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Seth Reynolds and his Columbia University colleague friend, Jeffery
Weymuth, met when they began picketing their bank complaining about
the exorbitant interest rate charged for their loans. The bank
complained to the city...'n' the city forced them to picket fifty
feet away from the bank entrance. They wereforced to occupy the
park. Jeff knocked up his high school sweetheart when she came to
town to visit. Then he moved back to Sacramento to get married.
Actually she begged him to move back home. Told him that her daddy
had a good, well paying job waiting for him: Heating and air
conditioning sales. Begging didn't work, so she got herself
pregnant. Now we have at least four hundred occupy-ers. I have a
Vietnamese family who are victims of BP, the banks foreclosure of
their house and repossession of their shrimp boat. Jasmine is a
Native American leading the Native's cause to 'De-colonize America.
That guy sprawled on the ground over there is a staunch Republican,
highly decorated twenty-five year veteran of the United States
Marine Corps. He lost his junk on patrol in a back alley of Kabul
He also lost the use of a leg He's trying to set up a Veteran's
Consul for me to direct homeless vets. That guy over there is a
veteran of the War in Afghanistan, an Army Ranger. He's setting up
a computer station to help people find jobs. He has no physical
wounds, but he's a victim of PTSD. There are unemployed men and
women here. There are under-employed men and women, like me, who
have uber degrees, but are brewing four and five dollar coffees or
slingin' hamburgers. Where's the fairness there? See that woman
over there pulling that little red wagon? She has two degrees from
Harvard: law and business. She's delivering sandwiches for Hymie's,
across the street for minimum wage and tips, when she can get them
from people with no or low income jobs. We've defied the mayor's
order to dismantle and vacate the park. The retailers downtown have
complained that it is a health hazard. Our port-a-potties are not
sufficient, they say. The most vocal is a local medical marijuana
retailer. Go figure There are rumors that the mayor is organizing
the police, the sheriffs and the highway patrol, local and federal
drug enforcement, whatever, to invade the park and remove us with
force using tear gas, beanbag rounds, pepper spray and flash-bang
grenades. But we are and remain a peaceful occupy. We'll see.
The Salvadoran priest Rutilio Grande, SJ, was killed in a hall
of bullets on March 12, 1977, along with two passengers in the car
he drove. The impact of this killing transformed his friend and
archbishop, Oscar Romero, as well as the church in Latin America
and throughout the world.
How could powerful forces within the overwhelmingly Catholic
country of El Salvador execute a Roman Catholic priest and two
innocent people in broad daylight in front of witnesses? Why would
this same government go to the extreme of murdering thousands of
lay Catholic ministers, dozens of priests, and even the nation's
archbishop? Why would the government, and the oligarchy that
supported it, believe it necessary to repress the church in such a
brutal manner?
Thomas Kelly finds answers to these questions by exploring the
church's identity and mission during the colonial period (1500 -
1820) and the transformative impact of Vatican II (1962 - 65) on
the Latin American bishops. He considers Grande's life, formation,
ministry, and death and his impact on Archbishop Romero. Finally,
Kelly explains what Grande and the church of El Salvador can teach
North American Catholics today.
This book is a collection of original readings on Catholic marriage
from an A-list group of religious thinkers and scholars. This work
also includes sample syllabus and an appendix of frequently asked
questions, making this work ideal for student and scholar use--or
anyone interested in the current issues surrounding the meaning of
marriage.
Here is a concise, authoritative guide to the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with various types of mental illness. The book equips physicians and medical students with the latest theories and practical strategies required to help patients with mental health and substance problems.
This may be the single most important book you ever buy during your
medical training. Rotations come and go, exams come and go, but
regardless of specialty, patient-care will be at the heart of your
practice. It is no exaggeration to say that motivational
interviewing (MI) has transformed the way doctors engage with
patients, families, and colleagues alike. MI is among the most
powerful tools available to promote behavior change in patients. In
an age of chronic diseases (diabetes, hypertension, heart disease,
obesity), behavior change is no longer limited to substance use or
the field of psychiatry - maladaptive choices and behaviors that
negatively impact health outcomes are rampant. There is an
explosion of research projects using MI or adaptations of MI in the
behavioral health medicine field in the past decade.
Hospitalizations can't make people change. How marvelous is it that
an evidence-based health behavior change approach (MI) can help
people change the outcomes of their illnesses and the course of
their lives. This therapeutic approach is not a form of
psychotherapy and is not the stuff of cobwebs and old leather
couches.MI is readily integrated into regular ward rounds and
office visits and provides an effective and efficient approach to
patients clinical encounters. Written by experts in the field and
medical trainees across medicine, this is the first MI guide of its
kind. Its explores how MI enhances contact with patients from every
level of training, following an accessible, succinct approach. This
book covers the application of MI method and skills into practice
and also includes numerous clinical scenarios, personal reflections
and online animated clinical vignettes (video clips) that share the
challenges and successes the authors have focused. Furthermore this
book is endorsed by the pioneers of MI: William R. Miller &
Stephen Rollnick.
Theology at the Void explores the intersection of three central
questions: What is human being? What is language? What is theology?
Drawing on the writings of five major intellectuals from various
religious and academic traditions, Thomas M. Kelly seeks to answer
these questions by tracing the emergence of a problem that arises
when various modes of thought disagree on the relationship between
experience, language, and theological inquiry.
Kelly begins the discussion with an analysis of Friedrich
Schleiermacher's understanding of human experience, language, and
theology to articulate the Christian faith. Twentieth-century
thinkers Wayne Proudfoot and George Lindbeck are introduced early
in the text as critics of Schleiermacher's approach, which, they
maintain, is dependent upon a culturally limited theological
anthropology. Kelly argues that contrary to Schleiermacher's "turn
to the subject" theological methodology, postmodern thinkers assign
no priority to experience but rather assert that languages and
cultural systems construct experience.
As one solution to the tension between these two camps, Kelly
proposes two alternative approaches: George Steiner and Karl
Rahner. In his book Real Presences, renowned literary critic George
Steiner suggests a possibility for moving beyond the more radical
anthropological elements of the postmodern critique. Karl Rahner
offers a theological alternative that is sensitive both to the
postmodern critique as well as to the nature of Catholic theology.
Kelly demonstrates how both of these great thinkers provide a
viable resolution to a major problem facing systematic theology. In
the end, Kelly finds Rahner's resolution most persuasive.
Theologyat the Void is an engaging assessment of the problem of
whether one can formulate a theology using human experience as its
fundamental principle.
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