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According to the U.S. Census there were no statistics available
for 1950 for the number of Blacks in Davenport, Iowa.
I'm curious: in 1950s Davenport Iowa about what percentage of the boys at your school or summer basball team were what would be called white? My guess is 90+%.
Peace,
Michael
An easy "rule of thumb" for calculating criterion #3 is assessed valuation (for property tax purposes) divided by 100 for monthly fair market value, then multiplied by 12 for annual figure.
I don't have any formula for calculating the "furnished" valuation.
It appears that Bishop Eaton is proceeding with a disciplinary hearing. Somehow this needs to happen around the churchwide assembly in August.
Can anyone recall how those proceedings are conducted? Who's there? Where will the location be? Are elected ELCA officials presiding or is it an employee of the denomination?
There haven't been many disciplinary hearings in the short life of the ELCA. I can only recall Rev. Bradley Schmeling in the Southeastern Synod over his same-sex relationship prior to 2009. Have there been any others? Or do ecclesiastical court proceedings go against being "inclusive"?
As for inflation, it happens. I doubt it’s anyone’s fault, it’s part of the whole “free market“ thing that you Republicans are supposed to honor.
Name a single Right Wing/Republican Presidential assassin. From Booth on down.
All the Left Wing bombings in the 60s and 70s.
All the original skyjackings
What happened on January 6 2021 was disgusting, and Trump lost. But that does not erase the long and illustrious history of Left wing political terror in this country.
The resolution is a bit more complicated than that. It first asks that the bishop resign, but then says that if the bishop does not resign by the end of the assembly, the assembly petitions the committee on appeals to dismiss the bishop, and directs the synod executive committee to temporarily suspend the bishop (with compensation/benefits continuing). It also emphasizes that the resolution should not be construed as affirmation of Pastor Rabell-Gonzalez, whose ouster by the bishop was the flash point of the controversy.
They are voting now; it requires 2/3 and it is to be a secret written ballot, so it will take a while to count it.
Established after 1987 or formerly LCA the Synod owns the property, held in trust by the congregation.
(Amazed I can remember these governing documents after 11 years)
Was Pr. Heinemeier the brother of Pr. James Heinemeier, who served in the Sierra Pacific Synod of the ELCA for many years?
Was Pr. Heinemeier the brother of Pr. James Heinemeier, who served in the Sierra Pacific Synod of the ELCA for many years?Yes
We do not own a radio station. We purchase time between 8:00 and 9:00 AM on Sunday mornings. I believe the Bible Baptist church is on before us and Trinity (ELCA) afterwards, but I could be wrong as I am kinda busy at that time. I think the station charges us $125 for the roughly one hour we get. I always say it is the best money we spend: LOTS of non-members listen (including many members of other churches, as they get ready for their own services later in the morning). Shortly after I arrived in Crookston, I got a letter from a woman near the Canadian border who said if the weather cooperated, she listened to us weekly. The radio station is now available via internet and so a few years back we had a former member and her husband listen north of the Arctic Circle where they were teaching Eskimo children.
Pastor Bohler:Wow. Really contorting yourself to be contrarian here. The meaning is obvious. The radio format constrains service times just like the drive between services constrains service times, so they don’t do extra long services. Sheesh. Nobody was blaming it on the radio station.
Also, being on the radio rather forces us to stay within an hour timeframe.
Me:
No, you are not “forced.” You have accepted limitations on your liturgies because you want them on the radio. (And just how does radio do liturgy?)
Genesis 17:12RSV uses "money," "he that was bought with your money."
"money." The note points out this is literally silver, which is important to the cultural setting. There was no coinage at this early time, just bit-silver or gold. I wonder whether the translation "money" is necessary.
I'm curious about your statement that there was no coinage at the time that is referred to or at the time this account was written. When are you thinking about, and when did coinage begin?
Peace,
Michael
Coinage shows up in the seventh century. I think it becomes common in the Persian Era. The Books of Moses present themselves as compiled in the fifteenth century and Genesis reaches back centuries earlier. Genesis 37:28 tells us that Joseph sold for twenty bits of silver, which was the going price from the patriarchal era according to ANE literature. (It's interesting that the EHV for Genesis 37:28 has "pieces of silver.")
