with fallen trees, swampland and rough ground.
Retired Doctor Andrew Mead Murdered by Theodore Nicholas
Theodore Nicholas killed his uncle retired doctor, Andrew Mead in Allegany, NY in December 1869.
In his eight decades of life, Andrew Mead proved himself a remarkable individual -- saw-mill builder, doctor, jurist, town supervisor, church leader, fraternal lodge founder, and storekeeper. The Hornelville Tribune of Dec. 24, 1869 (as quoted by the New York Times on Christmas Day, 1869) described him as "a resident of the county for the last fifty years, a very respectable and influential citizen."
Folklore: Limestone area - "Little Ireland"
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Gideon Caskey
This gentleman is the oldest son in a family of three sons and two daughters of James and Rebecca (Chrisman) Caskey. He was born in Worcester, Wayne Co., O., Nov.
John F. Fenton
In early life, before he arrived at majority, he commenced to purchase and ran lumber to market, investing the proceeds in timber lands in Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., near the Allegany River, where he soon removed, and continued to purchase lands, manufacture lumber, and run to market, till, at the time of his death, he owned about five thousand acres of land, for which he had been offered two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
John Napier - Stone Cutter
Mr. John Napier, resident of the town of Machias, NY and a well-known local stone cutter was hired in 1868 to build the County's new building. Prior to this project Mr. Napier had gained skill working on such national projects as the dam across the Merrimac River in Lawrence, Massachusetts, the aqueduct across the Genesee River at Portageville, the bridge spanning the Mississippi River at St. Paul, Minnesota, and the Old State Capital building at Springfield, Ill.
Part 2: Two Veterans of the Civil War/A Long Walk Home
1st Photo: Leonard Hunt
2nd Photo: Philo Markham
Philo Markham a member of the 154th New York, prisoner of war has been sent to a parole camp in Annapolis, Maryland. After his arrival on August 21, 1863 Philo meets other members of the 154th. Among them he locates his friend, Leonard Hunt from Perrysburg, NY.
Part One: Two Civil War Veterans
1st Photo: Philo A. Markham enlisted in Dayton, NY
2nd Photo: Leonard Hunt enlisted in Perrysburg, NY
Lime Lake Then and Now
Recreation has long been a focal point for this body of water. Now the people who enjoy the clear waters are owners of property along its shore. In this century Lime Lake is a private recreational body of water. There was a time when the area surrounding the water was filled with public entertainment opportunities.
Last Veteran of the American Revolution Died in Cattaraugus County
In 1915 the Daughters of the Amercian Revolution were making preparations to place a bronze tablet at the grave of Daniel Frederick Bakeman. He was the last soldier of the American Revolution which made him quite a distinquished character. He died in April 1869 at the age of 109. During the later years of his life he received a pension of $500 from the government. He was buried in the Sandusky Cemetery. Originally only a small white marker without any inscription marked his final resting place.
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Abolitionist/ Stationmaster Merlin Mead
Note: Before his death Alfred Rice revealed Merlin Mead as a conductor, station keeper on the Underground Railroad.
WIlliam McNall
I am William McNall, son of John and Mellison Washburn McNall. I was born February 23, 1806 in Stafford Springs, Connecticut. When I was 10 years old my family decided to make the 30 day journey and settle in Cadiz, New York. I traveled most of the way by foot with a goad in my hand to guide the ox-drawn cart with our household effects.
Living in the wilderness I only managed to obtain a common school education. But by perseverance and natural talent, I became a farmer, carpetner, joiner, mason, wheelwright, millwright or blacksmith depending on what was needed.
William B. White - Cadiz Blacksmith, Abolitionist
Many of the inhabitants of Cadiz will remember the little white house and shop at the crossing of Main Street and the Ischua Creek in the Village of Cadiz where for twenty years lived and wrought William B. White, the blacksmith.
Beatrice Van Dressen
My name is Beatrice Van Dressen and I was born in the Old Hotel in Cadiz to Maggie and Milton Van Dressen on October 13, 1876. My grandfather was Joseph Ransbury. We later moved to Frankfort, New York but would often come back to Franklinville to visit.
The Amazing George Leonard White
Abolitionist
George Lenoard White was born in Cadiz on September 20, 1838. His father Willam was the village blacksmith and his small white house and shop were located on Main Street at the crossing of Ischua Creek. His father was a devoted Baptist who often led village prayers. He believed in the Temperance Movement (prohibiting the use of alcoholic beverages) and was proud to proclaim himself as an Abolitionist.
A Tribute to Marvin Older - Teacher and Veteran
Marvin Older was born in Middletown, Delaware on August 22, 1810. He was one of 16 children born to William and Hannah Older. The family moved to Otisco in Onondaga County where they remained for 3 years. Marvin used to say that during that time in his life nothing notable happened "except that I invariably stood at the head of the class in district school, from the fact that there were but two in the class, and one of them at least was lamentably underwitted, which of course was the other fellow".
Benjamin Howard
Benjamin Howard was born in 1817 in Schoharie County and first came here in 1842. He settled in an old hotel on the northwest corner of the crossroads at Cadiz. For several years he ran this hotel. This was a highly traveled stagecoach route for stages between Pike and Ellicottville and from Olean Points to Buffalo. His house was one of the principal stops along the way. It was not unusual for 40 to 50 teams loaded with goods to stop there daily.
Assemblyman James M. Smith
James M. Smith was the son of Amasa and Mercy Burroughs Smith. He was born in Marcelllus, NY on September 5, 1813. When James was 15 years old his father moved the family westward. Amasa had been a soldier in the War of 1812 and moved to Mansfield, NY settling on Lot 39 in 1828. Amasa served as justice of the peace as early as 1834. He died on November 24, 1846.


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The Logs of Robert C. Forsblade
written by Richard S. Allen | June 7, 2021
Through the kindness of Dr. Gary Kuhn and Mr. Tulio Soto, both long-time LAAHS members, I received copies of a few of the papers of Robert C. Forsblade, most notably two of his log books compiled when he was flying in Costa Rica and Honduras between 1932 and 1934. Thus, what follows is a brief review on the content of the aforementioned logs, plus commentary on the various historical aspects, as well as abstracts of the federal records of the various airplanes mentioned.
But first, a bit about the man: Robert Carren Forsblade, born at Minneapolis in 1920, Learned to fly in Southern California and, by 1931, he was residing in Pasadena. His U.S. Transport License No. was 11339, issued in June 1929. On November 25, 1931, Forsblade departed American Airport, in Los Angeles, bound for Costa Rica, where he was issued with a temporary pilot's license.
By January 1932, Forsblade began a new logbook in which shortly after, the aviator noted that he had been hired by Empresa Nacional de Transportes Aéreos -ENTA- (National Air Transport Company), an airline that had been founded on March 2, 1932, by U.S. citizens C.N. Shelton and William M. Schoenfeldt. ENTA was based at the La Sabana Airport, located a few miles West of downtown San José, the Costa Rican capital. With ENTA, Forsblade first flew a Great Lakes carrying the registration NC846H, which was powered by a potent Cirrus engine. Then, on January 13, 1932, he flew for the first time a Fokker Super Universal, U.S. registration NC8015 (c/n 435). He also managed to fly what he noted down as a Fleet biplane with a Warner engine, U.S. registration NC308E. However, this was actually a Consolidated 14 Husky Junior, c/n 7, built in 1928. (It was a common mistake to confuse the Fleet biplanes with the Huskies!)
Consolidated Husky Junior, U.S. registration NC308E. The image was taken while the airplane still was in the United States. (Photo: The Klein Archive of Private Aircraft.)
Forsblade was next employed and flew for a Honduras-based airline called Empresa Dean. Operating out of Toncontín Airport, in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, Empresa Dean was run by Gordon Scholes, Ray Gordon and C.N. Shelton. In addition to their regular and contract work of flying passengers, mail and cargo, Dean had an arrangement with the United Fruit Company -UFCO- to supplement and carry on some of their aerial activities, using UFCO-owned or controlled aircraft. Forsblade began flying for Empresa Dean on April 2, 1933, and over six weeks, he flew the United Fruit's Fokker Standard Universal, originally registered NC1548 (c/n 420), which the company had acquired in 1928 and had named "Tela", after the Carribean city and port where the UFCO's Honduran headquarters was located. It wasn't until May 18, 1933, that he flew Empresa Dean's own Fokker Standard Universal, registered NC762Y (c/n 443), which Shelton had just purchased.
Forsblade, third from the left, and C.N. Shelton, second from the left, posing before the Empresa Dean's Waco UEC, along with other employees. (Photo: Tulio R. Soto Collection.)
Empresa Dean acquired UFCO's Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker, registration NC249M (c/n 152), as of September 30, 1931. Forsblade first flew this airplane on July 2, 1933. The airline also got a second Bellanca, a CH-300 Pacemaker seaplane, registration NC250M, around April 1933. This aircraft was converted to a landplane and Forsblade made his initial test flight with it on June 11 of that same year. In fact, Forsblade continued flying both the Fokkers and the two Bellancas, as well as a Waco OEC, registration NC12440, which Empresa Dean had recently acquired, until April 1934, when the airline was absorbed by TACA.
TACA's Ford 5-AT, Honduran registration XH-TAL. This airplane was configured for transporting fuel and had no room for a walkway in the cargo cabin. The pilot had to climb his way into the cockpit. (Photo: Charlie Matthews collection.)
Forsblade was transferred to TACA where, according to his logbook, he began to fly as co-pilot in a Ford 5-AT freighter, Honduran registration XH-TAL, along the "North Coast Run", the first flight taking place on May 4, 1934. At TACA, Forsblade had the chance to fly another Ford 5-AT registered XH-TAK (c/n 5-AT-39, ex NC9683), and also logged time in the Stinson SM-8 Juniors identified as "TACA No. 6", "Tincute", XH-TAA, XH-TAB, XH-TAE, XH-TAF and XH-TAJ.
Stinson SM-8, Honduran registration XH-TAE, photographed at the Empresa Dean hangars in Toncontín. By that time, Empresa Dan had already been absorbed by TACA. (Photo: Tulio R. Soto collection.)
By June 1939, Forsblade had a total of 6,500 flying hours and held Guatemala Transport License #22, as well as Honduras Transport License #8. A year later, he left TACA and went to New Orleans, where he began to fly for Mid Continent Airlines until 1942. Then he was hired by TWA Airlines, and had his base in Washington. Forsblade, a truly legendary pilot, died peacefully in 2003, and is buried in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Otto Djaya, Revolution, 1947. Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
AMSTERDAM.- In 1947, at the height of the Indonesian struggle for independence, director Willem Sandberg staged the first exhibition of the Indonesian brothers Agus and Otto Djaya in the Netherlands. It was also the first solo presentation of contemporary non-Western artists at the Stedelijk. The work of the Djaya brothers focuses on the Indonesian fight for independence after the nation was declared the Republic of Indonesia in 1945. Research conducted by the museum last year into the brothers' presence in the Netherlands, sheds new light on their activities. These new insights inspired an intriguing exhibition that fills two galleries, a symposium, and other activities.
New research carried out by independent curator and researcher Kerstin Winking into the work of the Indonesian Djaya brothers in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam reveals the presence of a significant amount of materials on the brothers in Dutch archives. Between 1947 and 1950, Agus and Otto Djaya were in Europe, primarily the Netherlands, involved in a secret mission to promote the cause of the Indonesian National Revolution. During this time, they produced a number of paintings, a selection of which are on view at the Stedelijk. In conjunction with works from the collection of the Stedelijk, the National Museum for World Cultures and Leiden University Library, the exhibition also features archival material that shows how closely art and politics were interwoven, that the artists were under surveillance by the Netherlands Government Information Service, and that the Djaya's and their support of independence received the backing of Dutch intellectuals.
When the Djaya's arrived in Amsterdam in 1947, they already had a network of local contacts, including the Leiden-born professor and curator of the Indisch Museum (now the Tropenmuseum) Theodoor Galestin, professor of non-western sociology Willem Frederik (Wim) Wertheim and museum director Willem Sandberg. The brothers had brought many of the 126 paintings and drawings that Sandberg exhibited at the Stedelijk with them from Jakarta, stowed in the cargo of the steamship on which they travelled. Examined against a background of the four-year war between the Indonesian independence fighters and the Dutch colonial regime, this exhibition invites new research. Why were the Djaya's in the Netherlands and not in the interior of Java like most of their revolutionary artist-peers? Why did curators like Willem Sandberg and Theodoor Galestin research, present and collect the work of the Djayas? What documentary evidence can be found to explain the presence of the Indonesian artists in the Netherlands?
The Djaya Brothers: Revolusi in the Stedelijk examines the work of the Djayas and places their presence in the Netherlands in a broader context. It highlights, for instance, the fact that the work of Agus Djaya and Otto Djaya was a synthesis of Hindu-Javanese traditions and modern western art, particularly the work of the European Expressionists and French Modernists. In addition to unusual water colours and paintings, the exhibit also features objects from archives in the Netherlands, including catalogues and photos of the artists taken by the Netherlands Government Information Service. The Stedelijk also features work from its collection by other revolutionary artists such as Mochtar Apin and Baharudin, and Henri Cartier-Bresson's photos of the inauguration of Sukarno, the first Indonesian president of the Republic of Indonesia in late 1949, the exit of the Dutch soldiers.
The extensive Public Program in June features an international symposium organised in partnership with the Rijksmuseum.
The exhibition is part of STEDELIJK TURNS, a programme that focuses on the museum collection, revealing untold stories and new perspectives, to the canon.
Agus Djaya (1913-1994) was a member of the revolutionary army. Trained as a drawing teacher, he was passionate about Javanese and Balinese traditional culture, and also an admirer of artists like Gauguin and Van Gogh. In 1938 he and artist Sundudarsono Sudjojono founded Persagi, a society dedicated to the development of modern Indonesian art. In 1946, President Sukarno commissioned him to form an art collection for a new Indonesian national museum.
Otto Djaya (1916-2002), the younger brother of Agus, trained as an artist with Persagi. Like his brother, he was a member of the revolutionary army. He created mythological scenes in a style influenced by Wayang shadow puppetry, and also work depicting countless freedom fighters wielding weapons and wearing the apparel of their local region.


Discussion in 'Announcements' started by iMatt, Apr 16, 2016.
I am pleased to announce that Bible Reading Schedules will be included in the next update.
Choose from a number of reading plans.
Activate multiple schedules at the same time.
Reminder notifications to prompt you to read the Bible daily.
For the Weekly Bible Reading schedule you can set the day your study week starts on. For example if you have a meeting on Tuesday night, then set the study week to start on Wednesday.
For schedules that have daily readings, you can change the Start Date for the schedule. For example you can set it to start several months ago, which means the reading for "today" will be advanced accordingly. Useful if you are already partway through a reading schedule in another app and want to synchronise.
Download new schedules from the forums. Create and share your own schedules via the forums.
That's a great feature, Matthew. Will it be possible to download the jw.org Bible reading schedule. And incorporate it into the program?
That schedule is the one I have followed for a few years now.
Bohemian, there will be a Weekly Reading schedule in line with the Congregation Bible Study. (If you look closely at the first image Matt posted you'll see a Weekly Bible Reading schedule for 2016.) It would also appear that users will be able to create their own schedules and submit them to the forum.
I'm sure that someone will create one based on the JW.org schedule. If not, I will. I will also create one for the 2017 Memorial Reading - when it's published by the society.
If you look closely at the screenshots you will see there is a "read the Bible in one year" schedule. I cannot guarantee that the breakdown each day is exactly the same chapters but that is really semantics - it would be extremely close. It is aiming for 15 mins of reading per day. Is this the schedule you are referring to on JW.org @Bohemian?
when should we anticipate the new release?
It still needs to go through the beta testers and translators yet. So 2-3 weeks maybe.
I just added another schedule - "A Chapter a Day".
Really great features, also the Backup Reminder and especially the weekly reading from "life and ministry". Love it!
Are there any apps like this based on the weekly meeting schedule for Android?
Not that I am aware of sorry Brianne.
한국어 버전이 있습니까? 그렇지 않다면, 어떤 계획이 있습니까?
Hi. This thread is really old. As stated, support for Bible Reading Schedules were released in the "next version" - which was version 3.0 back in May 16, 2016 - almost a year ago. You can read the official blog post here.
And sure - all the default schedules are already available in Korean. You need to have the app installed on a device which is set to use the Korean language by default in the iOS Settings.


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Stolen truck slams into cars in Germany
world October 09, 2019
A stolen truck ploughed into several cars in the centre of the German city of Limburg leaving a number of people injured, police said yesterday, adding that the driver had been detained. Police said it was too soon to speculate about a motive for the incident, which began when a man seized the truck at 5:20 pm (1520 GMT) on Monday. "We currently do not have sufficient information about what was behind it," the police said.
The white articulated lorry slammed into around nine cars waiting at a traffic light opposite the courthouse in Limburg in western Hesse state, crushing them together. Police said "around nine people were slightly injured," including the driver of the stolen vehicle. Police staged a major deployment of officers and vehicles, with a helicopter circling overhead the city of 35,000, about an hour's drive from Germany's financial capital of Frankfurt.
The site was cordoned off by police and brightly lit up as tow trucks removed the damaged cars one by one.
'Didn't say a word'
The original driver of the truck, who was not named, was quoted by daily Frankfurter Neue Presse (FNP) as saying a man had "dragged" him out of his lorry. He said the man, in his 30s with short dark hair and a full beard, had yanked open the driver-side door and stared at him wide-eyed before forcing him out of the vehicle. "I asked him 'What do you want from me?'," he told FNP. "He didn't say a word."
The truck sped into the parked cars a few hundred metres (yards) further on and came to a stop on the central reservation of a six-lane road. When the man behind the wheel of the truck emerged from the crash, several passers-by provided first aid, FNP said. "The passers-by said the driver said 'Allah' several times" and spoke Arabic, FNP reported. Police did not confirm this account. Bettina Yeisley from Limburg, whose office is next to the scene of the crash, told FNP that she heard a loud bang and ran out onto the street with colleagues.
They found the man sitting beneath a tree, without knowing the circumstances. "He was bleeding from the nose, his hands were bloody, his trousers torn. He said that everything hurt. I asked him his name and he said, 'My name is Mohammed'." Authorities urged users of social media not to jump to conclusions on the motive. "We are not ruling anything out," a spokesman for the state police force said, quoted by DPA said.
"But we call on you: don't take part in speculation!" the regional police wrote in several tweets.
Nobel Physics honours dark matter, exoplanets
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Keeping its promise to protect man's "closest relatives" the Obama Administration is moving quickly to eradicate valuable biomedical research on chimpanzees at the request of leftist animal rights groups.
The move to ban chimp research started nearly a year ago when the administration quietly proposed to include chimpanzees on the U.S. government's endangered species list. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working on it and in case the agency doesn't come through, the president got his Democratic pals in Congress to introduce legislation to officially make the primates endangered.
A consortium of influential animal rights groups are behind the chimp research ban. More than a year ago they delivered a lengthy petition demanding the government upgrade captive chimpanzees from threatened to endangered status which would ban scientists from using the approximately 1,000 chimps available for biological and behavioral studies in the U.S. The petition also asks that chimps be barred from the entertainment industry and forbidden from being kept in private zoos or as personal pets.
Caving into the animal rights movement could put millions of human lives at stake because it would forbid the sort of biomedical research that has helped produce life-saving vaccines for diseases such as Hepatitis B. Chimps are also essential in AIDs research and the hope of developing an elusive vaccine against the deadlier Hepatitis C, an infectious viral disease that leads to swelling of the liver and plagues tens of millions of people worldwide.
The reason chimps are so valuable to medical researchers is that they share many similarities to humans, including more than 98% of the genetic code. In fact, chimps are the only known animal other than humans that can become infected with AIDS, the lethal virus that destroys the immune system. In short, research on chimpanzees helps topnotch scientists find cures and ultimately eradicate diseases.
None of this seems to matter to the Obama Administration, which announced this month that the government is retiring 110 of its 563 research chimpanzees as it works towards killing the program altogether. The announcement was made by the director (Francis Collins) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the government agency that funds medical and behavioral research.
Collins tells a mainstream newspaper that it's a significant step in winding down the NIH's investment in chimp research based on the way science has evolved and "our great sensitivity to the special nature of these remarkable animals, our closest relatives." The head of a national animal rights group pushing to end all medical research on chimps said he was "very pleased" with the move.


We got our cat from the Humane society about 4 months ago. She is about a year and a half old. Lately, she has taken to sitting on top of me each morning when my alarm clock goes off. If I don't immediately get up to feed her (she grazes all day, so she is never fully out of food or water anyway), she pounces and bites my hands and arms. It's a miserable way to start the day and I don't know how to get her to change. Any advice?
this is a learned behaviour, she has obviously got her way with you in the past when she has done this, so now she has learnt that this is what she must do to get you to get up.
Unfortunately the only way to stop her is to either prevent her getting into your room in the morning or (as I did with my cat) be persistent in your refusal to do what she wants. So when she does this, you pick her up (making no sound as sound is seen as a positive response) and put her on the floor. Do this over and over again everytime. eventually she will will realise that the behaviour no longer gets the response she wants and should stop but this can take some time as learned behaviours can be a very difficult thing to turn around but it is possible with persistence.
One thing you could try if she continually keeps climbing on the bed after you put her down is to blow once hard in her face, this is a non violent painless method I use with my cat, she hates me doing it and she walk away immediately. It may be worth trying with your cat.


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Apple's iOS 13 Reveals Path Forward for Augmented Reality
By Debra Kaufman
Apple signaled its steps toward augmented reality with a feature found in both iOS 13 and Xcode 11. Developers Steve Troughton-Smith and Guilherme Rambo discovered StarBoard, a stereo AR feature that appears to be similar to iOS's CarPlay feature, which relies on an iPhone to generate graphics for a vehicle's external touchscreen. But whereas CarPlay outputs a single image for a 2D display, StarBoard can apparently output two images for a 3D stereo headset, paired with a touch-based AR navigation controller. Continue reading Apple's iOS 13 Reveals Path Forward for Augmented Reality
Apple Readies Release of Apple TV+ and Arcade Services
Apple will launch its Apple TV Plus movie and TV subscription service by November, said sources, introducing a small number of shows and then increasing the catalog over time. Although not announced, sources said a free trial is likely to kick off the new service and build an audience while the company fills out its library. Apple TV Plus is part of the company's goal to reach $50 billion in service sales by 2020. In doing so, it enters a highly competitive, crowded field. Meanwhile, more details have been released on the Apple Arcade gaming service. Continue reading Apple Readies Release of Apple TV+ and Arcade Services
Apple Card Debuts With 70 Percent of U.S. Retail On Board
This month, Apple will officially launch Apple Card, a credit card for iPhone users, according to chief executive Tim Cook. The credit card, which will be situated in Apple's Wallet app, allows contactless payments and includes no fees, lower interest and cash rewards. According to the Silicon Valley company, Apple Pay has 70 percent "retail acceptance" in the U.S. and 90 percent in Australia. It can be used wherever Apple Pay is available and is expected to be in 40 countries by the end of the year. Continue reading Apple Card Debuts With 70 Percent of U.S. Retail On Board
WWDC: Apple Unveils iOS 13, iPadOS and Project Catalyst
By Rob Scott
At this week's WWDC, Apple unveiled its latest mobile operating system for iPhones and iPod touches, iOS 13, which includes faster performance, upgraded Siri, Dark Mode, advanced Photo and Camera tools, and new privacy features. The company also announced a separate iPadOS for its tablets, which features the same upgrades as iOS 13 in addition to multitasking improvements and a redesigned home screen. Apple is encouraging developers to create new apps that work across all its devices, including Macs. The company announced Project Catalyst (formerly code-name Marzipan), a set of tools that make it simple for developers to make their apps accessible on the Mac. Continue reading WWDC: Apple Unveils iOS 13, iPadOS and Project Catalyst
Apple Promotes Privacy Features at Developers Conference
At this week's WWDC in San Jose, California, Apple introduced an anonymous login system and tools that prevent apps from tracking the user's location, in an attempt to gain the high ground among big tech companies targeted by regulators for privacy issues. Apple also differentiated itself from Facebook and Google, which rely heavily on tracking users' behavior and activity. The company's next mobile operating system, iOS 13, slated to debut this fall, will allow users to log into apps without giving up any personal information and generate "automated and random" email addresses. Continue reading Apple Promotes Privacy Features at Developers Conference
WWDC: Apple to Unveil Apps, Software, Development Tools
When Apple's 5-day Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) kicks off June 3 in San Jose, the company is reportedly planning to introduce an array of new apps, software features and development tools. According to those familiar with the plans, Apple is expected to introduce operating system updates for its Apple TV, Apple Watch, iPad, iPhone and Mac computers. The new iOS 13, codenamed "Yukon," will offer new and updated features — while iOS14, codenamed "Azul," will launch next year to support 5G wireless and new AR functions. Continue reading WWDC: Apple to Unveil Apps, Software, Development Tools
Upcoming Apple Devices to Feature 3D Camera for AR Apps
According to sources, Apple will debut an iPhone with a rear-facing, longer-range 3D camera as early as next year, with the goal of enabling augmented reality applications. The planned 3D camera would work up to 15 feet from the device, in contrast with Apple iPhone's current 3D camera which points toward users and is limited to distances of 25 to 50 centimeters for use with Face ID facial recognition. The new camera uses a laser scanner, better for long distances, said sources, rather than dot-projection technology. Continue reading Upcoming Apple Devices to Feature 3D Camera for AR Apps
Universal, Warner Bros. Plan DVD Distribution Joint Venture
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CES 2020 Showcased 8K TVs But Critics Remain Skeptical
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Perdue Names Scott Fredericksen President of AgriBusiness
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Scott Fredericksen has been appointed president of Perdue AgriBusiness, an independent operating company of Perdue Farms and among the largest U.S. grain companies.
"Scott is an accomplished executive with domestic and international agribusiness experience," said Randy Day, CEO of Perdue Farms. "Scott joined Perdue Agribusiness May 2019 as a business consultant and currently holds the position of Executive Vice President. Scott has provided strategic leadership in several key areas of the business. I look forward to his continued leadership to ensure we execute on our strategic plans for future growth across our diversified agribusiness organization."
Prior to joining Perdue AgriBusiness, Fredericksen had a long career with ADM (Archer Daniels Midland Co.) beginning with soybean crushing operations in the early 1980s. From 1998 to 2016, he held various key management positions, vice president of North American Oilseeds, president of the Specialty Food Ingredients Division, president of North America Oilseed Crushing Division, and president of Global Transportation. In 2016, Scott became the geographic president of ADM South America and joined the ADM Executive Committee helping to guide overall company strategies.
Fredericksen succeeds agribusiness veteran Dick Willey, who led Perdue AgriBusiness for more than 30 years. Willey will continue to work in the business focusing on government relations and ensuring a smooth leadership transition.
Since construction of its first grain receiving and storage facility in Salisbury, Md., in 1960, Perdue AgriBusiness has expanded and diversified its operations. Today, the company sources, purchases and processes agricultural commodities from more than 8,000 farmers and offers a diverse portfolio of products, including grains, soybean meal, blended feed ingredients and top quality oils for the food industry, and services from logistics to information management, including accounting, risk management and information technology.
About Perdue AgriBusiness
Perdue AgriBusiness is an independent operating company of Perdue Farms Inc. Ranked among the largest grain companies in the U.S., Perdue AgriBusiness is a leading merchandiser, processor and exporter of agricultural products. Through Perdue AgriBusiness' 75 elevator locations with more than 75 million bushels of storage, deep-water port, transload facilities, oilseed crushing operations, edible oil refinery, and protein blend mills, the company serves markets across the United States and around the world.
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These are exciting times at St. Nicholas. Over the last year our congregation has been growing in many ways with new members joining, baptisms happening, the appointment of a new pastor, and old friends returning. But most importantly of all is what has stayed the same: God's faithfulness and grace.
There are several ways to establish a relationsip with this church and discover if it will be a meaningful way for you to seek and celebrate God in your life.
1. Join us for weekly worship on Sunday mornings at 10:00 am. The service includes hymn singing, scripture reading, preaching, sharing of our joys and concerns, praying, and (on most Sundays) communion.
2. On Monday nights, come to Bible Study at 7:00 pm. In the last year we have read Ephesians, 1 & 2 Samuel, The Gospel According to Mark, Michah, much of the Psalms, and some other texts as well. This is a great chance to learn about the Bible, the Christian faith and other theological questions. The atmosphere is relaxed and people come from many different faith practices (Judaism, Catholicism, or no religion at all).
3. Contact the pastor (email, phone, or find him of facebook) if you would like to talk about any questions you have.
4. Pray about it. Search your soul with the help of the Holy Spirit to see if your God is inviting you to join the faith community in some way.
You are invited to participate in the life of this congregation. We look forward to the participation, questions, leadership and prayers that only you can bring.


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N.T. Wright: A Biography
Posted on September 11, 2006 by Alastair Roberts
Nicholas Thomas Wright was born in Morpeth, Northumberland in 1948 and was raised in the context of middle Anglicanism. From before the age of seven or eight he already felt called to go into Christian ministry. Growing up, Wright had an interest in music and sports, interests that he retains to this day. He is a gifted pianist and also plays other instruments, such as the jazz trombone and guitar. Educated at Sedbergh School, then in Yorkshire, he specialized in Classics. As an undergraduate he studied Classics at Exeter College, Oxford. During that period he heard John Wenham give a talk on the need for Christians committed to the authority of Scripture in the world of theological scholarship. Prior to this point Wright had been heading in the direction of parish ministry. After listening to Wenham's talk, Wright knew that God wanted him to be an academic.
During this period, Wright was very much operating within the context of theologically Reformed Anglican evangelicalism and he speaks of the way in which he regarded any books not published by very conservative evangelical publishers as suspect. Wright was an office-holder in the Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union and, together with three others wrote a book that was published by the Banner of Truth Trust with the title The Grace of God in the Gospel, articulating classic five-point Calvinism. Wright recently commented that he was learning about the compatibility of divine sovereignty and human responsibility at that time, but that he wouldn't write the same book again today.
After graduating, Wright went on to train for the ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. It was around this time that Wright married his wife Maggie. In 1973 he gained a first class honours degree in Theology and in 1975, an M.A. and was ordained as a deacon. In 1976 he was ordained as a priest.
Wright remarks that, when he began his theological studies, he presumed that he needed to read the right books in order to come up with the correct answers. However, as he immersed himself in the biblical text itself he was 'so gripped with the excitement of exegesis' that he began to be less concerned about always coming up with the expected 'sound' evangelical answers. He began to come to the conviction that his evangelical background was often characterized by sloppy thinking, despite all of its claims to be biblical and that the questions that the Scripture is primarily concerned with are not always the same as those which have preoccupied the evangelical tradition. He writes:
I continue to respect the Reformers, and men like Charles Simeon, of 200 years ago, John Stott, Jim Packer and Michael Green, at whose feet I was privileged to sit, and whose work in a variety of ways created space for me to do things differently. Where I disagree with them it is because I have done what they told me to: to read Scripture and emerge with a more biblical theology. The evangelical tradition at its best encourages critique from within. It sends us back to the Scripture which stands over against all traditions, our own included.
Concerned that evangelicalism was far too driven by historical debates and party lines rather than by Scripture, Wright became more concerned with arriving at biblical answers than with arriving at traditional evangelical answers. Without turning his back on evangelicalism, Wright came to believe that the evangelical tradition was in need of re-examination in the light of Scripture on a number of issues.
As one reads Wright's works one will soon recognize that Wright's chief aim is not that of voicing a traditional evangelical party line. Whilst Wright speaks out strongly against liberalism and against a number of aspects of Roman Catholicism — his book For All the Saints? Remembering the Christian Departed, being a good example of the latter — one also finds that Wright is frequently critical of evangelicalism, claiming that it has failed to do justice to the text of Scripture. One also finds Wright openly advocating as biblical positions that conservative evangelicals have traditionally strongly opposed, such as the ordination of women priests and bishops.
Wright is particularly critical of evangelicalism's tendency to equate justification by faith with justification by inner personal religion to the exclusion of the Church and the sacraments, and its opposition of inward faith to outward performances. He argues that evangelicalism has all too easily read Paul's teaching on justification through the lenses provided by existentialism and romanticism. The faith/works opposition becomes a matter of inner feeling over outward ritual, or sincerity over conformity to external rules.
From his earliest writings Wright has made clear that he believes that the tendency of evangelicalism to adopt a merely functional ecclesiology is deeply at odds with the Scriptures, constitutes a betrayal of the teaching of the Reformers and that it has led to misreadings of Paul on a number of issues. For example, Wright has long argued that the Scriptures teach that Baptism genuinely unites us to Christ and grants us a new status in Him. Even though Wright qualifies such statements in various ways, and seeks to maintain the necessity of faith, this still troubles many evangelicals, many of whom are wary of attributing too much to the sacrament. In adopting this position Wright sees himself as struggling to be faithful to Scripture, even when this necessitates swimming against the flow of much traditional evangelical thought on this issue. He is also convinced that evangelical convictions are quite congruent with a robust doctrine of the Church and the sacraments. While Wright strongly resists any suggestion that Baptism converts or automatically grants possession of eternal life, he insists that Baptism is nonetheless an event in which God is at work, delivering people from a realm of bondage and graciously knitting them into a new family, setting them apart with a new role to play in fulfilling God's purposes for His creation.
Wright has had an interest in ecumenical dialogue for many years. In 1975 he was a delegate at the Assembly of the World Council of Churches. He writes of the experience:—
…if we are to come together as Christians it will not be by watering down everything until there is so little left that we can all agree on it. It will be by all of us learning more and more of Christ, and of the truth about him, so that we can grow closer to each other because we are closer to him.
I have seen this work out in practice. When I was a delegate at the 1975 Assembly of the World Council of Churches I found over and over again that it was when we said what we really meant, expressing ourselves and our viewpoints most clearly, that real fellowship and trust came about — not when we hid the light of truth under a bushel of tolerance. [Small Faith—Great God, p.80]
Wright has long been convinced of the need for ecumenical dialogue and believes that Catholic and Protestant debates have tended to be framed in terms of an unhelpful and 'simplistic polarization'. The following quote is from a booklet entitled 'Evangelical Anglican Identity', written by Wright in 1980.
For the moment we note that the 'spectrum' which places Catholics and Protestants at poles apart from one another is potentially misleading: for as soon as we ask 'what is it that you are attempting to safeguard', both sides (at any rate, those who know their onions) will reply 'genuine, biblical, God-centred Christianity'. It is a curious fact, which first came to the notice of many people with the publication of Growing Into Union, that 'Catholics' and 'Protestants' have each traditionally suspected the other of Pelagianism.
It is therefore imperative to distinguish between the biblical insights of Catholicism and Protestantism and the purely polemical positions which either side has felt obliged to construct, over and above biblical evidence, to safeguard those insights from attack. And, having made that distinction, it is important to bring together the biblical insights of each side with a larger framework that will do justice to each. This enormous task, I believe, is of considerable urgency for the church, though the present essay can do no more than point in a few directions in which the task might be accomplished.
At the same time, we will want to insist that some positions taken up not for polemical but for devotional or dogmatic reasons are simply wrong; examples might include Mariolatry or 'Benediction' on the Catholic side and the doctrinaire insistence on the Textus Receptus and the Authorized Version which is becoming common on the Protestant side. In other words, we must work towards a framework of thought within which the strong points of both sides can be included and from which the weak points — symptoms that understanding has been distorted, or has not been complete — can be excluded. It will no longer do to work with the assumption that Protestant principles by themselves — or Catholic ones, for that matter! — will automatically safeguard the gospel. We cannot assume, as some do today, that our problems are an exact 'action replay' of the sixteenth century, calling simply for a few modern Luthers to stop the Pope and all his works. On the contrary, to become more 'Protestant' may in fact mean becoming more man-centred, not less, as we shall see presently. We must beware too of the non-theological reasons often underlying polemical positions. Rome is often seen by Englishmen as the foreign invader, now happily repulsed but always threatening to return: and Catholics often base their picture of Protestants on American 'hot-gospellers' and Ian Paisley.
Our earlier remarks about nature and grace suggest that the church must be marked both by historical continuity and by a readiness to submit to God's judgment, to admit error, to sit under the Word and learn fresh truth from it. This is, of course, a programme for large-scale ecumenical thought and action: for our present purposes we note that it is also a call for evangelical Anglicans to rethink traditional attitudes about the church, and bring them more into line with the Bible and the Gospel.
Wright frequently presents his theology as a means by which we can move beyond old debates and do justice to the biblical concerns of both parties. Whilst he is quite critical of a number of positions found within Roman Catholicism, he is prepared to enter into appreciative dialogue with Roman Catholics and believes that Protestants have much to gain from such theological engagement. Due to Wright's ecumenical approach and his willingness to question traditional evangelical positions in the light of Scripture, many of his readings of Paul and the gospels are surprising and fresh and do not fit tidily into any side of traditional debates.
Wright is a very Anglican type of evangelical, believing that a high view of the institutional church is not merely compatible with evangelical convictions, but also the most consistent way of upholding those convictions. Wright is not just an evangelical who happens to be Anglican. He does not sit loose to his Anglicanism. He comments that he 'wobbled once or twice' as a student and wondered whether he ought to be elsewhere, but he was soon persuaded that he was in the right place.
In the context of the seventies, the tension between Anglican and nonconformist Reformed evangelicals was becoming quite pronounced. There was a crisis in conservative evangelical identity and Wright situated himself firmly on the Anglican side of the growing divide. On the one side of the divide there were men like Martyn Lloyd-Jones, who looked for evangelicals to separate themselves from doctrinally mixed denominations and come together. On the other side there were men like J.I. Packer and John Stott who opposed this movement and believed in the importance of developing a wider fellowship of Christians.
J.I. Packer's involvement in ecumenical dialogue with Roman Catholics particularly troubled many nonconformist evangelicals. For Wright and other Anglican evangelicals such ecumenical dialogue was an important element of evangelical mission. These diverging visions for evangelical identity provide an important background for understanding some of the problems that nonconformist evangelicals have with the work of Wright. Both sides of the evangelical divide were concerned that the other was compromising evangelicalism. For many nonconformist evangelicals the ecumenicalism of Packer and others and their refusal to abandon a compromised institutional church was threatening the gospel. For many Anglican evangelicals it was the separationism and low view of the institutional Church among nonconformist evangelicals that was the real threat to the gospel.
These tensions within evangelicalism can be seen in a number of Wright's works prior to 1980. In his article 'Justification: The Biblical Basis and its Relevance for Contemporary Evangelicalism', Wright warns of the 'watery semi-Baptist theology which has been creeping into evangelical Anglicanism over the last decade or two.' Wright also criticizes the doctrine of separation in this quote from his 1978 book, Small Faith—Great God:
You see [walking by sight] in many people's attitude to the church. I don't find in the New Testament any suggestion that the visible church ought to be composed of guaranteed one-hundred-per-cent soundly converted keen Christians. If it had been, half of the epistles would not have been necessary. Yet people are always hankering after a false security, such as you would get from belonging to a church that could be seen to be all right, seen to be 'sound'…seen? We walk by faith, not by sight. Any attempt to get a purer church, or Christian life, than we have been promised this side of heaven, runs the risk of attempting to base security, assurance of salvation, on something other than the free grace and love of God. [104]
Whilst there were deep differences of vision for evangelical identity between Anglican and nonconformist conservative evangelicals at this time, it should not be presumed that this was always accompanied by personal animosity. Wright speaks warmly of people such as Martyn Lloyd-Jones. On one occasion in the seventies he was asked to review one of volumes of Lloyd-Jones' Romans sermons. Having read the book, he contacted Lloyd-Jones to inform him that he was writing a review and had some disagreements with him and asked if it would be possible to discuss them with him in person, before he wrote the review. They met and Wright describes Lloyd-Jones as being very gracious in his interaction.
Wright has sought to engage with a wide range of conversation partners, both within and without the Church. Wright sees this broad engagement as part and parcel of the evangelical vocation. The Church must not regard itself as having already arrived, but must bear its witness to Christ in the world in such a way that it is open to learn new things from others, both within and without the Church. Christians must also discover points of contact with the world and develop its Christian witness on such a basis. Wright seeks to find common ground with people from all sorts of backgrounds and seeks constructive dialogue on this basis. The fact that Wright engages with many different audiences and seeks to work on the basis of the common ground that he shares with each can lead many evangelicals to perceive him as fuzzy, non-committal or ambiguous on certain important truths.
Wright has consistently refused to limit his audience to a select few genuine believers within the Church. Consequently much of his work reads very differently from the works of his Reformed and evangelical counterparts. In training for the ministry, Wright was advised to choose between pastoral work and scholarship. He was not prepared to do this. He tries to hold the world of the academy and the world of the Church together, believing that both have suffered from being separated from each other. He sees Christian engagement in scholarship as part and parcel of the Church's mission to the world.
As Wright's work addresses a broader audience, he cannot always assume the same shared convictions of his audience that conservative evangelical biblical theology and dogmatic theology do. The type of historical writing that Wright produces should not be confused with the biblical theological writings that many of his conservative readers are more familiar with. This is particularly significant in regard to his work on Jesus. When Wright does not explicitly base his arguments on the authority of Scripture, we should recognize that this is not a luxury that he has as an historian; it is not an indication of weakness of conviction on this issue. For instance, some have read Wright's treatment of the virgin conception in dialogue with Marcus Borg and have concluded that he is being purposefully evasive, as they did not hear the sort of affirmation that they are accustomed to hearing from the conservative biblical and dogmatic theologians. Wright still believes and openly affirms the truth of the creed, but when writing as an historian he cannot provide the assertions that such people are looking for, nor can he take the absolute authority and reliability of the Scriptures as a methodological presupposition.
This is not unrelated to the different visions that Anglican evangelicals and nonconformist evangelicals have for evangelical identity and mission. Wright is concerned that some Christians so emphasize Christian distinctness that they can no longer communicate in the public square of the wider culture. On the other hand, he is aware of the danger merely submitting to the assumptions of the culture and failing to maintain a critical distance. In seeking to minister both within the context of the wider Church and the context of the academy, Wright addresses audiences that most nonconformist evangelicals have separated themselves from.
We should be aware of the manner in which Wright's more scholarly work is shaped by this. Things that evangelicals take for granted cannot be taken for granted in the public realm of theological scholarship. For example, many scholars have questioned the degree to which we can rely upon John's gospel in forming a picture of Jesus. Many academics also doubt the Pauline authorship of books such as Ephesians and the pastoral letters, and these books are generally downplayed to some degree or other when people are exploring Pauline theology.
Wright knows that, if he is going to address the academic world of theological scholarship, he must do so with one arm tied behind his back. Whilst he frequently questions the assumptions that result in the sidelining of books such as John's Gospel, he feels that he must work within the limitations of the discipline as it currently stands. Consequently, his major work on Jesus primarily rests upon the synoptics and his scholarly work on Paul generally gives greater weight to the testimony of the works that are widely accepted as Pauline. His work also uses a lot of inter-testamental and extra-canonical sources. I think that it is important that we question whether this weighting of sources has led to any distortion in Wright's portrait of Jesus and the theology of Paul. Perhaps one of the things that will most concern many evangelical readers of Wright is his willingness to accept widespread critical theories in biblical scholarship concerning the dating and authors of such books as Daniel and Isaiah.
From 1975 to 1978 Wright was a Junior Research Fellow and College Tutor in Theology in Merton College, Oxford, later becoming Junior Chaplain and Acting Lecturer in Theology. From 1978 to 1981 he was a Fellow and Chaplain at Downing College, Cambridge and College Tutor in Theology. In 1981 received his doctoral degree for his thesis, entitled 'The Messiah and the People of God: A Study in Pauline Theology with Particular Reference to the Argument of the Epistle to the Romans', his thesis supervisor being Professor G.B. Caird.
This period was a very important one for the development of Wright's view of Paul. By the end of 1980 the heart of his reading of Paul that we will be studying in the next lecture was already present in broad outline. Over the years prior to his doctoral work, Wright had been coming to the conviction that the Apostle Paul's agenda was quite different from those which motivated many evangelicals in their reading of him.
Wright comments that he first approached Romans 9-11 to address predestinarian controversies, but was soon persuaded that Paul's concern lay elsewhere. A similar thing happened with Romans 7. Wright came to believe that Paul's concern was not that of taking sides in a debate about sinless perfection, but that Romans 7 was chiefly about the state of Israel under the Law, or the Torah. As Wright's work led him to closely examine the argument of Romans he increasingly realized how central the issue of Israel was to the entire work. Wright describes the development of his thought as follows:
I grew up as a somewhat typical middle-Anglican with a strong dash of evangelicalism, or put the other way around, I grew up in a Lutheran evangelicalism which left me with a strong antithesis between law and grace. I found this all profoundly unsatisfying until I met Calvin and Calvinism. I began to think, "Whew…the law is a good thing. It is holy and just and good. It is right and it has been fulfilled, not abrogated, in Christ." All of that is right. So, if you are faced with a choice between Luther and Calvin, you simply have to choose Calvin.… What I then found, and believe me I tried very hard to do this, was that I couldn't make the Calvinist reading of Galatians actually work. I was reading C.E.B. Cranfield on Romans and trying to see how it would work with Galatians, and it simply doesn't work. Interestingly, Cranfield hasn't done a commentary on Galatians. It's very difficult. But I found then, and this was the mid-seventies before E.P. Sanders was published, before there was such a thing as a "new perspective," that I came out with this reading of Romans 10:3 which is really the fulcrum for me around which everything else moved: "Being ignorant of the righteousness of God and seeking to establish their own."
In other words, what we have here is a covenant status which is for Jews and Jews only. I have a vivid memory of going home that night, sitting up in bed, reading Galatians through in Greek and thinking, "It works. It really works. This whole thing is going to fly." And then all sorts of things just followed on from that. I mean Sanders was a great boost but he didn't start this for me and he hasn't given direction to what I did or was doing. It was more like Sanders was saying, "Actually first-century Judaism never was like what Luther said it was."
Central to Wright's doctoral thesis was the concept of the Davidic representative Messiahship. Jesus is the Christ, Israel's representative king, the Messiah. This theme, explored in detail in works such as The Climax of the Covenant, is a very important one for our reading of Wright. In his thesis Wright presents this Christology as central to his new reading of Romans, a reading in which the question of Israel is at the heart of the whole book and cannot merely be reduced to a marginal concern of chapter 9-11.
In 1981, after he finished his doctorate, Wright went to Canada to teach NT at McGill. He was also involved in the Anglican College in Montreal. Wright speaks of this time as one in which he came to a deeper awareness of the importance of the Eucharist and begun to experience a powerful and fruitful relationship between his devotional life and involvement in the worship of the Church and his academic studies. This is a relationship that Wright has commented on within his works and in various interviews, arguing that he regards his devotion and intellectual study to be inseparable.
Wright's time in Canada was a significant period of spiritual growth for him. He writes:
During my second year at McGill, I plunged into the deepest depression I've ever known. I wrestled in prayer, searched the scriptures, examined my conscience, and fell apart. I told my wife about it one night; the next morning, a letter arrived from a Christian psychotherapist who had felt an inexplicable but irresistible urge to write. I still have that letter. Over the next year I learned more about myself and my emotions than I had thought possible. If today I manage to function as a pastor, it is not least because I know something about pain. I know, too, that healing of memory and imagination is not just wishful thinking.
Six years later, as I prepared to teach a course on Jesus in his historical context, I realized what else had been happening. I combed through my notebooks for all my old jottings. All the most significant insights about Jesus I had ever had, particularly my deepest reflections on the crucifixion, were dated in that period of depression.
During Wright's time in Canada he was also an observer and participant in ecumenical debates with Roman Catholics and worked on a commentary on the book of Colossians. It was through working on this commentary that Wright underwent what he describes as 'the most significant change of my theological life'. Prior to that point Wright had claimed that Jesus was Lord of all, but had not applied this to the larger world of creation, culture and politics. From that point onwards Wright paid far more attention to the political dimensions of the gospel message.
Wright had already begun to have doubts about the simplistic divisions between politics and religion established by modernity before he ever got into NT scholarship. His first research project was on the early English Reformer, John Frith, who saw political and theological reformation as going hand in hand (Wright later edited the first full edition of Frith's works). The politically-charged character of the Christian gospel is a prominent theme in many of Wright's works. This theme has become even more pronounced in Wright's works from the late 1990s onwards, through the influence of writers such as Richard Horsley.
In 1986 Wright returned to Oxford, where he was a Lecturer in NT Studies and a Fellow, Tutor and Chaplain of Worcester College. He remained in this position until 1993. In this context Wright was once more able to enjoy a close relationship between study and worship. He was also had pastorally involvement with students from a range of different backgrounds. He also found himself drawing on traditions outside of his own, from the charismatic tradition on one side, to the Orthodox tradition on the other.
At Oxford Wright was able to interact with some of the most profound theological thinkers of our time. He taught on the subject of Jesus alongside Rowan Williams and has a strong friendship with him. He was also able to interact with Oliver O'Donovan, an old friend, who later delivered the sermon on the occasion of Wright's consecration as Bishop of Durham. It was during Wright's time in Oxford that The Climax of the Covenant: Christ and the Law in Pauline Theology, which is still his most significant book on Pauline theology to date, at least for another couple of years. Much of the material in the book is the flowering of ideas that had been developing in Wright's mind since the late seventies.
The Climax of the Covenant was published in 1991. The next year The New Testament and the People of God was published. The New Testament and the People of God is the first volume of a projected six volume series entitled 'Christian Origins and the Question of God', designed to give a consistent portrait of Christian origins, 'with particular relation to Jesus, Paul, and the gospels'. Wright's project is incredibly ambitious. The attempt to present a comprehensive picture is one that is fraught with difficulty and seldom attempted on such a scale. This series is of great importance. To date, the first three volumes have been produced: The New Testament and the People of God, Jesus and the Victory of God and The Resurrection of the Son of God.
In 1994 Wright became Dean of Lichfield, a position which he held until 1999. During this period he wrote a number of devotional and popular works and completed the second volume of the Christian Origins and the Question of God series. It was during this time that he wrote What St. Paul Really Said, the book which has particularly sparked off the debate over Wright's view of justification. Whilst Wright's position on justification is fundamentally the same in this work as it is in books published back in the early 1980s and as that found within his doctoral thesis, these earlier treatments did not reach as wide an audience.
Towards the end of his time in Lichfield Wright was also involved in the writing of the libretto for an Easter Oratorio, based particularly on the final chapters of John's Gospel. Wright has often addressed the issue of the Christian imagination in his writings and lectures. Given his lifelong love for music and the arts, it is an issue that is very close to his heart. He argues that the creation of beauty is an essential element of the human vocation and speaks of the power of the arts to communicate the truth of God to our contemporary culture. Wright also regards the imagination as essential to the true interpretation of Scripture. As interpreters of Scripture we are more like actors improvising a final act to an incomplete Shakespearian play than we are detached and objective scientific exegetes. Our imaginations must be rekindled by the rich symbolism of Christian Scripture and liturgy, so that we can produce works of beauty that stand as witnesses to the Great Artist that we serve.
From 2000 to 2003, Wright was the Canon Theologian of Westminster, where he completed his work on the resurrection, The Resurrection of the Son of God and wrote the Romans commentary, within the New Interpreters Bible series. The first few volumes of Wright's For Everyone series of popular NT commentaries were also released during this period. Wright describes these commentaries as being aimed at the '12 year old confirmation candidate' and the 70 year old within the congregation who has never read a commentary before.
Throughout his scholarly career, Wright has been concerned to relate his theology to the person in the pew and has produced a steady stream of devotional works, popular commentaries and works on discipleship, worship and popular theology. This, coupled with his great gift of communication, has led to his works being read by lay people, clergy and scholars alike.
Wright has written of the need for the Church to always be brought under the authority and judgment of Scripture. He argues that the role of the Church's appointed leaders is particularly important in this respect. They should be both scholars and teachers of the Scriptures, something that is lost when Church leaders get caught up in administrative tasks. Wright laments the current situation where Scripture is chiefly taught by professional academics, whilst the Church is led by clergy who rely upon secondhand and often deficient understandings of Scripture. He believes that the authority of God exercised in the Church does not primarily consist in legal structures, but that it is 'a matter of proclaiming the word in the power of the Spirit.'
In July 2003 Wright was consecrated Bishop of Durham, one of the highest positions in the Church of England. Wright continues to write voluminously and give many visiting lectures. He is a member of the Society for New Testament Studies, the Society of Biblical Literature, the Institute for Biblical Research, the Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical Research, and the Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars. He has often appeared in the media and has devised and presented a number of radio and television programs for the BBC and been consulted for many others. His outspoken opposition to homosexual priests is one thing that has resulted in a lot of publicity in recent years. As Bishop of Durham, he is a member of the House of Lords and has spoken in the House on the subject of moral climate change and freedom of speech.
Convinced that the gospel speaks to the political questions of our day, Wright has long been outspoken on a number of current issues. He received a lot of publicity for his strong criticism of the handling of the Iraq war by Mr. Blair and President Bush, arguing that they did not have the credibility necessary to deal with the problems in Iraq. Wright has also long campaigned for debt-relief for third world countries, devoting much of the final chapter of his book The Myth of the Millennium to promoting the Jubilee 2000 project. He is a strong critic of the 'dualism' of Left Behind theology, which he claims leads to a lack of concern for issues such as the environment and the need for social justice.
Wright is concerned that a reaction against the thin and unbiblical gospel of the social gospel movement will lead us to believe that the gospel does not address social issues. He has an active interest in issues of contemporary macroeconomics and globalization and regularly argues that America in particular and the West in general need to be regarded as exercising a form of economic and political 'imperial' power, casting America in the position of Caesar relative to the claims of Christ. He is deeply disturbed by what he regards as the confusing of an American way of life and a Christian way of life in the US, believing that it is the duty of the Church to call the powers to account. Wright regards the established position of the Anglican Church as something that facilitates the conversation that needs to take place between Caesar and Christ.
Wright's political concern is not merely occupied with national and international issues. After a week-long pilgrimage of his new diocese in Durham, Wright spoke of the deep financial difficulties of many of the local farmers and of the problem of widespread unemployment. Many of the parishes in Wright's diocese are in very deprived areas and, as their bishop, Wright is concerned that local churches be involved as forces for good in their communities. He is excited by many of the projects that churches in his diocese have undertaken to help people with literacy, financial advice and in providing childcare for single parent families.
The position of Bishop of Durham is a demanding one. There are 250 parishes in the diocese and each day is different from the last. Many days he doesn't finish work until later in the evening. Within this busy schedule Wright has said that he sees his daily time of prayer and Bible study in the morning as his 'sheet anchor', claiming that the task of prayer for the diocese is central to the task of any bishop.
Since coming to Durham, Wright has completed a number of other works. He has produced a two volume popular commentary on the book of Romans, a book on the authority of Scripture and a devotional work entitled The Scriptures, the Cross, and the Power of God. He also wrote a book entitled Simply Christian, which is in a similar mould to C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity. Wright has explained the aim of the work as that of describing 'what Christianity is all about, both to commend it to those outside the faith and to explain it to those inside.'
Throughout his ministry Wright has been supported by his wife Maggie. They have four grown children, two sons and two daughters, and some grandchildren. They live in Auckland Castle in historic Bishop Auckland. Wright lists music, the classical world, golf, hill walking, poetry and pastoral psychology among his leisure interests.
[Edited 11th June 2007]
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John Shakespeare says:
Terrific stuff, Alister. Extremely clear and engaging, providing real insights into Wright's various positions. Thank you.
Oops, sorry. I misspelt your name, Alastair.
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Pete Scholtens says:
Thanks Alistair. Your hard work on this is much appreciated.
He likes golf?! Does he play? What is his handicap?
He does play golf and is not merely a spectator. He has commented that his Simply Christian is to Lewis' Mere Christianity what his golf game is to Tiger Woods'. In fact, troublingly, his ecumenicalism infects even his choice of golfing opponents.
As regards his handicap, I have no satisfactory answer for you. The best I can get is from this article which points out that
No handicap estimates are available for Anglican Bishop Wright – also known as the prolific New Testament scholar, N. T. Wright. But friends fear that his prodigious literary output may have restricted his golf practice. In daylight, at least.
Sorry about that. That is the best that I can do. If you want I could try to dig a little deeper and get the question to the good bishop himself.
Well he did email me once…
DID YOU HEAR THAT EVERYONE! HE LOVES ME!
Genius is always appreciated by genius 😉
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zoomtard says:
Superb work. It will serve as a great aid to people enjoying Wright's works and as an excellent introduction to people (christian and non-Christians) who are just starting to read him.
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Thanks Al for this summary. Nicely situates all his major works within his biography.
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Bethany Reinbolt says:
its three in the morning my time, and i am writing a paper on Wright for my hermeneutics class…its due tomorrow at twelve…and i needed his biography for the intro, so thank you (im writing a review over The Last Word) this was my first Wright book, and i immediately wanted to read more… i would be the envy of all my peers (and my professor!) if i could manage to contact Bishop Wright,… how difficult do you think that would be?
Bethany,
I am pleased to hear that you are enjoying NTW's work and that my biography was of help. Unfortunately, your chances of contacting Bishop Wright are slim to non-existent. I am sure that even those who are already in correspondence with him at the moment have trouble getting responses. His schedule is extremely busy.
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Dr Stephen Loxton says:
Good to read something of Tom Wright whose work has nver really come to my attention! He comes from a position far to the right of mine (poor pun that) but I admire his honest intellectual quest and the clear ethical strands evident in his life and work.
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Dr. David Phillips says:
Wonderful bio of a man after God's own heart.Reminds me of some of La Vern Fromke's works concerning how we approach our Christianity–God-centered or self-centered. The only way to grasp hold of our walk with the Lord is to search the Scriptures from God's viewpoint rather than our own. Great handling of NT Wright's life.
Bishop Arthur Jones says:
The fifth chapter on "Jesus and God" in NT Wright's The Challenge of Jesus" applies even more now than when it was written in 1999.
What a great biographical Note!
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Joseph Cortese says:
I'm a first time commentator, but just wanted to say, that I'm almost at the end of your book "Simple Christian" which my pastor/son recommended and I think it's superb. I thank God and His Son Jesus Christ for granting me the blessing of reading your writings.
Would love to hear from you when you find the time.
Your Brother in Christ, Joseph Cortese, Sr.
Russell Roberts says:
Your biography of Mr. Wright was excellent, informative, and very well written. I was delighted at several of the points you made. For example, you noted that, as a historian Mr. Wright isn't afforded the luxury of appealing to the authority of scripture. You successfully put into words an especially pertinent point that I have thought but have been unable to put into words regarding his writing. Thanks for writing this biography. It was very helpful! Be blessed.
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Great espresso and a cool morning on the porch with the k9 reading through some fantastic copy, just what more can you ask for?
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State senator urges calm ahead of video release showing Charleston Co. inmate's death
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A state senator asked the public to be patient and wait for facts to come to light ahead of the expected release of a video that may show what led to the death of a Charleston County jail inmate.
Sen. Marlon Kimpson, D-Charleston, said he expects the video from inside the jail showing the death of Jamal Sutherland to be released soon. Sutherland died while in custody on Jan. 5.
When the video is released, he said, people across the country will be calling for the same answers his family has been searching for since he was killed in January.
"Unfortunately, I believe that the coming days will give the public a grim, heartbreaking look into Mr. Sutherland's final moments," Kimpson said Thursday.
He said he has not seen the video himself but said he had discussions with people who have "firsthand knowledge" of its contents.
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"At this point, I would simply ask that the public, be patient, as the videotape, as my understanding will be soon released, and asked for patience as all of the facts unfold," he said. "And I would also ask law enforcement and political leaders and the public at large to understand the deep frustrations these situations calls in communities of people who always believe that they are beaten battered, and even killed at times, for no justifiable reason. Clearly, there must be accountability and systematic policy changes to address this issue."
Kimpson said we should begin with the premise that mental illness, in and of itself, is not a crime "and certainly not deserving of death."
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Sutherland died at approximately 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 5, Charleston County Coroner Bobbi Jo O'Neal said. She said an autopsy determined the cause of death as "excited state with adverse pharmacotherapeutic effect during subdual process," and the manner of death is currently "undetermined."
The investigation into Sutherland's death remains open and is still active, O'Neal said.
His death came hours after North Charleston Police transported him from Palmetto Lowcountry Behavioral Health Center to the Al Cannon Detention Center.
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Ninth Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson said her investigation, based on a report from the State Law Enforcement Division, found that he became unresponsive and died after Charleston County deputies in the jail worked to forcibly remove him from his jail cell so that he could attend a bond hearing for a misdemeanor assault charge.
Pathologist J.C. Upshaw Downs ruled the manner of Sutherland's death as "undetermined," but said he died "as a result of excited state with pharmacotherapeutic effect during subdual process," according to a release from Wilson's office.
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"In order for the state to hold someone criminally responsible for another's death, the state must prove unlawful conduct was the proximate cause of death," Wilson said in a statement explaining why her office had not yet issued charges in Sutherland's death.
The Charleston County Sheriff's Office said Detention Sgt. Lindsay Fickett and Detention Deputy Brian Houle were placed on paid administrative leave after Sutherland died.
Graziano said Tuesday that Fickett and Houle were placed on leave "for several weeks" after Sutherland's death and have since been re-assigned "per policy to administrative duties."