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Chocolate & Espresso Balsamic Fudge

1 1/2 Cups Heavy Cream
1/2 Cup Blue Door Espresso Balsamic
1/2 pound (about 1 cup) 60%+ dark chocolate
1/2 pound (about 1 cup) semi-sweet chocolate
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract1/4 tsp. fleur de sel or sea salt

Butter a 9×13″ baking pan and line with parchment that overhangs the sides.  In a metal bowl or double boiler, add all of the ingredients except the salt.  Set over a pot of gently simmering water, stirring constantly until the chocolate has completely melted.  The mixture will be very thick.  Pour in to the prepared pan.  Allow to cool to room temperature and cut in to squares.  Sprinkle a few grains of sea salt on each square.

Makes about 2 pounds of fudge.

Quality in Traditional Style Balsamic Vinegar

Customers who are new to our shop are often blow away when we tell them our Traditional Style Balsamic Vinegar is our most popular. They wonder how it can be the most popular with so much other selection in the store? The best way to learn how it has become our best seller is to taste it for yourself.

Our Traditional Style Condimento contains less than 5% high quality, barrel aged red wine vinegar from Modena which is added to inoculate the must with pro-biotic (acetic bacteria).  The rest of the volume is wholly comprised of cooked Trebbiano grape must.  The must is made from grapes cultivated in the region of Modena, which are crushed and cooked in the ancient “Traditional Style” in copper kettles, within the region of Modena, Italy.

Cooking in copper kettles to caramelize the grape sugar is more than just a quaint or romantic production step.  Cooking down the grape must in copper is a rare production step which makes a monumental difference in terms of the quality and authenticity of the end product.  Today most producers in Italy have opted for the vastly more efficient and modern method of condensing grape juice into a concentrate utilizing the relatively new process of vacuum evaporation.  The use of this technology also typically necessitates the addition of up to 2% caramel color/dye to be added to the otherwise pale, anemic white grape must in order to add a deep, rich, mahogany-brown color.  This practice was recently sanctioned by Italian law to allow producers to give the end consumer a false impression that the grape must was in fact cooked and caramelized in the “Traditional Style” in copper kettles.

However, it it not legal in Italy or North America, or most other countries to add artificial color or any other ingredients to a product and not disclose them on the ingredient statement. Despite this, many retail products labeled as balsamic do contain artificial color, thickeners, and types of refined sugar  which are not disclosed on the product’s ingredient statement. Our Traditional Style Condimento and all of our infused dark balsamics which are made with it are certified on Third Party Certificate of Analysis to contain no caramel color, thickeners, or forms of refined sugar.  It is conservatively estimated that upwards of  95% of all retail products labeled as “balsamic” do contain caramel color despite non-disclosure of it and other extraneous ingredients on the ingredient statement.  If there is no traceability and guarantee via lab analysis otherwise, it is wise to be dubious. With no domestic industry in North America to protect, there is little to no interest in regulation of this product category by government.  And with the most proficient third party labs that test for fraud being in Italy, adulteration is rampant in this product category.  Even when the product is tested in proficient labs, it is incredibly difficult to test for caramel color as it’s typically added in less than 2% by volume and requires very specific testing methods to identify it.

In relation to the artisan method which is used to produce it, our Condimento is lab certified to have an extraordinarily high minimum relative density of 1.28+  – the highest minimum measured density on file for any standard.  It is measured by a third party lab in Italy and carries traceability through each batches certificate of analysis.  We are extremely proud that our Condimento contains on average, a whopping 749+ grams of dried extract solids per liter – a lab measurement which speaks to the extreme loss of moisture through natural evaporation which occurs in the cooking process and also while it ages in five types of wood barrels over time.  The higher the amount of dried extract solids, the more complex a balsamic will be, as we are talking about the concentration of grape solids including grape sugar, which impart flavor and make for a thicker, naturally sweeter, and more complex balsamic.
We like to use these very exact and meaningful measurements and means of certification conducted by third party labs to detail quality as opposed to the often misleading, competing, and confusing Italian based categories and trade association standards such as the Leaf System, Star System, PGI, etc., And we urge you to do the same.  In most cases these categories are ambiguous, romantic and hollow when drilled into.  The common theme most share is that they place high value on the fact that Balsamic must be certified to come from specific regions, yet offer little to no measurable scientific, or production standards beyond geographic location.  They don’t speak to the nuts and bolts of what really constitutes quality in balsamic such as density, dried extract solids, process, fruit maturity and quality, must percentage, barrel system, etc..”But what about age?”, you say.  Age claims are strictly illegal in Italy.  Only here in North America do you see rampant, unqualified, and totally bogus age claims being made which would be prohibited if the product were being sold in the more regulated market of Italy.
With decades worth of experience driving our own balsamic standard ever upward, we are currently in the process of creating the first measurable chemical/production standard for balsamic in North which will use good science and meaningful criteria as opposed to superfluous romance which currently places all emphasis on the idea that place dominates.  It will be akin to the difference between saying I have Italian extra virgin vs. saying “here’s my Fusti tag with all of the pertinent chemical parameters as detailed by my third party laboratory analysis ALONG with full traceability in terms of production method and lastly, origin certification.

Tomato, Sweet Pepper & Onion Confit

1 1/2 pounds small whole sweet tomatoes such as cherry or grape
1 large red onion, sliced thin
1 red bell pepper or several smaller sweet red peppers such as Marconi, sliced thin or halved if smaller
8 large garlic cloves
1 – 2″ sprig fresh rosemary, leaves only, stem discarded (optional)
1/2 cup Blue Door Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1/3 cup crisp, good quality white wine
1 tablespoon Blue Door Traditional Balsamic Vinegar
2 teaspoons sea salt or kosher salt
Fresh ground pepper to taste

Adjust rack to middle of oven, and preheat to 300.

In a medium roasting pan (9″x13″) or a 12″ oven safe skillet, combine the first five ingredients.  Whisk the wine, balsamic, and olive oil together, drizzle over the vegetables and toss to combine.  Season with salt and pepper.

Place the pan on the middle rack in the oven, uncovered, and allow the vegetables to cook slowly, stirring only a few times during the process, being careful not to break the tomatoes.  Slow roast for 4 – 4 1/2 hours.

The resulting confit, or tomato “jam” can be used to dress pasta, slather on crusty bread, or as an accompaniment to slow roasted meats or poultry.

Fall Garden Greens Spanakopita with Garlic Infused Olive Oil

8 cups washed and dried greens coarsely chopped in any combination such as:  kale, beet greens, collards, spinach, swiss chard etc.

1 pound package thawed phyllo dough

1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons Blue Door Garlic infused olive oil

8 oz. whole milk ricotta

1 teaspoon corn starch

8 oz. feta cheese, crumbled

1 large yellow onion, finely diced

salt and pepper to taste

Preheat the oven to 350 F.

Brush a 9″x13″ baking pan liberally with olive oil.

In a large saute pan over medium high heat, add 1 tablespoon of garlic olive oil.  Add the diced onion and saute until translucent.  Add the greens and saute until cooked down, about 3 additional minutes.  Add the feta and ricotta to the greens and mix thoroughly.  Add 1 teaspoon cornstarch to 2 tablespoons of water and add to the greens.  Continue cooking over medium high heat until the mixture thickens and season with salt and fresh ground pepper to taste.  Allow the mixture to cool until just barely warm.

Take the thawed phyllo out of the refrigerator. Unroll the sheets and cover with a clean barely dampened towel.

Liberally brush three sheets or spray three sheets with garlic infused olive oil and layer one on top of another, lining the bottom and part way up the sides of the baking pan. Add 1/3 of the spinach mixture and spread evenly over the phyllo.  Continue brushing each sheet with olive oil and layering three sheets at a time followed by two more layers of spinach and ending with three sheets of phyllo on top.

Bake for 35-40 minutes until the top is deep golden brown and crisp.   Allow to cool slightly and cut into squares.


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Ref No : 01/12/09 31 Jan 2012 Embargo : Not for publication or broadcast before 1800 hours on Tuesday 31 January 2012

At the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting today, Bank Negara Malaysia decided to maintain the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) at 3.00 percent.

In the recent months, global economic and financial conditions have deteriorated following the escalation of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, the ongoing fiscal consolidation and the significant policy uncertainties. Heightened market volatility, impaired financial intermediation and weak labour market conditions continue to weigh down on growth in the advanced economies. These conditions pose downside risks to global growth. In Asia, while growth continues to be supported by sustained domestic demand, the growth momentum has moderated amid the weaker external environment.

In the domestic economy, the latest indicators point towards continued expansion in the fourth quarter of 2011. Growth was driven by sustained domestic consumption and investment activities, while the external sector showed signs of moderation. Looking ahead, the economy is expected to continue to expand, underpinned by sustained private sector economic activity and further reinforced by public sector spending. Employment conditions are expected to remain stable while the outlook for domestic-oriented sectors continues to be favourable. Overall growth prospects, however, would be affected by the slowdown in external demand, resulting in slower growth in exports and industrial production.

Domestic headline inflation averaged 3.2% in 2011. Going into 2012, the assessment is that cost-push inflation will moderate as slowing global economic activity will alleviate the pressure on the prices of key commodities. The impact of domestic demand factors on inflation is expected to be contained, in line with stable domestic demand conditions. Headline inflation, therefore, is expected to moderate in 2012. Nevertheless, risks to inflation could emerge arising from supply disruptions that would result in higher food and commodity prices.

In the MPC's assessment, the global environment will become more challenging going forward. As Malaysia's economic growth and inflation prospects will be affected by these external developments, the MPC will continue to assess carefully the risks to domestic growth and inflation.

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Reserve Minutes

by Don Casey

Revised by BoatUS editors in April 2012

Deep Cycle AGM 32Boaters traditionally think of battery capacity in terms of amp-hours, but if the battery will be used to power an inverter, the reserve minutes rating can be more telling. Reserve minutes, also called reserve capacity, is the number of minutes a fully charged battery can sustain a designated constant load--usually 25 amps--before it is fully discharged. For a 12-volt battery, that means battery voltage will have fallen to 10.5 volts. Recalling that we divide watts by volts to get amps, supplying a 300-watt inverter load from a 12-volt battery requires 25 amps.

So a battery with a reserve capacity of 120 minutes can theoretically handle this load for two hours, but the practical limit is just one hour since it is never a good idea to discharge a battery more than 50%. Running a 1,000-watt coffeemaker through an inverter will completely drain this same battery's usable capacity in less than 15 minutes. If you plan to install an inverter, you need a battery with a high reserve minutes rating.

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Eastern Orthodoxy in the ESV Study Bible

My copy of the ESV Study Bible arrived this week. It is a confection of modern publishing technology, I must say. The color printing of maps and charts throughout is impressive. The color is crisp, as is all the text, even in the smallest type. The paper is exceedingly thin, yet strong and opaque. There is no bleeding of ink. The binding is perhaps too tightly sewn, but it should loosen up in time and lead to less crinkling in the gutter. I’m not a fan of the super-limp calfskin cover, though. A more substantial lining is in order, I think, but that’s a personal preference. I found only two problems: the top corners of two leaves (one in Isaiah and the other in the concordance) were folded down when the text block was cut. It was a matter of a only few moments to trim them, though. Otherwise, it’s an examplary piece of binding.

Flipping through, I noticed an article on “The Bible in Christianity” (pp 2613-2622) including sections on Roman Catholicism (pp 2613-2615), Eastern Orthodoxy (pp 2615-2617), Liberal Protestantism (pp 2618-2619), Evangelical Protestantism (pp 2620-2622), and Evangelical Protestantism and Global Christianity (pp 2622). Knowing a little something of Eastern Orthodoxy, I decided to read through this section as my first taste of the ESV Study Bible.

Somewhat surprisingly, Eastern Orthodoxy receives a treatment equivalent in length to that of Evangelical Protestantism, which is the section describing the target audience of the ESV Study Bible. These are the lengthiest sections of the article, at two and one quarter pages each.

This Eastern Orthodoxy section of the article was written by Robert Letham of Wales Evangelical School of Theology. It is likely that he was chosen to author this piece as, among other books, Letham is the author of Through Western Eyes–Eastern Orthodoxy: A Reformed Perspective (Mentor/Christian Focus Publications, 2007), in which he introduces the Eastern Orthodox Church to a Reformed Christian audience. Letham is also a minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Thus his perspective is one that can only be considered perfectly amenable to the ESV editors and their target audience, which is that of Reformed Evangelicals.

It is always tricky to write, particularly in summary, about another religious tradition than one’s own. A sympathetic eye is necessary in evaluating such writing, as there are many aspects of any tradition that escape the notice of outsiders, and nuances thereof which are not apprehended. This is not surprisingly the case in this instance. While the majority of the article is very well done, I think in several places, some too severe editing must have shortened some originally more robust passages that formerly made more coherent points. I’ll comment only on those statements in the article which need correction. It is to be understood that I find the rest of the article quite sympathetic and informed. We begin.

First off, I want to mention the peculiar disconnections present between the general article’s title, “The Bible in Christianity,” and the content of its sections. The Eastern Orthodox section, at least, comprises a comparison of Reformed evangelical doctrines with Eastern Orthodox doctrines. It does not treat in great depth, as one might expect for “The Bible in Christianity,” the role of the Bible in Orthodoxy, or in the other noted groups, in my scanning of the other sections. So the entire article might better have been named “Evangelicalism and Other Christians” or something like that.

On page 2616, under the heading “Historical Background of Orthodoxy,” Letham writes, “Constantinople, or Byzantium (modern Istanbul), the capital of the Christian East, was conquered in 1453.” It is perhaps pedantic to point out that the city had not been named Byzantion/Byzantium since its refounding by Emperor St Constantine the Great. While it has become standard to refer to the Christianized Roman Empire as the Byzantine Empire, with a special emphasis on the Eastern Empire, this usage is an entirely modern development, championed by Gibbon, who wanted to emphasize, as he saw it, a break between the noble Roman Empire of the classical, pagan period, and the decadent Eastern Christian Empire. Fortunately, these days the Byzantine period has many more admirers, and its important role in the medieval world is now recognized. Even the modern world recognizes the debt owed to Constantinople’s fall and the flood of refugees and their precious manuscripts and knowledge into western Europe, stimulating the Renaissance.

On pages 2616-2617, under the subsection “Evangelical Misunderstandings of Orthodoxy,” we read

For evangelicalism, the Bible is unequivocally the Word of God (e.g., 2 Tim. 3:16), while all human councils may err, and therefore the Bible must finally judge the tradition that seeks to expound it. For Orthodoxy, however, the decisions of the early church councils and church fathers often function in practice as equal to the Bible in authority.

This objection or misunderstanding of the role of Eastern Orthodox Tradition is common among Protestants. Tradition encompasses the living faith of the Church, past and present and future. It is the sum of its very life. The Bible, written by members of that Church, the Holy Prophets of the Old Testament Church and the Holy Apostles of the New Testament Church, is an expression in time and space of that Faith. It is absolutely necessary to recognize, however, that the Bible is not unambiguous, and most obviously has been, can be, and will be used to formulate any number of false beliefs and ideologies that are at odds with the Faith of the Prophets and Apostles, the fullness of which Faith is not expressed and guaranteed by a printed book, but by the life lived in the Holy Spirit throughout the Church. The reason for the Ecumenical Councils and the writings of the Church Fathers that disambiguate the message of the Bible was precisely to obviate the misuse of the Bible as a free agent to construct soul-destroying heresies; whenever the Bible is placed as a standalone authority, heresy erupts. The authority of the Councils and Fathers lies precisely in their being unambiguous expressions of the universal Faith, clarifying issues that needed clarifying in order to save souls. All the authors, the bishops of the councils and the sainted writers, lived their lives in the Holy Spirit, in the Church, in the Body of Christ. These were not merely “human councils” or merely human writings, but inspired. They are most certainly not considered of superior value than the Bible itself, which is the capstone of Tradition, but they are essential to understanding the Bible properly, and to understanding how to live the life of a Christian in this world. There would be no Bible without Tradition, as Tradition is precisely what it is a part of.

In the subsection “Orthodox Misunderstandings of Evangelicalism,” page 2617, we read the following paragraph (emphasis in original):

The Orthodox confuse the Protestant doctrine of predestination with Islamic fatalism. But the Bible teaches both the absolute sovereignty of God and the full responsibility of man, since God’s decrees also take into account the free actions of secondary causes. The Orthodox mistakenly believe that the doctrine of predestination is monothelitism (the heresy that Christ had only his divine will but no human will). The idea that predestination short-circuits the human will is misplaced.

This paragraph is, frankly, incoherent. We Orthodox ourselves believe in “both the absolute sovereignty of God and the full responsibility of man;” it is by human will that both sin and repentance occur, and only by the grace of God does that latter mean even anything at all. We understand God knows exactly how everything is going to be, from which step I next trip over, to which deed of mercy I next commit or which sin, to whether I will repent or not of my sins. Our prayers are continually full of petitions to help us to become more perfect like God our Father in heaven. It is certainly the case that we object to an extreme predestination, like the fatalism of Islam, in which man’s will plays no part in his salvation at all. One must, after all, choose to repent and choose to be saved by a merciful God. In the rough seas of life, swimming away from the Divine Hand outstretched to you is arrogant, foolish, and self-destructive. Monothelitism belongs properly to discussions of Christology, not theological anthropology, so its introduction here is distracting and irrelevant. I have no idea what “predestination short-circuits the human will” is intended to mean. I could very well guess, but it rather looks to me as though something has fallen out of the text here.

In the same subsection (page 2617), we are told:

Many Orthodox polemicists accuse evangelicals of ignoring the church’s part in salvation. However, the classic Protestant confessions attest that the church is integral to the process of salvation, the Christian faith beind found in the Bible and taught by the church. Orthodoxy at this point confuses classic Protestantism with the view of later individualistic views.

There are several issues here: the definition of “evangelicals”; the understanding of the Church (ecclesiology proper); and the serious problem of similar language bearing entirely different meanings for the two parties.

The Orthodox accusation that evangelicals ignore the role of the Church in salvation is entirely understandable when, as is the case, “evangelical” is something of a catchall term for an entire spectrum of believers, probably most of which view their relationship with God as a personal contract, transferrable amongst churches in the plethora of denominations comprising Protestantism. This conception of the individual’s role in the Church is entirely different to that of Orthodoxy. The only church outside the Eastern Orthodox communion which has a remotely similar ecclesiology is the Roman Catholic Church. Both share the understanding of the Church as the Body of Christ which is, like Him, both present in a visible, physical manner and in an invisible, spiritual manner, inseparably, with our ecclesiology directly reflecting our Christology. It was necessary soon after the Reformation for its adherents to invent the idea (or rather to butcher the old ecclesiology) that “the church” is a solely spiritual entity, one with no identifiable physical counterpart, in order to decisively distinguish its movements from the Roman church. In Orthodox ecclesiology, intimately tied to Christology and Trinitarian theology, such an understanding is tantamount to Docetism, the heresy of describing Christ as only seeming to have been human. This heresy thus denies Him not only humanity through the Incarnation, but shortsightedly also thereby denies the possibility for the healing, salvation, and sanctification of our very human selves. Our salvation is both physical and spiritual, and is effected through communion. Communion with God is accomplished in the Body of Christ physically as well as spiritually, a reflection of His Incarnation in our own lives in the common life of the Church. So, Letham’s objection shows us a case not of Orthodoxy wrongly objecting through misunderstanding the ecclesiology of “classic Protestantism,” but rather of deeper objections rooted entirely in Orthodox theology and specifically ecclesiology. Letham’s objection here is based in his understanding of “church” which is deficient in the light of Orthodox ecclesiology. The Protestant understanding of “church” is not church at all in Orthodox understanding. I would indeed characterize this as a Significant Misunderstanding, but would posit it of the “evangelical” in this case rather than the Orthodox.

Under the heading of “Substantive Disagreement” we come to some interesting items:
The Eastern Tendency to Downplay the Preaching of God’s Word
The Relationship between Scripture and Tradition
The Palamite Doctrine of the Trinity
The Veneration of Mary and the Saints

First is “The Eastern Tendency to Downplay the Preaching of God’s Word” (p 2617). This, undoubtedly, would be news to the East, were it true. Letham displays a serious misunderstanding here of the role of the Bible in the Divine Liturgy, indeed, a misunderstanding of the Liturgy itself. It is true that in the Orthodox Liturgy, all the senses are engaged in prayer to God, and thus “worship in the East” is more visual than worship in evangelical churches. One must, however, wonder if Letham has actually (and comprehendingly) seen the Divine Liturgy served. For one thing, in the Small Entrance, the Gospel book, which itself is an ikon of Christ Himself, preceded and followed by candle-bearing acolytes, is held aloft by the priest in a solemn procession through the church, and in through the Royal Doors: Christ ascending His Throne. Later, at the reading of the Gospel, the choir sings an alleluia, and all the people stand as the priest proclaims the Gospel from the Royal Doors, an image of the dissemination of the Gospel from Heaven itself, again with an angelic honor guard of candle-bearing acolytes. This is the audible ikon of Christ, His image proclaimed in sound, not color. The actions of the priest and acolytes further glorify the Word, the eternal Logos, and are a lesson of God’s plan in themselves, when properly understood. The Orthodox honor shown to God’s Word can only be recognized as of an entirely higher order than something like, “Let us turn to Matthew 13…Matthew 13…verses ten…through…thirteen” to the rustle of pages, dropped notebooks, and clicking pens. Further, it should be noted that of all churches, the Orthodox Church preserves the lengthiest pericopes in its lectionary. The readings of the the Epistle and Gospel likely comprise a lengthier reading from the New Testament than is common in any Protestant setting, and certainly do in the case of those Protestant churches using lectionaries. The setting of prayers and acclamations surrounding the Orthodox readings likewise outdistance in devotion any average introduction to the typical three-point sermon. That should suffice to make the general point that this is a misunderstanding on Letham’s part, a significant one.

Letham actually begins this subsection with “Largely due to historical events (the depredations of Islam) and despite Orthodoxy’s heritage of superlative preaching (Chrysostom, Gregory Nazianzen), worship in the East is more visual than worship in evangelical churches” (p. 2617). Firstly, if anything, the “depredations of Islam” had a greater effect on the visual decoration in churches. Muslim aniconism came to require the tearing up of mosaics and so on, and the complete elimination of processions and even bell-ringing. Yet, outside of later restrictions placed on Christian education, Islam had little effect on preaching, initially, and certainly has none now. Be that as it may, it is certainly the case that every Orthodox bishop and priest is not as magnificent a preacher as were our fathers among the Saints John Chrysostom and Gregory the Theologian, both archbishops of Constantinople. I’m entirely certain, however, that not every evangelical preacher compares well, either. Sermons come according to the ability of those giving them, some magnificent, some not.

Regarding “The Relationship between Scripture and Tradition,” Letham says:

For Orthodoxy, tradition is a living, dynamic movement, the Bible existing within it and not apart from it. Orthodoxy also believes in biblical authority but as part of a larger whole. Evangelicals believe that the Bible is the ultimate authority” (p. 2617).

Orthodox believe that God is the ultimate authority. I dealt with this kind of objection to Tradition above. Does the Bible, a book, create anything? Can it inspire without God? Did the Bible start the Church or did the Holy Spirit? Did the Bible create the Prophets and Apostles or did the Prophets and Apostles write the Bible? God works through the Bible, certainly, but in itself, it is not a life-giving force of holiness, but merely a book. And since it is also an easily misunderstood book, it requires the community of those who wrote it to explain what it actually means, particularly in providing the context of the Faith itself of which the Bible is but a partial though perfect expression.

Still within the Substantive Disagreement section, we come to “The Palamite Doctrine of the Trinity.” Here is what Letham has to say about the Palamite distinction between God’s essence (ousia) and energies (energeia):

[T]his view has driven a wedge between God in himself and God as he has revealed himself, threatening our knowledge of God with profound agnosticism, since we have no way of knowing whether God is as he has revealed himself in Jesus Christ (p. 2617)

This demonstrates a complete misunderstanding of Palamite theology. The “wedge” is not something inserted by the theology, it is something that exists in reality, for we cannot possibly know God as God knows Himself. We are not and never will be God. No created being possibly can. The distinction persists. In fact, rather than introducing an agnosticism, St Gregory Palamas was attempting to forestall scholastic agnosticism concerning the possibility of the knowledge of God through his theology. The uncreated energies of God are as much an expression of Him as we are able to comprehend and process, and it is with these expressions of the Godhead, more a part of Him and more immediately sourced in Him than our appearance is to one another, reliant as it is upon absorption and reflection of photons, that we come into union with, through the process of theosis, or divinization, and “become partakers of the divine nature” (2 Peter 1.4). There is absolutely no doubt in Orthodox theology that the Father is revealed in the Son. We can read, you know: “He who has seen me has seen the Father” (John 14.9). The issue is one of maintaining the absolute holiness and otherness of God, which is expounded at length in Bible and Tradition and known through personal experience, while at the same time holding that union with God is indeed possible and desired by Him, as is also expounded at length in Bible and Tradition, and known through personal experience. Rather than understanding Palamite theology as introducing a separation between God and man, it is rather trying to explain how the union of the two actually works.

Now we move on to “The Veneration of Mary and the Saints” (p. 2617). Letham has, earlier in the article, ably explained the distinction between worship and veneration, which will no doubt be illuminating to some. Here, he raises an objection to asking departed saints to intercede with God on our behalf, stating “neither Jesus nor Paul ever suggest that this is possible or acceptable.” What of John, then?

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered for the word of God and for the testimony they had given; they cried out with a loud voice, “Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long will it be before you judge and avenge our blood on the inhabitants of the earth?” (Revelation 6.9-10)

These martyred saints are right there in God’s presence. It certainly sounds possible that they are aware of the situation on earth. It is thus certainly “possible.” Of course we ask them for their prayers, and we pray for them, too. That’s a large part of what a life of prayer is: prayer for one another. It is certainly “acceptable” to pray for one another.

More from John:

Another angel with a golden censer came and stood at the altar; he was given a great quantity of incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar that is before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel. (Revelation 8.3-4)

Notice that “all the saints.” Not just the saints on earth, or just the saints under the altar, but “all the saints.” It is an important distinction.

And then, too, James says, “The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective” (James 5.16). Should we care whether they are alive or dead to take advantage of their prayer?

Letham then moves on to a short, somewhat equivocal or half-hearted objection to icons, mentioning “Evangelicals are…emphatic that the second commandment prohibits the use of images in worship, and many think that using icons of Christ as aids to worship oversteps acceptable boundaries in that regard.” Yes, and those people are called Jews. I’m sure all evangelicals likewise keep the seventh day Sabbath holy, as well. Seriously, though, this is a problem with selective, anachronistic proof-texting. And while “[b]oth sides claim the other is heretical,” only Orthodoxy has a mechanism for defining heresy and determining solutions to prevent it (the Ecumenical Council), while evangelicalism has no such thing, rather using “heresy” quite loosely to mean “something we strongly disagree with.” Iconoclasm was officially declared a heresy for all Christians in the Seventh Ecumenical Council in 787.

The last of the substantive disagreements is “Synergism in Salvation” (p. 2617)

The East has a vigorous doctrine of free will and an implacable opposition to the Reformed teaching on predestination and the sovereignty of God’s grace in Christ. In this aspect, Orthodoxy is farther away from the Reformation than is Rome. The difference in respective weighting of grace and the human will is far-reaching. It entails different understandings of the extent of human sin and the nature of Christ’s work.

The “sovereignty of God’s grace in Christ”, otherwise opaque, appears to refer to what one might call imputed justification. That is, Christ’s sinless self-sacrifice as an atonement for sin covers the sins of the petitioner in faith, erasing the sins. This forensic view of salvation is foreign to Orthodoxy, and was actually a quite rare interpretation before the Reformation. In Eastern Orthodoxy, salvation is seen as a continuing process of sharing more and more in the Divine nature, being transformed through communion with God, the divinization or theosis mentioned above. “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Matthew 5.48). This perfection doesn’t happen overnight, or with a quick and emotional altar call, but is rather a lifelong committment to one’s transformation, to conversion of self away from the passions. It is a real perfection achieved in a person through God the Holy Spirit, not just imputed to a person as a kind of cosmic moral loophole.

The last section of the article is “Compared with Rome, How Far Away from Protestantism is Orthodoxy?” It is a faintly absurd question, pairing the chaos of Protestantism against Rome and Orthodoxy. We are meant to understand it as the Reformed, Calvinistic, evangelical Protestantism of the author, surely, as a cipher for all Protestantism. Orthodoxy, I can assure you, is quite content to be far away from Protestantism. Particularly when we are treated to such peculiar statements as this, “Western faith is centered in Christ; the East’s is more focused on the Holy Spirit.” Er, sure. That’s just wrong. Pay attention to any Eastern Orthodox church service and you’ll be immediately disabused of such a peculiar idea. Christ is everywhere in our services, and everything to us. We have no other Savior. He is the one who sends God the Holy Spirit to us to effect our conversion. If anything, I would suggest that evangelicals tend to ignore the Holy Spirit, some even, shockingly, to consider Him a kind of impersonal force, or God’s power or something, rather than a person of the Trinity. In such a case, Orthodox mention of the Holy Spirit, a living part of our lives, is likely surprising because they’re not used to mentioning Him outside of discussions of Biblical inspiration.

In the end, I find the article to have been more well-intended than well-informed. But as noted above, it is extremely difficult to fully comprehend another’s religious tradition, much less accurately describe its more complex theology. Particularly in the case of Eastern Orthodoxy, where we have a very rich, and very complicated, but very precise and entirely intertwined theology, it is not surprising that we run into the issues I noted above. Overall, the article is quite good, however, and a really noble attempt at explaining Orthodoxy to an evangelical audience. A little more research, and I think it could’ve been much better, but the article as it is has turned out quite nice.

39 Replies to “Eastern Orthodoxy in the ESV Study Bible”

  1. Thanks for these clarifications. I think this review of Letham’s article is critical where it needs to be, but done so with a gracious spirit too rare in critical reviews. Thanks so much for this.

  2. Kevin,

    Such a fine service you have done. I hope the author of the article has a chance to see your critique.

    For the record, I don’t quite recognize my own faith tradition – the Reformed one – in the ESV Study Bible. That is, the version offered is cramped and sometimes churlish.

    I seem to remember criticisms of the same gravity made by Orthodox in relation to the Orthodox Study Bible New Testament and Psalms.

  3. This is a fine piece of writing as a Latin Catholic I feel we share much in common there is nothing in your presentation that I could not share. It is a sin that we are divided. I pray that the first millenium Great Church will one day be restored

  4. Thank you all very much for your comments, gentlemen.

    Ranger, thank you. I did try.

    John, yes, the Orthodox Study Bible (whether the old NT & Psalms or the complete edition) has had its critics, myself among them. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that the OSB notes and articles depict a “cramped and sometimes churlish” Orthodoxy, but rather “overly simplified, when not simplistic” and thus almost certainly misleading. The quality of production of the OSB editions is entirely outclassed by the ESV Study Bible, though. That would be a lesson to learn for future editions.

    Andrew, that’s where we start, with our own repentance and prayer. And we all do pray that “we may be one.” Thank you very much.

  5. Kevin,

    Great review. I am not a regular reader of your blog — I found this piece through Christopher Orr — but I will be as of today!

    ‘Monothelitism belongs properly to discussions of Christology, not theological anthropology, so its introduction here is distracting and irrelevant.’

    Is it really distracting and irrelevant? If all theology is Christology (an apt Orthodox maxim, I say), then all theological heresies, be they ecclesiological (as you mentioned above, i.e., Protestant ecclesiology and docetism), soteriological, etc., have their root in Christological heresy. Absolute predestinariansim seems to me to be none other than the theological fruition of a monothelitism.

  6. Thank you, Andrew! That’s nice to hear that I have another reader!

    I don’t see the monothelitism connection as direct enough to warrant its usage in such a bald manner in the summary Letham made of predestination, particularly as his focus appears to be the human half of the equation rather than the Divine. Mixing categories is never a good idea, particularly for reasons of clarity when one is so limited in the amount of writing involved. Orthodox theology is finely honed, and can’t be bandied about willy-nilly. While just about anything, with enough brain power and theology thrown at it, can be brought back to a Christological heresy, I don’t think it’s necessarily the obvious choice.

    But also, as I mentioned above, it may be that some few sentences have dropped out, sentences or phrases which are necessary to make the connections between those disparate statements.

  7. The Orthodox honor shown to God’s Word can only be recognized as of an entirely higher order than something like, “Let us turn to Matthew 13…Matthew 13…verses ten…through…thirteen” to the rustle of pages, dropped notebooks, and clicking pens.

    When I wrote that, I didn’t actually look at Matthew 13.10-13. It turns out to be an interesting choice, after the fact (in the ESV version, you betcha!):
    Then the disciples came and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. For to the one who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

  8. I thought you’d get a kick out of that! I was certainly surprised by it, actually expecting it to be a nonsensical excerpt out of a narrative or something. I don’t know if it was lodged in ze leetle gray zells from previous reading or hearing or what, but it’s oddly appropriate. While typing that, I had actually thought, “Oh, if you’re not actually going to look something up, pick lowish numbers, you lazy bum, so you don’t end up with some verse numbers that aren’t in that chapter.” Such are the thought processes of those entirely made of awesome. As though you need to be told!

    I also thought you’d enjoy “…to the rustle of pages, dropped notebooks, and clicking pens.” Overall, though, I hope the humor is not too sharp. It was intended to lighten the mood, which can grow rather grim in these kinds of critiques.

    And again, I’m surprised by the response, and appreciative.

  9. Almost, you have persuaded me to become Orthodox.

    I am an evangelical, but I don’t really understand the persistent evangelical need to make distinctions in the service of showing that “we” do it better.

  10. Kevin,

    As always, very perceptive. It is unfortunate that many Protestants view the scripture as the third person of the Trinity. Equally sad is that a TULIP Calvinism is seen by many as the defining virtue(??) of Evangelical theology.

    Have you seen the book Partakers of the Divine Nature from Baker yet?

  11. Thanks, James. I think I must’ve noted one of the earlier excerpts you’d made. The title is familiar, and I think I had it written down somewhere.

    I’m not planning to be in Boston, sadly. The expense is just to great, and I don’t get reimbursed for such fun. I should, however, be moving back east next year. That’s why I’m trying to save as many samolians as I can, for seminary. And eating. And maybe one book a month. Ugh. I’m not looking forward to be a poor student again, but, hey, a calling is a calling. And it’s a-calling!

  12. Hello Kevin,

    Where will you be attending seminary and what will be the end goal with such a venture (as much as you can discern at this point in time)?

    Blessings on you and your work (and blogging ministry)!

  13. Jason, it looks like it’ll be the Greek Orthodox Seminary of the Holy Cross, in Brookline, Mass. It’s a calling to the priesthood that finally became, um, unavoidable. So, we’ll see how that goes….

    Thanks for your kindness!

  14. Kevin,

    It has been a long time since we have talked. I am very happy to hear of your call to the priesthood. This article was very informative and I am planning on giving it to some friends. I to was looking at buying this Bible, but decided to just get it from the library. I was fond of Vern Poythress when I was Reformed. My wife and I are both catechumens at St Thomas the Apostle Orthodox Church in Springfield.

  15. I have also meant to ask you about Margaret Barker for some time. I was simply blown away by her “Temple Theology” and was wondering what you thought about the implications of her conclusion about veneration of the Mother of God in Old Testament religion before the incarnation and the reformation of king Josiah.

  16. Congratulations, to you and Tammy both, Ryan! I’m very happy for you! And thank you for your kindness. We’ll see where this leads. In any case, I will keep you both in my prayers, such as they are.

    I’m actually not familiar with Margaret Barker’s work, so I’ll have to look into it. Having just had a glance at her website, I have to say it certainly looks, and sounds from your description, fascinating. Thank you very much for the suggestion!

  17. Yes, someone above mentioned “Partakers of the Divine Nature from Baker” and I mistook Baker for Barker. I thought this must be one of her new books. But this critique was very concise, informative, and charitable.

  18. Thank you very much, Ryan. I didn’t even notice your Barker/Baker mixup as a mistake. The Barker things do look very interesting anyway, so I’m glad you brought them up. It’ll be fun to look into them more in the future. I can certainly see a way that it would fit in with Patristic typological reading of the Scriptures.

    I spelled Tami wrong! Sorry!

  19. Excellent article. (As an Anglican, I would also agree with much of what you say.) Out of curiosity, what do you think of the rest of the ESV Study Bible? I’ve been looking at getting a copy for awhile now, but I’m rather wondering whether the Reform bent hampers its usefulness as a reference tool.

    1. Thank you, Andrew. Nick gives good advice there, and he’s much more familiar with the Reformed tradition than I am. For myself, I’ve spent more time poking through the study notes looking at their taken positions on various historical options, rather than looking at the theology. From that perspective, this is a decidedly conservative (as in “fifteenth century exodus” kind of conservative) set of notes. The notes are short and explanatory, which is refreshing, and an excellent use of the study note system. So many study notes in other such Bibles tend to be too short and thus vague. I wonder how really necessary it is to include theological notes at all, in the end. Someone’s bound to find them objectionable to a greater or lesser degree and hence the usefulness of the ESV Study Bible is impacted. For the maps, charts, etc, it’s quite nice. I’m just amazed how they can print on Bible paper in color these days without any bleedthrough. It’s a beautifully printed book.

  20. Andrew: The bent certainly does hamper its usefulness, but then again, if you’re looking for a moderately (as opposed to radically) Reformed view on something then it’s one of the first places to turn. I’d personally choose the NLT Study Bible over this one, and I’d say it’s more inclined toward Biblical Studies without any real theological bias.

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Timothy Kincaid

July 29th, 2010

Brian Brown has struck up the orchestra and started in on his song and dance routine. You know the one.

(hands on chest) Oh woe is me, I’m so bullied, so abused.
(arms outstreched) Oh can’t you see how badly I’ve been used?
(hands up to God) I treat those vile maggots with love and with care.
(hands clutched) And just cuz I want to take away their rights, they say that I’m not fair.
Really. Me!! It’s truuuuuue.

(all together on the chorus)
Send money.
Send money.
You know that they’re evil, so full of sin
and if you don’t send me cash, then they’re gunna win!
So send money, more mu-uh-ney.
Cuz if you send money I can keep my job.

His latest letter out to his supporters is, frankly, disgusting. But if follows the pattern that the National Organization for Marriage has used since Brian became its face:

* Claim to be a victim
* Use offensive language to demonize gay folk
* Claim gay folk are intolerant
* Lie about his support (double the crowd)
* Use more demeaning and offensive language to demean gay folk
* Suggest that gay folk are all in a conspiracy
* Beg for money
(disclaimer – the money you send to support this event will be used for other purposes)

Brown’s best over-the-top – and least honest – paragraphs are:

I thought I had heard and seen it all, but the radicals reached a new low yesterday in Madison, Wisconsin. NOM and its supporters gathered peacefully in Madison to pray for marriage and to stand in support of marriage remaining a sacred union between men and women.

We were honored to have Bishop Robert Morlino of the Diocese of Madison address the crowd. Bishop Morlino spoke of the need to love one another even as we disagree on the issue of same-sex marriage. Yet when he led the crowd in the Lord’s Prayer, the gay marriage radicals screamed and booed him.

I’ve now watched two videos of that segment of the rally – both the unedited and NOM’s edited version – and the truth is that the counter protesters closest to the rally didn’t scream and those who were further away and couldn’t hear what was going on chanted “hey, hey, ho, ho, homophobia’s got to go.”

Personally, as readers know, I prefer the silent treatment. It is effective in making our presence known without giving them video. And most know that I consider myself a Christian. But guess what: I am not obligated to honor or respect the prayers of those who are calling out on God to miraculouosly take away my rights. Those are not holy prayers or worthy of respect.

Entire fundraising letter after the break

By now, you’ve heard all about the incredible display of intolerance from supporters of gay marriage.

They’ve come to our peaceful marriage rallies in city after city to harass and intimidate us. We’ve seen men harass a nursing mother, refusing her request to feed her children in private and instead stare at her and block her ability to watch our rally from a safe distance. We’ve seen protestors draped in the rainbow flag storm the stage and scream, red-faced into the microphone to prevent our speakers from talking. We’ve seen them bait a five year old child, asking her if she’s being raised by her mother to be a bigot. We’ve even heard a gay marriage supporter threaten to kidnap a child in attendance at a rally.

I thought I had heard and seen it all, but the radicals reached a new low yesterday in Madison, Wisconsin. NOM and its supporters gathered peacefully in Madison to pray for marriage and to stand in support of marriage remaining a sacred union between men and women.

We were honored to have Bishop Robert Morlino of the Diocese of Madison address the crowd. Bishop Morlino spoke of the need to love one another even as we disagree on the issue of same-sex marriage. Yet when he led the crowd in the Lord’s Prayer, the gay marriage radicals screamed and booed him.

Watch the video here.

This is the face of intolerance. Isn’t it something when people who so loudly demand tolerance from everybody else, show such intolerance for those who simply wish to pray to God for the preservation of His sacred institution?

The NOM Summer for Marriage Tour started out as a simple exercise to bring together supporters of marriage across the country to rally in support of an institution that we hold dear, something that has served society well since before there even was a society. And we’ve done that with hundreds of supporters across the country joining our tour, and tens of thousands joining our bus tour online.

But something else has happened along the way — the people of America are seeing for the first time with their own eyes how radical our opponents truly are. These people who scream at our supporters, mock priests, taunt children and boo the Lord’s Prayer are the very same people who, with a straight face, promise that they would never force their values on us if America would only legalize gay marriage.

Their lies have been laid bare for the world to see. And the world is watching it backfire on them. Last week alone, over 1.3 million people read about the gay radicals on Facebook. Millions more watched news reports and read about their antics in various news publications. Today in St. Paul, we had one of our largest rallies to date, with between 200 and 250 supporters coming out to stand for marriage. And rather than the protests dampening turnout, I’ve lost count how many people have come up to me to say that they came to the rally because they saw the videos of the protestors and are more determined than ever to stand up for marriage.

To say that the display of anger and intolerance has been a public relations disaster for the gay marriage movement is the understatement of the century. That’s why two gay marriage groups yesterday attempted embarrassing efforts at “spin control” to try to deflect the public’s attention away from what is happening at the marriage rallies.

Yesterday, the Human Rights Campaign issued a statement claiming the Summer for Marriage tour was an elaborate stunt designed to draw “lawful protestors” who are wrongly being portrayed by “made-up stories of as harassment.” Their problem, of course, is the video evidence that we have of screaming gay marriage radicals storming the podium and harassing nursing mothers and booing a Catholic Bishop leading a group in the Lord’s Prayer.

Do these look like “made up stories of harassment” to you? Unfortunately for the Human Rights Campaign, these are the faces of what the future will look like for anyone who opposes same-sex marriage. Groups like HRC and their supporters will use the full force of the law — lawsuits, legislation, regulations and even public intimidation and harassment — to force their vision and values on the American people. This is becoming more and more clear to America with every passing tour stop.

The group “Freedom to Marry” issued their own statement yesterday, but they apparently forgot to coordinate their message of the day with HRC. Instead of accusing us of “made up stories of harassment” this group showed a repulsive picture of someone whose sign featured a noose, implying that homosexuals should be put to death. They went on to “demand” that NOM repudiate this “incitement to violence.” We’d treat this call seriously if it weren’t such a contrived stunt.

First of all, NOM has already repudiated this display of intolerance — and did so on the spot (not through a press release). We demanded this individual to take down his sign, because it was inconsistent with NOM’s aims, methods, and message: We come together in love to support marriage as one man and one woman.

Second, at every rally we make it clear that our fight is not with gay Americans, it is with a bad idea. The Lord teaches us that we are to love all His children. We approach the issue of marriage from the perspective of love. You can watch video of NOM’s Chair, Maggie Gallagher, making this point here.

[OK. I have to break in here. “in love”?? Your fight is not with gay Americans? Is that so?

Then why is this letter full of “the radicals reached a new low”, “gay marriage radicals”, “This is the face of intolerance”, and “screaming gay marriage radicals”? Your message is the very antithesis of love]

Our opponents are becoming more and more desperate as they watch their carefully scripted narrative of same-sex marriage crumble before the eyes of the American people.

We need your help to continue our successful Summer for Marriage tour and to continue to publicize this issue. If the tour is coming to a city near you, please come to show your support. We need all our supporters to rally around the cause, especially in these trying times. Visit for all the latest tour information.

We also need your financial help to continue the tour. This is a costly and difficult tour to organize and implement. We have to feed, house and transport staff and volunteers in nearly two-dozen cities — not to mention the cost of preparing, securing and keeping the bus and support vehicles on the road for the month-long tour. Please make a special contribution today to enable us to bear all the expenses of this historic tour.
There’s no doubt that God is working a wondrous thing with the Summer for Marriage tour. We are changing hearts and minds across America. People are rallying to our side. Please keep us in your prayers, and remember us with a financial gift as well.

May God bless you and your family.

Brian S. Brown
National Organization for Marriage

Contributions or gifts to the National Organization for Marriage, a 501(c)(4) organization with QNC status, are not tax-deductible. The National Organization for Marriage does not accept contributions from business corporations, labor unions, foreign nationals, or federal contractors; however, it may accept contributions from federally registered political action committees. Donations may be used for political purposes such as supporting or opposing candidates. No funds will be earmarked or reserved for any political purpose.

July 29th, 2010

Here are my thoughts on the matter:

It really is such a shame that there’s no perspective here. I mean, people getting angry because there’s a bunch of people who hate them, hate their partners, hate their families? That doesn’t make any sense! People getting angry because various Christian groups want to relegate them to second class citizen, call them evil and sinners, and remove or block all legal protections for them? All because they don’t love “the right gender”? Absolutely right! Christianese is used skillfully in this letter to mask their true intention.

I mean, sure I understand their need to raise funds, and I even understand their fear. But if they could see the harm they are causing in perpetrating hatred of regular everyday people whose behaviour doesn’t affect them, I wonder if then they’d stop.

I grew up surrounded by this kind of homophobia and I remember gay people being vilified, and not thinking about it for myself or even thinking of gay people as real everyday people. I wonder how many of these Christians are stuck in that same situation. My feeling is that there are a lot of Christians who oppose marriage equality because they’ve never thought about it for themselves.

I wonder how much of this homophobia is to promote an “us” vs “them” mentality in an attempt to raise money.

July 29th, 2010

Also, whenever I hear “NOM”, I can’t help but think “om nom nom” for some reason. :)

Richard Rush

July 29th, 2010

I’ve been thinking that the National Organization “for” Marriage needs some retooling, and I’m here to help.

They need a new name/acronym that is more truly expressive of their goals, their values, their tactics, and who they are. Rational people understand that NOM doesn’t exist to be FOR anything. Everyone agrees that marriage should include the union of a man and a woman, so there is no need for a campaign to promote the idea. No, NOM is AGAINST marriage for some tax-paying American citizens.

One name/acronym I propose is
Sanctimonious Christians Against Marriage (SCAM).
As a Christian-based organization, why would they want to keep Christ hidden (the way Maggie does with her Hindu husband)?

There are some other options, though:

If they want to broaden their appeal, they could go with
Sectarian Coalition Against Marriage (SCAM).

Or to be more expressive of their founding roots, they could go with
Super Catholics Against Marriage (SCAM).

I’m sure there are more good options, but I wanted to get the process started.

Priya Lynn

July 29th, 2010

MJ said “I mean, sure I understand their need to raise funds”.

They don’t need to raise finds. They have a desire to, but no need – their cause is entirely unnecessary.

Regan DuCasse

July 29th, 2010

I had a moment of spewing my coffee on my keyboard when Brian Brown invoked the civil rights movement as comparable to what he’s ‘fighting’ for.

Completely forgetting that said movement was about EXPANDING rights for suspect minorities, not taking them away.
And that veterans of that movement like Coretta King, Julian Bond, Andrew Young and Rep. John Lewis support marriage equality…as did the woman whose name is on the precedent for it, Mildred Loving.

Brian Brown, you’re unbelievable in your arrogance and cowardice and no one, should have to pay a price for it.

Rob Tisinai

July 30th, 2010

If they have video of the mother being harassed, they should release it. All I’ve seen from them is an interview with the mother ex post facto (exp post fictio?)

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Willow Brook goes spooky for Halloween

Posted on Tuesday 28th October 2014 at 9:04 pm by SH (Editor)

Halloween Fun at the Willow Brook Centre, Bradley Stoke.

The Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke is hosting a fun filled day of free spooky fun for Halloween on Friday 31st October.

The fun kicks off at 11am with the first of four Zombie Disco shows from Bread and Butter Theatre. There will be plenty of spooky comedy, music, fun and games from the two hapless zombies at noon, 1pm and 2pm.

Children will be able to show off their creative skills at a Halloween craft workshop, where they can make fantastic bats or mini witches to take home.

There will be face painters there to create scary faces ready for trick or treating later on Friday. Children will even get the chance to try traditional apple bobbing.

Other activities and attractions on offer include:

  • Pumpkin carving with Bradley Stoke in Bloom
  • Suzie the Snake, hosted by Pets at Home
  • Dog rescue charity Bristol DAWG with some of their dogs

Activities and attractions will run between 11am to 3pm (see schedule).

Willow Brook Centre manager Andy Wynn said:

“We are putting on a really fun packed Halloween event this year with loads of interesting things for children of all ages to do.”

Related link: What’s On in Bradley Stoke (The Journal)

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Postby lancaster6 » Tue Jun 19, 2012 3:10 pm

this has solved my song selection problem and will allow me to use the "All" song list for 300 scenes, for use with 5 different bands! gr8 idea, ty.
1. when i check "show title" in scene view 2 options, it displays the set list title, not the song title. the later would be my preference.
2. is there a way to add a gadget/temp folder (on scene view 2 screen) that you could drag and drop a song to, to cue it up for the next song? then hit a midi button to execute?

my band leaders make a set list, and after about 3 songs, it is useless because they are reading the crowd and taking requests. now that finding these songs is simple and fast (thx again), if i could cue up the next song while i'm playing the current song...would be awesome!

can't wait to use this live! i think i can actually use 1 big (huge) set list now!!

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Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their seven-year-old stepsister, Heather. Ever since their parents got married, she's made Molly and Michael's life miserable. Now their parents have moved them all to the country to live in a house that used to be a church, with a cemetery in the backyard. If that's not bad enough, Heather starts talking to a ghost named Helen and warning Molly and Michael that Helen is coming for them. Molly feels certain Heather is in some kind of danger, but every time she tries to help, Heather twists things around to get her into trouble. It seems as if things can't get any worse.

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NBCC Applauds Senators and Representatives for Introducing Accelerating the End of Breast Cancer Act

Bill aims to know how to end breast cancer by January 1, 2020

Washington, DC, May 8, 2013—The National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC) applauds Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Dean Heller (R-NV) and Representatives Shelley Moore Capito (R-2-WV) and Kathy Castor (D-14-FL) for their introduction of the Accelerating the End of Breast Cancer Act  (S. 865/H.R. 1830).  This legislation, first introduced in the 112th Congress, is a critical component of NBCC’s Breast Cancer Deadline 2020® initiative to know how to end breast cancer by January 1, 2020.

“This nation has made a significant investment in biomedical research and specifically in breast cancer that has brought us to the point where we can apply our knowledge and finally know how to end breast cancer,” said Fran Visco, President of NBCC and a 25-year breast cancer survivor. “This bill is vital to that effort.”

Accelerating the End of Breast Cancer Act leverages past investments and focuses on identifying strategies for primary prevention, stopping women from getting breast cancer, and understanding and preventing metastasis (the spread of cancer), which is responsible for 90 percent of breast cancer deaths. It would create the Commission to Accelerate the End of Breast Cancer to identify promising opportunities, tools, technology and ideas not currently being prioritized for breast cancer by the public and private sectors, but which hold true promise in ending breast cancer.

“Breast cancer continues to affect too many of our mothers, wives, sisters, and friends,” said Senator Whitehouse. “This bill sets an ambitious goal of ending breast cancer by 2020, and will help drive our efforts to put an end to this tragic disease.”

In the United States, the chance of a woman developing breast cancer during her lifetime has increased from 1 in 11 in 1975 to 1 in 8 today. In 1991, 119 women died of breast cancer every day. Last year, that number was estimated to be 108, adding up to nearly 40,000 lost lives. Globally that number was nearly 425,000.

“This Mother’s Day, my husband’s family and many more across the country will be without their mother due to breast cancer. As breast cancer continues to claim tens of thousands of lives each year, Congress should do everything it can to prevent this life threatening disease. That is why I am proud to introduce the bipartisan Accelerating the End of Breast Cancer Act, which sets the goal of ending deaths from breast cancer by 2020. It is my hope that together we can help save lives,” said Rep. Shelley Moore Capito.

“It’s hard to find someone whose life has not been touched by breast cancer,” said Senator Heller. “By establishing a commission to help end breast cancer by 2020, it is my hope that we can help save the lives of countless women and unlock the answers to finally defeating this disease. This bill is a step in the right direction, and I am pleased that Members of Congress were once again able to come together in a bipartisan effort to help end breast cancer once and for all.”

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Accelerating the End of Breast Cancer Act in both the House and Senate underscores the power of grassroots advocacy, a critical component in Breast Cancer Deadline 2020®. Joining  Senators Whitehouse and Heller in introducing the legislation were Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA), Mark Begich (D-AK), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Bob Casey (D-PA), Al Franken (D-MN), Jack Reed (D-RI), and Mark Warner (D-VA). In the House, Reps. Capito and Castor were joined by Reps. Blackburn (R-7-TN), Bass (D-37-CA), Latham (R-3-IA), Loebsack (D-2-IA), Markey (D-5-MA), Moore (D-4-WI) and Tiberi (R-12-OH).

Earlier this week, NBCC hosted its Inaugural Advocate Leadership Summit, which drew breast cancer leaders from across the country. The event culminated in an advocacy day on Capitol Hill during which advocates highlighted the
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About the National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC)
The National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC) is dedicated to ending breast cancer by January 1, 2020 through the power of grassroots action and advocacy. NBCC supports increasing funding for breast cancer research; monitors how those funds are spent; expands access to quality health care for all; and ensures that trained advocates influence all decision making that impacts breast cancer. Join NBCC, learn more and take action. Visit

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Gym Teacher, HS Track Coach Accused of Having Sexual Relationship With an Eighth-Grader

A Georgia gym teacher and high school track coach has been accused of having a sexually inappropriate relationship with an eighth-grader. The incident, allegedly, took place in 2013.

Shawnetta Reece, 40, has been arrested and faces charges of child molestation and sexual assault by a person with supervisory or disciplinary authority. At the time, Reece was a track coach for union County High School, and gym teacher for Union County Middle School.

According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, who conducted the investigation alongside the union County Sheriff’s Office. Reece became sexually involved with a 15-year-old, while the student was between the eighth and ninth grade.

11Alive News in Georgia collected several photos from Reece’s deleted Twitter account, which show her interacting with students. Though, it’s unclear if any of these students were a part of the investigation.

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This Python script can generate mazes of arbitrary size and output them as png images using pypng. It can generate a 1000x1000 pixel maze in about 1 second on my hardware.

To generate the maze, Prim's algorithm is applied to a randomly-weighted lattice graph to produce a minimum-cost spanning tree. Alternatively, the program can generate a random spanning tree; this mode is faster and uses much less memory.

After the spanning tree has been constructed, this pattern is followed to produce the output image. Interestingly, this type of maze can be solved using a flood-fill algorithm on the walls. Several examples are given at the bottom of the page. The solution paths lie between the red and blue components of each maze.

This script only requires the pypng library, which is included as in the zip distribution. If is in the same directory as then it will work fine.

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usage: [-h] [--prims | --random] -s size size [-o filename]

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Rogvi Baldvinsson has left Bristol Rovers after just two weeks with the club.

Baldvinsson seems to be struggling to settle after moving from Norway. Rovers paid a fee to his former club Algard FK. Rogvi tweeted this "To all Rovers fans, you`ve been brilliant so far and I wish the Gas all the best - but this is sadly not the place for me. Going back to Norway.

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The award-winning Hall Place Gardens surround the Grade 1 listed country house built in 1537 for former Lord Mayor of London. The recently restored Tudor house is open to the public with new displays including an introduction to the house's history and exhibits from Bexley's museum collection. The 75 hectares of formal gardens and landscaped parkland also feature a magnificent topiary lawn as well as enclosed gardens and inspirational herbaceous borders. In the walled gardens there are sub-tropical glasshouses and a nursery selling Hall Place plants. A new visitor centre onsite offers a riverside tearoom and gift shop.

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Myths retold
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Sunday 9 April 2017,
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'When night poured out its silken sack of musky black, King Bahrum, overcome by wine and love, asked the Black Princess with eyes like a gazelle, to open up her treasure box and tell him a tale...' So begins the first of seven playful, poetic, and often deeply erotic tales.

Xanthe Gresham Knight and Arash Moradi serve up a wild Persian fairytale. A labyrinthine epic of secret rooms, impatient passions, clever women, wigs, and a prince who wrestled his crown from the teeth of two wild lions to become king. Nizami, one of the best loved Iranian epic poets, wrote The Seven Princesses or 'Haft Paykar' in the 12th century AD, influencing generations of poets and storytellers across the world.

'Vivid, magical and occasionally very bizarre.' Everything Theatre

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Xanthe Gresham Knight is a storyteller with a distinctive, physical, performance style, who delights in the absurd and preposterous. She started life as a drama teacher in Kentish Town, until storyteller Ben Haggarty was invited into the school to perform, and she was smitten by an artform. Alongside performances in theatres and art centres, she has performed in festivals, schools and libraries across the UK, Ireland, France, Slovenia, the Netherlands, Switzerland and New Zealand. Find out more at
Arash Moradi was born in the Kurdish city of Kermanshah in Western Iran, the eldest son of Iran’s leading tanbour player Aliakbar Moradi. Arash started learning tanbour at an early age from his father whom he later accompanied in numerous concert and festivals throughout Iran and Europe. He cooperated with BBC Radio 4 as a guest musician in 2006, and performed as a soloist at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. Arash lives in London where he teaches tanbour, runs workshops on Persian and Kurdish music and collaborates with musicians from around the world.

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Monday, February 18, 2013

{Long} Weekend

Can I tell you how amazing it feels to not be at work on a Monday? Kind of loving that I get President's Day off. I worked from home on Friday, so having that day semi-off and having today off has really extended this weekend!

As I mentioned, I worked from home, which was so nice after Thursday's announcement. Oliver and I stayed in bed all morning. {Him sleeping, me working on the computer.} During lunchtime, I ran some errands we did lots of laundry.

My office closed at 4 p.m., so I got a haircut and a massage Friday night. {Not simultaneously, of course! Ha!} It felt amazing to be pampered!

My co-worker's son turned one, so I went over to her house early to help set up the party. Afterwards, I ran some more errands and while out, I found the best new Essie pale pink: Essie "Muchi, Muchi."

Brandon played golf with a friend all day, so I came home and ordered a pizza and watched "Kourtney and Kim Take Miami." {I know, I know...}

We slept in {shh} and enjoyed the gorgeous, gorgeous weather outside. I think it was so motivating because we got a ton of stuff done around the house.

The biggest think we did was repaint this old dresser that my grandparents gave us. Unfortunately, I don't have a "before" photo, but just picture it as really dark brown...almost cherry.

The other dreeer in our bedroom is mine from when I was a little girl and I love it because it perfectly matches our cream, nailhead-trim headboard. Since I don't like the look of matchy-matchy furniture, I gladly accepted this dresser from my grandparents.

We actually spray painted it, and used two cans of Rust-Oleum's Satin Finish primer {it was like $1} and three cans of their American Accents Satin Finish Spray Paint in "Ivory Silk." I think the total for this entire project was about $10, which can't be beat!

The dresser looks awesome in our bedroom now and if you didn't know better, you'd think the two dressers were made by the exact same people!

As I mentioned, I'm off today and am loving it! Can I just say how much I love the natural light in our house in the mornings? I usually have to leave around 7:45 a.m. every day, so I never get to see this. I forgot how beautiful it was!

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