Dying and Rising As We Grow Up: Lifelong Baptismal Formation

(Excerpt) In honor of David Truemper, who taught me the Lutheran Confessions, I want to begin with a quotation from the Large Catechism. Luther writes: Thus we see what a great and excellent thing baptism is, which snatches us from the jaws of the devil and makes God our own, overcomes and takes away sin and daily strengthens the new man, always remains until we pass from this present misery to eternal glory. Therefore let everybody regard his baptism as the daily garment which he is to wear all the time. Every day he should be found in faith and amid its fruits, every day he should be suppressing the old man and growing up in the new

The Language of the Psalter and Sunday Worship

(Excerpt) Which words shall we use on Sunday morning? Shall we speak Aramaic or Greek, Latin or German, seventeenth-century British English or twenty first- century American English? Shall our scriptural translation be as literal as possible or as accessible as possible? Shall we concur with the editors of our denominational news magazines and employ a sixth grade vocabulary, or can we hope to engage the brains of also our learned members? Who decides which words we speak or sing: the organist, the pastor, a congregational committee, a national staff of liturgical experts, or an international theological bureaucracy? We are alive in a time of some considerable debate about the words of our worship. Not since the Reformation, and probably never before then, has there been such rapid and continuing changes, such creativity, indeed such rancor, over the language of our praise and petition

The Word in the world

Holy Innocents and the Lutheran Book of Worship

Modelling and simulation of intensified absorber for post-combustion CO₂ capture using different mass transfer correlations

This paper studied mass transfer in rotating packed bed (RPB) which has the potential to significantly reduce capital and operating costs in post-combustion CO₂capture. To model intensified absorber, mass transfer correlations were implemented in visual FORTRAN and then were dynamically linked with Aspen Plus® rate-based model. Therefore, this represents a newly developed model for intensified absorber using RPB. Two sets of mass transfer correlations were studied and compared through model validations. The second set of correlations performed better at the MEA concentrations tested as compared with the first set of correlations. For insights into the design and operation of intensified absorber, process analysis was carried out, which indicates: (a) With fixed RPB equipment size and fixed Lean MEA flow rate, CO₂ capture level decreases with increase in flue gas flow rate; (b) Higher lean MEA inlet temperature leads to higher CO₂ capture level. (c) At higher flue gas temperature (from 30 °C to 80 °C), the CO₂ capture level of the intensified absorber can be maintained. Compared with conventional absorber using packed columns, the insights obtained from this study are (1) Intensified absorber using rotating packed bed (RPB) improves mass transfer significantly. (2) Cooling duty cost can be saved since higher lean MEA temperature and/or higher flue gas temperature shows little or no effect on the performance of the RPB

Law as Sonic Performance

This is part of Lend Me Your Ears which is is a multi-stranded collection of audio and video recordings created as part of Aural/Oral Dramaturgies: Post-Verbatim, Amplified Storytelling and Gig Theatre in the Digital Age. This Salon conversation is about the relationship between law, sound and listening. Looking into concepts such as law and justice, structure and form, listening and hearing, improvisation and composition, and machine listening, Mandic and Ramshaw question the ways in which sound and law are similar, focusing on their elusive and material qualities. Their starting points for discussion are the sound of a dying battery of a smoke alarm and and 1984 recording of a piece by George E. Lewis

Enhancing Team Motivation Through a Period of Rapid Change

This organizational improvement plan (OIP) presents possible leadership approaches and solutions to the enhance team motivation through a period of rapid change. The OIP focuses on a team within an educational training institute, strategically aligned to a large educational organization. The training institute was previously known as the professional learning and development (PLD) department and was situated within the corporate office of the organization. The Governing Board moved the PLD department into a separate business entity, a training institute, with a new commercial vision. The team therefore transitioned from an internal PLD department (cost center) with service-orientation, to an external training institute (profit center) with commercial-orientation. Although this OIP focuses on enhancing motivation, there are two goals central to the implementation plan. Goal one is to increase individual and team motivation, in order to achieve goal two, which is the commercial goal of the Institute to be financially profitable by year 3 of operation. As this OIP progressed, it became clear that the emergent theme was interdependence, through the frame of human resource (Bolman & Deal, 2013). The interdependent leadership approach of Trianalogous Leadership, created for the purpose of the OIP, has been aligned with the interdependent solution strategy of collaboration, collective understanding of individual expertise and drivers, and team building. Trianalogous Leadership involves three styles of leadership, including: Servant Leadership (Greenleaf, 1977), Transformational Leadership (Bass, 1985) and Distributed Leadership (Gronn, 2002; Spillane, 2005). The leadership approach and solution are inclusive across all organizational functions of the Training Institute, and all team members. If successful, the results of such could be shared with the wider organizational context in order to impact change more broadly