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First Christian Voices: Practices of the Apostolic Fathers
What were the most important practices in the early church? In this volume, Michael Cooper arranges the writings of the Apostolic Fathers into eight themes that provide deeper understanding about the subjects important to the disciples of the New Testament apostles.
First Christian Voices examines the written testimonies of the late first and second centuries to discover what animated the church in the face of internal and external struggles and growth as the gospel extended to the boundaries of the Roman Empire.https://pillars.taylor.edu/spiritualclassics/1006/thumbnail.jp
Kinematics and Metallicity of M31 Red Giants: The Giant Southern Stream and Discovery of a Second Cold Component at R = 20 kpc
We present spectroscopic observations of red giant branch (RGB) stars in the
Andromeda spiral galaxy (M31), acquired with the DEIMOS instrument on the Keck
II 10-m telescope. The three fields targeted in this study are in the M31
spheroid, outer disk, and giant southern stream. In this paper, we focus on the
kinematics and chemical composition of RGB stars in the stream field located at
a projected distance of R = 20 kpc from M31's center. A mix of stellar
populations is found in this field. M31 RGB stars are isolated from Milky Way
dwarf star contaminants using a variety of spectral and photometric
diagnostics. The radial velocity distribution of RGB stars displays a clear
bimodality -- a primary peak centered at v = -513 km/s and a secondary one at v
= -417 km/s -- along with an underlying broad component that is presumably
representative of the smooth spheroid of M31. Both peaks are found to be
dynamically cold with intrinsic velocity dispersions of sigma(v) = 16 km/s. The
mean metallicity and metallicity dispersion of stars in the two peaks is also
found to be similar: [Fe/H] = -0.45 and sigma([Fe/H]) = 0.2. The observed
velocity of the primary peak is consistent with that predicted by dynamical
models for the stream, but there is no obvious explanation for the secondary
peak. The nature of the secondary cold population is unclear: it may represent:
(1) tidal debris from a satellite merger event that is superimposed on, but
unrelated to, the giant southern stream; (2) a wrapped around component of the
giant southern stream; (3) a warp or overdensity in M31's disk at R > 50 kpc
(this component is well above the outward extrapolation of the smooth
exponential disk brightness profile).Comment: 32 pages, 13 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in Ap
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WELCOME TO THE PLANET: FORT LIVING ROOM O ROTTING SUN
O Rotting Sun is a pair of long narrative poems that leap, spanning over an epic-length manuscript—175 pages of prose block, lyrical verse, and projective verse. Its chief poetic-operational modes are: inclusion, fragmentation, textual destructions, intentional omissions, intentional misspelling, large narrative leaps; all of which engage a poetics of doubt and multiplicity. O Rotting Sun is a jarring and jangly poem of resistance, intended if possible, for being read aloud and argued with: a provocation of intense meditation, reflection, and when successful, disintegration of anger & agonism—followed by a reintegration of the reader back into a community of change and hope. These poems are an invitation to that hero’s journey which is sometimes painful, sometimes beautiful, sometimes both. I wish to welcome my heroic, wonderful, deep reader into this new world of O Rotting Sun
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