From Cults to Cultures: Bridges as a Case Study in a New Evangelical Paradigm on New Religions

The increased awareness of the new religions with the counterculture of the 1960s saw various responses, including a counter-cult approach by evangelicals. The counter-cult approach has tended to view new religions as cults and to respond to them as heretical systems of belief in need of refutation by doctrinal and apologetic arguments. Over the last decade or so a new evangelical paradigm has emerged based in missiology which, while recognizing theological disagreements that the new religions have with Christianity, approaches new religions as religious cultures rather than as cults. Various resources have been produced as a result of the new evangelical paradigm. A case study is found in the resource titled Bridges: Helping Mormons Discover God\u27s Grace, which presents a culturally-sensitive understanding of Mormons and Mormonism for evangelicals

Book Reviews

An Estate Planner\u27s Handbook By Mayo Adams Shattuck Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1948. Pp. 575. $7.50 reviewer: Philip A. Hendrick ================================ Estate Planning and Estate Tax Saving By Edward N. Polisher Philadelphia: George T. Bisel Company. Second Edition, 1948. 2 Volumes. Pp. xxxii, 923.$20.00 reviewer: Charles L.B. Lowndes =============================== Federal Taxes--Corporations and Partnerships, 1948-49 By Robert H. Montgomery, Conrad B. Taylor and Mark E. Richardson Vol. I: Gross Income and Deductions Vol. II: Taxes, Returns and Administration New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1948. Pp. xiii, 1001; pp. iv, 881. $20.00 Federal Taxes--Estates, Trusts and Gifts, 1948-49 By Robert H. Montgomery and James 0. Wynn New York: The Ronald Press Company,1948. Pp. xi, 1263.$10.00 reviewer: Adrian W. DeWind ================================ Wills, Gifts and Estate Planning Under the 1948 Revenue Act By Seymour S. Mintz, Richard C. Flesch and Bernard Soman Washington: The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., 1948. Pp. 328. $2.00 reviewer: Chas. A. Morehead =============================== Federal Taxation for the Lawyer By Houstin Shockey New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., Second Edition, 1947. Pp. xiii, 396.$5.00 reviewer: John R. Stiver

1937: Abilene Christian College Bible Lectures - Full Text

Delivered in the auditorium of Abilene Christian College, Abilene, Texas, February 193

Planet Occurrence within 0.25 AU of Solar-type Stars from Kepler

We report the distribution of planets as a function of planet radius (R_p), orbital period (P), and stellar effective temperature (Teff) for P < 50 day orbits around GK stars. These results are based on the 1,235 planets (formally "planet candidates") from the Kepler mission that include a nearly complete set of detected planets as small as 2 Earth radii (Re). For each of the 156,000 target stars we assess the detectability of planets as a function of R_p and P. We also correct for the geometric probability of transit, R*/a. We consider first stars within the "solar subset" having Teff = 4100-6100 K, logg = 4.0-4.9, and Kepler magnitude Kp < 15 mag. We include only those stars having noise low enough to permit detection of planets down to 2 Re. We count planets in small domains of R_p and P and divide by the included target stars to calculate planet occurrence in each domain. Occurrence of planets varies by more than three orders of magnitude and increases substantially down to the smallest radius (2 Re) and out to the longest orbital period (50 days, ~0.25 AU) in our study. For P < 50 days, the radius distribution is given by a power law, df/dlogR= k R^\alpha. This rapid increase in planet occurrence with decreasing planet size agrees with core-accretion, but disagrees with population synthesis models. We fit occurrence as a function of P to a power law model with an exponential cutoff below a critical period P_0. For smaller planets, P_0 has larger values, suggesting that the "parking distance" for migrating planets moves outward with decreasing planet size. We also measured planet occurrence over Teff = 3600-7100 K, spanning M0 to F2 dwarfs. The occurrence of 2-4 Re planets in the Kepler field increases with decreasing Teff, making these small planets seven times more abundant around cool stars than the hottest stars in our sample. [abridged]Comment: Submitted to ApJ, 22 pages, 10 figure

Almost All of Kepler's Multiple Planet Candidates are Planets

We present a statistical analysis that demonstrates that the overwhelming majority of Kepler candidate multiple transiting systems (multis) indeed represent true, physically-associated transiting planets. Binary stars provide the primary source of false positives among Kepler planet candidates, implying that false positives should be nearly randomly-distributed among Kepler targets. In contrast, true transiting planets would appear clustered around a smaller number of Kepler targets if detectable planets tend to come in systems and/or if the orbital planes of planets encircling the same star are correlated. There are more than one hundred times as many Kepler planet candidates in multi-candidate systems as would be predicted from a random distribution of candidates, implying that the vast majority are true planets. Most of these multis are multiple planet systems orbiting the Kepler target star, but there are likely cases where (a) the planetary system orbits a fainter star, and the planets are thus significantly larger than has been estimated, or (b) the planets orbit different stars within a binary/multiple star system. We use the low overall false positive rate among Kepler multis, together with analysis of Kepler spacecraft and ground-based data, to validate the closely-packed Kepler-33 planetary system, which orbits a star that has evolved somewhat off of the main sequence. Kepler-33 hosts five transiting planets with periods ranging from 5.67 to 41 days.Comment: 16 pages, 9 figure

KEPLER's First Rocky Planet: Kepler-10b

NASA's Kepler Mission uses transit photometry to determine the frequency of earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone of Sun-like stars. The mission reached a milestone toward meeting that goal: the discovery of its first rocky planet, Kepler-10b. Two distinct sets of transit events were detected: 1) a 152 +/- 4 ppm dimming lasting 1.811 +/- 0.024 hours with ephemeris T[BJD]=2454964.57375+N*0.837495 days and 2) a 376 +/- 9 ppm dimming lasting 6.86 +/- 0.07 hours with ephemeris T[BJD]=2454971.6761+N*45.29485 days. Statistical tests on the photometric and pixel flux time series established the viability of the planet candidates triggering ground-based follow-up observations. Forty precision Doppler measurements were used to confirm that the short-period transit event is due to a planetary companion. The parent star is bright enough for asteroseismic analysis. Photometry was collected at 1-minute cadence for >4 months from which we detected 19 distinct pulsation frequencies. Modeling the frequencies resulted in precise knowledge of the fundamental stellar properties. Kepler-10 is a relatively old (11.9 +/- 4.5 Gyr) but otherwise Sun-like Main Sequence star with Teff=5627 +/- 44 K, Mstar=0.895 +/- 0.060 Msun, and Rstar=1.056 +/- 0.021 Rsun. Physical models simultaneously fit to the transit light curves and the precision Doppler measurements yielded tight constraints on the properties of Kepler-10b that speak to its rocky composition: Mpl=4.56 +/- 1.29 Mearth, Rpl=1.416 +/- 0.036 Rearth, and density=8.8 +/- 2.9 gcc. Kepler-10b is the smallest transiting exoplanet discovered to date.Comment: Accepted, Astrophysical Journal, November 25, 2010; Eexpected publication date: February 20, 201

Case study of costs, returns and resource requirements on a north central Missouri ... feeder pig enterprise : guidelines for prospective feeder pig growers

Title from caption, page 3."Does the feeder pig enterprise offer opportunity for higher farm income for Green Hills Area farm families who have only limited land and capital resources? University of Missouri agricultural economists, at the request of Green Hills Area leaders, made a detailed study of a north central Missouri farm's experience with feeder pig production over a six year period to answer this question. Results on production of 482 litters of feeder pigs on this farm showed a return to labor and management of $3.80 per hour of labor used in the enterprise. While this study is limited to one farm and one system of production, it does provide information useful for other Green Hills farm families in evaluating a feeder pig enterprise for their farms. The case study approach was used primarily because there were few producers in the area from which to gather data at the time the study was initiated. The case study approach also allows more detailed study of the resources available, the resources that are being used, and the problems encountered in developing the enterprise than would be possible in a broader study involving many different farms." --page 3Includes bibliographical reference

1973-09-22 Dedication of John Allen Field

The dedication of Morehead State University\u27s John Allen Field, the welcome is by W. Terry McBrayer, president of the MSU Alumni Association, the invocation is by A. L. Dawson, MSU Track and Cross Country coach, the introduction of special guests is done by Mr McBrayer, the formal presentation is done by Homer Cablish, First Baseman on the MSU baseball team, the dedicatory remarks are from Adron Doran, the response is from John (Sonny) Allen, and the closing remarks are by Mr. McBrayer, recorded on September 22, 1973, at 2:30 PM