Podcast appearances and mentions of george mcdonald

The dry weather has allowed farmers to get back out in the field and begin planting again. George McDonald with Catesa Farms talks about what this planting season has been like, and the challenges inflation and a slow farm economy has had.

George McDonald said, “It is a greater compliment to be trusted than to be loved.” In this message, Dr. Melodye Hilton shares some of the differences between love and trust and the importance of purposefully developing trust to strengthen our relationships. Notes & Scriptures for this message are available in the Notes section of the Giving Light App. Visit our website at www.givinglight.org. Download the Giving Light App available for free on iOS and Android.

4 New Square Chambers' George McDonald and Matt Waszak explore new representative actions and the complex interplay between litigation funding and class actions, addressing the legal challenges that arise. They emphasise the importance of courts making early rulings on funding arrangements to ensure the viability of class actions. Key Topics Discussed: Funding Challenges: Issues related to funding agreements and privity of contract among class members. Early Court Decisions: The potential for courts to provide early clarity on funding arrangements. Conditional Fee Agreements (CFAs): Insights into CFAs, including success fees and cost recovery for class representatives. Damages-Based Agreements (DBAs): Limitations and challenges of DBAs in collective actions. Adverse Costs: Discussion on liability for adverse costs in representative actions. Legislative Reforms: Speculation on potential reforms to expand the CAT's collective action regime for consumer claims. Judicial Management: The proactive role of courts in managing funding and costs early in litigation. Early Determinations: Advantages of pre-emptive court decisions on funding for smoother processes. Recommendations for Funders: Guidance on creating tailored funding agreements for representative actions.

In this latest episode in our costs and litigation funding mini-series, 4 New Square Chambers' Nicholas Bacon KC, George McDonald, and Ben Smiley provide an authoritative analysis of the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) and the key cost-related issues that are arising in CAT proceedings. This episode will cover: The CAT's approach to litigation funding arrangements, including the scrutiny of funding agreements and the returns available to funders. The complexities surrounding the distribution of collective settlements, with a focus on how the CAT manages the allocation of damages and costs, and the potential for judicial intervention to adjust terms proposed by the parties. The impact of the ongoing PACCAR reforms on CAT cases, particularly with regard to procedural and cost-related considerations. Key procedural issues unique to the CAT, such as the treatment of costs incurred at the certification stage. This episode offers an informed perspective on how the CAT is handling these issues and what practitioners can expect as more cases proceed to settlement and distribution.

This week at the Sunbelt Ag Expo in Moultrie, Georgia, eight state winners were recognized during the Southeastern Farmer of the Year program including Smith County's George McDonald. George McDonald press release

Smith County's George McDonald has been named the 2024 Tennessee farmer of the year and will represent the volunteer state at the sunbelt ag expo in Moultrie, Georgia in October.

Today's Locked on Ole Miss podcast we talk about Lane Kiffin and the Ole Miss Rebels landing Isaiah Hamilton from the Houston Cougars in the Transfer Portal.  Pete Golding is building a powerful defense at Ole Miss around transfers from Houston Cougars, Alabama Crimson Tide, Oklahoma Sooners, Arkansas Razorbacks. Florida Gators and Texas A&M Aggies.  We talk about what this Corner will allow them to do. In the second segment of the show we talk about Jacob Bostick a Freshman Wide Receiver from the Iowa Hawkeyes and Jack Hestera the recent offer from the Charlotte 49ers and why Lane Kiffin and George McDonald are going after WRs when they could have the best WR unit in the country with Tre Harris. Juice Wells, Deion Smith, Marquis Willis, Jordan Watkins and Cayden Lee. In our final segment of the day we talk about the Wide Receiver room led by Tre Harris for Lane Kiffin and how this unit has a chance to be the best in College Football this season.  Juice Wells and Jordan Watkins have each become elite run after the catch inside receivers and Ole Miss can expect a real boost this May or June from Deion Smith, the JUCO WR from Holmes Community College.   WANT MORE OLE MISS SPORTS CONTENT?   Follow and Subscribe to the Podcast on these platforms: 

Send us a Text Message.BUILDING FAITH THROUGH TRIALSUnshakeable Faith – Part 4Springcreek Church | Senior Pastor Keith StewartMay 5, 2024#god #realspringcreekchurch #unshakeablefaith #faith #bible #trials #difficulties #adversityhttps://www.springcreekchurch.org/Few things are less welcome in our lives than trials, difficulties, and pain. Yet it's these very things that often leave us with some of the greatest gifts - not the least of which is a stronger faith. Still, this is not what happens with everybody who experiences adversity. For some, trials will produce bitterness, misery, and hopelessness. How do you ensure that you're a part of the former group and not the latter? DISCUSSION QUESTIONS1. Take a moment and review the chart called the Progression of Harmful Emotions. The process that ends in defeat almost always begins with disappointment. As disappointment festers it moves us to a place of discouragement. Unchecked, discouragement will twist itself into disillusionment. As disillusionment overwhelms you, it will eventually corkscrew down into depression. Then, ultimately, we end up defeated. Have you ever found yourself in this downward spiral? What, if anything, did you do to arrest those deepening negative feelings? What would you say to someone or what might you do to support someone experiencing this?2. Dr. Jerome Frank at Johns Hopkins talks about what it means to live in an "assumptive world." He says all of us make assumptions about life, about God, about ourselves, about others. But when our assumptions don't square with reality, we become confused, angry, and disillusioned. Have you ever labored under a faulty assumption of life? What was it? How did it affect you? How has your understanding of life, relationships, and problems changed?3. Pastor Keith pointed out how much of the book of Job actually details the faulty assumptions of Job's friends.  At least one of the intended purposes is to examine how we approach others when they're hurting, facing setbacks, or are going through major financial, relational, emotional or spiritual challenges. Have you ever been on the receiving end of advice from someone who didn't know what they were talking about? Tried to make you think you had done something terrible as an explanation for your difficulties? Or just judged you without knowing all the facts? What effect did that have on you? What did you do or say in response? In retrospect, what do you wish you had said or done? Have you ever been guilty of treating others in a similar way?4. Take some time to discuss the following finding by UW Health…"Research has found that up to 70 percent of people experience positive psychological growth from difficult times, such as a deeper sense of self & purpose, a greater appreciation for life & loved ones, & an increased capacity for altruism, empathy, & desire to act for the greater good.” – UW Health (April 7, 2020)Have you seen this in your own life? In the life of others? Have you also seen circumstances where adversity produced something negative & resulted in a more permanent negative mindset? What do you think separates those who see positive results from difficult times versus those who experience negative results?5. George McDonald said, “No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow.” There are plenty of examples of this. Most of the Psalms were written in the midst of difficult situations. Most of the Epistles of the New Testament were written in prisons. Most of the greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers of all time had to pass through the fire. John Bunyon wrote Pilgrim's Progress from jail. Florence Nightingale, too ill to move from her bed, reorganized the hospitals of

Today's Locked on Ole Miss podcast we talk about the some surprises that the Ole Miss Rebels and Lane Kiffin might recruit out of the Transfer Portal and specifically at the Wide Receiver position…Yes you heard that correctly so I put on my Sherlock Holmes hat and grabbed a pipe and started looking for clues for directions that Ole Miss and George McDonald and yes Jaxson Dart's instagram played a major role.  This team already has Tre Harris, Jordan Watkins, Juice Wells, Deion Smith and Cayden Lee but they may be looking to grow that room. In the second segment of the show we talk about Isaiah Hamilton from the Houston Cougars and what type of role a Cornerback of this magnitude would have in this lineup that features Trey Amos, Brandon Turnage, Chris Graves and Cedrick Beavers already.  And why this would allow John Saunders, Jaden Canady and Yam Banks to stay in the middle of the field for Pete Golding. In our final segment of the day we talk about the Running Back room post spring after the Kedrick Reescano defection.  What does Ole Miss have currently with Ulysses Bentley IV, Jacory Croskey-Merritt and Henry Parrish Jr right now and how Ole Miss can fill the role of a thumper with personnel and two Tight End formations.  WANT MORE OLE MISS SPORTS CONTENT?   Follow and Subscribe to the Podcast on these platforms: 

Today's Locked on Ole Miss podcast we talk about the importance of Nick Saban on this Ole Miss Rebels football team for Lane Kiffin.  It is a team with Jaxson Dart and Walter Nolen that will have plenty of expectations and Kiffin is leaning on his Saban lessons and building up those points with assistant coaches that have Alabama and Nick Saban backgrounds.  Wes Neighbors, Pete Golding and Joe Cox join Lane Kiffin as on the field coaches with an Alabama Crimson Tide background but Charlie Weis Jr and William Vlachos also spent time in that building. In the second segment of the show we talk Cayden Lee as the WR Story of spring practice so far and he is someone that has gotten the upperclassmen attention and new WR coach George McDonald is even starting to move this guy around on the field.  This is impressive for a guy that is competing with Tre Harris, Jordan Watkins and Ayden Williams and Juice Wells and Deion Smith will be coming soon. In our final segment of the day we talk about College Football 2.0 and whether or not you like it it appears to be here and the Rise of Personnel departments will be the next wave of college football and Ole Miss Rebels just hired a Personnel guy with 20 years NFL experience with the San Francisco 49ers and St Louis Rams to their personnel department that is becoming quite varied.   WANT MORE OLE MISS SPORTS CONTENT?  Join our Subtext communityhttps://joinsubtext.com/lockedonolemiss  Follow and Subscribe to the Podcast on these platforms: 

Today's Locked on Ole Miss podcast we talk about Jaxson Dart and the role he has played off the field displaying a magnetic personality in recruiting this 2024 football team.  We talk about his development in Year three under Lane Kiffin and what that may look like with a WR corps of Tre Harris, Jordan Watkins, Deion Smith and Juice Wells.  We talk about how this team he will be the face off and if it hits the success predicted for the Ole Miss Rebels in the CFB Playoff, Dart becomes the face of that as well.  The only thing close to what could converge is the Archie Manning mania.  Ole Miss fans should prepare for this to go off the chain. In the second segment of the show we talk about why Cayden Lee and Ayden Williams have a massive spring practice and they have the opportunity to really cement themselves to Lane Kiffin and Charlie Weis Jr as being trustworthy members of the WR corps that deserve playing time.George McDonald has a really talented room with Tre Harris, Jordan Watkins, Cayden Lee, Ayden Williams and the young guys…not to forget Caden Prieskorn and Dae'quan Wright to make this receiving corps the best in college football. In our final segment of the day we talk about the Southern Miss Golden Eagles picking this year to chirp at recent National Champion Ole Miss and Mississippi State and proceeding to lose to both of them. https://thegrovecollective.com/marchtovictory WANT MORE OLE MISS SPORTS CONTENT?  Join our Subtext communityhttps://joinsubtext.com/lockedonolemiss  Follow and Subscribe to the Podcast on these platforms: 

Today's Locked on Ole Miss podcast we talk about Pete Golding's defense getting seen briefly by the media as Spring Football practice resumes.We talk about the additions on staff in Bryan Brown and Zach Arnett and we talk about the players that Lane Kiffin has brought in in Water Nolen from Texas A&M Aggies, Princely Umanmielen from the Florida Gators, Chris Paul from the Arkansas Razorbacks, Trey Amos from the Alabama Crimson Tide, Amorian Walker from the Michigan Wolverines, Key Lawrence from the Oklahoma Sooners, Louis Moore from the Indiana Hoosiers and Yam Banks from the South Alabama Jaguars. In the second segment of the show we talk about Lane Kiffin's Top five offseason hires of the offseason and we talked about George McDonald, Zach Arnett, Bryan Brown, Alex Brown and Billy Glasscock and each of their specific roles that can help in 2024 and beyond.  This ranking isn't a March Madness style ranking but will show exactly how fans should look at these hires. In our final segment of the day we talk about Ole Miss Baseball taking 2/3 from the South Carolina Gamecocks and how it is important for teams to get off in a good start with the Tennessee Volunteers coming next week in Knoxville and the Kentucky Wildcats the week after that.  I think 5-4 should be the goal going to face the #1 Arkansas Razorbacks. https://thegrovecollective.com/marchtovictory WANT MORE OLE MISS SPORTS CONTENT?  Join our Subtext communityhttps://joinsubtext.com/lockedonolemiss  Follow and Subscribe to the Podcast on these platforms: 

Today's Locked on Ole Miss podcast we talk about why Alex Brown from the SMU Mustangs going to the Ole Miss Rebels is such a big freaking deal. We try to break down the importance that Player Personnel guys are currently getting like Billy Glasscock who came over from the Texas Longhorns replacing Austin Thomas who left for LSU Tigers.  In this new age of multi year transfers Lane Kiffin who has a reputation of the Portal King has to grow that side of the business and getting SMUs GM shows how big Ole Miss job has gotten. In the second segment of the show we talk about Lane Kiffin's Top five offseason hires of the offseason and we talked about George McDonald, Zach Arnett, Bryan Brown, Alex Brown and Billy Glasscock and each of their specific roles that can help in 2024 and beyond.  This ranking isn't a March Madness style ranking but will show exactly how fans should look at these hires. In our final segment of the day we talk about Ole Miss Baseball taking 2/3 from the South Carolina Gamecocks and how it is important for teams to get off in a good start with the Tennessee Volunteers coming next week in Knoxville and the Kentucky Wildcats the week after that.  I think 5-4 should be the goal going to face the #1 Arkansas Razorbacks. https://thegrovecollective.com/marchtovictory WANT MORE OLE MISS SPORTS CONTENT?  Join our Subtext communityhttps://joinsubtext.com/lockedonolemiss  Follow and Subscribe to the Podcast on these platforms: 

Welcome to Episode #135 of Way of the Bible podcast. This is our seventh of eight episodes in our seventeenth mini-series, The Man Jesus Christ. So far in this mini-series we've looked at the divinity of Jesus, his incarnation and early life, his transition into public ministry, his big Miracle Extravaganza splash, and the calling of his first disciples. On this episode we're going to look at the Ministry of Jesus among the people.I've also been addressing on this mini-series my own spiritual transformation. I've been a born-again Holy Spirit filled believer of Jesus Christ for almost thirty years. And for thirty years before that a believer in Jesus, but I did not know him. While producing and recording the earliest episodes of this podcast I began tracking the relationship of good and evil in regard to intimacy with God. What I discovered by the end of the Old Testament was intimacy with God was hindered by sin. Sin fosters lack of belief and disobedience of God's commands. It all goes back to God's counsel of Cain (see Gen 4:7).I had a gut check when I finished the Old Testament. I believed in God and what he has done, is doing, and will do through Jesus Christ. Yet I did not feel the intimacy I knew others had written of feeling. Think of Teresa of Avila, John Wesley, Brother Lawrence, George Muller, Jonathan Edwards, George McDonald, C.S. Lewis, Mother Teresa, Dallas Willard, Eugene Peterson. What did they know that I didn't. What had they encountered with God that I had not. Now that I know what I know now [that which I did not know before I knew what I now know] is something I knew others had experienced but I thought was just for the “super” saints. Continual, weekly, daily, hourly, moment by moment intimacy with God our Father through Jesus Christ our Lord. Then I started with the New Testament.When I started with the New Testament, I continued looking for good and evil in relationship to intimacy with God and also began including belief and obedience. It was a muddled picture until I hit the book of Romans. Paul laid it all out for both good and evil and belief and obedience. Intimacy is directly related to belief and obedience. By the power of the Holy Spirit temptations and desires to do evil and “sin” are muted while eagerness and earnestness in doing good are amplified. There is a whole lot there, much more than can be covered in one mini-series much less the introduction to one episode. Let me cut this short and say I crested the mountain when I got to Ephesians 4:11-13 – And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.Paul was saying we are all to attain ultimately to the fullness of Christ. That is Union with God in-Christ; something that Jesus prayed for all believers in John 17. If we are all to attain to the fullness of Christ “ALL” includes all believers not just “super” saints. I'm one of the “ALL” so how do I get to Union with God? 

Today's Locked on Ole Miss podcast we talk about the Wide Receiver Room for the Ole Miss Rebels and Lane Kiffin and Charlie Weis Jr and even though Tre Harris is the Best WR in College Football it will be Juice Wells that makes Ole Miss the top WR room in College Football. Jordan Watkins is the third member of the team and has emerged as Jaxson Dart's and George McDonald's most reliable option for Ole Miss Football. In the second segment of the show we talk about the next wave of Wide Receiver's that Ole Miss is developing and we look at highlights from Noreel White from St Martin HS on the coast. White and Cayden Lee provide slot type WRs for Ole Miss Offense and with the addition of Ayden Williams Ole Miss has a next wave they are going to bring in. Now 12 months from now the greatest QB competition in Ole Miss history will start so these relationships with Walker Howard and Austin Simmons will also play a role in who the next starting QB at Ole Miss will be. In our final segment of the day we talk about Deion Smith and Marquis Willis and the dynamic that will be created by those two players coming in May and what type of players they are. WANT MORE OLE MISS SPORTS CONTENT? Join our Subtext communityhttps://joinsubtext.com/lockedonolemiss  Follow and Subscribe to the Podcast on these platforms:

Today's Locked on Ole Miss podcast we talk about the Wide Receiver Room for the Ole Miss Rebels and Lane Kiffin and Charlie Weis Jr and even though Tre Harris is the Best WR in College Football it will be Juice Wells that makes Ole Miss the top WR room in College Football. Jordan Watkins is the third member of the team and has emerged as Jaxson Dart's and George McDonald's most reliable option for Ole Miss Football.   In the second segment of the show we talk about the next wave of Wide Receiver's that Ole Miss is developing and we look at highlights from Noreel White from St Martin HS on the coast. White and Cayden Lee provide slot type WRs for Ole Miss Offense and with the addition of Ayden Williams Ole Miss has a next wave they are going to bring in. Now 12 months from now the greatest QB competition in Ole Miss history will start so these relationships with Walker Howard and Austin Simmons will also play a role in who the next starting QB at Ole Miss will be.   In our final segment of the day we talk about Deion Smith and Marquis Willis and the dynamic that will be created by those two players coming in May and what type of players they are.   WANT MORE OLE MISS SPORTS CONTENT?   Join our Subtext community https://joinsubtext.com/lockedonolemiss     Follow and Subscribe to the Podcast on these platforms:

Pratt Rogers talks Lane Kiffin, George McDonald, Joe Cox, Realtree and Uniforms for Georgia and LSU. Show originally aired 1/29/24 WANT MORE OLE MISS SPORTS CONTENT? Join our Subtext communityhttps://joinsubtext.com/lockedonolemiss  Follow and Subscribe to the Podcast on these platforms:

Pratt Rogers talks Lane Kiffin, George McDonald, Joe Cox, Realtree and Uniforms for Georgia and LSU.   Show originally aired 1/29/24   WANT MORE OLE MISS SPORTS CONTENT?   Join our Subtext community https://joinsubtext.com/lockedonolemiss     Follow and Subscribe to the Podcast on these platforms:

Today's Locked on Ole Miss podcast we talk about Ole Miss improving their Wide Receiver Room with the addition of George McDonald. McDonald comes to Ole Miss from the Illinois Fighting Illini where he helped Isaiah Williams to First Team All Big 10 and lead a room that featured one 1000 yard receiver and two 500 yard receivers as well. We talks about what this could mean for the Ole Miss Rebels and Jaxson Dart offense wise with Tre Harris, Juice Wells, Jordan Watkins, Deion Smith and Marquis Willis already in the room. In the second segment of the show we talk about Ole Miss winning on the road vs the Texas A&M Aggies in College Station 71-68. We talk about what this opens up for Ole Miss over the next week and where the Rebels could end up. We talk about Jaylen Murray and his late game exploits and what this means for Chris Beard and Ole Miss Basketball. In our final segment of the day we talk about the role of the fan in this Ole Miss experience and talk about Coach Yo and her comments after the last home game vs Florida. While I agree with her I explain how any criticism of the fans is a dangerous proposition. I transition to legacy and talk a little about Bradley Sowell becoming an analyst with the Mississippi State Bulldogs and how normal fans that make or break legacy will take this. WANT MORE OLE MISS SPORTS CONTENT? Join our Subtext communityhttps://joinsubtext.com/lockedonolemiss  Follow and Subscribe to the Podcast on these platforms:

Today's Locked on Ole Miss podcast we talk about Ole Miss improving their Wide Receiver Room with the addition of George McDonald. McDonald comes to Ole Miss from the Illinois Fighting Illini where he helped Isaiah Williams to First Team All Big 10 and lead a room that featured one 1000 yard receiver and two 500 yard receivers as well. We talks about what this could mean for the Ole Miss Rebels and Jaxson Dart offense wise with Tre Harris, Juice Wells, Jordan Watkins, Deion Smith and Marquis Willis already in the room.   In the second segment of the show we talk about Ole Miss winning on the road vs the Texas A&M Aggies in College Station 71-68. We talk about what this opens up for Ole Miss over the next week and where the Rebels could end up. We talk about Jaylen Murray and his late game exploits and what this means for Chris Beard and Ole Miss Basketball.   In our final segment of the day we talk about the role of the fan in this Ole Miss experience and talk about Coach Yo and her comments after the last home game vs Florida. While I agree with her I explain how any criticism of the fans is a dangerous proposition. I transition to legacy and talk a little about Bradley Sowell becoming an analyst with the Mississippi State Bulldogs and how normal fans that make or break legacy will take this.   WANT MORE OLE MISS SPORTS CONTENT?   Join our Subtext community https://joinsubtext.com/lockedonolemiss     Follow and Subscribe to the Podcast on these platforms:

Episode 110: Countless studies have shown that there has been a steep drop in adult friendships over the past decade, and this decline is more serious that it might first sound. Research shows that being lonely can have negative effects on public health, and has been compared to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Hosts Richard Kyte and Scott Rada discuss what's behind this trend and what can be done to reverse it. Links to stories discussed during the podcast: How to find authentic connections in a digital world, by Richard Kyte Americans more than ever have no friends. Here are 5 steps to make more friends, by Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Think How having five friends boosts the adolescent brain — and educational performance, by Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian and Christine Langley, The Conversation Ditching a friend who is not like you can deepen social inequality, by Mark C. Paschucki and Anthony Palk, The Conversation About the hosts: Scott Rada is social media manager with Lee Enterprises, and Richard Kyte is the director of the D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wis. His forthcoming book, "Finding Your Third Place," will be published by Fulcrum Books. Episode transcript Note: The following transcript was created by Headliner and may contain misspellings and other inaccuracies as it was generated automatically: There has been a steep drop in adult friendships over the past decade Scott Rada: Hello, and welcome to episode 110 of The Ethical Life, a place where each week we talk about the intersection of ethics and modern life. I'm Scott Rodda, social media manager for Lee Enterprises. And as always, I'm joined by Rick Kyte, who is the head of the Ethics Institute at the  Viterbo  University in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Hello, Rick. Richard Kyte: Hi, Scott. Scott Rada: Countless studies have shown that there has been a steep drop in adult friendships over the past decade, and this decline is more serious than it might first sound. Research shows that being lonely can have negative effects on public health, and one study even compared it to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Rick, this trend has been going on for the past ten years or so, but it seems to have been made worse by the isolation required at, the start of the pandemic. How optimistic are you that we can find a way to fix and turn this around? Richard Kyte: My optimism stems from hearing so many people talk now about the importance of social connection. We're finally paying real attention to something that's actually been kind of an ongoing problem. We've tracked a real decline in number of friendships over the last 30 years. We got pretty good data on this. And so you can use something called the Google Ngram viewer to look at word usage from 1800 to the present day. If you compare two words, friend and self, what you find is, like, in 1800, the word friend occurred roughly twice as often as the word self in print. Scott Rada: I have a prediction, but go ahead. Richard Kyte: Today, the word self appears about three times as much as the word friend. Scott Rada: Yeah. Richard Kyte: And they cross paths around 1900. This isn't a new thing, and it seems to be a result of industrialization. As we become more prosperous, we become more independent, but we're at a point now where we're starting to really see the effects of not just loneliness, but all the things that happen. When you have more social fragmentation, you have increased polarization, you have real lack of trust in kind of businesses and government, all kinds of institutions. you have more conspiracy theories. All these things that we're seeing that are kind of, like, at the root of our great social dissatisfaction seem to be due to our loss of friendship. You say the start of the pandemic made people think about isolation more Scott Rada: And I started off by saying that there was obviously a dip in a lot of connectedness at the start of the pandemic, and you also expressed some optimism, saying that people are talking about this more. I wonder if those can maybe be stitched together a little bit is at least for a lot of people. I think the isolation and the disconnectedness people felt, in the worst months of the pandemic really almost made them appreciate more when you could get back out and could reconnect with friends and go on a trip or just be out among people. And do you think that sort of in some ways made people think and talk about this more. The pandemic that is, I know for. Richard Kyte: A fact it made people think and talked about, it more because people were talking about their isolation, they didn't like it, and they were talking about the effects. The problem is it also changed a lot of habits. Yeah, right. And it ended up closing a lot of businesses that were public gathering places. Primary way in which people make friends today is in the workplace Richard Kyte: What comes to our attention is really important, what we talk about, but also our daily habits and kind of what sociologists refer to as social infrastructure. Like, what are the patterns of life that we've developed that allow us to have connections and interaction? And in a way, the pandemic disrupted a lot of these usual patterns. For example, a primary way in which people make friends today is in the workplace. Richard Kyte: We have a lot more people working from home. Yeah. Scott Rada: When you say in the workplace, you mean like in the office or in the factory or in the retail environment where they work, not across zoom phone calls. Richard Kyte: Yeah. People really don't establish meaningful relationships, in that way. Meaningful relationships kind of develop when you share information about yourself. And so, like on a zoom call for work, you're sticking to an agenda. You're not just visiting. Right. But usually find times in the workplace. There's times and places to do that. And so we've done things to our society not really intentionally, but just what has happened that make it harder for us to make social acquaintances. Here's the real problem. We have fewer daily interactions with strangers. Right. So if you think of your life as these circles, there's all these people you don't know, then there's a pretty big circle of acquaintances. People you know, you recognize, you recognize, they recognize you, you know their names, that sort of thing. They're in that acquaintance. Then you have this other area of friends, or kind of loose friends. You spend a little bit of time, you have some things in common, but they aren't really close. Then you have circle of close friends or good friends, and then your best friends. Right. So it's these concentric circles. Or we're changing all the things that allow us to have a lot of people in that acquaintanceship circle, like acquaintances or companions, that sort of thing. That outermost circle of friendship that is shrinking for just about everybody. Scott Rada: And that's sort of the conversion funnel, in some ways, of getting those people from the outer rings into the center ring. Richard Kyte: Right, absolutely. Because the only people that make it into that center ring are the people that you find a lot in common with. So you really want to because you have shared interests or something else. You spend a lot of time and then you kind of get past the shared interest inwards. You're really sharing really kind of intimate information about yourself. You're sharing stories and your history and everything else. We can talk about that later, like how really close friendships develop. But the key thing is you need a lot of people in those outer circles just to find, like, who of all those 100, 200, 300 people, do you really want to do some activities with and spend a little more time with? Scott Rada: In most cases, and I think probably for both of us, when you're young and you're in school, that's really the time, because you're around a bunch of people about your age, and that's where it's really easy to make friends. It's also when friendship becomes maybe the most important thing in your life. Right. Because I don't know of many high school kids who would say their family or their schoolwork is more important than their friend group. I'm sure there's exceptions, but I bet if you surveyed and broke it up into those three chunks, most high schoolers would say their friend group is the most important. Yeah, and I'm not sure that's the right order at that time. And maybe it is and maybe it's not. But we certainly quickly reorder things over the next 510 years of our lives. And I just find that interesting and kind of too bad. Richard Kyte: Like, this is one way in which you can describe friendship. Friendship. I think C. S. Lewis said this. Friends are people who go on a journey together. Like during that time, say, in, say, middle school, high school, and then into college, it's really up. And for most people, up until about age 25, when your life really kind of settles down into some kind of predictable patterns. Scott Rada: Yeah, right. Richard Kyte: You're pretty fluid. That means you're meeting a lot of different people, but you're also going through a transformative period of your life where you're becoming the person who you're going to be. Now, friends are people that go through that with you. That is, your very closest. Friends are people that go through something transformative with you so that you kind of become who you are going to be together. And that's why with old friends, you can pick up the phone with somebody you haven't talked to for a year. And if you've been through those transformative periods of your life with them, you don't have to go through the process of getting reacquainted. Whereas if it's like a high, school classmate that you really didn't spend much time with, and you kind of meet somebody out there, like you meet them at a bar or restaurant or something like that, you have no idea what's going on with their life. And it's like meeting a stranger. You know their name, but you have to get reacquainted. Right. We even have a word for it. Scott Rada: Old friends. Richard Kyte: You don't you know who they are because they're kind of part of you. This period up to about 25, so we find some really interesting things about it. So, like, young people who have a pretty large circle, that outer circle, that acquaintance, they're going to end up probably having more close friends later in life because they had kind of more raw material to drop. Scott Rada: Yeah. Richard Kyte: And also we find some evidence that people who go to college, especially people who go to college and stay in dorms, like that sort of thing, they tend to have more friends later in life because they have a longer period of time where they're in that transitional period of their life where they're making friends. And it's something that we often forget about. What is the purpose of college? It's not just job preparation. It's kind of this process of maturing in life. And so extending that period out building. Scott Rada: Your social fitness in a way. Richard Kyte: Right. that's why I love things that we sometimes talk about. Should we bring back the Civilian Conservation Corps, something like that, from the New Deal, M or what? Like things like, AmeriCorps different projects that you can serve in. These end up being really important, not for the work, only for the work they do, but also for the way in which they develop our relationships well. Scott Rada: And I want to pause on that for a second. And I've never served in the military, but I know people who have. And it seems like that is one place where you can really form those strong bonds, especially when you're young. And it seems like and again, thank goodness we don't have this much at the moment, but people who have served in wartime even build those closer bonds. You hear stories about, Well, I serve. You'll hear 80 year old men talking about somebody they're still in touch with, who they served in Korea with, or wherever it might be. Because those clearly very dangerous and life altering experiences, when you share that with a person or two, that's a connection that really is strong, I would imagine. Richard Kyte: So we call these formative experiences, and the word is a really good one because they form your personality, they form your character. And when you go through a formative experience with somebody else, they form your character together. So Augustine says, like a friend has been called, half my soul. There's something like you kind of share a soul. You share something that's quite deep together because you've been through an experience together. 12% of Americans report having no friends, according to a recent study Scott Rada: And I think it's also worth pointing out, and we'll link to some of these stories on our website, but as we talk about sort of the problems as we see it, a recent study in 2021 said that 12% of Americans report having no friends. That's, compared to just 3%, back in the 1990s. But what stood out for me is that these numbers are even worse for men who tend to have more friends early in life but experience a steeper decline. Do you have a sense as to why that might be? Richard Kyte: I think a lot of it has to do with less, social interaction for men, because I don't think that this is true in all cultures, but in American culture, certainly our history has been, that men are less likely to join social groups and spend, like, what we call sociable time or leisure time with others. They'll spend time especially, like, say, in high school, in organized sports. But there's not that many men who are doing the kind of sports activities, the way that they used to. Scott Rada: Like a softball league, softball league, bowling. Richard Kyte: Golf, those sorts of things. It turns out men are much more likely to make friends in those kinds of active social pursuits. Women are much more likely to form themselves into different kinds of social groups in which most of what they do is talk. Well, it's the talking in which we really get close, where we share things about ourselves and share stories. many men need some kind of like a sporting activity or some other pursuit in order to engage in the talk. Women, just for whatever reason, seem much more able to just get together and start talking right away. Scott Rada: I heard somebody talk about this issue once, and I don't know what their source was. And maybe this was you that said this. I don't remember but saying that there was a study that the best way for women to again, we're generalizing here, but the best way for women to talk and get to know each other is when they're facing each other over coffee or just talking about whatever is going on in their lives, but they're facing each other. For men, it's often side by side activities, whether they're golfing or out for a walk or out for a more active thing. And I guess studies have shown that that is, a better way for men to communicate with other men. And I found that interesting. Richard Kyte: So you certainly see that you see this with especially fathers and sons, have a hard time talking. That's a notoriously fraught relationship between fathers and sons, say, in high school, as the sons are getting more independence. But they can often have a talk when they're driving somewhere in a car where they're side by side. I think with men is face to face is too confrontational. It's competitive. Whereas when you're side by side, you're in a cooperative mode and take some of that competitiveness out of it. By the way, we're sitting face, to face right now. Scott Rada: We are. Although, yeah, maybe we should do a podcast side to side. That would be interesting. Although I guess we've done a couple of zoom ones. And that is a different experience too, I suppose. Richard Kyte: Yeah. But I think we want a little competitiveness here. There we go. Over the years, adults have spent fewer time with their friends Scott Rada: you mentioned the father son thing, and one thing that in some of the reading, I did for the show that really jumped out at me talking about these trends where over the years, adults spend fewer time with their friends. And there's lots of reasons, sometimes because of work demands, sometimes demands around the house. But what really jumped out at me is that adults parents spend much, much more time with their kids than they did just a few generations ago. And again, as I've talked on the show, I don't have children. But just from the people I know and just from observing out in the world, that just seems true to me, that you see kids with their parents so much more. Is that a good thing in that it makes those relationships stronger? And if it's at the cost of other friendships, then so be it. Or is that maybe not a great thing? Because you're sort of stifling your own growth because the kids won't be in the house forever, and also, you're not letting the kids sort of figure out who they are, away from the watchful gaze of a parent. Richard Kyte: Yeah, I think it's not good for all those reasons. We know that there's been a real decline, especially for young kids, in unstructured playtime, and they really need that. That's really good for them. And we're not giving them enough of it in our culture because the parents are too involved in structuring their time and oftentimes being with them and supervising, and then it's not good for the adults. Because what happens is this is a pretty common phenomenon at the time when kids social life is increasing. They get old enough, they're going out and doing more things. The parents who are, like, spending a lot of time with those kids have to give up their own friend relationships. It turns out, like a lot of parents of middle school and high school kids, most of their adult social interaction is with parents of other kids the same age. At sporting events or clubs or wherever it happens to be, that's who they're hanging out with. Then their kids go off, they graduate, they go off somewhere, and they've got no friendship circle. They're alone with each other. Right. so that's a really common phenomenon. That wasn't such a common thing. Like, when I grew up, my parents, they had their own friends, and they might interact a little bit with the parents of my friends, but they weren't in their social circle. And now you were finding adults completely change their social circle after they have kids, and then when their kids are. Scott Rada: Gone one other piece I read that said and obviously we kind of painted a little bit of a dire scenario here, but it's not at all true to say that people don't have friends. Most adults do have friends, and maybe not as many as they'd like. Richard Kyte: But in 1990, the same survey you quoted, 33% of adults reported having ten or more friends, ten or more good friends in 1990. And today, I think the number is 13%. Scott Rada: Yeah. So it's dropped significantly. Richard Kyte: Significantly. Scott Rada: But I guess the question, though, is that I read somewhere that said there is a benefit to when you have friends to make sure they're not all like you, that they may come from different backgrounds, may come from different socioeconomic parts of your community who may have a bunch of kids and you have no kids or whatever the case might be. And I think it is easy, just like you said, to sort of, find people around you who you have things in common with. And you even said earlier that you sort of have this when you were talking about the circles, a group, an outside group of people, and you sort of maybe identify folks you have something in common with, and you have some common, interests, and they sort of march their way toward the center of that circle. Richard Kyte: Is. Scott Rada: It good, though, sometimes to try to and maybe this is too intentional, but to try to identify people who are in that outer circle but you think might add a different or interesting perspective to your life than you may not have otherwise. And to try to, even though it might take a little more, build a, connection there. Richard Kyte: If you joined some groups of, people that are involved in different kinds of activities, I'm talking, like, oftentimes churches, service organizations, like the Big Three, Rotary, Kiwanis and Lions, bowling leagues, right? any kind of groups in which you have large numbers of people participating, then spending time together, you are going to meet people very different from yourself and people with very different backgrounds, very different interests. This is the important thing about joining something, is that when you join, you spend repeated time, sometimes over a period of years, with people, and you get to know them beyond the superficiality, which makes you think, like, yeah, I don't really have much in common with this person. I'm not going to pursue that kind of relationship. But if you join a group where you're sitting down or you're engaged in activities with a group of people every week, for, say, a couple of years, two or three years, you're going to slowly realize that there are people that you really like, that you share some deeper connection with beyond kind of the superficial differences. And if you hadn't spent those years with them, you would have never discovered that. And this is, in some ways, the real key to friendship. It's not so much like what it brings to you. So I've been researching friendship quite a bit for this book that I'm writing on Third Places, because I think this is the main function of third places in communities is, they are where we meet people different from ourselves that we're introduced to them. So then we form deeper relationships. And when we form these different relationships with people quite different from different economic backgrounds, different cultural backgrounds, different political kind of, alliances or sympathies. We start to feel like actually, it seems like I'm living in a world with all these people, all these strangers, all these people are very different, but it's just that I haven't spent enough time with them. I could potentially become friends with anybody. And the 18th and 19th, century Scottish philosophers like Adam Smith, David Hume, Francis Hutchison, they talked a lot about sympathy as being the grounding of, ethics, also the grounding of politics like sympathy. The other word they used for it was fellow feeling, from which we get the word fellowship. Right. It's spending time with others, you find that you're able to take kind of imaginatively experience, what the other people do, what they experience, what they're going through, and that becomes really lively in your mind. And so that you are literally pained when something bad happens to a friend. Right. Even just hearing bad news about something that happened to a friend, you will feel pain as a result, or joy. Scott Rada: If something good happens. Richard Kyte: Joy if something good happens. You don't have to see them experiencing that emotion to have that emotion yourself, because you have what they called fellow feeling. When you have this within a whole community or within a nation that we share something like fellow feeling, that is the basis to be able to collaborate, to work together. And right now, our politics is just contaminated by the idea that we define ourself by our differences. And there's no way to move together to any sort of, agreement or compromise any understanding of working towards the common good. But if we have a sense that, yeah, not only do we have something in common, we actually feel what we have in common together, and that's deeper than our superficial, then then we're going to have a really healthy democracy. Replika allows customers to custom design their own virtual companion Scott Rada: Rick, I know this is an issue like you mentioned you're writing quite a bit about, and you were doing some research over the past few days, and it led you down kind of a strange path. Maybe you could tell folks about that a bit. Richard Kyte: I came across a website called Replika, which, is a, site that uses AI or artificial intelligence to allow customers to custom design their own virtual companion, and give it all kinds of characteristics exactly what they would imagine a good companion would be. And so, inevitably, what people do, they design somebody who is happy and helpful and pleased to talk to them. Available 24 hours a day whenever they need somebody to listen, who is never disagreeable, never puts their own demands and their own interests upon the person. Right. I was amazed to find how many testimonials there are, in some ways, got a really moving testimonials of how great it's been to create this kind of virtual dream companion that people have. And I find it really kind of eerie. Scott Rada: I think I know the answer, but I'll, of course, ask because so. Richard Kyte: I think what's happening is we're using AI to create something that wasn't possible before without AI, because, like with Chat GPT, we can create these bots, these chat bots that simulate real people. So well, you can't really tell the difference, like when you're texting with one of these chat bots in real person. And so they're taking advantage of that technology to really fool us. So people develop these real, quite profound, deep, sincere emotional connections with these chat bots. Right. They name them. There's even a report that was in the Daily Mail of a woman who married the chat bot that she created after falling in love with it over a period of a couple of years. Right. And I don't think it's a joke. I think that was really sincere. And what she said in one of the interviews is, well, I love this person that she created. He doesn't come with any baggage. Right? Well, people come with baggage. Scott Rada: Okay, well, but isn't that the problem in a way? Because you just got done saying it sounds like when you kind of create this character and I'm guessing again, I've not done this, but I'm guessing you can say, I want this person to be kind, or I want this person to be intelligent or witty or whatever these things is. I mean, unless you're just doing it as sort of a joke, you're not going to go and say, I want to create some dumb, racist idiot who, says inappropriate things all the time. I mean, nobody's going to do that. And not that we'd want to be friends with someone who is, but at the same time, none of our friends, no matter how close and good they are, are perfect people. And in some ways, dealing with those people's imperfections is part of what being like human is all about. And isn't that sort of also part of the problem here is that you're creating this idealized character that might even make it more difficult than to go into the real world and encounter people who are far, far from perfect because of how much time you've spent with someone who is just the way you'd like him or her to be. Richard Kyte: yeah, that's it exactly. And when we're talking about the real world being full of these imperfect people that we wouldn't really choose to be friends with, well, we're one of them. Yeah. Right. And the real benefit of friendship is, I find, like, none of these websites talk about this in a way disturbingly. Very few of the articles that I've been reading that are in the popular press and that you can find on various websites that talk about the benefits of friends and all the, like, how to make friends. They never talk about. What I think is the most important part about it is that they make demands upon us. we become useful to somebody. We become meaningful to another person. And this is really the key to loneliness, is not just that we're alone. It's that we feel that nobody needs us, right? And so who needs us? Only imperfect people. Perfect people don't need us. The gods don't need us. It's like imperfect human beings that need a friend. And that's why I need friends, because I'm imperfect, too. And it's the mutuality of friendship that takes us out of a, very kind of narrow conception of the self. So if I could have said, like, at age 22, this is my ideal life, this is the kind of person I want to be and all of that, I would be a much more kind of shallow, superficial, impoverished person than I am today. Scott Rada: Probably richer, maybe. Richard Kyte: Yeah. Right. Yeah. But I wouldn't, because all the people I've met in my life have changed who I am. and they've kind of, in some ways, forced me to grow. And this is what, like George McDonald says, it's the love of neighbor that takes us out of the dungeon of the right, because the self is a dungeon. Websites like Replika and Project December and some of these others, what they do is create a really attractive dungeon, and then we pay them to be able to go into it and to furnish it their dungeon the way we want it. But we're still entering a dungeon. That virtual companion that doesn't help me grow, doesn't get me out of myself, out of the narrow self that I am, into something larger. We end each show by tackling an ethical dilemma Scott Rada: We end each show by tackling an ethical dilemma. And Rick, what is your question for me? Richard Kyte: Well, Scott, let's say that you have your eye on a motorcycle. It's not a brand new one, but it's a late model motorcycle. It's going to cost you a little money. you know that your partner is not going to be very keen on this idea. For one thing, it's going to be kind of dangerous. The other thing is, it's a real big expense. And generally in the past, you and your partner have always talked over big expenses together. But you're worried if you bring up that you want to take out a loan to buy this motorcycle, which is something you really want to do, it's just going to cause an argument. but it's your money. You and your partner, you both have your own jobs. You keep separate checking accounts. And so what do you do in a case like this? Do you just go ahead and buy the motorcycle and then realize, okay, there might be some hurt feelings, but you'll get over it? And that's a lot easier than creating a big argument to begin with and then going ahead and buying the motorcycle anyway. Scott Rada: So a couple of things. I'll try to answer this dilemma as best I'm able, but, I will admit and. I think this is probably because I spent a long time working in newspaper newsrooms and reading about motorcycle crashes so often. But I would never want to get a motorcycle because I personally view them as extremely dangerous. And, I think I have probably spent in my life 2 hours on a motorcycle, and that might be the last 2 hours I ever spent on a motorcycle is my guess. So it's hard for me to exactly fit into this scenario. And also, you bring up a point, too, is that buying a motorcycle is in this case, a financial decision. But it's also like the risky part of this too, right? Because you are it's more dangerous than going out and spending that same money and buying a piece of fine art that hangs on your wall, which has virtually no risk. But to, put myself in that position, I think there's two things from everything I've read, that couples argue about the most, and it's either kids or money. I'm lucky, and I guess Travis and I are lucky that, first of all, we don't have kids, so it's hard to argue about that. But we don't really argue about money. We were pretty good about that. And I think part of it is because we do obviously have some shared expenses, but we do, have some autonomy for each other to sort of spend money how we're able. And luckily, we're in a position where not every nickel we scrape together has to go to a bill or the house payment or something like that. So maybe here's the closest to a real life situation, as we've talked about on the show, that, I'm a big baseball fan. And, as we're recording this, we're just days away from the baseball playoffs starting. And I sort of made the decision and I had enough flexibility with work that I'm going to take much of a week off and go to Minneapolis and watch the Twins hopefully win a, playoff game, which they haven't done since I think, like 22,002 or something awful like that. Richard Kyte: So you're planning to go to multiple games in the multiple games? Win one, yeah, hopefully they'll win one. Scott Rada: And obviously there's an expense involved in that, not only for the tickets, which are more busier playoffs, but you have to get lodging and all that. And we talked it over and I said I told him how much it was. And it's like, hey. And he's like, yeah, that's your thing. Richard Kyte: Unluckily. Scott Rada: I don't have tons of expensive Hobies, so it's fine. And I'm actually to go to our conversation, or our topic earlier in the episode, I'm actually going to the game with a friend of mine from high school. And we went to dozens of games back when we were in high school. And we have reconnected and have gone to a handful of games since. Richard Kyte: So let me interrupt. Would it be different if you were thinking, I'm going to go to Las Vegas and gamble for a week, would that be a different kind of, mean? Scott Rada: I guess it know, unless you're going to spend the whole thing on the penny. Mean yeah, I think that probably so. But again, I think what your question is about is how much autonomy should financial autonomy should people have in their private relationships and how should you talk about it? How should you talk about it? Yeah, I think you talk about it in advance. And I think if I were to suddenly decide that a motorcycle, was the best thing for me, that I would try to make my case. But I think we'd make that decision together not only for the money part, but also for the other part. So I think yeah, but I guess I come at this with sort of a, bias, because I don't necessarily have a problem talking about these sort of things. So, to me, this would be an easy conversation to have, because maybe this is going to sound ridiculous, but I've really never come across something like this where it has been a, huge, significant purchase that I want to make that I know is going to be, unpopular. But if that were to come up, obviously, I think what's the old saw is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. In this case, probably is not a good way to go. Richard Kyte: Yeah, I think that's probably right. When my wife and I were much younger and money was much tighter, even small purchases, sometimes we had to really talk them over because, we had to pool everything just to make ends meet, those conversations. We had to make sure that we had every conversation right to maintain our relationship really well. Now, as we're older and the kids are gone and so forth, I find that we have a little more autonomy. But the big purchases, still need to be discussed. Scott Rada: Yeah, there's been studies on every single thing in this world. So I'm sure there's been a study on this, but I would be curious to know. My guess, it probably tracks a little bit by age and generation, but in married couples, how many of them have separate bank accounts? And it's like, I remember I'm thinking of my grandparents. Not only did they have just but one bank account, my grandmother signed her checks, Mrs. And then my grandfather's name. I mean, that was just that generation. And I think certainly there's not many 25 year old women signing their checks mrs and then their husband's name, that's sort of gone out of favor. And that's probably a good thing. But I think there is more autonomy when it comes to finances. Again, assuming that, again, not every nickel has to go to meet your basic needs. And I don't know, I sense that that's generally probably a good thing. But yeah, you don't want to show unless you're just ridiculously wealthy, showing up and saying, oh, I bought a new car, I hope that's okay. Or I bought a new motorcycle or a boat or whatever it might be. That seems to not show a lot of respect. Richard Kyte: You mentioned boats. this was a running joke. In our house, we at one point had lots of boats, like most of old junkie boats. Right. Small like that became an issue one time when a friend gave me an old canoe and then I show up with yet another boat and put it inside the house. Scott Rada: But that's a storage issue at some point. Richard Kyte: Actually, it was much more of a storage issue than an expense issue because. Scott Rada: I think I've been in your garage. You don't have a lot of high end boats. Richard Kyte: None. Yeah, so this only came up because I was at a yard sale recently and this guy had this motorcycle for sale. it was about a 20 year old bike, but it had really low miles. It was in great shape. I was thinking, oh, that'd be really cool. I really have no serious interest in buying motorcycle. And for one is the accident rate is just too high. And I think that would put a strain on a relationship, like starting a hobby. That was really it just, it went through my head, like, what would that conversation be like saying, hey, Cindy, here's what I'm thinking. And I was thinking like, that would be a tough. Scott Rada: So I'm just curious. I think I can probably count the number of times I've been on a motorcycle on one hand. And it probably is like a total of 2 hours. How about for you? Richard Kyte: Yeah, probably. So when I was in high school, dirt bikes. That's not like street bikes. Very only twice that I can remember. And they were like, once on our friends and once on our relatives. and a long time ago. I ridden a motorcycle for decades. Scott Rada: Yeah, sort of the same here. and I think at least for me, it's going to be, like I said, a long time till I rhyme. What? Again? Richard Kyte: I'm pretty sure I'm going to die of something else. Scott Rada: Well, hopefully that's a long time from now. And assuming it is a long time from now, we have a whole lot more podcasts to record. Richard Kyte: How many more do we have to record? Scott Rada: Oh gosh, I would feel really awkward starting the show. Scott Rada: Welcome to episode 4367 of The Ethical Life. That would be a lot to say, so we'll stop before that. Richard Kyte: Okay. Scott Rada: Somewhere between 111 and 4367. Richard Kyte: Yeah. Okay. Scott Rada: So there's a lot more to come. So make sure, good listener, that you subscribe to The Ethical Life on Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, or Spotify. 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Lon and Derek give their thoughts on Illinois' WR options this season. Later, hear from Illini WR coach George McDonald, WR Casey Washington and OLB Gabe Jacas.

Young Farmers from across Tennessee are coming off a successful weekend at the Tennessee Young Farmers & Ranchers Summer Conference that happened in Lebanon. They got the weekend started by touring George McDonald's Catesa Farms in Riddleton, TN. Thomas Capps Inspiring the next generation of farmers. Hello and welcome to Tennessee Home and Farm Radio, I'm Thomas Capps. George McDonald They are the future of agriculture. They have so much potential in front of them, so much enthusiasm. Thomas Capps Young Farmers from across Tennessee are coming off a successful weekend of the Tennessee Young Farmers and Ranchers summer conference that was held in Lebanon. The two day conference gives young people in agriculture the chance to network and get caught up on the latest in the industry. It all started last Friday with a tour of Georgia McDonald's Catesa farm Riddleton Tennessee. McDonald grows thousands of acres of corn, wheat, strawberries and watermelons. George McDonald I like to show them some of the things that we've done through the years that we've been successful at., some things we haven't been successful at and try to inspire them to be active in Farm Bureau to be active and leadership in their community, in their state, in their country, and supporting and promoting agriculture. Thomas Capps Blake Morrison of Grundy County is on the Tennessee Young Farmers and Ranchers state committee this year. He says seeing an operation like Catesa Farms and hearing from a successful farmer like George MacDonald is helpful and encouraging. Blake Morrison It's always exciting to see how somebody else can farm in Tennessee you get to see a lot of different aspects a lot of different views on what they do. Versus maybe what you do on your personal farm. Thomas Capps A previous member of the Tennessee YF&R group MacDonald knows firsthand how important it is to be with like minded people in the industry and have older farmers to come to for advice and help. George McDonald Part of our heritage is passing from one generation to the next generation. And what we're doing today is very much a part of agricultural heritage of trying to pass experience and knowledge on from one generation on to the next and it's like I always tell people you know when you go to things like this when you're young you bring back five buckets full of information as you get older you start gathering kernels even at my age, I still gather kernels of information and eventually we get another bucket full. Thomas Capps A bucket full of knowledge to keep agriculture going for another generation and help feed the world. For Tennessee Home and Farm Radio, I'm Thomas Capps. Thanks for listening and have a great day.

What does the Gospel have to do with being an entrepreneur? EVERYTHING! Benjamin Dunn, author of the Happy Gospel, carries one of the most joyful and clear articulations of the Gospel in this generation! Listen and be inspired to walk in New Creation realities as a Sales Professional or an Entrepreneur! A true revelation of the Gospel releases a confidence and a joy that is unmatched by any thing the world has to offer! Imagine a world where hard work is replaced by an abundant flow of oil, where sweat and toil are no longer the only paths to success. Through the Finished Work of Jesus the curse has been reversed! We are all being called to step into what has been called "Garden Works"! You have a choice: You can continue to hustle and toil, or you can embrace the gift of rest and trust in divine provision. This paradigm shift will transform the way you approached work and life. Disclaimer: This is not advocating for laziness or disregarding diligence. Hard work has its place, but it should never overshadow the power of rest. When we learn to rest in the assurance that Jesus provides for us, a new level of effectiveness and ease unfolds. In fact, it has been said that the lovers will out work the workers! When under the divine influence of Grace we are actually filled with a supernatural energy that enables us to work even harder and effectively but all from a place of ease! More about Benjamin Dunn: Follow him on IG @the_benjamin_dunn Benjamin Dunn also known as 'The Wild Wild', 'Benjamin Dunn & Friends', 'Benjamin Dunn & The Animal Orchestra' & 'The Feral American' - is an endless road-traveled, world traversed, heart-on-his-sleeve American artist living in San Diego. Born in Illinois, at 18 he headed west. Hitchhiking as a teenager out to the West Coast, camping in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and the beaches of Santa Cruz - spending months in Bulgaria enjoying week long parties with gypsies - visiting slums and garbage dumps all over India, Asia and Africa - Theology school, devouring literature and to ultimately writing books & speaking around the world - making records through it all. His narrative is genuinely “The Wild Wild”. He takes all of that raw energy and experience, speaks & creates from an interesting perspective of the universe at play and in love. Puerile play. 
 His lyrics, words & poetry are largely influenced by mythology, the mystics, philosophical and spiritual literature including C.S. Lewis, Scripture, Meister Eckhart, the Tao, writers like Huxley, George McDonald, Kerouac & Hunter Thompson. His musical art has been synched in numerous worldwide campaigns for film, tv and brands; Snapchat, Levis, BMW Visit Orlando etc. as well as receiving acclamations from major press and magazines like Neon Gold, Alternative Press, FuseTV, Forever 21 and Baebel. He is the happy and proud father of one son. If this episode impacted you in anyway don't forget to subscribe and leave some of those 5 star reviews! Be sure to follow your host @willrest on IG If you would like to connect with more wild and crazy Spirit-filled Entrepreneurs join our Facebook Group called Spirit-Filled Sales Professionals and Entrepreneurs!

Our guest today is David Artman, who is the host of another podcast called “Grace Saves All.” This ancient Christian theology was advocated by prominent Christian leaders in the early centuries of the faith, and it is now enjoying a modern revival. It understands grace to be the effective saving presence of God in the lives of all people, and it anticipates that all persons will finally experience union with God.

George “G Smoove” McDonaldInstagramTikTokFacebook George “G Smoove” McDonald is 20+ year veteran of the radio and broadcasting industry.  He has also served as an educator which allows him to bring a unique perspective to what he does. As host of “The G Smoove Experience “ on K92.7 FM in Columbus GA, Smoove brings his talent for connecting with an audience, words of wisdom and soothing voice into a space where he has enjoyed much success.  Also a recording artist, he understands what is missing in R&B music and how to speak to a topic that everyone wants but few know how to express effectively in music... Love!!Now is a great time to act on your dreams! If this episode helped you, please share to a friend!https://www.instagram.com/HyphensHaven/http://www.dreamofdrea.com/Watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/DreamofDréa

We kick off with Vernon English discussing the nuances between street art and graffiti. However, due to unforeseen technical issues, we take a sharp turn and welcome George McDonald, a host of the popular Outlaw Blitz podcast and a close friend of our show. Together, we delve into the latest updates on Lamar Jackson's contract negotiations and the Cowboys' recent release of Zek. So sit back, relax, and grab a drink while we keep you informed and entertained. Don't forget to optimize your seating arrangement by pushing your stool in. Facebook- The Above The Bar Podcast   Instagram- The Above The Bar Podcast   Twitch- The Above The Bar Podcast   Twitter- The Above The Bar Podcast    LinkedIn-The Above The Bar Podcast

Nurturing Joy with Crystal Bailar of Mosstangle:Crystal Bailar of Mosstangle Arts began her journey into pyrography by creating decorations for her home. It grew organically into art featuring so much of the nature which surrounds her. She ventured into teaching woodburning classes and found that fueled her soul. She has become one of the most prolific pyrography teachers with many students who have continued pursuing the art form after her classes. Tune in to the episode to hear what gives her the greatest joy.You can find Crystal online as @mostangle. Below is a list of links to find her. Then check out the links for other things we talked about. EmailWebsiteInstagram Pinterest Facebook YouTube Hashtag #mosstangleWho to Follow:Jen Theisen @wandering.pine.artRachel Strauss @woodburncorner Heather Martin @firework_pyrography Tools she uses:Burner/Nibs Razertip SSD10 @razertipPJL Enterprises Optima 1 @pjl_enterprisesWalnut Hollow Value Tool and Versa Tool @walnuthollow WoodAspen Rustic Creations @aspenrusticcreationsIt's David and Renee @itsdavidandreneeWalnut Hollow @walnuthollow Thrift StoresColorDick Blick Art Supply @blickartmaterialsKuretake Watercolor on Amazon (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.)Other folks we talked about:George McDonald author of The Golden Key Kula Cloth @kulaclothOpinions, beliefs and viewpoints of the interviewed guests do not necessarily reflect the opinions, beliefs, and viewpoints of the hosts, Peak Pyrography and/or Fedde Studios LLC.

Episode 89 The Theremin Part 2: Recordings After 1970 Playlist Ultimate Spinach, “(Ballad of The) Hip Death Goddess” from Ultimate Spinach (1968 MGM Records). This American psychedelic rock band was from Boston, Massachusetts, although they had a sound that had more an affinity with the free spirit of San Francisco. The Theremin has a prominent part in this song, following the vocalist and filling in some interesting instrumental parts. Bass and Feedback, Richard Nese; Vocals, Drums, Tabla, Bass Drum, Bells, Chimes, Keith Lahteinen; Vocals, Electric Guitar, Guitar, Kazoo, Barbara Hudson; Vocals, Electric Piano, Electric Harpsichord, Organ, Harpsichord, Twelve-String Guitar, Sitar, Harmonica, Wood Flute, Theremin, Celesta, Ian Bruce-Douglas; Vocals, Lead Guitar, Guitar Feedback, Sitar Drone, Electric Sitar, Geoffrey Winthrop. 8:11 Hawkwind, “Paranoia Part 2” from Hawkwind (1970 Liberty). Hawkwind was a pioneering space-rock and psychedelic group from the UK. They were known to use a theremin during their early years—1969 to 1973 and revived its use on stage in later performances using a Moog Etherwave model in the 2000s. This first album features a theremin added to much of the sonic textures, sometimes overtly but often run through effects to provide a looming background, as in this song. It is sometimes difficult to distinguish, but I think there is a theremin providing some of the droning background and then sporadic bursts of tones beginning around 4:25. 14:54 McKendree Spring, “God Bless the Conspiracy” from 3 (1972 Decca). Electric Violin, Viola, Theremin, Michael Dreyfuss; Electronics (Ring Modulator), Tom Oberheim; Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Dulcimer, Fran McKendree; Electric Bass, Larry Tucker; Electric Guitar, Martin Slutsky. This progressive band with experimental leanings was a quartet without a drummer. Dreyfus later said, “In God Bless the Conspiracy and No Regrets I was able to play viola and Theremin at the same time by bringing my body closer to the Theremin (to change pitch) while playing a harmony part on the viola,”(2006). He played a Theremin beginning 1969. He may have used a Moog theremin, such as the Troubadour. 6:53 Linda Cohen, “Horizon Jane” from Lake Of Light (1973 Poppy). Folky album from Philadelphia featuring several electronic musicians. Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Piano, Polytonic Modulator, Jefferson Cain; Classical Guitar, Composer, Linda Cohen; Flute, Stan Slotter; Producer, Electric Guitar, Matrix Electronic Drums, Modulator, Sitar, Synthesizer, Craig Anderton; Minimoog, Theremin, Charles Cohen. 3:36 Ronnie Montrose, “Space Station #5” from Montrose (1973 Warner Brothers). Ronnie Montrose added a custom-built Theremin to his equipment with the pitch antenna mounted on his aluminum (silver) Velano guitar so that he could play both at the same time. Volume for the theremin was controlled by a black box mounted on a mike stand, to which he stood nearby. He was recording with it throughout the 1970s. Here is a great live clip you where you can see how he played it. Note the end of the clip where he put the theremin guitar up against the speaker and wails on the volume control of the theremin control box. Bass, Bill Church; Drums, Denny Carmassi; Guitar, Theremin-Guitar, Ronnie Montrose; Vocals, Sam Hagar. 5:36 Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, “Time Captives” from Journey (1974 Passport). Fender Bass, Percussion, Vocals, Phil Shutt; Bentley Rhythm Ace, Vocals, Arthur Brown; Electric Guitar, Vocals, Andy Dalby; Mellotron, ARP 2600, EMS VCS 3, Piano, Theremin, Percussion, Vocals, Victor Peraino. 8:37 Michael Quatro, “Get Away” from In Collaboration with The Gods (1975 United Artists Records). Brother of Detroit rockers Suzi and Patti Quatro, he had a flare for progressive rock and electronic keyboards in the 1970s. The Theremin makes frequent appearances on this album, this track in particular. Arranger, Piano Baldwin, Electric Piano Gretsch Electro, Piano Tack Piano, Sonic Six Synthesizer, Effects Univox Phaser, Univox Stringman, EC-80 Echo, Elka Electric Piano, Hammond Organ, Minimoog Synthesizer, Univox Mini-Korg, Electroharmonix Boxes, Mellotron Violin, Cello, Flute, Effects Wah-Wah Pedals, Effects Syntha-Pedal, Bass Nova Bass, Horns, Organ Pipe Organ, Sounds Ring Modulation, Maestro Theremin, Electronic Effects, Percussion , Michael Quatro;Bass, Lead Vocals, Arranged By Arranging Assistance, Dave Kiswiney; Drums, Kirk (Arthur) Trachsel; Guitar, Teddy Hale. 4:04 Melodic Energy Commission, “Revise The Scene” from Stranger In Mystery (1979 Energy Discs). This is the first album from this Canadian space-rock, psychedelic and folk troupe from British Columbia. The Theremin was a key instrument in their ensemble and was custom-built by group member George McDonald. His Theremin would eventually be known as the Galactic Stream Theremin and would take some 25 years to build and evolve into a six antennae instrument for “tuning into the performers body motions.” During this recording, a simpler, more traditional version was used. Gas & Steam Bass, Bells, Tambourine, Mark Franklin; Dulcimer, Bowed Dulcimer, Khaen, Gongs, Flute, Randy Raine-Reusch; Hydro-electric Guitar, Custom-made Theremin, Aura, Wall Of Oscillation, George McDonald; Percussion, Tablas, Brass Tank, Glockenspiel, Roland SH5 Synthesizer, Organ, Paul Franklin; EMS Synthi AKS, Delatronics, Electric Guitar, Del Dettmar; Wordy Voice, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Roland SH 1000 Synthesizer, Gongs, Vibraphone, Kalimba, Stone Drum, Egyptian Shepherd's Pipe, Xaliman. 6:13 The Nihilist Spasm Band, “Elsinore” from Vol. 2 (1979 Music gallery Editions). Canadian group that used all hand-made instruments, including the kit-made Theremin by Bill Exley. Bass, Hugh McIntyre; Drums, Greg Curnoe; Guitar, John Clement, Murray Favro; Kazoo, John Boyle; Pratt-a-various, Art Pratten; Vocals, Theremin, Bill Exley. Recorded live at the Toronto Music Gallery, February 4th 1978. 5:14 Yuseff Yancy, Garret List, “Sweetness” Garrett List / A-1 Band, “Sweetness” from ‎Fire & Ice (1982 Lovely Music). Alto Saxophone, Byard Lancaster; Maestro Theremin, Electronics, Youseff Yancy; Vocals, Genie Sherman. 4:11. Todd Clark, “Into the Vision” from Into The Vision (1984 T.M.I. Productions). Guitar, Cheetah Chrome; Theremin, Bat-wing Guitar with ARP Avatar, Todd Clark; Found Vocals, William Burroughs. 8:38 Danielle Dax, “Yummer Yummer Man” from Yummer Yummer Man (1985 Awesome). UK artist Danielle Dax. Wah Guitar, Steve Reeves; Guitar, Slide Guitar, Organ, David Knight; Producer, arranger, lyrics, Vocals, Theremin, Tapes, Danielle Dax; Drums, Martyn Watts; Music by Danielle Dax, David Knight. Dax is an experimental English musician, artist, and producer, born as Danielle Gardner. 3:16 Mars Everywhere, “Attack of the Giant Squid” from Visitor Parking (1989 Audiofile Tapes). Cassette release from this space-rock band from the 1980s. Electric Guitar, Electronics, Tape, Ernie Falcone; Synthesizer, Theremin, Keyboards, Tom Fenwick. 5:03 Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, “Vacuum of Loneliness” from The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (1992 Caroline). This NY band uses an original Moog Vanguard (circa 1960). This rock and blues band was active from 1991 until 2016. Baritone Saxophone, John Linnell; Drums, Russell Simins; Guitar, Vocals, Judah Bauer; Tenor Saxophone, Kurt Hoffman; Trumpet, Frank London; Vocals, Guitar, Moog Vanguard Theremin, Jon Spencer. Here is a video of a live performance of The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion with a Moog Vanguard Theremin (just after the 39-minute mark). 3:02 Calvin Owens and His Blues Orchestra, “Vincent Van Gogh” from That's Your Booty (1996 Sawdust Alley). Trumpet solo and vocals, Calvin Owens; Maestro Theremin, Youseff Yancy; Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Eddy De Vos, Kurt van Herck, Peter Vandendriessche; Backing Vocals, B. J. Scott, Frank Deruytter, Mieke Belange, Yan De Bryun; Baritone Saxophone, Bo Vander Werf, Johan Vandendriessche; Bass, Ban Buls, Roman Korohek; Cello, B. Piatkowski, X. Gao; Drums, Cesar Janssens, Laurent Mercier; Guitar, Marty Townsend, Yan De Bryun; Keyboards, Rafael Van Goubergen; Organ, Peter Van Bogart; Saxophone, Jimmy Heath; Tenor Saxophone, David "Fathead" Newman, Shelly Caroll Paul; Trombone, Marc Godfroid, Yan De Breker; Trumpet, Andy Haderer, Rüdiger Baldauf; Violin, D. Ivanov, E. Kouyoumdjian; Vocals, Archie Bell, Otis Clay, Ruby Wilson. 6:23. David Simons, “Music For Theremin And Gamelan (1998-1999), parts I and II” from Fung Sha Noon (2009 Tzadik). Theremin, Rob Schwimmer; Gamelan, Theremin, Sampler, MIDI Controller, Percussion, Marimba, Zoomoozophone, 43 Pitch Zither, Harmonic Canon, Slide Guitar, Chromelodeon harmonium, David Simons; Gamelan, Barbara Benary, Denman Maroney, John Morton, Laura Liben. 6:09 (part I) and 6:29 (part II) Lydia Kavina, “Voice of the Theremin,” composed by Vladimir Komarov from Music from The Ether, Original Works For Theremin (1999 Mode). TVox Tour model theremin, Lydia Kavina. Arranged, mixed, performed by Lydia Kavina. 8:11 Lydia Kavina, “Free Music #1,” composed by Percy Grainger from Music from The Ether, Original Works For Theremin (1999 Mode). TVox Tour model theremin, Lydia Kavina; mixed and spatialized, Steve Puntolillo. This work was originally written for theremin although Grainger had many ideas around how this type of “free music” should be played. This native Australian was fascinated by the sounds of the real world and invented a mechanical machine for making such sounds. In 1938, Grainger said, "...Out in nature we hear all kinds of lovely and touching 'free' (non-harmonic) combinations of tones, yet we are unable to take up these beauties and expressiveness into the art of music because of our archaic notions of harmony.” His adaptation of free music for theremin was an attempt to create sounds that were new to music. This version was multitracked by Kavina and an old acquaintance of mine, sound engineer Steve Puntolillo, to recreate the parts for four theremins. 1:19 The Kurstins, “Sunshine” from Gymnopedie (2000 Rouge Records). Composed by Roy Ayers; Minimoog, ARP String Ensemble, Organ, Guitar, Sampler, Drums, Rhodes Electric Piano, Greg Kurstin; Moog Theremin, Theremin Vocoder, Moogerfoogers, Pamelia Kurstin. 3:47 The Kurstins, “Outside” from Gymnopedie (2000 Rouge Records). Composed by Greg Kurstin; Minimoog, ARP String Ensemble, Organ, Guitar, Sampler, Drums, Rhodes Electric Piano, Greg Kurstin; Moog Theremin, Theremin Vocoder, Moogerfoogers, Pamelia Kurstin. 3:55 Hecate's Angels, “Shrink-Wrapped Soul” from Saints And Scoundrels (2004 redFLY Records). Los Angeles-based Pietra Wexstun is a composer, singer, keyboard and theremin player. Vocals, Farfisa organ, piano, theremin, sound effects, Pietra Wexstun; bass, Bill Blatt; guitar, Stan Ridgway; drums, Elmo Smith. 3:52 Pamelia Kurstin, “Barrow In Furness” from Thinking Out Loud (2007 Tzadik). From Kurstin first solo record. Composed, Produced, Theremin With L6 Looping Pedals and Microsynth Pedal, Guitar, Piano, Pamelia Kurstin. She played the Etherwave Pro Theremin by Moog fo this recording. Pamelia Kurstin, video with she and Bob Moogdiscussing the Etherwave Pro when it was introduced. Kurstin uses the Etherwave Pro Theremin by Moog Music. 5:12 Barbara Bucholtz, “SixEight” from Moonstruck (2008 Intuition Records). Bucholtz was a German theremin player and composer. She played a TVox Tour model theremin. Drums, Sebastian Merk; Music By, Contrabass Flute, Sampler, programmed, engineered, produced, and recorded by Tilmann Dehnhard; Trumpet, Arve Henriksen. 4:01 Herb Deutsch, “Longing” from Theremin One Hundred Years (2020 Electronic Sound). Composer, Herb Deutsch; Piano, Nancy Deutsch; Moog Melodia Theremin, Daryl Kubian. Recording from 2012. The beloved Herb Deutsch, who died recently at age 90, was an early collaborator with Bob Moog on the creation of the synthesizer. Herb became acquainted with Bob by purchasing a Theremin kit—a Moog Melodia model, in the early 1960s. He was primarily responsible for convincing Moog to add a keyboard to his modular unit. Also, this is taken from a terrific compilation of modern Theremin artists to benefit the New York Theremin Society. Check it out. 3:38 M83, “Sitting” from M83 (2016 Lowlands Festival). This is a live recording from Holland. “Sitting” was a song on M83's first album in 2001. But it didn't have a theremin part until they decided to spice-up the live interpretation of the song in 2016. Jordan Lawlor uses a Moog Theremini when M83 performs this in concert. He puts down his guitar, grabs some drum sticks, beats a rhythm on some electronic drums while dancing in place and moving his hands around a theremin. You can hear the theremin in this track but don't mistake it for the keyboard tones that Gonzalez is playing on his modular system. A longer sequence of theremin begins at 1:38 in the audio. You can view the video here, beginning at 26:54 into the show. M83 is a French electronica band founded in 1999 by Anthony Gonzalez, who remains the only sole member from the original outfit. Performing members on this live tour included: Anthony Gonzalez, lead vocals, modular synthesizers, keyboards, guitars, piano, bass, drums, percussion, programming, arrangement, mixer, production; Loïc Maurin, drums, percussion, guitar, bass, keyboards; Jordan Lawlor, guitars, vocals, multi-instrumentalist; Kaela Sinclair, Dave Smith and M-Audio keyboards, vocals; Joe Berry, piano, synthesizers, electronic wind instrument, saxophone. 4:03 Radio Science Orchestra, “Theme from Doctor Who” (2019). This UK-based band unites theremin, ondes martenot, Moog and modular electronics, for its performances. They've played such events as the TEDSummit, the British Library, and Glastonbury Festival. They made a concert recording with Lydia Kavina in 2009 of the Theme from Doctor Who. This version was made more recently and appears to also include Kavina. She plays the TVox Tour model theremin made by her husband G. Pavlov. 2:18 Thorwald Jørgensen, Kamilla Bystrova, “Moderato” from Air électrique: Original Music For Theremin And Piano (2020 Zefir). Jørgensen is an accomplished Dutch classical theremin player. Piano, Kamilla Bystrova; Liner Notes, Design, Moog Etherwave Pro Theremin, Thorwald Jørgensen. 2:10 Dorit Chrysler, “A Happy Place” from Theremin One Hundred Years (2020 Electronic Sound). Issued with the magazine's 7” vinyl and magazine bundle Electronic Sound Magazine, issue 70. Written, produced, and performed by Dorit Chrysler. 2:06 Dorit Chrysler, “Calder Plays Theremin Side A” from Calder Plays Theremin (2023 NY Theremin Society/Fridman Gallery) Written for Theremin Orchestra in 5 Movements, Chrysler's work is based on a commissioned sound piece by The Museum of Modern Art in conjunction with the exhibition Alexander Calder: Modern from the Start. Chrysler identified two of Alexander Calder's sculptures, Snow Flurry, I (1948) and Man-Eater with Pennants (1945), to interact and “play” multiple Theremins on site. I believe the Theremin are various Moog models. Calder Plays Theremin is a co-release of the NY Theremin Society and Fridman Gallery. 8:48   Opening background tracks: Ronnie Montrose, “Open Fire” (excerpt) from Open Fire (1978 Warner Brothers). Bass, Alan Fitzgerald; Drums, Rick Shlosser; Guitar, Custom-built Theremin mpounted to his electric guitar, Ronnie Montrose; composed by Edgar Winter, Ronnie Montrose. 2:09 Hooverphonic, “‎L'Odeur Animale” from The Magnificent Tree (2000 Columbia). Guitar, Raymond Geerts; Keyboards, Bass, Programmed by Alex Callier; Vocals, Geike Arnaert; Maestro Theremin, trumpet, Youseff Yancy; Fairlight, Effects, Dan Lacksman. 3:46. Opening and closing sequences voiced by Anne Benkovitz. Additional opening, closing, and other incidental music by Thom Holmes. See my companion blog that I write for the Bob Moog Foundation: For additional notes, please see my blog, Noise and Notations.

Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Ryan Easterling react to Illinois football landing four-star Class of 2023 Chicago Simeon wide receiver Malik Elzy. The guys discuss what his commitment means for the program, what Elzy brings to the Illini, if he can make an early impact and how George McDonald has renovated the Illini wide receiver room. The guys then discuss what's next, including transfer needs and the Class of 2024. Follow the Illini Inquirer Podcast on: Apple: https://apple.co/3oMt0NP Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2Xan2L8  Other: https://bit.ly/36gn7Ct  Go VIP for just $1 at Illini Inquirer: bit.ly/3eGM1NK To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode can be found on YouTube in video form here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc_RFQ2x6vE Our Yuletide surprise is a poignant short story. Read by the charming and talented Abigail Broeker, "The Gifts of the Child Christ" was written in 1882 by George McDonald, whose fiction and faith inspired C.S. Lewis. This Victorian tale is an Ironic, perceptive, but ultimately hopeful portrait of a marriage, a set of parents, a courtship and even an employment relationship that will all converge and mature because of unexpected losses. Okay, it's a tear-jerker--think Charles Dickens at Christmas time! We were able to simplify the piece for modern ears, since it's in the public domain. Additional resources: The Gifts of the Child Christ: Fairy Stories for The Childlike by George MacDonald, edited by Glenn Edward Sadler, Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1973. www.worksofmacdonald.com www.george-macdonald.com

​ @Georgelife  aka George McDonald has been making music for over 20 years here in SLC. His track record - literally - speaks to his work ethic, consistency, and love to the process of creating art. He has been doing videography for the better part of 10 years and since the pandemic has really focused on beat making. All in all, he is a multi faceted individual with an excellent story! Short Story Bingo website: https://shortstorybingo.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GabinoGrhymes Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shortstorybingo/ Tap in with GLife: IG: https://www.instagram.com/georgelife/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/georgelife Website: https://georgelife.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/GeorgeLife Beat Page: https://georgelife.beatstars.com/ SPONSORS: NONE RIGHT NOW - Dammit... Thank you to our supporters, we worked hard to bring this to you. We hope you ENJOY this new episode of Short...Story...Bingo! Please like, share, rate, comment, subscribe, and hit the bell! It really helps. Email me at shortstorybingo@gmail.com #GLife #GabinoGrhymes #hiphop #Utah #saltlakecity #slc #podcast #ourstories #shortstorybingo

It seems "soon" is ambiguous in God's vocabulary.We explore the fundamental conundrum of waiting 2000 years for the "soon" return of Christ. There are a variety of ways to make some sense of this dilemma, but it is not well served by simple or trite answers. As well as Bible passages in 2 Peter 3 and Psalm 90, we reach for "friends of the podcast" C S Lewis and George McDonald for some provoking insight. 

In this episode I review Harry Potter and Imagination by leading Potter scholar Travis Prinzi. This book covers many intriguing topics, and I dive into a few of them, beginning with why fairy tales are important in our modern lives. Prinzi examines 5 fairy tale writers who came before Rowling and in whose footsteps she is following: George McDonald, G.K. Chesterton, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Madeleine L'Engle. Then, I look at why the media often denied this lineage and painted Rowling as sui generis. Discussing dehumanization as the ultimate evil, Prinzi makes the case for why Rowling depicts courage as the most important of all virtues. I think look at why Harry was perhaps on the wrong heroic path in the first-half of the series and what it was that set him right. This episode ends with my final verdict on Harry Potter and Imagination and whether or not I recommend it.https://www.thepotterscholar.comhttps://patreon.com/thepotterscholarhttps://www.instagram.com/thepotterscholar

A story about the beauty and love your special light can bring to others, and how it spreads from one person to everyone! This is a classic fairy tale written by George McDonald and can be found at Storyberries. You can read along with this story at Storyberries.com by clicking here. The story is read by Jade Maitre.

Daniel George McDonald sits down to discuss creating the finale for Cheer Season 2.

This month George McDonald talks to Jeremy and Andy. We focus on the CJC consultation on costs and George gives his views on potential reforms to costs budgeting, guideline hourly rates, digitisation and the extension of fixed recoverable costs

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Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner react to the news that Illinois football head coach Bret Bielema has tested positive for COVID-19 and will miss the Iowa game on Saturday. The guys discuss what it means for the team, why wide receivers coach George McDonald will be acting head coach and how Bielema's absence will impact the Illini at Iowa City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Light Princess by George McDonald. A princess is cursed by a spiteful aunt and has lost all her gravity. Is there a way to get her gravity back? This delightful fairy tale takes you on the journey on how to feel the weight of the world. To discuss this chapter, go to the @crackopenaclassicpodcast Instagram page and comment on the post for chapter 15. Thank you for listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crackopenaclassicpodcast/message

The Light Princess by George McDonald. A princess is cursed by a spiteful aunt and has lost all her gravity. Is there a way to get her gravity back? This delightful fairy tale takes you on the journey on how to feel the weight of the world. To discuss this chapter, go to the @crackopenaclassicpodcast Instagram page and comment on the post for chapter 14. Thank you for listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crackopenaclassicpodcast/message

The Light Princess by George McDonald. A princess is cursed by a spiteful aunt and has lost all her gravity. Is there a way to get her gravity back? This delightful fairy tale takes you on the journey on how to feel the weight of the world. To discuss this chapter, go to the @crackopenaclassicpodcast Instagram page and comment on the post for chapter 13. Thank you for listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crackopenaclassicpodcast/message

The Light Princess by George McDonald. A princess is cursed by a spiteful aunt and has lost all her gravity. Is there a way to get her gravity back? This delightful fairy tale takes you on the journey on how to feel the weight of the world. To discuss this chapter, go to the @crackopenaclassicpodcast Instagram page and comment on the post for chapter 12. Thank you for listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crackopenaclassicpodcast/message

The Light Princess by George McDonald. A princess is cursed by a spiteful aunt and has lost all her gravity. Is there a way to get her gravity back? This delightful fairy tale takes you on the journey on how to feel the weight of the world. To discuss this chapter, go to the @crackopenaclassicpodcast Instagram page and comment on the post for chapter 11. Thank you for listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crackopenaclassicpodcast/message

The Light Princess by George McDonald. A princess is cursed by a spiteful aunt and has lost all her gravity. Is there a way to get her gravity back? This delightful fairy tale takes you on the journey on how to feel the weight of the world. To discuss this chapter, go to the @crackopenaclassicpodcast Instagram page and comment on the post for chapter 10. Thank you for listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crackopenaclassicpodcast/message

The Light Princess by George McDonald. A princess is cursed by a spiteful aunt and has lost all her gravity. Is there a way to get her gravity back? This delightful fairy tale takes you on the journey on how to feel the weight of the world. To discuss this chapter, go to the @crackopenaclassicpodcast Instagram page and comment on the post for chapter 9. Thank you for listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crackopenaclassicpodcast/message

The Light Princess by George McDonald. A princess is cursed by a spiteful aunt and has lost all her gravity. Is there a way to get her gravity back? This delightful fairy tale takes you on the journey on how to feel the weight of the world. To discuss this chapter, go to the @crackopenaclassicpodcast Instagram page and comment on the post for chapter 8. Thank you for listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crackopenaclassicpodcast/message

The Light Princess by George McDonald. A princess is cursed by a spiteful aunt and has lost all her gravity. Is there a way to get her gravity back? This delightful fairy tale takes you on the journey on how to feel the weight of the world. To discuss this chapter, go to the @crackopenaclassicpodcast Instagram page and comment on the post for chapter 7. Thank you for listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crackopenaclassicpodcast/message

The Light Princess by George McDonald. A princess is cursed by a spiteful aunt and has lost all her gravity. Is there a way to get her gravity back? This delightful fairy tale takes you on the journey on how to feel the weight of the world. To discuss this chapter, go to the @crackopenaclassicpodcast Instagram page and comment on the post for chapter 6. Thank you for listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crackopenaclassicpodcast/message

The Light Princess by George McDonald. A princess is cursed by a spiteful aunt and has lost all her gravity. Is there a way to get her gravity back? This delightful fairy tale takes you on the journey on how to feel the weight of the world. To discuss this chapter, go to the @crackopenaclassicpodcast Instagram page and comment on the post for chapter 5. Thank you for listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crackopenaclassicpodcast/message

The Light Princess by George McDonald. A princess is cursed by a spiteful aunt and has lost all her gravity. Is there a way to get her gravity back? This delightful fairy tale takes you on the journey on how to feel the weight of the world. To discuss this chapter, go to the @crackopenaclassicpodcast Instagram page and comment on the post for chapter 4. Thank you for listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crackopenaclassicpodcast/message

The Light Princess by George McDonald. A princess is cursed by a spiteful aunt and has lost all her gravity. Is there a way to get her gravity back? This delightful fairy tale takes you on the journey on how to feel the weight of the world. To discuss this chapter, go to the @crackopenaclassicpodcast Instagram page and comment on the post for chapter 3. Thank you for listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crackopenaclassicpodcast/message

The Light Princess by George McDonald. A princess is cursed by a spiteful aunt and has lost all her gravity. Is there a way to get her gravity back? This delightful fairy tale takes you on the journey on how to feel the weight of the world. To discuss this chapter, go to the @crackopenaclassicpodcast Instagram page and comment on the post for chapter 2. Thank you for listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crackopenaclassicpodcast/message

0 (0s): oh, 1 (8m 32s): To Jesus. We worship you this morning. We are your children. We are here to see 2 (9m 16s): Where it used to be. I will never be There is no other name, but the name that is 0 (12m 11s): He, 2 (12m 11s): Who was and still is and will be through it Monday in the space between all the things I've seen and the striking. He, I know I will never be. 0 (12m 31s): I 2 (12m 32s): Know 0 (12m 36s): let's pray. 3 (14m 2s): Thank you for this time, Lord, as we spent time worshiping you and your name now, as we open up your word, Lord, that you would speak to us again, meet us here now in this place, Lord, in Jesus name, we pray. Amen. All right. You may be seated youth group. You guys are staying here the Sunday. So glad to be here once again. It's it's, it's a, it's a message that I've been kind of laboring and working through and really just been on my heart. It's it was fun for service to kind of bring it to the light Allister. 3 (14m 44s): Beg would say it was it's the closest he's ever felt to being pregnant and giving birth is, is you, you hope that's not offending, but it's this thing that for me, it's, it's just it Wells up and it's growing. And then it's, it's, it's amazing to see how it comes out. So I pray just, today's just a blessing. My, my brother and I growing up, and I know I've told a story in the past that wasn't true about the poison. If you're here for that one, this is it. This is actually a true story. So let me tell you about this. My, my brother, we had a lot of hobbies. We were always interested in trying to, we were always inquisitive about different things. So we would, hobbies would pop up, we'd see something on TV or in a book. 3 (15m 28s): And we're like, wow, we want to know more about this. So my mom, she would always, she would just take us to the library and we'd go look up whatever we wanted to. And it was fun to be able to research these things. And our tree was one of those things. I don't know where we inherited it from, but we found this red fiberglass, recurve bow, and my brother and I wanted to know everything about archery and we wanted to find out more. So that's what we did. We went to the library, he got all the books and began reading, studying, okay, how this is how you do it. Well, we also made a range in our backyard and we found, I don't know why we had it, just a random closet door, those kind of hollow core doors. And we set it up in our backyard as a target. 3 (16m 9s): And of course, boys, what do you want to do? You want to shoot at something real? So we set up, we drew an outline of a person like this on that door, and that was our target. And then after a while that just that stagnant target, we decided that we'll, let's, let's make this a little more realistic because when you shoot something that needs to die. So we tried to like prop up the door in a way that, you know, a little stick or something would hold it. Then when you, when it gets shot with the arrow would fall over, be a little more realistic. Well, that didn't work out too well. So we decided, well, the best thing is probably just to hold the door up and you can't stand behind the door. Cause every once in a while, the arrow will go straight through the door, you know? And so my brother, we just held it at arms length. 3 (16m 52s): We'll be okay. And we were my brother and I were really, we were good. We were good. We were good shots. You know, we'd a lot of practice. Once in a while, our friend Mike, he would come over and he'd he'd practice with us too, but he wasn't, he just hadn't been practicing as long. So it wasn't as good. Well, it was the nineties and Robin hood, prince of thieves came out and we we've loved that show. We love that movie, especially cause there was archery in it. And there was one scene where Robin hood, he draws his arrow and he flips around any shoots. And I think it was like through the trees or something, it was like this really cool movie shot and hits his target. So my brother and I are like, yes, we can do this. 3 (17m 33s): So in the backyard practicing and we started working on our Robin hood shot, you know, he turned around real fast, let the arrow go. It hits his target. Cause my brother and I were, we were decent. We were good. We were practicing. Well, Mike, he came over that day and he's like, wow, I want to try this too. I've seen this in the movies. I can do this too. Well, my brother was, it was his turn to hold the door, the target. And so he's kind of holding it at arms length like this. And Mikey turns around, flips round releases the arrow and it Nicks the edge of the door and goes in my brother's arm. So I have this image of my brother going as the arrows flopping around his arm. 3 (18m 15s): And we're like, Brian, you can't tell mom and dad. And he's like, my brother who has like the highest pain tolerance. He he's like, no, it hurts going to tell him I'm down. And I know, you know, we'll get into so big trouble because we had really, really wanted to get to the broad heads. Those like arrows with the razors on it. We thought that would be really cool to have those. My mom had said no, so I'm really glad she said no. So I was like, okay, I'm the oldest here. I will be the one to deliver the news to my parents. So I run around our backyard slide, open the sliding glass door. And my dad's there sitting on the couch, reading his newspaper and I'm my Brian's been shot. And my dad looks up the newspaper and he's like, is the BB still in him? 3 (18m 57s): I'm like, no, it was the arrow. And he lost his color for a split. Second only to jump up straight army through the door. I was standing at the door, just waiting for his response. He's straight arms me runs around the backyard, picks up my brother, lifts them up and then carries him into the house. So these are these images that are just stuck in my head. Well, fast forward to a few months. And I decided that I think I've matured a little bit that I won't, that I know my targets now. And so I've decided to, I got, I got up. I was able to buy a compound bow. All right. That was pretty exciting. I've been talking about it for a number of years. In fact, my middle daughter, her name is Posey Archer. So you can calculate her age and how many, how long I've wanted to get back into archery. 3 (19m 42s): So I got this compound bow and the guys at central coast archery have just become like my best friends. I've been down there. I taught a lot. They're like, teach me, okay, this is your target. Don't you know, all this safety, all that stuff, but I've been learning a lot. And so I have a little bit of background as a kid in our tree, but I realized I need to relearn a lot. And that's what I wanted to do with this morning. You see growing up in the church, I think there's a, there's a familiar, it's wonderful. It has way more advantages the disadvantages. But I think one of the disadvantages for growing up in the church, as you begin to be really familiar with the Bible and it becomes something that you just know. 3 (20m 24s): I remember in high school thinking, well, I know everything about the Bible I know about Noah. I just, it just became like I know about it. But for those who have been able to walk with this in their, in their new life of faith and their new trust of Jesus, having come from a, not a biblical background, I've seen this awe and wonder and just a refreshing like, whoa, what is the Bible teaching? What is it? And so that's why I want to approach this morning. Scripture of Luke chapter 11. It's a prayer that I know we've all maybe memorized that we've all looked at it, but let's this morning. Look at it with two staff, fresh sense of vision this morning. 3 (21m 5s): So Luke chapter 11, we'll be in verses one and two this morning. Sometimes it's it's, it's, it's been titled the Lord's prayers. I don't agree with that because of later on, but we'll call it the model prayer, the disciple's prayer, the believers prayer, but Luke 11, there's some Bibles in the back. If you want one of those, I love my youth group will say, I know I love hearing the Bible's turn. It's my favorite sound. So Luke chapter 11 verse one says now it came to pass. As he was praying in a certain place. When he ceased speaking about Jesus. And he's praying that one of his disciples said to him, Lord teach us to pray. 3 (21m 48s): As John also taught his disciples for the Jew, living in that culture, in that context, prayer was just a central part of what you did throughout the day. It was what you did. First thing, when you woke up, it was what you did right before you went to bed. It was just throughout the day, you just had these prayers and you just, it was just central in the life. But yet the disciples, they realize they witnessed something different in Jesus. When he prayed and they waited for him to stop. And then they approach him with a request. They said, Lord, teach us to pray. And I find it interesting that they didn't say Lord, didn't say, Lord, teach us to preach because Jesus was powerful. 3 (22m 36s): Preacher. He preached with authority. They didn't say, Lord, teach us to heal like you do. It's wow. These things that you're doing, it's amazing. They didn't say they didn't ask the question. Lord, teach us how to pray. They just said, Lord, teach us to pray. There was something remarkably different about the way that Jesus prayed and the disciples noticed that. And you see that. We often ask the best of what someone has to offer. We asked the best of what someone has to offer. If I want to know about golf and I go ask, you'd want to seek out a professional golf player. 3 (23m 20s): Archery has become one of my new hobbies. One of my new interests. I'm at central coast archery probably way more than I should be. Scott. Joel, what about this? What about that? Hey, can you look at my bow? Is it tuned? Right? Is everything okay? And they are their world-class archers. They're best of the best. Scott's been a worldwide Archer he's they have a gal that I think just graduated high school. That's shot for the women's team. They're like, they know what they're doing. They are a world-class. So we want to ask the best of what someone has to offer. And the disciples witnessed in Jesus that his vibrant prayer life was something special. It was the best of what he had to offer. 3 (24m 0s): And so they ask him. Now this prayer that we find in Luke chapter 11 is also found in the beatitudes in Matthew chapter six and Matthew chapter six. That was part of his sermon as he preached on this prayer. And that prayer was given before Jesus's disciples were all there. At that time, there was only about four disciples with him. It was Peter, Andrew, James, and John, and now Jesus is going to reteach it to all of his disciples. And so he says to them, when you pray, say this, he's not going to define prayer. Prayer was already defined in the life of the Jew. We would define it as talking to God, just like in the garden of Eden, Jesus walked. 3 (24m 46s): They heard the sound of Lord God, walking in the garden of Eden. When you walk with somebody, when that relationship is there, you walk and you talk and you share life and talking with God. Prayer is just that same thing in Matthew chapter six, Jesus would give warnings about prayers. Shouldn't be like, cause there was a lot of bad examples out there. So this is what prayers shouldn't be like in Matthew chapter six. He says, when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathens do for, they think that with, for, they think that they will be heard for their many words. It's not about how many words we use Jesus doesn't then teach them on the posture of prayer. 3 (25m 28s): You know, being in the church and the Sunday school you're taught. Okay. When you pray, you gotta put your hands together, close your eyes and bow your head. That's what you have to do. And I love that prayer because it keeps kids from being distracted, right? And sometimes me and that's what I need. That's the prayer posture that I need. I need to bow my head, close my eyes and put my hands together. But that doesn't always work because the Bible also says in first Thessalonians five, pray without ceasing. So if I'm supposed to only pray this way and pray without ceasing, the joke is we get in my car to drive, you know, go visit the cousins. And I said, all right, girls, we're going to pray before we go. Let's all bow our heads and close your eyes. 3 (26m 9s): And you know, as we're driving down the street and they're like, dad, don't close your eyes, don't do it. You know, you trick them. And I guess that would only work. If you had a Tesla, then you could actually bow your head, close your eyes and trust in the machinery. So scripture gives us many different ways. Sometimes we are called to bow the head. Sometimes we're called to look up into the sky, as Jesus would do up to the heavens. There's definitely many different postures. Sometimes you go into prayer closet. There's many, many ways of the external posture of prayer. But what the most important posture of prayer is that, which the hearts, posture of prayer. Can you agree with that? Our hearts, posture, prayer and Jesus teaches just that in this prayer, in that prayer that he, that the disciples were watching him do. 3 (26m 58s): And it doesn't seem that the prayer was recorded. Doesn't say if it was a short prayer, doesn't save. It was a long prayer. It doesn't seem how simple or elaborate it. Just that prayer that the disciples watch, the Jesus did made an impact on his disciples. And they knew that it was making a kingdom impact. Sometimes it's the simplest of prayers. George Miller, have you have you all heard of George Mueller? Great, great man of faith, great rate, man of God. And this story was related by another well-known evangelist named Charles Ingles on the prayer life of George Mueller. 3 (27m 40s): So Charles Ingle angles is he was crossing over to America and he was recounting this story of how he met this captain of a steamer. And he was saying, wow, this man, this captain is just, he's a man of faith. There's something different this man. And he, so he began to ask us this captain of the steamer. What, what marks, what, what marks the life of your faith? W what, what, what is this about you that's so different. He said, well, this is what happened five weeks ago. Let me share a story from you. About five weeks ago, he said it was the most incredible thing. He was saying that the captain said that I have, he was there, sorry, let me collect my thoughts. 3 (28m 21s): He was there at the helm, this captain of the steamer, they were crossing over from the Atlantic, by the Newfoundland coast. There had been 22 hours of fog, unrelentless, thick, thick fog. So much fog that he hadn't left the bridge in 22 hours. And all of a sudden he feels a tap on his shoulder and he turns around kind of frightened. And there is George Mueller and George Mueller simply says this. He said, captain, I've come to tell you that I must be in Quebec on Saturday afternoon. And it was Wednesday on that day. The captain says, that's impossible. George Mueller replies very well. If your ship can't take me, God will find some other means of locomotion to take me. I have never broken an engagement in 57 years, George Mueller said, let's go down to the chart room and pray. 3 (29m 8s): The captain said, captain said, I looked at this man. And I thought to myself, what lunatic asylum could this man have come from? I've never heard of such a thing. Leave the bridge, go down to the chart room to pray like that. Prayer is going to make anything different. The captain said, Mr. Mueller, do you not know how dense this fog is? Mr. Mueller replied with George. Mueller said, no. My eye is not on the density of the fog, but on the living God who controls every circumstance in my life, the captain said, well, he went down to his knees and he prayed one of the most simplest of prayers. 3 (29m 48s): He said, I thought to myself, that would suit a child's class where the children were not more than eight or nine years old. His prayer was basically saying, oh Lord, if it is consistent with your will, please remove this fog in five minutes. You know, the engagement you made for me in Quebec is this Saturday. And I believe it is your will. That was his prayer. The captain said when we had finished, I was going to pray, but he put his hand on my shoulder and told me not to pray. He said, sir, first, you do not believe that God will do it. And second, I believe he's already done it. There's no need for you to pray about it. I looked at him and George Mueller said this captain. I have known my Lord for 57 years. 3 (30m 30s): And there's never been a single day with which I have not gained his audience. Captain, get up, open the door and you'll find the fog is gone. The captain got up, the fog was gone and George Mueller made it to his appointment. What a, what? A mark of faith to have a simple prayer of faith, the simple believing faith in the God who did that, prayer changes us. And it changes around us. Jesus, didn't see the preparation for the prayer. As the preparation for the battle. Jesus saw prayer as the battle, as Jesus was in the garden of right? 3 (31m 15s): Leading up to his betrayal. He bled great drops of blood recorded in Luke 22. And he prayed and he said, Lord, take this cup from me, but nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done. He didn't pray. He didn't bleed in pilot's court as he's being tried, but he bled in the garden in prayer. Jesus, didn't see that prayer was a preparation for a battle. Jesus saw prayer as the battle. So Jesus, after teaching us to pray, he tells us how we address God when we pray to him. And this is what he says to his disciples. He says our father in heaven. 3 (31m 56s): That's how he starts his prayer. Our father in heaven. Let me say father, that brings up a lot of thoughts about our own earthly fathers, but yet Jesus tells us that father is the most important way. The most important thing when approaching God and that word, father has a lot of connotation in the old Testament. It's only used seven times about God. It was a very old, old Testament. They saw where a witness God in a very different aspect, but you're now Jesus is telling his disciples. When you pray, say father 275 times, actually in the new Testament, see God uses many names in the scripture. 3 (32m 41s): But father I think is one of the most intimate of names that we can call our heavenly father. We can call God, there's a picture on my desk. And it was a good reminder of this week is some studying and prayed and working through this is my it's me. Six days old, just on the, on the, on my, my dad, my, my dad's chest. Just that simple. Like I am in need of everything. I can't control anything. And there's my father with me on his bosom. So often our view of God is shaped by our earthly fathers. Just like my dad picking up my brother after he'd been injured by that arrow carried him to safety. 3 (33m 27s): He carried him into the house and my mom wants to always treat everything with the bag of ice, right? Isn't that the way moms treat best the wounds she put on his, she put on his arm, a bag of ice and hope that would help it. You know, he just had a little hole in the skin. It didn't go all the way through. And a couple weeks later, my mom grabbed my brother and you know, Hey, come do this, come do that. And he flinched and he was like, ouch. My mom's like, oh no, is it still hurt? He's like, yeah, it still really hurts. So she took him to the house, took him to the, her doctor, his doctor and the doctor's like, Ooh, well let's, let's look at the x-ray. 3 (34m 8s): Let's check out the x-rays. So they get the x-rays of course my mom was so embarrassed to have to take my brother to the hospital. Cause he shot by an arrow that was like, just did not, she was avoiding him. It probably because of that. And as she takes him to the Haas or it takes him to the doctor and sure enough, the x-ray reveals there's a hole right there in the middle of his, his bone with little fractures going out. And my mom thought that was the worst knew she could not believe she was so ashamed. And the doctor's like that is, this is the coolest x-ray I've ever seen. This is like the cowboy and Indian days, he was all fired up. My mom was, oh, embarrassed. My dad carried my brother to safety on, on that aspect of asking others what's the best they have to offer CS Lewis, who I think we would all agree is one of the best authors out there. 3 (34m 59s): He looked and he spoke about his favorite author, another George and a guy named George McDonald, the Scottish writer. And he said this in his like opening to his book about George MacDonald, CS Lewis said this. We said, we have learned from Freud and others about the distortions and characters and errors of thoughts, which result from man's early conflicts were from his father. Freud has a lot to say about fatherhood and how that shapes and mold us. He said far off. The most important thing we can know about George McDonald is that his whole life illustrates the opposite process. He said an almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all of his wisdom from his own father. 3 (35m 44s): He said, he first learned that fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. He was thus prepared in an, in an unusual way to teach the religion in which the relation of the father and the son was the most central, something about the father that shapes our view of God. And then when he says, when Jesus says, we must say our father in heaven, he says our father, as in not just my father, not just father, but our father and that's the unifying call for the body of Christ to be United. When we pray, when we lift up our prayer requests, it's not just me. It's just as I it's, we as a whole, some of the greatest prayers in the Bible, I'm thinking like in, especially in Daniel, where Daniel includes himself in the nation's rebellion and he says, forgive us, our sins, forgive us, our trespasses. 3 (36m 37s): And there's not one marked sin recorded for Daniel, but yet he still includes himself in that it's that our father, Jesus is one of Jesus's last prayers in John chapter 17. He prays that there may be unity among the believers. He prays first for himself. He prays for his 12 disciples. And then he prays for all believers. We need to have unity in the church. And then he says, our father in heaven and heaven is that theoral place. Isn't it is that place where we're only a few have been able to just witness and how to had a key, whole image of, we see Isaiah has a throne room experience. 3 (37m 24s): ZQ Daniel. And then John later on in revelation, on the island of Patmos, they have this throne room vision of who God is. It's our father in heaven. So if we were to address him, if Jesus saying we are to address our heavenly, God is our heavenly father. He said to first start out by talking to the father about the father. That's how we pray. We talked to the father about the father. So how does he do that? He says, hallowed, be your name, how it is like a strange word. I had to look it up and Dixie dictionary to make sure it was there. And I have this dictionary, which is it's huge. 3 (38m 4s): It's like 1907. And this is his definition of Howard. It says to devote to holy or religious uses to consecrate, to reverence is sacred or to set apart. I know there's there's you have dishes in your house that are hallowed or set apart, right? So those dishes that your grandma gave to you at your wedding and you put them up in the cabinet with the glass counters and you only pull out for Thanksgiving for special meals for Christmas dinners. Those are the Hollywood plates. So those are the set apart only for specific uses. 3 (38m 44s): That is how Jesus that's how God's name is to be. We already keep his name as holy. His name is holy. The Jewish scribes had a way of doing that practically. As they copied the texts, they didn't have coffee machines, so they didn't have to copy out the texts. Every time they came to the hallowed name of God, Yahweh God, they would have to go cleanse the pen and they'd have to go take a bath every time they were to copy that scripture. So there they are. That was their way of keeping his name's holy to keep it set apart and names carry importance, right? Whenever I see a Jeremy on TV, I'm like, you better represent the Jeremy's cause I'm a Jeremy. You're a Jeremy. And we represent that. 3 (39m 24s): There's something special in a name, especially in the old Testament times. There's something special. Now there's something I want all the Jeremys to represent a good character, integrity. All those things. Names are important. They're linked to our character. Jacob was born, Jacob, his name meant he'll snatcher. God says no longer. We would call you Cobe, but I'm going to call you Israel governed by God. God would change Abrams named Abraham. He would change Sarah, his name to Sarah. He would change Saul to Paul. And then later on Simon to Peter, because God was speaking something into their character and he was changing their name in our heaven. 3 (40m 11s): In revelation. It talks about this new names that we will get it says, and we will give and revelation two 17 and we will get sorry. And I will give him a white stone. And on that stone, a new name written, which no one knows except him. Her receives it. God has a name that aligns with your character and who you are. The name character of you always to be set apart from any other God. Any other spiritual being his name is lifted up. Your name that your name quote in the old Testament is used over 119 times. Let me give you a few examples in his second Samuel seven, we have says, so let your name be magnified forever saying the Lord of hosts is the God over Israel and let the house of your servant. 3 (40m 58s): David be established before you second, Samuel 22 says, therefore, I will give thanks to you. Oh Lord. Among the Gentiles and sing praises to your name. Psalm 22 says I will declare your name to my brethren in the midst of the assembly, I will praise you. Psalm 54 to the chief musician was stringed instruments. Contemplation of David. He says, is David not hiding among us? Save me, oh God, by your name and vindicate me by your strength. Psalm 63. I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name, David, and through the Psalms he's linking name to character. 3 (41m 44s): We don't worship a name. We worship God's character and who he is. And later on in the new Testament, Jesus, wouldn't give a blink blink check to us. When he says this in John 14, most assuredly I say to you, he who believes in me the works that I do, he will do also and greater works than these will he do because I go to my father and whatever you ask in my name that you will do in the father will be glorified in the son. If you ask anything in my name, I will do it. There wasn't a blank check. That was, if you call upon the, will you call upon God to do something, he will do it within his character. If we ask something in the character of God, he will do it. 3 (42m 26s): The father son relationship is modeled just after that prayer. Look at me with me to Luke chapter 11, verses nine through 13, he's going to speak on the importance of a father, son relationship, a father, child relationship verse nine says who I say to you and I will be given to you. Sorry. I say ask. It will be given to you seek and you will find knock and will be opened them to you for everyone who asks receive. And he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone free, asked for a fish? Will you also give him a serpent instead of a fish? 3 (43m 7s): Or if he asks for an egg, will you, will you offer him a scorpion? If you then speaking of the earthly fathers, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children? How much more will your heavenly father give you the holy spirit? When you ask? I was asking in the character of God. So we talk then to the father about his kingdom. After talking to him about him, we then talked to the father about his kingdom and he says, this, Jesus said your kingdom come your kingdom come. And that's where this message has kind of been brewing on my heart. And maybe it's just something. Maybe it's just something I needed to hear. 3 (43m 47s): Maybe I need to preach to myself these last few weeks months they've been tough. There's been a number of situations in my life that just led me to just drop to my knees in prayer or teach me to pray. So I'm looking around, Lord teach me to pray prayed for the recall vote that didn't, that didn't go through, begin to feel anxious and concerned and worried for the future about what would happen if that wasn't, if welfare outcome is what it is now, begin to look around to the kingdom of now the kingdom around us. 3 (44m 31s): And it's, it's frightening, honestly, a year ago, I would have been thought that it'd be a conspiracy theory because I've thought that someday there'd be vaccine passports and mandates. I thought that's coming down the line a year ago, but here we are. And that's slowly becoming reality. They're talking about now a digital currency in the next two years, that will no longer have paper that everyone will have a digital concurrency. That lines right up with what we read in the book of revelation. So I love the lessons that God has been teaching me through archery and he'd can. And he does. 3 (45m 11s): So I got a little proud. I got a little boastful. My first couple of weeks of archery. You see, I went from a grouping at 20 yards of about a dinner plate and I got them down to about an inch and a half and a groupings. When you shoot multiple arrows at a target and they start getting closer, that means that you're getting accurate. You're like, you're working your skills. Well, I was getting really good. I started sending pictures to my friends like, look, look, look how good I'm doing. Look at it. This is awesome. They're like, oh yeah, good job. Wow. You're really, you're really getting this. And then one night they're in practice in the backyard and I got lined up. I'm looking at my, through my scope and it's so compound bows, have they have a little peep site that's on the string. 3 (45m 51s): And then, and then next you have the scope or the, the scope with the little target pins. All right. And you want to get your peep and you want to aim it at the target pins onto the target. Yeah. So that's kind of how, the way it lines up. And I lined up for the shot. I had it right over the target and all of a sudden I was like, this isn't my body just did this, like this like jitters. I was like, what was that? And my arrow actually went off and miss the target into the wall. I was like, what was that? Where did that come from? I've been really accurate. That was weird. So a few more shots. And it's like, my body is preparing for this arrow to be released. And it, and it just tightens up. 3 (46m 33s): I was like, what? In the world's happening? Like I've got, I've got my S my pin on my target. And all of a sudden, my body as is movement. I was like, I can't control. I'm like, what in the world is going on? So I went down to central coast, archery, and Scott was in there and I walk in the door and no one else is in the shop. And Scott and another worker were there and I'm like, Scott, I got target panic. He's like, oh no, you got target panic. He got target. Everybody gets the target. Hey, everybody knows about this target panic thing. Like, I'm like, well, I didn't know about it. Tell me about this. Like, oh yeah. It's like, when your body kind of is reacting to the shot before it happens and you start to get messed up and everybody deals with everybody. I was like, okay, well, you got to help me overcome this because I don't want to have target practice, target anxiety. 3 (47m 18s): This is not okay. So one of the things that Scott recommended was this. He said, what's your probably focusing on, we can only, our eyes can only focus on one thing. Okay. He says, one of the things that you want to work on is not focusing on the pins that are right in front of you. You want to focus on the target and see the target through those pins that are right next to you right there. And he talked about how he worked through his target anxiety. He was coached through it, and he was working on a target at 50 yards. And he said, this guy was like, just, just, just concentrate the target. You'll get it. And sure enough, Scott said he at 50 yards, he Robin hood in a Robin, Robin hood had eggs or egg Robinhood, an arrow. 3 (48m 3s): So he'd shot one arrow into the back of the other arrow. That's 50 yards. Cause he was focused on that target. It's kind of like mountain biking or biking. Anything. If you see a rock in the middle of the path and you start focusing on that rock, you're going to hit the rock. This is what happens. I don't know why it works that way, but that is. And so we need, and Jesus is reminding us your kingdom come. We need to focus on the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven. But how do we do that? Because Jesus preached a lot about the kingdom that had arrived. And it was different than what his disciples or Jews are waiting for. At that time, you see the keynote, he, Jesus would say, the kingdom has come near to you. 3 (48m 44s): The kingdom has come upon you, but it doesn't let you look around. You're like that doesn't seem to be totally the way it is. I don't understand. And that's where we live in. We live in this tension of the already and not yet the already and not yet. It's a theological tension. It says by faith in Christ, all of these spiritual blessings are ours already. But the full enjoyment of these blessings is not yet ours. This is the life of faith. The assurance of things hoped for in the future and the convictions of things. Not yet seen in the present from Hebrews 11, this is life between the times. 3 (49m 24s): So if Satan tempted Jesus, all the kingdoms of the earth, when Jesus was being tempted out in the wilderness, how could Satan say all these kingdoms I'll give to you? If you fall down and worship me, Jesus, didn't say that's not theologically true. Actually, Jesus just outright rejected that. And he said away from me, I will worship the Lord. God alone. You see Satan has a kingdom. There are kingdoms in this world. There's the kingdom of now, but yet God has the kingdom of already. And not yet. Yes. Illustrate that with Daniel chapter five bell Schanzer was the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar, never could answer. 3 (50m 5s): He was the one that had this great image that he couldn't explain. That Daniel came later and explained the head of the head of gold, the arms and the chest of silver and bronze. And then clay mixed with iron all. He had that vision. And so Nebuchadnezzar kind of took that and ran, right? He made that big golden statue that everyone was to worship. And then the three other guys didn't want to worship that. Well, that was Nebuchadnezzar. And Nebuchadnezzar's Keana was headed down to his son and his grandson. They, they were co regions and God had already weighed that kingdom in the balance. God already knew. So there was a feast that bell Shazard was going to throw that was in the kingdom of Babylon. 3 (50m 46s): Babylon was a Magnificant city. The walls surrounding Babylon were 17 miles long. The walls surrounding Babylon were 22 feet thick. You could re race for chariots on these walls. The walls of Babylon were 90 feet tall with towers that went another a hundred feet on top of that Babylon was so magnificent. Babylon had storage of food that could outlast there's people, years and years, they had the river Euphrates that flowed right through the center of Babylon. They gave them endless supply of water. They were good. So as they are being surrounded by the Medo-Persian empire, Belshazzar is like, we're going to have a feast. 3 (51m 33s): We're going to outlive this. We're good. Our kingdoms forever. We're good. And so what he did, what does he do? He calls for the golden instruments from the temple to come and be used it as feast. And it was then that up on the wall, the hand of God came in a wrote on the wall, wrote something that he didn't understand, wrote something that made his knees knocking. And he liked his lost strength. He couldn't do anything. This is bell Shazard and he couldn't do anything. So he began to call for all the magicians, the soothsayers. They couldn't say anything until Daniel was brought forth. And Daniel said, this is what it says many, many tekel who Farson, you've been weighed in the balance you've been found, wanting your kingdom has been weighed and has been found wanting why do I bring that up? 3 (52m 21s): Because I was one kingdom that was on the verge of collapse. You see, they didn't know that that very night, the Euphrates river had been diverted into a marsh and that the Mito Persian empire had entered into where the Euphrates river float. And they captured that city that night as he's feasting and think he's all good. That's the city was sacked and he, and he was killed that the king. And I bring that up because in Luke chapter 11, we find this interesting story that's linked and an interesting story because it's not, we don't understand the con the context to it. Totally. So let's check it out. Luke chapter 11 verses 14 through 23, it says, and he was casting out a demon and it was a mute. 3 (53m 4s): So it was when the demon got gone out that the mute spoke and the multitudes marveled note that note that the multitudes Marvel, but some of them said, he cast out, ruined demons by bells, above the ruler of the demons. Others tested him, sought him for a sign from heaven. But he knowing their thoughts said to him, every kingdom divided itself against itself is brought into desolation and a house divided against itself false. And if Satan is divided gets himself, how will this kingdom stand? Because you say, I cast out demons by bells above. And if I cast out demons by bells above to whom do your sons cast them out, speaking of the Jewish excersice verse 20. 3 (53m 47s): But if I cast out demons with the finger of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. Jesus has relating this to the kingdom of Babylon. That was with the finger of God. The writing was on the wall. This is what we don't understand. This is what I've learned this last few weeks about the context around this, every time in the Bible, when Jesus casts out a mute spirit, the crowds Marvel, why do the crowds Marvel so much of this? There were other demons that were exercised. There are Jewish exorcists at the time that would cast out demons and their way of doing it was they had to find out the name of this, of this, of this spirit being, living inside this person. 3 (54m 29s): They would use that name in the incantations in different SANEs and using Proverbs or Psalms to cast this demon out, turn away, wrestle it out. Now Jesus comes on the scene and he is able to cast out the mute spirits. Why is that different? Because no one else could do that. Jesus, didn't say you have to find out the name to then call it out. Jesus has simply simply said, get out. The writing was on the wall that their kingdom, the kingdom of Satan, the kingdom of now is being judged with the finger of God. Jesus said, I cast these demons out. So we're living in this already, but not yet. 3 (55m 9s): Jesus has done that, but it's not fully lived out. So then later we see that Jesus talks about, he said, we talked to the father about the will for his kingdom. Your will be done just like it. Isn't heaven. He says, you're a, will he wills in heaven? And it's done in our prayers. We must join with the character of what he wills to do. Even Jesus wrestle with that in the garden. He said, if it is your will take away this cup from me, nevertheless, not my will, but yours. Jesus says not your will, but your, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, the visible and the invisible realms, the kingdoms of this earth, the kingdom of heaven. 3 (55m 52s): These are where God reigns is there. It's a perfect harmony of what happens in heaven to what God wills in heaven. And that's what he's calling us to ask for. For prayer. You see, the more I focus in on those pins in the site, when I'm trying to shoot my archery, the more I focus on those things that are right there, the less I'll hit my target. But when my aim becomes my target and I just look through those things at that lens of the scope, I'll hit my target. We can only focus on one thing. So where is our focus this morning? 3 (56m 33s): Is it on the kingdoms of now? There's the kingdom of heaven, Daniel chapter seven. This is my last and I'm sorry, I'm over time. Dander chapter seven. It says this, this is Daniel's vision. He said, I was watching the night visions one and behold one like the son of man coming with the clouds of heaven. And he came to the ancient of days and they brought him near before him. Then he said to him then to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom that all the peoples nations and languages should serve him. 3 (57m 15s): And his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away. And his kingdom, the one which shall not be destroyed. That's why Jesus called himself the son of man in fulfillment of Daniel's prophecy. If I could summarize this first section of the R of this prayer, I would say this, let, let the Lord be the Lord. Let God be God in our prayers and our, in our will for what happens in around us, let God be, God let's pray. 3 (57m 57s): Laura, the kingdoms of the earth he knows of now are saying themselves against you. Lord. I'm thankful to have your word in front of us. That tells us the beginning from the end. It tells us, tells us that these nations have been judged by the finger of God. And someday you will come down with your full power, not just the finger of God. You will come down with might Lord. And the kingdoms of this earth will crumble and you will set up an everlasting kingdom. Lord, help us to keep our sites, our vision set on that future kingdom of God, Jesus name we pray. Amen. 0 (58m 42s): Please stand with us. what a beautiful name. 0 (59m 30s): 5 (1h 4m 30s): Thank you, Lord, For just the power of the name of Jesus. Thank you for just, just keep us focused on, on the kingdom of heaven. Lord, as we leave here today, I just ask you to just keep the kingdom of heaven in the forefront of our thoughts and our minds, and just the hope that we're aiming for that target Lord. And so I'm just thank you Jesus, for this day. 5 (1h 5m 14s): Thank you for, for what you're doing in our church, in our midst, in our hearts. Lord, I just think right now we should. I think it's, we should recite the Lord's prayer together. I think that's a good way to end the service this morning. So you could actually want to look it up. Ha ha. Cause everybody's got like a different, you know, I feel like growing up Christian, like I ha I, I like meld tons of different translations together. When I say the Lord's prayer. 5 (1h 5m 55s): Anyways, our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us each day our daily bread and forgive us. Our sins forgiven you just not into temptation is the kingdom and the glory forever. Amen. Amen. 5 (1h 6m 35s): Thank you church. Thank you all for being here. Please come forward for prayer. Our prayer teams are waiting in discreet locations to pray for your, every need that you want to bring before the father today. So, but we'll see you guys next week. 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The Light Princess by George McDonald. A princess is cursed by a spiteful aunt and has lost all her gravity. Is there a way to get her gravity back? This delightful fairy tale takes you on the journey on how to feel the weight of the world. To discuss this chapter, go to the @crackopenaclassicpodcast Instagram page and comment on the post for chapter 1. Thank you for listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crackopenaclassicpodcast/message

Heaven is indescribably beautiful, full of gold, jasper, pearl, emeralds, mansions, and is the place to land when wanting to be who you really are. Jesus paid the price for you to be rich in Heaven and on Earth – just say Yes!!! The anointing is to replenish the Earth with God's reality – time to go….

Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Ryan Easterling break down the impact of Illinois football landing a commitment from top-500 prospect Shawn Miller. The guys discuss how Bret Bielema, George McDonald and the rest of the staff have quickly revamped the Illini wide receivers room and what Miller adds to it. Then Ryan weighs in on Illinois landing three-star Gibson City running back Aidan Laughery earlier in the week, and the guys evaluate Bielema's first recruiting class to this point as a whole. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Shari lives on a self-sustaining farm in British Columbia. You can see her tell her story with Paul Vanderklay here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYDJjVbG3mk We talk about a journey into the church fathers and seeing theology through their lenses. We talk about Origen of Alexandria, Athanasius, Gregory of Nyssa, Maximus the Confessor. We also talk about modern day influences like Jordan Peterson, Paul Vanderklay, Herbert McCabe, Fr John Behr, David Bentley Hart, Beau Branson, Bret Salkheld, George McDonald, CS Lewis, and JRR Tolkein. Hope you enjoy.

This is a casual 4-way conversation between friends. None of us are professional theologians but we are all very interested in the topics of Unitarians vs Trinitarianism and Universalism vs Annihilationism vs Eternal Conscious Torment. Jeff has a background in various forms of conservative evangelicalism growing up in Texas. He also is a CS Lewis and George McDonald quote encyclopedia. You can learn more about his story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoAHv6_LG_w Luke has been on the channel before. He grew up in the young, restless, and reformed circles but is now on the path to Eastern Orthodoxy. You can learn more about his story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSiCZLHkZXA Charlie is from Arkansas and grew up Southern Baptist being really involved with his church. He had a period of atheism and is now getting back into religion. He has his one youtube channel which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL-Hga0OoEHlzSJgRNmr7Aw

Lon and Derek give their thoughts on championship weekend in the NFL and they look ahead at the Bucs-Chiefs Super Bowl matchup. Later, the guys hear from Illinois football wide receivers coach George McDonald.

Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner gives thoughts on Bret Bielema's completed first staff and what he thinks of the group on paper, in terms of both coaching and recruiting. Then Jeremy chats with Cory Smith from PackPride.com to discuss former NC State assistants George McDonald and Aaron Henry and discuss what they bring to the Illini staff. Then Jeremy chats with PonyStampede.com's Billy Embody about what SMU defensive coordinator Kevin Kane brings to Bielema's staff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With NC State set to start spring camp in less than two months, the Wolfpack filled yet another scholarship with Derrek Pitts. The Wolfpack also lost an assistant coach in George McDonald to Illinois, his alma mater. Cory Smith and Michael Clark take a look at the latest moves, what comes next for the Pack in the transfer portal, some of the names on the WR Coach hot board and more on the latest podcast!

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The Light Princess is a Scottish Fairytale, about a princess who is so light weighted that she flies. Published in 1864, this book is written by George McDonald. www.chimesradio.com http://onelink.to/8uzr4g https://www.facebook.com/chimesradio/ https://www.instagram.com/vrchimesradio/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/chimesradioSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode #25 - This is the story about Elizabeth " Lizzy" McDonald and George McDonald.  Disclaimer: All information about this episode was obtained from online public sources. This is a show loosely based on a watercolor approach to delivering a true crime story.  We feel empathy for every victim but choose to focus on the crazy details of these crimes while trying to be respectful to those who lost a loved one.  If you are easily offended or prone to "speak to your manager" behavior, you may want to rethink pushing play. If you're awesome like us, subscribe and we will do our best to keep you saying WTF with every show!      

Paul Pastor is an editor and writer, and has published a collection of non-ficiton essays about the Holy Spirit called The Face of the Deep and some books of prayers & meditations called The Listening Day Volume 1 and Volume 2. You can find him on Twitter. Or go to his website and write him a letter! Become a patreon of the podcast at www.patreon.com/dlmayfield and join us for a Narnia Q&A Wednesday night, Dec 16 (6pm pacific / 9pm eastern).  The Highlights: Aslan’s How: a house put together by Dr. Garry Friesan for male students attending Multnomah University (Multnomah Bible College when we went there). Paul mentions the best box set being this one and we agree.  Lewis’ favorite author/theologian was named George McDonald. He was a Victorian era preacher and fantasy writer known for his heretical views.  Phantastes by MacDonald, Lewis said, “baptized his imagination”.  The Silver Chair synopsis. The Silver Chair also includes one of the best characters in Lewis’ canon, Puddleglum Michael Ward wrote a book on the Narnia stories being linked to medieval conceptions of various planets. Check out his website, Planet Narnia.  Why hasn’t The Silver Chair been made into a major motion picture? The Silver Chair corresponds to Luna, or the moon.  The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross is an initiatory moment. Holy Darkness is different and holds richness because they dwell in obscurity or shadow, which is present in Godself. The Scriptures say that God dwells in deep darkness.  

George McDonald, perhaps the first male star of the adult film industry, died yesterday in California. He was 70 years old. We remember him. The post R.I.P. George McDonald (1949-2019) appeared first on The Rialto Report.

In this heavy duty episode we welcome our friends Andrew & George to talk about a good rhythm section and what it does for the songs we listen to.

In this episode, we talk Cultural Apologetics with Carla and Zak. We discuss films such as The Lord of the Rings, the Avengers, and Star Wars. We talk about cultural apologists such as G.K. Chesterton, JRR Tolkien, George McDonald, and CS Lewis. We discuss the power of story, the desire for meaning, the postmodern culture, the screen generation, the intellectual state of the church, and more. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/clark-weidner/support

Meredith Finch, writer of Wonder Woman (DC), Rose (Image Comics) and Xena (Dynamite Entertainment) returns to talk about her upcoming mini-series The Light Princess published through Cave Pictures Publishing. George McDonald wrote the story of The Light Princess in 1864. McDonald was a Scottish minister and today is considered the godfather of fantasy. How does Meredith plan to address the themes of love, sacrifice and redemption found his the story? The art team on the five-part series is Renae DeLiz and Ray Dillon; the same team that illustrated The Legend of Wonder Woman. We talk about the incredible hand lettering using throughout the series How has Meredith’s approach to writing evolved and matures since she produced her first work published through Zenescope?  Why did she decide to write a blog about her Christian faith experience? How is it connected to the comic books that she writes? When I Kick Back with The Creator, Meredith and I take a deeper dive into my fun questions I ask all my guests.   Please take a moment to rate Creator Talks on iTunes: http://apple.co/2Cq9ygK    More about Meredith Finch’s Spiritual Blog: https://finchmeredith1.com/   About The Light Princess: https://previewsworld.com/Catalog/DEC181766   This episode is sponsored The Comic Book Shop, where comics as for everyone http://www.thecomicbookshop.com/  

George McDonald was a star before the adult film industry been created. He joins us to tell his story. The post George McDonald: The First Adult Film Star – Podcast 54 appeared first on The Rialto Report.

“I’ll never be happy. I believe I’ll die alone. I would want it that way. I’ve been a loner all my life with my secrets and my pain. I’m really lost, but I’m trying to find myself. I just want to escape. I’m really embarrassed with myself and my life...

George McDonald, a Scottish minister in the late 1800’s, said this about our name. “Who can give a man this, his own name?” - George MacDonald

Weiter geht es mit dem Märchen 'Die Lichtprinzessin' von George McDonald (1824-1905). Viel Vergnügen beim zuhören! Kontakt: christina.albert@gmx.de Website: www.chrissyart.de