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The Christ in Prophecy Journal

Is “The Shack” Biblical?

The Shack Movie

Few Christian books in the world today have been compared to John Bunyan’s classic Pilgrim’s Progress in its enormous impact in shaping the world’s faith. William P. Young’s 256-page self-published novel The Shack, though, has achieved that epic comparison.

Within a year after its May 2007 publication date, The Shack sold a whopping 1.1 million copies and has dominated The New York Times, Publishers Weekly and USA Today’s bestsellers list. A feature film hit the theaters in March 2017. Now this popular book can be found in most Christian’s bookshelves, Bible studies, and even preached on during Sunday morning services.

But, is the The Shack biblical?

We have asked this question on our television program “Christ in Prophecy” over the past few years of three experts in Christian doctrine. They are:

  1. Dr. Ron Rhodes — President of Reasoning from the Scriptures Ministries, a prolific author of more than 70 books who holds a doctorate in systematic theology from Dallas Theological Seminary, and an adjunct professor at several seminaries teaching in the field of Apologetics. (watch | read)
  2. Eric Barger — The founder and director of Take a Stand! Ministries who is an authority from first-hand experience in the cults, the New Age, and the rock n’ roll music drug culture. (watch | read)
  3. Warren Smith — The author of many books including his testimonial The Light that Was Dark, which tells Warren’s touching story of how in his search for a Savior he got sidetracked into the occultic darkness of the New Age Movement. (watch | read)

Dr. Ron Rhodes

The Trinity

The fact is, The Shack is full of problems. Sure it’s a book that is so incredibly popular and it’s inspirational when you read it, but it is doctrinally wrong. We’ve got bookstores lining up to sell this book. I don’t blame them as I know it’s making them a lot of money, but just look at some of the problems.

The book by the way was endorsed by Eugene Peterson who put together The Message Bible. He said that The Shack has the potential to do for our generation what John Bunyan’s Pilgrims Progress did for his. I don’t think so!

The book communicates that the traditional approach to Christianity is all wrong. His concept of the Trinity concerning the Father is a large beaming African-American woman. Jesus is a Middle Easterner dressed like a laborer, complete with a tool belt and gloves. The Holy Spirit is named Sarayu and is a small, distinctively Asian woman. That’s Tritheism, that’s not Trinitarianism. This is putting the Trinity into three people, and that’s heresy.

There is also a false view of Christ’s incarnation. Instead of Jesus coming in the flesh, we’ve got the entire Trinity coming. “When we three spoke ourselves into human existence as the Son of God, we became fully human. We also chose to embrace all the limitations that this entailed even though we have always been present in this universe. We now became flesh and blood.”

William Young, The Shack‘s author, argues that we should forget our preconceived notions about God. Forget your seminary training! God appears to us in whatever form we personally need.

Christianity, he says, has to be revised in order to be understood. How dare any human being say that Christianity which is based upon revelation from God Almighty say that Christianity must be revised! I hesitate to think about William Young at the judgment when God says, “What’s this about a revision?”

Biblical Authority

Personal experience is supreme in The Shack. It communicates that personal experience trumps revelation. If you’ve got problems, you don’t go to the Bible, you go instead to your experience. Experience is used to interpret the Bible instead of the Bible being used to interpret Scripture.

God’s Justice

As for sin, Papa or the Father, says this, “I am not who you think I am. I don’t need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment devouring you from the inside. It is not my purpose to punish it; it is my joy to cure it.” I agree that God’s curing, but God does punish sin. In fact, unbelievers will be punished for all eternity in a politically incorrect place that we call Hell.

The Shack‘s heresy in terms of salvation teaches that Christ is just the best way to relate to the Father, not the only way.

The fact is that Christian bookstores should not be selling The Shack. That they do leads me to believe that there are landmines in Christian bookstores today, and innocent people walk in there thinking they are safe, but they step on a landmine and their whole faith blows up. It’s dangerous! That’s why we need spiritual discernment.

Eric Barger

God Communicates

When you have The Shack come in so fraught with doctrinal problems, though, it makes you wonder how could churches have accepted this so easily? The only reason can be that we have turned off our biblical worldview and let our emotions guide us, because The Shack is a very emotional story.

The Shack was written by a fellow named William Paul Young. He likes to be called Paul. He is a Bible school graduate from Warner Pacific College in Portland, Oregon, and later went to another Bible school in Canada. This is his first book and there are several things in it.

First of all, God passes a note to him to tell him to meet Him in the shack, which is a place in the Oregon wilderness where his little girl we assume from the book was murdered. This is a very tragic story. So, God is now reduced to passing notes to people. I thought God spoke through His Word and through His Holy Spirit to us, but now its notes.

The Trinity

When God comes to the shack He comes in the form of an African-American women named Papa. Now, this is tough to talk about because of the genders going on here. Well, Papa is a god, an African style or a black god from Polynesian occultism which is where it came from. Now, Young is not about to announce this when he goes on Christian TV and radio and talk about this. There have been many Christian ministries that I am shocked that they have offered this book and talked about it favorably. But, that Papa figure comes from Polynesian occultism.

The Holy Spirit in this book is an Asian women and the Jesus in the book is never called the Christ. What does that tell you? It is another Jesus, and, of course, Paul warns us that that there will be false Jesus’ and false gospels and false spirits. 2 Corinthians 11:3-4 fits that classification.

I don’t think that it is an accident that Jesus was never called “the Christ” in the book. We also have a Trinity but not THE Trinity in the book.

The author crafts God into the image of a man. It says in Romans 1:21-23 that is forbidden for us to do, to craft God into the image of a man. I know that it is a novel and I realize you can take liberties in a novel that you can’t in some other type of book, but in this case Young is playing with something that the Scriptures speak so clearly about.

The next thing we see is that Jesus is said to be the best way to know Papa, not THE way to know Papa. Very subtle language there. That leaves the door open for Universalism to be the truth that Young is trying to bring out.

The author is a good friend with a professor at Western Seminary in Portland who has written a very scholarly 38 page paper and now has broken ties with his friend, Paul Young. The author of this paper is named James DeYoung. He has written this paper saying that he knows that Paul Young is a Universalist since they’ve had arguments about it. They have talked about it over and over and yet Paul Young is going on Christian TV programs and in Q&A sessions after he speaks in churches and volunteering out of the blue saying, “I am not a Universalist.” Nobody is asking the question, but he is volunteering it anyway. And here is why, because according to James DeYoung, this professor at Western Seminary, the editors of the book spent over a year trying to convince Young to take the universalism out of the book, and he never got it all the way out. It is still there.

This is not just a guess that Young is a Universalist. No, this is a guy who is teaching what is called Reconciling Universalism, which is different than the idea that all paths lead to God, which is Classical Universalism. Reconciling Universalism says that Jesus died for the sins of the whole world and that God wishes no one to perish, and so we’re all saved.

Reconciling Universalism is the same thing that Carlton Pearson fell into up in Tulsa. It is the same heresy. By the way, the doors of that church are totally closed now. He sent the rest of his people to a Unitarian Church in Tulsa. He followed the same idea that we’re already saved and we need to tell the world, “Bring the missionaries in off the field, because if they are in a dangerous place they’re in the wrong place because we don’t have to tell anybody anything since everybody’s saved, whether they ever heard about Jesus or not.” This completely destroys the message of the Bible to think like that, but that is what Reconciliation Universalism is about. And The Shack teaches it.

It is shocking to me how many seasoned Christians have shut off their Biblical thinking because of the emotional grip the story has on them from the very beginning of the book.

Warren Smith

God Communicates

The Bible describes and warns about every deception I was ever involved in before I got saved. The Bible warns about every false doctrine that is coming into the Church which people try to explain away, like they do with The Shack. People will even say it’s a good book to give to unbelievers. No, it’s not! It’s not just because of the New Age teachings that are in there, such as God dwells in and around and through all things.

For one, the author is a stated Universalist, though he calls himself a Christian. Oprah calls herself a Christian, too, and she’s not. She’s a New Ager. Therefore, you’ve got to look at just what kind of “Christianity” they are talking about.

The Scripture that comes to my mind is, “A little leaven, leaveneth the whole lump.” You cannot have these false teachings inserted into these supposedly “Christian” books, surrounding Satan’s lies with a little truth. Some will claim all truth is God’s truth, but then they will take some teaching from out of the New Age book A Course in Miracles and use that as the “truth.”

There are a lot of deceptive voices out there, and a lot of these voices are now coming into our churches through books like The Shack. People just don’t realize that the author of The Shack told a small group that met privately in a house church that he had real conversations with God and that the teachings in his book came right from God, but he just put them in a novel form.

The Shack is a very popular book, not only in the Christian world, but it was actually at the top of the New Age bestseller list as well.

People will claim, “Well, but Jesus is in there.” What a lot of people don’t understand is that from what I think was on page 112, the Jesus of The Shack said, “God who is the ground of all being dwells in and around and through all things.” Then, if you look carefully at the book when the word “Creation” is brought up, a capital “C” is used. Those of us from the New Age know that when you see creation with a capital “C”, it means that God indwells His creation.

That is very different from what the Bible teaches. No, God is not indwelling His creation. Psalm 39:5 tells us, “Verily, every man at his best state is altogether vanity.” Or, in John 2:24-25, Jesus said referring to Jesus, “He did not commit himself to men because he knew what was in men.” Now, why would that be said if God is in man? Why wouldn’t He be emphasizing that? Instead, Jesus was actually saying to the effect, “Watch out! Men amongst themselves can be very dangerous.” That is what Jesus was teaching. So, no, God is not within each person.

I just want to stop and caution people that when somebody gives you a copy of a supposed Christian book and it’s not really Christian, like for example The Shack, just because somebody in the morning asks, “Hey, have you read The Shack?”, or somebody later in the afternoon asks the same thing, don’t think that God is saying, “Hey, you should read The Shack.” It may seem like the coincidence is meant to be from God, but it can also be meant to be from the Devil.

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  • Thank you for this article. It saddens me to think that Christian people I know have been ‘taken in’ by The Shack. Just last Sunday, a fellow church member who is in his early 70’s told me he had seen The Shack movie. When I mentioned it was New Age, he countered with “but it had Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit in it”. I just moved on. This guy has been in some type of ministry all his life and was seminary trained. I just don’t understand…..well, maybe I do, but it is still sad….sigh

  • RE: Warren Smith – Jesus said referring to Jesus, “He did not commit himself to men because he knew what was in men.”
    That’s an incorrect quote of John 2:24,25. All English translations read that He did not commit/entrust himself to THEM, because He knew all (men) – (and therefore what was in their hearts). The them being those who “believed” because they witnessed His miracles. Their belief was about what He could do for them, not that He is the way, the truth and the life and that they needed to make Him the Lord of their life.
    And that He did not need anyone to testify to Him about men, because He knew what was in men.

    • John juxtaposes parallel clauses in John 2:24-25, which literally read “because (dia) he knew all” (v. 24), and “for (gar) he knew what was in man (v. 25).” The latter clause amplifies and explains the meaning of the former, the implication being that God was not in “all” generally and “all men” specifically. The observers of Jesus’ miracles (“all . . . all men”) were not born from above (anothen) as Jesus was about to tell “a man” Nicodemus (3:1). Just as God was not in Nicodemus—he needed new birth so that God would reside in him— neither was He in “all men” who observed Jesus’ miracles. Warren Smith’s application of John 2:24-25—that God does not reside in all men—is correct.

  • Matthew 24:11-13

    11 Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. 12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved.

    Colossians 2:8

    8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

  • I read The Shack when the book was first out. I enjoyed it. BUT, after thought through the years and growing closer into His Word, I see so many blaring theological inaccuracies. I completely agree with each of the commentaries. I do see it as new age/universalism and it saddens me and also scares me that so many Christians/Believers are all “into” The Shack. We are not to open ourselves up to this kind of theology. I am sharing this article on facebook. I hope people will read this article.

  • Thank you for bringing forth the Truth about this book. True Saints need not be shocked to see this blatant heresy. I had my doubts when I kept hearing the rumblings of a “Christian” story breaking book sale records and now a movie that promises to be a blockbuster. This depraved, Reprobate world has nothing to do with the truth, but seeks doctrine of Demons. 2 Timothy, 2 Peter, Romans chap.1, explain clearly. Also, we know Satan is the prince of this world. he, the devil controls the world’s system, money, entertainment, power structure etc. This is why Jesus clearly tells us we are to be IN this world BUT NOT OF this world. Sadly, way too many Christians desire to be of this world, not suckle on its wealth, to be important and loved by the world. Yes, the devil does truly roam this world as a hungry lion seeking those whom he may devour. Dear Heavenly Father, my prayer, thank you for Lion & Lion Ministries,,
    Keep your hand on them and your saints, bless us, may your grace sustain us until we are home with you in glory. Amen. Even so come Lord Jesus. Maranatha! Amen!

  • I know a lot of Christians who were taken in by the Shack. The Bible says that man should not add anything to the word of God, especially what they say they have seen in the heavenly realms. Beware, Satan masquerades as an angel of Light. John 14:6 “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him” Thank God for providing a sure way to bring us to him!

  • the views and comments are accurate, but I must say that this may be the only Christ a non-church person sees, and may get them to seek further into God’s word. this is more about forgiveness. with the content of movies and television today, this is not a bad movie and it is fiction. No it is not the Gospel in no shape, form of fashion.

  • I both read and saw “The Shack”! I was moved by the intimate, relational portrayal of the Godhead. It is so easy for us to sit back and criticize this work. Does it have flaws? Of course it does. Every book, movie, and production that attempts to portray the divine nature of God will have ‘flaws’ — because it is ultimately a work of human beings — no matter how inspired. Pastors, every one of your sermons has something that some other believer would object to. The biggest critics of Christian films are Christians — we never see anything good. We have sold Christians falsehoods too — we preach that Sunday is the Sabbath and it’s not. We say that God changed it/Paul changed it — and neither is the truth! Man changed it! And now we try to justify that change with lies. We neglect the practice of all the holy days established by the Father and deify ones selected by man! The biggest hoax is not that God is pictured as a woman in “The Shack” — it was ok when you etched a white God with a long beard on your stained glass windows. No one had a thing to say about that! That was God, you say! And you flooded every mind with that image until everyone thought God was an old white man! But when the El Shaddai, the nurturer, is depicted as an African-american woman you call it tribalism, some pagan cultural belief. This hypocrisy is too much! In a book God had to be depicted. What would you have chosen? I know — a white male! Read Ezekiel 1 in the Hebrew. You’ll find that with the divine spectacle that Ezekiel witnesses, the male/female pronouns are all intertwined. What am I saying: If you can walk away from this movie with a greater image of the intimacy, love, gentleness, forgiving and loving nature of the Father, then let’s laud that! We will find flaws in every Jesus film, movie, and production! Let’s look for the good! And if we want to find flaws, let’s consider what we have been preaching to people since the Church broke away from its Jewish roots. Paul said, “some preach Christ out of good intentions; some for evil. So what! Every way makes my gain!” Do you know why — Christ is being preached! Father, help us!

      • I agree, and those who do not follow the scriptures as they are written by God, are at a disadvantage to be deceived by Satan. Christ warned us in Matthew 24:24 for false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you ahead of time. This also means through dreams and unnatural occurrences. We will know and see the true heaven when the Lord takes us there.

    • Your primary error is the two wrongs make a right fallacy. That others made errors justifies accepting this error. But there is also a lack of proportion. An error is different from a heresy. The Shack makes fundamental mistakes that can lead people completely off course. Also, errors should always be pointed out and corrected, never accepted. I agree with your comment about the common Western portrayal of Jesus being inaccurate. It should be pointed out and corrected.

    • The true church has not broken away from its Jewish roots. That was a pretty blanket statement. Also, I would have chosen God being depicted as a Jew because that is WHO he IS. His race was Jewish. You asked. As for you saying a “white male”, well we know that the Jewish race is many colored from pale to dark brown. I guess we will have to wait and see when we see HIM face to face. This movie is horribly flawed and downright demonic. Beware the GREAT I AM is separating the sheep from the goats. Do NOT take this lightly and be worldly in your discernment of this movie.

  • Where in the world did Warren Smith come from because he has never read the book of John 14:23 KJV Jesus answered and said unto him. If man love me he will keep my words and my father will love him and “we” will come unto him and make our abode with him.
    How can any man contradict the word of Jesus. Trinity is as false and anything can be because it was thought up by a man named Arius. He brought the teaching to the Nicene conference in 324/5 (?) and it was refused by the conference. Eusebius and Chrysostom were a couple that took the teaching and it began to spread and the Catholic Church picked it up and it spread among Protestant Churches. God said anyone that added to the scripture would be dealt with. Rev 22:18. Teaching Trinity is the same as teaching Mormanism as both are wrong. The same goes for teaching of Lucifer, What a lie. Anyone that can read Hebrew knows this is wrong. Another teaching is that Paul had an eye disease. Paul is quoting from Moses in Numbers 33:55, Joshua 23:13 and Judges 2:3. Evil is a thorn in any believer flesh now as it was during Paul’s time and God cannot remove it because he created evil to buffet believers to show them evil was not according to the Word of God. See Isaiah 45:7.

    • While the word “Trinity” is not a word found in the Bible (like “Bible”), the concept is very much there. The main verses in the Bible on this subject are Genesis 1:25-26; 11:7; Isaiah 6:8; Zechariah 12:10; Luke 1:35; 3:21-22; John 14:16-17, 26; 15:26; 2 Cor. 13:14; Col. 2:9; and Phil. 2:10. Trying to explain the Trinity is rather like a 2-dimensional creature trying to explain a 3-dimensional creature. But, the Bible is explicitly clear that God does exist as 3-in-one – Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit.

      The whole Unitarian argument dies at the Creation “in our image” (Gen. 1:26), Jesus’ baptism (Matt. 3:13-17), Transfiguration (Lk. 9:28-36), and Crucifixion (Mk. 15:33-34), among other references. The Bible is full of evidence that God is one entity in three separate and distinct parts.

  • After some hesitation and at the urging of people I knew, I read this book when first published. I was uncomfortable in my spirit, but finished it and then tried to forget about which was easy since I am quite old. My question is for Warren Smith concerning his last remarks in this article – I need some clarification on John 17:23-26 where Jesus in His prayer before going to the cross speaks of being “in” his disciples and all believers. I have always believed that we are indwelt by the Holy Spirit who is a part of the trinity.

    • Louise, Warren Smith explained in another one of our interviews that from a New Age perspective, being indwelt meant to become one with Brahma, similar to the Force. It is to be consumed into a larger entity, rather than remain as our own individual self.

      • The New Age Religion is deception, its the World of the Antichrist. People can’t channel their energies, do what feels good, and save themselves. Only Christ the redeemer, the Lamb that was slain for our sins, can save us.

  • I agree completely with these blogs. I also read The Shack when it first came out, and enjoyed parts of it also. But in retrospect, I also was left with a strange feeling of “something is just not right”.

    • Exactly. I read the book and also knew something was not right. No matter how folks try and justify it. We get the truth from God’s word, not a human book or experience

  • First thank you for your opinion, I think that it is true that God speaks through His word, but I also believe that God is Sovereign and He can do whatever He wants to how he wants to, and I believe that Christians have God in this little Doctrinal box all neatly put away. God is big and can not be reduced to one book. I believe that we all need God in different ways and He knows what we need. I expect God to show up for me anyway He sees fit. Our thought are not His thoughts nor are our ways His ways.

    • I am concerned about two things in your post. First, that God can do whatever He wants. He will never do anything that contradicts who He is or what He has already told us in His word. You are right that God is not limited to one book, but He will never do or be anything that is out of alignment with that one book. second, God can show up in any way He wants, as long as it is consistent with who He is.

  • I appreciate this article making us aware of all the issues with this book based on true Biblical theology. But I read this book a few years ago and took it as fiction and didn’t read much into it. What this book did for me that helped change my life was to see God the Father in a more personal way. I grew up Baptist, I was Jesus as loving. But I couldn’t see God that way. I saw him as the big booming God that was watching me and ready to send lightning bolts from heaven for my sins. I missed so much in life by not seeing the Father as my Abba, my Daddy God. This book helped me see him in this light. It was the beginning of me finding a true loving relationship with the Father. I spent no time thinking about the theology of this book as it was fiction. But realized how much God cared about me and my pain.

    But I do think the way things are analyzed today and turned into what you want to believe. That this article was much needed. And to put front and center what the author truly believes.

    I am continually blessed by your ministry.

  • I Believe 2Timothy 3:5, sums up a lot of the deception in this age. Many come with an emotional social gospel, declaring the love of God, but leave out the repentance and full trust in what Christ did not what we do.

    This book and movie does paint a loving picture of the Godhead but fails to declare the real truth, that John 14:6 states. Jesus is the only Way, the onlyTruth that leads to eternal Life. That is the power that is misrepresented in this book and movie.

    Many will be deceived in these last days by emotional ideas of humanistic terms of what love and tolerance and acceptance of all beliefs present.

    Universalism is a lie of Satan, a counterfeit salvation, that damns souls to hell, thinking they are saved. We need to pray for God’s light of discernment to be manifest to even true Christians fooled by this kind of leaven that is a small drop of poison but poison never the less.

    • Amen, and thank you. Books like this to the new Christian provides a “warm and fuzzy feeling”. Studying the Bible is necessary as that is our only Guide for truth. Our decisions concerning our beliefs must be Bible read and based. One cannot just read the “feel good” books and take what one likes from them and make “paste and cut” choices
      concerning our Souls. Comfort for those beginning please read 1 Thessalonians 9-18.

  • I am glad you pointed out how the book is not biblical and agree with the summation in each point. However I think this book is listed in the fictional section of book stores not as training materials and not promoted as a new book of the bible. It is just someones idea of how to explain God’s grace to others who can’t even fathom forgiveness in that type of situation. I think that so often Christianity gets in the way of being Christian and it is what gives the devil the foot hold to have nay-Sayers point and say look at those hypocrites. I am a christian but that does not mean I am not a sinner just like all those who are not saved. Jesus walked among the lost and did so to relate to them the good news. Maybe this book will open the door to someone who would never consider picking up the bible and trying to find the truth. So I say “good on ya” to the author for attempting to reach those that the perfect christian who want all communication biblical can’t. After all that is exactly what Jesus said we should go and do.

  • The author claims to have the goal of helping people draw closer to God through this book. Many say not to worry about the bad theology because it is fiction. But fiction only works if it is connected to reality. He creates fictional people, but they are like real people. He didn’t reinvent what humans are like. So far, so good. But he does reinvent God. How can we draw near to the real God by reading about a god who isn’t like the real God?

    Fiction does not give license to abandon all reality and expect us to draw a lesson about something that is real.

  • At first I thought, good movie maybe. Then as I watched their promo, I got a very uncomfortable feeling. This is the Holy Spirit, warning me that the direction of this book, movie or whatever else is not in line with God. So I shall not involve myself with the devils lies.

  • Thanks Nathan for your comments on this book, I have never read it or do I intend to, however I will give you a link to what I believe is something more sinister, although the bible society over here has removed the original link, there is still enough information regarding the bible’s society engagement with a local brewery.

    The original promotion was for Coopers Beer with bible verses displayed on the cartons.

    Beer and Bibles, where to next?

    If that link fails this one might work.

  • Thank you Nathan for another great job. I love you and Dave and how you get the truth out. It is so saddens me to see how many of my friends that profess to be Christian are saying how much they enjoyed the movie, made them cry, and it wasn’t that bad. I learned a long time ago that if it has anything to do with the dark side, as the Shack, clearly does that I will not allow it in my house, on my Television or pay money to watch blasphemy.

  • Read the book…identified with it cause of my sexual abuse at the age of 5. Never looked at it as a book on salvation. Why can’t we be happy for this guy who obviously gained closure due to what God showed Him. He wasn’t a “Christian” as I believe many here are adhering to, but I think if God wouldn’t have brought this to him, he may not be alive and all right now. God knows what each of us need. This man needed something desperate. God gave it to him. He got healed, blessed, and set free. When are we going to ‘weep with those that weep and rejoice with those who’ve gained victory’? Oh, did I say that biblically correct? Or are we all being human and having those jealous or envious demons plaguing us with resentment and bitterness due to those saying “this may be the next Pilgrim’s Progress’! Which, in my book, is a little iffy too, lol. Chill out body of Christ. Chill out.

    • Karen, I so agree with you! What is wrong with us? So God, Jesus, and the Spirit were not depicted in “the Shack” as we imagined . . . each one of our imaginations would be so different anyway! I came away from this movie seeing God as so relational and beautiful and warm and funny!!! We have stuffed him in stained-glass windows and overlooked his humanity! Thank you, Abba, for creativity — that now even through this movie that some Christians are boycotting, You are being discussed!! That’s wonderful!

  • Mankind continues to grow bolder in his arrogance and fist raising disrespect at God, which will all crescendo in the abysmal blasphemy of Satan, for example Rev. 13.

  • I read the book several years ago. I hated it and I thought it was making a
    mockery of Christanity. I told my friends how much I hated the book and
    suggested they not read the book or go to see the movie.

  • I am by no means an expert in Christian doctrine but I know my Bible. The greatest way, I believe, to know whether or not the Truth is being spoken/written is to intimately know what the Bible says. If there is even the smallest check in my heart, it is imperative I head to my Bible. If one does not know his/her Bible inside out, it would be like giving me a scalpel with the order to perform open heart surgery.

    An enthusiastic Christian friend lent me a copy of “The Shack” several years ago. It was an interestingly irritating story but in no way represented Truth. To me, it is a colossal waste and a lie. Satan is the father of lies. Jesus is Truth. Thank you.

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Twitter’s Future Unpredictable as Active Use Slows

What does Twitters future actually look like?  Unlike stability you may see in Facebook based on their quarterly earnings, Twitter isn’t looking so hot soon after their largely anticipated IPO.  Last week Twitter share holders took a massive hit as news was released on the current user growth and activity.  Over the past three weeks Twitter has seen a $14 drop in their share price, bottoming out at $32 at it’s lowest.  What was it that scared everyone? First, lets look at the amount of twitter users.

Statisa released a fantastic graph showing the number of current active twitter users based on the year they were created.  Below you can see almost 25% of the userbase locked down in 2008 is still active on Twitter.  What’s scary is the staggering gap between active and non active users in the years to come.  Fast forward to 2013 only 13% of the accounts created are still actively using their accounts as of February 2014.

Infographic: Does Twitter Have a Stickiness Problem? | Statista

You will find more statistics at Statista

Why does Twitter have a stickiness problem?

My thoughts are because of the product use in itself.  I can go days or weeks without being on Twitter.  When I login, I don’t read what I missed, and usually I don’t see much worth reading anyway.  Most of the people I follow are distant acquaintances, news publishers, or personal interest accounts.

Facebook however is a list of only the people I have chosen to be friends with.  Most of the information on Facebook, however mundane it may be, allows me to put a face to the person.  I feel more connected because they are generally someone I’ve met and potentially see a few times a year.  I find myself checking my Facebook account several times a day.

Twitter is turning into the new email, where you’re constantly getting a lot of messages, most are caught by spam, another bunch are just notifications and social annoyances, and the very few are meaningful messages.  The only thing is email is like a mailbox.  Everyone needs to have one no matter how much junk mail you end up getting.

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What to do about writers block

So here we are again. Back at the old writing of helpful insights…

So what do I write now? I had an idea eariler but it was for a different topic or story. Should I go develop that? I am getting no where here on this project…

Hey everyone,

If those starting sentences sounded familiar you might have some experience with “writer’s block”. That old foe that plagues even the most successful of authors. Can we slay him? Maybe not, but we can seal him away again.

So first things first, what is writers block?

Well as the name implies it is a mental block that seems to have wedged itself between your mind, creativity, and your physical action of writing. This subconscious mental state can be as frustrating as it is perverse. The mental block can even affect and effect other parts of your day to day life.

In short, you desire to push your creativity and capabilities in one direction, and you receive unexpected resistance.

So what do you do to get rid of it?

Thank you for asking!

Well to get rid of it, stop pushing against it…

Not super helpful huh?

Okay, let me help by explaining more.

Your mind, my mind, and The mind, all tend to wonder.

Your mind is drifting from thinking about your project, to the conversation earlier with that one person, to the sale at the store, to how you needed more sleep, the conversation you overheard, that person that annoys you, why is there so much of that color of paint these days, how you need more sleep, what your going to eat next meal…

You see my point? You can’t focus on all that at once, so the mind is fluid and drifts around.

Step one. Take a deep breath. Let’s begin.

So first try to identify why you can’t focus. This is almost always internal (no matter how much that person clicking the pen 10 feet from you grates on your nerves). What is worrying you? Little tasks that need done? Make a short plan to deal with it, and stick to that plan.

Feel better? No? Yeah me either, so lets continue.

Next if you’re fixated on another idea, write a quick overview of it. Maybe it really is your next great idea that will change your life… Probably not, but an overview should spark the idea back up if it really is a good idea to start with.

After that doesn’t work, change your environment. A short walk, and think about the things you see or encounter (not about the project, or deadline). 10 min later, go back to the project. But instead, reread some of it, or the reread the assignment, or both.

Next, remember that thing that inspired this story? Try to. Was it a conversation, situation, or something else? If the details are fuzzy, try and reexperince it (as best you can).

Now write something. Build something in the story. Set a scene, describe a landmark, or introduce a character. Like Chris, the unhelpful troll who doesn’t understand your problems. What’s he look like? What does he sound like?

HEY! What are you doing? Is that writing you’re doing? How’d that happen?

No more writers block if you follow steps like those. All of them, and don’t skip, it’s a process. It really does work, hasn’t failed me yet.

Was this helpful? Yes or No, and let me know if you have your own process down in the comments.

Until next time. May God bless you and keep you.

Basics of writing: Putting it all together

Hi everyone,

Welcome to the final installment in my Basics of writing mini series. This will be the one that strings all the others together. In other words, how to string a series of ideas together to make a story.

So you have a good idea for a book. It will have action, romance, a thrilling conflict, interesting twists, and possibly the best single climax that a book has ever had. You sit down and you know the basics we’ve covered already, Character building, world building, setting and supporting details (if you missed any of those, they are here on the blog 🙂 ). But when you sit down to start that first chapter, you freeze. You have great ideas, but no idea how to get started.

First, take a deep breath. All writers and authors have been there, so No it’s not just you. Second, in a separate document, write down all your ideas for the story, as specific and as detailed as you wish. Third, well this is where the path widens up.

There is, by far, more than one way to write a story. So lets go over a few popular ones:

Some start by making (what I call) story pages. These explain locations, characters, and conflicts that will or could take place inside your book. Once you have all these places, people, and things figured out then; you figure out where you want to start and end the story. And finally of course start typing, or writing on paper if you prefer. You can have their journey completely mapped out, add details of each location as they arrive. Your character’s struggles that will shape their growth are predetermined mostly by your plan. And you finish the way, place, and time you planed in the beginning (or a revised way, if you find things flowed a bit different when you got to actually writing the story).

Another way is to simply jump in. Build the world as you go, and develop your characters accordingly. This style typically starts at the beginning, and might only have a vague idea of where they are going; if any at all. You start Chapter 1, introduce your world or a main character, then start minor conflict; just to show where your character is right now in terms of characteristics. Send them on some type of journey in the next several chapters (doesn’t really matter what kind, emotional, physical, philosophical, a mix of them, they are all taking the character somewhere). Give them another test, to show their growth, possibility introduce the villain (if you haven’t already). Set another journey with a “battle” in the last two chapters.

Yet another way, write the final chapter first. Then go back and start at the beginning. The last chapter could have references to events that take place elsewhere in the story; be sure to pin these somewhere to remember so your flow works. You have a definite idea of where you are going, and a vague idea of how you get there. Determine how far back you wish to go, then start there and lead your character to the ending you already wrote. The growth is shown by how different you made the character in the beginning from the one at the end. The world, can be developed over time, but be sure the final setting makes sense in it.

As you can see there are many ways to write a story. These are just three common ones off the top of my head. You can of course implement any mixture of these, and completely different methods as well (I don’t know them all of course haha).

So what do I do, to write a story?

Well, my first novel that I ever completed I used my third example. Almost exclusively actually, the only additional element I eventually employed (after having 4 or so chapters written) was I wrote short paragraphs of what should/could take place in each chapter leading to my pre-written end (in order to make sure I remembered everything). The next two books in the trilogy were “started” after I had written about three fourths of the first novel. They were more “story paged” in that I wrote an overview of each book that hit all the highlights, broke out the chapters with a paragraph each, and knew what characters were being introduced and when.

By the time I started writing my second book, details had changed in what I presumed the first one would have contained (details can change in the moment). So much of my original overview wasn’t completely accurate. That was fine, I just gleaned what I could from it and wrote a new chapter breakout and started writing from there. The same happened for the third book as well. Was my extra effort to plan much of the story wasted? Absolutely not! This back and fourth created an internal feedback loop, which is something that collaboration with another author could also gain you. I was basically re-evaluating work my previous self had written with “new eyes”.

This kind of feedback is useful and many people will advise you (no matter your writing style) to find a mentor to help you develop your stories. While I do have great non-author support and feedback (my wife and my mom), the feedback I get from revisiting things I wrote a year or two a go is also valuable. Just recently I was doing this very thing with the book I have been writing, and I realized my tone and flow were all a mess. Which last week I announced was being delayed due to that. The story will still happen, but now I need to rewrite it and that is never fun. Even though that kind of exercise isn’t fun, it is helpful because your finished works will be all the better for it.

So in closing, adopt a method of writing (or combination, doesn’t have to be one I listed), seek feedback (either from people you know will give you honest feedback, or another author), and don’t be afraid to rewrite parts that don’t fit or flow right (your story deserves the best flow you can achieve. Just don’t get carried away rewriting the first chapter a dozen times without continuing the rest of the story).

That’s it for this series, I hope you all find it helpful in some way. Until next time, may God bless you and keep you.

Basics of Writing: Character Building

Hey everyone,

Last week we started this series of the Basics of Writing with world building here is a link in case you missed it:

This week we are diving into some of the basics of Character building. I feel like this topic doesn’t need me to explain why it is important, I mean what kind of story is it if you have poorly built characters? That isn’t to say that books haven’t been written with bad characters, but such stories tend to be forgotten. After all, your characters are (typically) who tells your story to begin with.

So, how do we build a character anyway? Well, it helps if we start with an archetype. You have many to choose from, the “everyman” to “paragon” to “mary sue” just kidding don’t use that last one. Now, please understand me here, Do Not stick to an archetype solely, or force a character to only fit in one category. Sticking too strictly to an archetype tends to make your characters boring, and stagnant. You do need to utilize them however, because if you say have a character that switches what category they fall in rapidly without good reason you will only confuse your reader. I mean, we didn’t see Frodo (everyman) turn into Gandalf (paragon/sage) in the end of the Fellowship of the ring.

So lets build a character from scratch right now.

Ok, so we are going with “everyman” in this example. It is can be a common archetype for the main character of a book. They are easy for the reader to relate to, and tend to struggle with similar things that most people struggle with. They don’t normally possess any extra ordinary skills either.

What kind of physical traits should he/she have? Well, we should probably make sure they are close to “average” maybe a little taller/shorter, a little more/less strong than their peers, and have a certain yearning to become something more than what they are now.

So lets make this a female character, who is a little taller than average, and while lacking extra strength physically she knows how to use her height to win a fight if she needs to. She has brown hair that sits just above her shoulders in length, and has a natural wave to it. She has fierce green eyes, and a thin face with a few freckles on her cheeks.

There we go. We have the appearance of a character, but that is only the beginning. Now you need to have a couple story decisions before you can do much more. For instance, is this your main protagonist? Lets say she is, what kind of character traits should she have? Well kind and loyal are both normal protagonist traits, but we don’t want to fit the mold too closely so how about we go the route of loner and suspicious of others?

We have a couple of character traits now, that’s a good start. But it doesn’t mean much without context now does it? Which is what the first part character building truly is at its core: Giving the reader background information about characters in a story over the course of many chapters. You can start your first chapter and revel your character’s appearance, and even dominant traits within the first few pages. Explaining  as the story goes on what struggles they face going forward, and have already faced help the reader to understand what this character is all about.

So say about five chapters in you find out that due to the betrayal by a close family friend, she lost her younger brother to a group of bandits and doesn’t know if he is even alive. That would explain why she tends to be suspicious of others and why she tends to be a bit of a loner.

The next part of Character Building is growing your characters over the course of the story. Our green eyed protagonist is forced to work with another girl and that girl’s brother in order to proceed the plot. This makes the character uncomfortable, and forces them to adapt to new situations they have previously avoided. Being placed in uncontrollable circumstances is another trait of the “everyman” and one that is fairly universally kept.

Now you have a growing opportunity for the protagonist. They could work with others better as a result of this situation, voice their distrust which could lead to emotional growth, or even out right fail and see it as justification of their previous feelings causing them to grow more callous towards others. Growth is necessary regardless of what traits your character ends up growing into. It makes the reader gain more emotional connection to the characters, look at Harry Potter. He started something of an “everyman” and towards the end took on the mantle of “the hero”. That growth took place over several books, and countless situations. In the end he even changed archetypes (which is also okay, when there is enough supporting information for it).

You as a writer weave the story, and build the world, and the characters within it. By using effective world building, and character building you can write memorable stories for people to enjoy for generations. These are your two greatest tools as a writer. You must learn how to use them effectively if you wish to create great stories, and further yourself in the art. Of course you can also just use the information to make better creative narratives for a school assignment as well, so to each their own haha.

That is all for this week, I hope this explanation made sense to all of you.

Until next time, may God bless you and keep you.


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Estuary was made during the three weeks between December 17th 1979 and January 6th 1980. The film was shot from a small cabin boat moored near the mouth of the Keyhaven River. This is a place known to me since my childhood and the location for several paintings, films, and photographic pieces. The camera was fixed relative to the motion of the boat as it responded to the action of wind …

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“The disquieting feeling is that nature is being interrupted or frozen for no apparent reason.” Fred Camper on Skylight in the Chicago Reader, 2001 An idyllic river flows through a forest, flashes of light and colour threaten to erase the image, bursts of short wave radio and static invade the tranquility of the natural sound. The camera searches amongst the craggy rocks and ruined buildings of a bleak and windswept …

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Live Resin

A fresh flavor profile.

Cannabis concentrates are more popular than ever as consumers look for the purest, strongest, and most effective products. Live resin is especially popular because of its high terpene levels that lead to a great taste and fragrance. It’s an unparalleled experience for the cannabis enthusiast, and customers are constantly looking for dispensaries with the best live resin around.

What is Live Resin?

Live Resin is a cannabis concentrate that starts with freezing freshly harvested flower. The flower is protected from heat, light, and other factors that might be harmful to its level of terpenes. The plant is kept at freezing temperatures throughout the entire extraction process. This revolutionary extraction process is new relative to most of the cannabis industry, as it originated between 2011 and 2013 by cannabis visionaries who wanted to preserve terpenes.

How is Live Resin Different From Other Concentrates?

Live Resin is becoming more popular than other concentrates among some cannabis enthusiasts because of its superior smell and flavor. Since it’s never cured, extraction of live resin doesn’t subject the flower to harsh conditions that can erode the terpene levels. Terpenes are the oils in cannabis that are associated with smell and flavor. Although live resin doesn’t necessarily have higher THC or CBD potency than other concentrates, the aromatic essence and taste are more sophisticated. Elevated terpene levels make everything more pronounced for the consumer. People who enjoy the flavor and taste of cannabis, as well as the effect, are the most regular consumers of live resin.

The ability to avoid temperatures at which essential oils might evaporate is one of the biggest differences between live resin extraction and other concentrating processes. The live resin extraction process never goes above an average room temperature of about 65° to 70° Fahrenheit. Compare that to other concentrates that might be purged at temperatures well over 100°.

How is Live Resin Made?

Part of the reason live resin is in such high demand is that it can be difficult to make properly. Safe and efficient extraction requires specific knowledge, complete adherence to safety precautions, and precise equipment. Skilled technicians flash freeze freshly harvested cannabis using precise temperatures. The solvent is cooled to -40° Fahrenheit, then introduced to the frozen plant material to create a solution.

At this stage, technicians raise the temperature of the solution slightly. The temperature is raised just enough to vaporize the solvent without damaging the terpenes. This step requires great precision because the gaseous solvent must be completely removed for the product to be pure. A vacuum purges the undesired gas at low temperatures to preserve essential oils.

Why Dispensaries Should Have Live Resin

The primary reason dispensaries should have live resin is that their customers want it. People are seeking it out for multiple reasons:

  • Its relatively recent arrival to the community makes it a new and exciting experience
  • The revolutionary extraction process leads to higher terpene levels
  • Increased flavor and aroma makes consumption more true to the natural flower
  • THC and CBD levels are consistent with other concentrates

The popularity and a relative scarcity of live resin create higher demand than there is for other CBD concentrates. Dispensaries often charge more for this particular concentrate. The higher price is more than worth it for consumers who love this product.

Best Live Resin for Dispensaries

Chronic Creations is proud to offer superior live resin to our clients. Our live resin extraction process uses premium freshly frozen material and a focus on terpene preservation. Our full spectrum extraction ensures a quality experience for the end consumer. When you keep this caliber of live resin in stock, your customers will return to your dispensary again and again. Contact us today to learn how you can take your inventory to the next level.

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To Behold

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed!

Anne Sullivan (Helen Keller’s Teacher)

Until I was in third grade, I was invisible. I was only one of two Korean-American kids in our school (my sister was the other one), so I should have “stuck out.” But I was quiet, shy and bookish. My parents dismissed me early on as an underachiever to my more outgoing, dynamic younger sister. As most introverts do, I quietly accepted this reality.

It changed one day.

During a parent/teacher conference, my mother asked haltingly in her strong accent, “Is she OK?”  I braced myself for comments about the need for improvement…in focus or math…but Ms. Meretta looked me straight in the eye and said, “Oh yes, better than OK! Caroline is my hardest worker.”

I felt an electric charge throughout my body that caused my eyes to well.

My identity underwent a dramatic transformation: I wasn’t lazy or dumb (as I had overheard). I was a hard worker. I held promise.

I’m a teacher now, and looking back, I realize Ms. Meretta would not be considered a very good teacher today. She sat at her desk the entire day, giving papers to helpers to pass out for her. She was morbidly obese and rarely moved. She allowed me to get up and read books – a LOT. I rushed through math worksheets in order to read about Ramona or even Archie. She would most likely not embrace technology or move about the room to watch progress. Most likely, she would not attend ISTE and come back with cutting edge techniques to use in the classroom.

Still, she saw me. I consider her to be my most important teacher ever. She knew my personality, my friends, my parents, my interests. She invited my mother to come in and teach my peers about Korean customs, dress and food. My mother, a housewife, was positively giddy for weeks after her presentation. She had knowledge to impart! I realized that my culture was something to be proud of, not an aspect of myself to hide.

I’m not saying that using effective teaching strategies in the classroom lack importance, but in our fast-paced, technology-driven world, we need to stop multi-tasking. We need to slow down, ask real questions (How was your gymnastics meet?) and behold the people in front of us.


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Short-term mission: four months to two years

Do you have skills and experience to share with our partner churches and organisations? Or are you keen to gain experience for longer mission service? Put your call into action on a short term mission placement with Church Mission Society.

Church Mission Society is recognised by Global Connections as operating under the Code of Best Practice in Short-Term Mission 2019 and 2020

We are looking for people who are committed to mission, have developed skills, experience and gifts and are open to spending from four months to two years living and working alongside Christians in other cultures. Expect to be challenged, to build meaningful relationships and to grow personally and spiritually.

Who is CMS looking for?

People involved in a local church who are passionate about evangelistic mission. You will be flexible, adaptable and sensitive in your interaction with people of other backgrounds, cultures and faiths. You may have a few years of experience in your profession. Maybe you have just finished education or are looking for a career break. Perhaps you are coming up to retirement. Whatever your situation, CMS is keen to explore what God has ahead for you.

Where can I go on a short term mission placement?

Countries within Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America – we’ll help you identify the location that sparks your interest, fits your sense of calling or opens up a new door for you.

What can I do?

It depends on your skills and interests. You may work in health care, teaching, project management, community development, the arts, church initiatives – or something completely different. Placements are as much about receiving and gaining cross-cultural experience as about what you can give. See our current mission opportunities.

How do I apply?

The process of selection begins with us receiving a completed enquiry form from you. We then take you through one or two interviews looking at how you got to this point, your calling and the type of work you want to do. We take up three references, complete a DBS check and a health check, and then invite you to a two-week training course where you will meet all sorts of other people who are either heading off overseas like you or just returning. We ask for a contribution of £350 towards the cost of the training, health and DBS checks, and debriefing on return.

In 2002, Helen Fraser felt God calling her to serve in the Middle East, but she had no idea how that would happen. “I had never lived overseas…. And I had always worked for corporations who had paid me a salary so I wondered how I’d survive.”

Helen spoke to her mission pastor in Guildford, who put her in touch with Church Mission Society. Through a CMS short term mission placement, Helen served for six months as PA to the Episcopal Bishop of Egypt, North Africa and the Horn of Africa.

The next summer, she returned and joined a task force to establish the Alexandria School of Theology. Helen committed to another two years and then in 2006 she decided to become a long term mission partner.

Commenting on her gradual, yet nonetheless dramatic move to Egypt, Helen says, “Five years ago I was writing business proposals for the car refinish market, now I am completing grant proposals and scholarship forms to train future Christian leaders of the Middle East and North Africa; our God is truly a God of surprises.”

How much does it cost?

Average costs for a short term mission placement for one person are £5,000–8,000 a year, but vary depending on location.

What next?

Email Susann on or call 01865 787415.

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The Marmalade Brigade

Taste of OTR in Washington Park this Weekend

Tender Mercies, one of Over-the-Rhine’s oldest and most life-changing non-profit organizations, continues the celebration of the tastes, flavors and sounds of Over-the-Rhine at the 2nd Annual Taste of OTR.   The Taste will be held on July 26th from 11am to 11pm in Washington Park. It will...


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Coming out of the punk explosion of the 1970s, Gary Numan had a series of hits such as Are “Friends” Electric? and Cars, which saw him hit international fame, quickly become a millionaire and inspire a devoted following. Critically lambasted, he did himself no favours supporting Maggie Thatcher and giving interviews about his love of flying. The Moog-centric electronic sound ended up – like anything futuristic – dating rapidly and for the last thirty years Numan has pursued his own rather solitary path while at the same time having to handle the pressures of being in the ‘where are they now’ bin.

Gary Numan: Android in La La Land, the new documentary from Rob Alexander and Steve Read, is an affectionate and partisan portrait of the man in the machine. Its success – for anyone not already a Numanoid – actually comes from Numan’s own genuinely sweet persona, which, with his many anxieties and acute self-criticism on full display, undercuts some of the directors’ more grandiose claims about Numan the musician. A title card at the beginning of the doc charts his rise to becoming “one of the most famous men in the world” and makes claims to his three decades of making music, even though post-eighties, Numan dropped precipitously from view.

The directors follow Numan and his wife, and former super-fan, Gemma and their three daughters as they move from Britain to Los Angeles and complete his first album for six years: Splinter. In the process, Gary looks back on his career with disarming honesty. He talks about accidentally happening upon a Moog which was set to a sound he liked and how it revolutionised his sound. “It has hundreds of shittier sounds,” he confesses, but fortunately he was inspired to work out his new direction, believing that this was a pioneering effort that no one had done. “Of course, it wasn’t,” he admits. “There was Bowie and Kraftwerk.” Diagnosed late on with Asperger’s, Numan is fully aware of his inability to connect with people and credits his robotic persona with his attempt to allay his crippling stage fright. Fame and success brought very little relief as he bought a large house but only lived in one room, eating homemade chips and watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail every night.

Numan’s comeback album follows a period of particular difficulty as he weans himself off anti-depressants and tries to reconnect with his muse. His nervousness – at times terror – makes him one of the more unlikely rockstars. “I’m an anorak, a nerd,” he says, crediting his mother and father and his wife with looking after him and pulling him through. He admits to being embarrassed by people listening to him when he sings and is palpably nervous that his new work will be greeted with indifference by the public and hostility by the press. His disarmingly small ambition is for the album to chart and for people not to hate it, and it would be a stony-hearted viewer not to wish him well in his endeavour. Or perhaps an actual android.

John Bleasdale | @drjonty


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Happy New Year from Circulate!

Happy New Year from Circulate!

Written by: Matt Daley ()
Categories: Digital Marketing

First of all, we’d like to wish you all a very Happy New Year from the entire team here at Circulate! We’d also like to say a massive thank you to all of our wonderful clients for making 2018 such a fun year!

Welcoming in a new year is the perfect time to reflect on the year that has just passed. It is an opportunity to take note of the highs and the lows, and begin to make resolutions and set goals for the new year ahead – both in your personal life and for your business.

Some of our highlights over the past 12 months include celebrating Circulate’s 4th birthday. The business has come on a long way since it’s humble beginnings back in 2014. We now operate from offices in Sheffield, Brighton and Barcelona, and continue to expand both our clientele and our team of industry experts!

We also made the decision to specialise solely in performance-based marketing. We felt that whilst we had the skill set to operate as a full-service digital agency, we wanted to focus our talents on the measurable side of digital marketing that could be sure to deliver results for our clients, helping them grow and increase their revenue. This was a difficult decision that really altered the structure of the business however we feel that it was one that has been for the better. We can’t tell you how excited we are to take on new clients and projects in 2019!

We signed some new amazing clients and moved into a new office in Sheffield, right in the heart of Kelham Island.

So, what does 2019 have in store for Circulate? Keep reading to find out some of our goals for the year ahead.

Launch the new website

In 2019, we will be launching the brand new Circulate website, which we are all extremely proud of. As you will soon see, the new website captures the essence of what Circulate is all about and really helps to showcase our client success stories and demonstrate our talents as digital marketers. But we’ll let you be the judge of that!

Raise money and awareness for Charity

One of our goals for the new year is to get more involved in charitable work, helping to raise money and awareness for a good cause. This is something that we have done previously as a team and thoroughly enjoyed. So watch this space…

Expand the team

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NBA Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant says he could have been in the same territory if former teammate “wouldn’t have been such a “lazy ass” during their Lakers days … claiming, “I woulda had f*cking 12 rings!”Mamba expressed his relationship with Shaq during an interview earlier this month with Patrick Bet-David at the 10th annual PHP Agency Convention in Las Vegas. Bryant was asked “how Shaq would have been remembered had he had Kobe’s legendary work ethic” … and Kobe responded to that saying”He’d be the greatest of all time,” Bryant said … “He’d be the first to tell you that!”I wish he was in the gym! I would’ve had 12 f*cking rings!”


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Dunking DACA

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is a federal program initiated by President Obama that, according to White House sources, Donald Trump plans to phase out, starting today.

What DACA does is protect immigrants who were brought to this nation as children by their parents. DACA is protecting nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants. The initiative shielded young immigrants from deportation and allowed them to get two-year, renewable work permits and driver’s licenses and to more easily afford college. It meant opportunities beyond low-wage jobs where no official paperwork is filed, and a chance to climb the ladder and enter the spotlight at work as well as school.

For these people, the United States is the only home they’ve ever known. Many don’t even have memories of living in the nations where they were born. Deporting them would be placing them in a strange land that they don’t have much knowledge of, or where anything exists that could be considered a support system. We have already thrown out many of their parents, thus ripping and tearing families apart.

If we’re going to start making children liable for the actions of their parents, then I demand that Donald Trump explain why his father was attending and getting arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally in 1927.

Perhaps Fred Trump was making connections for the future career of his son. Donald Trump has appealed, made vague references, given wolf whistles, and has made outright racists statements that feed a racist base supporting him.

Trump has questioned a judge’s eligibility to sit on a lawsuit over Trump University because he’s of Mexican lineage. He has called Mexican immigrants “racists and murderers.” He’s retweeted anti-Semitic tweets. He campaigned on building a surveillance system of mosques. He’s initiated a ban on Muslim refugees. He’s extended his bigotry to ban transgenders from the military. He pardoned a racist sheriff who was detaining people based upon their skin color. He claimed there were good people among those in Charlottesville marching with Tiki torches and chanting “blood and soil” and “Jews will not replace us.” Last, but not least, he’s trying to build a wall on the Mexican border as a monument for the rest of the world to view American racism, xenophobia, nationalism, hatred, and fear.

Trump claims he admires the Dreamers and he loves them. Donald Trump doesn’t love anything unless it has the name “Trump” on it. Stuff like hotels, casinos, planes, Ivanka, Barron, Junior, and maybe even Eric.

Democrats, moderate, and even some conservative Republicans are opposing Trump’s move to deport 800,000 children who were brought to this nation by no choice of their own. We’re talking about 800,000 children and young adults who are making this nation stronger and who understands what it means to be an American a hell of a lot more than Donald Trump or his sycophants could ever understand. He is placing duress, conflict, and playing with the lives of these children and young adults just so he can play politics, and appeal to the Jethros and Jim-Bobs of his base.

He’s also doing this at a time when it should be the least of our concern. Thousands of immigrants make the areas affected by Hurricane Harvey their home. We need to help them help us rebuild those areas, and not line them up for deportation.

During World War II, we interned thousands of Americans just because they were of Japanese descent. That was an ugly chapter in American history which forever shames our nation for its past racism, along with slavery. With actions like ending DACA, we will forever be shamed for the Donald Trump era.

A few years ago I was talking to a young person in a bar who told me his parents brought him to this nation when he was a child. He had no memory of immigrating to the United States. He told me that this nation is all he’s ever known and that makes him like an American. I told him he was wrong. He is an American.

I want to thank everyone who has donated in the past. Your support helps me continue creating cartoons and columns with a little less stress in my life. Between competing syndicates with much larger resources, timid editors, and Trump supporters who attempt to intimidate the editors who do publish anything that criticizes their idol, it’s a challenge to make a career out of this. So your support (if you can) is appreciated. Want to help me continue to create cartoons and keep doing what I’m doing (pissing off conservatives)? Look to the right of this page and make a donation through PayPal. Every $40 donation will receive a signed print. All donations will receive my eternal gratitude.


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Clemson Visits Miami, Florida State This Weekend

CLEMSON, S.C. – The Clemson men’s tennis team heads south this weekend to visit Miami and No. 27 Florida State. The Tigers face the Hurricanes on Friday, March 20 at 3 p.m. and the Seminoles on Sunday, March 22 at noon. Live scoring and Twitter updates will be available for Friday’s match. Sunday’s match will be broadcast live online on ESPN3. Live scoring will also be available.

The Tigers dropped a pair of matches last weekend to No. 7 Virginia and No. 15 Virginia Tech. On the season, Clemson is 9-8 overall and 0-3 in ACC play. Senior captain Hunter Harrington is ranked 91st nationally in singles this week. Junior Luke Johnson won both singles matches last weekend in Virginia. He and Harrington, Clemson’s No. 1 doubles duo, split their two matches over the weekend, and are 3-1 in their last four contests.

Scouting MiamiThe Hurricanes are 6-8 on the season and dropped their first two ACC matches this past weekend at No. 12 North Carolina and at No. 6 Duke. Miami boasts one nationally-ranked singles player this week, Piotr Lomacki is tabbed 74th by the ITA.

Clemson holds a narrow lead in the all-time series against Miami 26-25. The Tigers picked up their most recent win against the Hurricanes last season on March 7, a 6-1 result at Clemson’s Hoke Sloan Tennis Center.

Scouting No. 27 Florida StateThe Seminoles are 13-5 overall this season and 2-2 in ACC play. Florida State has played five consecutive matches against ranked opponents, and is 2-3 in those contests. Florida State boasts one nationally-ranked doubles duo and singles player this week. The team of Benjamin Lock and Marco Nunez are 30th nationally, while Michael Rinaldi is tabbed 79th in singles by the ITA.

Clemson holds the all-time series advantage with Florida State 19-18. Most recently, Clemson knocked off the Seminoles 5-2 in Clemson last season, on March 11.


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It’s not usual for them, but it’s usual for us.

I’d asked my friend to support me through the conference because it was literally the only type of help I needed back then. As a manual wheelchair user with muscular dystrophy, distances are a problem and the Brisbane Convention Centre is a behemoth of a building. There’s no way I’d be able to successfully navigate through it over a period of several days.

She has the specialist skills I needed, too. Not just the power chair, but the ability to notice when there’s a divot or bump in the pavement, or when we’re too close to the pavement. She’s her husband’s carer. He’s also a manual wheelchair user and hangs onto the back of her chair when he needs a tow over distance or to conserve energy – it’s only one of the ways she supports him.

The conference organiser was surprised when I’d told them my support worker was disabled.

‘She’s disabled – too?’ she asked, and I spent some time explaining that yes, we were two disabled women, that she had her own access requirements, that this is what we both needed. It took a while.

In the disability community, this kind of support is unremarkable. If you know anyone in the blind community, you’ll know that hand holding is de rigueur. Manual wheelchair users with blind friends routinely help each other, simultaneously. The wheelchair user navigates and the blind person pushes – it’s completely natural and doesn’t look out of place. In communities where disability is commonplace, supporting each other is a usual thing.

That’s why I was a little surprised that people found it strange that I would commit to ‘only employing disabled people’ with the support from my NDIS plan.

I had my plan approved some weeks ago, and it’s trickier than I expected. I’m self-managing with the help of a financial intermediary, Manage It, but the decision to go with ‘identified positions’ presented some challenges. I had to first work out whether I’d be discriminating (the Australian Human Rights Commission helped me with this) and then work out if I’d in fact be penalising people if they had to do additional reporting for their DSP, or whether they could earn a particular amount of money at all. Then there was the issue of support for my support person – would I be asking them to do things that they might need help with? There’s the issue of me supporting my support worker, too – how does it work if they need to be picked up and dropped off?  There are a lot of things to think about.

But I now have a team of all disabled people who can help me with every aspect of my support. There’s a young woman living near my local shopping centre. She has an intellectual disability and can’t drive, but can push a shopping cart and load my car if I pick her up and drop her off. Another intellectually disabled friend helped me with a community art exhibition and I have a shortlist of disabled Scout leaders and Rover Scouts who can attend Scout camps with me to help set up tents and do the physical things I cannot.

It’s not that I’m doing nice things for disabled people, either. I actually like working with folks who don’t use spoken language, because I often find having to make conversation tedious. People who know what my support needs look like by virtue of lived experience are by default going to be better than non-disabled people and there are limitless benefits to employing disabled people.

I know it’s going to be tricky at the outset, but I’m hoping this is something many disabled people can make a commitment to in order to resolve two issues – having people who understand us supporting us and the high levels of unemployment for disabled Australians today. And I hope it will become a usual thing, seeing people with disabilities supporting each other.

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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) proposed the Wi-Fi 6 standard so it can couple the freedom and high speed of Gigabit Ethernet wireless with the reliability and predictability found in licensed radio.

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Aware of following the needs of our customers who invest in the offer of sophisticated and differentiated products, as well as pioneering services, the Technology, Media & Communications (TMC) team of CMS is currently facing an unprecedented change. Innovation is fundamental, in a complex and constantly evolving context.

The development of alternative solutions in environments characterised by new regulatory requirements - at national and international level - is fundamental to ensure the protection of new investments and maximise commercial opportunities.

This is the reality today, not only for customers who are at an advanced stage of digital transformation, but also for all those who now face the first challenges of the digital transformation process (equIP).

The rapid evolution of new technologies has created a wide spectrum of opportunities where the ability to adapt and diversify into new business areas is essential to ensure sustainable growth and comply with the new regulatory challenges. In this sense, CMS is committed to offering its clients innovative legal solutions and contributing to the success of its activity.

The specialised professionals who make up the CMS TMC team have been invited to respond to the most varied challenges and propose to participate in customer projects as a partner with strategic thinking and in-depth specific knowledge in the most varied areas, namely Electronic Communications, Marketing, Advertising and Media, Litigation and Arbitration, Tech M&A, Software Licensing, Domains, Data Protection and Cyber Security, E-commerce, Cloud Contracts and Gaming, Sponsorship Contracts, Sports Law and Media Law.

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