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Grief in Community: The Establishment of Bereavement Ministry Teams From the Congregation at Sandy Run Baptist Church in Mooresboro, North Carolina
The Church is to be the expression of hope through the various contours of the human story. Too often congregations have difficulty expressing this hope during the time of death and extending that hope to ministry with the bereaved. In this project I studied the increase in self-efficacy in bereavement ministry with the congregation of Sandy Run Baptist Church in Mooresboro, North Carolina. The research focuses on the teaching of a curriculum that explores the biblical, theological, and clinical aspects of grief. The results of my research show this was an effective means of increasing self-efficacy
Inequalities of wealth distribution in a conservative economy
We analyze a conservative market model for the competition among economic
agents in a close society. A minimum dynamics ensures that the poorest agent
has a chance to improve its economic welfare. After a transient, the system
self-organizes into a critical state where the wealth distribution have a
minimum threshold, with almost no agent below this poverty line, also, very few
extremely rich agents are stable in time. Above the poverty line the
distribution follows an exponential behavior. The local solution exhibits a low
Gini index, while the mean field solution of the model generates a wealth
distribution similar to welfare states like Sweden.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Physica A, Proceedings of the VIII
LAWNP, Salvador, Brazil, 200
Generalizations of the Sugawara Model
Two generalizations of Sugawara models are discussed. In the first, new interactions are introduced by altering the current commutators but retaining the "free" form of T_(ΌΜ), as exemplified by a simple effective Ï^0 â 2Îł interaction, which is compared with the standard triangle-diagram results. The second permits non-quadratic T_(ΌΜ), which retain the "algebra" part of the current commutators; these models avoid the Dashen-Frishman parity degeneracy
The determination of photoneutron thresholds
The photoneutron thresholds of twelve nuclides were measured, using the Iowa State College synchrotron and its associated energy control device
Principles of Stakes Fairness in Sport
Fairness in sport is not just about assigning the top prizes to the worthiest competitors. It is also about the way the prize structure itself is organised. For many sporting competitions, although it may be acceptable for winners to receive more than losers, it can seem unfair for winners to take everything and for losers to get nothing. Yet this insight leaves unanswered some difficult questions about what stakes fairness requires and which principles of stakes fairness are appropriate for particular competitions. In this article I specify a range of different principles of stakes fairness (ten in total) that could regulate sporting competitions. I also put forward a theoretical method for pairing up appropriate principles of stakes fairness with given sporting competitions. Specifically, I argue that the underlying rationales for holding sporting competitions can provide useful guides for identifying appropriate principles of stakes fairness. I then seek to clarify and work through some of the implications of this method for a sample of real world controversies over sporting prize structures. I also attempt to refine the method in response to two possible objections from indeterminacy and relativism. Finally, I compare and contrast my conclusions with more general philosophical debates about justice
'A habitual disposition to the good': on reason, virtue and realism
Amidst the crisis of instrumental reason, a number of contemporary political philosophers including JĂŒrgen Habermas have sought to rescue the project of a reasonable humanism from the twin threats of religious fundamentalism and secular naturalism. In his recent work, Habermas defends a post-metaphysical politics that aims to protect rationality against encroachment while also accommodating religious faith within the public sphere. This paper contends that Habermasâ post-metaphysical project fails to provide a robust alternative either to the double challenge of secular naturalism and religious fundamentalism or to the ruthless instrumentalism that underpins capitalism. By contrast with Habermas and also with the ânew realismâ of contemporary political philosophers such as Raymond Geuss or Bernard Williams, realism in the tradition of Plato and Aristotle can defend reason against instrumental rationality and blind belief by integrating it with habit, feeling and even faith. Such metaphysicalâpolitical realism can help develop a politics of virtue that goes beyond communitarian thinking by emphasising plural modes of association (not merely âcommunityâ), substantive ties of sympathy and the importance of pursuing goodness and mutual flourishing
Correlation between Risk Aversion and Wealth distribution
Different models of capital exchange among economic agents have been proposed
recently trying to explain the emergence of Pareto's wealth power law
distribution. One important factor to be considered is the existence of risk
aversion. In this paper we study a model where agents posses different levels
of risk aversion, going from uniform to a random distribution. In all cases the
risk aversion level for a given agent is constant during the simulation. While
for a uniform and constant risk aversion the system self-organizes in a
distribution that goes from an unfair ``one takes all'' distribution to a
Gaussian one, a random risk aversion can produce distributions going from
exponential to log-normal and power-law. Besides, interesting correlations
between wealth and risk aversion are found.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Physica A, Proceedings of the VIII
LAWNP, Salvador, Brazil, 200
The closure of Chanute Air Force Base: A study of congressmen's goals
Thesis (B.A.) in Political Science--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 47)Microfiche of typescript. [Urbana, Ill.]: Photographic Services, University of Illinois, U of I Library, [1990]. 2 microfiches (52 frames): negative.s 1990 ilu n
Playing Kant at the Court of King Arthur
This article contrasts the sense in which those whom Bernard Williams called âpolitical realistsâ and John Rawls are committed to the idea that political philosophy has to be distinctively political. Distinguishing the realist critique of political moralism from debates over ideal and non-ideal theory, it is argued that Rawls is more realist than many realists realise, and that realists can learn more about how to make a distinctively political vision of how our life together should be organised from his theorising, although it also points to a worrying tendency among Rawlsians to reach for inappropriately moralised arguments. G. A. Cohenâs advocacy of socialism and the second season of HBOâs The Wire are used as examples to illustrate these points
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