The Bible as One Story: Images as the Holy Spirit\u27s Device for Making Scripture God\u27s Word Written

(Excerpt) My approach to scripture, you probably have guessed, is not that of someone trained by the biblical scholarship critical fellowship. I studied under them as you all did, too. I managed not to think too much about them, because I didn\u27t think much of them. When I was in seminary a number of us got together and wrote a series of four-line doggerel verses on the result of biblical criticism as we were receiving it when applied to the scriptures. I can only remember one of those stanzas: Of wilderness wanderings, there\u27d not be so many; of Abraham\u27s stories, we dare say, not any. The words of our Lord would no longer be dark, and they\u27d all be contained in six verses of Mark

МЕТОДИЧНІ ВКАЗІВКИ З АУДІЮВАННЯ АНГЛІЙСЬКОЮ МОВОЮ для самостійної роботи студентів першого курсу напрям підготовки 0305 Філологія

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What\u27s Hecuba to Him, or He to Hecuba?

(Excerpt) My first attendance at this institute also marked the first of these Institutes. came to meet a musician classmate of mine. He was in a discussion with Edward Rechlin, the distinguished organist. As I came within earshot, Rechlin said to my classmate, Is he a musician? He said, Oh, no! No! He\u27s not a musician. Perfectly normal then, Rechlin responded

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Transcript of keynote speech, "Don't Lecture Me"

Keynote speech given by Donald Clark at “Into something rich and strange” – making sense of the sea-change, the 2010 Association for Learning Technology Conference in Nottingham, England. In the chair, Vanessa Pittard, Bect

Helping Nonprofit Networks Strengthen Their Fundraising Effectiveness: Share-of-Wallet Analysis Can Help Identify and Spread the Most Effective Practices among Networks' Sites

"How am I doing?" the late New York City Mayor Ed Koch used to ask almost everyone he met. And while the mayor was probably looking more for praise than for critical analysis to improve his performance, the nation's largest nonprofits could borrow a page from the mayor's playbook and ask "how am I doing?" about their own performance -- especially when it comes to fundraising.While it's common for large nonprofit networks -- such as the YMCA or The Salvation Army -- to compare costs and revenues across sites, few have attempted to ask which sites are doing the best job of maximizing fundraising potential -- what we call fundraising effectiveness. In other words, is Site A not only raising more money than Site B, but is Site A actually capturing more of the available donor dollars in its community than Site B? That kind of comparative analysis can be used to help networks and individual sites learn and adapt best fundraising practices from top performers.But achieving fundraising effectiveness via comparative analysis will require a shift in thinking. Nonprofits in recent years have spent a lot of time figuring out how to spend limited resources more wisely in an effort to ensure that their programs work -- aiming for cost effectiveness. In contrast, comparing sites within a network for potential and effectiveness is somewhat novel. Yet, figuring out how to deliver more dollars per a given demography is just as critical to growing impact as figuring out how to deliver programs that create the most bang for the buck (see "More Bang for the Buck," Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2008).Given the enormous reach of nonprofit networks, strengthening fundraising effectiveness would bolster resources that affect the lives of hundreds of thousands. Among the 30 largest US nonprofits listed by The Nonprofit Times, 23 are sprawling networks. The top 10 collectively have over 25,000 local sites in communities across all 50 states. And there are hundreds of smaller nonprofit networks operating at the state and regional levels. With their scale and scope, these networks have tremendous ability to address major social issues, such as educational achievement or public health. Fundraising is the fuel that advances these goals

Narrative in picture books, or, The paper that should have had slides

In this sense picture books resemble other combinative art forms, such as opera or musical theater, films, and ballet; older examples include the courtly masque and the emblem book. This resemblance is good for me, since I thrive on analogies (I was apparently permanently warped by that section of the SATs), and I therefore often find it useful to consider picture books along with those other media, without, of course, ignoring the fact that picture books also have their own individual charms and characteristics. I'd like to examine the aspects of the picture book the text, the art and other physical factors and then discuss how these narratives work together to affect each other and the final outcome.published or submitted for publicatio

Language as literature: Characters in everyday spoken discourse

There are several linguistic phenomena that, when examined closely, give evidence that people speak through characters, much like authors of literary works do, in everyday discourse. However, most approaches in linguistics and in the philosophy of language leave little theoretical room for the appearance of characters in discourse. In particular, there is no linguistic criterion found to date, which can mark precisely what stretch of discourse within an utterance belongs to a character, and to which character. And yet, without at least tentatively marking the division of labor between the different characters in an utterance, it is absolutely impossible to arrive at an acceptable interpretation of it. As an alternative, I propose to take character use seriously, as an essential feature of discourse in general, a feature speakers and listeners actively seek out in utterances. I offer a simple typology of actions in discourse that draws on this understanding, and demonstrate its usefulness for the analysis of a conversation transcript