Podcasts about Acadians

A half century after the United States won its independence from Britain, Canada was rocked by two armed uprising known as the Rebellions of 1837-38.The revolts failed, resulting in many rebels being deported to Australia and Tasmania as political prisoners facing hard labor or hanging. Others escaped such reprisals by going into exile in the US. Sympathy for these disenfranchised French Canadian patriots was the subject of a song written four years later by a young college student named Antoine Gérin-Lajoie.How the Song Came to BeYears later in his memoir Souvenirs de collège, Gérin-Lajoie told how he adapted his lyrics to the deeply expressive French-Canadian folk tune "J'ai fait une maîtresse" (of which "Si tu te mets anguille" is also a variation). “I wrote that song in 1842 when I was in Rhetoric Class in Nicolet, Quebec. I wrote it one night in bed at the request of my friend Cyp Pinard.”Gérin-Lajoie's verses to “Un Canadien Errant” were published in 1844 in the Charivari canadien, and soon the song was being sung by French Canadians across the country — from Acadia on the east coast to the distant reaches of the northwest territories — stirred by how the lyrics captured the deep sadness of exile. Un Canadien errant, A wandering Canadian, Banni de ses foyers, Banished from his homeland, Parcourait en pleurant Traveled, weeping, Des pays étrangers. Through foreign lands. "Si tu vois mon pays, "If you should see my home, Mon pays malheureux, My sad unhappy land, Va dis à mes amis Go say to all my friends Que je me souviens d'eux.” That I remember them.”The Acadian ConnectionLater Acadians also adopted the song as their own — changing its first line to “Un Acadien Errant” — in the context of the Acadian deportation. Between 1749 and 1755, many Acadians who had refused to swear allegiance to the British Crown emigrated to Lower Acadia or Cape Breton. Then, fearing that they might join the French during the coming Seven Years' War, Nova Scotia Governor Charles Lawrence deported the Acadians to New England and the Atlantic Coast. Cajuns of the Louisiana bayou country also trace their own ancestry to these same exiles.Twentieth Century PerformancesBack to song, Paul Robeson recorded a bilingual version in 1950 under the title "Le Canadien Errant.” However, most Americans learned the tune a decade after that with a French-language performance by Ian & Sylvia, who included it on their debut 1962 album for Vanguard Records. The duo gave the song further prominence at the Newport Folk Festival as recorded on the 1996 album Ian & Sylvia Live at Newport. In the 1969 film My Side of the Mountain, folk singer/musicologist Theodore Bikel sang the first part of "Un Canadien Errant" and then played a bit of it on a "homemade" reed flute. The melody refrained throughout the film. Leonard Cohen recorded "Un Canadien Errant" as "The Lost Canadian" on his 1979 Recent Songs album, and his own song "The Faith," on his 2004 album Dear Heather, is based on the same melody. Our Take on the TuneThirty years ago, when The Flood first started doing this song, the band was back to being a trio of the original guys — Dave Peyton, Joe Dobbs and Charlie Bowen — and often on rehearsal night, the only listener in the room would be Dave's beautiful wife, Susan. At the end of the evening, when the guys asked Susie what last song of the evening she'd like to hear, it was almost always this sweet, sad tune that she remembered hearing 20 years earlier down in Louisiana when she and David and young Davy spent an autumn and winter in Cajun country. We lost Susan three years ago this summer. This one's for you, dear heart. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

Grettelyn and Joe interview Joseph Pearce, a popular conference speaker, who will be joining us this summer, July 24-26 in New Orleans! Hear a little of what Joseph will be speaking about regarding Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem, Evangeline. Register for the conference today at https://www.chesterton.org/44th-annual-chesterton-conference/ Find Joseph online at https://jpearce.co/ FOLLOW US Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chestertonsociety Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanChestertonSociety X: https://twitter.com/chestertonsoc SUPPORT Consider making a donation: https://www.chesterton.org/give/ Visit our Shop at https://www.chesterton.org/shop/

Take a road trip in Québec between Montreal and Québec City along the historic Chemin du Roy or King's Road. The King's Road stretches over 170 miles along the St. Lawrence River and passes historic cities, quaint villages, national parks and farms. Grab a drink with entrepreneur Florence Mailhot at Distillerie Grand Dérangement, a sustainable family-run distillery sharing local history of the Acadians and organic products in Saint-Jacques.Forage for wild mushrooms on a gourmet hike with Marie-Renee Buczkowski at Marcheur des Bois in Saint-Côme. Learn about unique places to stay, from cozy chalets at Les Boisés de la Rivière Noire to Le Baluchon Eco Resort, where you can explore breathtaking nature and make furry friends. Le Baluchon is like a summer camp for adults and families. Patricia Brouard introduces Darley Newman to archery, hikes to waterfalls and tasty poutine.Whether you're a foodie, history buff, or road trip enthusiast, this thrilling road trip adventure will give you ideas for your next vacation! Dive into the first episode of this three-part series, exploring Canadian sustainability, history, and hidden gems. 

To mark his 100th column with Information Morning, we explore ten common myths about Acadians.

Ronald Labelle explores the question: Where did the original Acadians come from?

Larry Ostola talks to Gregory Kennedy about his book, Lost in the Crowd: Acadian Soldiers of Canada's First World War. In December 1915, Acadian leaders in New Brunswick expressed concerns about their soldiers being "lost in the crowd" within the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I. They successfully lobbied for the creation of a French-speaking, Catholic, and Acadian-led national unit. Over a thousand Acadians from the Maritimes, Quebec, and the U.S. Northeast joined this effort. In Lost in the Crowd, Gregory Kennedy uses military archives, census records, newspapers, and soldiers' letters to explore the experiences of Acadian soldiers and their families before, during, and after the war. He highlights their enlistment rates, compares their experiences with English-speaking soldiers, and examines underreported issues like underage recruits, desertion, and army discipline. Kennedy also uses the 1921 Census to analyze the long-term impacts of the war on soldiers, families, and communities. The book offers a fresh approach to military history by focusing on the Acadians, a francophone minority in the Maritimes, reshaping our understanding of French Canadians in World War I. Gregory M.W. Kennedy is professor of history and dean of the Faculty of Arts at Brandon University and the author of Something of a Peasant Paradise? Comparing Rural Societies in Acadie and the Loudunais, 1604-1755. Image Credit: McGill-Queen's University Press If you like our work, please consider supporting it: bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society's mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada's past.

Tuesday – Sabrina from the News Junkie fills in for Deb. Jim tells ghost stories. Should AI created art be as valuable as human created art? We review Faiyaz Kara's pick for WYDTN on the Expulsion of the Acadians. It's Only Money with Scott Brown with Edgewater Family Wealth on why not saving decreases your margin for error. Plus, WOKE News, JCS Trivia & You Heard it Here First.

You know about the expulsion of the Acadians in 1755. But how much do you know about the SECOND expulsion of the Acadians??

If you've never heard of the Acadians, you're in for a beautiful treat in The Seamstress of Acadie by Laura Frantz. Listen in and hear why I am excited for this book and her upcoming release this month note: links may be affiliate links that provide me with a small commission at no extra expense to you.  I've seen Laura Frantz's books for years, and had even bought a couple. But when another author told me to read her Courting Morrow Little, I knew this gal someone I need to read.  And learning how hard it is to find that book, I went to eBay and bought another copy just in case.   Laura talked a lot about the history of the Acadians but ALSO about another book coming out soon (that is related to The Rose and Thistle... I think?)  We recorded months ago, so I might have gotten that wrong.  The Seamstress of Acadie by Laura Frantz  As 1754 is drawing to a close, tensions between the French and the British on Canada's Acadian shore are reaching a fever pitch. Seamstress Sylvie Galant and her family--French-speaking Acadians wishing to remain neutral--are caught in the middle, their land positioned between two forts flying rival flags. Amid preparations for the celebration of Noël, the talk is of unrest, coming war, and William Blackburn, the British Army Ranger raising havoc across North America's borderlands. As summer takes hold in 1755 and British ships appear on the horizon, Sylvie encounters Blackburn, who warns her of the coming invasion. Rather than participate in the forced removal of the Acadians from their land, he resigns his commission. But that cannot save Sylvie or her kin. Relocated on a ramshackle ship to Virginia, Sylvie struggles to pick up the pieces of her life. When her path crosses once more with William's, they must work through the complex tangle of their shared, shattered past to navigate the present and forge an enduring future. And don't miss her upcoming release: A Matter of Honor Available July 24, 2024 Having grown up at Wedderburn Castle in the serene Scottish Lowlands, Orin Hume is thrust into the dazzling realm of London society and Court circles as Poet Laureate of Britain. But at the height of his fame a former tragedy and his ties to a lass he once loved lead him home to Berwickshire again. When his return is further marred by lost love letters and scheming kin who conspire to keep the pair apart, can Lady Maryn Lockhart, now Duchess of Fordyce, forgive him? Or will the shadows of the past and the complexities of the present rewrite their love story? Learn more about Laura on her  WEBSITE and follow her on GoodReads and BookBub. Like to listen on the go? You can find Because Fiction Podcast at: Apple  Castbox  Google Play Libsyn  RSS Spotify Amazon and more!

We hear about a unique project in NS to turn the stories and memories of older Acadians into songs and we meet the Cape Breton songwriter and connect with the Francophone community centre in Truro that spearheaded the project. 

If you've ever been down to Louisiana, chances are you've noticed a great many French place names. Indeed, for a time in the 17th and 18th Centuries, this part of America was under French jurisdiction. But the people of French ancestry there who call themselves Cajuns are a decidedly newer arrival, though their reasons for being there are marred by a history of trauma, violence and exile. Tune in to this week's sobering episode to find out how their ancestors faced expulsion, even genocide, in the early days of American and Canadian histories. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historylovescompany/support

In this episode, we'll discuss the life and work of fiction writer Kate Chopin, who dared to write about female sexuality, longing, and identity at a time when women were expected to focus on husbands and family. Chopin's works mostly take place in Louisiana and lyrically reflect the many cultures of the region: Creoles, Acadians, [...]

In this episode, we'll discuss the life and work of fiction writer Kate Chopin, who dared to write about female sexuality, longing, and identity at a time when women were expected to focus on husbands and family. Chopin's works mostly take place in Louisiana and lyrically reflect the many cultures of the region: Creoles, Acadians, [...]

In this podcast episode, Nicole O'Byrne talks to Thomas Peace about his book, The Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula, 1680–1790 published by UBC Press in February 2024. In The Slow Rush of Colonization, historian Thomas Peace traces the 100-year context that underpins the widespread Euro-American/Euro-Canadian settlement of the Maritime Peninsula. Thomas Peace is an associate professor of history and co-director of the Community History Centre at Huron University College. He has authored numerous articles on the history of schooling and settler colonialism, historical relationships between the Mi'kmaw and Acadians, and the influence of digital technologies on the historian's craft. He has edited two Open Educational primary source readers: The Open History Seminar (with Sean Kheraj) and A Few Words that Changed the World. Since 2009 he has edited ActiveHistory.ca, one of Canada's leading history blogs, and in 2016, with Kathryn Labelle, he edited From Huronia to Wendakes: Adversity, Migrations, and Resilience, 1650–1900. Image Credit: UBC Press If you like our work, please consider supporting it: bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society's mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada's past.

In our column on Acadian culture, Ronald LaBelle talks about Acadians in the classical music world.

Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content.Laura Frantz is our guest on the podcast this week, here to talk about her new book, The Seamstress of Acadie. We chatted about how she used French in the book and what it was like to speak it in Paris, her answer to the question of evil in a world ruled by a good and loving God, and what the Tea and Quill Tour is. (Hint: If you love Laura or Pepper Basham and traveling, you don't want to miss this part!) Patrons will get to hear what her proudest mom moment has been. The Seamstress of Acadie by Laura FrantzAs 1754 is drawing to a close, tensions between the French and the British on Canada's Acadian shore are reaching a fever pitch. Seamstress Sylvie Galant and her family--French-speaking Acadians wishing to remain neutral--are caught in the middle, their land positioned between two forts flying rival flags. Amid preparations for the celebration of Noël, the talk is of unrest, coming war, and William Blackburn, the British Army Ranger raising havoc across North America's borderlands.As summer takes hold in 1755 and British ships appear on the horizon, Sylvie encounters Blackburn, who warns her of the coming invasion. Rather than participate in the forced removal of the Acadians from their land, he resigns his commission. But that cannot save Sylvie or her kin. Relocated on a ramshackle ship to Virginia, Sylvie struggles to pick up the pieces of her life. When her path crosses once more with William's, they must work through the complex tangle of their shared, shattered past to navigate the present and forge an enduring future.Get your copy of The Seamstress of Acadie  by Laura Frantz.Bestselling, award-winning author, Laura Frantz, has been writing stories since age seven. She is passionate about all things historical, particularly the 18th-century and her novels often incorporate Scottish themes that reflect her family heritage. She is a direct descendant of George Hume, Wedderburn Castle, Berwickshire, Scotland, who was exiled to the American colonies for his role in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715, settled in Virginia, and is credited with teaching George Washington surveying in the years 1748-1750. Proud of her heritage, she is also a Daughter of the American Revolution. Though she will always consider Kentucky home, she and her husband live in Washington State. According to Publishers Weekly, "Frantz has done her historical homework." With her signature attention to historical detail and emotional depth, she is represented by Janet Kobobel Grant, Literary Agent & Founder, Books & Such Literary Agency of Santa Rosa, California. Foreign language editions include French, Dutch, Spanish, Slovakian, German & Polish.Readers can find Laura Frantz at www.laurafrantz.net*Subscribe to Laura's seasonal newsletter and receive new release information, news about contests, giveaways, and reader events, sneak peaks and teasers, signings and appearances, and more!Visit Laura Frantz's website.

Ronald Labelle talks about the love that Acadians had at this time of year, of traditional French Christmas music.

Beginning in the 16th century, French settlers crossed the Atlantic to settle in a French colony located in the New World. That colony wasn't modern-day Quebec, however. The colony was known as Acadia.  When the British took control of Acadia in 1713, the Acadians were allowed to stay, but eventually, that privilege was revoked by the British, and those people were scattered to the winds.  Today, the descendants of the Acadians can still be found all over the world.  Learn more about Acadia and the Acadian Expulsion on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors BetterHelp Visit BetterHelp.com/everywhere today to get 10% off your first month ButcherBox Sign up today at butcherbox.com/daily and use code daily to choose your free steak for a year and get $20 off."  Subscribe to the podcast!  https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Cameron Kieffer   Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Université de Moncton announced they would not be changing their name over the weekend. But that decision isn't sitting well with some Acadians. Vanessa Vander Valk spoke with Bernard Richard, who represents a citizens' committee that advocated for a name change.

Rejean Aucoin is one of the two new senators from Cape Breton.

This episode starts with a story. In 1604, 79 members of an expedition from France, including Samuel de Champlain, came to Saint Croix Island off the shores of Maine and New Brunswick to set up a colony in the new land. They called it l'Acadie—Acadia. Over the severe winter of 1604 to 1605, 35 of the settlers died, likely of scurvy. In the spring, members of the Passamaquoddy Tribe befriended the French survivors and brought them food; and, ultimately, their health improved. In the summer of 1605, the survivors moved the Acadia settlement to Port Royal, Nova Scotia, and the rest is history. The Acadians went on to play an integral part in the histories of Canada, the United States, and France. Today, that 6.5-acre uninhabited island and its very significant history is threatened by high tides, shoreline erosion, powerful winter storms, and more—all exacerbated by climate change.In Season 6, Episode 6, host Sarah Thorne is joined by cohost Jeff King, National Lead of the Engineering With Nature Program, US Army Corps of Engineers, and the USACE Project Lead for collaboration on the Saint Croix Island activities; Donald Soctomah, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Passamaquoddy Nation; Becky Cole-Will, Chief of Resource Management for Acadia and Saint Croix Island National Parks, US National Park Service; and Amy Hunt, Senior Project Manager at EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Inc. in New Hampshire. They are working together to figure out how to use nature-based solutions to protect and preserve Saint Croix Island and its unique historical significance. Each of the guests speaks to the unique nature of Saint Croix Island and their personal affinity to it. Donald notes that “Saint Croix has always been a special place, not just for the one winter that the Acadians spent on it but also for the last 15,000 years of Passamaquoddy history.” The guests also note the Island's importance as a symbol of the impacts of climate change. As Donald notes, “When I look at the Island I see a symbol of the change that's going on related to climate. Because right before your eyes, you can see the rising ocean, the erosion, the shrinking of the Island. Every time I look at that Island, I think about climate change and the importance of trying to make other people aware of it.”In June of 2023, the National Park Service hosted a workshop that brought together about 25 participants—biologists, geologists, engineers, planners, policymakers, and Tribal officers—to discuss the challenge and the opportunity and learn more about the history of the Island. The purpose, as Amy describes it, “was to ask the right questions and cast a really wide net then whittle it down to a few specific priorities.” Becky adds, “The first day we spent thinking about what could be done. Then people had an opportunity to get out there and see the Island and say, ‘I get it now.' There was a lot of reality checking and ground truthing that was fascinating to hear.”Jeff appreciated the guests sharing their insights and perspective. He noted that the work is ongoing: “We're just getting started. Brian Davis at the University of Virginia has been working collaboratively with the project partners to come up with designs and renderings that we want to discuss with Donald and the Passamaquoddy Tribe to ensure that we're integrating traditional ecological knowledge along the way. I'm excited about where we're headed and the opportunities this project will offer.” For more information and resource links, please visit the EWN Podcast page on the EWN website at https://www.engineeringwithnature.org/ • Jeff King at LinkedIn• Amy Hunt at LinkedIn• Rebecca Cole-Will at LinkedIn• Donald Soctomah at LinkedInThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5872676/advertisement

The Acadians were no strangers to forces which led to them being displaced. Ronald LaBelle talks about the waves of Acadians who left the Maritimes to work in New England.

词汇提示1.expulsion 驱逐2.tragedies 悲剧3.heart-rendering 心碎4.expedition 探险队5.treaty 条约6.oath 宣誓7.allegiance 效忠8.skirmishes 小规模冲突9.troops 部队10.greedy 贪图11.eluded 逃脱12.exile 流放地原文The Expulsion of the AcadiansThe history of the Americas, from their discovery by Columbus till the founding of modern nation states has been the struggle among European powers for the largest and richest sections of the continentsIn particular, England and France have struggled for control of most of North America.Many tragedies and disasters have marked this conflict, but few have been as heart-rendering as the expulsion of the Acadians in 1755."Acadia"refers to what are now the Maritime Provinces of Canada - New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia.In 1605, a French expedition under De Monts and Champlain established an agricultural settlement at Port-Royal in present day Nova Scotia.Although Port-Royal and other colonies had very mixed success, there was a gradual increase of French settlement through the seventeenth century.By 1710,the French, or Acadian, population had reached 2,100.In 1710, Port-Royal fell to the English, and the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 confirmed British ownership of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.By this treaty, the Acadians, that is the French-speaking inhabitants, were allowed to stay or leave the country as they pleased.The majority of inhabitants of Acadia were French and were still being influenced by agents from France and Quebec.This made their loyalty to Britain very doubtful in time of war.Governor Philipps attempted to get the Acadians to swear an oath of allegiance to King George of England.And Philipps was able in 1729 to get the French settlers to agree to a modified oath, with the understanding that they would not have to fight against the French and their Indian allies.The Acadians remained neutral during the fighting between Britain and France in 1744-45 in Nova Scotia.In 1749, the British established a new capital for Nova Scotia at Halifax, and began to bring in English-speaking settlers.Because of threats from the French and Indians most of these settlers remained close to Halifax.British skirmishes with the French and Indians continued, and a new war between France and England was approaching.Governor Lawrence decided that it was time to settle the Acadian question.He ordered the Acadians either to take an unqualified oath of allegiance to England, or to face expulsion from the colony.At that time, in 1755, there were troops and ships from New England in the area, and it seemed like an opportune time to round up the Acadians and ship them out.When the Acadians refused to take the oath which might oblige them to fight against France,the British rounded up about 6,000 of the 8,000 Acadians,burned their homes,and shipped them away to the British colonies of Virginia, the Carolinas, and as far as the mouth of the Mississippi River.Several of the transport ships sank, drowning all on board, and the Acadians died from disease and hardship.Since the expulsion order did not come from London,it has been suggested that Governor Lawrence had personal reasons for the expulsion.He may have been greedy for the land and possessions confiscated from the Acadians.Others say that there was the genuine fear for the English position in North America,and that Lawrence was only protecting the interests of the colony.Acadians still live in Maritime Canada today.Almost 2,000 fled into the woods and eluded the round-up.Another 2,000 Acadians later returned from exile to take the oath of allegiance.Many stories were told of their sufferings.One tale relates how on the very day of his wedding, a bridegroom was seized by the British and transported from the colony.His bride wandered for many years through the American colonies trying to find him.At last, when she was old, she found him on his deathbed.The shock of finding him, and his death, soon caused her death.This is the story of Henry W. Longfellow's poem "Evangeline."翻译阿卡迪亚人的驱逐美洲的历史，从哥伦布发现美洲到现代民族国家的建立，一直是欧洲列强之间争夺这块大陆最大、最富裕地区的斗争特别是，英国和法国一直在争夺对北美大部分地区的控制权。这场冲突发生了许多悲剧和灾难，但很少有像1755年阿卡迪亚人被驱逐那样令人痛心。“阿卡迪亚”指的是现在加拿大的沿海省份——新不伦瑞克省、爱德华王子岛省和新斯科舍省。1605年，德蒙茨和尚普兰率领的一支法国探险队在今新斯科舍省的罗亚尔港建立了一个农业定居点。虽然罗亚尔港和其他殖民地取得了好坏参半的成功，但在整个17世纪，法国人的定居点逐渐增加。到1710年，法国人或阿卡迪亚人的人口已经达到了2100人。1710年，罗亚尔港落入英国人之手，1713年的乌得勒支条约确认了英国对新斯科舍省和新不伦瑞克省的所有权。根据这个条约，阿卡迪亚人，也就是讲法语的居民，被允许随意离开或留在这个国家。阿卡迪亚的大多数居民是法国人，他们仍然受到来自法国和魁北克的代理人的影响。这使得他们在战争时期对英国的忠诚令人怀疑。总督菲利普斯试图让阿卡迪亚人宣誓效忠英国国王乔治。1729年，菲利普斯成功地让法国定居者同意修改后的誓言，前提是他们不必与法国人和他们的印第安盟友作战。1744年至1745年英法在新斯科舍的战争中，阿卡迪亚人保持中立。1749年，英国人在哈利法克斯为新斯科舍省建立了一个新的首都，并开始引进说英语的定居者。由于受到法国人和印第安人的威胁，大多数移民都留在哈利法克斯附近。英国人与法国人和印第安人的小规模冲突仍在继续，法国和英国之间的一场新的战争即将来临。劳伦斯州长认为是时候解决阿卡迪亚人的问题了。他命令阿卡迪亚人要么无条件宣誓效忠英国，要么被驱逐出殖民地。当时，也就是1755年，有来自新英格兰的军队和船只在这个地区，这似乎是一个围捕阿卡迪亚人并将他们运出的好时机。当阿卡迪亚人拒绝宣誓与法国作战时，英国人围捕了8000名阿卡迪亚人中的6000人，烧毁了他们的房屋，并将他们运往英国殖民地弗吉尼亚、卡罗来纳，甚至远至密西西比河的入海口。几艘运输船沉没了，船上所有人都淹死了，阿卡迪亚人死于疾病和艰苦。由于驱逐令并非来自伦敦，因此有人认为劳伦斯总督有驱逐的个人原因。他可能对从阿卡迪亚人那里没收的土地和财产很贪婪。还有人说，英国在北美的地位确实受到了威胁，劳伦斯只是在保护殖民地的利益。今天，阿卡迪亚人仍然住在加拿大海事区。近2000人逃进了树林，躲过了围捕。后来又有2000名阿卡迪亚人从流放中返回，宣誓效忠。关于他们的苦难，人们讲了许多故事。有一个故事讲的是，就在新郎举行婚礼的当天，新郎被英国人抓住并从殖民地运走了。他的新娘为了找他，在美洲殖民地徘徊了许多年。最后，当她老了，她发现他在临终的床上。发现他的震惊和他的死亡很快导致了她的死亡。这是亨利·w·朗费罗的诗《伊万杰琳》的故事。

Welcome to the August episode of Bibbidi Bobbidi Basics, your magical journey through the world of Disney and beyond! In this enchanting installment, we've got a shout-out to our Basic of the Week, brits_vacations, as well as an exciting lineup that will immerse you in the realm of Disney, travel, and more.

词汇提示1.enchanted 迷人的2.oxide 氧化的3.occupations 职业4.orchards 果园5.strife 斗争原文Prince Edward IslandThroughout history, people have dreamed about a special place, remote from the day-to-day business world.Sometimes,they have thought of this place as an enchanted world where the weather is always good and food is always easy to get.Sometimes,it has been a hidden valley in the mountains, or an island far out at sea.When the Europeans arrived in the South Pacific, they thought that they had found it.Islands such as Tahiti seemed about as perfect as possible.Nowadays,our cities grow larger and larger, and people have to work harder and harder to succeed.Many people would like to escape to a quieter, slower, more peaceful, more attractive environment.When summer holidays come, many people travel to Prince Edward Island in Eastern Canada.It has a mild summer climate, and hardly ever gets too hot or dry.The fields, trees, and crops stay green all summer.In fact, P.E.I. is famous for the many shades of green on the island.Its soil and dirt roads are red because of iron oxide in the soil.And visitors are never far away from the blue waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.In late June and early July, the roadsides are covered with large purple flowers called lupins.The vivid colors of P.E.I. help make the province a photographer's paradise.Prince Edward Island is almost 100 miles long and about 20 miles wide.It is small enough that a tourist can see much of the Island in a couple of days.But there are enough interesting things to see and do that most people like to stay longer.One of the chief traditional occupations is fishing.Atone time, fishing was an important source of food and income for many islanders.Now the fisheries are in decline; boat owners find it more profitable to take tourists out to fish than to fish themselves.Lobsters and shellfish are still important to the Island, which is famous for its “lobster suppers”.Tourists can visit many picturesque little fishing villages all around the coastline.P.E.I.is famous for its potatoes, which are exported all over the world.Dairy farming is also common, and local ice cream is popular with tourists.Apple orchards, grain fields, hay fields, and vegetable gardening are also widely found.During the era of sailing ships, a lot of shipbuilding took place on the Island.But as steel hulls replaced wooden hulls, shipbuilding moved to regions where steel was being produced.The full impact of the industrial revolution has never hit P.E.I.Farming,fishing and tourism have remained the chief industries.There are no large cities on the Island.So,if young people want to go to the big city, they have to leave P.E.I.The majority of Island people prefer to live in small towns and villages, just as their ancestors did.Since there wasn't much industry on the Island, many people did not have a lot of money.As a result, they "made do" with their old houses, old furniture, and old ways of doing things.This is why visitors to P. E. I. sometimes feel like they are going back in time.Things on the Island seem like they are still the way things were in our parents' or grandparents' day.Most of the people who live on the Island are descended from British immigrants in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries.The majority of these were from Scotland, and the Scottish heritage remains strong.There are also some Micmac Indians and some French Canadians, or Acadians.The Island has generally avoided social and political strife, and this contributes to the peaceful atmosphere.Islanders welcome people "from away" as tourists.However,some say that to be a true Islander, you have to be born on the Island.Nonetheless,some tourists have fallen in love with P.E.I. and have gone there to live.A couple of years ago, a bridge was built to connect the Island with the mainland.Many opposed this "fixed link," saying that it would destroy the special P.E.I. atmosphere.It remains to be seen whether the Island will change, now that tourists can drive directly on to the rich, red soil.翻译爱德华王子岛纵观历史，人们一直梦想着一个特殊的地方，远离日常的商业世界。有时，他们认为这个地方是一个迷人的世界，天气总是很好，食物总是很容易得到。有时，它是一个隐蔽的山谷在山，或一个岛屿在遥远的海上。当欧洲人到达南太平洋时，他们以为已经找到了。像塔希提岛这样的岛屿似乎再完美不过了。如今，我们的城市变得越来越大，人们必须越来越努力地工作才能成功。很多人都想逃到一个更安静、更慢、更平和、更有吸引力的环境中去。暑假来临时，许多人去加拿大东部的爱德华王子岛旅游。它的夏季气候温和，几乎不会太热或太干。整个夏天，田地、树木和庄稼都是绿色的。事实上，P.E.I.岛以岛上深浅不一的绿色而闻名。它的土壤和土路是红色的，因为土壤中的氧化铁。游客们永远不会远离圣劳伦斯湾的蓝色海水。在六月下旬和七月初，路边开满了紫色的大花，叫做羽扇豆花。P.E.I.岛以鲜艳的色彩使该省成为摄影师的天堂。爱德华王子岛长约100英里，宽约20英里。它足够小，游客可以在几天内看到岛上的大部分地方。但是这里有很多有趣的东西可以看，可以做，所以大多数人喜欢多待一会儿。捕鱼是主要的传统职业之一。曾经，捕鱼是许多岛民的重要食物和收入来源。现在渔业在减少;船主发现带游客出海捕鱼比自己捕鱼更有利可图。龙虾和贝类对这个以“龙虾晚餐”闻名的岛屿来说仍然很重要。游客们可以在海岸线上参观许多风景如画的小渔村。P.E.I.以马铃薯闻名，马铃薯出口到世界各地。奶牛场也很常见，当地的冰淇淋很受游客的欢迎。苹果园、谷地、干草地和菜园也随处可见。在帆船时代，岛上发生了大量的造船活动。但随着钢船体取代了木制船体，造船转移到了生产钢铁的地区。工业革命的全面影响从未冲击过P.E.I.农业、渔业和旅游业仍然是主要产业。岛上没有大城市。所以，如果年轻人想去大城市，他们必须离开P.E.I.大多数岛民喜欢住在小城镇和村庄，就像他们的祖先一样。由于岛上没有多少工业，许多人没有很多钱。结果，他们只好凑合着用他们的旧房子、旧家具和旧的做事方式。这就是为什么来体育课的人有时会觉得自己回到了过去。岛上的事情似乎仍然是我们父母或祖父母时代的样子。住在岛上的大多数人是十八、十九世纪英国移民的后裔。其中大多数来自苏格兰，苏格兰的传统仍然很强。也有一些米克马克印第安人和一些法裔加拿大人，或阿卡迪亚人。该岛一般避免了社会和政治冲突，这有助于和平气氛。岛民欢迎“远道而来”的游客。然而，有人说，要成为一个真正的岛民，你必须出生在岛上。尽管如此，还是有一些游客爱上了P.E.I.，并去那里生活。几年前，建了一座桥把这个岛和大陆连接起来。许多人反对这种“固定联系”，称这会破坏P.E.I.的特殊氛围。现在游客们可以直接开车到这片肥沃的红色土地上，岛上是否会发生变化还有待观察。

Down Home Cajun Music- "I Woke Up One Morning In May"I took a little ramble this morning; playing some Pre War Cajun 78's I haven't played in a while.Leo Soileau & Mayuse LeFleur- "Your Father Put Me Out" (Victor 21770)Joe & Cleoma Falcon- "Ne Buvez Plus Jamais" (Decca 17011)Walker Brothers- "La Vie Malheureuse" (Brunswick 80084)Columbus Fruge- "Saut Crapaud" (Victor 22184)Alleman & Walker- "La Femme Qui Jovait Les Cartes" (Bluebird 2193)The Dixie Ramblers- "The Waltz You Saved For Me" (Bluebird 6352)Joe's Acadians- "La Valse De Bayou Granddan" (Bluebird 2073)Leo Soileau & Mayuse LaFleur- "Basile" (Victor 21769)Nathan Abshire & The Rayne Bo Ramblers- "French Blues" (Bluebird 2177)Hackberry Ramblers- "La Breakdown A Pete" (Bluebird 2035)Happy Fats & The Rayne Bo Famblers- "Coosh Mal" (RCA Victor 2034)Walker Brothers- "Pourquois Vous Etes Si Cannai" (Bluebird 2198)The Segura Brothers- "Bury Me In The Corner of The Yard" (Columbia 147654)Credure & Babineaux- "Petit Ou Gros, Donne Moi Le" (Victor 22367)Joe Falcon- "La Valse De Madame Sosten" (Decca 17000)Guidry Brothers- "Le Recomendation du Soulard" (Vocalion 15844)*All selections taken from the original 78 rpm records.

In this episode, we are bringing you the second installment in our Voices of Fort Kent series, an interview with Patrick Lacroix, the director of the Acadian Archives at UMFK. We relished the opportunity to get to know our new colleague at the university's northernmost campus. Patrick's professional and personal history is impressive and, however reluctant he was to talk about himself, it is abundantly clear that he is dedicated to the preservation and proliferation of the history of the St. John Valley. During our conversation, Patrick gave us the broad strokes of his professional life, including some compelling context for our journey to Maine's borderlands and the history of Franco-Americans and Acadians in New England.  Merci et très bonne écoute ! Written and edited by Julia Rhinelander Music: Robert Sylvain Production site: WMPG This podcast is a production from the University of Southern Maine's Franco-American Collection and USM Libraries.

In this episode, I sit down with Cliff Seruntine, author of The Wildwood Way. Join us as we talk about his book and living in tune with nature! Music is from Epidemic Sound. Books mentioned in the episode:   *Some links below are affiliated links and help me continue producing content. **All books that are recommended are great additions to your library, but always use what resonates and leave the rest.** The Wildwood Way: Amazon: https://amzn.to/3zIyjDb More about Cliff: Cliff Seruntine is a devoted permaculturist, a practicing shaman, a writer and fiddler, and a psychotherapist with a busy private practice. He was born in New Orleans and grew up in the Bayou country on his grandfather's farm among French-speaking Acadians. Cliff was always one to roam the outdoors and spent many hours among the elders of the countryside, absorbing lore of the myths, enchantment and spirits that were so much a part of the Acadian world. Shortly after Cliff began college, he took a hiatus to see Alaska that turned into a decade-and-a-half sojourn in the wilderness. Often dwelling at a remote cabin, Cliff studied the shamanic practices and Inuqun beliefs of the subarctic aboriginal peoples, and found in them many curious parallels to the Acadian and Celtic faerie faith. Years later Cliff and his wife, Daphne, came to desire a place where they could cultivate their own food, keep horses and develop their dream of a self-sufficient homestead. They relocated to the misty wooded glens of the Nova Scotia highlands, the ancestral Canadian home of the Gaels. There they maintain organic gardens, raise dairy goats and keep alive old skills such as horse driving, cheesemaking, brewing and woodscraft. They also teach classes on how to live green while living well. Cliff is the author of Seasons of the Sacred Earth (Llewellyn, 2013), An Ogham Wood (Avalonia Esoterica Press, 2011) and The Lore of the Bard (Llewellyn, 2003). He has contributed to a number books, including The Faery Queens Anthology (Avalonia, 2013), The Faery Craft (Llewellyn, 2013) and has been invited to write several times for Llewellyn's bestselling Witches' Calendar. Cliff has also been published in magazines on Celtic history, paranormal phenomena and written for webzines about ecology, sustainable living and earth-based spirituality. Where to connect with Cliff:  https://www.facebook.com/cliff.seruntine Thank you to my subscribers! Want to support the growth of Pagan's Witchy Corner? Become a Subscriber! Subscribers get access to bonus episodes only for them! Subscribe today at one of the links below! https://ko-fi.com/paganwolf If you would prefer to listen to it in video format, you can listen to it here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqzU2hMxfT3CS_rSWWrmEEw For more homesteading articles, recipes, reviews, meditations, podcast episodes, and store: https://www.hearthandseed.com Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9jRs5SgvQa Follow me on social media: https://linktr.ee/paganwolf13 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/paganswitchycorner/support

Warren Perrin, renowned historian of Acadian culture and a man who has dedicated his life to promoting the accurate history of the Acadians, is our guest on this special rebroadcast of Discover Lafayette. Author of “Acadian Redemption,” a biography of Beausoleil Broussard, Perrin has worked tirelessly to reinvigorate the Acadian pride movement, most notably through his Petition for an Apology from Queen Elizabeth II for the Acadian deportation from Nova Scotia. The Queen signed a Proclamation granting such an apology on December 9, 2003. Perrin established the Acadian Museum in Erath, LA. He has been engaged in many activities on behalf of the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana, known as CODOFIL; he served as President of CODOFIL from 1994 to 2010. Warren Perrin Holding Proclamation by Queen Elizabeth Apologizing for the Acadian Deportation from Nova Scotia Perrin is a partner at Perrin, Landry & deLauney in Lafayette, Louisiana. He was a member of the UL – Lafayette (then known as Southwestern Louisiana Institute) weightlifting team which won eight national championships between 1957 and 1971, and established itself as one of the nation's most-successful collegiate lifting programs. A documentary film tentatively entitled, The Ragin 13, by filmmaker Nicholas Campbell, is currently being filmed and traces the inspirational underdog story of this exceptional team and its achievements. CODOFIL celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2018 and was featured in the Governor's Office in the Old State Capitol in Baton Rouge. For more information on the Acadian Museum, please visit http://www.acadianmuseum.com. Information on CODOFIL may be accessed at https://www.crt.state.la.us/cultural-development/codofil/index.

The stories of the Acadians and Cajuns are intertwined and remarkably similar. In October 2022, I had the honor of traveling to the Acadian heartland in the Canadian Maritime Provinces to interview the last of the French-speaking Acadian veterans of WWII. In this special episode, you will hear stories from the veterans themselves, from family members, and from local experts. Most fought in Italy, France, Belgium, and Holland. Many did not speak good English when they joined, but they learned quickly. The Acadians were dispersed throughout nearly every branch of the Canadian Armed Forces, so learning English in the military was an imperative. Once overseas, however, their French language became valuable in communicating with locals, particularly when they came ashore in Normandy. My journey to Canada to find the last Acadian vets stemmed from the “Cajun-Acadian WWII Commemoration” event at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans in April 2022. You can watch the entire program here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynrhj8iCU48&t=274s

Lafayette Parish is celebrating its Bicentennial this year with ongoing celebrations commemorating the time the Louisiana State Legislature carved off the western half of St. Martin Parish in 1823 to form a new parish named after the Marquis de Lafayette.      Two years earlier, in 1821, Jean Mouton donated a parcel of land to the community then known as Vermilionville for a Courthouse and a Cathedral. Mouton became known as the founder of Vermilionville that in 1884 became the City of Lafayette in honor of the French marquis who fought in the American revolution. Our guest is Sami Parbhoo who is heading up the series of events throughout 2023 that will honor the history of our parish and look to what the future holds. Lafayette Parish enjoys a proud history of various cultures coming together, starting with the indigenous Atakapa-Ishak, Choctaw, Chitimacha, and Opelousas, who were the first to inhabit the area. Acadian refugees settled in the area after Le Grand Dérangement from Canada in 1755 when Great Britain captured the land from France. The Acadians married other native, French, Spanish, and African settlers, forming the rich culture and history of Lafayette Parish. It has been nearly two-hundred years since we were chartered by the Louisiana Legislature in 1823. Two years earlier, in 1821, Jean Mouton, a wealthy planter donated a parcel of land to the community known as Vermilionville, for a Courthouse, and a Cathedral. Jean Mouton became known as the founder of Vermilionville, which became the city of Lafayette in 1884. For more information and a list of events taking place, please visit www.lafayette1823.org. 

Free Family Tree Templates and Worksheets and a 30 minute genealogy consultation https://tinyurl.com/3bdk2seh In this insightful and educational YouTube video, Family Historian Brian Nash sist down with Marc Bastarache, an 11th generation Acadian, to learn about how learning his family history shaped his worldview. Marc's ancestors have a fascinating history, having been originally from outside Port Royal in Acadie (modern day Nova Scotia) before being deported to South Carolina. Despite this, they managed to escape and embark on a journey that saw them walk to Lake Ontario, get captured by the Hurons, and eventually escape and travel by canoe to be reunited with their families in refugee camps. The Acadians have a rich and diverse cultural heritage, with roots that can be traced back to 17th century France. Over time, the Acadians have developed their own unique language, music, and traditions, which have been passed down through generations. They have a deep connection to the land and their communities, and their culture has been shaped by their experiences as a displaced people. Through his own research, Marc rediscovered this distinct Acadian unique culture and gained a deeper understanding of his own heritage. In this video, he shares how his story and that of his Ancestors are intertwined and how the knowledge of your family history can impact your whole perspective on life while providing a valuable and personal insight into the past. Whether you're an Acadian, or simply interested in genealogy and history, this video is sure to be both informative and entertaining. So don't miss out on this opportunity to learn about the power of knowing your family history, the rich cultural heritage of the Acadians, and how it can shape your worldview. As a Genealogist Brian focuses on the people, places, and events that make up the people's family stories. Brian is a Genealogist who started working on his own family tree over 30 years ago and has been able to trace one family line back to as early as 950 AD. Brian traces his own family from Scotland and Ireland to the New World where they wound up in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia in the 18th and 19th Century in some cases fleeing their homelands due to the Highland Clearances in Scotland or the Potato Blight in Ireland in others taking their Expertise and Coal Miners from Scotland to Cape Breton or their Mercantile and Manufacturing Skills from Ireland to the streets of Halifax Brian has been a member of; The Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia, The Scottish Genealogical Society, and the Prince Edward Island Genealogical Society. Brian currently resides in Prince Edward Island Canada with his family. Check out these other videos that might interest you Make Your Family Tree Come To Life with This Free Genealogy Website - https://youtu.be/t-Q91lKwmTA 5 Tips for Growing Your Family Tree in 2023 - https://youtu.be/k75po54JX9w Genealogist Evaluates Family Tree DNA Test Results - https://youtu.be/JlBqTZsl6w0 Genealogy Resources Play List - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-xa8qK5xPzJiMpji0678sj7SFzYxWvGv Support the Channel - Buy Brian a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HowWeGothere Email Brian - info@howegothere.ca Listen to the How We Got Here Podcast on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0WJo0xg...​ Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/HWGHPodcaster​ Twitter - https://twitter.com/HowWeGotHere2 Music Clips Used LIVE FROM THE COOK SHACK - THE STRAY BIRDS - "St. Anne's Reel" by Youtuber Banjo Gal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3XUzdlOoUk --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/how-we-got-here/message

Down Home Cajun Music- La Musique Encore, EncoreHackberry Ramblers- "Just Because" (Montgomery Ward 4816)Leo Soileau & his Three Aces- "Petit Ou Gros" (Bluebird 2197)Joe Falcon & Cleoma Breaux- "Fe Fe Ponchaux (Columbia 146904)The Alley Boys Of Abbeville- "Pourquois Te En Pen" (Vocalion 05423)Segura Brothers- "Bury Me In A Corner of the Yard" (Columbia 147654)Joe's Acadians- "Joe's Breakdown" (Bluebird 2073)Jolly Boys Of Lafayete- "High Society" (Decca 61915)J.B. Fuslier & his MerryMakers- "La Robe Barre" Bluebird 2063)Joe Falcon- "Le Nouveau Lafayette" (Decca 61902)Dixie Ramblers- "La Musique Encore, Encore" (Bluebird 2180)Rayne Bo Ramblers- "Jus Pasque" (Blueird 2037)John Bertrand & Milton Pitre-" Paramount 21076)Thibodeaux Boys- "La Vieux Vals An Onc Mack" (Bluebird 2038)Sons Of Acadians- "A Legire Ma Pauvre Idie" (Decca 66413)Leo Soileau & his Three Aces- "Hackberry Hop" (Bluebird 2171)Adam Trehan- "The Pretty Girls Dont Want Me" (Columbia 147635)Falcon Trio- "Mon Favori" (Bluebird 2180)J.B. Fuslier & his MerryMakers- "Chere Te Te" (Bluebird 2063)*All selections taken from the original 78 rpm records.

Our guests are Mary Broussard Perrin and Beverly Constantine Fuselier, authors of Healing Traditions of South Louisiana. Their book provides a fascinating history of South Louisiana's traditional healing arts from the dawn of civilization to today. Part One is about traiteurs (male) and traiteuses (female), their prayers, and rituals. Part Two presents the native medicinal plants that grow wild in South Louisiana, their properties and their traditional uses. Mary and Beverly are traiteurs who treat whatever is ailing you, such as back pain, wounds, warts, anxiety, sunstroke, etc. Traiteurs work with healing plants, occasionally “making medicine” when needed. And Mary and Beverly are dedicated….right before we began taping, they worked all morning at the Healing Garden at Vermilionville! Pictured is La Maison du Traiteur ("The Healer's House) at Vermilionville, surrounded by Le Jardin du Traiteur (The Healer's Garden), sponsored by the Lafayette Parish Master Gardeners Association (LPMGA). The site is open for tourists to visit all year. Mary Perrin recommends the best time to visit is on one of the Culture Days held during the summertime where you will enjoy a guided tour. To view the complete garden guide, visit here. Healing Traditions is a beautiful testament to our Acadian culture and the traditions that have been carried down by one generation after another. It is also a beautiful testament to the Native Americans who first arrived in South Louisiana more than a thousand years before European settlers, who had discovered "a rich diversity of plant and animal life in its bayous, prairies, and marshes....they uncovered a multitude of powerful natural curatives, plants that could stop bleeding, cure infections, relieve pain, reduce fever, stop swelling, soothe troubled minds, and more. In short, Mother Nature's medicine cabinet was well stocked." These generous Native Americans shared their plant curative knowledge with the Acadians' traiteurs as they settled into their new home in South Louisiana. According to Healing Traditions of South Louisiana, Elderberry was "revered for its medical and reputed magical qualities" and the Acadians and Native Americans considered it vital to their medical needs. It is considered to be the "queen of the Healer's Garden." The book is a beautifully written account of local healing herbs and the healing touch and prayer of traiteurs. A beautiful gift to give, Discover Lafayette thanks Mary Perrin and Beverly Fuselier for the time and talent they invested to make Healing Traditions a reality! Healing Traditions of South Louisiana is available for purchase at Beausoleil Books, Vermilionville, the Acadian Museum of Erath, Books Along the Teche, and Longfellow State Historic Site.

In our Acadian column today, Ronald LaBelle focuses on Acadians in the lumber woods.

The goal of pretty much every business is to grow. It's the beating heart of capitalism. But scaling up is complicated. The bigger you get, the bigger the problems get. And it's not a 1:1 ratio. The learning curve can get steeper and steeper as your operation adds new locations, new employees, new revenue streams.  Growing pains, however, are a good problem to have. Yes, the struggle is real. But if you're doing it right, so is the payoff.  Corey McCoy and his partners at Kitchen on Klinton learned on the job quickly as their operation took flight. In 2016, they started selling chicken wings out of their house on Clinton Street in Lafayette to pay the party bills.  By 2018, they built a food truck welded to a flatbed trailer. Later that year, they were in a brick and mortar shop near UL. Then came two more locations that later closed.  Kitchen on Klinton is again poised for growth and has been well recognized for its success. Corey and his partners received the Young Entrepreneurial Business of the Year award from the U.S. Small Business Administration.  If you're in agriculture, business is always growing. Jerry Hale has spent his life farming. He grew up on a 7,000-acre cotton farm in Rayville, Louisiana. Growing up, his family farmed white cotton. King Cotton. The prime crop of the South.  And then, Jerry discovered brown cotton.  Acadian Brown Cotton is an heirloom seed, believed to be the first cotton found in Louisiana. The Acadians used it for their textiles when they arrived here. And sort of forgot about.  Acadian Brown Cotton produces a shorter fiber than conventional cotton, but it's a more sustainable product. Brown cotton plants can bloom over and over, while white cotton plants are discarded once they're picked.  Jerry took two cups of brown cotton seeds from a friend and kicked off a burgeoning eco-tourism business. Today, he grows around 2 acres of brown cotton and represents around 300 growers. In 2021, he represented Acadiana at the Selvedge World fair of Textiles in London. Out to Lunch Acadiana is recorded live over lunch at Tula Tacos and Amigos in downtown Lafayette. You can find photos from this show by Astor Morgan at itsacadina.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is a re-release of our interview originally conducted with Ceci Neustrom in May 2022. Since our first interview, Ceci celebrated her body of work by unveiling two new portraits representing the Bergeron and Trahan families at the Hilliard Art Museum on October 12, 2022. We thought it was fitting to once again share her beautiful story during this week of Festivals Acadiens de Creoles in Lafayette. Ceci never pictured herself as an artist. Growing up as an older daughter in a family of 13 children in Mississippi, Ceci was a nurturer who took care of things…she cooked, sewed, and cleaned. “Art was never a part of my life.” We taped this episode at the offices of BBR Creative with owner, Cherie Hebert, who has supported Ceci's art. Ceci graduated from USL and married football star Michael Neustrom, who eventually served as Lafayette Parish Sheriff for 16 years. They have made a good team and are the proud parents of six children. A native of Mississippi, Ceci studied to become an educator, and then found her career evolving into being a landman, or as she became known, a “landmam.” For decades, she researched the ownership of land and mineral rights of families in South Louisiana and became immersed in the interconnectedness of the Acadian families in our region. Her work in the local courthouses inspired her to learn more about the families who had settled here after the 1755 expulsion of Acadians who had become owners of vast expanses of land in our region. She'd sit at their kitchen tables or on their farms and get to know their stories as she figured out who owned mineral rights to the properties their families had settled on generations before. Then, at the age of 55, her husband Mike gave her the gift of art lessons with Pat Soper, an acclaimed local art teacher and painter. Ceci had no inkling that she herself had artistic talent and had only doodled before she took up classes. She was angry with Mike for putting her in a position to fail. But, she didn't fail, soaring once she tapped into her dormant ability to paint. She ended up as a resident artist at the renowned Art Studio League in New York City. Ceci found that she loved the experience of creating, of “joining in the experience of creation with our maker. It felt to me like a miracle that I could do this. I didn't believe that I could do this.” Chief Judge James McKay of the 4th Circuit convinced Ceci Neustrom to paint his portrait. This work set her on the path to loving the art of portraiture, of capturing the essence of the human form. “I discovered figure painting. It's what spoke to my heart.” Judge McKay played football at USL with Ceci's husband, Mike Neustrom, in the 1970's. Ceci has grown as an artist and has since created breathtakingly beautiful oil portraits of locals, as well of present-day descendants of Acadian settlers who arrived in south Louisiana in the mid-1700s. She has named this the “Acadian Heritage Series.” To date, her work showcases the Babineaux, Bergeron, Breaux, Broussard, Comeaux, Guidry, Hebert, LeBlanc, Prejean, and Trahan families. While many of us are familiar with events surrounding the expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia in 1755, paintings depicting that era always seem to include large groups of people, not individuals affected by the tragedy. Ceci's oil portraits draw you in and make things real. You can feel the strength and the grit, of the Acadians who survived and thrived. It's hard to explain the energy that surrounds these paintings that honor our region's Acadian lineage. Ceci was helped greatly by local experts in the Acadian culture. Cheryl Perret helped Ceci get started in identifying Acadian families who might participate in her series. Special thanks go to Mary and Warren Perrin of the Acadian Museum for their historical knowledge. Suzanne Breaux also was of great help, who is a fiber specialist,

Audio Transcript:This media has been made available by Mosaic Boston Church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Boston and our neighborhood churches, or donate to this ministry, please visit mosaicboston.com.Heavenly Father, we are so thankful to you for this morning, for this life you've given us. Another opportunity today is to worship you, to glorify you with everything we have. Everything we have is yours, everything, absolutely everything. The only thing we can take responsibility for is our own sin and our own folly. Everything else, Lord is from you, so we thank you for life and we thank you for the opportunity to be redeemed, reconciled, restored, for the opportunity to be welcomed into your family, adopted as sons and daughters regenerated by the power of the Spirit. Holy Spirit, we pray for a special anointing upon each one of us today. I pray if there's anyone who's not yet a believer, I pray, speak to them in a very, very clear way so they know that it's your voice, it's not a man's voice. In the same way that Elijah heard from you in the whisper, I pray, whisper, whisper words of salvation.And we pray, Holy Spirit of blessed our time in the word for those who are elect. And in this general vicinity, I pray that you draw them to gospel proclaiming churches. I pray that they not be dormant in their faith, in particular as the days are growing darker. Lord Jesus, bless our time in the holy scriptures of praises in Jesus name, Amen. We're continuing our sermon series through Romans, which has been incredible. And the title of the sermon today is Awakened Oh You Dormant Remnant. As you watch the news and you see everything's going on and questions arise, are we living in the end times? Well, it's a question that's always been asked by Christians in all ages, and many answers to this question may be found locked in our text today in Romans 11 and then in the next couple weeks. But when people ask questions like, Are we on the brink of World War3? Only Lord knows.But it's the natural state of the fallen heart to say, Jesus, everything's falling apart. Everything around us right about now would be a tremendous time to come back. Can you please come back and fix everything? And I understand this heart cry of lament, but we as the people of God, we can't stay there. We can't sit on our hands waiting for Jesus to come back and fix everything. When Jesus is like, "Hey, I've literally given you the game plan. I've given you the strategy of how to fix everything." And then once you start implementing the game plan, then Jesus comes back. He said, "Preach the gospel of the kingdom in the whole world." This is Matthew 24:14. "And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations and then the end will come." The gospel will be preached in the whole world.So our job, when we start thinking, "Oh my, this might be the end times." Our job as Christians to say, "Hey, am I preaching the gospel?" In particular in a place like Boston? I remember and when God called me the seminary and called me at the vocational ministry, I was like, "Lord, you know what? I'll do it as long as you come back during my lifetime. Just so I'm alive, just so I see Jesus Christ with the flaming sword. I want to be around for that." Just to be like, Ah, I told everyone. We were right.But in seminary they said, You got to preach the gospel to the whole world. And I said, "What? How can I do that? I can't do that." But I know a place where people from all over the world come, and that's Boston, Massachusetts. We're here and we are called to preach the gospel even when everything else is falling apart. And the gospel is very simple. The gospel is, God created you to worship him, we're to worship the king, King Jesus. We are to follow his world and build up his kingdom by following his word. And this is what St. Paul is doing as he's giving us a blueprint in the book of Romans of how to rebuild society. That's what Christianity is. Christianity is how can we recreate humanity? How can we have a humanity within the humanity, a city within the city, a people within a people who live life completely differently, live life in submission to God?And Romans nine, Paul establishes the fact, well, it's God's grace, we need God's grace. If anything's going to change, if we're going to do any kingdom work, if the church is going to grow, we need God's grace. And he establishes the principle of salvation is based only upon God's grace. Election isn't foresee on works or good faith, it's just that God chooses people, that's what grace is. Can you ever earn more grace? That's not a trick question. Can you ever earn more grace? No, we can't. We can never earn more grace. That's what he says, it's all grace. So God pours out grace. And the question is in Romans 10, what about the Jewish people? What about the remnant? And Paul says, it's still grace. They get saved, Jewish people in the same way the Gentiles get saved, it's all grace. Israel's problem says Paul is not a lack of zeal but a lack of knowledge.And as a result, Israel sought to establish a righteousness of their own through works and not through grace. And this was part of the divine purpose so that as Gentiles come to faith in Israel's God, this Jewish people are like, "We're are the chosen people." And then gentiles are come into faith and they're like, "Actually, we're the chosen people because we follow Jesus. He made us the chosen people and you're saved by grace through faith." And then the Jews are like, "Hey, that's not fair." And they're provoked, and Pastor Andy and the sermon last week had this incredible illustration about his two daughters, Clara and Audrey. Clara, he said, "Hey, come in for a hug." And she's like, Eh. Because she's taken her father's love for granted, not the fresh baby, not Audrey. She's like, oh, and then Clara is provoked. That's what's going on with Gentiles.This pendulum of grace that Israel had the gospel, they had grace and then they lost it. And then the pendulum of grace goes to the Gentiles. And then St. Paul says in chapter 11 that this pendulum of grace is going to swing to the Jews again. Romans 1:1 through 15. Sorry, I'm speaking really fast, there's a lot in this text and I want to cover all of it, that's my ambition. So would you pay attention with me? Romans chapter 11:1 through 15, "I asked then has God rejected his people? By no means for myself am and Israelite a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel? 'Lord, they've killed your prophets, they've demolished your altars, and I alone and left and they seek my life.'""But what is God's reply to him? 'I've kept for myself 7,000 men who have not bowed the knee to Baal. So to at the present time, there is a remnant chosen by grace. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works otherwise grace would no longer be grace. What then Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking, the elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened. As it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear down to this very day.' And David says, 'Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them. Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see and bend their backs forever.' So I asked, did they stumble in order that they might fall by no means? Rather though through their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentile so as to make Israel jealous.""Now, if they're trespassed means riches for the world and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean? Now I'm speaking to you gentiles, in as much then as I am and apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous and thus save some of them. But if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean? But life from the dead?" This is the reading of God's holy inherent infallible authoritative word may write these eternal truths upon our hearts. We'll just walk through the text today given that this is a text about eschatology. So when speaking about eschatology, eschatology is the knowledge or the science of the eschaton, which is the end times.Whenever speaking on things like this, it's very important to be precise. And the text has to do with future prophecies found in the Bible, both old and new testaments. And it has to do with the end times. One biblical scholar said that two thirds of the doctrinal matter in the New Testament focuses one way or another on eschatology. Now if you're aware of Christianity, if you spent time in churches, you're probably familiar that there are many camps when it comes to the end times. There's the post-millennialism, the pre-millennialism, the amillennialism, the preterism, partial-preterismism, dispensationalism, et cetera. And how we understand eschatology to a large degree is connected to how we understand Romans 11. And this is what the chapter's about. Much of the dispute about his eschatology is, hey, what happens to Jewish people in the end? What happens to the people of God?That's really the question that he is wrestling with here in the end times. Romans 11:1, "I ask then, has God rejected is people?" It's a rhetorical question. In the old Testament times, Israel was called out of paganism and they were set apart to be the people of God. That God says, "You are now mine. Your lives will be patterned according to my character. You will live in a way that is going to bring peace, shalom, not just to your own life, but to life of your marriage and life of your family and the life of your community." And that was the people of God. There was a theocratic nation with God as its ultimate king. And Israel was given a mandate and a destiny and Paul earlier lamented, "Hey, did God reject his people completely?" Well he says, "No." Verse one, "I ask then, has God rejected his people? By no means, for I, myself am an Israel, a descendant of Israel, a member of the tribe of Benjamin." He's saying God is not categorically rejected the Jewish people. And here he argues from the lesser to the greater.He said, if God had rejected all the Jews, then he would've rejected Paul. But Paul was a Jew so, he's living, breathing, writing proof that God hasn't rejected the Jews just because of their ethnicity. Paul cites his pedigree, including a brief recounting of his background, traces a roots to the tribe of Benjamin all the way to Abraham. Verse two, "God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew." That's really the issue. He says, "Who are the chosen people?" It's not people who are born into a Jewish family. It's not people who identify as being Jewish. It's not people who identify as being Christian. That's not what saves anybody. What saves a person is repentance of faith. King Jesus, I have sinned against your law, have violated it, I have broken your code, your moral commandments. I have not loved God with all my heart, soul, strength and might. I have not loved neighbor as myself.When you repent of sin and you're drawn to God by the power of the Holy Spirit, sometimes it happens immediately and dramatically and you're a brand new person within five seconds. I haven't seen that happen often in Boston. Mostly in Boston, it's very progressive. It's you come, you listen, you read scripture, you meditate, you think, you ask God, you have conversation, you wrestle. And then after a while you don't know when you became a believer, but you say, "You know what I think I believe in Jesus Christ. I have repented my sin, I've accepted grace." You are part of these people that God has foreknew. That's what he's saying, that God is incapable of rejecting people whom he foreknew from the foundation of the world. Here he brings the concept of election to the Jewish people.Earlier he wrote in Romans 9:6, "It is not as though God's word had failed, for not all who are descended from Israel are Israel." That circumcision doesn't save a person, going to mass doesn't save a person, going to religious building doesn't save anybody, it doesn't save you from the wrath of God that we have earned. We have incurred through our law breaking. So what we need is grace. That's what he is talking about. And it's a grace that is completely under the sovereign will of God. So God hasn't finally rejected the Jews, Paul's living proof of that. So was the early church. The early church were mostly Jewish people. Jesus was Jewish, the disciples are Jewish. Most of the 500 eyewitnesses of Jesus Christ upon the resurrection were Jewish. And I don't mean like Jewish, I mean like religious Jews.And the fact that, and I marvel at this, the fact that Mosaic Boston meets in a synagogue every Sunday is weekly proof for the veracity of the historical bodily resurrection of Christ. And here's what I mean. Jewish people worship their Lord on what day? On Saturday. Well, they're not using the building on Sundays. So that's how we got in. Well, why are we worshiping God on a Sunday? Because the early Jews were told by Jesus Christ when he came back from the dead, "Hi, I am the Messiah and I came back from the dead. So that proves that everything I said is true. I am God, and now you'll worship me on the resurrection, day on Sundays."And this is how Paul did ministry, he would go to synagogues one day would meet and preach the gospel. So Romans 11:2 B, he continues, "Do not know what the scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel. Lord, they've killed your prophets, they've demolished your altars. And I alone him left and they seek my life." As is his custom, Paul often appeals to the Old Testament, to bolster the point. He's saying, "I'm not making this up. It's all in the Bible. Just read it. Read scripture, you'll understand God." In one of Israel's darkest hours, God preserved a believing remnant. There were people who were followers of God only because God preserved them. That's what he said. So this cry from the prophet of Elijah comes perhaps during the worst time of Apostacy in all of Old Testament Israel. So Elijah makes a plea, this plea while Ahab was the king. Ahab was married to Jezebel who was not a Christian.Jezebel was a priestess of the cult of Baal. So Ahab was to marry someone who worship Yahweh, who worshiped God, no, he married someone who worshiped Baal. And then little by little she had influence over the king and she invited pagan idolators into the royal house and persuaded Ahab to sanction all kinds of idolatrous religion. And under Ahab and Jebel, there was a massive persecution of the true believers of God. And a lot of the Jewish places of worship were destroyed. So Elijah had enough. Elijah gets to this point where he is like, I'd rather die than see the people of God hiding. I'd rather die than see the name of God defamed. It's kind of what happens when David, Young David, like David, Goliath, David. When he comes in and he goes to visit his brothers and he sees the army of Israel and then he sees the army of the Philistines, then he sees Goliath come out and for 40 days and 40 nights he came out and he cursed the name of God.Well there was a zeal kindled in the heart of David and he's like, "Hey, I love God and these people are cursing, God, I would rather die. I don't know... and I'm going to toss these stones with everything I've got at Goliath and if I die, I die." That's kind of the mindset of the zeal of God and the heart of Elijah where he's like, "You know what? I'm done with these priests of Baal. Hey, let's have a challenge. Let's have a prayer off. Let's see, God is real. So he challenges the prophets of Baal to this fair off in 1King's 18:27 through 29. The prophets of Baal. They build their little altar and then they're going around, and at noon, Elijah began to taunt them.They've been shouting for hours, "Shout louder. He said, Surely he is a God. Perhaps he's deep in thought or busy." That's a nice way in the English of translating that he's relieving himself or traveling maybe he's sleeping and must be awakened. "So they shouted louder and slashed themselves with sword and spears as was their custom until their blood flowed. Midday passed and they continued their frantic prophesying until the time for the evening sacrifice. But there was no response, no one answered, no one paid attention." And then Elijah orders that the altar be doused with water. And then he saturates it with prayer and he begs God to send fire from heaven. The Lord God omnipotent sends fire from heaven that consumes the whole altar. And in the midst of Israel's hellish reversion to paganism, Elijah leads this revival because he got exhausted with seeing the name of God defamed.That's what happened in 1King's 18, huge win, huge win. Fire from heaven, huge win Elijah, you should go celebrate. Like this is the time you take a cruise or something, whatever prophets do. He doesn't. He falls into some kind of spiritual lament. He's exhausted with living, he's in this midst he cries out to God in first King's 19, "Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, 'Made the god's deal with me, be ever so severely if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.'" So this same guy who just saw fire come from heaven gets a death threat from Jezebel and says verse three, "Elijah was afraid and ran for his life when he came to Beersheba and Judah, he left his servant there. And while he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness.""He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. 'I've had enough Lord, he said, Take my life. I am no better than my ancestors.' Then he laid down under the bush and fell asleep." Have you ever been there? We all have been there. We've all been on our side in a fetal position on the floor in a small room. We have been "God, I've had enough. Please nothing. Please take me, take me, I'm ready to go." And then says, "All at once an angel touched him and said, 'Get up and eat.'" Oh, he was just hungry. He was just, oh, he just needed some carbs. "So an angel comes, he looks around and thereby his head was some bread baked over hot coals and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then laid down. The angel of the Lord came back a second time and touched him and said, 'Get up and eat for the journey is too much for you.'""So he got up and ate and drank, strengthened by that food, he's traveled 40 days and 40 nights until he reached Horeb the mountain of God. There he went into a cave and spent the night. And the word of the Lord came to him, 'What are you doing here, Elijah?' He replied, 'I've been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelis have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left and now they are trying to kill me too.' The Lord said, 'Go and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord. For the Lord is about to pass by.' Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart. And shattered the rocks before the Lord. But the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper, Elijah heard it. He pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then the voice said to him, 'What are you doing here Elijah?' And he replied, Same thing. 'I been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty, the Israelites have rejected your covenant, tore down the author, put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left and now they're trying to kill me. They're trying to kill me too.' The Lord said to him, 'Go back the way you came and go to the desert of Damascus. When you get there, Anoint Hazael King over Iram, also annoyed Jehu the son of Nimshi king of over Israel. Anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel-meholah to succeed you as prophet. Jehu will put to death any who escaped the sword of Hazael and Elisha will put to death any who escaped the sword of Jehu.Who yet I reserve 7,000 in Israel. All whose needs have not bowed down to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.'" The whole chapter Elijah is like, "Where is everybody? Where is every? I'm by myself." And God's like, I've got a remnant, they just haven't been awakened yet. That's kind of what's going on. There's a remnant but they haven't shown up yet. And God uses Elijah here to awaken these people out of apostasy, and that's what St. Paul is really talking about. We pray for revival, we pray for revival at this church, we pray for revival in Boston. Partially because historically speaking, this is a battleground, spiritually speaking in many ways. We pray for revival, but revival must always first come from the house of God. It must come first from our own hearts. And that's what the Old Testament is about, over and over and over.But not just paganism, but apostasy and they're different. An Apostate is one who at some point professed faith in God. Pagan just don't believe in God and the God of scripture, apostasy is at some point you believe, at some point your church believed that scripture, the Bible was the living word of God. At some point your church renounced it, your denomination renounced it and becomes apostate. That's what's going on here. Romans 11:4, but what is God's reply to him? "I've kept for myself 7,000 men who have not bowed the knee to Baal." 7,000 within that godless nation. They had not kept themselves for God, but God had kept them. When you look back at your life, do you view God's movement in your life like this? That it's God keeping you, that it's God protecting you. This is what Jesus Christ taught us to pray."Lead us not into temptation. Deliver us from evil. Lord, protect me. Protect me from sin. Lord, protect me from myself. Protect me from my spiritual lethargy. Lord, protect me." I do believe in the perseverance of the saints, but it's because I believe in the preservation of the saints. That whomever God does save, which is a miracle, he will continue that miracle all the way to heaven. Because whoever is truly a Christian is a walking miracle. Anyone, Every Christian is a walking miracle. It's the Holy Spirit did a miracle. And you recreated, you gave you a new heart. Verse five, "So too, at the present time there was a remnant chosen by grace." What does the word remnant mean? You ever think about that remnant? Well, it means fragment. It means scrap. Scripture has a lot of metaphors to explain Christians, seed left after the field has been plowed, drag's found to the bottom of a cup, loose ends that are only fit for a trash barrel. A stump left from a fell tree, drag's reserved by God in election.God doesn't choose the very best, no, he chooses the very worst. He's preserved his remnant, which he determined to redeem from the foundation of the world. This is why I do believe that the true faith of the church of Jesus Christ will continue until the end. We will never be erased, not the true chosen people of God. And Paul himself here is very hopeful for the people of God. He himself was disobedient and God saved him. If God could save someone as stubborn at St. Paul, God could save absolutely anybody. St. Paul was miraculously transformed from a ferocious wolf to a tamed sheep. He was the arch persecutor of the church and now becomes the apostle to the Gentiles. He knew God's mercy. And he's like, "If I got it, anyone can get it."And by the way, do you believe this? Do you view Christianity like this? Do you believe the gospel like the, salvation like this? "I can't believe I'm saved. And if God can save me, he can save absolutely everybody." Question, who are the least likely people on the planet to follow Jesus Christ? What group of people are the least likely to follow Jesus Christ? Well right up there I think, well whoever that is, that list, whatever your top five, your top 10, that's usually how God saves people. That's exactly who God is going to save. For me, I think that the least likely are Jewish people in New England. Jewish people in Brookline, Massachusetts. I think the least likely to become Christians, followers of God, I think the least likely. That's why I think God in his great humor has sent us here, just to see if this election stuff is true.I dare to test it. You know how? Share the gospel to Jewish people, share it. By the way, we as a church, we're positioned the best of anybody to share the gospel with Jewish people and share the good news with Jewish people. Because we literally tell, I do this all the time, I do this all the time. Because hey, "What do you do?" And I was like, "I'm a pastor." And they were like, "Where?" I was like, "Right here on Beacon Street, that massive building." He's like, "I've always wanted to go." "You should come, you should come. Sunday, 9:15, 11, you should come." God is doing a work, invite Jewish people to hear the gospel. And what is the gospel? What is the gospel? If you're Jewish, when you're like, all right, what's the gospel? Let's get the point. I'll tell you, the gospel is good news, Good news.Think of the best good news you've ever gotten, the best good news you've ever gotten. The first time, the best good news I can remember, the most tremendous news was when I made enough money to buy a car and I drove home in the Audi 80. That was tremendous news that I got to share with my friends. "Hey guys, I got a car, you don't." And that was tremendous news. Getting into college, that's always tremendous news, that's great. Getting engaged and you're like, "Hey, come to my wedding." That's great news. "We have a baby." That's tremendous news, tremendous news you... And usually the best news, it always has to do with people. It always has to do with relationships. Because look at the end of your life, you're going to be 95. You're going to be looking very, we all know this is so cliche, but you in the world, wind of life, you kind of forget.You're not going to be like, "I wish I worked hard at work. I wish I had made more money, I wish I'd bought more stuff, I wish I was more stylish, I wish I my percent body fat was lower, I wish I was." No, no one cares about. It's, "Who are the people I loved? And whom did I love?" It's all relationships. Well, scripture teaches us that the greatest relationship that is offered to us, the relationship with the God of the universe, has been severed by our own stubbornness. We're all stubborn. The fact that you don't think you are sinner proves the fact that you are a great sinner. Because when's the last time you have even considered the law of the living God? We don't. No one in our culture considers the law of God. That's how indifferent we are, that's how much we hate God. So obviously we're sinners, but God in this great love did not leave us in our sin.Sends his son Jesus Christ, God incarnate, who lives a perfect life, fulfills every single one of God's laws. Fulfills God's will even when he didn't want to, at that moment, when it matters most. The moment of garden of Gethsemane. "Lord, if there's any other way, let this cup pass from me, but not my will. Your will be done. That moment, every single one of us, we have crossed. "Lord, let this cup fast from me." And Lord says, "No." And you're saying, "See you." That sin turning your back on God, running away from God, carrying nothing for the things of God. And then Jesus Christ comes, he goes to the cross after Gethsemane, he pours out his blood, he's crucified, nails through his hands, through his feet. He's crucified by his very own Jewish people whom he loved. He was Jewish, they're Jewish.And then he's buried and he comes back from the dead and he promises whoever repent of sin, that's all you have to... All repentance is turning your heart from being away from God to God. That's all Elijah was doing. His whole job was to turn the hearts of the people of God back to God. Stop saying you love God with your words, but your whole life, when no one sees you, you're not a believer. So share the gospel. And this one of the thing I do hear from people. They say, "Well, Paul had a cool testimony. Other people have cool testimonies. Like if you're a drug addict or you killed someone and then you met Jesus and then you knew person, that's awesome, that's cool. But me, my testimony's so boring."My testimony like this is the way I used to think. I grew up in a Christian family, we went to church, we tried to read the Bible here and there, things like that. And I'm like, But yeah, I met God a few points in my life where it's clear God exists, got into his word, you get saved. Your testimony only is boring if you're not honest about how wicked you are. And it's hard to say how wicked you are out loud to people. It's hard to say, "I was up and then that thing, but Jesus delivered me from." It's hard to say, it's even harder to hear that personal. So I say you just use biblical words. Just use, "I was lost as a sheep and then Jesus went and he found," use biblical words, but share your story. At what moments in life that God really showed up really ministered to you. So that's my encouragement to do, share the gospel, preach the gospel, proclaim the gospel, use words to people, explain what the gospel is, and then lead them to scripture.Romans 11:6 through seven, "But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works otherwise grace would no longer be grace. What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking the elect obtain it, but the rest were hardened." Here he says that the due concepts grace and works, they're mutually exclusive as we have seen through this Epistle. Grace by definition is unmerited, you can't earn it. It's unearned, undeserved. And Paul makes it simple, it's one or the other. Our relationship with God is one or the other. It's based on one or the other. And our only hope is grace. And Paul is writing about the Jewish people as a whole, his kinsman, that they too can only be saved by grace. So the fact that you are ethnically Jewish does not necessarily put you in better terms relationship with God. No, it's only through race. It's only through Jesus Christ.Romans 11:8, "As it's written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear down to this very day." People of Israel were blinded because God made them blind, that's what he's saying. But their blindness is punishment for their sin. They didn't want to see God. God had given them his word and they rejected it. If you don't want to hear God's word and there are parts of God's word that is hard to hear, friends. You never graduate from that. If you get to a point where you don't want to hear the word of God, well be careful because God does make people deaf. If you keep pushing, you keep pushing, you keep resisting, you keep being stubborn and stiff neck, there will come a time where you just become deaf to the word of God. You want nothing to do with it, I've seen it. If you don't want to see the kingdom of God, whatever you see vaguely will be taken away.If you're not alive and energetic to the things of God, when the spirit of God whispers, when the spirit of God blows, be careful that God does not visit you with the spirit of lethargy, taking away from you whatever zeal was already given. And Paul hear cites David, who's speaking about the enemies of God and God's kingdom in Romans 11:9, And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap. And a stumbling block and a retribution for them. Let their eyes be dark and so that they cannot see and bend their backs forever." What's he talking about here? Well, it's the imagery of a table. Elsewhere in Psalm 23, David says, "You prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemies." What is this table? It's a banquet feast that God has prepared and it's visible to the enemies of the kingdom. So in a sense, at the banquet where God is over this banquet, the enemies of God can see in. And concerning this imagery, Luther said that ultimately the table is imagery of God's word. God's word is the feast at the table. That's the spread.The banquet feast is the oracles of God's word. They were given, not to the Assyrians or the Babylonians and the Acadians, but to the people of Israel. And they had the Oracles of God and David saw how's enemies hated the word of God. That's where he wrote. And Psalm 69:22, "May the table set before them become a snare and may it become retribution and a trap." Once God's enemies come to the table and they hear God's word and they see the sumptuous food, because of pride in their heart, rebellion against the God who has given this feast, that same food becomes a trap for them. A trap that pounces like a hammer on their heads. Luther looking at Psalm 69:22 said, "It's like the flower in the field whose nectar is used to make honey for the bee, but the nectar is poison to the spider."You're saying to those who are being saved, the word of God is sweetness and honey. But for those who are perishing, it is poison. And this is one of the challenges of preaching the gospel. This is one of the challenges of not just my job, but your job, our job as collectively as the people of God. We are to make disciples proclaiming the word of God. For some people, they receive it and it is sweet, it's so sweet. It's so sweet to see a new Christian. One of the sweetest things where you just see the scales fall off, the eyes becoming tendered to the word of God. Hungry, hungry, hungry, hungry, hungry questions just, it's one of the sweetest, sweetest things to see. And for some people that same exact message makes them want to fight. They want to fight. And usually... They don't want to really fight. They don't want to really fight.They want to fight on Google and Google reviews and things like that. But in a place like Boston, the odds are stacked against you. This is what Pastor Randy was talking about last week. You got to develop this tough skin of being able to take L's. Yeah, you share the gospel L, you share the gospel L. It's like nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. And then like statistically speaking, very few people of those to whom you're going to tell the word of God in the gospel, statistically very few are going to become Christians around you. Very few. But they're going to start paying attention. For now, they're going to start paying attention. And it takes years, sometimes takes decades. And the seeds you sew now, God's word does not return void. Romans 11:11, "So I asked, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means, rather through their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles, so has to make Israel jealous. Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their inclusion mean?"He's saying Israel's present bareness was brought with a blessing to the Gentiles. That Israel stumbled for that purpose. It's a clear pattern in these verses that there is this pendulum, as I was saying, of God's grace and it climaxes in history, in salvation history immediately before the return of Christ. That's what he's talking about. This time, Israel's sin is described as bringing blessings to the Gentiles. That's our age. While Israel's loss becomes Gentiles gain, but as redemptive historical, this pendulum swings back the other way. Israel's fullness will in turn serve to bring greater riches to the Gentiles. So Israel, people of God, chosen, Jesus comes, they rejected. Pendulum, swings to the gentiles, swinging to the Gentiles.And toward the end times, this is what he's saying, the pendulum comes back, comes back, comes back. And those Jewish people, ethically Jewish religiously at that time, God is going to bring a great revival amongst them. This is verse 13, "Now I'm speaking to you Gentiles, in as much then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous and thus save some of them. For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world." So they've been rejected so that we gentiles can be reconciled. "How much more so, that's what you say, what will their acceptance mean? But life from the dead." How can Paul equate Israel's future acceptance with the resurrection? What's the connection between Israel's future acception and the resurrection life from the dead?Well, the phrase life from the dead is, in a figurative expression, meaning that it's the reception of Israel that will bring this blessing, this new life. Israel's acceptance does not mark the beginning of a golden age, according to this text. So this, a lot of post-millennial people point to this text and they're like, Oh, this is where a thousand year reign of Christ that begins here. No, he's saying when the Jews, when there is this revival amongst the Jewish people, it marks the end. Israel's conversions assigned that this present evil age is about to come to an end with the resurrection.Israel's acceptance is in some way connected to the general resurrection at the end of the age. But this is all happening so Israel's fullness and acceptance will trigger that climactic end of salvation history. So he's saying the acceptance of Israel and the resurrection, they're interconnected. And when Israel is converted, the end of the age is at hand. So when you do start hearing about Jewish people getting saved on mass, you should start getting worried if you're not a Christian and you should get saved. But I'm telling you, I'm already hearing about it, I'm already seeing it. So if you're not yet a Christian, I'm telling you the end is near. It's very near. And also we don't know how much we have left the end for any one of us might be today. So repent for today is the day of salvation. Will there be a role for Israel in the future? Likely, yes.Immediately before the end of the age, huge numbers of ethnic Jews will come to faith in Jesus Christ and then become members of Christ's church. Their conversion will herald the coming of Jesus Christ in the end of the age. And until then, what is our job? Until then, we joined with Paul in his impassioned prayer in Romans 10:1, "Brothers and sisters, my heart's desire and prayer to God for the Israel is that, they may be saved." That's our heart's desire, that's our heart's desire for every single person to be saved.First Corinthians 15:20, "But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead. The first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through man. For as in Adam all dies, so in Christ all will be made alive. But each in turn Christ the first fruits, then when he comes, those who belong to him, then the end will come. When he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. Pretty much reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet, the last enemy to be destroyed is death for he has put everything under his feet."In conclusion, Romans 10:11 tells us that there is a remnant, who's chosen by grace. And this was what Elijah was wrestling with. He's like, "Lord, I'm the only one, I'm the only one. They've killed everyone else." And then God's like, "I've got 7,000, relax." But the thing with Elijah is, the 7,000 weren't really helpful. And I wonder how many Christians like that are in Boston. I wonder because a friend text me, he is like, "Do you have any demographics of recently in churches?" And I was like, "Look man, every pastor I talk to looks like they've been like band of brothers, they just got back from World War II. COVID just diminished every church, just everyone's like barely hanging out." I was like, I don't care about demographics, I don't care about people who identify as Christians. I don't care about any of that. I care about the fruit. What's the fruit? The fruit I want to see is how many faithfully committed Christians are there in attendance today in churches in Greater Boston? How many?If you go around in every single church in Boston, Greater Boston, how many? Can we get 7,000? Can we get 7,000 men? Well, I believe that there is a remnant. But there's just a call to the remnant that is dormant. And I say this because, let me just connect this to football real quick. You know how in Texas football is amazing, Texas, Florida all down to Alabama, they've got third graders that could probably be in the NFL. I don't know what they're... So like huge stadiums, they got professional coaches and I'm from Rhode Island I played football in a school where no one played football. It's like whoever shows up, that's the team. And we never had enough people to play. So whoever signed up played every single position. So since freshman year, I played every single position. On offense, I was a lineman, on defense, I was a middle linebacker. On punt return, I was the returner kick. And I was the kicker on top of all that.And then when I got to senior year and our team stunk, and I remember my coach pulling me aside and he said, "Jan, I'm so sorry." I said, "What for coach? For you being an alcoholic?" And he said, "No, not for that." I said, "What you?" He said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry you didn't go to high school in Texas." Tremendous, a lot of support, a lot of infrastructure. That's kind of what the church situation is. Boston compared to other parts of the country. If you come from here, if you come and you're like, "Yeah, I'm only here for a year, I'm only here for two years, you know what? Boston's not really home." And then home is always back there. And you come here and you come to church here and you take, and you take and you take, everyone else who lives here is like, "You know what? I'm tired. I'm like Elijah, I'm like, Lord, kill me, kill me, please." Not me. Elijah.But that's the general. So this is my appeal to you, dormant remnant. If you are a Christian, you're like, "I am a believer, but I think I've been to sleep. I haven't read my Bible, I don't have ears to hear, I have a spirit of stupor. When I pray it seems like I'm just speaking to the ceiling." I guess the spirit of stupor, it is demonic. If there is a remnant and you're hearing my voice, I am calling you, I'm summoning the elect. I'm summoning the elect to you be faithful where you are. Be faithful to the Lord. If you really are elect, understand what that means, what kind of great gift that, and it comes with responsibilities to share the gospel with those who don't yet know the Lord. So I'll ask you the question of Elijah. If you're like, "I'm not sure, am I elect? Am I dormant? Am I not a Christian?"Well, I'll ask you the question, Elijah, how long will you waiver between two opinions? The Lord is God, follow him. If Baal is God, follow him. Is God the primary orienter of your life? Is he the true north star of your life? That everything is aligned according to God and his word. If not, then you're following something else. If God is Lord, follow him. Romans 10:9 through 13, "Because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart, one believes and is justified and with the mouth, one confesses and is saved. For the scripture says, Everyone who believes in him will not be put the shame for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. For everyone who calls in the name of the Lord will be saved."Everyone, Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. So today, friends call on the name of the Lord and as we transition to holy communion, call on the name of Jesus Christ, we're remembering him today. He said, Do to this in remembrance of me, of his person, of who he was, of his character, of who he is, of his word, of what he taught, of his sacrifice on the cross for us. For whom is holy communion. It's for repentant Christians, it's for this remnants, for the elect who repent of sin and follow Jesus faithfully. And when you stumble, you repent, you get up and you ask for grace. So if you're not a Christian, if you today do not respond to the gospel call. If you do not repent of sin and trust in Jesus, we ask that you refrain from this part of the service, this is for believers in Christ.And if you are a Christian living in sin, known sin that you have not repented of, we call you to repentance and leave that sin and then you're welcome partake. And if you don't repent and leave that sin, don't partake in this, it won't be helpful. It might actually cause physical harm according to first Corinthians 11. "For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread. When he had given thanks, he broke it and said, 'This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.' In the same way also, he took the cup after supper saying, 'The cup is the new covenant in my blood, do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me.' For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.Whoever therefore eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a person examine himself then, so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself. That is why many of you are weak and ill and some have died. But if we judged ourselves truly we would not be judged, but when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world. So then my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another if anyone's hungry, let them eat at home so that when you come together, it will be not be for judgment about the other things that will give directions when I come."If you would like to participate in holy community, you haven't received the elements, please raise your hand when the ushers will hand you one. I actually need one too. I forgot mine. Thanks. Actually I'll take two, I'll take two, I'll take two. One for a second service. Perfect. Would you please pray with me over Holy communion. Heavenly Father, as we today meditate on the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ on the cross, we don't meditate on it just to feel bad for the physical anguish that you went through. And we meditate on it because Jesus, you won. You conquered Satan sin and death on the cross. We worship a God who conquered evil. We thank you Jesus that you today, the resurrected Christ, that you're seated at the right hand of God, the Father, and that we can commune with you, we can bow our hearts at the altar right before you're throne. We can get on our knees, we can ask for forgiveness and you grant it to us.Because of your victory on the cross, because of your victorious sacrifice. Lord, I pray today by the power of the Spirit that you increase our zeal, every single one of us. Make us the people who, like, Elijah are willing to suffer anything so that your name will not be defamed. Jesus, we thank you for dying on the cross for our sins, bearing our penalty and shame, and we worship you now. We thank you for your body, we thank you for your blood and we thank you for the spirit of God that is amongst us. And we pray this in Jesus name. Amen.On the night that Jesus Christ was betrayed, he took the bread and after breaking he said, This is my body broken for you. Take eat and do this in remembrance of me. Then proceed to take the cup. He said, "This cup is the cup of the new covenant in my blood, which poured out for the sins of many. Take drink and do this in remembrance of me. If today is the first time you've received the Lord Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, would love to pray with you after the service. Pastor Andy will be right up here, or if you just want to talk more about the faith, we'd love to answer any questions. With that said, would you please pray with me as we continue our service?Lord, we worship you. We worship you for the God that you are the greatness of your glory, your blazing holiness, your totally otherness transcendence, and yet you bow down and you came down to us. We thank you Jesus for that. And I pray Jesus, that you make us people who want to share the good news just because we're thrilled about it. What incredible deal it really is, because of the work of Christ we can bring you our sin and you forgive us and we become yours. And now you reorder our lives, reorder the chaos of our lives by your word. And I pray you continue to do that, and I pray that you receive our worship now with heartfelt gratitude. We pray this in Jesus name. Amen.

Audio Transcript: This media has been made available by Mosaic Boston Church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Boston and our neighborhood churches, or donate to this ministry, please visit mosaicboston.com. Heavenly Father, we are so thankful to you for this morning, for this life you've given us. Another opportunity today is to worship you, to glorify you with everything we have. Everything we have is yours, everything, absolutely everything. The only thing we can take responsibility for is our own sin and our own folly. Everything else, Lord is from you, so we thank you for life and we thank you for the opportunity to be redeemed, reconciled, restored, for the opportunity to be welcomed into your family, adopted as sons and daughters regenerated by the power of the Spirit. Holy Spirit, we pray for a special anointing upon each one of us today. I pray if there's anyone who's not yet a believer, I pray, speak to them in a very, very clear way so they know that it's your voice, it's not a man's voice. In the same way that Elijah heard from you in the whisper, I pray, whisper, whisper words of salvation. And we pray, Holy Spirit of blessed our time in the word for those who are elect. And in this general vicinity, I pray that you draw them to gospel proclaiming churches. I pray that they not be dormant in their faith, in particular as the days are growing darker. Lord Jesus, bless our time in the holy scriptures of praises in Jesus name, Amen. We're continuing our sermon series through Romans, which has been incredible. And the title of the sermon today is Awakened Oh You Dormant Remnant. As you watch the news and you see everything's going on and questions arise, are we living in the end times? Well, it's a question that's always been asked by Christians in all ages, and many answers to this question may be found locked in our text today in Romans 11 and then in the next couple weeks. But when people ask questions like, Are we on the brink of World War3? Only Lord knows. But it's the natural state of the fallen heart to say, Jesus, everything's falling apart. Everything around us right about now would be a tremendous time to come back. Can you please come back and fix everything? And I understand this heart cry of lament, but we as the people of God, we can't stay there. We can't sit on our hands waiting for Jesus to come back and fix everything. When Jesus is like, "Hey, I've literally given you the game plan. I've given you the strategy of how to fix everything." And then once you start implementing the game plan, then Jesus comes back. He said, "Preach the gospel of the kingdom in the whole world." This is Matthew 24:14. "And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations and then the end will come." The gospel will be preached in the whole world. So our job, when we start thinking, "Oh my, this might be the end times." Our job as Christians to say, "Hey, am I preaching the gospel?" In particular in a place like Boston? I remember and when God called me the seminary and called me at the vocational ministry, I was like, "Lord, you know what? I'll do it as long as you come back during my lifetime. Just so I'm alive, just so I see Jesus Christ with the flaming sword. I want to be around for that." Just to be like, Ah, I told everyone. We were right. But in seminary they said, You got to preach the gospel to the whole world. And I said, "What? How can I do that? I can't do that." But I know a place where people from all over the world come, and that's Boston, Massachusetts. We're here and we are called to preach the gospel even when everything else is falling apart. And the gospel is very simple. The gospel is, God created you to worship him, we're to worship the king, King Jesus. We are to follow his world and build up his kingdom by following his word. And this is what St. Paul is doing as he's giving us a blueprint in the book of Romans of how to rebuild society. That's what Christianity is. Christianity is how can we recreate humanity? How can we have a humanity within the humanity, a city within the city, a people within a people who live life completely differently, live life in submission to God? And Romans nine, Paul establishes the fact, well, it's God's grace, we need God's grace. If anything's going to change, if we're going to do any kingdom work, if the church is going to grow, we need God's grace. And he establishes the principle of salvation is based only upon God's grace. Election isn't foresee on works or good faith, it's just that God chooses people, that's what grace is. Can you ever earn more grace? That's not a trick question. Can you ever earn more grace? No, we can't. We can never earn more grace. That's what he says, it's all grace. So God pours out grace. And the question is in Romans 10, what about the Jewish people? What about the remnant? And Paul says, it's still grace. They get saved, Jewish people in the same way the Gentiles get saved, it's all grace. Israel's problem says Paul is not a lack of zeal but a lack of knowledge. And as a result, Israel sought to establish a righteousness of their own through works and not through grace. And this was part of the divine purpose so that as Gentiles come to faith in Israel's God, this Jewish people are like, "We're are the chosen people." And then gentiles are come into faith and they're like, "Actually, we're the chosen people because we follow Jesus. He made us the chosen people and you're saved by grace through faith." And then the Jews are like, "Hey, that's not fair." And they're provoked, and Pastor Andy and the sermon last week had this incredible illustration about his two daughters, Clara and Audrey. Clara, he said, "Hey, come in for a hug." And she's like, Eh. Because she's taken her father's love for granted, not the fresh baby, not Audrey. She's like, oh, and then Clara is provoked. That's what's going on with Gentiles. This pendulum of grace that Israel had the gospel, they had grace and then they lost it. And then the pendulum of grace goes to the Gentiles. And then St. Paul says in chapter 11 that this pendulum of grace is going to swing to the Jews again. Romans 1:1 through 15. Sorry, I'm speaking really fast, there's a lot in this text and I want to cover all of it, that's my ambition. So would you pay attention with me? Romans chapter 11:1 through 15, "I asked then has God rejected his people? By no means for myself am and Israelite a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel? 'Lord, they've killed your prophets, they've demolished your altars, and I alone and left and they seek my life.'" "But what is God's reply to him? 'I've kept for myself 7,000 men who have not bowed the knee to Baal. So to at the present time, there is a remnant chosen by grace. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works otherwise grace would no longer be grace. What then Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking, the elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened. As it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear down to this very day.' And David says, 'Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them. Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see and bend their backs forever.' So I asked, did they stumble in order that they might fall by no means? Rather though through their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentile so as to make Israel jealous." "Now, if they're trespassed means riches for the world and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean? Now I'm speaking to you gentiles, in as much then as I am and apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous and thus save some of them. But if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean? But life from the dead?" This is the reading of God's holy inherent infallible authoritative word may write these eternal truths upon our hearts. We'll just walk through the text today given that this is a text about eschatology. So when speaking about eschatology, eschatology is the knowledge or the science of the eschaton, which is the end times. Whenever speaking on things like this, it's very important to be precise. And the text has to do with future prophecies found in the Bible, both old and new testaments. And it has to do with the end times. One biblical scholar said that two thirds of the doctrinal matter in the New Testament focuses one way or another on eschatology. Now if you're aware of Christianity, if you spent time in churches, you're probably familiar that there are many camps when it comes to the end times. There's the post-millennialism, the pre-millennialism, the amillennialism, the preterism, partial-preterismism, dispensationalism, et cetera. And how we understand eschatology to a large degree is connected to how we understand Romans 11. And this is what the chapter's about. Much of the dispute about his eschatology is, hey, what happens to Jewish people in the end? What happens to the people of God? That's really the question that he is wrestling with here in the end times. Romans 11:1, "I ask then, has God rejected is people?" It's a rhetorical question. In the old Testament times, Israel was called out of paganism and they were set apart to be the people of God. That God says, "You are now mine. Your lives will be patterned according to my character. You will live in a way that is going to bring peace, shalom, not just to your own life, but to life of your marriage and life of your family and the life of your community." And that was the people of God. There was a theocratic nation with God as its ultimate king. And Israel was given a mandate and a destiny and Paul earlier lamented, "Hey, did God reject his people completely?" Well he says, "No." Verse one, "I ask then, has God rejected his people? By no means, for I, myself am an Israel, a descendant of Israel, a member of the tribe of Benjamin." He's saying God is not categorically rejected the Jewish people. And here he argues from the lesser to the greater. He said, if God had rejected all the Jews, then he would've rejected Paul. But Paul was a Jew so, he's living, breathing, writing proof that God hasn't rejected the Jews just because of their ethnicity. Paul cites his pedigree, including a brief recounting of his background, traces a roots to the tribe of Benjamin all the way to Abraham. Verse two, "God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew." That's really the issue. He says, "Who are the chosen people?" It's not people who are born into a Jewish family. It's not people who identify as being Jewish. It's not people who identify as being Christian. That's not what saves anybody. What saves a person is repentance of faith. King Jesus, I have sinned against your law, have violated it, I have broken your code, your moral commandments. I have not loved God with all my heart, soul, strength and might. I have not loved neighbor as myself. When you repent of sin and you're drawn to God by the power of the Holy Spirit, sometimes it happens immediately and dramatically and you're a brand new person within five seconds. I haven't seen that happen often in Boston. Mostly in Boston, it's very progressive. It's you come, you listen, you read scripture, you meditate, you think, you ask God, you have conversation, you wrestle. And then after a while you don't know when you became a believer, but you say, "You know what I think I believe in Jesus Christ. I have repented my sin, I've accepted grace." You are part of these people that God has foreknew. That's what he's saying, that God is incapable of rejecting people whom he foreknew from the foundation of the world. Here he brings the concept of election to the Jewish people. Earlier he wrote in Romans 9:6, "It is not as though God's word had failed, for not all who are descended from Israel are Israel." That circumcision doesn't save a person, going to mass doesn't save a person, going to religious building doesn't save anybody, it doesn't save you from the wrath of God that we have earned. We have incurred through our law breaking. So what we need is grace. That's what he is talking about. And it's a grace that is completely under the sovereign will of God. So God hasn't finally rejected the Jews, Paul's living proof of that. So was the early church. The early church were mostly Jewish people. Jesus was Jewish, the disciples are Jewish. Most of the 500 eyewitnesses of Jesus Christ upon the resurrection were Jewish. And I don't mean like Jewish, I mean like religious Jews. And the fact that, and I marvel at this, the fact that Mosaic Boston meets in a synagogue every Sunday is weekly proof for the veracity of the historical bodily resurrection of Christ. And here's what I mean. Jewish people worship their Lord on what day? On Saturday. Well, they're not using the building on Sundays. So that's how we got in. Well, why are we worshiping God on a Sunday? Because the early Jews were told by Jesus Christ when he came back from the dead, "Hi, I am the Messiah and I came back from the dead. So that proves that everything I said is true. I am God, and now you'll worship me on the resurrection, day on Sundays." And this is how Paul did ministry, he would go to synagogues one day would meet and preach the gospel. So Romans 11:2 B, he continues, "Do not know what the scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel. Lord, they've killed your prophets, they've demolished your altars. And I alone him left and they seek my life." As is his custom, Paul often appeals to the Old Testament, to bolster the point. He's saying, "I'm not making this up. It's all in the Bible. Just read it. Read scripture, you'll understand God." In one of Israel's darkest hours, God preserved a believing remnant. There were people who were followers of God only because God preserved them. That's what he said. So this cry from the prophet of Elijah comes perhaps during the worst time of Apostacy in all of Old Testament Israel. So Elijah makes a plea, this plea while Ahab was the king. Ahab was married to Jezebel who was not a Christian. Jezebel was a priestess of the cult of Baal. So Ahab was to marry someone who worship Yahweh, who worshiped God, no, he married someone who worshiped Baal. And then little by little she had influence over the king and she invited pagan idolators into the royal house and persuaded Ahab to sanction all kinds of idolatrous religion. And under Ahab and Jebel, there was a massive persecution of the true believers of God. And a lot of the Jewish places of worship were destroyed. So Elijah had enough. Elijah gets to this point where he is like, I'd rather die than see the people of God hiding. I'd rather die than see the name of God defamed. It's kind of what happens when David, Young David, like David, Goliath, David. When he comes in and he goes to visit his brothers and he sees the army of Israel and then he sees the army of the Philistines, then he sees Goliath come out and for 40 days and 40 nights he came out and he cursed the name of God. Well there was a zeal kindled in the heart of David and he's like, "Hey, I love God and these people are cursing, God, I would rather die. I don't know... and I'm going to toss these stones with everything I've got at Goliath and if I die, I die." That's kind of the mindset of the zeal of God and the heart of Elijah where he's like, "You know what? I'm done with these priests of Baal. Hey, let's have a challenge. Let's have a prayer off. Let's see, God is real. So he challenges the prophets of Baal to this fair off in 1King's 18:27 through 29. The prophets of Baal. They build their little altar and then they're going around, and at noon, Elijah began to taunt them. They've been shouting for hours, "Shout louder. He said, Surely he is a God. Perhaps he's deep in thought or busy." That's a nice way in the English of translating that he's relieving himself or traveling maybe he's sleeping and must be awakened. "So they shouted louder and slashed themselves with sword and spears as was their custom until their blood flowed. Midday passed and they continued their frantic prophesying until the time for the evening sacrifice. But there was no response, no one answered, no one paid attention." And then Elijah orders that the altar be doused with water. And then he saturates it with prayer and he begs God to send fire from heaven. The Lord God omnipotent sends fire from heaven that consumes the whole altar. And in the midst of Israel's hellish reversion to paganism, Elijah leads this revival because he got exhausted with seeing the name of God defamed. That's what happened in 1King's 18, huge win, huge win. Fire from heaven, huge win Elijah, you should go celebrate. Like this is the time you take a cruise or something, whatever prophets do. He doesn't. He falls into some kind of spiritual lament. He's exhausted with living, he's in this midst he cries out to God in first King's 19, "Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, 'Made the god's deal with me, be ever so severely if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.'" So this same guy who just saw fire come from heaven gets a death threat from Jezebel and says verse three, "Elijah was afraid and ran for his life when he came to Beersheba and Judah, he left his servant there. And while he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness." "He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. 'I've had enough Lord, he said, Take my life. I am no better than my ancestors.' Then he laid down under the bush and fell asleep." Have you ever been there? We all have been there. We've all been on our side in a fetal position on the floor in a small room. We have been "God, I've had enough. Please nothing. Please take me, take me, I'm ready to go." And then says, "All at once an angel touched him and said, 'Get up and eat.'" Oh, he was just hungry. He was just, oh, he just needed some carbs. "So an angel comes, he looks around and thereby his head was some bread baked over hot coals and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then laid down. The angel of the Lord came back a second time and touched him and said, 'Get up and eat for the journey is too much for you.'" "So he got up and ate and drank, strengthened by that food, he's traveled 40 days and 40 nights until he reached Horeb the mountain of God. There he went into a cave and spent the night. And the word of the Lord came to him, 'What are you doing here, Elijah?' He replied, 'I've been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelis have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left and now they are trying to kill me too.' The Lord said, 'Go and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord. For the Lord is about to pass by.' Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart. And shattered the rocks before the Lord. But the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper, Elijah heard it. He pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then the voice said to him, 'What are you doing here Elijah?' And he replied, Same thing. 'I been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty, the Israelites have rejected your covenant, tore down the author, put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left and now they're trying to kill me. They're trying to kill me too.' The Lord said to him, 'Go back the way you came and go to the desert of Damascus. When you get there, Anoint Hazael King over Iram, also annoyed Jehu the son of Nimshi king of over Israel. Anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel-meholah to succeed you as prophet. Jehu will put to death any who escaped the sword of Hazael and Elisha will put to death any who escaped the sword of Jehu. Who yet I reserve 7,000 in Israel. All whose needs have not bowed down to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.'" The whole chapter Elijah is like, "Where is everybody? Where is every? I'm by myself." And God's like, I've got a remnant, they just haven't been awakened yet. That's kind of what's going on. There's a remnant but they haven't shown up yet. And God uses Elijah here to awaken these people out of apostasy, and that's what St. Paul is really talking about. We pray for revival, we pray for revival at this church, we pray for revival in Boston. Partially because historically speaking, this is a battleground, spiritually speaking in many ways. We pray for revival, but revival must always first come from the house of God. It must come first from our own hearts. And that's what the Old Testament is about, over and over and over. But not just paganism, but apostasy and they're different. An Apostate is one who at some point professed faith in God. Pagan just don't believe in God and the God of scripture, apostasy is at some point you believe, at some point your church believed that scripture, the Bible was the living word of God. At some point your church renounced it, your denomination renounced it and becomes apostate. That's what's going on here. Romans 11:4, but what is God's reply to him? "I've kept for myself 7,000 men who have not bowed the knee to Baal." 7,000 within that godless nation. They had not kept themselves for God, but God had kept them. When you look back at your life, do you view God's movement in your life like this? That it's God keeping you, that it's God protecting you. This is what Jesus Christ taught us to pray. "Lead us not into temptation. Deliver us from evil. Lord, protect me. Protect me from sin. Lord, protect me from myself. Protect me from my spiritual lethargy. Lord, protect me." I do believe in the perseverance of the saints, but it's because I believe in the preservation of the saints. That whomever God does save, which is a miracle, he will continue that miracle all the way to heaven. Because whoever is truly a Christian is a walking miracle. Anyone, Every Christian is a walking miracle. It's the Holy Spirit did a miracle. And you recreated, you gave you a new heart. Verse five, "So too, at the present time there was a remnant chosen by grace." What does the word remnant mean? You ever think about that remnant? Well, it means fragment. It means scrap. Scripture has a lot of metaphors to explain Christians, seed left after the field has been plowed, drag's found to the bottom of a cup, loose ends that are only fit for a trash barrel. A stump left from a fell tree, drag's reserved by God in election. God doesn't choose the very best, no, he chooses the very worst. He's preserved his remnant, which he determined to redeem from the foundation of the world. This is why I do believe that the true faith of the church of Jesus Christ will continue until the end. We will never be erased, not the true chosen people of God. And Paul himself here is very hopeful for the people of God. He himself was disobedient and God saved him. If God could save someone as stubborn at St. Paul, God could save absolutely anybody. St. Paul was miraculously transformed from a ferocious wolf to a tamed sheep. He was the arch persecutor of the church and now becomes the apostle to the Gentiles. He knew God's mercy. And he's like, "If I got it, anyone can get it." And by the way, do you believe this? Do you view Christianity like this? Do you believe the gospel like the, salvation like this? "I can't believe I'm saved. And if God can save me, he can save absolutely everybody." Question, who are the least likely people on the planet to follow Jesus Christ? What group of people are the least likely to follow Jesus Christ? Well right up there I think, well whoever that is, that list, whatever your top five, your top 10, that's usually how God saves people. That's exactly who God is going to save. For me, I think that the least likely are Jewish people in New England. Jewish people in Brookline, Massachusetts. I think the least likely to become Christians, followers of God, I think the least likely. That's why I think God in his great humor has sent us here, just to see if this election stuff is true. I dare to test it. You know how? Share the gospel to Jewish people, share it. By the way, we as a church, we're positioned the best of anybody to share the gospel with Jewish people and share the good news with Jewish people. Because we literally tell, I do this all the time, I do this all the time. Because hey, "What do you do?" And I was like, "I'm a pastor." And they were like, "Where?" I was like, "Right here on Beacon Street, that massive building." He's like, "I've always wanted to go." "You should come, you should come. Sunday, 9:15, 11, you should come." God is doing a work, invite Jewish people to hear the gospel. And what is the gospel? What is the gospel? If you're Jewish, when you're like, all right, what's the gospel? Let's get the point. I'll tell you, the gospel is good news, Good news. Think of the best good news you've ever gotten, the best good news you've ever gotten. The first time, the best good news I can remember, the most tremendous news was when I made enough money to buy a car and I drove home in the Audi 80. That was tremendous news that I got to share with my friends. "Hey guys, I got a car, you don't." And that was tremendous news. Getting into college, that's always tremendous news, that's great. Getting engaged and you're like, "Hey, come to my wedding." That's great news. "We have a baby." That's tremendous news, tremendous news you... And usually the best news, it always has to do with people. It always has to do with relationships. Because look at the end of your life, you're going to be 95. You're going to be looking very, we all know this is so cliche, but you in the world, wind of life, you kind of forget. You're not going to be like, "I wish I worked hard at work. I wish I had made more money, I wish I'd bought more stuff, I wish I was more stylish, I wish I my percent body fat was lower, I wish I was." No, no one cares about. It's, "Who are the people I loved? And whom did I love?" It's all relationships. Well, scripture teaches us that the greatest relationship that is offered to us, the relationship with the God of the universe, has been severed by our own stubbornness. We're all stubborn. The fact that you don't think you are sinner proves the fact that you are a great sinner. Because when's the last time you have even considered the law of the living God? We don't. No one in our culture considers the law of God. That's how indifferent we are, that's how much we hate God. So obviously we're sinners, but God in this great love did not leave us in our sin. Sends his son Jesus Christ, God incarnate, who lives a perfect life, fulfills every single one of God's laws. Fulfills God's will even when he didn't want to, at that moment, when it matters most. The moment of garden of Gethsemane. "Lord, if there's any other way, let this cup pass from me, but not my will. Your will be done. That moment, every single one of us, we have crossed. "Lord, let this cup fast from me." And Lord says, "No." And you're saying, "See you." That sin turning your back on God, running away from God, carrying nothing for the things of God. And then Jesus Christ comes, he goes to the cross after Gethsemane, he pours out his blood, he's crucified, nails through his hands, through his feet. He's crucified by his very own Jewish people whom he loved. He was Jewish, they're Jewish. And then he's buried and he comes back from the dead and he promises whoever repent of sin, that's all you have to... All repentance is turning your heart from being away from God to God. That's all Elijah was doing. His whole job was to turn the hearts of the people of God back to God. Stop saying you love God with your words, but your whole life, when no one sees you, you're not a believer. So share the gospel. And this one of the thing I do hear from people. They say, "Well, Paul had a cool testimony. Other people have cool testimonies. Like if you're a drug addict or you killed someone and then you met Jesus and then you knew person, that's awesome, that's cool. But me, my testimony's so boring." My testimony like this is the way I used to think. I grew up in a Christian family, we went to church, we tried to read the Bible here and there, things like that. And I'm like, But yeah, I met God a few points in my life where it's clear God exists, got into his word, you get saved. Your testimony only is boring if you're not honest about how wicked you are. And it's hard to say how wicked you are out loud to people. It's hard to say, "I was up and then that thing, but Jesus delivered me from." It's hard to say, it's even harder to hear that personal. So I say you just use biblical words. Just use, "I was lost as a sheep and then Jesus went and he found," use biblical words, but share your story. At what moments in life that God really showed up really ministered to you. So that's my encouragement to do, share the gospel, preach the gospel, proclaim the gospel, use words to people, explain what the gospel is, and then lead them to scripture. Romans 11:6 through seven, "But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works otherwise grace would no longer be grace. What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking the elect obtain it, but the rest were hardened." Here he says that the due concepts grace and works, they're mutually exclusive as we have seen through this Epistle. Grace by definition is unmerited, you can't earn it. It's unearned, undeserved. And Paul makes it simple, it's one or the other. Our relationship with God is one or the other. It's based on one or the other. And our only hope is grace. And Paul is writing about the Jewish people as a whole, his kinsman, that they too can only be saved by grace. So the fact that you are ethnically Jewish does not necessarily put you in better terms relationship with God. No, it's only through race. It's only through Jesus Christ. Romans 11:8, "As it's written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear down to this very day." People of Israel were blinded because God made them blind, that's what he's saying. But their blindness is punishment for their sin. They didn't want to see God. God had given them his word and they rejected it. If you don't want to hear God's word and there are parts of God's word that is hard to hear, friends. You never graduate from that. If you get to a point where you don't want to hear the word of God, well be careful because God does make people deaf. If you keep pushing, you keep pushing, you keep resisting, you keep being stubborn and stiff neck, there will come a time where you just become deaf to the word of God. You want nothing to do with it, I've seen it. If you don't want to see the kingdom of God, whatever you see vaguely will be taken away. If you're not alive and energetic to the things of God, when the spirit of God whispers, when the spirit of God blows, be careful that God does not visit you with the spirit of lethargy, taking away from you whatever zeal was already given. And Paul hear cites David, who's speaking about the enemies of God and God's kingdom in Romans 11:9, And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap. And a stumbling block and a retribution for them. Let their eyes be dark and so that they cannot see and bend their backs forever." What's he talking about here? Well, it's the imagery of a table. Elsewhere in Psalm 23, David says, "You prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemies." What is this table? It's a banquet feast that God has prepared and it's visible to the enemies of the kingdom. So in a sense, at the banquet where God is over this banquet, the enemies of God can see in. And concerning this imagery, Luther said that ultimately the table is imagery of God's word. God's word is the feast at the table. That's the spread. The banquet feast is the oracles of God's word. They were given, not to the Assyrians or the Babylonians and the Acadians, but to the people of Israel. And they had the Oracles of God and David saw how's enemies hated the word of God. That's where he wrote. And Psalm 69:22, "May the table set before them become a snare and may it become retribution and a trap." Once God's enemies come to the table and they hear God's word and they see the sumptuous food, because of pride in their heart, rebellion against the God who has given this feast, that same food becomes a trap for them. A trap that pounces like a hammer on their heads. Luther looking at Psalm 69:22 said, "It's like the flower in the field whose nectar is used to make honey for the bee, but the nectar is poison to the spider." You're saying to those who are being saved, the word of God is sweetness and honey. But for those who are perishing, it is poison. And this is one of the challenges of preaching the gospel. This is one of the challenges of not just my job, but your job, our job as collectively as the people of God. We are to make disciples proclaiming the word of God. For some people, they receive it and it is sweet, it's so sweet. It's so sweet to see a new Christian. One of the sweetest things where you just see the scales fall off, the eyes becoming tendered to the word of God. Hungry, hungry, hungry, hungry, hungry questions just, it's one of the sweetest, sweetest things to see. And for some people that same exact message makes them want to fight. They want to fight. And usually... They don't want to really fight. They don't want to really fight. They want to fight on Google and Google reviews and things like that. But in a place like Boston, the odds are stacked against you. This is what Pastor Randy was talking about last week. You got to develop this tough skin of being able to take L's. Yeah, you share the gospel L, you share the gospel L. It's like nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. And then like statistically speaking, very few people of those to whom you're going to tell the word of God in the gospel, statistically very few are going to become Christians around you. Very few. But they're going to start paying attention. For now, they're going to start paying attention. And it takes years, sometimes takes decades. And the seeds you sew now, God's word does not return void. Romans 11:11, "So I asked, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means, rather through their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles, so has to make Israel jealous. Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their inclusion mean?" He's saying Israel's present bareness was brought with a blessing to the Gentiles. That Israel stumbled for that purpose. It's a clear pattern in these verses that there is this pendulum, as I was saying, of God's grace and it climaxes in history, in salvation history immediately before the return of Christ. That's what he's talking about. This time, Israel's sin is described as bringing blessings to the Gentiles. That's our age. While Israel's loss becomes Gentiles gain, but as redemptive historical, this pendulum swings back the other way. Israel's fullness will in turn serve to bring greater riches to the Gentiles. So Israel, people of God, chosen, Jesus comes, they rejected. Pendulum, swings to the gentiles, swinging to the Gentiles. And toward the end times, this is what he's saying, the pendulum comes back, comes back, comes back. And those Jewish people, ethically Jewish religiously at that time, God is going to bring a great revival amongst them. This is verse 13, "Now I'm speaking to you Gentiles, in as much then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous and thus save some of them. For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world." So they've been rejected so that we gentiles can be reconciled. "How much more so, that's what you say, what will their acceptance mean? But life from the dead." How can Paul equate Israel's future acceptance with the resurrection? What's the connection between Israel's future acception and the resurrection life from the dead? Well, the phrase life from the dead is, in a figurative expression, meaning that it's the reception of Israel that will bring this blessing, this new life. Israel's acceptance does not mark the beginning of a golden age, according to this text. So this, a lot of post-millennial people point to this text and they're like, Oh, this is where a thousand year reign of Christ that begins here. No, he's saying when the Jews, when there is this revival amongst the Jewish people, it marks the end. Israel's conversions assigned that this present evil age is about to come to an end with the resurrection. Israel's acceptance is in some way connected to the general resurrection at the end of the age. But this is all happening so Israel's fullness and acceptance will trigger that climactic end of salvation history. So he's saying the acceptance of Israel and the resurrection, they're interconnected. And when Israel is converted, the end of the age is at hand. So when you do start hearing about Jewish people getting saved on mass, you should start getting worried if you're not a Christian and you should get saved. But I'm telling you, I'm already hearing about it, I'm already seeing it. So if you're not yet a Christian, I'm telling you the end is near. It's very near. And also we don't know how much we have left the end for any one of us might be today. So repent for today is the day of salvation. Will there be a role for Israel in the future? Likely, yes. Immediately before the end of the age, huge numbers of ethnic Jews will come to faith in Jesus Christ and then become members of Christ's church. Their conversion will herald the coming of Jesus Christ in the end of the age. And until then, what is our job? Until then, we joined with Paul in his impassioned prayer in Romans 10:1, "Brothers and sisters, my heart's desire and prayer to God for the Israel is that, they may be saved." That's our heart's desire, that's our heart's desire for every single person to be saved. First Corinthians 15:20, "But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead. The first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through man. For as in Adam all dies, so in Christ all will be made alive. But each in turn Christ the first fruits, then when he comes, those who belong to him, then the end will come. When he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. Pretty much reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet, the last enemy to be destroyed is death for he has put everything under his feet." In conclusion, Romans 10:11 tells us that there is a remnant, who's chosen by grace. And this was what Elijah was wrestling with. He's like, "Lord, I'm the only one, I'm the only one. They've killed everyone else." And then God's like, "I've got 7,000, relax." But the thing with Elijah is, the 7,000 weren't really helpful. And I wonder how many Christians like that are in Boston. I wonder because a friend text me, he is like, "Do you have any demographics of recently in churches?" And I was like, "Look man, every pastor I talk to looks like they've been like band of brothers, they just got back from World War II. COVID just diminished every church, just everyone's like barely hanging out." I was like, I don't care about demographics, I don't care about people who identify as Christians. I don't care about any of that. I care about the fruit. What's the fruit? The fruit I want to see is how many faithfully committed Christians are there in attendance today in churches in Greater Boston? How many? If you go around in every single church in Boston, Greater Boston, how many? Can we get 7,000? Can we get 7,000 men? Well, I believe that there is a remnant. But there's just a call to the remnant that is dormant. And I say this because, let me just connect this to football real quick. You know how in Texas football is amazing, Texas, Florida all down to Alabama, they've got third graders that could probably be in the NFL. I don't know what they're... So like huge stadiums, they got professional coaches and I'm from Rhode Island I played football in a school where no one played football. It's like whoever shows up, that's the team. And we never had enough people to play. So whoever signed up played every single position. So since freshman year, I played every single position. On offense, I was a lineman, on defense, I was a middle linebacker. On punt return, I was the returner kick. And I was the kicker on top of all that. And then when I got to senior year and our team stunk, and I remember my coach pulling me aside and he said, "Jan, I'm so sorry." I said, "What for coach? For you being an alcoholic?" And he said, "No, not for that." I said, "What you?" He said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry you didn't go to high school in Texas." Tremendous, a lot of support, a lot of infrastructure. That's kind of what the church situation is. Boston compared to other parts of the country. If you come from here, if you come and you're like, "Yeah, I'm only here for a year, I'm only here for two years, you know what? Boston's not really home." And then home is always back there. And you come here and you come to church here and you take, and you take and you take, everyone else who lives here is like, "You know what? I'm tired. I'm like Elijah, I'm like, Lord, kill me, kill me, please." Not me. Elijah. But that's the general. So this is my appeal to you, dormant remnant. If you are a Christian, you're like, "I am a believer, but I think I've been to sleep. I haven't read my Bible, I don't have ears to hear, I have a spirit of stupor. When I pray it seems like I'm just speaking to the ceiling." I guess the spirit of stupor, it is demonic. If there is a remnant and you're hearing my voice, I am calling you, I'm summoning the elect. I'm summoning the elect to you be faithful where you are. Be faithful to the Lord. If you really are elect, understand what that means, what kind of great gift that, and it comes with responsibilities to share the gospel with those who don't yet know the Lord. So I'll ask you the question of Elijah. If you're like, "I'm not sure, am I elect? Am I dormant? Am I not a Christian?" Well, I'll ask you the question, Elijah, how long will you waiver between two opinions? The Lord is God, follow him. If Baal is God, follow him. Is God the primary orienter of your life? Is he the true north star of your life? That everything is aligned according to God and his word. If not, then you're following something else. If God is Lord, follow him. Romans 10:9 through 13, "Because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart, one believes and is justified and with the mouth, one confesses and is saved. For the scripture says, Everyone who believes in him will not be put the shame for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. For everyone who calls in the name of the Lord will be saved." Everyone, Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. So today, friends call on the name of the Lord and as we transition to holy communion, call on the name of Jesus Christ, we're remembering him today. He said, Do to this in remembrance of me, of his person, of who he was, of his character, of who he is, of his word, of what he taught, of his sacrifice on the cross for us. For whom is holy communion. It's for repentant Christians, it's for this remnants, for the elect who repent of sin and follow Jesus faithfully. And when you stumble, you repent, you get up and you ask for grace. So if you're not a Christian, if you today do not respond to the gospel call. If you do not repent of sin and trust in Jesus, we ask that you refrain from this part of the service, this is for believers in Christ. And if you are a Christian living in sin, known sin that you have not repented of, we call you to repentance and leave that sin and then you're welcome partake. And if you don't repent and leave that sin, don't partake in this, it won't be helpful. It might actually cause physical harm according to first Corinthians 11. "For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread. When he had given thanks, he broke it and said, 'This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.' In the same way also, he took the cup after supper saying, 'The cup is the new covenant in my blood, do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me.' For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. Whoever therefore eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a person examine himself then, so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself. That is why many of you are weak and ill and some have died. But if we judged ourselves truly we would not be judged, but when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world. So then my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another if anyone's hungry, let them eat at home so that when you come together, it will be not be for judgment about the other things that will give directions when I come." If you would like to participate in holy community, you haven't received the elements, please raise your hand when the ushers will hand you one. I actually need one too. I forgot mine. Thanks. Actually I'll take two, I'll take two, I'll take two. One for a second service. Perfect. Would you please pray with me over Holy communion. Heavenly Father, as we today meditate on the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ on the cross, we don't meditate on it just to feel bad for the physical anguish that you went through. And we meditate on it because Jesus, you won. You conquered Satan sin and death on the cross. We worship a God who conquered evil. We thank you Jesus that you today, the resurrected Christ, that you're seated at the right hand of God, the Father, and that we can commune with you, we can bow our hearts at the altar right before you're throne. We can get on our knees, we can ask for forgiveness and you grant it to us. Because of your victory on the cross, because of your victorious sacrifice. Lord, I pray today by the power of the Spirit that you increase our zeal, every single one of us. Make us the people who, like, Elijah are willing to suffer anything so that your name will not be defamed. Jesus, we thank you for dying on the cross for our sins, bearing our penalty and shame, and we worship you now. We thank you for your body, we thank you for your blood and we thank you for the spirit of God that is amongst us. And we pray this in Jesus name. Amen. On the night that Jesus Christ was betrayed, he took the bread and after breaking he said, This is my body broken for you. Take eat and do this in remembrance of me. Then proceed to take the cup. He said, "This cup is the cup of the new covenant in my blood, which poured out for the sins of many. Take drink and do this in remembrance of me. If today is the first time you've received the Lord Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, would love to pray with you after the service. Pastor Andy will be right up here, or if you just want to talk more about the faith, we'd love to answer any questions. With that said, would you please pray with me as we continue our service? Lord, we worship you. We worship you for the God that you are the greatness of your glory, your blazing holiness, your totally otherness transcendence, and yet you bow down and you came down to us. We thank you Jesus for that. And I pray Jesus, that you make us people who want to share the good news just because we're thrilled about it. What incredible deal it really is, because of the work of Christ we can bring you our sin and you forgive us and we become yours. And now you reorder our lives, reorder the chaos of our lives by your word. And I pray you continue to do that, and I pray that you receive our worship now with heartfelt gratitude. We pray this in Jesus name. Amen.

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In this week's episode of the Red Pill Revolution Podcast, we GO DEEP. We touch on everything from King Charles appointing Prince Andrew; An El Paso Teacher fired for promoting the term MAP, UFOs being sited and tracked over Ukraine, a nursing home apologies for bringing in a stripper, and even the ancient Sumerian Race and their unbelievable technological advances. Subscribe and leave a 5-star review! ----more---- Our website https://redpillrevolution.co/    Protect your family and support the Red Pill Revolution Podcast with Affordable Life Insurance. 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Thank you so much for listening. The first thing I need you to do before we jump into it is just go ahead and hit that subscribe button for me. All right. Takes five seconds of your day. It means the world to me. That's all I need you to do right now is hit the five star review button and subscribe takes five seconds. Like I said, if you're on apple podcast, Spotify, leave a review. If you are watching this on YouTube, go ahead and hit that like button wherever you're at. I appreciate you so much. And again, welcome to the revolution. We are going to jump right into it. Here are the articles we're going to discuss a nursing home has apologized after hiring strippers for their residents. . And we will discuss that. We actually have a video today, which you guys are in for a treat for. Um, there's some very, very happy old folks in this old folks home. And when I decide to put myself in one, many, many years from now, I may just have to figure out which one this one was, because it looks like they're having a great time. Um, the next one is discussing that prince, or I'm sorry, not no longer prince king, Charles himself is now, uh, seemingly going to a point prince Andrew into a high level position. And if you don't know anything about prince Andrew, you will in just a few minutes, there's a couple articles that we'll discuss on that. We are also going to talk about the Pakistan, former prime minister getting caught red handed, uh, with some documents. Now, normally I don't really care about the Pakistani former prime minister at all. Uh, but this was a, a pretty interesting one. So, um, we'll find out why he got caught red handed, uh, basically, um,  yeah. Basically putting, uh, documents out there during a legal case that didn't even exist. So we'll discuss that. We will also talk about El Paso, firing a teacher for going and calling pedophiles maps to their students and trying to convince them to do the same. So again, we will discuss all of that in a few more things, including UFOs and China, potentially finding a nuclear fusion fuel with limitless energy from the moon. All right. So lots of interesting stuff, stick around. Thanks for listening. Hit that subscribe button. If you didn't already, I forgive you, but if you don't do it now, I may not. All right. I forgive you, but just hit it. I appreciate it. Sincerely. All right, let's get. Welcome to red pill revolution. My name is Austin Adams. Red pill revolution started out with me realizing everything that I knew, everything that I believed, everything I interpreted about my life is through the lens of the information I was spoon fed as a child, religion, politics, history, conspiracies, Hollywood medicine, money, food, all of it, everything we know was tactfully written to influence your decisions and your view on reality by those in power. Now I'm on a mission, a mission to retrain and reeducate myself to find the true reality of what is behind that curtain. And I'm taking your ass with me. Welcome to the revolution. All right. Let's jump into it. Episode number 44 of the red pill revolution podcast. And I appreciate you more than, you know, the very first article that we are going to jump into today is going to be a nursing home. Apologizing, not sure why after hiring strippers for their residents. So we have heard of drag shows for infants and children, but what we have not heard of yet is strippers for old folks homes. and this is probably my favorite new video. There's a hilarious video making its round of a stripper, basically shaking her boobs  and doing all sorts of things in front of these old, old men and women in their mass. It's quite quite hilarious. So we will watch that in just a. But I do find it interesting, right? The, the, uh, drag show for children is such a hot topic. It seems like there was literally never a drag show for children. Right. Because it's a sexualized show until very, very recently. Um, so, and, and there's probably a very obvious reason why there's absolutely no reason children should be involved in drag shows, you know, but maybe that's me being crazy thinking that we shouldn't sexualize. Toddlers and infants, but who knows? So let's go ahead and watch this video here. It is quite hilarious of this nursing home debacle  and then we'll talk about some of the comments that came up in this, and then we'll move on to some more serious topics. But I thought we, you know, we'll start this one off light today. and I'll kind of talk you through what we are seeing in a, uh, you know, PG 13 fashion here. Although it's not, it's not that wild, you know, you can find it. It's not that crazy, but pretty hilarious stuff. All right, let's go ahead and pull this article or this video up. It seems like it's in a different country, but it's, uh, basically. This young woman, she looks like some type of, I don't know, I don't know if she's Asian or something, but they're speaking a different language and she's literally shaking her butt in front of these old folks on these old folks sitting in their wheelchairs. And there is just this man who is so excited to be there with holding this woman's boobs in her hands, hand. this is comical comical. Now I don't know why this isn't a thing. I think there's a company here. I, I don't know why this is not a thing already. There should absolutely be an entire stripper company. Designed to go to old folks homes. I don't know why we're like thinking that shouldn't be a thing. I don't know why these people feel like the need to apologize for hiring a stripper. Um, the only thing they should be hire, or the only thing they should be apologizing for is not hiring enough strippers. Cuz there was only one there and there's plenty of people to go around. Uh, they should absolutely bring in more people. Um, so , I don't know why they, they feel the need to do this. Now let's look through some of the comments here. Somebody says. Flips sake. They're old. They aren't dead. Yeah, of course. Why wouldn't these people enjoy themselves? You're on your way out. You might as well have a good time. Um,  let's see what somebody else said. This is coming from Reddit, Reddit slash face Palm, and somebody said, are we face palming for the apology? The hiring is exemplary.  uh, the next comment says maybe next time, mail strippers for the ladies too. Maybe that's what they forgot and why they have apologized.  all right. I think that's enough on that topic, but I think it's awesome. 100%. I am absolutely behind the strippers at old folks homes, way, way more than I am behind the children going to drag shows. Right. We see all these like horrific videos of, of literal children going to drag shows and giving money to these men. And in 90% of the time at these drag shows, they are highly unhealthy. And, and must we say overweight, and even in some cases, a Dr. May call them obese, but majority of the time it's obese obese men who are shaking the, what they did not have given to them by God, in front of children, asking them for money for sexual acts in front of. It's like literally one of the most horrific things. And like I said earlier, we didn't see that literally a year ago. We didn't see it at all. There was no drag shows, you know, shaking of, uh, you know, butts in front of children that was found to be acceptable a year ago. It's literally so baffling to me how this even became a conversation that we need to have. Um, and everybody who attends these with their children should absolutely have CPS called in them. Although there's another conversation about whether CPS is literally just designed to traffic, children for profit. Um, I heard somewhere that each child that they actually take away from the children ends up being like a hundred thousand dollars or Mo like it, it might have even been like a million. Um, every time CPS takes a child away from their family, they make money off of it from the, the country, from the state, from the federal government or the state government. They're actually profiting from taking children from their parents. And, you know, we went through a whole, you know, the whole vaccination thing. We had to look at it. Luckily, we're in a state here where they have exemptions for children, surprisingly enough, for in the state that I'm in, but they do, they have exemptions. They even have philosophical exemptions for vaccination, but there has been several, several cases. I did a ton of research on it when we decided not to give our children, the COVID vaccine. Um, for many, many reasons, the first being, it's not a vaccine, um, it's mRNA gene therapy, which has never been done before, you know, do your own research on that and make your own decisions for your own children. Um, but with my children's history and everything else, we decided not to do it. So we had to go and actually physically research what could happen if the state decided to come after us for that and have come to find out we fall under exemptions. Really nice to be in the state. I would never move to a state where that's not the case because they've actually, I looked at all of the laws in our state and I looked at all of the previous legal proceedings in cases against parents for not vaccinating. And there was like nine cases in the last hundred years or 70 years when this became a law where they attempted to do so now luckily a majority of those cases, they did not win and the parents actually ended up winning the case. Um, but just tells you how far the state is willing to go to profit from stealing children from their parents. It's horrible. So, you know, do a little bit of research on that. And I, I think it's, again, worth an episode, almost diving into what CPS actually is, what majority they go after, because it's a lot of times it's directly affecting minority communities, disproportionate. Um, you know, but I digress. So let's go ahead and move on from our nursing home strippers and we'll move into  the Royals family situation this week, uh, queen Elizabeth died. If you were hiding under a rock this week, or you're listening from the future in a time machine. Now, listening back, this is, uh, Wednesday, September 14th, 2022, that this is episode is happening and the, uh, queen died last week after almost 70 years, Ofra allowing prince Charles to become king Charles. Now some of the controversy that's coming up from that is that king Charles now, uh, you know, is now looking to so, so king Charles is now going to appoint prince Andrew to step in for him first, if he is ill or out of the country. That's right. The same prince Andrew, it says who was a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein and used $12 million of tax based income. To settle a sexual assault case with Virginia guff, the same Virginia guff, who was at the Galea Maxwell trial testifying directly. Right. You know that one. So king Charles is going to appoint a literal pedophile to potentially step in from now. We'll actually look into what that means. Um, and, and what the actual title is that he'll be getting. Um, but we'll read some of the comments here. It says he was already a counselor to his mom, queen Elizabeth II. The Regency act of 1937, decides who can be counselors. Apparently there's not a clause that has to do with, you know, paying off children for doing illegal sexual acts on them, you know, and being part of international sex trafficking rings. Maybe that should be a clause. I don't know who am I, although if you go and read the Ashley Biden journal, uh you'll know that. Our royalty, our princes and princes, our presidents and their family are not also immune to these types of acts. Um, but it goes on to say that three of them are non working Royals. Um, you guys need new legislation, so prince Andrew or prince, and can replace Peto prince. Now princess Anne is a, uh, somebody who goes on and say for real princess, Anne is a G does a lot of low profile Royal's work, charity work, zero scandals, not a big spender. Um, I could be propaganda by the news, but she seems humble and hardworking. I think she may have even been the one who was, uh, allowed to stand beside the princess, um, in one of these proceedings for like one of the very first times. Um, but quite interesting. Uh, don't really know why a king of a nation. Potentially put a pedophile in the possession of power, but you know, once you find out that maybe potentially majority of them are culprits in this type of thing, uh, you know, it starts to be much more believable. Now this article goes on to say that king Charles II appoints prince Andrew in new important role. And another article says that prince Andrew can still be deputized for king as counselor of state, but princess Anne can't under new rules. And then, um, we'll go ahead and jump into one of those articles here. So it goes on to say that king, uh, king Charles I third ascended the throne after his late mother queen Elizabeth, the second passed away at her country estate in bald morale Scotland. The 73 year old was officially announced as the nation's new sovereign last Saturday, September 10th. And following his proclamation, the new head of state was supposedly appointed his younger brother, prince Andrew as counselor of state. Robert Peston journalist and political editor for ITV news, posted a thread of tweets explaining the situation. And he says the Monarch points, five counselors of state to stand in for him when he is unwell or out of the UK, Peston began, they are his spouse. Plus the top four in secession to the crown who are age 21 or over these include prince Andrew and his daughter, princess Beatrice. It says that, uh, but not prince and who is probably the most widely respected in all of the Royal family. Many would say, this is not, especially since the 2013 secession of the crown act ended Premo, gen premature. Not sure what that is though. Um, only for those born after 2011, uh, interesting. He says it continues that. So if king Charles were incapacitated, Andrew would step in as king. Not Anne. He ended his thread with the question. Do you think most British people would approve? I would certainly hope not says taken to Twitter. Many users shared their answers to passions questions. One responded, I most certainly would become a Republican under those circumstances. No way would I accept Andrew as a standin for the king? This is nuts. A second person wrote in his first week as king Charles has had two hissy fits about pens, sacked dozens of his staff at Clarence house. And now is rehabilitating prince nons. Good call is your majesty. Yeah, I saw him do that, where he was like sitting there signing documents and like pissed that there was some stuff on the table and like waved in somebody else because how dare he have to move the King's hand to move a, you know, pen off of a desk. Um, it goes on to say that a third waited or wants to wait for an outcome tweeting. Let's see what the actual outcome is. I don't think people will stomach Andrew being in that line. I'm pro monarchy. I may be, it may be a legal glitch or point of clarification may be needed, but certainly needs to be changed. Andrew had also, uh, previously served as this Queen's counselor of state, along with king Charles Prince William and prince Harry. Hmm. Um, so who better to take on the throne  than a potential Jeffrey Epstein associated pedophile literally paid off Virginia guff in a settlement claim during, uh, a legal proceeding to hush hush, the conversation surrounding him sexually assaulting a minor. Hmm. Now that could lead us into our next conversation, which, you know, would be a little bit deeper than that, about this, you know, whole map situation, which we'll get into here in a minute. Um, but let's see if there's any more substance to these articles. I don't know anything about this princess Anne. Um, but it sounds like, you know, maybe she's the one who a lot of people are rooting for, or that other person said maybe I'm being propaganda. You know, I like that word propaganda  that seems like it's a, a very fitting word in these types of situations. Um, but how terrifying is that? That literally not only the king of England, but you know, seeing over Canada, seeing over Australia, seeing over, you know, 14 different Commonwealth, uh, realms is what they referred to it as, um, would potentially be prince Andrew also known as PTO Andrew, because as we've stated, he's a pedophile. I don't know. Quite terrifying. What a horrific PR move by, you know, during all of this. Now I did see something about king Charles. I, I just can't say that seriously, king Charles, I feel like I'm in a Disney movie. It seems so bizarre that we have Kings and Queens and princesses and, you know, Royal family, you know, all based on blood lines. That's the, that's the weird thing about the Royal family is it's literally all based on bloodline. You cannot move your way into a position of power. It's literally a Royal bloodline. And we talked about this an episode ago, where if you go back far enough, according to these, you know, conspiracy theories, you know, even people like Cleopatra. And, uh, there's like basically 12 Royal families that have had these bloodlines go down and down for generations. There's a CIA document about it, which is quite quite interesting. Um, so I'll have to check that out at some point there's like a 217 page book that is, uh, put into the cia.gov. Documents, you can go to Google right now, or even better go to brave search right now and type in CIA Royal bloodlines, FOA, OIA, freedom of information act. And you will find the document that I'm discussing here. Anyways, do some research on that. Happy to discuss it with you All right. Let's move on. Dr. Fauci and ran Paul and here is the clip, uh, but she's had the flu for 14 days. Should she get a flu shot? Well, no. If she got the flu for 14 days, she's as protected as anybody can be. Cuz the best vaccination is to get infected. And if not, if she really has the flu, if she really has the flu. Now, what this is, is this is ran Paul grilling, Dr. Fauci very recently regarding this, like today, I believe it's today. He's showing him on an iPad, the, to his own statements from like a few years ago, saying these things about the flu. Okay. So take that into consideration. When you're listening to this vaccination is to get infected yourself and, uh, but she's had the flu for 14 days. Should she get a flu shot? Well, no. If she got the flu for 14 days, she's just protected as anybody can be. Cuz the best vaccination is to get infected yourself and not get it. If she really has the flu, if she really has the flu, she definitely doesn't need a flu vaccine. If she really has the flu, she should not get it again. No, she doesn't need it because the, it it's the BA it's the most potent vaccination is getting infected yourself. So when we look at this, we wonder, you know, why you seem to really embrace basic immunology back in 2004 and how you, or why you seem to reject it now. And as a matter of fact, Reuter's fact check looked at that and said, Fauci, 2004 comments do not contradict his pandemic shame, actually words don't lie. If you look at the words behind me, we can go over them a little bit at a time. She doesn't need it because the most potent vaccin vaccination is getting infected yourself. It is true. It is true Senator. It is a very potent. Way to protect. But when you're trying to tell us that kids need a third or a fourth vaccine, are you including the variability or the variable of previous infection in the studies? No, you're not. So what I love about that is the fact that Dr. Fauci is just shaking in this piece of paper in his hand, coming from Reuters, like Dr. Fauci, aren't you Mr. Science, aren't you the only person who knows about science in this whole world, didn't you claim to be the, what did they say? If you question Dr. Fauci, you question science itself, like aren't you, the guy, not Reuters, not some random journalist who decided to, you know, try and make the world believe that there three year old needs another vaccination to be safe from a, a thing that literally doesn't even exist today. That, that the CDC itself said, you don't even need the quarantine, even if you have it. Right. But you're sitting there trying to justify it. And not only trying to justify it like Dr. Fauci, do you know that this is not. Facebook jail court. This is literally Senate. This is a Senate hearing, not the hearing on Facebook's fact checking. Right. He literally brought the fact that he brought that piece of paper with him to shake in front of the court. The fact that he did that and said, well, Reuters actually says a journalist with no experience in this says that you are wrong. Like you, you said it with your own words. How can you sit here in front of us and say that Reuters is going to like, um, you know, actually Reuters said that what I meant there is different from what I actually said, no, justify your position. Maybe, maybe you should back it up, not utilize Reuters in a fact checker. Like that's how far off we've gotten. That's how 1984 Orwellian we've gotten is now that somebody's going to sit in front of the Senate and utilize a journalist. Article to try and justify their own statements. So they don't have to back it up. And they're gonna use these like abusive, uh, tactics done by these journalistic companies like Reuters to, to try and Gaslight you into thinking that, oh, I, you know, Reuters knows what I meant, not, not myself. So I'll let them explain it. You know, it's like, no, literally you used your own words there. Like it it's, it's so crazy to see that he went on to, to use Reuters of all things to justify, not even backing it up himself. Like he's literally a, according to him, a scientist. And he can't even justify his own position on a statement that he made of with his own words, saying that you do not need a booster. You don't need a vaccine if you got it, because that's the best protection that you can get is actually getting it right. And not taking that into consideration when you are actually deciding to give children experimental drugs. Right. It's it's so, so wild to see that. But I love the fact that Fauci was shaking on camera. I love that. It makes me feel so warm inside just to know that he was so uncomfortable that his body could not even handle it there. And, and then the  other thing that I want to talk about, and, and I'll talk, touch on this just super, super briefly is that there was a clip going around of. Of an employee from Chick-fil-A employee, a Chick-fil-A employee took down this guy that was committing, like trying to steal the keys of this woman who had this children in her car. If you haven't seen it yet, it's gonna start making its rounds over the next few days. It's it's a Chick-fil-A employee who just jumped at this guy, like completely when he tried to like steal this woman's car with her baby in it, and just like threw him to the ground, stood on top of him and just, you know, my pleasure to him. could you just imagine him whispering that in his ear as he took them to the ground? Just amazing. Unbelievable. Um, but you know, I digress now, the very next. Is going to be Pakistan's former prime minister, Noah Sharif's family have produced documents to prove innocence concerning ownership of properties in London. The documents were signed in 2006, but the Kalibri font used in the document was released in 2007. So basically, uh, the document was dated 2006. And the font that was used in a document was 2007. So it completely showed that he fabricated this document. So we'll get a little bit more context here and then we'll talk about it. Um, it goes on, uh, to say that in July, 2018, um, three members of the family were fined and sentenced to jail Nawaz for 10 years, Miriam for seven. And her husband captains Dar for one year in the event, field department's case, as they could not show that the posh London property had been bought legitimately while Nawaz was sentenced for owning assets beyond income, the other two were held guilty for AB Bement and not cooperating with the prob agency. It was in this case that Miriam had presented a trust deed dated February, 2006 in Microsoft's Calibri font, which became commercially available only in 2007 Noah and his kin were jailed, but in September of 2018, the Islam bad high court ordered their release in suspended their sentence pending final adjudication for the, um, of the appeals against it. Hmm. So there is your. Breakdown  of why we are even discussing a former prime minister of Pakistan. Now, a few of the comments that you'll find on this thread here are a little funny that somebody says, that's why I always stick with times new Roman. Yeah. Just in case you find yourself in a court settlement and you don't want to have to deal with a, you know, great lawyer finding out that the font that you used pre or postdated the document that you signed  or forged even better. Um, . Um, pretty, pretty wild. You know, what, what, what hot water you must find yourself in there to legitimately use font. Like how stupid would you feel right to know that you made that big of a mistake, right. And how easy is it to just, just use time, new Roman, you don't have to get fancy here, guys. We don't need your Colibri. We don't need your comic Sams. We don't need any of that times. New Roman all the way across, you're safe from lawyers coming after you for utilizing the wrong font.  all right. So I found that to be interesting. And let's see if there's anything else of note in here. Um, so somebody says, so that's what good lawyers are for. Yes. That is exactly what good lawyers are for finding out that the person used the wrong. Interesting. All right. Anyways, I won't stick around on that one. I just found that to be quite, quite interesting now on the backs of the prince Charles or king Charles situation, let's go ahead and discuss this. There was an Al Paso teacher who was fired over, telling their students to use maps instead of the word pedophile. Um, for a comment in the classroom that touches off a firestorm says Fox news. We'll go ahead and we'll actually listen to this here. Uh, but we'll listen to where she actually says that to him. And this article even goes as far as showing, um, what the husband commented on a thread in a local Facebook group, which I found to be interesting too. So here is the article. It says Al Paso teachers firing over pedophiles comment in classroom launches, a firestorm response. It goes on to say that El Paso's independent school district board of trustees said the allegation is being investigated thoroughly. An El Paso teacher in Texas was informed of her proposed termination after telling students to call pedophiles, minor attracted persons, according to the city's school district. But some witnesses say her remarks were taken out of context. Now she literally says you shouldn't call them pedophiles. It's O you, we shouldn't make fun of them just because they wanna have sex with a five year old. She literally says to a high school student it's wild. It goes on to say that in an 18, second clip shared on TikTok, the Franklin high school teacher identified as the El Paso teachers Associa, uh, by the El Paso teachers association as Amber Parker, she'll never have a job again, um, can be heard telling students that they're not allowed to label individuals as pedophiles. She reportedly made the comment during a lesson on the play, the crucible. We're not gonna call them. That Parker said in the video, we're gonna call them maps, minor attracted persons. So don't judge people just because they want to have sex with a five-year-old. She says, what in the world kind of world are we coming to? We'll listen to the video in just a second, but it says first came the suspension. Then El Paso's independent school district board of trustees unanimously voted to fire Parker following her remarks on the evening of August 29th, 2022, the El Paso independent school district was made aware of a classroom situation. Impromptly initiated an investigation. Um, after a thorough investigation was conducted on September 6th, 2022, during a special board meeting, the board of trustees approved a decision to notify a Franklin high school teacher of proposed termination. The process will continue in accordance with the Texas education code, any allegation and potential misconduct is investigated thoroughly. And the safety of our students is the top priority as this is a personal matter, no further information will be shared at this time. So it goes on to talk about, um, some students were saying that it was taken out of context and then it gives what her husband actually said. Um, but let's go ahead and listen to this clip. It's again, it's 18 seconds long. And we'll see what this teacher had to say about maps. What? Stop it, Diego. Yeah. We're not gonna call them that. We're gonna call them maps. No mono attracted persons. No. So don't judge people just cuz they wanna have sex with a five year old. Oh, call . That was the perfect cut. You hear the guy go? What the fuck?  that's wild now. Thank the Lord that we're seeing retribution in this case. This is exactly what needs to happen across the board. And thankfully it didn't have to come to school board meetings in this, in this situation. Right? A lot of these situations have come to school board meetings, right? The sex books in children's libraries. Right. We've seen many, many videos about, uh, parents going in speaking up against those videos. Um, there's some crazy, crazy books that they're putting in children's libraries talking literally about sodomy and about sexual positions to five and six year olds in elementary schools. It's horrific, but thankfully, thankfully it didn't have to come to this case, at least as far as I know, it seems as if this school board caught it right away and, you know, surprised surprise they did it in Texas now. Um, I don't see how any of that could have been taken out of context. You can't say, you know, so don't judge people just because they won't to Hey of six, we had the five year old. Yeah, I'm gonna judge you. I'm gonna judge you and I'm gonna do way worse than that to you. If it's somebody that I know I'm gonna do far, far more to you than judge you. Yeah, dude, I'm not even gonna get into it cause that's called implication, but horrific, horrific thing to say, and to say it to an entire class of children to say it to an entire group in a high school setting, what kind of precedent is that setting? You're literally talking to minors saying it's okay. It, it, it's not only okay, but don't even judge those people for doing that to a child for literally putting the child in a position where they're going to be hurt worse than anything you could possibly imagine giving so much trauma for the rest of their lives that they're gonna have to deal with and unpack in a way that somebody who didn't deal with that could never have to imagine, could never have to imagine. And she's sitting in front of an entire school or an entire class of children saying that this should be acceptable and they shouldn't be judged. Not only that, but we're not even gonna use this term in case we hurt their little pedophile feelings. Like what in the world now, um, it goes on to say that the school district board of trustees voted to fire Parker following her remarks on the evening, uh, the El Paso school district was made aware of a classroom situation and promptly initiated an investigation. This is coming from the district's chief communications officer who told Fox news digital after a thorough investigation was conducted on Jan, uh, on September 6th, during a special board meeting, the board of trustees approved a decision to notify the teacher of proposed proposed to termination. The process will continue in accordance with the Texas education code, any allegation and potential misconduct. We already talked about that. Moving on, some students went on to say that her words were taken out of context. The teacher was expressing. This says how it was ridiculous, how they, how we might not be able to call people pedophiles that we will probably have to start calling them maps because is offensive to them. The class agreed. That's not what it sounded like now, if that is what it is, maybe you shouldn't be saying that in a group of high school students. Um, but if you are being sarcastic and then following that clip by saying, yeah, this is disgusting. This is gross. What they're doing, you know, we're absolutely going to call these people pedophiles and we're not gonna give into the woke ideology that is saying that we have to change the terms that we're using to describe the literal worst people in the world, doing the worst act in the world with the proper term for doing so and fear of you hurting their feelings, if that is the case. And she was being sarcastic. Yeah. It's definitely a distasteful joke. Should she lose her job for a distasteful, sarcastic remark? No, but if she is sitting here in front of a class of high school students protecting pedophiles and telling minors that they should also do the same, right? Literally the people that pedophiles go after minors in this case, um, Now it says that Daniel call vice president of El Paso independent school district board noted that while the lesson plans are approved by administrators, Parker appeared to stray from it in the particular class call had previously offered Parker. The benefit of the doubt saying the video had appeared to omit some important context and that it seemed Parker was only pretending to advocate the position. Now it did seem like she had some tonality there that seemed a little sarcastic, but I'm not gonna be the one to protect her update on my last post, after hearing from some of the students that were in the class, including my own nephew, I believe now that the teacher had appeared to be promoting and normalizing pedophilia was pretend, uh, I believe now that the teacher that appeared to be promoting in normalizing pedophilia was pretending to advocate a position. She didn't actually believe in, in order to challenge the students in preparation for them reading the play, the cruc. The video that many of us saw was missing. The important context. I regret the negative attention that the situation is brought to the teacher and wish her well. I'm told she is a great educator, but he ultimately voted in favor of firing her saying any reasonable person that heard what the seven trustees heard would've voted to terminate Amber Parker. Now Parker's husband. Jason said that Parker's comments were made to challenge students. Mr. Daniel call. I happen. The sick, the sick, what Mr. Daniel call, I happened to be the husband of the teacher in question Parker road on Facebook, I can tell you that we were shaken to our core about these accusations. It is both scary and disturbing that ANED 18. Second clip could destroy a 30 year career when taking completely out of context, she ex is exemplary as a teacher and truly cares about the students. Needless to say, we have spent many sleepless nights because of this cruel release to social media of the 18 seconds. We pray that you and the rest of the board will see this for what it is and not allow the edited video to destroy an innocent woman, her career, and her family in the process. I want to thank you personally for the updated post to begin to write this wrong. So it says that controversial classroom moments have been captured across the country. In recent years, driving parents to school, board meetings, demanding more of a say in their children's education. Um, Let's look at some of the comments here that says, this is a big problem with society, anything, and everything can be manipulated, um, input online or in the media to be the opposite of the actual facts. And once it is out, any correction, um, or apologies are buried and people are left with false impressions of circumstances. Uh, it also says that, um, want to know what's wrong with education today. After speaking with students and witnesses, I have come to believe that the teacher was being satirical and not expressing a view she held, but rather the opposite. I hear she is a great teacher, da, da, um, okay. That doesn't give us much information at all. Um, so it also says, so it is illegal to help a map with a cellulose nitrate and nitroglycerin assisted copper CLA PB projectile traveling at two times the speed of sound striking them with the frontal bone exiting the exci the bone, or is that still murder? Oh, I think that's called a gun.  um, interesting. All right. Anyways, so. This is, this is, this is, you know, good that these headlines are starting to lead in this direction. Right? Good. That we're starting to see pushback from not only the parents going to parent meetings, but also the school boards going in realizing the pushback that they're gonna have in these situations. Now, if this is a case where that teacher was being sarcastic, poor taste, poor timing, let's not even talk to children about the idea of normalizing pedophilia in the classroom. Obviously, you know, not the right way to go about that. Um, but should she be fired for having a sarcastic remark talking about maps? Eh, I don't know. But if she's saying that, you know, the, the sentence alone, maybe you shouldn't be talking about, you know, what did she say? So don't judge people just because they want to have sex for a five year old or with a five year old. Yeah. That's not funny. That's not a joke. That's not sarcasm. That's not that's wrong time and place. If you wanna do that at a bar and played devil's advocate on an argument, you know, you deserve to get ripped apart by whoever you're doing that with. Maybe you don't need to lose your job over it being sarcastic on that note. But in this case, don't talk to children about not judging people who wanna have sex with a five year old. 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That's the nature of war, but scientists in the country are looking to the skies and seeing something that they even didn't expect. Inordinate number of UFOs, according to a new pre-print paper published by Kiev's main as astronomical observation in coordination with the C's national academy of science. Say that three times fast. Uh, let's try it. Um, Kiev's main astronomical observation.  I said it wrong the first time. Astronomical observa, astronomical observatory in coordination, astronomical observatory in coordination with the country's national academic. Society of science. The paper does not specifically address the war, but in the United States, the Pentagon has long hinted, speculated and warned that some UFOs could be advanced technology from foreign military, specifically China and Russia, though. It hasn't been really given any evidence that this is actually the case. The Ukraine's paper is particularly notable because it is not showing that science has continued to, uh, to occur during this war, but also explains that there has been a lot, a lot of sightings. We see them everywhere. The researcher said we observe a significant number of objects whose nature is not clear. The paper is titled unidentified, aerial phenomenon, one observations and events come from observations made by NAS main astronomical observatory in Kiev, in a village south of Kiev called VIN. RKA. According to the papers authors, the observator took on the job of hunting for UFOs as an independent project because of the enthusiasm around the subject. Yeah. Interested. You got my interest. It goes on to say that it describes a specific type of UFO. The researchers call Phantoms. That is an object that is completely black body that does not emit and absorbs all of the radiation falling on it. The researchers also observed that the UFOs that seeing are so fast that it's even hard to take pictures of them. The eye does not fix phenomenon lasting less than one 10th of a second. The paper said it takes four tenths of a second to recognize an event. Ordinary photo and video recordings will also not even capture. The UAPs to detect UAPs. You need a to fine tune, the equipment, shutter speed frame rate, and dynamic range. Wow. So video cameras, recordings, photos, and even your eyes cannot see the UFOs that are flying across Kiev right now. And there's an astonishing number of them. It says wild. So the researchers did just that using two media monitoring stations in Kiev, in Veka, we have developed a special observation technique taking into account the high speeds of the observed objects. The paper said the exposure time was chosen so that the image of the object did not shift significantly. During ex exposure. The frame rate was chosen to take into account the speed of the object in the field of view of the camera in practice. The exposure time was less than one millisecond and the frame rate was no less than 50 Herz. Not sure what that means. Not a photographer. The scientist divided the phenomenon they observed with two into two different categories. Cosmics and PTO. We note that cosmics are luminous objects brighter than the background of the sky. We call these ships names of birds, swift Falcon, and Eagle. The paper said Phantoms are dark objects with contrast from several to about 50% says using camera stationed, roughly 75 miles apart allowed the scientist to make repeated observations of strange objects. Moving in the sky. The paper did not speculate on what the objects were. Merely noted the observations and mentioned the objects. Incredible speeds. They went on to say that flights of single group and squadrons of ships were detected. Moving at speeds from three to 15 degrees per second, Phantoms were observed in the troposphere at distances of up to 10 to 12 kilometers. We estimate their size from three to 12 meters and speeds up to 15 kilometers per second. Wow. 15 kilometers per second. If you break that down is something like, I don't know. It's like 1.8 to times, something like that. I don't know. So it's basically like nine miles per second. That math is probably terribly off. And I'm so sorry if you're somebody who goes by the metric system, I am not. So just trying to help you guys out  it says the easy explanation would be that these are missiles or rockets or something else associated with the war. But the scientists insist that their nature is not clear. UFOs are back in the public conscious. After a string of sightings were caught on camera by Navy pilots. Congress has demanded answers and the Pentagon responded by saying this is seen, that has seen some strange stuff, but needed more time and money of course, to, because they don't have enough money to send to Ukraine and also look into potential, you know, UFOs entering our airspace with alien beings inside of them. At the same time  to study the phenomenon appropriately. Congress gave them both. And the Pentagon open to the a, a R O oh, the a a R O is that we talked about this about a week or two weeks ago where the Pentagon basically opened an entire subdivision section specifically to study this phenomenon of alien UFOs, not, not potentially, you know, China and Russia, uh, military aircraft, they already sub sectioned off the potential of that. Right. They said that we believe that some of these are not of human origin. They defy the laws of physics as we know them. Okay. Wild, wild stuff. And they're starting to come out and talk more about. All right. The article goes on to say, um, a recent addendum in the Senate intelligence budget report said that the thread of UFOs was increasing exponentially and that the Pentagon's new office needed to focus on the UFOs that aren't manmade. Yep, exactly what we just talked about and exactly what we talked about a few episodes ago. So go ahead and listen to that one. When you're done with this one, um, Boris, the lead researcher of the paper declined to comment. This says that there's an update from nine 13, which is yesterday says the original version of this article stated that the Kiev study was a joint venture with the Pentagon and NASA. It was not vice has corrected the story and regrets this era. Wow, good on you. Vice way to go way to go. Now, one thing that, you know, speaking of corrections, there's been a lot of articles recently talking about how IRA Mein was allegedly put in. I think it was the CDC or the who said that IRA Mein is now an allowable substance when it comes to COVID and has helped significantly. Now, um, the correction that was made was basically that they are still not recommending it. They still want to do trials. That was the big correction that a lot of people made. Um, but they're saying that it's potential. Hmm. Um, but there's been a few people like Russell brand came out and made like an apology statement. Um, Russell brand's the actor. Awesome dude. One of my favorite favorite podcasts. I've like tried to categorize myself as a podcast and I'm like, I don't want to technically be Tucker Carlson. I don't want to technically be a political podcast. I want to be more like there's one person I can put myself in a category with. That's like kind of a mixture of like libertarian politics, not left or right. Mainstream narratives also kind of conspiracy based with a touch and little bit of like globalism pushback  and some good humor. Hopefully you think so. Um, it's Russell brand Russell. Brand's got a great thing going, if you haven't listened to his podcast, go check it out. It's definitely, uh, a bit on the same genre and topics that we discuss here. Pretty interesting stuff. A mix of politics, current events, pop culture, and a little bit of conspiracy stuff. If you know what I mean. All right. Now, Um, pretty wild stuff. The, the, the UFO situation is just wild to me. You know, there's been so many conversations, so many articles, so many, you know, governmental institutions that are pouring money into this now that are saying, and making this conversation mainstream, you cannot ignore it at this point, right. Whether they're pushing an agenda or not, because for how long they've known this stuff's going on, right. From Roswell to, you know, literally, um, who's the guy that went on to Joe Rogan. Um, uh, gosh, I blanking on the name. Um, but there's been so many people that have come out and said that they were a part of this, uh, you know, from anything from seeing UFO Aircrafts, you know, how long have those sightings been going on? Uh, Jeremy Corbe was the guy I'm thinking of. Um, and he basically is one of the most, uh, mainstream people talking about this. He's had so many good conversations, really good, uh, footage that he's caught on it, um, breaks down these things very, very well. Um, so. If you haven't heard that go listen to the Jeremy Corbe podcast, uh, with Joe Rogan, it it's quite quite interesting. Um, and he even talks to somebody else who claims to have been a part of it at Roswell. So that's pretty wild too. Um, and that was with, uh, who, what is that other guy's name? Of course I'm like, just trying to think of names that of people I can't recall. Um, but it's pretty crazy. He like says that he basically went in and saw the UFOs, saw the, um, saw Bob Laar is a whole documentary on it. Bob Laars documentary by Jeremy Corbe and they go into how he was literally taken by. It was like the, um, by the military, by the CIA or whoever was conducting these operations. And because he was like in the newspaper for building rocketships  and so, um, he, they, he basically went into, um, area 51. And said that he saw the ships, he saw, literally believed that he said saw aliens. It was like years and years ago, but he said that he saw them, um, in, in, so there's, uh, all of these things that came out, like the chemicals that they, the chemical compounds that he talked about prior to the government even saying they existed. So there's all these really weird correlations and all of these things. And Bob Laar is a very interesting character. Um, he doesn't seem to want a ton of attention off of it. He seems to just be like, he, he legitimately seems to be telling the truth. Um, it's a very interesting conversation. Go look up that documentary too, giving you lots of homework assignments today. Sorry. um, so, um, then we'll go ahead and talk about this in just a moment, which is the, the China situation with moon chemicals or. Nuclear fusion stuff. But one thing I did wanna show is that, you know, apparently Dr. Fauci, Dr. Fauci, Mr. Science himself is getting still grilled by Ram Paul, which I love. And you'll see in this clip, he's literally shaking due to this conversation. So let's go ahead and watch this Ram Paul article take a little bit of a shift from the alien stuff, um, which would kind of have been a nice segue into China going to the moon and finding this, but let's, let's, let's stop that segue. And let's go ahead and look at this. Yeah, actually, you know what, let's talk about it. if you have not heard China discovered a stunning crystal on the moon, which they believe could give us unlimited energy of nuclear fusion fuel. Now this article is by vice and it says that the find makes China the third country to discovery a new mineral on the moon. And the country says it's analyzed the soil for rail rare helium three. Interesting. It says that China has discovered a crystal from the moon made of a previously unknown mineral while also confirming that the lunar surface contains a key ingredient for nuclear FIS vision, a potential form of effective or effectively limitless power that harnesses the same forces that fuel the sun and other stars. The crystal was a part of a batch of lunar samples collected by China's change five mission, which landed on the moon in 2020 loaded up with about four pounds of rocks and delivered them to earth days later, each carefully sifting through the samples, which are now the first moon rocks returned to earth since 1976. If you believe that scientists at the Beijing research Institute of uranium, geology spotted a single crystal particle with a diameter smaller than the width of a human hair, the crystal is made of a novel mineral Chan change site. Named after the Chinese moon goddess change or changey, I don't know how you pronounce that. There's a hyphen between C H a N G and then the hyphen, and then E it also inspired China's series of lunar missions. It is confirmed that as a new mineral on Friday by the commission of new minerals, it's a weird commission, um, nomenclature in classification, which is, uh, brought down to C N M N C  of international mur neurological association. According to the Chinese state run publication. Global times change site is the sixth new mineral to be identified in moon samples. And the first to be discovered by China before China, only the us in Russia could claim to have discovered a moon, moon mineral. It is a transparent crystal that formed in a region of these Northern lunar nor near face. That is volcanically active about 1.2 billion years ago. Um, let's see what this article continues to say, which is according to the state media, the new lunar samples also contain helium three, a new version of the element helium that has long fascinated scientists and science fiction creators because of its potential as a nuclear FIS vision fuel source, the hypothetical form of power aims to harness energy released by atoms that merge under tremendous pressure, such as those in the interior of stars. Starlight is a ubiquitous product of nuclear fusion, but human made fusion reactors will still likely take decades to develop assuming that they are fusible at all that sad. If these reactors do become a reality, helium three would be a good fuel candidate because it produces less radioactive byproducts and nuclear waste compared to other atoms. Whereas helium three is incredibly scarce on earth. It is abundant on the moon, a disparity that has stoked dreams of mining the minerals on the lunar surface. Along those lines, China has joined the United States and other nations and expressing interest in extracting resources from the moon. In the future. Very, very interesting. Now, a couple article titles that I'll go through here, and I'm not gonna dive deep into these articles, but I just want you to know them. It says that China is planning to turn the moon into a giant space shield sounds like some star war shit. Um,  uh, and another one is also, um, space junk, crashing all over the world, upsetting everyone. You know, I, I'm not that upset about space junk. Haven't heard about it much other than the fact that it's an unbelievable amount of space junk surrounding our earth. If you haven't heard about that, there's literally, there's a, I'm pretty sure there's a, a map that you can look at of the earth. And it shows all of the space junk, which is like little things that we've sent up in pieces of, uh, satellites and things like that. Like when they're done with a satellite, they're done using it, all of the satellites we've ever put up there, they just leave them there. Even if they break down, even if there's things that go on with them, um, pretty, pretty wild stuff. Like they almost be like the, when they go to plan a mission. To go into space. Oh, allegedly. Um,  when they go to plan the mission, they do math calculations because they track all of the space junk and try to figure out. How, what timing of day based on the trajectory, the speed of the, uh, the speed of the rocket or whatever, um, to try and make it. So it does not hit space junk because even if it hits a marble size of space, junk going 35,000 million miles an hour, however fast they go, it's going to destroy, destroy the, um, destroy the ship. So they have to calculate it based on the timing. And there's so, so much junk in space, um, that it's very difficult for them to time. Um, another article here from this is from a little while ago, it says Mars formation that looks like alien doorway spotted by NASA Rover. How do we not hear about this stuff? There's so much wild things going on in the world today that it's. I, I am so under the idea  this is a simulation, the simulation theory is so interesting to me because what is the likelihood there was like literally horse and buggies, like a hundred years ago, right? 1922 people were literally riding horses almost. And now just so it happens to be the timing that we're alive, that we get to see the most interesting technological booms ever. Right. You wanna go back and talk, you know, and it's like a hundred years ago is literally your great grandparents. Your great grandparents were alive a hundred years ago for sure. A hundred years ago, right? Maybe, maybe not maybe your great-great grandparents, but maybe your great grandparents, depending on how old you are. Um, and maybe your parents even right. A hundred years is not that long ago. Right. And 500 years is not that long ago, either 500 years ago is literally your great, great, great, great, great grandparents. That means five people had sex and now you're here  and all of a sudden we went from all living like the Amish or the Indians. And all of the sudden, since the 15 hundreds, we are looking at space formations, nuclear, fission rocks, talking about aliens, visiting us. I'm literally speaking to you through a plastic piece of, uh, you know, bullshit that nobody know how knows exactly how it works. You know, it's like, it's so wild that we live here today in this reality on this timeline that it just seems so unprobable to me, I just don't get it. There's, there's literally no way.  the likelihood that I am not a Amish person on a farm, you know, 1500, you know, and even the fact of like 2000 years ago,  being that far again, that's not that far. That's literally not that far. Not that far. Right? 25, 30, 30 sexes ago.  that's gonna be the way that I, I, I think of time now is how many people had to have sex between now and then for you to be in that era 30 sexes ago, you could have been living in a. The same time as Jesus. And now they want to tell us that like, you know, literally the worth was the earth was, you know, however many, you know, years old. It's like, nah, I don't believe ya. I don't believe ya. I don't think so. There was an article that came out there was like 30,000. Um, they found the body that, you know, was kind of disputing all science on humanities, you know, uh, timeline. It was like 30,000 years old or even, maybe even longer than that. But there's some really interesting scientific articles and things that have come out that, that even say that it's longer than that. Right. That, that say that the pyramids were really from like there's, there's all of the sentiment that's been eroded underneath. Like there's like pyramids under the pyramids that are coming. and, uh, they they're like challenging all of the science, all of their religious beliefs. All of the things that we talk about today is being the timeline of humanity, right. It it's, it's pretty wild stuff. Um, and, and it's something they'd be interested in because, you know, we even go back into the conversation from yesterday of like the, or yesterday of last week and the queen and the reptilian species. it's so funny how easily you can jump into reptilian, Illuminati, reptiles, uh, controlling the world. Um, but there's like this whole idea of the Sumerians and the Sumerians being visited. And the Sumerians are like one of the very first humanity, like, uh, very first peoples, um, that humanity believed existed and the Sumerian race being visited and given technology that, that we can't even comprehend today. The, the ancient Sumerian societies had mathematical equations to map out the cosmos and, and like, let me look up the timeline of like, when, um, the Sumerian, uh, We're even around, um, because it's, it's so wild when you look up the actual history of, of ancient Sumeria. Um, this says it was like 2,350 BC. So 4,005,000 years ago, um, in Sumer, uh, the Sumerians were people of Southern Mesopotamia whose civilization flourished between 4,100 to 1750 BC. So six, 7,000 years ago, um, like the ancient Sumerian technology let's, you know, let's, let's dive into it. I got a little bit of whiskey left. Let's dive into the ancient Sumerian technology.  we, we might as well, let's see if I can find it. Um, let's see, ancient Sumerian technology. And if you're still here with me, I appreciate ya. This is fun. Let's do it. Ancient Sumerian technology. Um, let's go ahead and see what, uh, is questionable. Let's see what we can find here. So a few of the articles that are coming up is ancient Sumerian technology, nine ancient Sumerian tech, uh, inventions that changed the world. Um, let's see, there's like photo there's like hieroglyphics of the Sumerians with, you know, weird technology and seeing like, um, Kymera reptiles and, and different beings and g

Down Home Cajun Music- Two Step D'EuniceHappy Doc & The Boys- "Allons Dance Colinda"Soileau & Robin- "Je Veux Marier"Sidney Brown- "Sha Ba Ba"Wallace "Cheese" Read- "Bosco Stomp"Amede Ardoin- "Two Step D' Eunice"Nathan Abshire- "Dreamer's Waltz"Joe's Acadians- "La Two Step A' Chachin"Bellard & Riley- "La Valse De La Prison"Hackberry Ramblers- "Ville Platte Waltz"Aldus Roger- "Mulberry Waltz"Dennis McGee- "Madame Young"Joe Falcon- "Creole Stomp"Amedee Breaux- "Hard Luck Waltz"Cleoma, Ophy & Amedee Breaux- "Vas Y Carrement"Lawrence Walker- "Unlucky Waltz"Blind Uncle Gaspard- "Assi Dans La Fenetre De Ma Chambre"Alley Boys of Abbeville-"Te Bonne Pour Moi Estre"

Welcome to Madawaska, Maine, the "Heart of St. John Valley!"  Madawaska is the northernmost town in Maine and is native to the Micmac people.  It was settled by Acadian exiles in the 1785.  The Acadians were French settlers who were driven out of Eastern Canada at the conclusion of the French and Indian War.  Madawaska is the center of Acadian culture in Maine.  The town is located on the Saint John River, and is connected to Edmundston, Canada by the Edmundson-Madawaska Bridge.  Because of it's unique origins and location, the majority of residents are bilingual and speak English and French.  The town's economy is completely intertwined with it's Canadian counterpart across the river.  Twin Rivers Paper Company has production facilities in Edmundston and Madawaska.  The mill in Edmundston produces pulp which is shipped to the Madwaska paper making facility through a high pressure pipeline.  The town is home to the Acadian Festival every August.  The festival celebrates Acadian history and culture.  We hope you enjoy or visit to this unique town!

Down Home Cajun Music- Cajun Recordings on Decca Records (1934- 1939) Part OneBy 1934, the Depression found the major labels not interested in recording Cajun music. Afterwards, only 3 labels would record French Arcadian music. One of them was Decca Records. The label held large recording sessions with Joe and Cleoma Falcon, Leo Soileau and Amede Ardoin early on. 1937 and 1939 found them recording groups such as Sons of Acadians and Jolly Boys of Lafayette. When Joe Werner left the Hackberry Ramblers, he recorded for the label as well. The labels Cajun output reflects a change in musical styles; one that would not return to it's roots until the mid 1940's.Joseph Falcon- "La Jolie Fille N'En Veut Plus De Moi" (Decca 17011) 1934Leo Soileau- "T'Est Petite Et T'Est Mignonne" (Decca 17008) 1935Sons of Acadians- "Aux Balle Chez Te Maurice" (Decca 17054) 1939Louisiana Rounders- "Alons Kooche Kooche" (Decca 17040) 1937)Cleoma Falcon- "Blues Negres" (Decca 17004) 1934Jolly Boys of Lafayette- "High Society" (Decca 17036) 1937)Amede Ardoin- "Le Blues De Prison" (Decca 17014) 1934Joe Falcon- "Le Nouveau Lafayette (New Lafayette)" (Decca 17025) 1937Leo Soileau- "Ma Jolie Petite Fille" (Decca 17027) 1937Jolly Boys Of Lafeyette- "Abbeville" (Decca 17026) 1937Sons of Acadians- "En Jour A Venir" (Decca 17057) 1939Cleoma Falcon- "Mes Yeux Bleus (My Blue Eyes)" (Decca 17000) 1934Amede Ardoin- "La Valse Du Bellard" (Decca 17014) 1934Jolly Boys of Lafayette- "Jolly Boys Breakdown" (Decca 17032) 1937Sons Of Acadians- "Rosetta" (Decca 17052) 1939Louisiana Rounders- "Wishing" (Decca 5495) 1937Joe Falcon- "La Valse De Madame Sosten" (Decca 17000) 1934Jolly Boys of Lafayette- "Jolie Blon"  (Decca 17032) 1937Leo Soileau- "La Bonne Valse" (Decca 17008) 1935)*All selections taken from the original 78 rpm records.

We start off the & Years war with a look at some of the major leaders, William Pitt the elder, Choiseul, Frederick the Great and Maria Teresa and the Diplomatic Revolution. Then we turn to North America, where this war was known as the French and Indian War and take the war from the small forces with obscure commanders like George Washington through the deportation of the Acadians and then look at Wolfe and Montcalm covering the dramatic seizure of Quebec.  There is also a long look at the failed campaign in upper New York under Abercromby starring Duncan Campbell and the ghost who haunts him.

Ceci O'Keefe Neustrom never pictured herself as an artist. Growing up as an older daughter in a family of 13 children in Mississippi, Ceci was a nurturer who took care of things...she cooked, sewed, and cleaned. "Art was never a part of my life." We taped this episode at the offices of BBR Creative with owner, Cherie Hebert, who has supported Ceci's art. She attended and graduated from USL, and married football star Michael Neustrom, who eventually served as Lafayette Parish Sheriff for 16 years. They have made a good team and the proud parents of six children. A native of Mississippi, Ceci studied to become an educator, and then found her career evolving into being a landman, or as she became known, a "landmam." For decades, she researched the ownership of land and mineral rights of families in South Louisiana and became immersed in the interconnectedness of the Acadian families in our region. Her work in the local courthouses inspired her to learn more about the families who had settled here after the 1755 expulsion of Acadians who had become owners of vast expanses of land in our region. She'd sit at their kitchen tables or on their farms and get to know their stories as she figured out who owned mineral rights to the properties their families had settled on generations before. Then, at the age of 55, her husband Mike gave her the gift of art lessons with Pat Soper, an acclaimed local art teacher and painter. Ceci had no inkling that she herself had artistic talent and had only doodled before she took up classes. She was angry with Mike for putting her in a position to fail. But, she didn't fail, and she soared once she tapped into her dormant ability to paint. She ended up as a resident artist at the renowned Art Studio League in New York City. Ceci found that she loved the experience of creating, of "joining in the experience of creation with our maker. It felt to me like a miracle that I could do this. I didn't believe that I could do this." Chief Judge James McKay of the 4th Circuit convinced Ceci Neustrom to paint his portrait. This work set her on the path to loving the art of portraiture, of capturing the essence of the human form. "I discovered figure painting. It's what spoke to my heart." Judge McKay played football at USL with Ceci's husband, Mike Neustrom, in the 1970's. Ceci has grown as an artist and has since created breathtakingly beautiful oil portraits of locals, as well of present-day descendants of Acadian settlers who arrived in south Louisiana in the mid-1700s. She has named this the "Acadian Heritage Series." To date, her work showcases the Babineaux, Breaux, Broussard, Comeaux, Guidry, Hebert, LeBlanc and Prejean families. While many of us are familiar with events surrounding the expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia in 1755, paintings depicting that era always seem to include large groups of people, not individuals affected by the tragedy. Ceci's oil portraits draw you in and make things real. You can feel the strength and the grit, of the Acadians who survived and thrived. It's hard to explain the energy that surrounds these paintings that honor our region's Acadian lineage. Ceci was helped greatly by local experts in the Acadian culture. Cheryl Perret helped Ceci get started in identifying Acadian families who might participate in her series. Special thanks go to Mary and Warren Perrin of the Acadian Museum for their historical knowledge. Suzanne Breaux also was of great help, who is a fiber specialist, knew the importance of utilizing the brown cotton relied upon by the Acadians, and loaned Ceci the outfit from Glen Pitre's Belizaire the Cajun for Jerry Prejean to wear. Patsy Foster of the Acadian Village loaned Ceci her outfit to be used in the portrait paintings. And Ceci made some of the clothing used, in particular the Evangeline style cloak worn by Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco's granddaughter,

This week Casey and Brent talk a little bit about Brent's ongoing struggle with his Dark Eldar. Casey talks about painting a starter army of Acadians. And of course, THE GREATEST GOOBERTOWN ACCOMPLISHMENT EVER, Or At least I (Casey) think so. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MERCH: Would you believe it we actually have merch for sale? If you would like to support this podcast and help keep it going, this is a tremendous (and currently only) way to do so, otherwise, we absolutely appreciate your support through subscribing and commenting, thank you! General Store: https://teespring.com/paint-bravely?pid=1027&cid=104079 YOUTUBE CHANNEL LINKS: eBay Miniature Rescues http://www.youtube.com/ebayminiaturerescues Goobertown Hobbies http://www.youtube.com/goobertownhobbies EQUIPMENT: We use Skype to monitor video and use Call Recorder to capture all of the audio and data up front, as a backup. We record video and audio independently, so it's a little nicer quality than a skype call. In order to do this Brent uses a Panasonic Lumix GH4 and an MXL 990 Mic to capture everything in camera and on his computer via Audacity. Casey also uses a Panasonic Lumix GH4 and an MXL 990 Mic, everything is recorded in camera and in Adobe Audition. Doing this gives us the freedom to be able to edit video and audio in high quality for the podcast. Everything is edited in Adobe Premiere Pro and output to YouTube and Podcast services. These podcasts are edited and uploaded by Editor Matt! Whom you should continue to thank in the comments of each video, and give as much crap to as possible..we kid of course, these podcasts wouldn't be uploaded probably ever if it weren't for him! Music: EpidemicSound

Kate Chopin - The Awakening - Episode 1 - Meet The Author, Discover Local Color And Feminism!   I'm Christy Shriver, and we're here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us.    And I'm Garry Shriver, and this is the How to Love lit Podcast.  This episode we begin a journey to a very unique American location to discuss a very American author. Kate Chopin, was born in St Louis but her heritage is more associated with Louisiana than with Missouri as she is from an originally American people group, the Louisianan Creole's.  Christy, I know, you lived a part of your life in Louisiana, and your dad's family is from Louisiana.  As we discuss Kate Chopin and her unusual and ill-received novel The Awakening, I think a great place to start our discussion, especially for those who may not be familiar with American geography, is with the Pelican State itself.   What makes Louisiana so unusual than the rest of the United States, and why does that matter when we read a book like The Awakening.    Well, there are so many things that people think of when the think of Louisiana- Louisianan distinctive include Mardi Gras, crawfish bowls, jazz music, bayous, The French Quarter of New Orleans and its beignets.  The list is cultural distinctives is long.   But, just for a general reference, Louisiana is part of the American South.  Now, it might seem that the states that constitute the South are kind of all the same- and in some respects that's true.  Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, and the rest of them, … after all, they all succeeded from the Union during the Civil War, they all had slaves, they all have had to one degree or another racial tension over the last two hundred years, and, of course, to bring it to modern-day, they all are deeply entrenched in a tradition of American football, barbeque, shot guns, sweet tea, the Bible and a general admiration of good manners that include addressing each other as mr. mrs, yes mam and no sir.      Ha!  Yes, that IS the South.  I remember moving down here and being frustrated that I could never find anywhere that served tea without sugar- and when they say sweet tea down here- I'm talking one step away from maple syrup.      I like it!!!       People do and feel strongly about it.  In fact a lot of people have a lot have strong feelings about this part of the United States.  Some love the South; others hate it.  It's a part of the United States that is historical, by American standards, although laughably young compared to other parts of the world,  and controversial- to this very day.     Yes, yet having said that,  once you move here, it doesn't take you long to realize that  The South is not one cohesive unit.  Every state is very different.  Florida was colonized by the Spanish- and has strong ties to places such as Cuba to this day.  Virginia was the seat of government and is still central to the heart of American politics.  The horse-racing people of Kentucky are very different from their cotton-growing neighbors in Mississippi.  There are many many cultural distinctives that are both old and deep.  Which brings us to the great state of Louisiana- Louisiana, especially South Louisiana, in some ways has more in common with the Caribbean islands than it does with other parts of the United States.  My daddy was born in Spring Hill, Louisiana and raised in Bastrop Louisiana which are in North Louisiana- far from the coast but the people of north Louisiana share many commonalities with their Cajun and Creole brothers.  I have early memories of magnolia trees, cypress trees, bayous, shrimp gumbo,  and, of my Uncle Lanny taking us in the middle of the night out with his hound dogs to go coon hunting- as in racoon hunting.      So, for the record, these are things you don't see in other parts of the United States.      Indeed, they don't have bayous and gumbo anywhere else- and although they do have racoons in other places and likely hunt and eat them, I don't know.  The whole government of Louisiana is different and its visible.  They have parishes instead of counties.  The law is based on French law, not British law which affects everything.   It is predominantly Catholic not Protestant, hence Mardi Gras, which is what they call Carnival in Brazil but which we don't celebrate in other part of the US.  But what interests us for this book is the ethnic origins of the people indigenous to the region.     The rural part of the state has been dominated by a group we call Cajuns.  Cajuns are Roman Catholic French Canadians, or at least their descendents were.      They were run out of the Captured French Colony called Acadia in North Eastern Canada- it's actually be termed “the Acadian diaspora”.  Acadia was in the maritime provinces up on the Atlantic side, near the US state of Maine. That part of Canada was very British hence the obvious antagonism.      Well, The word Acadians kind of morphed into Cajuns over the years.  That's one people group.  But we also have another distinctively Louisianan people group  called the Louisiana Creoles.  This group of people ethnically are entirely different group than the Cajuns but also speak French.  Our author today, Kate Chopin was a creole, and she wrote about Lousianan Creole people.  Garry, before we introduce the Mrs. Chopin, local color and her influencial work, The Awakening, let's learn just a little about these remarkable people.  Who are the Creoles of Louisiana?    Well, let me preface by saying, as Kate Chopin would be the first to admit, history is always messy- people marry, intermarry, languages get confused and muddled, so when we talk about distinctives, we are talking about generalities, and if you want take to talk about Creole people the first word that must come to mind is multi-cultural.  There are creole peoples all over the Caribbean.  Haiti is the first country that comes to mind, so we need to be careful as we speak in generalities. But  the first generality you will notice of the Louisianan Creole people shows up in the first chapter of Chopin's book, and that is that they also speak the French language, except for the Louisiana Creoles that can mean two different actual languages.  Today, and the latest stat, I saw was from May of 2020,  1,281,300 identified French as their native tongue- that would be Colonial French, standard French and the speakers of would include both people groups the Cajuns and the Louisianan Creoles.  But what is even more interesting than that is that the language Louisiana Creole is its own distinctive indigenous language, and is not the same as Haitian Creole or Hawaiian Creole or any other form of Creole where you might hear that word.  Meaning, Louisianan Creole although having origins in the French language is not French at all but its own distinct language.   This is confusing because the Cajuns speak a dialect of French that sounds different than the French from France or Quebec, but it's still French and French speakers can understand what they are saying even if it sounds different than the way they might pronounce things.  That's different. Creole is French-based, but has African influences and is literally its own language and French speakers cannot understand it.  Today it's an endangered language, only about 10,000 people speak it, but it is still alive.       Yeah, that wasn't something I understood as a teenager living in Louisiana. I thought Cajun- Creole all meant Lousianan.  Since we lived in North Louisiana, I never met anyone personally who spoke Lousiana Creole.  All the Creole's I came into contact, including Mrs. Devereaux, my French teacher spoke traditional French, which is what they do in Chopin's book too, btw.       Of course, Cajuns and Creole people have a lot in common in terms of religion and even in taste in cuisine, but where they differ tremendously is in ethnicity and also in social class.  The Cajuns are white and from Canada but often rural and historically lower-middle class.  The Creole's are not white, but culturally a part of the urban elite, the ruling class.  They are the first multi-cultural people group on the American continent and deserve a special status for that reason.    Explain that, because that's really interesting.  Today, to be multi-cultural is cool, but 100 years ago when ethnic groups did not intermingle, and being a multi-cultural group that was upper class seems like a huge anomaly.  Although I will say the word “creole” tips you off to the multi-cultural element.  It actually comes from the Portuguese word “crioulo” and the word itself means people who were created.     And again, I do want to point out that this is kind of a very big simplification of a couple of hundred years of history, but in short, the criolos were people who were born in the new World- but mostly of mixed heritage.  Gentlemen farmers, primarily French and Spanish came over to the new world.  A lot of them came  by way of the Caribbean after the slave revolt in Haiti.   They had relationships and often even second families with local people here. Many were Black slaves, others were native Americans, lots were mulattos who also came from the Caribbean.  Unlike mixed raced people from Mississippi or Alabama, Creoles were not slaves.  They were free people.  They were educated.  They spoke French and many rose to high positions of politics, arts and culture. They were the elite, many were slaveholders.  Now, I will say, that most chose to speak Colonial French over Louisiana Creole as they got more educated, also over time as we got closer to the Civil War era being mixed race in and of itself got pretty complicated with the black/white caste-system of the South, which is another story in and of itself.   And as a result, you had creoles who were identifying as white and others who didn't- Chopin's family were white creoles.  But regardless of all that, but in the 1850s and through the life of Chopin, until today, Creoles are a separate people group that identify themselves as such.  They are a proud group of people who worship together, connect socially together, and often build communities around each other. They have societal behaviors and customs that set them apart, and we learn by looking at life through Edna Pontellier's eyes, have a culture that can difficult for an outsider to penetrate, if you marry an insider.    And so enters, Mrs. Kate Chopin, born in 1851 to a mother who was Creole and a father who was a Irish, both Catholic. She was not born in Louisisana, but in the great midwestern city of St. Louis.  St Louis, at the time had a rather large Creole population by virtue of being a city on the Mississippi river- which runs from New Orleans miles north. Her mom's family was old, distinguished and part of what has been termed the “Creole Aristocracy”.  Kate grew up speaking French as a first language, and as many Creole women was raised to be very independent by three generations of women in the household. She received an exceptional education, was interested in what they called “the woman question”.  This will give you an indication of how progressive her family actually was, now brace yourself because this is scandalous….on a trip to New Orleans at the ripe age of 18, Kate learned to smoke.    Oh my, did she smoke behind the high school gym or in the bathroom stalls?    Ha!  Who even knows, but we do know that at age 19 she married the love of her life, another Creole, Oscar Chopin.  Kate and Oscar were very compatible and the years she was married to him have been described as nothing but really happy by all of her biographers that I'm familiar with.  They lived in New Orleans at first and then to Natchitoches parish in the central Louisiana where he owned and operated a general store.  They were married for 12 years, and- this small fact wipes me out- they had five sons and two daughters.    Ha!  That confirms all the Catholic stereotypes of large families.      I know right, that's just a lot…and their lives were, by all accounts, going well until…there's always an until… Oscar suffered the fate of a lot of people around the world even to this day, who live in hot climates.  He caught malaria, and suddenly died.  And there Kate was, alone in the middle of the interior of Louisiana,  with this store and all these kids.  She ran it herself for over a year, but then decided to do what lots of us would do in that situation…she moved back to the hometown of her childhood, St. Louis so she could be near her mother- I didn't mention it before but her father had died in a terrible railroad accident when she was a young child and her brother had died in the Civil War- so basically all of the men that had meant anything to her at all, had all died.  One of Kate's daughters had this to say about that later on when she was an adult talking about her mom, “When I speak of my mother's keen sense of humor and of her habit of looking on the amusing side of everything, I don't want to give the impression of her being joyous, for she was on the contrary rather a sad nature…I think the tragic death of her father early in her life, of her much beloved brothers, the loss of her young husband and her mother, left a stamp of sadness on her which was never lost.”      Goodness, that Is a lot of sadness.    Well, it is and it took a toll.  When she got back to St. Louis, Dr. Kolbenheyer, their obgyn and a family friend talked her into studying some French writers for the sake of  mental health, specifically Maupassant and Zola and take up writing.  She took that advice ..…so at age 38 a widow with six living children, Chopin began her writing career.  A career, sadly that was only going to last five years.  It started great, and she was super popular, but then….she wrote a scandalous book and was cancelled, and I mean totally cancelled.  Five years after the publication of  this candalous book that today we call The Awakening, she had a stroke and died.  At the time of her death, Kate Chopin as a writer, was virtually unknown and uncelebrated.      What do you mean by cancelled? That sounds like a crazy story for a mommy writer.    True, and it is.  When she started  writing, she was super popular.  This kind of reminds me a little of Shirley Jackson, honestly.  She wrote short things for magazines for money.  What made her work popular, at least in part, was because writing about a subculture of America that people found interesting.  Although she was living in St. Louis, her stories were set in Louisiana amongst the Creole people- and people loved it.  This movement in American literature where authors focus on a specific region or people group  has been called “Local Color”, and her ability to showcase the local color of the Creole people led her to success.        Subcultures are so fascinating to me and I'm always amazed at how many different subcultures there are- and I'm not talking about just ethnically. There are endless subcultures on this earth, and most of the time we don't even know what we're looking at.    Oh, for sure.  I think of guitar players as their own subculture- they speak their own language, have their own passions, I wouldn't be surprised if they have their own foods.     HA!  Do I sense a bit of mockery?  But you are right, we do have a little bit of a subculture, but if you think guitarists are a subculture, what do you think of my cousin Sherry who is neck deep into Harley Davidson culture and goes to Sturgis, South Dakota every year.     True, and there are hundreds of thousands of people who participate in that subculture all over the world   And of course, we're talking about hobbies which are not the same as actual ethnic subcultures in any location, understanding and just seeing behind the fence of someone else' experience is the fun.  The idea of living life vicariously through the stories, so to speak, of people who are so radically differently is one of the things I most love about reading.  In the real sense of the term “local color” though, this was an actual movement after the Civil War.  Authors were using settings from different parts of the country and it made the writing feel romantic for people unfamiliar with the setting while actually being fundamentally realistic- I know that's a paradox, but if you think about it it makes sense.  They were works that could only be written from inside the culture by someone who was a part of it- that's what made them realistic.   Chopin was considered a local color author because she was Creole writing about the world of Louisiana Creoles.      Well, apparently it was well received.  She got stories printed first in regional publications but then in national publications.  “The Story of an Hour” which was the only story I had ever read of hers, and I didn't know this, was published in Vogue in 1894.      Very impressive, Houghton Mifflin, the publisher that to this day publishes quite a bit of high school literature textbooks actually published a collection of her stories, titled it Bayou Folk.  So, just in the title, you can tell they are playing up her Louisiana connection.  And that book was a success.  Chopin, who kept notes on how well all of her works were doing, wrote that she had seen 100 press notices about the book.  It was written up in both The Atlantic and the New York Times.  People loved how she used local dialects. They found the stories and I quote “charning and pleasant.”  She was even asked to write an essay on writing for the literary journal Critic- which I found really insightful.     Well, of course, all of these things sound like a woman bound for monetary and critical success- stardom of her day.       And so her trajectory kept ascending.  She was published in the Saturday Evening Post.  Of course that was a big deal.  Everything was moving in the right direction….until.. The Awakening.  The Awakening was too much and she crashed immediately and hard.     You know, when I read these reviews from 1899, it's so interesting how strongly they reacted.  Let me read a few, her local paper, The St Louis Daily Globe-Democrat wrote this, “It is not a healthy book….if it points any particular moral or teaches any lesson the fact is not apparent.” The Chicago Times Herald wrote, “It was not necessary for a writer of so great refinement and poetic grace to enter the over-worked field of sex-fiction.  This is not a pleasant story.”  Here's another one, “its disagreeable glimpses of sensuality are repellent.”      She was not prepared for this.  She did not expect it.  She was expecting people to see it as the American version of some of the things she had been reading in French that had been published in France.  Her treatment of sexuality is what really got her, and maybe if her protagonist had been male she could have gotten away with it.  Actually, I'm pretty sure, she would have gotten away with it, there are other authors who did.  But discussing how women felt about sexuality- and let me say- in case you haven't read the book- this is not a harlequin romance.  She doesn't talk about hot steamy passion in descriptive tones.  She is very polished and shows deference to the WAY things were expressed in her day.  The problem was not in how she was treating sexual content- the problem was that she WAS discussing how women felt about sexuality and this just was too realistic.  People weren't and maybe we still aren't, ready to be vulnerable about how we feel about intimacy.      You know, I tell students all the time that in American politics, sexual issues have always been used as a wedge issue to define people's position as good or bad people.  That has not changed in the American political scene in 200 years and is something our European and Asian friends have mocked us about for just as long.  We are a people committed to moralizing, even to this day.  For a long time, it was cloaked in religion, but now, hyperbolic moralizing, although not done in the name of a faith is still a favorite American pastime.      Well, honestly, I guess that's also been true for the arts as well.  But honestly, greatr art is never moralizing.  And Chopin knew that.  Furthermore, if anyone had read that essay Chopin printed about her writing that I referenced, they would have seen that Chopin, by design, does NOT moralize in hers.  She does not condemn or judge.  She has no interest in telling us how we should or shouldn't behave.  She sees the role of the artist, and clearly stated as much,  and the role of fiction as in demonstrating how we genuinely ARE as human beings.  It is a role of showcasing the human experience.  It is meant to help us understand ourselves.  What she does in her writing by using a culture that is unfamiliar to us, is allow us a safer space from which we can pull back the veil that IS our experience, so we can see ourselves.  Let me quote her from that essay and here she's talking about the Creole people of Louisiana,    “Among these people are to be found an earnestness in the acquirement and dissemination of book-learning, a clinging to the past and conventional standards, an almost Creolean sensitiveness to criticism and a singular ignorance of, or disregard for, the value of the highest art forms. There is a very, very big world lying not wholly in northern Indiana, nor does it lie at the antipodes, either. It is human existence in its subtle, complex, true meaning, stripped of the veil with which ethical and conventional standards have draped it.”  Well, regardless of how she wanted to come across, apparently, she struck a nerve people didn't want struck.  The Awakening unsettled America.  The book was published in April of 1899, by August critics were destroying it, and again I'll use the reviewers words,  it had been deemed “morbid and unwholesome” and was reproached on a national stage.  She was scorned publicly.  When she submitted a new short story to the Atlantic “Ti Demon” in November after the publication of The Awakening it was returned and rejected.    Her own publisher, the one who had published the controversial book decided to “shorten is list of authors”- and they dropped her.  Of course to be fair, they claimed that decision had nothing to do with the problems with the reception of The Awakening.    I'm sure that it didn't.  Chopin was obviously crushed.  She would only write seven more stories over the next five years.  In 1904 when she died of a stroke, she was basically a forgotten writer.  And likely would have remained forgotten until, ironically the French discovered the novel in 1952.  A writer by the name of Cyrille Arnavon translated it into French under the title Edna with a 22 page introduction essay called it a neglected masterpiece.  What he liked about it had nothing to do with “local color” or creole people or anything Americana.  He saw in it what we see in it today- psychological analysis.      So fascinating, this is the 1950s; this is exactly the time period psychology is shifting from Freudian interpretations of Chopin's' day into behaviorism and eventually to humanistic psychology.      Why does this matter?    With Freud everything is secret and we're ruled by unseen forces we don't understand without psychoanalysis.  Chopin's book came out when this was how we were looking at the world.  After him came Skinner's behaviorism which said everything can be reduced to rewards and punishments.   Humanistic psychology is this third way of looking at things.  It's extremely empathetic.  Names like Karl Rogers were looking at life with the idea that it's just plain difficult to be a human, and we need to understand this complexity.  They would like books that are not all black/white thinking or moralistic.  This is what's crazy to me about Chopin.  She wrote in the days of Freud, but she was so far ahead of her time psychologically; nobody would get her for another 60 years- literally two entire movements later in the field of psychology.      Well, when they did get her, they really got her.  In 1969 a Norwegian critic Per Seyersted brought her out into the open in a big way.  This is what he said, “ Chopin, and I quote “broke new ground in American literature. She was the first woman writer in her country to accept passion as a legitimate subject for serious, outspoken fiction. Revolting against tradition and authority; with a daring which we can hardy fathom today; with an uncompromising honesty and no trace of sensationalism, she undertook to give the unsparing truth about woman's submerged life. She was something of a pioneer in the amoral treatment of sexuality, of divorce, and of woman's urge for an existential authenticity. She is in many respects a modern writer, particularly in her awareness of the complexities of truth and the complications of freedom.”    Finally people were understanding what she was trying to do.  That's exactly what she wanted to show- the complexity of being human.  Here's another Chopin quote whole talking about the role of a writer, “Thou shalt not preach; “thou shalt not instruct thy neighbor”.  Or as her great- grandmother Carleville, who was extremely influencial in her life, used to tell her, Kate's grandmother who raised her was known for saying this “One may know a great deal about people without judging them.  God does that.”    Well, she was immediately resurrected.  Today she is considered one of America's premiere writers.    Well, it also didn't hurt her reputation that she was being discovered in Europe at the exact same time, the women's movement was taking off in the United States and finding an unsung feminist writer was very popular.     Yeah, I thought she WAS a feminist writer, but you don't see her as that.    I really don't, and that's not to say there isn't any feminism in the book, because obviously, it's about life as a woman at the turn of the century.  Virginia Wolfe famouslty argued in her essay A Room of One's Own that no one knew what women were thinking and feeling in the 17th century because they weren't writing.  Well, you can't say that about Chopin.  She was absolutely writing about what women were thinking and feeling, it just took 60 years for the world to allow her to share it.        If we want to talk the particulars about The Awakening, which of course we do, we have a female protagonist.  I'm not going to call her a hero because I don't find anything heroic about her.  But it's very very honest characterization of what women feel, and honestly, perhaps it's what a lot of people feel- both men and women when they live, as we all do, within cultures of high expectations.      Isn't writing about standing up to cultural norms and societal expectations kind of cliché?  I'm surprised you find it interesting in this situation.     Well, it for sure can be.  It's what a lot of teenage angst poetry is about.  But Chopin's book is a lot more complex than just a denouncement on social expectations of women's roles.  In some ways, that's just the setting.  This particular woman, Edna, is for sure, unhappyily objectified by a husband.  That part is obvious.  But, Chopin isn't necessarily moralizing against this or anything else.  In the opening encounter between husband and wife, we see the wife being objectified, but we also see that they have worked out some deal.  She has a very privileged life.  It's not a life between two people who have emotional intimacy, for sure.  These two clearly don't.  Edna asks if her husband plans on showing up for dinner.  He basically sayd, I don't know- I may; I may not.  It doesn't appear Edna could care less one way or another and Chopin isn't condemning them; she is observing.  This are the deals people are working out in the world.  She makes other observations in regard to Edna and her relationship with her children.  She loves her children; sort of; but it's certainly not the motherly and passionate devotion most mothers feel towards their kids.  It's definitely not the self-denying ideal, we see expressed through a different character in the book.  Again, Chopin is not endorsing nor condemning.  She's observing.  There's no doubt, Chopin herself was progressive.  She was raised in a house of dominant women.  She herself was a head of household.  She was educated.  She made money, but she had healthy relationships with the men in her life.  She is not a man-hater, that I can tell.  She never remarried but there is reason to believe she had at least one  other significant male relationship after her husband's death.  So, portraying her as a woman who influenced feminism in any kind of deliberate way, I don't think is something that she intended, nor was it something that happened.  She was cancelled.    I understand that, it's just interesting that today, we think of her first and foremost as a feminist writer in large part because she had sexual content in her books.  Although, as I think about the progressive women in the 1890s, what we know about them from history is that most were not really be fans of indiscriminate sex.     Oh my, we're getting edgy here, but I have to ask.  Why do you say that?    You have to understand this is before birth control.  Sexual relationships for women meant running the very real risk of generating children which was often a life-risking ordeal.  Kate herself had gone through that seven times in twelve years.  Women were spending half of their lives pregnant.  Many progressive women in this time period were not fighting for the freedom to have sex, they were fighting for the right to NOT have it.  They wanted the right to say no.  The goal of Self ownership was central to nineteenth century feminism.  Woman's rights were about possessing a fully realized human identity.  We think of this today in terms of sexual freedom but that's the arrogance of the presence kicking in.  Obviously human sexuality is a core part of the human experience and that's likely why it's central to Chopin's story, but there are other aspects of person hood.  Women, especially educated ones, were interested in navigating a sense of place in the community and the universe at large- and that involves all kinds of things- hard things like love, connections, maternity.    Exactly, and that's why Edna is so complicated.  Being a human is difficult.   Navigating  “the woman's sphere”, to use the expression of  the notable Chopin scholar Sandra Gilbert is complicated.  And so, we all find ourselves, one way or another in cages- some of our own making, some of the makings of our community, our religion, our culture, our own personalities- whatever it is.  And that is the opening of our story.  The Awakening starts with a woman in a cage.  This is not to say that men do not experience cages or awakenigs- they absolutely do, but Chopin is a woman and will speak from inside the world of women.  She will drop a woman named Edna, a middle child Presbyterian English speaking girl from Kentucky, into a French speaking Catholic world of elite Creole women.  Edna is flawed, but not awful.  She's flawed in the sense that we are all flawed.  This woman acts out- in the way that many of us have acted out- often as children, but for some of us, we don't experience this desire for agency until later in life.  For Edna it comes at the age of 26 and when it does- she will scandalize her world the way acting out always does.  She finds herself in a cage and decides she wants out...but then what…where do you go from there.  Let's read how Chopin sets this up in the first paragraph of her story.    A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over:  “Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!”  He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was the mocking-bird that hung on the other side of the door, whistling his fluty notes out upon the breeze with maddening persistence.  Mr. Pontellier, unable to read his newspaper with any degree of comfort, arose with an expression and an exclamation of disgust.  He walked down the gallery and across the narrow “bridges” which connected the Lebrun cottages one with the other. He had been seated before the door of the main house. The parrot and the mocking-bird were the property of Madame Lebrun, and they had the right to make all the noise they wished. Mr. Pontellier had the privilege of quitting their society when they ceased to be entertaining.    Christy, does she give the entire story away in the beginning?    She's doing something.  She opens with a bird- a parrot. We will talk more about this later, but birds are a big deal in this book.  But why a parrot- what do parrots do- well they imitate.  They talk.  This parrot is in a cage repeating something an English reader may not understand.      What does that phrase mean?    It means Go away! Go away!  For God's sake!  The bird is telling everyone to go away, and Mr. Pontellier pretty much ignores the bird and does actually go away.  The bird speaks a little Spanish but also a language no one else understands.  There's a lot of intentionality here.  This book begins with a bird in a cage and the book ends with a bird, but I won't tell you how we find that bird yet.       These 19th century writers were always using symbols on purpose.       They really do.  And if this one is our protagonist- what we can see is that she's beautiful, she's in a cage, and although she can talk, she cannot articulate something that can be heard properly or understood.      And so that is our starting point.    I think it is.  Next episode, we will join Edna and explore this beautiful place, Grand Isle- the site, and if the title of the book hasn't given it away yet, I will, of her Awakening.  We will watch Edna awaken- but then, we know from our visit with Camus…that is only step one.  Now what.    Indeed…now what.  Well, thank you for spending time with us today.  We hope you have enjoyed meeting Kate Chopin and jumping into the first paragraph of her lost but rediscovered American masterpiece, The Awakening.  And if you did, please support us by sharing this episode with a firend, either by text, by twitter, Instagram or email.  That's how we grow.  Also, if you have a favorite book, you'd like us to discuss, you are always invited to connect with us, again via all the ways Modern world people do.    Peace out!                 

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