Koinonia

A Commentary on the Biblical Response to Rules, Chris Ramsey Conference-The Road Less Traveled: Updates on the 1987 ACSD National Conferencehttps://pillars.taylor.edu/acsd_koinonia/1068/thumbnail.jp

Forgetting How to Hate: The Evolution of White Responses to Integration in Chicago, 1946-1987

After the Supreme Court made restrictive covenants illegal in 1948, violence became the default response for numerous white communities across the South Side of Chicago when African Americans moved into €“ or just passed through €“ their neighborhoods. The civil rights movement\u27s high-profile successes in the first half of the 1960s and the media attention Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\u27s open housing marches on the Southwest Side of Chicago brought to segregation in the urban North made brute force unacceptable to the public at-large. White ethnic residents on Chicago\u27s Southwest Side realized they could no longer resort to violent means to prevent racial turnover and economic disinvestment without attracting unwanted media attention and public scorn. This dissertation utilizes arcHIVal sources, newspapers, and oral history interviews to show how two rival Southwest Side community organizations operated in this new paradigm: the Southwest Community Congress (SCC) and the Southwest Parish and Neighborhood Federation (SPNF). Both the SCC and SPNF pursued non-violent strategies of neighborhood preservation by exposing panic-peddling realtors, pressuring apathetic financial institutions, and demanding more resources from the city\u27s political elite, but the divergent ideologies of these two groups created divisions among Southwest Side residents that undermined their efforts to stabilize the area. The SCC included black members and endorsed progressive causes such as women\u27s liberation as a means to dispel the Southwest Side\u27s racist reputation in the press; the SPNF courted public sympathy by demarcating the Southwest Side as a special white ethnic zone. The rift on the Southwest Side between its two leading community organizations complicates existing scholarship on the postwar urban crisis that portrays working-class, white ethnic neighborhoods as static, monolithic bunker communities whose inhabitants wholly rejected €“ and tore apart €“ American liberalism

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Martin Oliver (ed.), Innovation in the Evaluation of Learning Technology, London: University of North London, 1998. ISBN: 1–85377–256–9. Softback, 242 pages, £15.00

Bayesian evaluation of the southern hemisphere radiocarbon offset during the holocene

While an interhemispheric offset in atmospheric radiocarbon levels from AD 1950–950 is now well established, its existence earlier in the Holocene is less clear, with some studies reporting globally uniform 14C levels while others finding Southern Hemisphere samples older by a few decades. In this paper, we present a method for wiggle-matching Southern Hemisphere data sets against Northern Hemisphere curves, using the Bayesian calibration program OxCal 4.1 with the Reservoir Offset function accommodating a potential interhemispheric offset. The accuracy and robustness of this approach is confirmed by wiggle-matching known-calendar age sequences of the Southern Hemisphere calibration curve SHCal04 against the Northern Hemisphere curve IntCal04. We also show that 5 of 9 Holocene Southern Hemisphere data sets are capable of yielding reliable offset information. Those data sets that are accurate and precise show that interhemispheric offset levels in the Early Holocene are similar to modern levels, confirming SHCal04 as the curve of choice for calibrating Southern Hemisphere samples

Rapid coupling between ice volume and polar temperature over the past 150,000 years

Current global warming necessitates a detailed understanding of the relationships between climate and global ice volume. Highly resolved and continuous sea-level records are essential for quantifying ice-volume changes. However, an unbiased study of the timing of past ice-volume changes, relative to polar climate change, has so far been impossible because available sea-level records either were dated by using orbital tuning or ice-core timescales, or were discontinuous in time. Here we present an independent dating of a continuous, high-resolution sea-level record1,2 in millennial-scale detail throughout the past 150,000 years. We find that the timing of ice-volume fluctuations agrees well with that of variations in Antarctic climate and especially Greenland climate. Amplitudes of ice-volume fluctuations more closely match Antarctic (rather than Greenland) climate changes. Polar climate and ice-volume changes, and their rates of change, are found to covary within centennial response times. Finally, rates of sea-level rise reached at least 1.2 m per century during all major episodes of ice-volume reduction