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Vol. III, # 52, August 5, 2005 On Sunday evening Teacher Bob will be awarded the Livingston Hall award for lifetime achievement in the juvenile justice area. With Terry Marsh's direction PH found the following information about the Livingston Hall Award on the American Bar Association website:
PH: Last year's winner was Attorney Craig Cooley of Virginia. Thus, for two years in succession Virginia attorneys have received this significant award. Teacher Bob will receive this award at a reception between 5:30 PM and 7:00 PM this Sunday in the Truffles Room, Blue Level of the West Tower at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago. Does this Truffles Room sound any more glorious than the Elizabeth B Wilson Multi-purpose Municipal Auditorium? If one chooses to elaborate, The Wilson Auditorium is in the West concourse of the River Road Church Complex (Baptist), North of the James where the Ridge meets the River and where bustles and or bib overalls are welcome without any regard to color level. Don Not Miss This Amazing News Thanks to Charlotte Simpson PH was informed of an upcoming event in our universe that has not happened in 5000 years, It is not creationism, but simply splendid astronomy based on scientific observation and no religious leader of the past or present can stop it. Read the details.
PH: Maybe the SSBSC can arrange a midnight meeting on Saturday, August 27 in the church parking lot to observe this event, assuming the weather permits a good view of the sky. PHA Addendum: The Joy of Urban Legends Sent 20 hours after the rest of this PHA In today's PHA, the story of Mars and Earth coming closer together is creationism to a large extent. PH reported the following earlier today and the exact words were: "PH was informed of an upcoming event in our universe that has not happened in 5000 years, It is not creationism, but simply splendid astronomy based on scientific observation and no religious leader of the past or present can stop it" But Gene Damon can stop it. Shepson Gene Damon checked out the story on an urban legend site and sent to following:
PH: The urban legend website of www.snopes.com is a good one for all PHA readers. Thanks to Gene Damon for striving for the truth, but PH is still going to look for a jolly man in a red suit on the night of December 24 and just never trust the Internet entirely. Prayer Rounds PH has learned that Shepson Gene Cox had successful surgery to repair a ruptured cervical disc. He is recovering at home and hopes to be back on TeeVee later this month. Don't Forget that the ISH school supplies campaign will run another ten days. The supplies are still on the move to the ISH headquarters. Get the Sweets and Non Sweets to the Church on Time DON'T FORGET OUR CLASS SUPPLIES GOODIES FOR THE RECEPTION AFTER CHURCH ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 14 WE NEED SWEETS AND NON-SWEETS Bess Price - a guacamole dip Kitty and Miller Alvis - ham biscuits and lemon squares Charlotte and Bill Simpson - fruit (cantaloup) and veggies (PH suspects reverse psychology is in action here. If Bill brings fruit and veggies, he probably hopes that others will bring loads of sweets). Please try to bring either a sweet or a non-sweet Questions: Charlotte Simpson at telephone 285-3185 or e-mail at wsimpson04@comcast.net How Can Shepsons Be Married for Thirty Years or More And Still Be Twenty-nine? This query can only be explained by a superb mathematician or someone well versed in intelligent design. One of those qualified to solve this question is Shepson Dick Morris who just turned twenty-nine last Wednesday, but has been married to Judy for forty-five years. Dick explained this phenomenon in one of the early issues of PHA, but he has upgraded his explanation and here it is..........A PHA Exclusive:
Rob James Will Present Catacombs Lecture Five on Sunday Rob will continue his lecture on: Where Jesus Sounds Like the Book of Revelation: The Synoptic Apocalypse, Mark 13=Matt 24=Luke 21 Last week Rob presented a thought provoking lecture focusing on Mark 13. He mentioned that the rebellious (PH's word) Jesus Seminar had printed Jesus' words in Mark 13:2 as gray (gray meaning Jesus probably did not say it, but the ideas contained are close to Jesus' own). The remaining verses with words allegedly spoken by Jesus in Mark 13 and in Matthew 24 and Luke 21 are printed in black (which means that Jesus did not say these words, but someone else did as part of a later tradition).
"The temple was the center, not only of the sacrificial cult, but also of the banking system, the meat industry, and the seat of political power in Jesus' time. In view of Jesus' concern for the poor, it is likely that he would have had something to say about the temple, and that something is likely to have been critical. Further, the reference to false testimony given at Jesus' trial hints that this saying - or one like it - was not invented by the evangelists. For all these reasons, Fellows of the Jesus Seminar were divided almost evenly on whether this saying originated from Jesus. The weighted average fell into the gray category, but slightly more than 50% of the Fellows voted either red or pink (meaning Jesus actually said it or probably said it). Come to Sunday School this Sunday and hear Professor Rob explain more and make us think too. Two Anniversary Celebrations Next Week Mary and Julian Pentecost will celebrate fifty-seven
years of marriage next Wednesday. It certainly "seems like"
Mary and Julian Jock the Scot Gets Around Do you remembering reading in last week's PHA the story provided by Beth Wilson about Jock the painter who thinned his paint while painting the church? When his sin was exposed he said I will "Repaint! Repaint! and thin no more!"
"What a turn around. A Congo kid started this whole thing and it got to Beth Wilson in White Stone, VA." And the Scot became a Jock. Words of David James Duncan from Orion Magazine
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The
award is named in honor and in memory of Livingston Hall, a leader
in the juvenile justice field and professor emeritus at Harvard
Law School. As an early chair of the Committee, Hall was instrumental
in securing ABA approval of the comprehensive Juvenile Justice
Standards. This 24-volume set of black letter standards and commentary
are as relevant and useful today as they were when first developed
over ten years ago. 
"The
Red Planet is about to be spectacular! This month and next, Earth
is catching up with Mars in an encounter that will culminate in
the closest approach between the two planets in recorded history.
The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287. Due to the
way Jupiter's gravity tugs on Mars and perturbs its orbit, astronomers
can only be certain that Mars has not come this close to Earth
in the Last 5,000 years, but it may be as long as 60,000 years
before it happens again.
The
problem is that "August 27th" is actually August 27,
2003. Mars did have an unusually close pass by Earth that month
— but since then, the chain letter has morphed in some versions
to the point that Mars is supposed to look as big and bright as
the full Moon. 
Remember
in your prayers: Gene Cox, the family of John R Simpson, Jared Oliver,
Mary Mann, Jeanette Gholston, Don Bunn, Kay and Bob Culpeper and
the family of Stuart S Sanderson, Jr. Elmer West, Sandra Sizemore's
Great Aunt Myrtle Kurz and the family of Myrtle Kurz, Philip and
Shanna Davis, the VCU BSU, Julia Tyler and her parents, the youth
of the church, the Church clergy and the church staff. Prayers should
also be offered for our men and women in the armed forces and for
civilians around the world in harm's way and for those only known
to you
So
far, we have commitments from:
his
brain for his laboratory in devising the Theory of Relativity.
He had a thought experiment regarding twins. One of the twins
travels into space on a rocket ship, traveling near the speed
of light over a period of years while the second twin remains
on Earth. Upon returning, the traveling twin is much younger than
the one left behind. Time passes much slower for someone traveling
near the speed of light. 
It
is interesting to read the explanation for the gray color by the
Jesus Seminar regarding Mark 13:2. Here is the explanation in the
Five Gospels by the Jesus Seminar:
have
been traveling near the speed of light long enough to fool all of
us. Also, Jane and Norm Vaughn will celebrate forty-eight years
of marriage on next Friday. PH knows that Norm was a member of the
class of 1957 at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
It certainly did not take him long after graduation to approach
travel near the speed of light just trying to keep up with Jane.
All
the way from California Donald Deer wrote PH and mentioned that
he first heard a similar story about a Scot, but his story was sent
to him by a Congo missionary kid over five years ago. PH responded
to Donald's message with the following:
True
evangelism, based on the example of Jesus, does not suggest the
"missionary zeal" of self-righteous proselytizers. It
implies, on the contrary, the kind of all-embracing universality
evident in Mother Teresa's prayer: "May God break my heart
so completely that the whole world falls in." Not just fellow
nuns, Catholics, Calcuttans, Indians. The whole world. It gives
me pause to realize that, were such a prayer said by me and answered
by God, I would afterward possess a heart so open that even hate-driven
zealots would fall inside.
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