Public Services Librarian - Allen Music Library, University of Hartford, West Hartford

<b>Public Services Librarian - </b><b><b><span style="color: #48286d;">Allen Music Library, University of Hartford</span></b></b>, West Hartford. Position Summary: Provides formal and informal bibliographic instruction to students, faculty and staff. Supervises circulation, reserves, stack maintenance and equipment operations in the music/dance library. Assists library patrons in their research using print, online and audiovisual resources in music and dance. Recommends public service policies for the Allen Library to Head of Allen Library and Mortensen Library's Head of Reference and Public Services. This regular full-time exempt position may work evenings and/or rotate weekends. Key Responsibilities: Assists students and other library patrons in making the best use of print, electronic, and audiovisual music, dance, and other performing arts resources in a wide array of languages and formats and responds to questions. Recruits, trains, and evaluates staff who provide reference and information service to library patrons. Helps devise and implement public service policies, procedures, new services, and marketing strategies in consultation or collaboration with the Head of Allen Library and the Mortensen Library's Head of Reference and Public Services. Assists the Head of the Allen Library in identifying priorities, goals, strategies, and direction of Allen Library. Plans and presents instructional classes on information resources to students, faculty and staff. Administers the HLM 020 online information literacy course. Maintains print manuals and online information. Supervises the Allen Library circulation department, including circulation services, course reserves, stack maintenance, and equipment. Supervises one full-time assistant plus student employees. Monitors the student employee budget in an effort to ensure prudent fiscal management. Updates and maintains the Allen Library web pages in conjunction with the University Libraries Web Applications Developer and Technology Specialist to enhance usability, promote library offerings, and ensure maintenance is in compliance with University standards and University Libraries policies. Helps develop, enhance, and/or test information search tools. Provides recommendations for title development of the print and online reference collection and assists in the overall maintenance of the collection. Maintains awareness of trends and advances in the field through attendance at relevant meetings or seminars as well as through regular examination of literature in the field. Participates in relevant professional organizations. Serves on internal and external committees as appropriate. Maintains statistics and develops accurate reports for the Head of the Allen Library. Performs other related duties as assigned. Indicates an "essential" job function. Formal Education: Bachelor's Degree required with a major in music and Master's Degree of Library Science from an A.L.A. accredited institution required (or recognized equivalents). Work Experience: 1 year to < 2 years. Knowledge & Skills: Professional Skills: Requires knowledge of theories and practices of a professional field. This level of skill is typically reserved for an individual with a four-year degree, or a high-level vocational skill demonstrated by a number of years of on-the-position experience (i.e. management). Writes reports using technical data requiring considerable interpretation, developing new methods and procedures. Frequently applies knowledge to practical issues and problems. See the complete job description at <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.hartford.edu/hrd/Employment.aspx" href="http://www.hartford.edu/hrd/Employment.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.hartford.edu/hrd/Employment.aspx</a>. Working Conditions: Normal office situation. Physical Efforts: Typically sitting at a desk or table. Requires good hearing. Using equipment requiring high dexterity. Intermittently sitting, standing, stooping. Moderate lifting or carrying 26-50 lbs. Special Skills: The ability to work effectively with diverse groups. Pay Grade: G -- See salary ranges at <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.hartford.edu/hrd/files/pdf/Non_Union_staff_salary_ranges.pdf" href="http://www.hartford.edu/hrd/files/pdf/Non_Union_staff_salary_ranges.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.hartford.edu/hrd/files/pdf/Non_Union_staff_salary_ranges.pdf</a>. See benefits overview at <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.hartford.edu/hrd/Employment.aspx" href="http://www.hartford.edu/hrd/Employment.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.hartford.edu/hrd/Employment.aspx</a>. Application Procedures: There is no deadline for applications and the position will remain open until filled. Electronic resumes are highly encouraged. All resumes are acknowledged. If you are applying by email, please send one complete set of the following: resume, cover letter (including position of interest and salary requirements), and professional references to <a _fcksavedurl="mailto:hrd@hartford.edu" href="mailto:hrd@hartford.edu">hrd@hartford.edu</a>. If you are applying by either fax or by mail, please send two complete sets of the following: resume, cover letter (including position of interest and salary requirements), and professional references to: University of Hartford, Attn: Human Resources Development, 200 Bloomfield Ave., West Hartford, CT 06117-1599, Fax: 860.768.4732. The University is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action employer.

Public Services Librarian - Allen Music Library, University of Hartford, West Hartford

Public Services Librarian - Allen Music Library, University of Hartford , West Hartford. Position Summary: Provides formal and informal bi...

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'Dirty Dozen' Teamsters in 79th day of strike against Cummins Crosspoint

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAQ7vLrSGeDgoVm-UfbMDQvLvVpL969WveCQ2lrlNcI3sDhFrDSoo8-7Mb0A1HhrxGr4H6y4ch-M4KWIklR9Jg-P3JpqjqPZu7FJkVzbLS2uyM-dP-cqOR9ZWKd7GEaDDFjeRyODBZftca/s1600/Cummins+Crosspoint.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAQ7vLrSGeDgoVm-UfbMDQvLvVpL969WveCQ2lrlNcI3sDhFrDSoo8-7Mb0A1HhrxGr4H6y4ch-M4KWIklR9Jg-P3JpqjqPZu7FJkVzbLS2uyM-dP-cqOR9ZWKd7GEaDDFjeRyODBZftca/s400/Cummins+Crosspoint.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Striking members of Teamsters Local 519: 'The Dirty Dozen'</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Twelve members of Teamsters Local 519 walked off the job when Cummins Crosspoint tried to impose a contract that took away seniority, just cause and prescription drug benefits while increasing their health insurance deductible to $8,000.<br /><br />That was on July 16, and they do not intend to cave. The company is paying a price. The 12 Teamsters are diesel mechanics who take pride in their work. Their replacements -- well, apparently not so much.<br /><br />"Everything they work on comes back," said Bob Van Gorp, trustee for Teamsters Local 519 in Knoxville, Tenn.<br /><br />"I've never seen guys with more intestinal fortitude than these," Van Gorp said. "These guys are so brave. They're just strong."<br /><br />And they take pride in their new nickname -- The Dirty Dozen.<br /><br />We'll keep you posted.<br /><br />

Local 519 strike 'Dirty Dozen' Teamsters in 79th day of strike against Cummins Crosspoint

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Botox Can Help You Look Great

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Spencer Harlod</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Botox and Botox treatments started off by being a type of aesthetic procedure that only Hollywood stars and celebrities did, and it was among those unusual things they did together with buying quick autos and going on an organic spa retreat.<br /> <br /> However, times have evolved, and the organic spa retreat and botox treatments aren't one thing so exceptional anymore, and instead have become quite popular and regular. What caused this to take place? Well, partly since these experiences slowly became famous and more offers popped into the market. Since there are a lot more offers, costs are now cheaper than ever. Because of the discount prices, even regular people could have Boton injections via organic spa retreats.<br /> <br /> Why is this treatment famous? Well firstly there's something you must learn about botox - it is not one thing you may do one time and it will last, rather, when you do it you need to keep doing it in steady durations or your face may be affected significantly, becoming even worse than before you did your very first botox injections, so be sure you have enough of a budget to keep performing them all through your life.<br /> <br /> However, if keeping up the botox treatments isn't a problem, you need to know that it provides incredible outcomes, stretching out your skin and knocking off many years off your face.<br /> <br /> If you're concerned with the side effects, you must realize that there would not be any obvious side effects when it's effectively done. This is one risk of having Botox. There is a chance that several facial muscles cannot be moved after many treatments.<br /> <br /> The best thing to accomplish is always to know your treatment specialist much better along with their experience. Find out if they're great in what they do or are just looking for easy money. Once you find that good spa you will be happy you did and can go back time and time again. <br /> <br /> Having well-informed staff is a major advantage for any medical spa. Doctors who can take note of your needs and help determine the proper treatment are an important first step. Despite the fact that essentially all processes available at a medical spa are extremely safe and not likely to cause injury, this always assumed well-trained staff members are using the machine appropriately over the course of your treatment.<br /> <br /> The point is you do not have to be filthy rich to enjoy botox treatments. You can always go for organic spa retreat. Do things in moderation because living big has its own consequences and you might be the next individual to go through them.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>Learn more about <a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM8PqndDWr4'>botox in Memphis TN</a> by watching this video about <a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6S_nNF_06A'>weight loss in Memphis</a> and what it can do for you.</div><br /> </div><br />

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Cracks Forming in the Recessionary Dam

<a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/RECPROUSM156N">St. Louis Fed: Smoothed U.S. Recession Probabilities</a><br /><div style="color: #666666;"><br /></div><div style="color: #666666;"><i>Smoothed recession probabilities for the United States are obtained from a dynamic-factor markov-switching model applied to four monthly coincident variables: non-farm payroll employment, the index of industrial production, real personal income excluding transfer payments, and real manufacturing and trade sales. This model was originally developed in Chauvet, M., "An Economic Characterization of Business Cycle Dynamics with Factor Structure and Regime Switching," International Economic Review, 1998, 39, 969-996.</i></div><br />The following chart compares the recession probabilities seen starting in 2006 to those seen starting in 2012. I'm looking specifically for the formation of tiny cracks in the dam.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipKvfNpL_qO3EyA3q8LsMPgPSeFmn5XUP192mUzp4ppu6POO0K5nrAMcASdQzZgwPWruBQ-Ye1P0pOKz6jFBxybhH8XLebYAofEOmGEJVkwyMKlEz9WNiord0HqBWprRBnsam3zSzlu7g/s1600/Recession+Probabilities.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipKvfNpL_qO3EyA3q8LsMPgPSeFmn5XUP192mUzp4ppu6POO0K5nrAMcASdQzZgwPWruBQ-Ye1P0pOKz6jFBxybhH8XLebYAofEOmGEJVkwyMKlEz9WNiord0HqBWprRBnsam3zSzlu7g/s320/Recession+Probabilities.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />What a structural engineer might say: "The cracks are growing again. Might want to get that fixed before it fails entirely again."<br /><br />What <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2Wtx_FjHWc">Jamie Dimon might say</a>: "So we're <span style="color: red;">kind of confident</span> that you'll see growth over the years as America recovers."<br /><br />Reality Check: <span style="color: red;">Kind of Confident</span> = <span style="color: red;">Not Confident</span><br /><br />Nobody who is truly confident says kind of confident, just like nobody who is truly pregnant says kind of pregnant.<br /><br /><b>May 18, 2012</b><br /><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2012/05/recession-prediction.html">Recession Prediction</a><br /><br /><div style="color: red;"><i>I'm going to predict the next recession will hit on or before October 2014.</i></div><br />For what it is worth, my long-term prediction stands. That said, the odds of making it to October 2014 seem smaller now. As I have <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-retail-sales-accident-waiting-to.html">stated previously</a>, I am not at all optimistic about this year's Christmas season.<br /><br />This is not investment advice. I am being kind of sarcastic though, in honor of Jamie Dimon.<br /><br /><b>Source Data:</b><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=mZ4">St. Louis Fed: Smoothed U.S. Recession Probabilities</a>

Cracks Forming in the Recessionary Dam

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Autumn travel and leaf peeping in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil9UZxnz7vTqRZdG9w8-URmMiAppos8Yef_WryMojwyFvRY0k_3YxjjMfZZ7Kyj2bbXSvnNn7LEtAYaUzK2KkLYVXX9oRtMOGSh6Jx1eo_0_AgbdQabLKXoWb_ZUOQnjqENgln5kDtf9gx/s1600/11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil9UZxnz7vTqRZdG9w8-URmMiAppos8Yef_WryMojwyFvRY0k_3YxjjMfZZ7Kyj2bbXSvnNn7LEtAYaUzK2KkLYVXX9oRtMOGSh6Jx1eo_0_AgbdQabLKXoWb_ZUOQnjqENgln5kDtf9gx/s400/11.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <i>Blue Ridge Parkway</i></div><br />Now that autumn has arrived in the Shenandoah Valley, October's calendar is full of festivals and events for those who wish to enjoy cooler temperatures and colorful leaves. If waiting until the <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2011/10/skyline-drive-every-bend-in-road-brings.html">fall color show hits its peak</a>, be sure to check out Virginia Tourism's Fall Color Hotline at 1-800-424-LOVE<b></b> or check the <a href="http://www.virginia.org/Fall/">Fall Color report</a>. <br /><br />With the current government shutdown, there is no way to drive the scenic <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2011/10/shenandoah-national-park-peak-leaf.html">Skyline Drive</a> since the gates at all entrances have been barricaded. The <a href="http://www.southernliving.com/travel/fall-vacations-mountains-south-00400000054859/page10.html">Blue Ridge Parkway</a> offers the opportunity to explore new locations, revisit favorite spots, and view the scenery from high above the Shenandoah Valley as you wind your way along mountain ridges. Pack a lunch and enjoy a picnic at the numerous roadside tables and <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2012/09/blue-ridge-parkway-humpback-rock-picnic.html">picnic areas</a>. Due to the government shutdown, the roadway is open but all attractions have been closed.<br /><br />Come off the Parkway and enjoy the central Shenandoah Valley with enough to see and do to keep families busy for weeks. The Queen City of<a href="http://www.staunton.va.us/"> Staunton</a>, located at the intersection of I-64 and I-81, has kept her history intact, as can be seen by the many renovated buildings, shops, and restaurants in the downtown area. On Saturdays from 7-noon, there is a<a href="http://www.safarmersmarket.com/"> farmers market</a> in the Wharf parking area downtown featuring locally-grown goods.<br /><br />Shopping opportunities in Staunton offer everything from furnishings to clothing. If you're looking for fine dining, check out <a href="http://www.zynodoa.com/">Zynodoa</a>. Entertainment can be found at the<a href="http://www.clocktowertavern.com/"> Clock Tower</a> restaurant while<a href="http://www.bajabean.com/ST.html"> Baja Bean</a> offers fun Mexican fare and a bar that's popular with the locals. In the historic train station, the<a href="http://www.depotgrille.com/%20"> Depot Grille</a> offers something for everyone, and the floors actually rumble when the train passes.<br /><br />In the Wharf area,<a href="http://www.byersstreetbistro.com/"> Byers Street Bistro</a> offers curbside dining as well as two floors inside for a quiet dining nook or a large group. Two informal eateries on Beverley Street, the main downtown thoroughfare, are<a href="http://www.shenandoahpizza.com/"> Shenandoah Pizza</a> and the nearby<a href="http://www.thesplitbanana.com/"> Split Banana</a> for ice cream and gelato desserts. <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g58210-d1103432-Reviews-Coffee_on_the_Corner-Staunton_Virginia.html">Coffee on the Corner</a> offers light food choices and beverages with internet availability as well as the popular beer garden out back for local craft beers and entertainment.<br /><br />One of the prime attractions in Staunton is the<a href="http://www.americanshakespearecenter.com/"> American Shakespeare Center</a> featuring a recreated Blackfriars Playhouse serving up Shakespeare plays year-round in an atmosphere that will make you feel as if you've stepped back in time to the days of the Bard.<br /><br />The popular<a href="http://www.frontiermuseum.org/"> Frontier Culture Museum</a>, located just off I-81, offers authentic homesteads of the 1800s from Ireland, Germany, England, America, and the newest addition of the West African farm, providing a hands-on history lesson in the story of the early American settlers coming to the New World.<br /><br />If planning to stay overnight in Staunton, there's<a href="http://anne-hathaways-cottage.com/"> Anne Hathaway's Cottage</a>, the<a href="http://www.innatoldvirginia.com/%20"> Inn at Olde Virginia</a>, <a href="http://www.frederickhouse.com/"> Frederick House</a>, and <a href="http://www.stonewalljacksonhotel.com/">Stonewall Jackson Hotel and Conference Center</a>.<br /><br />If you would rather stay along the mountain ridges, check out the<a href="http://www.irisinn.com/"> Iris Inn</a>, <a href="http://www.sugartreeinn.com/"> Sugar Tree Inn,</a> or<a href="http://www.cabincreekwood.com/"> Cabin Creekwood</a> located just off the Blue Ridge Parkway south of Waynesboro.<br /><br />What is autumn without<a href="http://www.virginia.org/fall/FallSubPage.asp?featureid=190&t=eNews&eM=SA3&eNL=cornmaze"> corn mazes and pumpkin patches</a>? West of Staunton, <a href="http://www.cestarisheep.com/images/pumpkin_fest.png">Cestari Sheep Farm</a> offers a pumpkin festival and corn maze the second and third weekends in October. If it's<a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2012/09/nichols-apple-barn-in-middletown.html"> apples</a> you're looking for, this fall staple can be found at <a href="http://www.virginia.org/Fall/Apples/">Virginia orchards</a> offering many varieties. The popular family-run <a href="http://www.virginia.org/listings/Events/GravesMountainAppleHarvestFestival/">Graves Mountain Lodge Apple Harvest Festival</a> north of Charlottesville will take place the second and third weekends in October.<br /><br />October is <a href="http://www.virginia.org/wine/">Virginia Wine Month</a> and there are plenty of wineries to check out in the Shenandoah Valley, surrounding mountains, and beyond.<a href="http://www.barrenridgevineyards.com/"> Barren Ridge Vineyards</a> near Staunton offers wine tastings and events including murder mysteries and musical entertainment. Downtown Staunton offers the <a href="http://www.oxeyevineyards.com/">Ox-Eye Vineyard</a> tasting room in an historic Wharf District building. Owners Susan and John Kiers are friendly and knowledgeable in suggesting a wine. Try the wine tasting to find your favorite, or enjoy a glass on the covered patio.<br /><br />West of Harrisonburg, the<a href="http://www.daytonfarmersmarket.com/"> Dayton Farmers Market</a>, open Thursday through Saturday, sells a variety of goods, some from the surrounding <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2011/11/old-order-mennonites-in-dayton-va.html">Old Order Mennonite community</a>. It offers unique shops, food, and a mouth-watering big soft pretzel. Don't be surprised if you find a horse-and-buggy parked at the hitching post while Mennonite families do some shopping of their own. <br /><br />South of Harrisonburg, the<a href="http://www.gvbookfair.com/schedule.html"> Green Valley Book Fair</a> returns October 5-20, offering hundreds of thousands of books at 60-90% off retail. A favorite with locals, its reputation for book bargains has traveled throughout Virginia and beyond.<br /><br />Whether you're looking for a quiet getaway or a fun-filled weekend, the Shenandoah Valley provides something for just about everyone. It's autumn in Virginia.<br /><br />For more to do in the Staunton area including ghost tours check out my post, <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2013/06/summer-2013-40-things-to-do-in-and.html">40 things to do in and around Staunton</a>. <br /><br /><i>--Originally posted in the <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/132376#.UGnHlFHWqZQ">Washington Examiner</a> by Lynn R. Mitchell, October 4, 2010</i> <br /><br />Photo by Lynn R. Mitchell

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Download Tom Clancy Books on Kindle and Amazon

Tom Clancy, RIP (1947 -2013) will no longer spin out best selling spy books and thrillers. The author of the popular Jack Ryan books died in Baltimore. Clancy's first book "The Hunt For Red October" was endorsed by none other than Ronald Reagan as unputdownable and according to Clancy got him into the best selling list for the first time.<br /><br />Read more about the popular author here.<br /><br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/best-selling-author-tom-clancy-died-age-66-152101522.html" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/best-selling-author-tom-clancy-died-age-66-152101522.html</a><br /><br />Get Tom Clancy's books at Amazon here<br /><iframe src="http://rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/cm?t=valentineday07-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0425240339&ref=tf_til&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br />Download Tom Clancy's books for Kindle here<br /><br />Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Book 1-6 for Kindle<br /><br /><br /><br /><iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ServiceVersion=20061125&TemplateId=8012&asin=B004DI7JKY&size=large&tag=hubp05c7-20" style="height: 38px; width: 102px;"></iframe>

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PATRIARCHY AS THE IRONIC RESISTANCE TO THE TRINITY

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Name="TOC Heading"/> </w:LatentStyles></xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]><style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif";} </style><![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 24pt;">God of Our Silent Tears is a sustained argument that a Patriarchal God Image makes the problem of evil intractable, leads inexorably toward atheism and cuts us off from the Trinitarian image of God that changes our understanding of God's response to </span></span><span style="line-height: 32px;">suffering, which can equip us to live better in the face of so much wrong. Why then do we cling to the patriarch and resist, even dismiss, the ancient mystery of early Christianity. This excerpt from Chapter 6 offers a possible explanation. God Of Our Silent Tears is now available for order on line from The Cathedral Bookstore in Los Angeles and from Amazon. </span></span>http://www.godofoursilenttears.com/#et_page_802<br /><br /><div style="line-height: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"> You can learn a lot while drinking coffee in the student lounge of Harvard Divinity School. I was reading there one day, when I overheard a conversation at the next table. Two young women, both on the verge of graduation, were discussing their futures. The first wanted to be a Congregationalist minister, but she didn’t think the ministerial board would approve her. They would, she feared, expect her to believe in the Trinity – and she was not going to say that, no way, no how.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">            The other agreed that it was unjust and oppressive to expect her to affirm something like the Trinity. The first shook her head at the waste of her theological education and the cutting short of her ministry over such a thing. The second then said, “It’s so seductive though, isn’t it?”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">             “What do you mean ‘seductive’?” the first asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">            “Well,” the second said, “the way Prof. Coakley explains it, it’s just so beautiful. It’s about relationship instead of power as the heart of everything. It’s really beautiful and so good, so moral.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">            The first student nodded and sighed, “Yes,” she said, and when you read St. Basil and St. Gregory, and St. Thomas Aquinas, it just makes so much sense. It really seems true.” There was a pause in the conversation. Then the first student continued. “It’s hard to sacrifice all I’ve worked for on principle. But there’s no way I’m going to say I believe in the Trinity.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">            “Of course not,” the second student said. “It would be corrupt and absurd.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">            These are exceptionally bright people in their third year at Harvard Divinity.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">They know full well that God is infinitely beyond any doctrine or description, that all doctrines are ways of using poetic language to reach into the dark, grazing the face of mystery with our fingertips. Why is this particular language about God, this particular sacred imagery, such a taboo that they recoil against it no matter how beautiful, how good, and even how true it may seem?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">            There is a deep resistance to the Trinity. And it does no good to explain the Trinity, as long as this resistance is in place. So, let us start with the resistance. Most modern believers and unbelievers have the same definition of God, “the Supreme Being.” AA members call this being “the Higher Power.” Note what is implicit in this kind of language. First, God is a being. Second, he is supreme because he is supremely powerful. The Supreme Being is the cosmic patriarch. Some believe in this being. Others do not. But they agree on what it is they disagree about. The God they either believe in or do not believe in is a super-being with absolute power, who may be persuaded to do what we want if we will do what he wants. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">            That definition of God as a Superman Master of the Universe is so widely and unquestioningly assumed, that orthodox Christianity does not even make it into the conversation. I once watched an ECU-film program featuring six contemporary Christian leaders speaking on the question “What Do We Mean By ‘God’?”Neither the Trinity nor the Holy Spirit were mentioned – not even once in passing, and the Son was referred to only as the historical Jesus, not the eternal Word who St. John and the Nicene Creed identify as God. Six out of six of the supposedly divergent viewpoints assembled by Ecu-film were stuck in the patriarchal god-image, even though they were all ostensibly “liberals.” Cambridge theologian Nicholas Lash says,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">            Under the dominant influence of modern theism, the doctrine <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">            of God’s Trinity has . . . largely ceased to function as our Christian <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">            frame of reference.</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1941566034196038608#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tms Rmn","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Tms Rmn"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">In my experience, and in the experience of many theologians and pastors, when most people say “God” they mean the patriarchal dominator. Even academic theology in the West often misses the Ancient Doctrine of the Trinity and lapses instead into a heresy which has a distinctly patriarchal tenor.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1941566034196038608#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">            To think of God as Trinity is to reject “modern theism.” If God is the Trinity, God is not a powerful individual dominating creation. Rather, God is a web of relationship, and this web does not dominate anything. It loves creation into being. This image of God is nothing short of revolutionary. So, in order to get beyond modern theism, we have to outgrow our childhood picture of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">            There are no doubt various reasons that people may object to the Trinity <i>on a conscious level</i>. They may never have heard the doctrine explained beyond simplistic metaphors to elucidate a metaphor. They likely do not know how Trinitarian doctrine developed.  Many people take religious language at the concrete literal level where the Trinity is simply non-sense. They do not know that doctrines are metaphors pointing toward infinite mystery, and that all religious metaphors are at best mixtures of truth and fiction. But beneath those conscious snags lies a cultural taboo. It is simply impossible to live in Western Culture without soaking up the mistaken definition of God as “the Supreme Being.” That definition is a patriarchal culture’s roadblock to grasping the Trinity.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1941566034196038608#_edn3" name="_ednref3" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">            Remember our two Harvard Divinity School seniors who praised Trinitarian doctrine in every way – it is good, beautiful, and even true – but they refused to believe it. Why would sophisticated theology students, who have studied these deeper meanings of the Trinity, who decidedly know better than to think the Trinity is a silly polytheism, and who acknowledge that this poetic description of God is true, good, and beautiful, nonetheless resist it? Stop and consider this statement: “I know it’s a metaphor, not a literal fact. I find this metaphor to be true, good, and beautiful. But I refuse to believe it.” Something deeper is going on. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">            Sigmund Freud’s great contribution to religion was explaining the primary way we get this superman image of God stuck in our heads. It comes out of early childhood experiences of dependency. The God image we get as children is of God the patriarch, God the monarch, God the supreme boss, the dominator-god. We learn it psychologically in the family; then children’s church school curricula and some patronizing clergy teach it as doctrine. It is doctrine – just not Christian doctrine – not Christian because the God image we get from early childhood experiences is not the Trinity. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">            If our parents were benign, we will feel safer with this dominator God. If our parents were frightening or neglectful, our attitude may be less positive. But either way, the universal condition of children is dependent and subservient. So we all get the image of God the dominator. It is the rare modern Westerner who does not have the patriarchal image entrenched in their assumptions about the definition of the word “God” either consciously or unconsciously. If Freud is right – and I believe he is <i>on a cultural level</i> – we all have the patriarchal God imprinted on our psyches.  Certainly, each individual has his or her own personal history which shapes his or her own inner image of God, but as for the cultural norm which defines words, Freud was absolutely on the mark in describing the psychological foundation of a patriarchal culture’s image of a patriarchal God.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1941566034196038608#_edn4" name="_ednref4" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">            In a patriarchal culture, people will resist an anti-patriarchal God image and then generate conscious pretexts. Liberating one’s religious imagination from the culturally imposed patriarchal God trap is long, slow going. Reading this book will not be sufficient. But I hope it will help.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">            To be fair, we must acknowledge another reason for discomfort with the Trinity. We are deeply attached to thinking of God as an individual because it is easier to think of an individual as personal. It is easier to imagine an individual as caring, having opinions. It is easier to be friends with an individual.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">            When we say God is not an individual, people are apt to leap to the conclusion that God is not personal. That is 180 degrees opposite to the point of the Trinity. The Trinity image of God is the opposite of impersonal. It is more personal than an individual autocrat dominator-God could ever be. Personhood (feeling, thinking, hoping) occurs in the context of relationship. The Trinity shows God as essentially “interpersonal.”</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1941566034196038608#_edn5" name="_ednref5" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tms Rmn","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Tms Rmn"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"> One might say the Trinity is at least three times as personal a God image as God the individual.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">            Granted, we cannot pray to a relationship.</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1941566034196038608#_edn6" name="_ednref6" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tms Rmn","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Tms Rmn"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"> But the Trinity itself, the godhead itself, the innermost being of God itself, is not the object of our prayer. It is the nameless, imageless God beyond our reach. The three divine persons of the Trinity are, however, quite accessible in prayer. Jesus taught us to pray to the Father – not the godhead, not the divine nature. We pray to and through the Son. And we pray in the power of the Spirit. Trinitarian prayer is decidedly personal.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">            Encountering the Triune God through Communion and Community is the original Christian way of salvation. “Salvation,” (as the word was actually meant in the New Testament) does not mean to be pardoned for our sins, but rather to be made whole, to become fully human, to become a complete person. The first Trinitarians discovered that “to become fully a person... is to break through the isolating boundaries of individualism into a life of inclusive communion with persons valued for their uniqueness and differences . . . .  Arriving at full personhood in this way . . . is what it means to be saved.”</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1941566034196038608#_edn7" name="_ednref7" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tms Rmn","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Tms Rmn"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">            A final objection to this way of imagining God is that when we feel weak, we need someone to be strong. Being beautiful, good, and true may be very nice. But when we are about to hurt, we want a cosmic Rambo to break down the door and save us. A cosmic dance of love may not seem strong enough. But the Trinity does not deny God’s power. It changes the nature of God’s power. It challenges us to rethink the kind of salvation that works and it might change how we go about trying to address the suffering in our own lives and the world around us.    <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">            When we contrast “love” with “power,” we mean the power of dominance, the power to oppress, coerce, and dictate. God’s renunciation of dominating power does not prevent God from participating powerfully in our lives in ways that are both consistent with God’s nature and responsive to our need. When we speak of “God’s power” it is important to remember several things: God’s power is not the same as any other power we know. It is not the power of dominance, but rather the power of creative love. God’s power is exercised in relationship, personally, not oppressively – honestly, not manipulatively. God’s power is restrained by God’s own nature and by God’s faithful commitment to allow the existence of that which is not God.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">            Trinitarian language for God isn’t perfect. It suffers from regrettable gender bias.</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1941566034196038608#_edn8" name="_ednref8" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tms Rmn","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Tms Rmn"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[viii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"> But despite that clear problem, leading feminists theologians</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1941566034196038608#_edn9" name="_ednref9" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Tms Rmn","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Tms Rmn"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[ix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"> vigorously defend the Trinity because it saves us from God as an individual – the big guy (and it is invariably a guy) in the sky. God as an individual is easy to understand – but the individual God usually becomes an autocratic power symbol – a king or a warrior. The Trinity makes God relational rather than domineering, interpersonal rather than abstract, egalitarian and mutual rather than oppressive. The Trinity makes God into something like a spiritual force field in which the force is not dominating power but interpersonal longing.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1941566034196038608#_edn10" name="_ednref10" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[x]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> The Trinity is not an adequate image for God. It needs to be supplemented by all the other metaphors from ancient tradition and new metaphors arising out of our culture. The Trinity is not adequate but it is helpful, especially when we consider the problem of evil.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">            The Trinity makes God, not a dominant individual, but a web of loving relationship. The Trinity means God is not a thing that might or might not exist. Calling God “Trinity” is describing the innate essence of Being as a personal relationship. To believe in such a God is not to believe that a particular being exists, but to say something about the nature of Reality itself – that Being is relational, generous, abounding and overflowing with procreative love, that it is deep, mysterious, and paradoxical. To describe God this way is to betray the power system religion.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1941566034196038608#_edn11" name="_ednref11" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[xi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">            The Trinity is not a literal taxonomy of God. It is a metaphor pointing toward a mystery. The metaphor preserves the Jewish insight of the one-ness of the divine nature, but also insists that God is not a dominating individual. God is more like a web of relationship. This metaphor plays out paradoxically in the form of our two models or ways of thinking about the Trinity – Family Trinity and Job Description Trinity. In the coming chapters we will see how each of these models will be helpful to us in dealing with suffering. When we address the realities of evil, suffering, and affliction, both the Family Trinity and Job-Description Trinity images of God make a world of difference. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">            Part of our difficulty in making meaning out of our suffering has always been that suffering truly is mysterious. But modern people are utterly at a loss in the face of suffering because our modern concept of God is inadequate to the task. It is inadequate precisely because the Trinity has been supplanted in our religious imagination by an individual monarch.       When we try to understand suffering in light of God, and God in light of suffering, it is this Trinitarian Communion of Love we are seeking to understand, not the mind of a Cosmic Puppet Master. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div><!--[if !supportEndnotes]--><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><!--[endif]--> <br /><div id="edn1"><div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1941566034196038608#_ednref1" name="_edn1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Nicholas Lash, <i>Easter In Ordinary, </i>p. 277. Jurgen Moltmann argues that Western theology even at its best it predominantly heretical in terms of the Early Church statements on the Trinity. He examines Karl Barth as a representative Protestant theology and Karl Rahner as a representative Roman Catholic theology, and contends their views of the Trinity both amount to Sabellian modalism, a declared heresy essentially saying God is one individual performing three functions – the Job Description Trinity taken to the extreme. If this is true of our great theologians, it is much more true of pastors in the pulpits and people in the pews. Western Christianity is out of touch with the richness of our traditional view of God. It is the feminist and liberation theologians who are reminding us of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div id="edn2"><div class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1941566034196038608#_ednref2" name="_edn2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Treating the Father as the real God, and the Son and Spirit as different ways in which the Father manifests, is essentially the heresy of Sibellian Modalism. Moltmann rightly charges leading Western theologians including Schleiermacher, Barth, and even Rahner with being essentially modalist.  Sabellian Modalism.  It treats the Father as God the Commander, with the Son and Spirit as being either joint First Officer or more often as the First and Second Officer. They do not understand the Godhead as a network of relationship and so miss the feminist values of mutuality and compassion the orthodox Trinity represents.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoEndnoteText"><br /></div></div><div id="edn3"><div class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1941566034196038608#_ednref3" name="_edn3" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Harvard Prof. of Systematic Theology, Sarah Coakley tells the story of a young woman studying for ordination in the U. C. C., perhaps the most liberal and least patriarchal denomination in the Christian tradition. She had grown up only minimally churched in that liberal tradition and had never heard of the patriarchal image of God until seminary. She found the notion odd. But as she approached ordination, her dreams were filled with images of submission to patriarchal figures. Professor Coakley’s  point is that even those who do not consciously believe in such a picture of God are still subject to unconscious cultural influences.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoEndnoteText"><br /></div></div><div id="edn4"><div class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1941566034196038608#_ednref4" name="_edn4" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Anna Maria Rizzuto’s research in the psychology of God images showed that individuals form personal God images in more complex ways. Rizzuto, <i>Birth of the Living God</i>. But as a culture when we speak of God we necessarily adopt the culture’s definition of God. Here I think Freud’s understanding of our common God image is apt.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoEndnoteText"><br /></div></div><div id="edn5"><div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1941566034196038608#_ednref5" name="_edn5" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “The God who is <i>a </i>person is transcended by the God who is the Personal itself . . . “ Paul Tillich, <i>Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality</i> (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955) pp. 13, 16, 24-26, 333-34, 59, 74, 82-84 generally explaining his thesis that God is personal without being an individual.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div id="edn6"><div class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1941566034196038608#_ednref6" name="_edn6" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Notre Dame philosopher Robert Audi rightly observes that there is a problem God’s identity as relationship from the standpoint of religious practice and from the standpoint of Scripture. “One cannot pray to a relationship.” The response to this problem is in terms of the two complementary albeit paradoxical models of the Trinity, which we will call the Family Trinity and the Job Description Trinity. God in Godself is more like a personal relationship than an individual. But God, being relational, engages us in the personal manner we can be engaged. That is to say, God engages us in the form of persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Scripture is not a theological treatise on the nature of God. It is an account of God’s interaction with people. So it tells the story in terms of the Divine persons whom we have met.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><br /></div></div><div id="edn7"><div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1941566034196038608#_ednref7" name="_edn7" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The words quoted are Patricia Fox’s apt summary of Zizioulas, <i>Being As Communion, </i>pp. 49-50. Patricia Fox, <i>God As Communion</i> (Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 2001) pp. 42-43.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div id="edn8"><div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1941566034196038608#_ednref8" name="_edn8" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[viii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Feminist theologians such as Elizabeth Johnson offer restatements of the Trinity in less patriarchal terms. On the other side, Robert Jensen defends the use of <i>masculine </i>language and argues it neither reflects nor supports patriarchal culture. Robert W. Jensen, <i>The Triune Identity</i> (Eugene: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1982) pp. 13-16. <o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div id="edn9"><div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1941566034196038608#_ednref9" name="_edn9" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[ix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"> For example, Sarah Coakley, Elizabeth Johnson, and Kathryn Tanner.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div id="edn10"><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1941566034196038608#_ednref10" name="_edn10" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[x]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The objection to talk about God in terms like “force field” (remember this is just an analogy) is that we don’t think of a force field as personal. Actually, a force field may be more personal than we think. But to the extent that image connotes something impersonal,  that is just the other half of the analogy. God is <i>like</i> a force field in size and energy, but <i>unlike</i>a force field in that God is personal. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoEndnoteText"><br /></div></div><div id="edn11"><div class="MsoEndnoteText"><br /></div><div class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[xi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The Trinity is not the only way to liberate ourselves from the dominator God. Nothing in Islam or Judaism, for example, preclude them from developing theologies that see God in a better way. Martin Buber and Abraham Heschel are examples of such a better view within Judaism. In Islam, the God of Rumi and al-Halaj  is no dominator. But the Trinity is Christianity’s way of saying God is loving rather than domineering. The point in emphasizing the Trinity in this book is not to challenge non-Christian religions, which may have other ways of saying something similar about God. The point is to challenge a Christianity that, without the Trinity, has no effective way of saying that God is, at the core, relational rather than domineering. The relational, as opposed to domineering, nature of God is essential to a Christian understanding of how God and suffering fit in the same reality.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoEndnoteText"><br /></div></div></div><!--EndFragment-->

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National Park Service website is shut down

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLv_CU6hnVc9UB4DQAYlFp2DTJGMixHeo5_WY7sSdUg6w3y2LBMgOOwUEqSCNM1dVXzzQ2F20Tym96Y3MF_InZGAZwP4t2eCNxDBpXgU2QGkIQ0Xoi_Ovw63-sotWDC7bLrMiOUMcQvSwG/s1600/National+Park+Service+emblem.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLv_CU6hnVc9UB4DQAYlFp2DTJGMixHeo5_WY7sSdUg6w3y2LBMgOOwUEqSCNM1dVXzzQ2F20Tym96Y3MF_InZGAZwP4t2eCNxDBpXgU2QGkIQ0Xoi_Ovw63-sotWDC7bLrMiOUMcQvSwG/s200/National+Park+Service+emblem.jpg" width="153" /></a></div><br />While trying to search for information about Shenandoah National Park, I discovered that the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/">National Park Service</a> websites have gone dark during the government shutdown. An on-screen notice tells why and I screen-shot it but couldn't get it to post on this page.<br /><br />After a few seconds, the screen automatically goes to the <a href="http://www.doi.gov/index.cfm">Department of the Interior</a> website. Interesting consequence of the shutdown....

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NYC Teamsters begin campaign to create good commercial waste jobs

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKFYEMlNubQ1vSrBk5Gn5mZD5HwCUqJmRX0_tgkkGczvIdypJkOCIswadKSW6TAsa0o0BbhaFeeWrwURbE0EUu1zA8Hoqt2hVpgvIuIqVAKddrBUsWRfZFvvmzbra7s6boUMCYGmmjFqbH/s1600/miranda2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKFYEMlNubQ1vSrBk5Gn5mZD5HwCUqJmRX0_tgkkGczvIdypJkOCIswadKSW6TAsa0o0BbhaFeeWrwURbE0EUu1zA8Hoqt2hVpgvIuIqVAKddrBUsWRfZFvvmzbra7s6boUMCYGmmjFqbH/s400/miranda2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Teamsters Joint Council 16 President George Miranda with Sean Campbell,<br />president of Teamsters Local 813.</td></tr></tbody></table>(Updates to add photo)<br /><br />New York City Teamsters and their allies have high hopes for a campaign launched today to increase good jobs, recycling and justice in the commercial waste industry. New Yorkers are paying attention.<br /><br />This morning the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/city-recycle-compost-90-waste-report-article-1.1473457" rel="nofollow">New York Daily News</a> reported the Alliance for a Greater New York (ALIGN)  is recommending the city adopt a franchise system involving competitive bidding, a reduced number of companies and higher environmental and labor standards.<br /><br />What the newspaper missed was the creation of a strong new alliance -- Transform Don't Trash NYC -- to make that happen. The campaign to tackle the problems of New York City's commercial waste industry involves the Teamsters, <a href="http://www.alignny.org/" rel="nofollow">ALIGN</a>, environmental justice and community advocacy groups.<br /><br />A month away from Election Day, mayoral and city council candidates would do well to listen to their message.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.teamstersnewyorkcity.org/" rel="nofollow">Teamsters Joint Council 16</a> President George Miranda said at a City Hall news conference today:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Today is the day we make New York City a better place to live and work.</blockquote>Miranda told the press wages are falling in New York's commercial waste industry, with new hires in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island earning just below $20,000 a year:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">This industry has become a "Wild West." Unsafe and sometimes illegal operators are driving a race to the bottom in wages and health and safety.</blockquote>The news conference followed the release of a study showing the city could recycle and compost more than 90 percent of commercial waste, but the current rate is much lower than that.<br /><br />"This stinks," wrote Daily News reporters Daniel Beekman and Stephen Rex Brown: <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">...of the 3.2 million tons of commercial waste generated each year, 2 million tons are buried in landfills or burned in incinerators. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The Alliance for a Greater New York, which wrote the report released Wednesday, blames a dysfunctional commercial waste industry that reeks of inefficiency.</blockquote><a href="http://nyc-eja.org/?page_id=80" rel="nofollow">Eddie Bautista</a>, executive director of the <a href="http://nyc-eja.org/" rel="nofollow">New York City Environmental Justice Alliance</a>, said  it's time to stop burying low-income communities of color under mountains of commercial waste.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">The time has come for New York City to stop burying communities -- as well as burying potential recycling jobs. ... the next mayor can really jumpstart a commercial recycling program that both increases long-neglected recycling work opportunities, while continuing to decrease our carbon footprint.</blockquote>Teamsters Joint Council 16 includes <a href="http://www.dsnyfamily.com/general-information/labor/teamster-local831/" rel="nofollow">Teamsters Local 831</a>, which represents New York City sanitation workers.<br /><br />

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David Tennant Will Star In The US Adaptation Of Broadchurch

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3EVK12thguFduaPvmhRMI-A6B_-fYlRUV5jzUuYZor9GKuirmqScFMzrJbCruYXBT2DrMJBbICFWqgdaRgXXV-thC7-OAVgJKGO0UslgGuIwjhf9EMD1kBkNvsaB0gsP2qQJ6qcWH5do/s1600/DT+Broadchurch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3EVK12thguFduaPvmhRMI-A6B_-fYlRUV5jzUuYZor9GKuirmqScFMzrJbCruYXBT2DrMJBbICFWqgdaRgXXV-thC7-OAVgJKGO0UslgGuIwjhf9EMD1kBkNvsaB0gsP2qQJ6qcWH5do/s1600/DT+Broadchurch.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">TV Guide Magazine in America have posted that David Tennant will star in the US adaptation of <i>Broadchurch </i>for Fox.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David will be playing a role similar to that of Alec Hardy in the original ITV series. He will be leading the investigation into the murder of a child found below a cliff face in a coastal town. However, this time round his character will be American.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The new adaptation will be executive produced by the UK series creator Chris Chibnall, who has also confirmed that he has written the first episode. Dan Futterman (<i>In Treatment, Capote</i>) and Anya Epstein (<i>In Treatment, Homicide</i>) have joined the drama as executive producers and showrunners. The show will also be executive produced by Shine <st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place>'s Carolyn Bernstein (<i>The Bridge</i>) and Jane Featherstone (<i>The Hour</i>) from drama producer Kudos.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>UPDATED: </b>Chris Chibnall has now confirmed via Twitter that David Tennant will be joining the cast:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">@ChrisChibnall: Classy showrunning duo (Oscar nominee Dan Futterman & Homicide/In Treatment ace Anya Epstein) & DT join the team: <a href="http://t.co/oJFTO40k59" target="_blank" title="http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/10/02/broadchurch-david-tennant-fox-remake/">http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/10/02/broadchurch-david-tennant-fox-remake/ …</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The American version starts shooting in January 2014.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chris Chibnall is also currently writing a second series of <i>Broadchurch </i> for ITV in the UK. Olivia Colman, Arthur Darvill and Simone McAullay have all said that they have been asked back, but David Tennant has not given any hint that he will be returning. Talking to Mark Lawson on BBC Radio 4's <i>Front Row</i> he said,</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"You’d need to ask Chris Chibnall. He’s writing it as we speak..I will see what I can do. The first series I very much enjoyed so I’d like to be involved in series two”</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recently Chris Chibnall told Entertainment Weekly that the <st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region> version will be as good as, if not better than the <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region>version</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> “I’m very, very fascinated to see this story in a different landscape with an acting ensemble that’s just as strong but taken from really great American actors,” he said. “The DNA of the original is absolutely intact and filtered through a new prism, so it should still feel just as vibrant, and interesting, and strange, and unique, and beautiful, but just in a different setting — and then it’s exploring the dramatic opportunities that that offers up. We’re not gonna do the terrible version. We’re gonna do a great version.”</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source: <a href="http://www.tvguide.com/News/David-Tennant-Broadchurch-1071529.aspx">TV Guide</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

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News Leader: 'Bill Bolling's good ideas'

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihEbBwqW45YkoCtMP1avcXjGT1b0IUvyQpQsAJI9GED-PC1n7MkzNlQE2gc3cx43NJ2b8Gt7_wC_juhOtGUQpZvzUctG97HDQdsBBXlvOZE9RA67Ay9ns-ZZNPNFLK44E8TgFhRNNG_6tx/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihEbBwqW45YkoCtMP1avcXjGT1b0IUvyQpQsAJI9GED-PC1n7MkzNlQE2gc3cx43NJ2b8Gt7_wC_juhOtGUQpZvzUctG97HDQdsBBXlvOZE9RA67Ay9ns-ZZNPNFLK44E8TgFhRNNG_6tx/s400/4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Jean Ann Bolling, Dr. Kurt Michael, Lt. Governor Bill Bolling</i><br /><i>Overlooking downtown Staunton, Virginia / August 17, 2013 </i></div><br />Yesterday the <a href="http://hamptonroads.com/2013/09/ideas-man-who-isnt-running#"><i>Virginian-Pilot</i></a> applauded Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling's ideas presented by his <a href="http://www.billbolling.com/2013/09/30/virginia-mainstream-project-releases-government-reform-proposals/">Virginia Mainstream Project PAC</a>. Today, the <a href="http://www.newsleader.com/article/20131001/OPINION/310010025/Bill-Bolling-s-good-ideas"><i>Staunton News Leader</i></a> agreed:<br /><blockquote>Monday, as the federal government stumbled toward shutdown and Virginia’s lamentable gubernatorial campaign dragged toward November, we received a much-needed reminder that some elected officials are still serious about governing.<br /><br />Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, the man who would be our next governor had Republicans had the sense to nominate him, released some excellent government reform proposals.</blockquote>The <a href="http://hamptonroads.com/2013/09/ideas-man-who-isnt-running#"><i>Pilot</i></a> noted the LG is not up for reelection, commenting:<br /><blockquote>In each case, Bolling's propositions settle right in the mainstream of Virginia politics. They are proposals that serve voters rather than political parties. They are neither obviously Democratic ideas nor clearly Republican.<br /><br />They are, quite simply, legislative initiatives that should be - and no doubt would be - welcomed by the vast middle of the commonwealth's voters.<br /><br />Unfortunately for all those voters, the man who proposed them will soon be out of state government, a victim of the same forces that kept those legislative ideas in a desk until Monday.</blockquote>The Roanoke Times opined, <a href="http://www.roanoke.com/opinion/editorial/2268686-12/imagine-ideas-not-ick.html">Imagine: ideas, not ick</a>. The first paragraph probably echoes what many are thinking in these final weeks of the 2013 Virginia gubernatorial race:<br /><blockquote>Another week. Another palm slap to the forehead. Another “Gee, we could have had Bill Bolling” moment for Virginia voters.</blockquote>For those who will point fingers and again accuse of sour grapes (I'd like to see how <i>they</i> would handle how many in the Republican Party have been treated by the current crop), the editorial continued:<br /><blockquote>Cynics will say that Bolling found his moral high ground only after losing the GOP gubernatorial nomination to Cuccinelli. While we wish the lieutenant governor had shown more verve in his response to partisan machinations that thrust him aside in favor of his flashier opponent, it would be unfair to suggest Bolling’s motives are so shallow. He has a genuine heart for good government, as demonstrated by his long-time support for bipartisan redistricting reform despite its unpopularity within his own party.</blockquote>Read all the <a href="http://www.billbolling.com/2013/09/30/virginia-mainstream-project-releases-government-reform-proposals/">proposals presented by the LG's Virginia Mainstream Project</a>.<br /><br />Photo by Lynn R. Mitchell

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Tenth Doctor Month: Meet The Companions - Martha Jones

<div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjymmh43-8PUTDWzFIUL6mNI98QbB2IwLmbxQiSrveqsnE7zxFiOtbaAZPdz1kIUo8NQ0g8sxcmRCHDxSYEzQUtc9ILXMXoZeYNDeEufVr1Ppqf8kWPfbh0bttI6lCq5ybLrv8Fap4q0mo/s1600/martha.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjymmh43-8PUTDWzFIUL6mNI98QbB2IwLmbxQiSrveqsnE7zxFiOtbaAZPdz1kIUo8NQ0g8sxcmRCHDxSYEzQUtc9ILXMXoZeYNDeEufVr1Ppqf8kWPfbh0bttI6lCq5ybLrv8Fap4q0mo/s640/martha.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Daughter of Clive and Francine, sister to Tish and Leo, aunt to Keisha, and cousin of the late Adeola Oshodi, Martha Jones was a medical student at the Royal Hope Hospital in London when she first met the Doctor. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Under the tutelage of Mr Stoker, she worked alongside Julia Swales and Oliver Morgenstern, and was able to to employ CPR to resuscitate the Doctor when a Plasmavore drained his body of blood (Smith and Jones) </span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Following her transportation to the moon and subsequent return to Earth, Martha accepted the Doctor's offer of a single thank-you trip in the TARDIS, despite concerns about her rent and her exams. Upon materialising in 1599, she was initially cautious about changing history, but quickly learned to embrace the Doctor's time travelling lifestyle, using her knowledge of Harry Potter books to help Shakespeare defeat the Carrionites (The Shakespeare Code.)</span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Doctor then took Martha to New, New York in the far future (Gridlock) before travelling back to old New York in the 1930s, a city she had always wanted to visit. She was identified as possessing superior intelligence by the Daleks, and was taken for their Final Experiment, before being rescued by the Doctor and Laszlo. (Daleks In Manhattan, Evolution Of The Daleks). </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Following the defeat of the Daleks, the Doctor took Martha home to 2008, just 12 hours after their departure the previous evening. </span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They attended the reception for Professor Lazurus' rejuvenation demonstration, where Martha introduced the Doctor to her family as one of her work colleagues and Martha's mother, Francine, became increasingly suspicious of her daughter's behaviour. (The Lazarus Experiment).</span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Doctor then invited Martha to join him as a proper companion, giving her a key to the TARDIS, and providing her mobile with Universal Roaming (42). </span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Together they embarked on a quest to find the legendary vessel The Inifinite (The Infinite Quest).</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1GVX8aAizYaeIfFuxW3nZu5y8-kT4uYbl4VS9jZkV6RLuqCm3uuF6zg6qMUIXUmVFPj_EFSmtBIJzKeDInI8ZcfSYZi4-ShrZsoXAmPqjfguxJOoRb2PBjktbxl5TG9I4i1f4sE_4zDM/s1600/maidmartha.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1GVX8aAizYaeIfFuxW3nZu5y8-kT4uYbl4VS9jZkV6RLuqCm3uuF6zg6qMUIXUmVFPj_EFSmtBIJzKeDInI8ZcfSYZi4-ShrZsoXAmPqjfguxJOoRb2PBjktbxl5TG9I4i1f4sE_4zDM/s640/maidmartha.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">When the Doctor made himself human, Martha was left responsible for the safety of his alter ego John Smith.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Smith found Martha employment alongside him at Farringham School For Boys, where she worked as a maid for several weeks, and befriended fellow staff member Jenny.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">During this time Martha, who was deeply in love with the Doctor, was forced to watch as he, as John Smith, fell in love with Joan Redfern. This left her upset and confused as to why he had chosen to fall in love with someone who wasn't her.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">She protected Smith from the attack by the Family Of Blood and ultimately had to persuade him and Joan that the Doctor should be brought back into existence meaning that John and Joan's life together must end. (Human Nature / The Family Of Blood).</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Doctor and Martha also watched the moon landing no fewer than four times, and when they were transported to 1969 by the Weeping Angels, Martha had to find employment as a shop assistant to support the Doctor (Blink).</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfiON0MGK2K-KPH1XURPy9P6Mqc-YriE6EtSFehuhxRzVGw-eCkECjMbd9BFNCYrvECaZ1nFOF6RFEnaW45o0rCE3-OkLz73UUI_z-QaPl7GEJ40SFe4i0bSAvq8CyuxzA0ebeO5d5bnw/s1600/martha.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfiON0MGK2K-KPH1XURPy9P6Mqc-YriE6EtSFehuhxRzVGw-eCkECjMbd9BFNCYrvECaZ1nFOF6RFEnaW45o0rCE3-OkLz73UUI_z-QaPl7GEJ40SFe4i0bSAvq8CyuxzA0ebeO5d5bnw/s640/martha.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was on a trip to Malcassairo, a planet at the end of the Universe, that Martha first met the Master, who was masquerading, in human form, as Professor Yana. (Utopia)</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eventually Martha, Captain Jack and the Doctor returned to Earth only four days after her first meeting with the Doctor. Martha's flat was destroyed by the Master, who then took her family prisoner in an attempt to lure the Doctor and his friends in to his trap. Having never engaged in any criminal activity, Martha became an unlikely fugitive as part of the Master's plans. She teleported aboard the Valiant with the Doctor and Jack, where they were taken prisoner. Escaping with Jack's Vortex Manipulator, Martha was then left on Earth to defeat the Master alone.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwGQlFfJj2CFI98z9qKOL5pqcoqCIsaaKcaK3tNT_1taXyBaUE6NsF4Bae5L45Q10ZDUXY-a69bv9H4-USyU-X3eC04iQisrFAvgwdnVPLLBUzyZ4ComC-zOe_jjlWpY00NrUKh_s1Ri8/s1600/martha2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwGQlFfJj2CFI98z9qKOL5pqcoqCIsaaKcaK3tNT_1taXyBaUE6NsF4Bae5L45Q10ZDUXY-a69bv9H4-USyU-X3eC04iQisrFAvgwdnVPLLBUzyZ4ComC-zOe_jjlWpY00NrUKh_s1Ri8/s640/martha2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><br /><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unable to return to Britain for an entire year, Martha travelled the world, carrying out the Doctor's instructions. She sailed the Atlantic single-handed and walked across America, travelling from the ruins of New York, to the Fusion Mills of China, and across the Radiation Pits of Europe. She was said to be the only person who escaped Japan alive, and legends claimed that she had travelled the world in search of a weapon capable of killing the Master. In reality, she had been telling her tale of the Doctor to the world, and used her knowledge of Docherty's son to ensure she was on board the Valiant for the Doctor's victory.</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Following the Master's defeat, Martha Jones decided to stay on Earth to look after her family, and to seek out Thomas Milligan, who had sacrificed his life for Martha in the year that never was. She also reminded herself of the advice she had given to her friend Vicky, and took the opportunity to escape her unrequited love for the Doctor, her self confessed Heart's Desire. Parting on good terms Martha left her phone with the Doctor determined that she would see him again one day soon... (The Sound Of Drums / Last Of The Time Lords).</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLAbokpdycwxQkuLQKIWBpZSpl2vw20HS3BmFNRwNwt1u0wjM0W_YXkPjriooUuKzU88k1CsjvCTU6SzQgPJxD1JkhIMewwmkFNaLwPNYEvOr_BKOPFgn0L7o4DLdzMCjpKftl5aVbIh4/s1600/sky2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLAbokpdycwxQkuLQKIWBpZSpl2vw20HS3BmFNRwNwt1u0wjM0W_YXkPjriooUuKzU88k1CsjvCTU6SzQgPJxD1JkhIMewwmkFNaLwPNYEvOr_BKOPFgn0L7o4DLdzMCjpKftl5aVbIh4/s640/sky2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Martha was working for UNIT when she phoned the Doctor and asked him to return to Earth to help her investigate the ATMOS deaths. (The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky). </span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During their time apart Martha had finished her medical school exams and had become a fully qualified doctor, she had also joined forces with her old friend Captain Jack Harkness and helped him out when she went to work with him at Torchwood.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Doctor discovered that the Sontarans were planning on turning Earth in to a breeding planet, and helped by a clone of Martha they had infiltrated UNIT.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Martha was with the clone when it died and she realised that it had shared the same memories, thoughts and emotions as herself.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">After the Sontarans were defeated Martha went into the TARDIS to say goodbye to the Doctor and Donna Noble, but the TARDIS took off before she could leave.</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">She was transported to the planet Messaline, where the Doctor's cells were used to create a warrior girl, Jenny (The Doctor's Daughter). Martha was separated from the Doctor and Donna while helping a injured Hath, who helped her cross the planet's hostile surface to reunite her with her friends. The Hath, Peck, sacrificed his own life to save Martha. The Doctor then returned her to Earth.</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Martha was one of the things the Doctor mentioned to Sky Silvestry and she repeated it back at him (Midnight).</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqpYjhzizFNn9crI0MnQhSfT4iaWtrLAE0uSoE0phrf-Nfj0xIg8l-bAV3IUAg49FsOpODT3l8h96_ueajqIxlFcQEUDEfjODF5vVk7BqDPJQjib_-NxeYB4HVIWB2pztopdqqGEDQX5Q/s1600/martha2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqpYjhzizFNn9crI0MnQhSfT4iaWtrLAE0uSoE0phrf-Nfj0xIg8l-bAV3IUAg49FsOpODT3l8h96_ueajqIxlFcQEUDEfjODF5vVk7BqDPJQjib_-NxeYB4HVIWB2pztopdqqGEDQX5Q/s1600/martha2.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Her work with UNIT took her to New York where she was the medical specialist working on Project Indigo, when the Manhattan HQ was attacked by Daleks. Using Indigo to take her home to her mother, Martha was one of the people contacted by Harriet Jones via her Subwave Network. </span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Martha then travelled to Germany, to possibly use the Osterhagen Key UNIT had given her, but was teleported to the Dalek Crucible in the Medusa Cascade instead, as one of the Children Of Time. Alongside the Doctor, Donna Noble, Sarah Jane Smith, Rose Tyler, Mickey Smith, Jackie Tyler and Captain Jack Harkness she defeated Davros and the Daleks and was returned to Earth in the TARDIS. Leaving Jack, they were joined by Rose's ex boyfriend Mickey Smith (The Stolen Earth / Journey's End).</span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWZ5KjELyna5fVuWZ_Q4Tt-KdVZLU6eSgOIKqacPneKAihdvYw0bNHoleB0i-4XkZFL9LCEXeBbtSv_qJyjKPU1v4LrRro_edGSB9grwY_jZgDJIjCSmDeeV4x8X4kdUb3RgNIisNGqUU/s1600/martha3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWZ5KjELyna5fVuWZ_Q4Tt-KdVZLU6eSgOIKqacPneKAihdvYw0bNHoleB0i-4XkZFL9LCEXeBbtSv_qJyjKPU1v4LrRro_edGSB9grwY_jZgDJIjCSmDeeV4x8X4kdUb3RgNIisNGqUU/s1600/martha3.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some time later Martha broke off her engagement to Thomas Milligan and married Mickey. She left UNIT and worked with him, tracking down dangerous aliens on Earth, including a Sontaran Commander, Jask. Jask was close to killing them both, when the Doctor and arrived and stopped him. Mickey and Martha realised this was the very last time they would see the Tenth Doctor - he had come to say goodbye. (The End Of Time - Part II)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div></div></div>

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Daughter of Clive and Francine, sister to Tish and Leo, aunt to Keisha, and cousin of the late Adeola Oshodi, Martha Jones was a medical stu...

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