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Schools' Design Can Play Role in Safety, Student Engagement
A building alone does not create a school culture. But research shows that school buildings can affect students' morale and academic performance. Now, school officials are moving away from the "cells and bells" design marked by long, locker-lined hallways of windowless classrooms, and toward more open, flexible buildings aimed at creating a sense of community and collaboration.
Such new designs tie together a shift to a more technology-driven, collaborative, student-centered approach to education with an effort to improve students' safety, engagement, and community.
The goal is to get students feeling more invested in their school communities; improved student engagement is thought to be tied to fewer discipline problems.
With that in mind, design firms strive to include student voices even in the design process, says Irene Nigaglioni, an architect with the Houston-based firm PBK. And the Council of Educational Facilities Planners International's highest award goes to a school building for which the planning process has met specific community needs.
Fostering Connections
Increasingly, the spaces themselves are designed to foster student connection. Traditional cafeterias in some schools have been replaced with more café-like areas where students might work and eat at the same time. Windows are opened to improve daytime lighting and indoor-air quality. Hallways are broadened and lockers removed to reduce clutter and chaos.
Many newer buildings also are "more learning-focused, less teacher-focused," says Craig Mason, an architect with the DLR Group, based in Overland Park, Kan. Some school buildings include breakout spaces for students to meet in small groups, or have windows specifically so a group can work outside while still being supervised.
In recent years, many schools have created smaller communities within larger schools so students don't risk being anonymous, says Lorne McConachie, an architect at Bassetti Architects, a Seattle-based firm that specializes in renovating historic schools.
At Holt Elementary School in Eugene, Ore., glass walls and connected classrooms have changed the teaching culture and reduced behavior issues, says Sheldon Berman, the superintendent of the 16,000-student district. "The teaching is public, and the behavior is public, too," he says.
Read about three schools taking innovative approaches to school-building design:
Marysville Getchell Campus
The Marysville, Wash., school was designed with a number of guiding principles in mind, and principle No. 1 was relationships.
Joplin Interim High School
After a tornado whipped through Joplin, Mo., in May 2011, rebuilding the high school became a matter of symbolic importance.
Perspectives Charter Schools: Rodney D. Joslin Campus
At this Chicago school, the question of school culture and climate is not a side note—it's at the core of the school's mission.
And at the Center for Advanced Professional Studies in Blue Valley, Kan., students spend three hours a day in a business-inspired world, with meeting rooms rather than classrooms.
At the Marysville Getchell School Campus, home to four smaller schools in Marysville, Wash., the building was renovated to have a small-school focus, which Superintendent Larry Nyland connects to a 20 percent increase in the graduation rate and a reduction in disciplinary action.
Addressing Perceptions
There can be a tension between traditional perceptions of safety and the openness that marks many of the newer buildings. But open schools can also be safe, says Amy Yurko, the founder of Chicago-based design-consulting firm BrainSpaces. When schools interpret safety to mean thick cinder block walls, "you've almost ... created a culture and environment where kids don't feel known and can get disenfranchised," she says.
Kimberlie Day, the founder of Perspectives Charter Schools in Chicago, says her school's decision not to include a metal detector was met with some resistance in the community. But, she says, "students buying into community and being a citizen has more of an impact on individual safety than any metal detector has."
In fact, some of the features used to promote collaboration and technology—no lockers in which to hide things, or to store textbooks when students are using tablet computers instead—can be directly linked to safety design principles like Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, or CPTED, a set of design strategies first developed in Florida in the 1970s by criminologist C. Ray Jeffery.
Many schools are designed with CPTED principles, which include managing access to buildings, creating natural borders and clear surveillance, and ensuring visibility within buildings. Many of the principles dovetail with the increased openness of buildings.
"Budgets for security officers have been decimated," says Randy Atlas, the president of Atlas Security & Safety Design, based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. "Architecture is even more important to prevent horrific events."
Extending the Honeymoon
New school buildings or renovations often come with a honeymoon phase, says McConaghie, the Seattle architect.
But Jo Ann Freiberg, an education consultant in Hartford, Conn., says that even in older buildings and those with aging renovations, simple actions like posting student work and making sure the building is well maintained can help keep the climate positive.
Angie Besendorf, an assistant superintendent in the 7,500-student Joplin, Mo., district, says discipline problems in the city's high school have declined since a deadly tornado struck Joplin in 2011, destroying the old high school building.
"Part of that is the space, and the pride that they took in this space," she says of the new school. "They felt valued. Kids said things like, 'We really know you cared about our education, because you built us this.' "
Vol. 32, Issue 16, Page 32Published in Print: January 10, 2013, as Building Toward a Positive Climate
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NEW YORK, N.Y. – Aereo, the television-over-the-Internet service that is threatening the broadcast and cable TV industries, is expanding to Boston on May 15.
With prices starting at $8 a month, Aereo will offer 28 Boston-area broadcast channels, plus the cable channel Bloomberg TV. Service will be available in Boston and surrounding areas in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont.
The Barry Diller-backed company announced in January that it plans to expand beyond New York to 22 additional U.S. markets. Boston represents the first metropolitan area outside New York. Others expected in the coming months include Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington.
Aereo converts television signals into computer data and sends them over the Internet to subscribers' computers and mobile devices. Subscribers can watch channels live or record them with an Internet-based digital video recorder. They can pause and rewind live television, just like a DVR.
Aereo sells its service as a low-cost alternative to cable or satellite TV, and it plans to target those who have dropped pay-TV service or never had one. Aereo offers far fewer channels than most pay-TV packages, but it could appeal to viewers who already turn to Hulu, Netflix and other online sources for TV shows and movies.
Broadcasters see Aereo as a threat to their revenue, even though stations already make signals available for free. Broadcasters are increasingly supplementing advertising revenue with fees they get from cable and satellite TV companies for redistributing their stations to subscribers. If customers drop their pay-TV service and use Aereo instead, broadcasters would lose some of that revenue.
So far, federal courts have ruled against broadcasters' claims that Aereo's service constitutes copyright infringement. Aereo claims what it is doing is legal because it has thousands of tiny antennas at its data centres and assigns individual subscribers their own antenna. According to Aereo, that makes it akin to customers picking up free broadcast signals with a regular antenna at home. Broadcasters argue that the use of individual antennas is a mere technicality meant to circumvent copyright law.
Although the latest ruling, from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, will likely be appealed, broadcasting companies have already threatened to take their stations off the air. The Fox and Univision television networks are among those that say they might end their free broadcasts and become a subscription-only channel like CNN, Nickelodeon and Discovery.
Aereo's Boston expansion will initially be available only to those who had pre-registered for the service. The New York-based company said others would be able to join after May 30.
Subscribers must live in one of 16 counties: Barnstable, Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk, or Worcester in Massachusetts; Belknap, Cheshire, Hillsborough, Merrimack, Rockingham or Strafford counties in New Hampshire; or Windham County in Vermont.
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How Jaycee Dugard Became Free
By now we've all heard the chilling tale about Jaycee Dugard being kidnapped at the age of 11 and held captive for 18 years. During that time her alleged captor, Phillip Garrido, fathered two girls with Dugard and forced her and their children to live in a hidden section of his backyard. Two Berkeley police officers deserve the lion's share of recognition for the rescue of Jaycee Dugard and her daughters.
Officer Lisa Campbell first met Garrido at The University of California on August 24th. Garrido had his daughters with him when he approached Campbell to discuss setting up an event on the college campus. Campbell noticed that something seemed very unusual about the girls, and noted that they should have been in school. She asked Garrido to return the next day to discuss his event.
That night officer Campbell ran a Background Check on Garrido, and found out that he was a Registered Sex Offender. In 1976 Garrido was arrested for kidnapping and raping a woman, and later sentenced to 50 years in prison. He was let out early after convincing authorities that he had changed his life around and deserved a second chance. Although he was a free man, Garrido still checked in with a parole officer in 2009.
Garrido returned to the Berkeley campus on August 25th, and Lisa Campbell brought along fellow police officer Allison Jacobs to meet him. During the meeting, Jacobs spoke with the girls and was told that they were home schooled along with a third sister who was not present. Jacobs noticed that the girls exhibited strange behaviors such as only giving one-word answers and either staring intently at the officers or Garrido. Both girls also looked very pale and sickly.
After the meeting, Jacobs called Garrido's parole officer to explain what had happened. The parole officer informed her that Garrido didn't have any children – a fact that Jacobs claimed stopped her "dead in her tracks". This phone call led to the scheduling of another meeting with Garrido, along with Dugard and their daughters. Dugard was introduced as Garrido's wife 'Allissa', but eventually he admitted that he had kidnapped her years ago. The FBI was called in, and the 1991 disappearance of Jaycee Dugard was finally solved.
We can all be thankful that Lisa Campbell had the presence of mind to order a Background Check on Phillip Garrido. It allowed her to discreetly learn about his criminal history and bring closure to a traumatic event for the Dugard family. People often rely on Background Reports when they need to find out more about anyone they know personally or professionally because they provide details about bankruptcies, criminal records and other information you need to make an informed decision. The information officer Campbell received helped lead to the arrest of a true predator.
Today Jaycee Dugard has been reunited with her family, and her daughters have finally met their grandmother and step-grandfather. It was an emotional scene, and one filled with both joy and pain. Although Dugard is happy to be back with her mother, her life with Garrido is all she has known for the last 18 years. The situation is even worse for her daughters – their father has been arrested on charges of kidnapping and raping their mother.
There may be no easy end to the story of Jaycee Dugard and her children. For now, all we can do is wish them well as they try to recover from this nearly 2-decade ordeal. As the world watches the events of this horrifying story unfold, we all send our hopes, prayers and best wishes out to the entire Dugard family. Thank you for reading the PeopleFinders.com People Search blog.Tags: Abduction, Background Check, family, Jaycee Dugard, Kidnap, Phillip Garrido, Sex Offender
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A huge asteroid is hurtling towards Earth at devastating speed, and the space agency intends to save the planet by blowing it up with a nuclear warhead, the Daily Star is reporting. However, it will be over a century before the whole situation plays out. NASA Is Going To Nuke Asteroids!
It may sound like the premise of a terrible summer sci-fi movie, but this is real: NASA has genuinely spotted an asteroid, lovingly named 101955 Bennu, and determined that its size, speed, and orbit put it on a potential collision course with Earth. And they genuinely plan to steer it away from danger with the use of nuclear weapons.
Fortunately, they'll have about a century to work out the entire math, considering that none of this is expected to go down before 2135 — September 21, 2135, to be specific.
Here's what we know: Bennu is a carbonaceous asteroid that we've known about since 1999. It's estimated to be about 1,600 feet in diameter (the size of a village, according to the Star) and weighs about 87 million tons. It's hurtling through space at about 63,000 miles per hour, according to Buzzfeed.
And on that fateful day in 2135, there is a one in 2,700 chance that it will hit us. If that happens, the results will be catastrophic.
For NASA, those odds are not good. MIT impact expert Richard Binzel told Buzzfeed that this is something that needs to be taken seriously — and is being taken seriously.
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So what's the plan? Nukes, of course.
Specifically, the Hypervelocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response (HAMMER) program has a couple of plans in the works, both involving nuclear warheads. One would be to simply blow the thing to smithereens, but that carries the risk of simply scattering the asteroid's debris over a wider area.
A more sensible option involves using nukes to deflect the asteroid away — if it can be pulled off, that is. David Dearborn, of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, says that it's theoretically possible to nudge the space rock out of the way with nukes.
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Officials weren't keen to give an estimate of the cost of such a plan. However, by way of comparison, Buzzfeed notes that a current scientific mission, the OSIRIS-REx mission, is headed toward Bennu right now, for study. That mission came with a price tag of $800 million.
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Respected yogi and the Sweaty Betty Ambassador behind last year's #30DaySweat stretch challenge, Charlie Morgan is our go-to expert for learning more about yoga and advancing our practice. So to celebrate this Wednesday's launch of the new Yoga Retreat range, we asked Charlie to indulge us in a personal story about her own experience with healthy holidays…
Yoga and detox retreat holidays are massively on the boom. Instead of taking a week off to sit in the sun, overeat and overdrink, people are becoming more and more drawn towards 'healthy holidays'. Most of my clients report that they're working harder than ever, spending crazy amounts of time behind computer screens and generally struggling to maintain a balanced and wholesome lifestyle. As a result of this, their minds and bodies are craving a detox when they are finally able to enjoy some time off. And once you've experienced one detox, most find it so revitalising that it becomes a top priority when spending their annual leave.
A few summers ago, after working like a beaver for several months and not taking a holiday, I flew to Bali hoping to enjoy a couple of weeks of yoga and sunbathing. I visited a friend of mine who was living there at the time, and the second she spotted the dark circles under my eyes she posted me through the doors of one of the island's best 7 day detox retreats.
Initially I was reluctant. I had always believed a detox retreat would be a little dull, and, especially as I'm a real foodie. But I soon learned otherwise…
The daily routine consisted of: waking up, checking your pH levels, drinking a cup of hot water and lemon and taking a handful of supplements. We then had a gentle yoga and meditation session before taking more vitamins and drinking a nutritious shake. Most afternoons entailed a nutrition talk, which was followed by the most sumptuous yoga nidra (I am still convinced that I floated off of my mat during one of the sessions) I've ever experienced. Finally, in the evenings we were 'treated' to a vegetable broth – which was admittedly pretty unpalatable but definitely felt cleansing.
The detox was hands down one of the most challenging things I have ever accomplished in my life, but words cannot describe how incredible I felt afterwards. Everything from the whites of my eyes to the colour of my gums was sharper and more vibrant. My energy stores were amplified and my mind was weightless and clear.
In light of this life-changing experience, I have been eager to share what I learnt in Bali with others. This summer, I will be teaming up with the amazing Gogashala and Jamie Meek from Glo Juice UK to run my own detox retreats in sunny Ibiza.
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Have been corresponding with a few via email recently. A comment made was "such tragic stories sometimes." Yes, I'm sure many of our ancestors experienced hardships and tragedies, but I'm not certain that was the theme of their lives. I thought about this the past week or so–I know there were many joys in my ancestor's lives–marriages, births, celebrations, satisfaction gained from a job well done, hobbies, and achievements. I also know there were times they just let their hair down and laughed themselves silly.
While investigating our ancestor's lives, it seemed to me that we do so primarily through documents that provide us facts such as birthdates and death dates. Sometimes those documents or pieces of information — for example, death certificates — provide us a glimpse into information that must not be easy to know or makes us sad. I know I've seen examples where a mother died in childbirth or in the case the St. Anthony's train wreck, my heart seemed to break to learn that information. It occurred to me that other than marriage records or baptismal records, many of the records we find about our ancestors often brings sad news.
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Severed sheep's head found at Connecticut beach
FAIRFIELD >> Fairfield officials are investigating a severed sheep head found in the water off a local beach.
Authorities say the animal head was found off Jennings Beach on Wednesday, a year after a headless goat carcass was found at the same beach. A veterinarian is examining the sheep head.
Police told the Connecticut Post that they don't suspect the head is linked to sinister activities.
Fairfield animal control officer Paul Miller says the head appears to have been severed with a butcher's knife and one of the sheep's ears was notched, indicating it was livestock. But there was no identifying tag.
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Review: Across The Road, Bangsar
>> Monday, November 25, 2013
It's been more than a month since I posted any reviews. I've been so caught up with work that it was just draining & tiring to even spend time to blog; I didn't even have time to attend any events as I have calls every night :(
Loads have happened since my last blog post (those on my FB would know more details), but it feels good to be back blogging & meeting people at food review events :)
Overall comment: Interesting line up of food & drinks by a team of dedicated chefs in a bar atmosphere.
Halal: No (pork-free)
Early this month, I had the opportunity to attend the review at Across The Road in Bangsar. Tucked in a rather quiet area amidst the bustling Bangsar LRT station, the 7-months old Across The Road offers a variety of food & drinks in a "bar" setting just across the road of Wisma UOA Bangsar.
The lavish dinner spread started with 2 entrees & continued with 3 types of starters, 4 types of mains & ended with 2 types of dessert to complete the meal! Wow, it was quite a meal indeed :D
Thank you, VibeHero for this sumptous treat!
To those working or living around that area, this place is certainly an additional option you won't want to miss :)
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Series Editors: Anna Gupta, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK and John Gal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
We are delighted to announce a new book series: Research in Social Work. Published by the European Social Work Research Association and Policy Press, the series will form a collection of the best research on social work in Europe.
Books published under the banner of the Research in Social Work series will examine current, progressive and innovative research applications of familiar ideas and models in social work research. Promising to become a leading research collection for social work academics, researchers and practitioners, the Research in Social Work series will make a unique contribution to the academic and professional development of social work in Europe.
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Weiner, the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, is suffering from brain cancer. He has an inoperable tumor. His symptoms, Weiner said, had increased recently. His right side and right arm are immovable. He is confined to a wheelchair.
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Prior to Weiner appearing at the BBWAA meeting, Commissioner Bud Selig had made his own annual appearance before this group.
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Spiritual cul-de-sac: How the church fails the divorced
I never expected to be a divorce statistic. I confess that I clung to a particular and private hubris: I thought that because my husband and I were ordained, we were immune to divorce. After all, didn't I as a pastor understand the spiritual aspects of marriage better than most? Surely my faith life was such that my marriage could not fail.
Yet seven years after my wedding I found myself struggling to make sense of a lost marriage. I learned that a strong faith does not guarantee a strong marriage. I also found that divorce had an unexpected impact on my own spiritual life and my relationship with God. It was as if a firestorm had cleared away the forest, burning down the trees of my self-deception and hubris. I found myself in a landscape where it was impossible to hide from the roving eye of God. Life in this new landscape was barren at times, and yet the ashes nourished growth.
Despite the warm and loving support of family and friends, few truly understood what was happening to me. Deep spiritual questions plagued me. When I married, I believed that it was God's will for me to be in this relationship for life. Was I wrong? Had I failed God? Could it be God's will that a marriage end? What did God want of me now? There were few people with whom I could discuss such questions. I couldn't share the yawning grief that would suddenly bloom when I stumbled on my husband's handwriting scribbled in the margin of a book. I couldn't explain the persistent questions about who I was without my spouse. And I couldn't describe how I was wrangling with God and questioning my faith. The spiritual isolation was profound.
Over time I met and spoke with other people of faith who were divorced, and I began to wonder if there were parts of this experience that we held in common. Were any of the spiritual struggles the same? How did divorce affect their understanding of God? Was it possible to grow spiritually through divorce? My investigation into these questions led me to research and write about divorce.
I considered the role of clergy and congregations in the process of a member's divorce. How could congregations reach out to and embrace those going through divorce? What could clergy learn from hearing the diverse voices of those who had been down this road? They receive little seminary training for the spiritual and theological questions that arise from divorce. In my case, I learned more from speaking with those involved in divorce. Their struggles, questions and stories, along with my own experience and reflections, helped me see my role as a pastor more clearly.
If and when divorce happens, it usually comes as a surprise. I have yet to meet a married couple that expects to get divorced. For most of us, the marriage vows are part of a sacred ritual surrounded by scripture, prayer and blessing. The liturgical language seals the commitment, declaring that "the two shall become one" and "those whom God has joined together, let no one separate." Our words reflect the teaching of scripture and are spoken with reverence and awe. We light unity candles or pour sand, treasuring the symbolic gestures and visuals that mirror our words. We make vows with the utmost sincerity; we mean the words we speak.
To me, this was the most mysterious aspect of divorce. How could these words spoken before God no longer hold any truth? It's a question that's rarely discussed. Instead I heard unsolicited and unwanted answers to the unasked question, "Why did my marriage end?" Well-intentioned people would say, "Every marriage has its struggles," as if my divorce came about because we couldn't agree on the children's bedtime. The underlying message was, "you took the easy way out," "you've given up" or "you obviously didn't try hard enough."
These people assumed that divorce is a kind of cheating; in other words, if we had taken our marriage seriously enough, it would have worked. This assumption glosses over the fractured, damaged and sinful reality of human life. Divorce among God's people is a fact. Even though we strive for a spiritual ideal, marriages can fail. Contrary to some conventional wisdom, divorce is not easy, and for most of us it is not entered into lightly.
Divorce is the final and painful destination of a relationship that has broken down irretrievably. How and why that breakage happens is often a mystery, but both brokenness and mystery are sometimes exacerbated by the responses of religious communities. Perhaps congregations and clergy fear that extending compassion for individuals during divorce offers a tacit support for divorce. Their reluctance to engage may reflect an unspoken fear of contagion. Whatever the reason, congregations and clergy often leave divorcing individuals alone.
My research uncovered stories of rejection by fellow Christians and a stunning lack of empathy from congregations. Participants also spoke of being ignored by clergy, judged openly and even encouraged to leave the church. This is sad but also deeply ironic. Divorce is the time when we most need our brothers and sisters in faith, the time when we crave compassionate companionship and a sense of inclusion and acceptance. This is a time when our faith may be challenged, when the providence of God seems thin and when our own guilt grows and blooms.
Divorce is the broken place. We may have experienced betrayal (our own or our spouse's), humiliation, rage, despair and hopelessness. It's the place where God's presence is most needed and where a well-placed word of grace can help someone to heal.
Perhaps congregations and pastors struggle over the divorce issue because it presents an empathy dilemma. People have a better understanding of how to cope with death or a malingering illness. In these cases we know who the victims are. We can draw from cultural and theological scripts. Divorce, on the other hand, lacks a script. It can go on for years (think custody battles) and is rarely ever simple. With few exceptions both partners share the responsibility for a divorce, and that responsibility can be messy and discordant.
Loved ones of mine were eager to put divorce into categories they understood, such as perpetrator and victim. They vilified my husband and declared me either a victim or at least "better off." The complex emotional reality of divorce confused them. They wondered why I claimed responsibility when it was my husband who had the affair. How could I still be grieving three years later? How could I still love someone who had hurt me?
Sometimes the complexity of divorce is veiled even to those in the middle of it. It is easier to proclaim that "my divorce happened because my husband couldn't stay faithful" than to admit one's own role. It takes time, patience, flexibility and humility to tease apart the multiple strands of choices, reactions, decisions and experiences that lead a marriage to an end. A healthy outcome is clarity about one's own role in both the marriage and the divorce.
What happens if we don't take the time for that reflection? The result can be perpetual spinning in a spiritual cul-de-sac, a place of stuckness, stunted growth and limited vision. We lose our forward momentum, and our focus strays from God. Despite the constraints, cul-de-sacs are also attractive and comfortable. Take the cul-de-sac of victimhood. To see myself as a victim in my divorce earned me compassion and support from others. It felt good to be told that the divorce had nothing to do with me.
Yet over time the label of victim didn't sit well. Did it reflect the truth? Was it spiritually honest? Was "victim" now my spiritual identity?
The cul-de-sac of bitterness offers temptation as well. How many men and women refer to their former spouses only by a derogatory epithet? When one defines one's life by "what was done to me," one embitters and desiccates one's soul. Other cul-de-sacs include vengeance, despair, isolation, guilt, rebound relationships, perpetual anger and the belief that one is unlovable. Each offers sweet yet unfulfilling fruit. Clergy are uniquely placed to encourage us out of cul-de-sacs and point us to a more expansive vision of life with God, a vision that acts as a new orienting point.
Clergy can also help when reflection takes divorced individuals to dark, secretive corners where the raw or battered conscience hides. Here we explore sin and brokenness in our own lives. Who better than clergy to speak to forgiveness and repentance? A minister can bring a balm of grace while also helping to untangle the knots of guilt, responsibility, recrimination, remorse—and forgiveness of one's self and the other. This task is a holy service.
Cul-de-sacs remind us that divorce affects all aspects of one's life. There are few other experiences with such far-reaching and insidious consequences. The divorce blade cuts into our sense of identity, our self-esteem, our perception of God, our hopes for the future, our relationships with family and friends, our jobs, finances, beliefs and worldviews, and our faith. It's an indiscriminate process that tears a fabric that's been woven over years. Wise pastors know how to listen without judgment. They remember that every marriage is a deep, private, multifaceted reality that outsiders can never completely understand and that the cracks that lead to the chasm of divorce are often hidden. The life of a couple grows more complex as years pass, with every experience adding to the unique tapestry that is their marriage. Pastors must treat that tapestry with humility and with respect.
Pastors can meet people where they are and offer compassion without commiseration. They can expect tangled emotions and self-esteem issues. They can expect questions of identity and remind the divorced person that he or she has an identity as a beloved child of God. For someone who's been left by a spouse, pastors can provide comfort in grief and companionship as that person walks toward new life. For someone who initiated the divorce, pastors can provide a place where that person will be heard without judgment. Pastors must remain mindful of their own biases, resist gossip and speculation and instead offer a place of careful listening and authentic acceptance. They can ask, "Where is God in all this?" and admit that they may not know the answer. But they can encourage the question. They may not see the place or role of God clearly, but they can stand beside someone as he or she rebuilds a life and can bless that building.
That act of blessing by clergy or congregation can be critical. My research revealed that participants' spiritual lives either flourished after divorce or withered away. All were challenged and none were unchanged. Some believers felt drawn to God in new ways and experienced God anew in religious rituals and faith groups. A loving religious community brought healing. Their perception of God underwent an expansion, and they leaned on a God who was both larger and closer than they had previously realized. Hand in hand with this shift in perception was a change in their view of themselves. The greatest gift of divorce, some said, was humility. They no longer claimed to control their futures and no longer judged themselves or others with unreasonable expectations. Their empathy expanded in concert with their humility and turned into gentleness, a softening of the spirit.
For those who turned away from God, the landscape was more barren and hostile. Their exile usually came from assuming that their faith would protect them from suffering. A woman said to me, with equal measures of anger and confusion, "How could God do this to me? I've done everything right." She had attended church regularly, been a "good" wife and mother, cared for her husband and done as the church commanded. In the sacred space between parishioner and pastor, ministers can carefully and lovingly question the assumptions underlying this woman's question and gently remind her that when it comes to suffering, God offers us presence, not protection.
Finally, there were those who drew closer to God even though they left their faith communities. There was the realization, for some, that the behavior of a congregation did not mirror God's attitude toward them. Where the congregation rejected, God accepted. Where the congregation judged, God forgave. This reimagining of God as separate from a specific church body was liberating and healing. Private study, prayer and conversation with trusted others were largely responsible. Eventually some of those individuals found their way to a new set of spiritual practices where they flourished.
Every divorce is the result of two people's characters and choices, not just one. Pastors are in a unique position to help explore and clarify that reality. They can encourage divorced individuals to walk out of their spiritual cul-de-sacs, the places where they may spin in circles as victims or as perpetrators or as unlovable or in despair. Clergy can remind those who are divorced that God desires that they flourish, be forgiven and be loved. The road to spiritual health following divorce is a rocky one, and reaching a healthy horizon is not guaranteed. Clergy can be compassionate companions on the journey.
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Divorce; the new beginning
Divorce happens to millions of people. Always has, always will. The stages of it are predictable. Even the odds of returning to a pre-morbid state of happiness and well-being are well understood. Every race and class of people are subject to it. It is a fact of life. It is not as bad as other vissisitude of life, like a brain injury or the death of a child. It is a most recoverable condition. The fact that a blissful married life is idealized by some cultural brokers (read religious leaders) simply underscores the gullibility of some and the abuse of power by others who refuse to love and support divorcing couples. Love and the promise of love is the cure for divorce, that is (as everybody knows) there is life, a wonderful life after divorce ... only learn your lesson well and learn how to love with greater intention knowing that all relationships are fragile and subject to human imperfections. Love and love again regardless to potential for pain and temporary suffering. The music directors (a married couple) of our church ( I am the pastor and we have be collegues for 19 years!) divorced. Their jouney through the "valley of divorce" was typical. I watched, and so did our congregation, as they struggled through week after week providing sacred music in the midst of separation and divorce. We simply loved them through the entire process (and continued to pay them their much need financial support). We thought "We have to love them, this is what God wants us to do." The results was that week after week we proved that love is stronger than death and divorce. All the drama and emotion about divorce among Christian and in churches must stop. Faithful Christian people have no choice but to love and support people, even leaders, pastors, etc., as they navigate through difficult passages of life, even divorce.
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I greatly appreciate this
I greatly appreciate this article, and especially the author's candor, but I wish there was more on the complexity of the clergy's role when both members of a divorcing partnership retain their shared faith community. I would agree that the role of clergy is to move beyond roles of victimhood and perpetrator but how does the pastor "encourage us out of cul-de-sacs and point us to a more expansive vision of life with God" when the congregation around them is still stuck attempting to define the former couple within these narrow confines? In other words, how does the community live into being the supportive, transformative people of grace when so often we place our attention on liberating the two people involved in the divorce but it is the entire community which needs liberated from the desire to create dichotomies (good and bad, wrong and right, winner and loser)?
beentheredonethat replied on Permalink
I appreciate the author's
I appreciate the author's candor regarding her own experience and the experience of divorce generally. I also appreciate her call for the church not to get stuck permanently with labels of victim and perpetrator. Certainly, God does long for healing and new life for all involved.
I praise her willingness to be self-reflective and claim ownership for her role in her former marriage. I am confused, however, by her claim of responsibility for her divorce, while it was her husband who had the affair.
As both a former paramour and cuckold in the end of two marriages over 20 years, I have come to understand a few things about affairs. Most importantly, I understand that they have far more to do with the betrayers than the betrayed. As psychologist Dr. Shirley Glass concluded in her research on extra-marital affairs (see her book, Not Just Friends), many people healthy marriages have affairs and many in unhealthy marriages do not. They happen within a context, both of the marriage and of the internal life of the betrayer. Often, one of the betraying couple is a bit of a predator, who has a pattern of dealing with their own brokenness with the power and thrill of pulling someone's marriage apart. Ultimately, though, it is the betrayer who seeks to deal with their external and internal context in a way that is destructive and devastating to all involved, rather than in any of the nearly infinite constructive options that are available. In the end, for Christians, an affair is the violation of a sacred covenant. While we may or may not be statistically less prone than the general population to extra-marital affairs, I hope we at least grieve more deeply when such a covenant is broken in that way.
Letters to CC replied on Permalink
Letter from James Leehan
Carolyne Call's revealing reflections on how the church fails the divorced ("Spiritual cul-de-sac," July 24) raises many issues which the church needs to address--not only how the church responds to divorce or how it prepares people for marriage, but what kind of resources it offers married couples to recognize and respond to "the multiple strands of choices, reactions, decisions and experiences" that can stress even the best of marriages.
There has been much study in the marriage and family therapy field about how the various stresses of life (including certain professions) spill over into relationships and can contaminate them. This issue is not given much reflection by church leadership about clergy marriages. Despite all the studies, lamentations and workshops focusing on clergy wellness, few, if any, focus on the marital relations of a clergy family.
My wife and I developed a survey that asks clergy and their spouses/partners to rank the effect, level of effect, and significance of the clergy profession on their marriage. The most significant trend is the disparity between the rankings given by clergy and those provided by spouses/
partners, including in regard to the spiritual life of the family.
If clergy couples are not communicating well about the "multiple strands" in their marriages, how well can they empathize with and assist members of their congregations?
We have been surprised by the level of resistance (most of it passive) on the part of denominational leaders to investigating this aspect of clergy wellness. Are there a wide variety of spiritual cul-de-sacs thwarting spiritual journeys?
James Leehan
Santa Fe, N.M.
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Letter from Thomas Van Brunt
Carolyne Call is certainly correct that many in the church, clergy and laity alike, do not know how to provide for the needs of divorcing couples. Often, in my experience, clergy do not know there is a problem in a marriage until one member of the couple comes to announce that a divorce is imminent. Rarely has a couple come to see me to ask for help to avoid divorce. Too often I have heard, "Bill and I are getting a divorce; how soon can Jim and I be married?"
For whatever reason, it seems that couples with marriage problems don't want the church or the priest to know until it is too late to help.
Thomas Van Brunt
Hamlet, Oh.
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Letter from Martha Witwer
Thanks to Carolyne Call ("Spiritual cul-de-sac," July 24) for
conveying beautifully the deep emotional connection we have in marriage--and the profound sense of loss and failure we are left with when it ends.
I am not surprised that others find it hard to include divorced people in their lives. Most church members are paired, and couples are more comfortable spending time with other couples, leaving those of us without partners feeling even more disconnected. One way that churches can help is by building community through small groups, service projects and social events involving the whole congregation.
Ideally, couples should seek and find the help they need, but that may not always be possible, and it is hard to give back to the community when we are experiencing distress at home. As Call describes so well, the church can help by focusing on wholeness and spiritual growth for all people, and by assuring us that God is still with us.
Martha Witwer
Wilmette, Ill.
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Letter from Phyllis Savides
As someone who has been twice divorced and struggled with the Christian faith, I appreciated Call's wisdom and insight. It was particularly powerful given that the author herself is divorced. Somehow, that alone was comforting. I am particularly grateful for her comments about the care and compassion needed by the one who did the leaving. I am grateful for the ministry that Call offered through her article.
Phyllis Savides
Afton, Va.
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Letter from Mark J. Tjepkema
What a gift Call's article is to the Christian community, moving us beyond tolerance to acceptance and growth, and to acknowledge that some marriages need to end, that some relationships fail, but individuals in them can go on with life and not just survive but spiritually flourish.
What I as a clergyperson who has experienced divorce found especially helpful was Call's image of the cul-de-sac, and her insightful statement: "Every marriage is a deep, private, multifaceted reality that outsiders can never completely understand, and the cracks that lead to the chasm of divorce are often hidden." This should give us all pause in the Christian community before saying anything of a judgmental nature.
Mark J. Tjepkema
Pendergrass, Ga.
Amy Laura Hall replied on Permalink
A friend sent this to me to ask for my interpretation. He was in a situation that required him finally to acknowledge that he could not fix his marriage. He had been in a cul-de-sac of suffering and self-blame, trying to contort himself finally to be a good husband, because he had embraced the notion that, if he could just fix himself, he could save his marriage. What may have looked like a detour into a cul-de-sac of "victimhood" was actually, in this friend's case, a crucially necessary turn out of a notion of self-blame and self-correction. Some Christians mistake ourselves for Jesus, and believe that our suffering can transform or save another person or marriage covenant. There are extreme examples of this mistake in Christianity. Mark Driscoll suggested that Mrs. Haggard was to blame for Rev. Haggard's homosexuality, to name one obvious example. I submit that pastors need to name from the pulpit that the sin of pride is not the besetting sin of every Christian. Sometimes Christians suffer from the sin of self-humiliation, and the only way out may be through a path that looks to all the world as pride.


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Watching Lincoln's mid-eighties offering to the luxury coupe market earlier today got us thinking about the world of posh two doors. This weekend we want to know what you believe is the best luxury coupe.
For our purposes we're defining luxury coupes as follows—two doors, at least four seats, and built/marketed with luxury as the main priority—even if performance was a nice added bonus. We'll leave the precise qualifications for "best" up to you.
My choice for the best luxury coupe ever made is the Euro Spec E24 BMW 635csi. I've always believed the ideal luxury car is German and from the 80s—mostly because those are the ones I can afford and work on.
Of these I find it hard to disagree with the European version of the top of the line E24 for a top pick. Equipped with an M30, hard to find without a five speed, diving board free, classically styled and available with a red leather interior—what more could you desire from a luxury coupe?
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Drew Peterson sentenced to 38 years for murdering his 3rd wife
JOLIET, Ill. -- Drew Peterson -- the swaggering former suburban Chicago police officer who gained notoriety after his much-younger fourth wife vanished in 2007 -- was sentenced to 38 years in prison on Thursday for murdering his third wife.
Illinois does not have the death penalty, and the 59-year-old Peterson had faced a maximum 60-year prison term.
Jurors convicted Peterson in September in Kathleen Savio's 2004 death. Neighbors found the 40-year-old's body in a dry bathtub at home with a gash on her head -- her hair soaked in blood.
Peterson is also a suspect in the disappearance of Stacy Peterson -- who was 23-years-old when she vanished -- but he hasn't been charged in her case. It was her disappearance that led authorities to take another look at Savio's death and eventually reclassify it from an accident to a homicide.
Fascination nationwide with Peterson arose from speculation he sought to use his law enforcement expertise to get away with murder.
Judge Edward Burmila proceeded to sentencing after denying a defense request to grant Peterson a retrial. Peterson's current attorneys contended his former lead attorney, Joel Brodsky, botched the initial trial.
Brodsky stepped down from the defense team in November, as his quarrel with Peterson's current lawyers worsened.
Steve Greenberg was on the trial team and still represents Peterson. Greenberg says Brodsky forced Peterson to take part in a damaging pretrial media blitz and that it was Brodsky's decision to call a witness whose testimony ended up backfiring on the defense.
Brodsky has called allegations from his former colleagues "a bald-faced lie" and insisted the entire legal team agreed on trial strategy.
A turning point at the trial came when the defense called a divorce attorney who said he spoke to Stacy Peterson before she vanished. Rather than blunting her credibility, the witness stressed to jurors that Stacy Peterson seemed to truly believe her husband killed Savio.
Before his 2009 arrest, the glib, cocky Drew Peterson seemed to taunt authorities, suggesting a "Win a Date With Drew Contest" and then, after his arrest, "Win a Conjugal Visit With Drew Contest." More recently, his story inspired a TV movie starring Rob Lowe.


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From raccoons to kiddos, all sorts of folk are fans of said summer fun, although sometimes playing in a sprinkler ends in hilarious fails. So let's all enjoy some pre-summer sprinkler entertainment, shall we?


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Brunch at Avec (Chicago, IL)
Chicago has many great restaurants worth revisiting, and since I'm heading back to the Windy City soon, I'm looking back at the meals I had last year. I've been to Avec for a solo dinner before, but since I couldn't try much, I returned for brunch.
Of course, we had to get one of Avec's most famous items, the Chorizo-stuffed medjool dates, bacon, piquillo pepper-tomato sauce ($12)
Moroccan "berghir" pancake with fried chicken wings, honey butter, red harissa ($12)


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Before E3, Microsoft registered every possible permutation of "XboxSmartGlass" and "MicrosoftSmartGlass," tipping off Monday's reveal of the technology that will connect the Xbox 360 to Android and iOS devices. Well, they got every possible combination except one: "XboxSmartGlass.com."
That's owned by one Tang Haiyue of Guanghzhou, China, who bagged the domain on June 1, right around the time Engadget broke news Microsoft would debut SmartGlass in L.A., and the other domains were discovered by registration watcher Fusible.
XboxSmartGlass.com at present contains some generic posts as it is "a nonprofit blog to introduce the smart glass industry knowledge." And that's nice, really. But as Microsoft filed trademarks on "SmartGlass" back in January, there's a solid chance the National Arbitration Forum will pry this domain loose and hand it over to Microsoft.
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