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Below are some links to websites that you might find helpful if you are not familiar with the Ada area, or if you are looking for more information about the Christian Reformed Church or different youth organizations.
- Ada Christian School
- Grand Rapids Christian Schools
- Northpointe Christian Schools
- Forest Hills Public Schools
- Lowell Area Schools
- Calvin College
- Calvin Theological Seminary
Denomination Websites
- Christian Reformed Church in North America
- Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
- The Banner is the official magazine of the Christian Reformed Church in North America, showing how the Christian faith in its Reformed expression makes sense for today's world.
- World Renew envisions a world where people experience and extend Christ's compassion and live together in hope as God's community.
- Office of Social Justice helps CRC members love our neighbors in tangible ways. It provides resources to learn about the root causes of poverty, hunger, and oppression, and we empower the church to call on those in power to improve systems and enact just public policy.


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For starters, there is my favorite beach, Second Beach in Newport. It's my absolute favorite beach and it has given me so many memories that I absolutely cherish.
By the way, yesterday ended up being a day of favorites. In addition to getting to spend time (a 2 hour nap!) in my favorite place, I also ate dinner outside (another of my favorite things) and had my favorite dessert of strawberries, angel food cake and homemade whipped cream. Yum. Maybe all that will help soften the blow that today is not only a Sunday but it's also a Sunday at the end of a wonderful vacation. Which makes me :(


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Celebrations rang out across the country last night as more than a million people tuned in to find out if Married At First Sight's much-hyped virgin groom would finally lose his V-plates.
As he stood in a vineyard "the morning after", 29-year-old Matt proudly announced he and "bride" Lauren had sealed the deal.
The triumphant moment wasn't without drama, with Matt making himself so nervous about it on their honeymoon that he became physically ill and required a trip to the ER.
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But soon enough, the "newlyweds" managed to overcome the nerves and consummate their relationship.
Thankfully, it means Nine will probably have to stop referring to the groom as "virgin Matt" — but plenty of viewers are already feeling suspicious about the regularly repeated title.
The burning question: Was Matt really a virgin?
Sorry... don't believe Matthews character, he's not a virgin, he's not shy... he's an actor looking to branch out and pasted in here by producers to create at least one match that looks real and creates a dramatic story line that the public falls in love with. #MAFS— HopkinsConsulting (@HopkInsConstult) February 3, 2019
Is anyone suspicious than Matt isn't actually a 29 year old virgin but instead a 29 year old actor?? Hmm. #mafs pic.twitter.com/gwh6gX40TN— Hero (@hierohero1) February 3, 2019
Me trying to work out if Matt is actually a Virgin or a payed actor.. #MAFS pic.twitter.com/oCJXuMVMKR— AMY ⭐ (@amyjane_76) February 3, 2019
Magazine stories when all the girls come out to reveal Matt as not being a virgin— Ellie (@ElllesBells) February 3, 2019
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D. T. Thompson: It's not surprising reverend's column touched a nerve
January 24, 2019
The Greeley Tribune is nothing if not perfunctory in providing a token liberal, Mike Littwin, to "balance" the several regular right wing reps.
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However, no political articles garnered the letters of protest as have the submissions of Rev. Rick Mawson. His December piece questioning "substitutionary atonement" ("Idea that Jesus died for our sins shameful, offensive") and January article ("Unpacking the layers to understand the biblical stories") appear to be viewed as a threat to some readers.
What a surprise that fundamentalists who staunchly believe their Sunday school stories come to the defense of literal interpretation of myth! Now, myth is not untruth, myth is message wrapped in narrative.
A liberal take on redemption's message of rebirth may be simply to die to the past to be reborn in the eternity of each present moment. Those interested in the universality of myth might refer to the works of the late Joseph Campbell.
Mawson's December article reverberated with me as I recalled the Father/Son Banquet attended in the '60s where the speaker was the Air Force Academy Chaplain. I was shocked to hear him claim that whereas forgiveness is "God's business," it is our duty to sin as our part in the divine drama to help Him feel needed. Bizarre, right? It revealed the scheme of instilling guilt to cause shame leading to repentance followed by forgiveness as simply that: a way to control people, as well as a way for people to practice their greed knowing there is a fix for their indulgences.
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Beautiful illustrations by Maurice Laban, 1959.
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I love Thanksgiving and Christmas, but there is something so special about the Fourth. I love the true history of our nation, not the garbage that's being taught today. Political correctness has destroyed the pride and honor, and the trust in God, that marked the true establishing of our nation. We have a President who made a world-wide apology tour for our very existence, yet he has stated he will not apologize for ignoring the Constitution and going around Congress with his pen and his phone.
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Genesis (1997)
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The power levels of Earth's metahumans has suddenly begun to fluctuate and send the planet into chaos. It's revealed that the Godwave is responsible, a force of energy that was born at the start of our universe and is now retracting back to its origins, The Source Wall. This means the denizens of New Genesis aid our heroes against the forces of Apokolips. Darkseid seeks to harness the power of the Godwave for his nefarious purposes. So what we have are a bunch of heroes crowded into different rooms and then confusing action set pieces.
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Morgan Edge is a media mogul in Metropolis who runs Edge News (a very transparent Fox News analog) which is promoting an extremely negative spin on the arrival of these "new gods." They play to a very Judeo-Christian audience, and the storyline would provide plenty of fodder for even the readers to question the real motives behind these visitors. Also if someone has read all the Fourth World material, I want to flip many expectations for them. What the readers learn about Edge after awhile is that he is a devotee of the Crime Bible, a tome that we learn is popping up across the globe in the clutches of people and groups like Kobra, Intergang, HIVE, and Black Mask. Some villains scoff at this new cult with The Joker being one of course because he's too chaotic to follow any organized religion. Lex Luthor is way too independent to devote himself to another (a big flaw of Zack Snyder's Bats vs. Supes). Gorilla Grodd and Vandal Savage are intelligent enough to exploit the growing devotion to the Crime Bible and use it to sway large groups of people to work for them.
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The Central Connecticut men's basketball team eased past Connecticut College, 89-55, on Sunday afternoon at Detrick Gymnasium. The Blue Devils shot 60.0 percent from three-point range and limited the Camels to just 22 points in the second half to pull away. Central opens Northeast Conference play against Robert Morris on Thursday, Jan. 2.
Sophomore Ian Krishnan pumped in a game-high 23 points, while freshman Myles Baker had 12 points and senior Jamir Coleman added 11 points. Central shot 34-of-61 (.557) from the field and was 12-of-20 (.600) from the arc. The Blue Devils totaled 22 assists, led by Coleman's four. CCSU forced 26 turnovers by the Camels.
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- The teams were meeting for the first time.
- Krishnan finished 8-of-14 from the field and was 5-of-10 from three-point range in his first action of the season.
- Central had a +16 turnover margin in the game, its best of the season.
- The Blue Devils collected 12 steals, the eighth game of the season with six or more more. Rowe and Baker each had three.
- Rowe finished with nine points, two assists and three steals in his first action with the Blue Devils
Central opens Northeast Conference play against Robert Morris on Thursday, Jan. 2.


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I did want a polished concrete floor throughout the house but had some hesitation about slab on ground in the bush. I know it's done everywhere but I do like the under house ventilation a frame gives you. So I went with steel screw piers as we know, timber frame, and hebel flooring and tiled the entire house with Travertine tiles from Beaumont's. We finished up with a great look, nice and warm due to the hebel and underfloor heating and a terrific feel under bare foot.
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London Pub Signs – The Nell of Old Drury…
January 19, 2015
This Covent Garden pub in London's West End is named after Nell Gwyn, the 17th century orange seller turned actress who became most famous for being the mistress of King Charles II (for more on Nell, see our earlier post here)
'The Nell', as its known, is one of the area's oldest pubs – a sign says there has apparently been a pub on the site since before 1660 when the Theatre Royal Drury Lane – located opposite – was built.
There's supposedly an underground tunnel that connects the theatre and the pub which is said to have been used by the king when he was visiting Nell (we're not sure if it was Nell or the king who was in the pub). It was also apparently used by other theatre-goers who were warned to return to the theatre when intermission was over by a bell located inside the pub.
Now located at 29 Catherine Street pub (the street was formerly known as Brydges Street – we'll deal with its renaming in an upcoming post), was apparently originally called The Lamb and then renamed the Sir John Falstaff in the nineteenth century, during which period it hosted exhibitions featuring a tattooed man from the South Seas and a Zulu warrior woman, before assuming its current moniker.
The pub was also apparently a regular for many prominent literary and theatrical figures, not to mention market traders from nearby Covent Garden. The exterior of the pub appears in the Alfred Hitchcock film, Frenzy.
For more on the pub, see www.nellofolddrury.com.
Famous Londoners – Nell Gwyn…
November 14, 2011
Perhaps now best known as the most prominent of the many mistresses of King Charles II, Eleanor 'Nell' Gwyn – currently subject of a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery – was a renowned actress in the years after the Restoration, known for her wit and beauty – "Pretty, witty Nell "as diarist Samuel Pepys called her.
Gwyn's (variously spelt as Gwynn or Gwynne) origins remain something of a mystery – believed to have been born around 1651, her parents remain something of a mystery (some have suggested a Cavalier, Captain Thomas Gwyn, as her father) as does the place of her birth, variously claimed to be London, Hereford or Oxford – one source from 1715 claims she was born in Coal Yard Alley, off Drury Lane in Covent Garden.
Ascribed as having various jobs during her childhood – everything from helping at a bawdyhouse to a street vendor or cinder girl – around 1663, she was working as an "orange girl" at a theatre then known as the King's Theatre in Bridge Street (now the site of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane).
She clearly made an impression for a year later she was working as an actress and is believed to have taken prominent actor Charles Hart as her lover. It has been suggested her first recorded stage appearance was in March, 1665. She wasn't viewed as a brilliant dramatic actress but instead came into her own in comedies where her wit, as well as her beauty, could shine.
Having already been known to have had at least two lovers – Charles Hart and aristocrat Charles Sackville, Lord Buckhurst – by 1667 George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, had decided to bring her to the attention of the king as a possible new mistress and so increase his influence. By 1668 or 1669, Nell is believed to have succeeded in this, joining the growing number of women who could claim the title (Charles II ended up having at least 12 children by his many mistresses).
Her acting work gradually decreased and in 1670, she gave birth to Charles, her first son and believed to be the king's seventh illegitimate child. She briefly returned to the stage in 1670-71 before retiring from the theatre for good.
In February, 1671, Nell moved into a townhouse at 79 Pall Mall (she was granted freehold of the property five years later and the property, which still stands, remains the only one on the south side of Pall Mall not owned by the Crown) and in December, she gave birth to her second child by the king, another son James (he died in Paris while attending school there 10 years later).
Both sons were given titles – Charles was later named Duke of St Albans – and given the surname Beauclerk. In the 1670s, Charles granted Nell Burford House in Windsor where she resided when the king was resident there.
In the 1670s, Nell – who continued to maintain her friendships with the likes of Villiers – successfully fought off several rivals for the king's affection and by the 1680s, her position as the king's mistress was not in doubt. It was during this period that the story goes when her coach was mistaken by an angry to be that of the unpopular Duchess of Portsmouth, she put her head out the window to tell them "Pray good people be silent, I am the Protestant whore".
When King Charles II died on 6th February, 1685, he left instructions she was to be looked after – his brother King James II both paid her debts and continued to pay her an annual pension.
Nell died less than three years later – still only aged in her thirties – on 14th November, 1687, have suffered strokes in previous years. She was buried in the church of St Martins-in-the-Fields.
Gwyn is seen as a key figure in London during the period after the Restoration and a symbol of the hedonism of the court of King Charles II, and her rise from apparently humble origins to the royal court has been the subject of numerous books, plays and films.
Gwyn is currently featured in an exhibition currently being held at the National Portrait Gallery: The First Actresses – Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons. The exhibition runs until 8th January (an admission charge applies). For more information visit www.npg.org.uk.
PICTURE: Eleanor 'Nell' Gwyn, by Simon Verelst, © National Portrait Gallery, London
London Pub Signs – The London Apprentice
October 31, 2011
Sitting on the bank of the Thames at Old Isleworth in the city's west stands The London Apprentice public house.
The pub's licence dates back to at least 1731 and it has been associated with the likes of such luminaries as King Henry VIII (it's suggested he met Catherine Howard here – she was later imprisoned in nearby Syon House), King Charles I and King Charles II (the latter apparently cavorted with his mistress, actress Nell Gwynne, here), as well as the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey and Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell.
Others whose names come up in reference to the pub include the ever-present author Charles Dickens (this is said to have been one his favorite pubs) and notorious highwayman Dick Turpin.
While there remain some doubts over its origins, the name of the pub – which stands opposite the small isle known as the Isleworth Ait – is said to stem from the fact that it was here that London apprentices, having faithfully served their masters, came to while away the hours in their downtime. They are said to have entertained themselves by playing about in decorated barges on the river.
There is said to be a tunnel, now blocked, which links the pub with the nearby All Saint's Church – the story goes that this was used by smugglers to get their contraband into the pub's cellars.
For more information or to pay a visit, see www.thelondonapprentice.co.uk.
What's in a name?…Pall Mall
November 22, 2010
This curiously named street in the heart of London's St James district traces the origins of its moniker back to the 17th century when the game of "pall mall" ("pell mell" and "paille maille" being among a host of alternative spellings) was played there.
The game, mentioned by Samuel Pepys in his famous diary, involves the use of a mallet and ball similar to that used in modern croquet but, according to some commentators, pall mall was more likely a predecessor of golf than croquet, with players attempting to belt the ball as far as possible along a pitch before putting the ball through a hoop suspended high off the ground.
Pall Mall, which runs parallel to The Mall from St James' Street in the west to Haymarket in the east with an eastern extension, Pall Mall East, completing the journey from Haymarket into the northern end of Trafalgar Square, became famous in the 19th and early 20th centuries for housing numerous 'gentlemen's clubs'. Among those still in business are the Travellers Club, the Athaenaeum Club, the Reform Club, the Army and Navy Club, the Oxford and Cambridge Club, and the Royal Automobile Club.
St James's Palace sits at the street's western end and it is of note that nearly all of the southern side of the street is still part of the Crown Estate (the exception being a home Charles II is believed to have given to the actress Nell Gwynne, who apparently sensibly demanded the freehold on the property).
Other buildings along the street include Schomberg House, built for the Duke of Schomberg in the late 17th century (only the facade of which remains), and the Sir Christopher Wren-designed Marlborough House, which is tucked in between Pall Mall and The Mall and sits opposite St James's Palace. The National Gallery and the Royal Academy also both briefly had homes in Pall Mall.


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CNN directly intimidates jurors
In case there is one American reader out there who believes that CNN is actually a news outlet, and not a partisan political activist group, you might consider CNN's attempt to intimidate jurors last week.
For the past few days, the jury on the fake and illegal Manafort trial have repeatedly asked questions of the judge that indicate they are not entirely persuaded by Mueller's politically persecuting prosecutors. After all, the entire prosecution case resulted from an illegal search warrant about something completely unrelated to the fake Russia collusion thingy Mueller is supposed to be looking into.
Suddenly just two days ago in steps CNN with a demand to know the names and home addresses of the jurors.
Now why would CNN want or need to know the names and home addresses of the members of an active jury? What possible news value would that provide? Think hard.
None, there is no value, of course.
Except here: That information can be passed on to the world of violent leftwing mobs, where individual people could descend upon the jurors' homes and scare them, harass them, intimidate them, threaten them and their children, and badger their employers, as has been done in recent years.
So that the scared jurors are coerced into making the "correct" decision and convict an innocent man who did nothing except be associated with a president CNN dislikes.
It is difficult to fathom how far American media have fallen, and when you thought it could not get any worse, well, CNN has now made it even worse. This is not the way America is designed to work. Nor the First Amendment. The press is not supposed to be in the pocket of just one political party. And the press sure as hell is not supposed to be using its First Amendment investigatory role to expose jurors to threats and harassment so they decide differently than they appear to be leaning at this point. That is outrageous. It is dangerous to our democracy.
No longer can CNN claim victimhood in its dispute with the president. CNN is acting like a mafia organization, engaging in jury threats and intimidation to get what it cannot otherwise get legitimately. If you ask me, CNN's actions are criminal.
What is most irksome is that the liberals I talk to seem ho-hum about this. "It's not my issue, and I don't think it is a big deal" says an old-time liberal Democrat friend.
He thinks his ox is not getting gored, and he dislikes Trump, so he looks the other way and gives CNN a free pass here. He is being unreasonable, yes, but reason and logic do not seem to be in widespread use these days. Feelings dominate everything.
The danger in my liberal friend looking the other way on CNN's jury tampering is the inevitable widespread instability that results from these extreme activities by news groups, rogue mayors, and their purposefully defanged police departments. One things leads to another. CNN does it today, and someone will eventually find a way to put that shoe on the other foot in some other fashion. There will be a pushback. No complaints then, liberal friends! You did not complain about CNN today, so you cannot complain when the shoe is on the other foot tomorrow.
The bigger takeaway for me is people are beating on each other with whatever thing is at hand, even things like the media and IRS which were never meant to be weaponized, or withholding police protection from political opponents so that streets thugs can attack them; this is a sign that we are at intensely each other's throats.
Not good. This is not America.
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It's High Time for Pre-poll Survey Agencies
Read the cover story 'Poll Fever Grips Europe' and want to congratulate the Dayafter for predicting the right candidate who was riding the winner horse. The Dayafter deserves praise because its author predicted a candidate's victory who was written off by the local survey agencies. Ironically, the author had predicted a thumping majority for Macron when le Pen was leading by huge margin in majority of the pre-poll surveys. However, the author of the cover story stick to the basics and wrote in France, there is no space for hardliner politician and hence people won't vote for Le Pen, exactly the same that happened in the French presidential polls. However, it's high time for the pre-poll survey agencies to tighten their belts, open their antennas and cross check their research instruments lest the psephological study becomes a redundant material for the masses.
Alisha, Lyon
North East Politics Runs on Perception
Want to congratulate the dayafter for giving this much of space to north east news because it has been found that north east has been not given due weightage into the New Delhi-based media houses. Coming to the story, 'North East Goes Saffron?' I would like to add that if the BJP is comfortable in Nagaland and Mizoram then there is no reason to doubt its winnability in other north east states because in north east, politics runs on perception. People of north east more or less have the tendency to go in tandem and vote with same pattern, even in Tripura. Only thing that even the author has addressed is the organizational structure, but in my opinion, it won't be a major barrier for a national party as north east is facing acute job shortage for its youth. Employing the north east youth as party worker can also do the needful for the 'party with difference.'
Hitesh Saikia, Guwahati
BJP Has Transformed Into Congress Party
When Narendra Modi was made BJP's poll campaign committee In-charge in 2013, he had said in his maiden speech at Chhattisgarh that 'If someone can kill Congress party, it's Congress itself.' At that time, political pundits take this jibe as a political potshot that leaders take against their rivals. However, the way Amit Shah and Narendra Modi have led BJP to series of success, is praiseworthy. However, being a follower of the party since its inception, I am pained to say that it has become difficult to find BJP in current political set up. The BJP has transformed into the Congress party, especially after the Maharashtra assembly polls. It has become non-accommodative like Congress party and it has become ruthless to its stalwarts too. Now, in BJP too, its winnability of the candidate which has become a deciding factor in granting party ticket not the grass root party worker who has served the party for long.
Shashikant Dwiwedi, Mirzapur


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Trainer Saeed bin Suroor has confirmed Sky Hunter is on track for the Melbourne Cup following his second in his first race for six months.
The Godolphin-owned five-year-old performed admirably in the rain-softened ground to fill the runner-up spot behind The Corsican in a Group Three 2200m-race at Newbury on Saturday, his first appearance since winning a Group Two in Dubai in March.
"I was very happy with him and he has come out of the race in good form," bin Suroor said.
"The plan is to take him to Australia for the Melbourne Cup.
"Hopefully that will be his next race."