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Live, gavel-to-gavel coverage of the U.S. Senate floor. It began 39 years ago -- June 2nd, 1986 – Day One of C-SPAN2. Here's one of the first things heard that first day of Senate TV: "Today begins the video history book. No longer will the great debates in this Chamber be lost forever. What a thrill it would be to watch Henry Clay, John Calhoun, or Daniel Webster in action. Of course, there were no cameras or tape recorders rolling when those congressional giants spoke. But sadly, the sights and sounds of great debates featuring such legends as Everett Dirksen, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, and Howard Baker, men who lived during the age of radio and television, were also lost forever. Now, future generations can have the opportunity to watch history in the making, thanks to videotape. So there are a number of good things about to happen." That was Republican Majority Leader Bob Dole. In a few days: the 39th anniversary of live, gavel-to-gavel television coverage of the U.S. Senate floor... Bob Dole listed several lions of the Senate ... In this week's episode of C-SPAN's podcast "The Weekly" — we hear from other lions of the Senate — lions of the Senate press corps ... three top Senate observers pick their favorite moments from 39 years of the Senate on TV. Our three special guests: • Carl Hulse of the New York Times • Paul Kane of the Washington Post • Chad Pergram of Fox News Which favorite moments did they pick – and why? And what big moments from Senate history before there was TV do they wish they could have witnessed? Find out in "The Weekly." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jon said that when he first discovered the design operations community at the 2019 Design Ops Summit in Brooklyn, it felt like coming home. Here was this entire tribe of people who cared about the same things he'd been passionate about for years—creating systems that help designers do their best work. In this episode, I'm talking with Jon Fukuda, co-founder of Limina.co, about how design operations has evolved from an unnamed set of practices into a vital discipline that drives organizational excellence. As organizations continue to face economic pressures, the conversation around design operations has become more critical than ever. How do we demonstrate the strategic value of design teams? How can operational excellence serve not just designers but business outcomes? Jon shares insights from his 20+ year journey—from early days defining UX practice models to his current role as a design ops leader and community builder. This conversation reveals how the best design operations leaders think beyond tooling and process to focus on team health, cross-functional partnerships, and systems that elevate both human-centered practices and business innovation. Whether you're considering a move into design ops or looking to strengthen your design leadership approach, Jon's practical wisdom offers a roadmap for driving operational excellence in complex organizations. Questions you'll be able to answer after listening: How might we structure the first 30-60-90 days in a new design operations role for maximum impact? What key misconceptions about design operations could undermine your effectiveness as a leader? When should design ops be positioned under product teams versus operating as a horizontal function? Why do organizations often view design teams as expendable during economic downturns, and how can we change that perception? How can design operations leaders demonstrate their impact on both team health and business outcomes? About Jon Fukuda Jon Fukuda is co-founder of Limina.co with over 20 years of experience as a user experience specialist. With expertise in UX strategy, design thinking, and UI design, Jon has led teams through human-centered requirements gathering, strategy development, interaction design, testing, and evaluation. His career journey started in the late 1990s when "user experience" was just being defined, giving him a unique perspective on how design practices have evolved. Most recently, Jon has dedicated his efforts to research and design operations facilitation for scalable, sustainable human-centered systems. His passion for operational excellence makes him a respected voice in the design ops community. Episode Highlights [01:30] Jon's journey began when "user experience" was just being defined [02:10] Early exposure to coordinating UX work alongside business analysts and technologists [03:40] "I always approached with a continuous improvement mindset - learn from mistakes, get better" [04:50] The shift from individual excellence to system-level operational thinking [06:40] Jon's team started defining specialized roles: information architects, interaction designers, visual designers [08:40] On discovering the term design ops, "This is the work I've been doing for years - I just didn't have a word for it" — Jon [10:00] The North Pacific Gyre metaphor: design ops managers pick up tasks no one else claims [11:10] The community focuses on team health and infrastructure that supports practitioners [12:20] Design ops handles everything from licensing software to managing team dynamics [14:40] Different maturity levels: from surface-level design to strategic human-centered integration [16:10] How design ops prevents team burnout and toxic workplace dynamics [18:30] First steps for new design ops leaders: conduct a listening tour with your design team [19:40] "Design operations is a servant leader role - you make sure people feel taken care of" — Jon [21:30] Expand your listening tour to horizontal and vertical stakeholders to identify friction points [22:40] The necessity of executive sponsorship when conducting large-scale assessments [24:30] Building a shared vision of success that aligns stakeholders around design operations [26:40] Design ops spans program management, infrastructure, HR partnerships, and career development [27:00] Common misconception: reducing design ops to just design systems or program management [29:40] Challenges of positioning design operations within product-led organizational hierarchies [31:00] Why siloing design teams under product lines limits cross-organizational learning [32:00] The Design Ops Assembly Slack community as a primary resource for practitioners [34:40] Recommended resources: Nielsen Norman article and the Design Conductors book [36:10] Design Ops Assembly Learning Labs offer stratified professional development programs [38:40] Economic challenges lead organizations to view designers as expendable despite their value [41:40] "The future requires better integration - both process and tooling" — Jon [42:10] Need for better connections between design tools and broader business systems   Questions to Help You Go Deeper Learning What surprised you most about the spectrum of activities that fall under design operations, and why? How does the concept of operational excellence in design challenge or enhance your current understanding of design leadership? Which aspects of the listening tour methodology seem most valuable for your context? Leading How might you help your team understand the connection between operational excellence and strategic business outcomes? Where in your organization would improved design operations create the most immediate value? What would success look like if you implemented a structured listening tour with your horizontal and vertical stakeholders? Applying What's one small experiment you could run next week to improve an operational aspect of your design practice? Which current friction points in your team's workflow could be addressed using design operations principles? How could you adapt the first 30-60-90 days framework to fit your specific organizational context?   Practicing How will you build stakeholder relationship management into your regular practice? What support or resources do you need to implement better integration between your design tools and broader organizational systems? Who could you partner with to practice articulating the business value of your design operations initiatives? Resources Nielsen Norman Group Design Ops 101 - An excellent primer that defines design operations as "the orchestration and optimization of people, processes, and craft in order to amplify design's value and impact at scale." The Design Conductors - A new comprehensive book by Rachel Posman and John Calhoun from Salesforce, providing guidance on building DesignOps programs. Patrizia Bertini's Website - Jon recommends her perspective on design ops and business value, with various articles on DesignOps strategy and measuring impact. Events Rosenfeld Media's Design Ops Summit - The premier annual conference for design operations professionals. Henry Stewart's Creative Operations + Design Operations Events - These events take place in New York, London, Los Angeles and other cities, often featuring co-located Design Operations Symposiums. Deepen Your Learning Operations + Human Centered Design + Art with Alvin Schexnider — DT101 E116 - Explores the intersection between operations, human-centered design practices, and artistic approaches to problem-solving, providing additional context for operational excellence in design organizations. Creating a UX Career with Sarah Doody — DT101 E77 - Offers insights into career development for UX professionals that complements the discussion on design operations leadership and team development. Ask Like a Designer — DT101 E61 - Introduces the six designer voices (Builder, Scout, Tinker, Facilitator, Traveler, and Pro) that can help design operations leaders develop a more comprehensive approach to supporting their teams and driving excellence.

Jon said that when he first discovered the design operations community at the 2019 Design Ops Summit in Brooklyn, it felt like coming home. Here was this entire tribe of people who cared about the same things he'd been passionate about for years—creating systems that help designers do their best work. In this episode, I'm talking with Jon Fukuda, co-founder of Limina.co, about how design operations has evolved from an unnamed set of practices into a vital discipline that drives organizational excellence. As organizations continue to face economic pressures, the conversation around design operations has become more critical than ever. How do we demonstrate the strategic value of design teams? How can operational excellence serve not just designers but business outcomes? Jon shares insights from his 20+ year journey—from early days defining UX practice models to his current role as a design ops leader and community builder. This conversation reveals how the best design operations leaders think beyond tooling and process to focus on team health, cross-functional partnerships, and systems that elevate both human-centered practices and business innovation. Whether you're considering a move into design ops or looking to strengthen your design leadership approach, Jon's practical wisdom offers a roadmap for driving operational excellence in complex organizations. Questions you'll be able to answer after listening: How might we structure the first 30-60-90 days in a new design operations role for maximum impact? What key misconceptions about design operations could undermine your effectiveness as a leader? When should design ops be positioned under product teams versus operating as a horizontal function? Why do organizations often view design teams as expendable during economic downturns, and how can we change that perception? How can design operations leaders demonstrate their impact on both team health and business outcomes? About Jon Fukuda Jon Fukuda is co-founder of Limina.co with over 20 years of experience as a user experience specialist. With expertise in UX strategy, design thinking, and UI design, Jon has led teams through human-centered requirements gathering, strategy development, interaction design, testing, and evaluation. His career journey started in the late 1990s when "user experience" was just being defined, giving him a unique perspective on how design practices have evolved. Most recently, Jon has dedicated his efforts to research and design operations facilitation for scalable, sustainable human-centered systems. His passion for operational excellence makes him a respected voice in the design ops community. Episode Highlights [01:30] Jon's journey began when "user experience" was just being defined [02:10] Early exposure to coordinating UX work alongside business analysts and technologists [03:40] "I always approached with a continuous improvement mindset - learn from mistakes, get better" [04:50] The shift from individual excellence to system-level operational thinking [06:40] Jon's team started defining specialized roles: information architects, interaction designers, visual designers [08:40] On discovering the term design ops, "This is the work I've been doing for years - I just didn't have a word for it" — Jon [10:00] The North Pacific Gyre metaphor: design ops managers pick up tasks no one else claims [11:10] The community focuses on team health and infrastructure that supports practitioners [12:20] Design ops handles everything from licensing software to managing team dynamics [14:40] Different maturity levels: from surface-level design to strategic human-centered integration [16:10] How design ops prevents team burnout and toxic workplace dynamics [18:30] First steps for new design ops leaders: conduct a listening tour with your design team [19:40] "Design operations is a servant leader role - you make sure people feel taken care of" — Jon [21:30] Expand your listening tour to horizontal and vertical stakeholders to identify friction points [22:40] The necessity of executive sponsorship when conducting large-scale assessments [24:30] Building a shared vision of success that aligns stakeholders around design operations [26:40] Design ops spans program management, infrastructure, HR partnerships, and career development [27:00] Common misconception: reducing design ops to just design systems or program management [29:40] Challenges of positioning design operations within product-led organizational hierarchies [31:00] Why siloing design teams under product lines limits cross-organizational learning [32:00] The Design Ops Assembly Slack community as a primary resource for practitioners [34:40] Recommended resources: Nielsen Norman article and the Design Conductors book [36:10] Design Ops Assembly Learning Labs offer stratified professional development programs [38:40] Economic challenges lead organizations to view designers as expendable despite their value [41:40] "The future requires better integration - both process and tooling" — Jon [42:10] Need for better connections between design tools and broader business systems   Questions to Help You Go Deeper Learning What surprised you most about the spectrum of activities that fall under design operations, and why? How does the concept of operational excellence in design challenge or enhance your current understanding of design leadership? Which aspects of the listening tour methodology seem most valuable for your context? Leading How might you help your team understand the connection between operational excellence and strategic business outcomes? Where in your organization would improved design operations create the most immediate value? What would success look like if you implemented a structured listening tour with your horizontal and vertical stakeholders? Applying What's one small experiment you could run next week to improve an operational aspect of your design practice? Which current friction points in your team's workflow could be addressed using design operations principles? How could you adapt the first 30-60-90 days framework to fit your specific organizational context?   Practicing How will you build stakeholder relationship management into your regular practice? What support or resources do you need to implement better integration between your design tools and broader organizational systems? Who could you partner with to practice articulating the business value of your design operations initiatives? Resources Nielsen Norman Group Design Ops 101 - An excellent primer that defines design operations as "the orchestration and optimization of people, processes, and craft in order to amplify design's value and impact at scale." The Design Conductors - A new comprehensive book by Rachel Posman and John Calhoun from Salesforce, providing guidance on building DesignOps programs. Patrizia Bertini's Website - Jon recommends her perspective on design ops and business value, with various articles on DesignOps strategy and measuring impact. Events Rosenfeld Media's Design Ops Summit - The premier annual conference for design operations professionals. Henry Stewart's Creative Operations + Design Operations Events - These events take place in New York, London, Los Angeles and other cities, often featuring co-located Design Operations Symposiums. Deepen Your Learning Operations + Human Centered Design + Art with Alvin Schexnider — DT101 E116 - Explores the intersection between operations, human-centered design practices, and artistic approaches to problem-solving, providing additional context for operational excellence in design organizations. Creating a UX Career with Sarah Doody — DT101 E77 - Offers insights into career development for UX professionals that complements the discussion on design operations leadership and team development. Ask Like a Designer — DT101 E61 - Introduces the six designer voices (Builder, Scout, Tinker, Facilitator, Traveler, and Pro) that can help design operations leaders develop a more comprehensive approach to supporting their teams and driving excellence.

This week we're joined by special guest Patrick Ballesteros as we deep dive into how gatekeeping can be an effective tool against instant gratification, how John Calhoun's landmark rodent utopia over-population experiment led to societal collapse, and how corvid behavior effects our everyday lives. A listener email tells us how Richard Nixon once longed to be the Kendrick Lamar of his day.Journey Through the Maze: 45 Years of PAC-MAN Opening Reception Info:https://cityofirvine.org/news-media/calendar-of-events/event/journey-through-maze-45-years-pac-man-opening-reception-artEpisode Tabs:The Case for Gatekeeping (Yes, Even in a Culture That Tells You to Share Everything)https://www.cyndiespiegel.com/blog/the-case-for-gatekeepingMouse Heaven or Mouse Hell?https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/mouse-heaven-or-mouse-hell/FAQs about Crowshttps://corvidresearch.blog/faqs-about-crows/Listener Tabs:When Richard Nixon Wanted to be a Rapper https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/89019/when-richard-nixon-wanted-be-rapperRandy Johnson Photographyhttps://rj51photos.comEmail your closed tab submissions to: 500opentabs@gmail.comSupport us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/500OpenTabs500 Open Roads (Google Maps episode guide): https://maps.app.goo.gl/Tg9g2HcUaFAzXGbw7Continue the conversation by joining us on Discord! https://discord.gg/8px5RJHk7aSUPPORT THE SHOW and get 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula by going to nebula.tv/500opentabsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Fabiana buon mercoledì e che bello incontrarci per questa volta alle 21 e non alle 17, vogliamo il brio di poter dire che per una volta POV te lo sorbisci in prima serata. Che poi parliamone, ti sei accorta che quella che tu chiavami "prima serata" non è più alle 21 ma alle 21:30/21:40? Follia più totale, che poi parliamo noi che siamo i top 15 Roma di chi non usa la televisione, ma questo perché semplicemente amiamo lamentarci. Comunque, per questo nuovissimo "AMO, CHE SUZZ?" a cominciare è Lele che tra poco si fa la cacca nei pantaloni Fabiana perché sta preparando questo argomento da giorni, ma alla fine è bello vedere giovani ragazze dalla psiche fragile emozionarsi per delle ricerche online. Siamo? Queste. L'argomento di Lele di oggi è "La fogna del comportamento", un termine coniato da John Calhoun, un etologo che attraverso i suoi studi, il più famoso chiamato "Universo25", ha analizzato il rapporto tra la densità della popolazione e l'insorgere di comportamenti anomali nei soggetti interessati e che portavano al crollo definitivo di un sistema "che muore due volte". Sandro invece ci riporta il sorriso, perché un po' pesantone Lele con questa news però in un frangente dovrebbe parlare di uccelli quindi daje, parlando della "ilomilo theory", secondo la quale Billie Eilish gioca a fare la Sagittario (prendendo esempio dalla queen Taylor Swift), disseminando tracce di un album che potrebbe uscire il 16 maggio di quest'anno, ricongiungendosi con un balletto felice alla sua controparte "Hit me hard and soft". Non hai capito la cosa del balletto felice? Trovi tutte le spiegazioni in puntata, ti aspettiamo dopo il play Fabiana, parliamo pure un attimo del Met Gala. (SHOUTOUT) Link video sull'Universo25 dal canale "Vanilla" di cui parlava Lele in puntata: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JvPtICkdUk&t=357s Video YouTube di ilomilo (il gioco di cui parlava Sandro): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpXWyWj2p04 Email dove inviarci le storie da leggere la domenica: amochatpov@gmail.com

What is the secret to consistently delivering high-quality work, day in and day out...Recently, I was chatting with my neighbours who run a bespoke interior design and manufacturing business.They make truly stunning, customised pieces for the upper market.It's easy to think their success hinges on exceptional craftsmanship, which is surely part of it.But what really keeps their business running smoothly is something far more fundamental.In my conversation with them, we agreed that most of it comes down to things like having the right supplies available, making sure everything in its place so it can be found quickly, that tools in tip-top shape, and even something as simple as having lunch prepared so you don't have to worry about it.These basic and somewhat "boring" conditions, are what enable them to deliver consistently high-quality work. Without them, production would be a slog, quality would be all over the map, and let's face it, they probably wouldn't be in business for very long.We often take these kinds of conditions for granted. When things are running like a well-oiled machine, we assume that's just how it's supposed to be.But you, as a service design professional, know that the conditions for delivering your best work are often far from guaranteed.In fact, it can often feel like your organization is actively making your job harder, not easier.This brings us to the question: What would it take to create the ideal conditions for service design to achieve its maximum impact? And how can we actually put those conditions in place?Well, as you might have guessed already, that's where Design Operations (aka DesignOps) comes in.Getting started with DesignOps (or scaling it) can be a real challenge, especially in organizations that don't have a strong design heritage.But the good news is that John Calhoun and Rachel Posman have done the heavy lifting for us. They've gathered best practices from experienced DesignOps professionals and compiled them into a brand-new book "The Design Conductors".This book promises to help you kickstart or scale your DesignOps efforts more effectively, make a bigger impact, and sidestep common pitfalls. The result? Making your life as a service design professional a whole lot easier!So, with this foresight, we of course need to know more about this book.And you guessed it, that's exactly what this episode is all about.Here's already one key insight from the conversation: Every organization is already doing design operations. Most are just doing it unconsciously and missing out on the benefits. Yeah, there's a lot of low-hanging fruit waiting to be picked...--- [ 1. GUIDE ] --- 00:00 Welcome to Episode 22604:00 Book Title Revealed05:00 Defining DesignOps06:30 Starting the DesignOps Journey08:30 Realizing it's DesignOps10:30 Inside Design Operations13:00 DesignOps IS Design16:00 Honing the Craft (Iteration)21:30 Ideal Book Audience & Origins26:00 Book Feedback28:00 Why Write the Book Now?31:45 Book Structure Evolution40:00 Favorite Writing Part42:30 Deciding Book Content45:30 Defining Success & Measurement50:30 Knowing You're on Track53:00 Current State of DesignOps56:00 AI as a Roadblock57:30 AI as an Opportunity59:30 Questions While Writing1:02:30 What Was Left Out1:04:30 A Question to Ponder1:06:30 Get the Book1:07:30 Discount & Giveaway --- [ 2. LINKS ] --- https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncalhoun/https://www.thedesignconductors.com/ [ Discount Code ]Use "ServiceDesign15" to get 15% off the book. Valid till May 31, 2025. Redeemable at https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/design-operations/[ Signed Copy Contest ]Leave a comment on this episode (via YouTube or Spotify) to enroll in the contest. We will pick a random entry on May 8th, 2025. Please respond within 24 hours if you have won to claim your prize. --- [ 3. CIRCLE ] --- Join our private community for in-house service design professionals. ⁠https://servicedesignshow.com/circle

Some say that Martin Van Buren was one of themost remarkable politicians—not only of his time, but in American presidential history. Co-editor of the Martin Van Buren Papers, James M. Bradley writes this new biography of the 8th president of the United States . Van Buren was the first chief executive not born a British citizen, and the first to use the party system to chart his way from tavern-keeper's son to the pinnacle of power. Additionally, he was the principal architect of the party system and one of the founders of the Democratic Party, he came to dominate New York-then the most influential state in the Union-and was instrumental in electing Andrew Jackson president. Van Buren's skills as a political strategist were unparalleled—and was coined the "Little Magician"—winning him a series of high-profile offices: US senator, New York's governor, US secretary of state, US vice president, and finally theWhite House. In his rise to power, Van Buren sought consensus and conciliation, bending to the wishes of slave interests and complicit in the dispossession of America's Indigenous population, two of the darkest chapters in American history. This first full-scale portrait charts Van Buren's ascent from a tavern in the Hudson Valley to the presidency, concluding with his late-career involvement in an antislavery movement. Offering vivid profiles of the day's leading figures including Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John Calhoun, John Quincy Adams, DeWitt Clinton, and James Polk, Bradley's book depicts the struggle for power in the tumultuous decadesleading up to the Civil War.About the AuthorJames M. Bradley is co-editor of the Martin Van Buren Papers, based at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. He is an Adjunct Instructor in the public history program at State University of New York at Albany and was the Senior Project Editor of Encyclopedia of New York City,published by Yale University Press.          For more info on the book click HERE

In the latest podcast episode (#120), we explore how replacing static web forms with an interactive bot Contact Us form can transform consumer engagement and streamline contact center operations. My colleague, @john Calhoun, Consumer Services Manager, at @McKee Foods Corp is here to help me with this topic.

Toen Amerika in 2017 herdacht dat zijn zevende president, Andrew Jackson, 250 jaar geleden geboren was, verscheen de grootste fan zélf aan zijn graf. Donald Trump noemde deze herdenking het ware begin van de viering van 250 jaar Verenigde Staten. Jackson was en is voor hem Amerika en de Amerikaan. Wie was dit rolmodel? Wat vertelt hij ons over Trump zelf, diens visie op Amerika en over zijn tweede termijn? ***Deze aflevering is mede mogelijk gemaakt met donaties van luisteraars die we hiervoor hartelijk danken. Word ook vriend van de show!Heb je belangstelling om in onze podcast te adverteren of ons te sponsoren? Zend een mailtje naar adverteren@dagennacht.nl en wij zoeken contact.Op sommige podcast-apps kun je niet alles lezen. De complete tekst plus linkjes en een overzicht van al onze eerdere afleveringen vind je hier***Andrew Jackson leefde lang – van 1767 tot 1845 - een generatiegenoot van velen die hun stempel op onze beschaving zetten, zoals Napoleon, de Humboldt-broers en Goethe. Hij leefde van Koning George III tot Queen Victoria, van Prins Willem V tot Thorbecke. Fascinerende jaren van revolutie, doorbraken in wetenschap en technologie en culturele omwentelingen. Jackson was echt een kind van zijn tijd. Als tiener was-ie al een rebel. Als militair werd hij een nationale held die op één lijn gesteld werd met George Washington. Hij was een vastgoedondernemer en slavenhandelaar, een arme boerenjongen die een vermogend landheer werd. Jackson was vanaf dag één politiek een polarisator pur sang. Hij kon vreselijk haten en sprak en schreef daar ongeremd en fel over. Hij was een wildebras en ‘n drammer en daarmee ook vernieuwer van de politieke cultuur. Met hem geen nobele, verlichte aristocraten van de geest in het Witte Huis. Hij begon de eerste politieke partij als machtsmachine om verkiezingen te domineren. Alexis de Tocqueville bezocht hem als jeugdig Frans edelman en zei: "De lage toon van de Amerikaanse politieke cultuur begint helemaal aan de top daarvan." Andrew Jackson deed als president tussen 1829 en 1837 van alles waar nu de kranten ook mee vol staan. Slaande ruzie kreeg hij met zijn vicepresident, John Calhoun. Hij schoffeerde het Congres zozeer, dat ze overwogen hem te impeachen. Hij wilde Texas kopen van buurland Mexico - goedschiks of kwaadschiks. Hij wilde het federale financiële stelsel ontmantelen en heeft daarmee twee eeuwen later nog diepgaande invloed op zijn land. Tocqueville was gefascineerd door Jackson, door diens verachting voor anderen in de politiek, z'n tomeloze ambitie, hoe hij alles over had voor zijn herverkiezing en hoe de media en alle debatten op straat en in cafés alleen maar over hem gingen. "Het doel van alle politieke manoeuvres, het onderwerp van elke gedachtenwisseling." Donald Trump geniet er dan ook van de vele controverses en haat van Jackson te releveren en dan te zeggen: "Jeeez, where did you hear this before?" Jacksons erfenis is zeer omstreden. Zelfs Trump noemt hem ‘an imperfect man'. Als generaal en gouverneur was hij verantwoordelijk voor volkerenmoord onder de inheemse Amerikanen. Zijn beleid leidde ertoe dat na zijn twee termijnen de zuidelijke slavenstaten de nationale politiek domineerden die uitliep op de ongekend bloedige burgeroorlog.Onder Donald Trump is het populisme en de daarbij horende polarisatie weer helemaal terug. Andrew Jackson was in veel opzichten het origineel. De eerste populist in het Witte Huis. De eerste militaire geweldenaar die als nationaal figuur president werd. Het eerste onpolitieke icoon dat politiek triomfeerde. En hij was de eerste, moderne 'Democrat' als president, geen partijgenoot dus van Trump! Op aanraden van Steve Bannon liet Trump bij de start van zijn eerste termijn een groot schilderij van Jackson neerhangen in het Oval Office. Als rolmodel zonder meer een briljante vondst.***Verder lezenJohn Meacham - American Lion, Andrew Jackson in The White House***Verder kijkenAndrew Jackson - Good Evil & The Presidency - PBS Documentary***Verder luisteren473 - 2025 wordt opnieuw een historisch jaar oa over John Quincy Adams464 – De Amerikaanse verkiezingen van 2024 zijn geen aardverschuiving459 – Rolmodel George Washington405 - De Amerikaanse democratie in gevaar: het gevecht tussen Biden en Trump397 - Benjamin Franklin, Zijner Majesteits meest loyale rebel360 - 4th of July: Mar-a-Lago, de plek waar het al 100 jaar gebeurt289 - Donald Trump als gevaar voor de democratie - Joe Biden en zijn strijd voor de ziel van Amerika221 - Madam Speaker: de spijkerharde charme van Nancy Pelosi206 - 'Aardverschuiving': Michael Wolff over Donald Trumps laatste dagen als president. En: zijn bezoek aan Mar-a-Lago185 - De Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog (1): Black Lives Matter en George Floyd, hoe de burgeroorlog op de VS nog altijd zijn stempel drukt57 - Alexis de Tocqueville wilde Amerika begrijpen44 - Amerika Special: Michael Wolff over Donald J. Trump ** PG over Franklin D. Roosevelt***Tijdlijn00:00:00 – Deel 100:31:54 – Deel 201:10:03 – Deel 301:33:20 – Einde Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

John Calhoun designed an apartment complex for mice to examine the effects of overcrowding. It was hailed as a groundbreaking study of social breakdown, but is largely forgotten. So what happened? By Lee Alan Dugatkin. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

Per anni, l'etologo John Calhoun studiò ossessivamente una colonia di topi, per la quale aveva costruito un vero e proprio paradiso con risorse illimitate. Nonostante questo, però, la società dei ratti collassò. Calhoun ripetè l'esperimento 25 volte, e per 25 volte ottenne lo stesso identico risultato: la colonia si autodistruggeva dopo circa 600 giorni. Chiamò il suo esperimento “Universo 25” e lanciò un monito: quello che succedeva ai topi, poteva succedere all'intera umanità. Ma nessuno gli credette. Eppure, oggi non possiamo non dargli ragione. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do music and DesignOps have in common? So much that Rachel Posman and John Calhoun use music as a framework for their new book, The Design Conductors: Your Essential Guide to Design Operations—the first book written about the subject. Both of the authors come from creative backgrounds (John as a musician, Rachel as a ballet dancer), and they describe how their personal experiences influenced their approach to the book and their work. The music analogies are plenty. One example is the importance of orchestration in design operations, equating it to coordinating a team to work harmoniously, much like a conductor leading an orchestra. Rachel and John explain that design operations is a creative process, blending design and management, and that those creative aspects are often underestimated. They highlight the maturing nature of design operations as a discipline, noting that the book fills a gap in resources for both newcomers and experienced professionals. The book is structured in two acts (another musical metaphor): the fundamentals of DesignOps, and the practical, tactical methods for building and scaling teams. Rachel and John also discuss some common challenges in DesignOps, like making the invisible work visible and advocating for the value of the discipline. They stress the importance of "working loudly" to ensure that the contributions of design ops teams are recognized so that teams are properly resourced. What You'll Learn from this Episode: - Why Rachel and John chose a musical metaphor to use in their book - Why Rachel and John decided to write the first book on Design Ops - How the book is formatted and why there is something for everyone - Why Rachel encourages her team to “work louder” Quick Reference Guide: 0:24 - Introduction of Rachel and John 2:45 - Brining a music metaphor to design ops and highlighting the creativity within operations 6:53 - The design materials of operations 7:42 - Communication 9:40 - Building the plane while flying 11:06 - What the book covers and who it's for 14:22 - 5 reasons you need the Rosenverse 17:14 - The journey readers can expect to take 21:07 - The big errors and challenges in design ops 23:34 - Ideas for working loud and being visible 27:06 - Gifts for listeners

We're not just talking about losers anymore! This episode, join amateur historian Thom Woodley on a tour through the vice presidents of history - those mediocre, second-rate men who were a heartbeat away from the presidency. Those who never served as Commander in Chief (or who were nominated as candidate of one of the major parties) gets discussed today - and rated! (Please forgive the audio quality on this one - I was without my pop filter and you can hear every single 'p' nice and close!) I discuss in this episode: George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry, Daniel Tompkins, John Calhoun, Richard Mentor Johnson, George Dallas, William Rufus Devane King, Hannibal Hamlin, Schuyler Colfax, Henry Welson, William Wheeler, Thomas Hendricks, Levi Morton, Adlai Stevenson I, Garrett Hobart, Charles Fairbanks, James Sherman, Thomas Marshall, Charles Dawes, Charles Curtis, John Nance Garner, Alben Barkley, Spiro Agnew, Dan Quayle, Dick Cheney and Mike Pence! (And special mention goes to some interesting THIRD-place runner ups, like David Rice Atchison, John Hay, Samuel Southard and more)... (Tertiary special mention goes to some interesting loser veep candidates - like Sarah Palin, Thomas Eagleton and Curtis Lemay, among some dubious others...)

Miniserien om kriget 1812 fortsätter. Det kommer att handla om krigshökar, 12:e kongressen, talmannen Henry Clay, upprustning, John Calhoun, fågelskrämmafraktionen, Madisons krigsuppmaning, kongressens splittrade krigsförklaring, försenade brittiska eftergifter, bluffar och krigsmål. Bild: Krigshöken och talmannen Henry Clay som bidrog till att skicka landet i krig 1812. Källa: WikipediaPrenumerera: Glöm inte att prenumerera på podcasten! Betyg: Ge gärna podden betyg på iTunes!Följ podden: Facebook (facebook.com/stjarnbaneret), twitter (@stjarnbaneret), Instagram (@stjarnbaneret)Kontakt: stjarnbaneret@gmail.comLitteratur:- Empire of Liberty, Gordon Wood- 1812 The war that forged a nation, Walter Borneman- The war of 1812: Conflict for a continent, J.C.A Stagg- The war of 1812: A forgotten conflict, Donald Hickey- Unshackling America: How the war of 1812 truly ended the American revolution, Willard Randall Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the second episode in our new series on the Ideas Behind American Elections, David and Gary discuss 1828: the first great populist election, which saw the arrival of Andrew Jackson and a new style of politics in the White House. What made Jackson different from his predecessors? How did this election reinvent the American party system? And why were Jackson's arguments with Vice-President John Calhoun about economic tariffs so toxic that they brought the country close to civil war?To sign up for our free fortnightly newsletter to accompany this and future series, just click on the top link in our Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/ppfideasComing up next: the Election of 1860 and Abraham Lincoln Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wilma Minor's 'Lincoln the Lover' forgery has been called one of the most audacious literary hoaxes of all time, and involves an alleged love story between a young Abraham Lincoln and a woman named Ann Rutledge. There was never any conclusive evidence the two had a romantic relationship; there was nothing in the historical record – no letters or notes between them, for instance -- that showed any indication of their love. Until 1928.  Executive Producers: Maria Trimarchi and Holly FreyProducer & Editor: Casby BiasSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dawn Walton, a human therapist, and Jess Probst, a dog behaviourist talk about empathy and what it really means. Of course we then discuss how that applies to dogs! There was an altercation in Starbucks the other day and we discuss the different ways we both interpreted the event. Jess talks about John Calhoun's NIMH experiment where rats where given free and easy access to all necessary resources to study the impact on longevity. You can watch a video about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CXj0AGuh4c Finally we look at the difference between working on symptoms (the branches of a tree) and root cause (the roots of the tree) (please note these episodes are recorded chats in Starbucks so may have more background noise than a usual podcast) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wereallscrewedup/message

Undeva pe la finalul anilor '40 ai secolului trecut, un etolog american pe nume John Calhoun a început o serie de experimente pe răzătoare, care de atunci și până în prezent au ridicat numeroase controverse, mai ales în ce privește aplicabilitatea lor la oameni și nu în ultimul rând, au deschis cutia pandorei în ceea ce privește ipotezele privind viitorul speciei umane.  Ascultă primul episod din sezonul 2 al podcasturilor Istorii Bizare pentru mai multe detalii despre cum a decurs experimentul Universul 25 și implicațiile sale asupra viitorului omenirii.  Story: Adrian Nicolae | Sound design: Adi Iacob Muzică: Epidemic Sound 

There can be no doubt now that the mainstream media and radical ideological zealots are recreating both the pre and post-Civil-War era political climate. From the declaration that Florida is a terrorist state for not teaching CRT to segregated classrooms, graduations, and now even dictionaries, we are watching Jim Crow, Black Codes, and the like take a newly resurrected form. John C. Calhoun was famous for his argument that race-based systems were ‘instead of an evil', a ‘positive good', benefiting all races. This is precisely what ‘woke' has done in the name of inclusivity, equity, and equality today; separate everything protects dark-skinned folks from light-skinned folks, rather than the other way around. The ghost of John Calhoun walks freely in the media and major universities, preaching hatred and racism in the name of love and diversity.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5328407/advertisement

Hayley recaps a trial that attempted to convict a science teacher for teaching science- no, really. John Thomas Scopes was prosecuted by the state of Tennessee for teaching that humans evolved from “monkeys,” and not even American monkeys! Then, Kat explains how scientist John Calhoun attempted to answer the unknowns of human overpopulation using mice. Spoiler alert: societal structures crumble and the mice succumb to degeneracy. Maybe humans would do things differently? https://linktr.ee/nightclassy Scopes Monkey Trial Sources: https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/scopes-trial https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/monkey-trial-begins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_trial https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-history-scopes-monkey-trial https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/leopold-and-loeb-gain-national-attention Universe 25 sources:  https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/mouse-heaven-or-mouse-hell#:~:text=Calhoun's%20most%20famous%20utopia%2C%20number,doubled%20every%2055%20days%20afterward. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Calhoun https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-mouse-utopias-1960s-led-grim-predictions-humans-180954423/ https://www.the-scientist.com/foundations/universe-25-1968-1973-69941 Produced by Parasaur Studios © 2023

Will McGugan's Trogon auto-generates friendly TUIs for your CLI apps, Stability AI's official open source variant of DreamStudio, John Calhoun writes about life after 26 years programming at Apple, Google's news TLDs could be a boon to scammers & Pablo Meier documents a way to discuss programming languages.

Will McGugan's Trogon auto-generates friendly TUIs for your CLI apps, Stability AI's official open source variant of DreamStudio, John Calhoun writes about life after 26 years programming at Apple, Google's news TLDs could be a boon to scammers & Pablo Meier documents a way to discuss programming languages.

Will McGugan's Trogon auto-generates friendly TUIs for your CLI apps, Stability AI's official open source variant of DreamStudio, John Calhoun writes about life after 26 years programming at Apple, Google's news TLDs could be a boon to scammers & Pablo Meier documents a way to discuss programming languages.

Today we have Inez Stepman, a thinker I discovered recently and am incredibly impressed by. Her gender analysis is rooted in Red Pill theory—she admittedly came up reading Chateau Heartiste—and she's the first woman I've ever heard bring up the concept of hypergamy.She joins Peachy Keenan and Aimee Therese on the Mount Rushmore of Female Dissident Right (FDR), although I'm not sure she would agree with this characterization. She's got a JD from UVA and now works for the Independent Women's Forum, a right-leaning think tank which recently filed an amicus brief arguing against the U.S. Women's Soccer absurd pay discrimination lawsuit.Stepman can cover an immense amount of ground very quickly. Our convo covers Biden's recent pro-ESG veto, Lochner v. New York's impact on feminism, John Calhoun's Beautiful Ones experiment, and how school choice can serve as a patronage system for the contemporary right. Inez on TwitterHer podcast High NoonThe Carousel is a reader-supported publication. Get full access to The Carousel at thecarousel.substack.com/subscribe

Eric Lager is an academic and entrepreneur who lives and teaches in South Carolina. A native of Illinois, Professor Lager obtained his Ph.D in antebellum American History from the University of Tennessee. He currently lectures at The Citadel–that famous Charleston military academy from which so many valiant rebels took their degrees! When outside the classroom, Professor Lager spends his time, well, outside! He is the founder and operator of a burgeoning little business, “Charleston History Walk, LLC”, to which you can find a link below. Combining a professional academic's subject mastery, and a Chicagoan-turned-South Carolinian's natural affability, Professor Lager offers a unique walking tour through one of America's most important and beautiful cities. From this episode, you'll learn…Why, of all places, hostilities broke out at Fort Sumter; Who shot first: The North or the South?; The forgotten “Star of the West”; The lead-up to the Civil War; The “Lame Duck” presidency of James Buchanan; Whether or not Buchanan did enough to prevent war in the winter of 1861; The political battles in which America was engulfed during the first half of the 19th century: The Missouri Compromise, the Kansas Nebraska Act, Dred Scott, etc.; A brief history of South Carolina; Why South Carolina is so historically naughty!; Nullification and secession; John Calhoun, Preston Brooks, and much more! Professor Lager's “Charleston History Walk” link: https://charlestonhistorywalk.com/Next time you're visiting Charleston, SC, be sure to register for one of his tours! Be sure to “like” this video, share it with a fellow history-lover, and subscribe to this channel, my most esteemed friend! Visit me at finneranswake.com where you can read my articles and send me a note at finneranswake@gmail.comIn need of relaxation? Looking to start a meditation practice? Check out my sister project, Pneuma by Daniel FinneranMy latest video is entitled, “How to Keep Calm in a Crazy World”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6RCvBM-ac0Subscribe to it for more sleep stories, meditations, wellness, and mindfulness.Cheers! 

Don't let the title fool you, there is alot going on in this episode. Join us as Malcolm attempts to sell used clocks to the audience, Booty starts spite texting for land whales, and a weird Indian guy learns the smell of fingers and death at your local Walmart.But far and away, the absolute treasure trove that is an experiment commonly referred to "Mouse Utopia" is examined, as well as the practical application of the horrific findings and the world around us today. (hint: it means all the eyeliner you see on the boys nowadays is a symptom of the problem, not the cause) Download it right now, they are coming for our freedom and yours! Looking for trusted THC/CBD products? We ALL are... this Minnesota based company, Simply Crafted, has everything you could need! Use our coupon code to get 20% off and help support the show!Coupon Code: THEBIGPAIRhttps://www.simplycraftedcbd.com/?ref=TheBigPair▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Support the show directly at:https://streamlabs.com/thebigpair▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬-----Check these location to find more of The BIG Pair! -----▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Website▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Everything you need to know about The BIG Pair! ➤ https://www.thebigpair.com/▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Youtube▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Check out hilarious highlights from episodes here ➤ https://www.youtube.com/thebigpair▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Discord▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Interact with The BIG Pair and the community  ➤ https://discord.gg/nAmJD8w4dF▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Twitch▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Come by and interact live when they are live ➤ https://www.twitch.tv/thebigpair Support the show

One of the big topics of discussion in Salem right now is whether to provide new subsidies for semiconductor companies like Intel. This push for new subsidies stems from the congressional enactment of the CHIPS Act, by which the federal government has pledged tens of billions of dollars to ramp up semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S. Understandably, Oregon lawmakers are eager to see some of that money flow to Oregon.But are corporate subsidies worth the cost? Do business incentives actually accomplish what state and local governments hope to achieve? And what should Oregon lawmakers do in response to the semiconductor industry's current call for new state subsidies?In this episode of Policy for the People, we explore these questions with two guests: Greg LeRoy, executive director at Good Jobs First, and John Calhoun, a volunteer with Tax Fairness Oregon.

Sodom's Destruction is Prosperous Ease (Audio) David Eells - 12/7/22. (David's notes in red)   Calhoun's “Mouse Utopia” Experiments are Now Coming True for Humanity as Self-Annihilation, Infanticide and Gender Distortions Become Commonplace 11/28/22 by: Mike Adams This article may contain statements that reflect the opinion of the author Bypass censorship by sharing this link: (Natural News) In the late 1960's, a scientist named John Calhoun created a “mouse utopia” where populations of mice would enjoy everything they needed, essentially without effort: Unlimited food, water, living space, population growth without predators and so on. It started with eight mice, who began to reproduce quickly, enjoying their newfound “utopia” with unlimited resources. Within 4 years, however, the population had become extinct through self annihilation even though all the resources it needed for survival were readily available, including ample space to live. (What about the thousand years of peace and prosperity falsely claimed by those who do not respect God's Word? The book of Revelation, which supports the results of these findings, and which they reject, has a perfect numeric pattern like the rest of the 66 books and no other books have ever been found with this. It is God's signature. These results for fallen mankind and the overwhelming population of the world are inescapable. But for those who put the reprograming of the Word of God into their heart to become sons and daughters of God there is a totally different society that is not condemned as these mere mice/humans. Rom 12:2  And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.  2Co 3:18  But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit. Our Lord bore the curse of sin and death upon himself so that we can enter His Kingdom of sons and daughters of God wherein is all provision. So as we study this remember this speaks of lost humanity not God manifested in man through His Word.) What happened to Calhoun's mice? He repeated the experiment multiple times using mice and rats. Each time the outcome was the same: Extinction within 1588 days. (Populations began to collapse at around 560 days, for reasons discussed below.) What we are witnessing in the world today, right now, with the self-inflicted annihilation of humankind, almost perfectly reflects observations from Calhoun's “mouse utopia” experiments. Except now, it's happening in the world of humans. (Ecc 3:18  I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts. 19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity. As Jesus said, Man "must be born again” and believe His Word to escape his own fallen nature.) Filmmaker Mike Freeman has even made a film about these experiments. It's called Critical Mass, and you can learn about it at CriticalMassFilm.com. A bioethicist named Jan Kuban has written extensively about this on a site called 

In today's conversation with Robert E. May, Professor Emeritus of History, Purdue University, we will examine the America, Wallingford CT native son, Moses Yale Beach, who came of age in and influenced: The Antebellum Era: From the War of 1812 to the Civil War.To provide our listeners with some context, Moses Yale Beach, was born at the turn of the 19th century in January 1800 and died approximately 3 years after Lincoln was assassinated in 1868. Professor May helps us understand this Antebellum Period of history, we know that our collective understanding continues to be transformed. Many recent works have contributed new insights into the years 1846 to 1848, the middle of Mr. Beach's editorial control of the penny paper, The Sun.There is a lot to unpack, indeed many books have been written. Let's begin briefly with the War of 1812 and America's victory over the British, starting with the economic and political forces of the time which may have influenced the imaginings of a young man seeking independence from an agrarian life.Q1 How would you characterize what some have described as a period of entrepreneurial spirit?Q2Can you comment on the politics of the period (statesmen like Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and John Calhoun) and the attempt to find legislative solutions to the divisive issue of slavery.COMMENTYou have been a trend setter in looking at what was happinging-elsewhere to understand America. Q3Why is a global perspective important especially as it relates to America's expansion?Q4Mr. Beach was literally involved with the Mexican War, also known as Mexican-American War. What do you know of his involvement and can you comment on his world view?Q5In addition to being immersed in the peacemaking of the U.S.-Mexican War, Moses Yale Beach played a possibly even more significant role in U.S. attempts to acquire Cuba from Spain. Could you elaborate on this less known facet of Beach's colorful career?"Q6You have written about Jane Cazneau, also known as Jane Storm, the most prolific female journalist on US foreign policy during the antebellum. She was not lacking in self confidence and your work reveals the study of a woman who fearlessly defied the Separate Spheres ideology of the time that sought to keep women framed within the house or home, the domestic.We have encountered an 1846 quote attributed to her that reads, “I can and do control over half of the entire daily circulation [of the New York Sun] and from my position thus hold the balance of opinion on nay man or measure.” This is certainly an intriguing and provocative quote. Firstly, how does the quote strike you and secondly, could you elaborate on her connection to MY Beach?Q7Finally, is it somewhat tragic that despite improvements in news coverage from the founding of the AP onwards, and that important legacy, we seem to be stuck, more than ever, in ecosystems of slanted news coverage (what used to be called post-truth) to the point of unreality?

Strange and thought provoking episode today! In the 1940s, 50s, and early 60s, animal behavior researcher John B Calhoun ran a number of experiments on rodents regarding how their behavior would be affected by increased urbanization if all their basic needs were made. The results were terrifying. Crowded rats and mice became increasingly violent and lost their reproductive instincts to the point that eventually, the utopia went extinct after enduring a final phase full of random violent attacks, apathy, cannibalism and more. Could the increased urbanization of humanity also lead to our species' extinction as Calhoun warned?  Or are we humans too different from rodents to presume that what happens to mice and rat would also happen to humans? I found today's episode one of the most thought provoking we've done in quite  some time. Hope you do too! Bad Magic Productions Monthly Patreon Donation: We donated $15,228 to the United Heroes League, who provide free sports equipment, game tickets, cash grants, skill development camps, and special experiences to military families across the US & Canada. To find out more, please visit unitedheroesleague.orgGet tour tickets at dancummins.tv Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0bX8VraVxP4Merch: https://www.badmagicmerch.comDiscord! https://discord.gg/tqzH89vWant to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever happens to be our most current page :)For all merch related questions/problems: store@badmagicproductions.com (copy and paste)Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcastWanna become a Space Lizard?  Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcastSign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits.

In this episode I explore the Lewis Cass Expedition of 1820 which was a survey of the western part of the Michigan Territory, led by Lewis Cass, the Territorial Governor. The expedition was approved by John Calhoun, the Secretary of War, and had as its purpose to survey the geograohy and topography of the region in order to produce a complete map, as well as survey the flora and fauna, the Native Americans including their numbers, tribes and loyalties the the U.S. or Great Britain. It also had as a purpose to select sites for forts, survey the geology of the region and also search for the source of the Mississippi River. The expedition lasted 124 days, and the journals, maps and other books published from this played a significant role in the future of the region. For more information on Michael Delaware, visit: https://www.michaeldelaware.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/michael-delaware/support

Tim Ryan: A conversation about his campaign for U.S. Senate: https://www.richlandsource.com/news/elections/tim-ryan-a-conversation-about-his-campaign-for-u-s-senate/article_d1e9c3d4-3181-11ed-828d-93233bc4cc0e.html?block_id=1098581 Retired math teacher John Calhoun celebrates sales of original word puzzle book: https://www.richlandsource.com/life_and_culture/retired-math-teacher-john-calhoun-celebrates-sales-of-original-word-puzzle-book/article_5995733c-2ade-11ed-bc50-db9bb6eb1341.html Today – Part II of our conversation with U.S. Representative Tim Ryan who is running for senate against Republican J.D. Vance. One of them will replace Senator Rob Portman who has announced he will not seek a third term in office.Support the show: https://www.sourcemembers.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kamala Harris faces the dubious distinction of being the first vice president of the United States to have broken the most ties in the Senate of the United States period. She falls right in line with John Calhoun and John Adams from back in the 18th and 19th centuries, combined period. This risks a dangerous possibility as far as the Los Angeles Times is concerned, and it's this. It means the Biden-Harris administration has been unable to push through important legislation including things like the American rescue plan, and of course their desire to not just pack the courts, but to destroy the filibuster in an effort to cement their rule, period. This is a big, big litmus test for this upcoming election. And Brett explains what the stakes really are in that election. One thing is certain. This is going to be a hard fought battle all the way to November period. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Union threatened by legislative fiat, a Senator rose to reply to another. For Daniel Webster, it was a real comeback, What we might call a "zinger" today. "Not Liberty First and Union Afterwards! ...but Liberty and Union now and Forever One and Inseparable," Though since it was a 19th century zinger, it took 4 hours to deliver the line. Still it would become some of the most famous oratory in Senate history. When South Carolina's Senator Robert Hayne spoke in the Senate in 1830 to criticize Massachusetts and its Senator Daniel Webster, his comments were governmental but his intentions were personal. Haynes was an ally of John Calhoun, and he sought to reduce that Senator's reputation and the New England influence in federal government with a stunning interpretation of how the Constitution should work. A state could interpret any law the way it wished, he argued. . And although several friends told him not to, Haynes aimed his remarks purposefully at the Senate's best Speaker. Then Webster replied, He defended the patriotism of his home state, attacked the logical points Hayne and made about a state's right to veto a federal law, and called for the Union to be cherished. Although he and Andrew Jackson were not allies, Daniel Webster's speech set the stage for the Jackson administration's position in the upcoming South Carolina tariff nullification crisis. His speech, and the resulting consensus of agreement in Congress with his side, also set standards for federal and state roles in government, and that still has lots of relevance today. We are part of Airwave Media Podcast Network Advertise on this podcast: sales@advertisecast.com Support us on Patreon - patreon.com/mhcbuyp Make a one=time donation - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KCK98X972XWWU Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever felt trapped like a rat?  Caught in the rat race?  A scientist, named John Calhoun, spent a large portion of his life studying the effects of pupulation density on social behavior of rats.  He devoloped many different enclosure styles until his perfect "Universe 25" was created.  In this episode we dicuss Calhoun's findings, why the rat utopia ultimately failed, and how others of his time used his data to support their theories on overpopulation among humans.  Enjoy the trip down the rabbit hole with us.duhwhysmen@gmail.comInstagram: duhwhysmenFacebook: Duh Whys MenRumble:  duhwhysmen 

Join us as we talk about what the guys know about John Calhoun's sociological experiment with mice and the commonalities to the human world and today's societal problems.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/whatthefdoyouknow/support

Join us today, Wednesday, January 26, for a Devotion for Early Evening, led by the Rev. Gary Lubin with special music.Pulling Bracken by the Celtic Ensemble featuring John Calhoun, vocals.This worship service is available here and through our Online Worship podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple podcast, Stitcher, and Spotify or simply ask your smart speaker to play the podcast "The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer Online Worship."

Visit https://www.loreandlegends.net/2022/01/the-universe-25-experiment.html for more info!What could be our ultimate doom? Climate, disease, lack of resources, war? Its hard to say, but one experiment in the late 1960s designed and carried out by John Calhoun dubbed "Universe 25" suggested safety, surplus, and comfort could be just as if not more deadly to a society than we might think...YouTube: https://youtu.be/zDUP9Ztal04Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/lore-and-legends/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

United Methodist missionary the Rev. John Calhoun, who pastors the English-Speaking United Methodist Church of Vienna (ESUMC), shares how radical hospitality with a multicultural population is playing an important role in congregations in Austria. Discover how hospitality can help you keep your spirit in shape. John is an ordained elder of the New York Annual … Continue reading "Give Love: Radical hospitality with John Calhoun"

John B. Calhoun was interested in looking at the effects of overcrowding on societies of mammals, so he created a mouse utopia, Universe 25.  Universe 25 was an environment made with unlimited supplies of food and water with no predators, where the mice could live without stress and allow their population to grow without environmental restriction.  What he found was an initial utopia with explosive population growth, but it eventually led to a complete collapse of the social structure of the mice and the death of the entire colony.  What can we learn from this experiment and how might if parallel human society?  Come find out!

曾有科學家說地球空間可以容納更多人類生存，但是老鼠烏托邦實驗卻是另一個證明：即使空間、食物等資源充足，但過了臨界點之後，族群就走向毀滅一圖，這個實驗是否隱喻同是哺乳類的人們，超過臨界點之後，等待我們的就只有消亡這個結局？ #人類 #老鼠烏托邦 #實驗 #消亡 #低生育率 #美國 #科學實驗 ＋影片內容 00:00 影片開始 Start 00:17 不愁吃穿的生活真美好？ 01:35 老鼠烏托邦實驗 03:12 實驗過程 04:34 實驗發現 05:49 實驗結果：族群消亡 07:12 相同命運等著人類？ 08:52 請分享給親朋好友，感謝 fb專頁：https://www.facebook.com/historysquare/ FB社團：https://www.facebook.com/groups/873307933055348 Podcast : http://kshin.co​ 電子書著作 Amazon : https://reurl.cc/g8lprR​ Readmoo ：https://reurl.cc/jqpYmm​ Kobo : https://reurl.cc/GdDLgW​ Google : https://reurl.cc/9ZyLyn​ 有聲書：https://www.ximalaya.com/lishi/49006941/ 攝影作品：https://reurl.cc/Xe3NNe

John Calhoun fue un etólogo que hizo ciertos experimentos demostrando que la super población de cierta especie cambia los comportamientos de la misma pudiendo provocar su propia extinción. ¡Coméntanos qué temas te gustaría ver en el podcast! Twitter: @Science_Bitch_P Instagram: @science_bitch.p Twitter de Diego: @DrDiegoMardi Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ScienceBitchPodcast/Página oficial en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scienceb.tchpodcast Únete al grupo de los 100Tíficos en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/344430296820011/ Escúchanos por YouTube, Spotify, Ivoox, Apple podcast Intro por parte del gran PPRKT, síguelo en: https://www.facebook.com/Pprktfilms/y en Instagram como: @pprkt_

This week, Tyler & Megan learn about Universe 25, the famous and controversial mouse experiment by John Calhoun in the 1970s, sparking a discussion about how it relates to our society. While learning this week, the two will be sampling Jameson Black Barrel, a Jameson whiskey that is made using double charred barrels.   As always, thank you so much for your support! Don't drink and drive!   Places you can find us: whiskeyandwonder.com Instagram: @whiskeypodcast or @whiskey.tyler or @whiskey.megan YouTube: Whiskey & Wonder Twitter: @whiskyandwonder or @tyler_whiskey Email:  contact@whiskeyandwonder.com     tyler@whiskeyandwonder.com megan@whiskeyandwonder.com  Facebook: facebook.com/whiskeyandwonder Paypal: paypal.me/whiskeyandwonder Patreon: patreon.com/whiskeyandwonder   If you have a drinking problem, reach out to the folks at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).

John Tyler Who are the Whigs, and how does John Tyler, a former Democratic-Republican and low-level House member, find himself on their ticket in the 1840 election? In this episode of Unpresidented, we explore the wild, uncertain politics that emerge out of the Founders Era. Figures like Hamilton, Jefferson and Madison are replaced by a less remembered generation such as John Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, and William Henry Harrison -- that splits up the Democratic-Republican Party into a new era of partisan divide. John Tyler emerging as President within this new group of political leaders, though, assures the newly formed Democratic Party the upper-hand in the new two-party fight, as he has no interest in working with a supermajority in Congress that expects him to happily sign their legislation. American parties, then, actually figure out that picking a good VP, or even just an obedient VP to the Party is actually important, as the nation finds themselves with their first President to assume office after the death of another President. How does the nation react in this constitutional crisis, as it was unclear if the VP was the rightful successor to the President at the time? Even though Tyler is able to establish a successful, critical precedent, his Presidency is anything but a success. Keywords: Presidents American Presidents America USA United States Politics History Biography Biographical Republicans Democrats Political Parties Senate House of Representatives Constitution American Anthem White House American Flag --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Join Ryan, Blaine, & Russ as they discuss our Nation's ninth President, William Henry Harrison!EPISODE SPONSORS:Smile BrilliantFrom dental lab to your door. Smile Brilliant's teeth whitening process is recommended by more dentists than any other procedure in America. Smile Brilliant proudly produces their custom-fitted whitening trays right here in the United States for 70% less than your dentist and 3x to 5x faster. Head over to www.smilebrilliant.com and use "Presidents" at checkout for 30% off. https://www.smilebrilliant.com/?coupon=presidents#podcastVets' Lives MatterVets' Lives Matter is a cohort of veteran and civilians on a mission to enhance veterans lives.  By teaming up with local Veteran Non Profits through challenges and fundraising we will end veteran suicide.  Together we will beat this.Be sure to follow on all social media platforms @vetslivesmatter Old Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time by Freeman CleavesFor other books on William Henry Harrison (and all the other Presidents), check out Stephen Floyd's Journey Through Presidential BiographiesEPISODE MUSIC:Music in this episode was created by Ryan Ahlwardt and the intro/outro song is Granary. Check Ryan out where ever you stream or download your music, or at ryansongs.com

50 years ago May 1971 The purchase of a new fire truck for the Grove Hill Fire Department was approved by the town council. The new truck's price was ,719.54. Then council also authorized resurfacing and improvements for Carter Drive from Wilson Avenue to Highway 84. A rubella (German measles) clinic was scheduled in Clarke County schools and at the health department, John Calhoun, health administrator for Choctaw, Clarke and Washington counties announced. A 0 reward was offered by the Town of Grove Hill's Water Works Board for information leading to the arrest of the person or persons who defaced...Article Link

Join Ryan, Blaine, & Russ as they discuss our Nation's seventh President, Andrew Jackson!EPISODE SPONSORS:Smile BrilliantFrom dental lab to your door. Smile Brilliant's teeth whitening process is recommended by more dentists than any other procedure in America. Smile Brilliant proudly produces their custom-fitted whitening trays right here in the United States for 70% less than your dentist and 3x to 5x faster. Head over to www.smilebrilliant.com and use "Presidents" at checkout for 30% off. https://www.smilebrilliant.com/?coupon=presidents#podcastVets' Lives MatterVets' Lives Matter is a cohort of veteran and civilians on a mission to enhance veterans lives.  By teaming up with local Veteran Non Profits through challenges and fundraising we will end veteran suicide.  Together we will beat this.Be sure to follow on all social media platforms @vetslivesmatter The Life of Andrew Jackson by Robert V ReminiFor other books on Andrew Jackson (and all the other Presidents), check out Stephen Floyd's Journey Through Presidential BiographiesEPISODE MUSIC:Music in this episode was created by Ryan Ahlwardt and the intro/outro song is Granary. Check Ryan out where ever you stream or download your music, or at ryansongs.com

Besonders groß ist die Methodistische Kirche in Österreich nicht, zählt sie doch nur ca. 1.500 Mitglieder. Dabei ist sie aber höchst aktiv und hat einiges zu bieten. Die Kirche feiert heuer ihre 150-jährige Präsenz in Österreich. Der evangelische Radiopfarrer Marco Uschmann hat Superintendent Stefan Schröckenfuchs, den Leiter der Kirche in Österreich, und Pastor John Calhoun zum Jubiläums-Interview getroffen. Fotocredit: Marco Uschmann

Brent Van Hook interviews John Calhoun. Join us for the "Encouragement Series" podcasts from Shepherd's Fold Ministries. Daily guest speakers from all walks of life answer the same 3 questions: Why are ministers important? Why should ministers not give up? What word of encouragement do you have for ministers? These podcasts are designed all ministers of the Christian faith: pastors, staff, missionaries and more.   For any denomination or independent church of the Christian faith!  

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Join us for worship this Sunday, Liturgy of the Word, Rite II with music. The Rev. Joyce Keeshin, Officiant; the Rev. Philip DeVaul, Preacher. Thomas Heidenreich on the organ. Liz Clemons, guitar and Lauren McAllister, voice for the Gospel Song, "What wondrous love is this." John Calhoun, guitar and voice, "God of Creation". This worship service is also available live at 9:00 am on Sunday, and as a video following that at https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/online-worship/

Join us today, Wednesday, August 26, for Evening Prayer, Rite II, led by the Rev. Christopher Slane, long-term Supply Priest at St. Andew's Evanston, and featuring Anna and John Calhoun singing "God who made the earth." This worship service is available here and through our Online Worship podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple podcast, Stitcher, and Spotify or simply ask your smart speaker to play the podcast “The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer Online Worship."

A recorded piece on the work of Dr. John Calhoun from the late 1950s on the Mouse Utopia Experiments. Calhoun studied the effects of population density on mice behavior. This study is one of the bases for modern day eugenics and is at the heart of the rational for things like UN Agenda 21.Then a recorded piece from DEFCON 25 with Dr. John Sotos, Chief Medical Officer at Intel Corp. He discusses the frightening reality of genetic diseases to guide digital hacks of the human genome.Then a chilling and heart wrenching appeal from Hollywood filmmaker John Paul Rice about child abuse and human trafficking. Space weather in between.Music by The Mighty Pines

If you're like us, there are three major things you enjoy, rats, mice, and science experiments! This week were going to harness our inner vermin and judge humanity! Come along and make a deal with your favorite wilderness animal to overthrow your local farmer! Today, we will take a look at the 1982, non-Disney animated film and it's history, The Secret Of NIMH.

In this episode of the Teachthababies podcast we look at the relationship between what happens in over populated inner city communities and the research and studies by Dr. John Calhoun of the National Institute of Mental Health dating back to the 1950's. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachthababies/support

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Briggs and Shane are back with episode. 63, and a special surprise guest Simmz stopped by to partake in some discussion. The fellas starts off with some local news regarding the removal of John Calhoun’s statue downtown Charleston. Strom Thurmond was brought up next as his names should be taken off buildings around the state. Netflix is donating to the Black community was next up to lighten the mood and the importance that brings to the community. SoCo discuss music next with the Verzuz battles, BET Awards, new music, and August Alsina. Last but not least sports and the current state of various leagues and Cam Newton’s contract with the Patriots.

Special guests Rayvon and Cedric wrestling round table #LetsTalkAboutItNFL social media team makes video with black players denouncing police brutality and racismRoger Goodell admits they were wrong about kneeling but no mention of Colin Kaepernick Reggie Bush and O.J. Mayo are allowed back at USC. 52 former Iowa football players come out and call out historical racism on Twitter, calling out Chris Doyle, longtime assistant coach. #CollegeFootballNewsDeshaun Watson and DeAndre Hopkins sign petition to get the name of deceased former Vice President, slave owner and white supremacist John Calhoun off the honors buildingDabo Swinney whitesplains tight ends coach use of the n-word after public backlash comes to bite him. Multiple players testing positive for COVID-19Schools allowed to have athletes back on campus training as of this week. PAC-12 making all players get tested before being cleared to play. Players allowed back June 15th. NCAA Oversight committee has timeline for practices. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2895822-ncaa-reportedly-passes-recommended-cfb-practice-return-dates-amid-pandemic Bru McCoy opens up on his double-transfer and illness. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2893992-the-mystery-of-bru-mccoy#TakeOrTangentWith disassociation over at USC, Reggie admits he wants his Heisman backNFL pledges $250 over 10 years to Richard Sherman called putting Jerry Jones#TouchdownOrTurnoverPete Carroll regrets not signing KaepShane Vereen still says Malcolm Butler benching is still a controversyTitans owner supports protestsBaltimore head coach thinks current Coronavirus restrictions are impossible. #UnneccesaryToughness

Special guests Rayvon and Cedric wrestling round table #LetsTalkAboutIt NFL social media team makes video with black players denouncing police brutality and racism Roger Goodell admits they were wrong about kneeling but no mention of Colin Kaepernick Reggie Bush and O.J. Mayo are allowed back at USC. 52 former Iowa football players come out and call out historical racism on Twitter, calling out Chris Doyle, longtime assistant coach. #CollegeFootballNews Deshaun Watson and DeAndre Hopkins sign petition to get the name of deceased former Vice President, slave owner and white supremacist John Calhoun off the honors building Dabo Swinney whitesplains tight ends coach use of the n-word after public backlash comes to bite him. Multiple players testing positive for COVID-19 Schools allowed to have athletes back on campus training as of this week. PAC-12 making all players get tested before being cleared to play. Players allowed back June 15th. NCAA Oversight committee has timeline for practices. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2895822-ncaa-reportedly-passes-recommended-cfb-practice-return-dates-amid-pandemic Bru McCoy opens up on his double-transfer and illness. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2893992-the-mystery-of-bru-mccoy #TakeOrTangent With disassociation over at USC, Reggie admits he wants his Heisman back NFL pledges $250 over 10 years to Richard Sherman called putting Jerry Jones #TouchdownOrTurnover Pete Carroll regrets not signing Kaep Shane Vereen still says Malcolm Butler benching is still a controversy Titans owner supports protests Baltimore head coach thinks current Coronavirus restrictions are impossible. #UnneccesaryToughness

What happens when you give a scientist, obsessed with biblical death, near unlimited control over a utopian city of mice? Well...a lot of death, it turns out. In the 1960's and 70's, Dr. John Calhoun created what should have been a perfect mouse city - unlimited food, shelter, and water with no predators or inclement weather. Then he let nature run its course. Within a few years, the city was in ruins. Listen in as we dive into the research paper detailing exactly what happened to the mice in Universe 25, from meteoric rise to tragic demise.Check out the paper, news articles, and more at www.paperboyspodcast.com.Like the show? Want more every month? Fan of universal constants? Check out www.patreon.com/paperboyspod

Koronavirüs, son zamanlarda hemen hemen herkesi, günümüz toplumunu ve üzerine inşa ettiğimiz sistemi sorgular duruma getirdi. Bu süreçte sınıfsal ayrılıkların ve eşitsizliklerin daha bir gözle görülür hale gelmesi, uzun zamandır içinde yaşadığımız bu sistem karşısında bizleri oldukça mutsuz ve stresli yaptı. Fakat unuttuğumuz bir şey var: Bu noktaya gelişimizdeki süreç, 11 bin yıl önce tarım devrimini gerçekleştirmemizle başladı. Şu anki toplum yapısını John Calhoun'un meşhur deneyi 25. Evren (Universe 25) üzerinden değerlendirmeye çalıştım. Sormamız gereken soru sanırım şu olmalı: “İnsanlar tarım devrimini yapmadan 11 bin yıl önce avcı ve toplayıcı olarak yaşarken daha mı mutlulardı?”

The debate over the name change of Lake Calhoun to Bde Maka Ska is now before the Minnesota Supreme Court. Justices will consider whether the Department of Natural Resources has the power to make that change. The lake was named for U.S. Vice President John Calhoun, who defended slavery. Dakota public historian Kate Beane joined the Counter Stories team to discuss restoring Native American names to well known landmarks. Beane has been one of the leading voices in the campaign to restore the Dakota name Bde Maka Ska. For Native Americans a name can give a sense of home and history, connecting people to the land and their ancestry. And it’s a step toward correcting the stories and practices that erased Indigenous people’s history and culture. This episode’s co-hosts are: Hlee Lee, owner of “the other media group” Don Eubanks, associate professor at Metropolitan State University Anthony Galloway, Art-Us Marianne Combs, MPR correspondent And guest Kate Beane, Flandreau Santee Dakota and Muskogee Creek and public historian

Kofi and Chris talk about the response to Episode 1, GopherCon 2020, wish Go a Happy (belated) Birthday and talk through some interesting Go projects and tutorials. GopherCon 2020! https://twitter.com/erikstmartin/status/1187846267256365056 kubeadm developer onboarding https://youtu.be/N0OJW0nlEpQ How I Start - Go by Peter Bourgon https://howistart.org/posts/go/1/ Learn to Create Web Applications using Go by John Calhoun https://www.usegolang.com/ You can contact Chris and Kofi on Twitter: @asgpodcast Join us in the Gopher Slack! #allsystemsgo

John Calhoun’s rodent experiments revolutionized the way we think about social behavior and the impact of growing populations.

This week we’re talking about Dr. John Calhoun, who spent the 1960s and 1970s playing god to thousands of rodents. He dedicated his time to building better and better mouse paradises with beautiful buildings and limitless food. Life was theoretically issue free. Each experiment, he introduced a few mice and let them live and reproduce in paradise. But, shortly after, the mice had created their own apocalypse… each and every time. It seems that evolution has given animals an innate and irreversible self-destruct button to prevent a species from overpopulating its habitat, will this apply to humans too? Sources: John Calhoun Wiki Brilliant Atlas Obscura Smithsonian Mag

Insurrection Act, Trump can use this act to use his authority in office. (AL) Abortion act has made many mad and worried about women. President Trump says he supports the exceptions that Senator Mitt Romney is in favor for. **Democratic Chaos** (D) Robert O'Rourke, "Beto" a presidential candidate of 2020, wants White Americans should give Black Americans money, 'Racial Income equality'. A chaotic idea of the history of America that may separate the country more. Brian feels that Democrats are seeking minorities for votes in the upcoming election. **Seriously?** (MN) University of Minnesota is offering free scholarships for illegals, through the Minnesota 'Dream Act of 2013' to go to college. **Civil War II Rep. vs Demo.** (D) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 'AOC' Wants to attack Christians on their belief on love, religion and children. **Capitalism wins again** Court of Appeals, confirmation of (R) Kenneth Lee, the Democrats were mad. **News other guys don't talk about** Taco Bell is going to open a hotel in (FL) August 2019, called; 'The Bell.' **E-mails from listeners** Brian asks; 'Will you vote Democratic?' Isaiah may vote independent but he says his vote depends on the Democratic candidate up for the 2020 election, and likes the lane change. Gail also agrees. Krista writes that the lake name change in Minnesota is interesting. if approved, it would be, White Earth Lake.' The opposite of what the Democrats are seeking to be in favor of, (The white slave owner John Calhoun that it is named after), when Translated. Brian says, so why not keep the name as is? -Thank you for listening!-

New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands' latest book is “Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, The Second Generation of American Giants” It tells the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy.

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Dr. H.W. Brands. Dr. Brands holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr.. Chair in history at The University of Texas. An incredibly prolific author of American history and its most evocative and important periods, Dr. Brand has written 25 books, edited at least five others and has published dozens of articles and scores of reviews. He has written for the NYT, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and many others. His latest work is Heirs Of The Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun, and Daniel Webster, The Second Generation of American Giants. published byDoubleday and just released These three men, successors of our founding fathers, each born within four or five years of The American Revolution, through their rivalry and, in some cases their similarities, helped to forge for good or bad the conditions which led to our great Civil War. Each had aspirations for the Presidency. Each failed. However, Clay served as Speaker of the House, and John Quincey Adams’ Secretary of State and forged the Missouri Compromise which indeed was that, allowing one state to remain slave free and the other to hold on to an unspeakable tradition. That alone is an issue that is brought with questions and wonder, and I will ask those questions today. Calhoun was Vice-President to both John Quincey Adams and andrew Jackson, essentially extolled slavery, the crown of the southern culture. I wonder why he didn’t become President just from sheer tenure. Just as I wonder today about Joe Biden. And Webster, my favorite, I guess because of Steven Vincent Benet’s short story The Devil and Daniel Webster, was a senator, secretary of state to three presidents and the most gifted courtroom advocates of his time and maybe of any time, save for Clarence Darrow maybe, well he abandoned his anti-slavery position in an attempt to wrest the Presidency from his erstwhile rivals. Once again much as Mitch Mcconnell and Charles Grassley have done today, in their flip-flops on the absurd Presidency of Donald Trump. In any event and to stop my railing, Dr. Brand has in an accessible and compelling narrative has woven the threads of the lives of these three men, The Great Triumvirate, and given us a good object lesson of the origins of Constitutional Cris and what it can lead to.

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Dr. H.W. Brands. Dr. Brands holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr.. Chair in history at The University of Texas. An incredibly prolific author of American history and its most evocative and important periods, Dr. Brand has written 25 books, edited at least five others and has published dozens of articles and scores of reviews. He has written for the NYT, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and many others. His latest work is Heirs Of The Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun, and Daniel Webster, The Second Generation of American Giants. published byDoubleday and just released These three men, successors of our founding fathers, each born within four or five years of The American Revolution, through their rivalry and, in some cases their similarities, helped to forge for good or bad the conditions which led to our great Civil War. Each had aspirations for the Presidency. Each failed. However, Clay served as Speaker of the House, and John Quincey Adams’ Secretary of State and forged the Missouri Compromise which indeed was that, allowing one state to remain slave free and the other to hold on to an unspeakable tradition. That alone is an issue that is brought with questions and wonder, and I will ask those questions today. Calhoun was Vice-President to both John Quincey Adams and andrew Jackson, essentially extolled slavery, the crown of the southern culture. I wonder why he didn’t become President just from sheer tenure. Just as I wonder today about Joe Biden. And Webster, my favorite, I guess because of Steven Vincent Benet’s short story The Devil and Daniel Webster, was a senator, secretary of state to three presidents and the most gifted courtroom advocates of his time and maybe of any time, save for Clarence Darrow maybe, well he abandoned his anti-slavery position in an attempt to wrest the Presidency from his erstwhile rivals. Once again much as Mitch Mcconnell and Charles Grassley have done today, in their flip-flops on the absurd Presidency of Donald Trump. In any event and to stop my railing, Dr. Brand has in an accessible and compelling narrative has woven the threads of the lives of these three men, The Great Triumvirate, and given us a good object lesson of the origins of Constitutional Cris and what it can lead to.

In the early 1800s, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning to retire to their farms. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, a champion orator known for his eloquence, spoke for the North and its business class. Henry Clay of Kentucky, as dashing as he was ambitious, embodied the hopes of the rising West. South Carolina's John Calhoun, with piercing eyes and even more piercing intellect, defended the South and slavery. Together these heirs of Washington, Jefferson and Adams took the country to war, battled one another for the presidency and set themselves the task of finishing the work the Founders had left undone. Their rise was marked by dramatic duels, fierce debates, scandal, and political betrayal. Yet each in his own way sought to remedy the two glaring flaws in the Constitution: its refusal to specify where authority ultimately rested, with the states or the nation, and its unwillingness to address the essential incompatibility of republicanism and slavery. They wrestled with these issues for four decades, arguing bitterly and hammering out political compromises that held the Union together, but only just. Then, in 1850, when California moved to join the Union as a free state, "the immortal trio" had one last chance to save the country from the real risk of civil war. But, by that point, they had never been further apart.Thrillingly and authoritatively, H. W. Brands narrates an epic American rivalry and the little-known drama of the dangerous early years of our democracy.-H. W. Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. He attended Stanford University and studied history and mathematics. For nine years he taught mathematics and history in high school and community college. Meanwhile, he resumed his formal education, earning graduate degrees in mathematics and history, concluding with a doctorate in history from the University of Texas at Austin. In 1987 he joined the history faculty at Texas A&M University, where he taught for seventeen years. In 2005 he returned to the University of Texas, where he holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History. He has written twenty-five books, coauthored or edited five others, and published dozens of articles and scores of reviews. His most recent book is Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants.---Support for the Age of Jackson Podcast was provided by Isabelle Laskari, Jared Riddick, John Muller, Julianne Johnson, Laura Lochner, Mark Etherton, Marshall Steinbaum, Martha S. Jones, Michael Gorodiloff, Mitchell Oxford, Richard D. Brown, Rod, Rosa, Stephen Campbell, and Victoria Johnson, as well as Andrew Jackson's Hermitage​ in Nashville, TN.

H.W. Brands on 'Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants.'

John Calhoun’s rodent experiments revolutionized the way we think about social behavior and the impact of growing populations.

New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands' latest book is “Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, The Second Generation of American Giants” It tells the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy.

''Master storyteller'' (Christian Science Monitor) H. W. Brands was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin (The First American) and Franklin Roosevelt (Traitor to His Class). Exploring such diverse subjects as Aaron Burr, Ronald Reagan, the California gold rush, Andrew Jackson, the Vietnam War, and Bill Gates, his more than two dozen books ''weave together keen political history with anecdote and marvelous sense of place'' (The Boston Globe). Brands returns with the story of the early 19th--century political giants who took up the daunting challenge of completing the constitutional work begun by the Founding Fathers. Watch the video here. (recorded 11/13/2018)

Historian H.W. Brands discusses his new book Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants.  Professor Brands talks about how these three political giants crafted the Compromise of 1850 which barely held the Union together, why none of these three men was ever elected President, and how compromise went from being politics at its finest to a dirty word in today’s Washington.  He discusses John Calhoun’s beliefs that slavery was a moral virtue and that states had the right to nullify any federal law, and he says that the moralizing of abolitionists like Daniel Webster actually drove Calhoun to take an increasingly more extreme position on slavery.  He recalls Webster's legendary oratory skills in the days when eloquence was a ticket to political fame, and how one of Webster’s speeches once brought the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to tears.  Then he shares how Henry Clay earned the nickname "the great compromiser" by playing referee between Webster and Calhoun, and why Clay believed that the South would eventually outgrow slavery if he could just postpone a civil war long enough. Order his new book Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants on Amazon, Audible or wherever books are sold and follow him on twitter at @hwbrands.  Today's episode was sponsored by The Flatiron School.  Visit Kickass News at www.kickassnews.com, subscribe to Kickass News on Apple Podcasts, and follow us on twitter at @KickassNewsPod.

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Dr. H.W. Brands. Dr. Brands holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr.. Chair in history at The University of Texas. An incredibly prolific author of American history and its most evocative and important periods, Dr. Brand has written 25 books, edited at least five others and has published dozens of articles and scores of reviews. He has written for the NYT, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and many others. His latest work is Heirs Of The Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun, and Daniel Webster, The Second Generation of American Giants. published byDoubleday and just released These three men, successors of our founding fathers, each born within four or five years of The American Revolution, through their rivalry and, in some cases their similarities, helped to forge for good or bad the conditions which led to our great Civil War. Each had aspirations for the Presidency. Each failed. However, Clay served as Speaker of the House, and John Quincey Adams’ Secretary of State and forged the Missouri Compromise which indeed was that, allowing one state to remain slave free and the other to hold on to an unspeakable tradition. That alone is an issue that is brought with questions and wonder, and I will ask those questions today. Calhoun was Vice-President to both John Quincey Adams and andrew Jackson, essentially extolled slavery, the crown of the southern culture. I wonder why he didn’t become President just from sheer tenure. Just as I wonder today about Joe Biden. And Webster, my favorite, I guess because of Steven Vincent Benet’s short story The Devil and Daniel Webster, was a senator, secretary of state to three presidents and the most gifted courtroom advocates of his time and maybe of any time, save for Clarence Darrow maybe, well he abandoned his anti-slavery position in an attempt to wrest the Presidency from his erstwhile rivals. Once again much as Mitch Mcconnell and Charles Grassley have done today, in their flip-flops on the absurd Presidency of Donald Trump. In any event and to stop my railing, Dr. Brand has in an accessible and compelling narrative has woven the threads of the lives of these three men, The Great Triumvirate, and given us a good object lesson of the origins of Constitutional Cris and what it can lead to.

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Dr. H.W. Brands. Dr. Brands holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr.. Chair in history at The University of Texas. An incredibly prolific author of American history and its most evocative and important periods, Dr. Brand has written 25 books, edited at least five others and has published dozens of articles and scores of reviews. He has written for the NYT, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and many others. His latest work is Heirs Of The Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun, and Daniel Webster, The Second Generation of American Giants. published byDoubleday and just released These three men, successors of our founding fathers, each born within four or five years of The American Revolution, through their rivalry and, in some cases their similarities, helped to forge for good or bad the conditions which led to our great Civil War. Each had aspirations for the Presidency. Each failed. However, Clay served as Speaker of the House, and John Quincey Adams’ Secretary of State and forged the Missouri Compromise which indeed was that, allowing one state to remain slave free and the other to hold on to an unspeakable tradition. That alone is an issue that is brought with questions and wonder, and I will ask those questions today. Calhoun was Vice-President to both John Quincey Adams and andrew Jackson, essentially extolled slavery, the crown of the southern culture. I wonder why he didn’t become President just from sheer tenure. Just as I wonder today about Joe Biden. And Webster, my favorite, I guess because of Steven Vincent Benet’s short story The Devil and Daniel Webster, was a senator, secretary of state to three presidents and the most gifted courtroom advocates of his time and maybe of any time, save for Clarence Darrow maybe, well he abandoned his anti-slavery position in an attempt to wrest the Presidency from his erstwhile rivals. Once again much as Mitch Mcconnell and Charles Grassley have done today, in their flip-flops on the absurd Presidency of Donald Trump. In any event and to stop my railing, Dr. Brand has in an accessible and compelling narrative has woven the threads of the lives of these three men, The Great Triumvirate, and given us a good object lesson of the origins of Constitutional Cris and what it can lead to.

From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy In the early 1800s, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning to retire to their farms. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, a champion orator known for his eloquence, spoke for the North and its business class. Henry Clay of Kentucky, as dashing as he was ambitious, embodied the hopes of the rising West. South Carolina’s John Calhoun, with piercing eyes and an even more piercing intellect, defended the South and slavery. Together these heirs of Washington, Jefferson and Adams took the country to war, battled one another for the presidency and set themselves the task of finishing the work the Founders had left undone. Their rise was marked by dramatic duels, fierce debates, scandal and political betrayal. Yet each in his own way sought to remedy the two glaring flaws in the Constitution: its refusal to specify where authority ultimately rested, with the states or the nation, and its unwillingness to address the essential incompatibility of republicanism and slavery. They wrestled with these issues for four decades, arguing bitterly and hammering out political compromises that held the Union together, but only just. Then, in 1850, when California moved to join the Union as a free state, “the immortal trio” had one last chance to save the country from the real risk of civil war. But, by that point, they had never been further apart. Thrillingly and authoritatively, H. W. Brands narrates an epic American rivalry and the little-known drama of the dangerous early years of our democracy. ABOUT H. W. BRANDS H. W. BRANDS holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. A New York Times bestselling author, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography for The First American and Traitor to His Class --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steve-richards/support

In this Pre-Civil War episode of Humdaddy History, the Compromise of 1850 is unpacked.  Focusing on the efforts of senators Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John Calhoun, William Seward and new star Stephen Douglas, this episode will reveal what deals were made to help the United States stay united.  This is a massively important Pre-Civil War topic that demonstrates how quickly the country was growing apart.

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Hillsdale Dialogues 08-18-2017 Confederate Statues, John Calhoun and Abraham Lincoln by Hillsdale College

My brother joined the conversation and we kicked some jewels around as we discussed in a freestyle format.

My brother joined the conversation and we kicked some jewels around as we discussed in a freestyle format.

A great conversation with the one and only Buff Ross - wizard of www.alloneworddesign.com - jack of many trades and master of curiosity. A wide-ranging conversation with one of our close personal friends covering archeology digs cut short, a gay & lesbian museum show in San Francisco, John Calhoun giving Charleston the finger, social media grieving post AME shooting, to cleaning with Rod Stewart...

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A new article on i09 describes animal behaviorist John Calhoun's quest to create the perfect mouse city, complete with abundant food, recreation, and even rodent apartments. Now referred to as the "Behavioral Sink", the utopian underground mouse habitat quickly degraded into an apocalypse, as the mice turned on one another and the bloated population died out. Anthony and Jeff can't help but see parallels to modern life, but also take a moment to consider what kind of guy spends his time attempting to perfect rat cities. We Have Concerns is entirely listener supported! To keep us ad-free and get early episodes/bonus content, check out our Patreon: http://patreon.com/wehaveconcerns Hey! If you're enjoying the show, please take a moment to rate/review it on whatever service you use to listen. Here's the iTunes link: http://bit.ly/wehaveconcerns And here's the Stitcher link: http://bit.ly/stitcherwhc Jeff on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jeffcannata Anthony on Twitter: http://twitter.com/acarboni Today's story was sent in by QuantumSparkle: http://io9.com/how-rats-turned-their-private-paradise-into-a-terrifyin-1687584457 If you've seen a story you think belongs on the show, send it to wehaveconcernsshow@gmail.com or leave it on the subreddit: http://reddit.com/r/wehaveconcerns

Pastor Andy Davis preaches a verse-by-verse expository sermon on Galatians 5:13-18and how Christian freedom relates to God's Law. - SERMON TRANSCRIPT - I. Introduction This past week I watched a powerful movie for the second time. I've seen it years ago, but just came across it again and wanted to see it. That movie is Amistad, it's based on a true story. It’s the plight of some Africans who had been abducted from their villages by slave traders and then illegally shipped to Cuba, the year is 1839. And during the voyage from Cuba in July of 1839, one slave named Cinque managed somehow with his fingernails ripping and his fingertips bleeding to pry out a single nail that began to set him free. He was able to use the nail to pick the lock and to basically lead an onboard insurrection or battle for their freedom. They kept alive the captain and his mates so that they could sail them back to Africa, but the captain fooled them through the navigation and they ended up in Long Island, it's a true story, New York. The ship was impounded by the US Navy, brought to New Haven, Connecticut where the 53 Africans were taken into custody and they were charged with leading a murderous slave insurrection. The movie unfolds powerfully, revealing intense political wrangling over slavery that were going on obviously, in 1839, threatening to rip this country apart. The legal drama was a focus on the rights these Africans had to regain their freedom from vicious men who had stolen it from them. At one very moving point in the movie, Cinque, who's the focus, stands up. He didn't know a word of English when he came but he was a very, very intelligent man and he's got chains on his wrist and he just cries out in broken English, "Give us, us free," over and over. It's just... He doesn't know what's going on in the court proceedings, can't understand a word, but it's clear what he wants. He's yearning for freedom. Pleading with it. And I thought about it, just in terms of so many scripture verses were flooding in my mind. That's how I watch movies. Just, what verse does this make me think of? And so just... And I was just thinking about the yearning that we have to be free from the chains that bind us. And how we can't be free and how Jesus looked on us with compassion and he saw that we were harassed and what, helpless. It says in Isaiah, "The Lord looked and saw that there was no one to work righteousness" and we needed a savior. Jesus is the savior. Well, I'm getting away from the movie which is fine but let me finish the idea. So the court trial goes on eventually to a hearing in the Supreme Court. The case is argued by former President John Quincy Adams. One of the most compelling movie moments I've ever seen. He stands up to make his closing argument, soliloquy and he said, "The center of the case comes down to the basic, the true nature of man." And he cited an article written at that time by pro-slavery senator John Calhoun which asserted that slavery had been woven into the very nature and fabric of human society from ancient history, even back to the beginning of biblical times. And therefore slavery was an essential part of man. Well, Adams strongly disagreed and this is what he said in the movie. He said, "I know this is a controversial idea but the nature of man is freedom. Is freedom. And the proof is the length to which a man or a woman or a child will go to regain it once it's taken. He will break loose his chains, he will decimate his enemies, he will try and try and try against all odds, against all prejudices to get home." Well, I don't watch movies and just take even powerful soliloquies at face value either. So I thought to myself, "Is that true?" I didn't intend to couple the watching of this movie to preaching through Galatians 5, but here we are. And it struck me, they do connect. A major theme in Galatians 5 is the theme of freedom. Right from the beginning in verse 1, "It is for freedom that Christ has set you free. Stand firm then and don't let yourself submit again to a yoke of slavery," Galatians 5:1. So, Christ has died and risen again and the gospel has come to us by his spirit so that we can be set free. And that freedom is fragile and it needs to be protected and it's misunderstood and it can be abused. And we can take this freedom and use it for flesh and for sin and that's the opposite of what Christ intended. But I was led again to think about what is the true nature of man. Is it freedom or is it slavery? Now, we said only God alone has absolute freedom, because this is his universe and we are all creatures in it. It says in Psalms 115:3, "Our God is in heaven. He does whatever pleases him." Our freedom is controlled by God's pleasure. It's controlled by God's will. It's controlled by God's purposes for us. Our freedom has boundaries. "Only God alone has absolute freedom, because this is his universe and we are all creatures in it." There are walls around the freedom that Christ shed his blood to purchase for us. Are we free to do whatever pops in our minds to do, to go anywhere we want to go, anywhere the wind blows? Are we free to do that or are there boundaries? Right from the beginning Genesis 2:16-17, it says, "The Lord God commanded the man, 'You are free... '" These are the first words God speaks in quotation in the Bible to man. "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden." Here's your freedom. "But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." There are your boundaries. "For when you eat of it, you'll surely die." You're free to eat but you must not eat, so it's freedom within boundaries. So, what is the true nature of man? Are we both created... Are we created to be free or are we created to be in boundaries? The answer must be both. Jesus, when he was born as a human being, it says in a very powerful passage in Philippians 2:6-7, "Jesus who being in very nature God," it's an expression used in the Greek, very strong expression, "Being in very nature God did not consider equality with God something to be grasped but made himself nothing; taking the very nature of a slave." That's the Holman Christian Standard translation for that word. "He was as much slave as he was God," it's the exact same Greek expression. He didn't just play at being a slave, he was one even to the point of dying on the cross right to the end of his life. In the same way at the end of this whole story, at the end of everything in Revelation 22, we have this beautiful picture of the new Jerusalem and the new heaven and the new earth in all this glory and beauty. And it says there... This is Revelation 22:3. "There will no longer be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city and his servants will serve him." Interesting though, Holman Christian Standard Bible likes to translate one Greek word to be slaves when it can. A couple of verses later, it says in Revelation 22:8-9, John, he says, "I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had shown them to me but he said to me, 'Don't do that, I am a fellow slave with you.'" Not I was a fellow slave, I am one right now. "And with your brothers the prophets, and those who keep the words of this book," keep means obey, worship God. And it says in Romans 6:22, "You have been liberated from sin and have become enslaved to God." And Paul isn't ashamed of it. Paul a bondslave of Christ, etcetera. So, what is the true nature of man? It's both, dear friends, it's both. We were created to serve and we are created to serve in freedom, in absolute freedom. "What is the true nature of man? ... We were created to serve and we are created to serve in freedom, in absolute freedom." Now, this morning I want to look more deeply into the boundary lines of Christian freedom. I want to talk specifically about this deep and weighty topic. I'm going to ask a lot of you as hearers of a sermon today, okay? I'm going to lay some heavy ideas on you but you will find them almost indispensable going forward in terms of your Christian life. Not so much that the sermon is indispensable or even the questions I'm asking, but these ideas are going to come up again and again and again. II. Free From the Law… or Free To the Law? What are the boundary lines of Christian freedom? What specifically is the role of the law in the Christian life? Post justification, what is the role of the law for us now? As we are justified. We're going to try to answer the questions: In what sense a Christian is free from the law? And in what sense is a Christian still connected to the law? Now, this is a very weighty debate, it's been going on a long time. I'd trace out the history of it but I don't have time. Moving on, you want to know some of the history of the debate? Come and talk to me, but you probably don't. So let's just move on. There are clear assertions in this chapter concerning our freedom and its boundaries. Again, look at verse one, "It is for freedom that Christ has set you free," set us free. "Stand firm then and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery." Then again in verse 13, "You my brothers were called to be free, but do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature, rather serve one another in love." And then the last verse that Tom read a moment ago verse 18, "If you are led by the spirit, you are not under law." So earlier also in Galatians, Paul has been asserting the freedom that all Christians have from the law. He did this because these churches he had planted in Galatia, Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey, after he left, false teachers came in preaching a false gospel. And it was a gospel of a mixture of Christ's work on the cross plus their need to obey the law of Moses in order to be saved. And the best summary of their teaching I found is in Acts 15:1 in which they said, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved." And then a few verses later in Acts 15:5, "The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses." Required for salvation. Paul said this is a false gospel, it's no gospel at all. And he said clearly in Galatians 2:16, "We are justified by faith apart from works of the law." Very plainly, we've been justified, that is forgiven of all of our sins by simple faith in Jesus Christ, not by your obedience, not by your good works, not by your efforts, or by your striving but by simple repentance and faith in Christ are you saved from sin. And then he starts talking about the law and says, "We're free from it." In Galatians 2:19 Paul says concerning himself, "For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God." So I have died to the law now. The law brought me to the point where now I've died to it. And then Galatians 3:24-25 it says, "The law was put in charge to lead us to Christ so that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, we're no longer under the supervision of the law." Galatians 4:4-5, "But when the time had fully come, God sent his son born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law so that we might receive full rights as sons." And then at the end of Galatians 4, he talks about this image of Hagar and Sarah. Sons of Hagar are sons of the Old Covenant born for slavery. They are born in slavery, but we are children of the freed woman, the Jerusalem that's above and she is our mother and we're free. Sinai equals slavery, law equals slavery, we're free now. Free. And this is also taught in many other places especially in the Book of Romans. Romans 6:14 says, "For sin shall not be your master because you're not under law but under grace." Many other verses in Romans teach us. So the summation of all of this is powerful. In some very real sense, Christians are no longer under the law. We died to the law, we're free from the law, the law has ended in reference to us in some sense. But other verses seem to teach the opposite. Like Romans 3:31, he says, "Do we then nullify the law by this faith? Not at all, rather we uphold the law." Alright, how do I understand that? Or even Jesus saying very plainly in the Sermon on the Mount, "Do not think that I've come to abolish the law or the prophets. I've not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them." He says, "I tell you the truth until Heaven and Earth pass away, not the smallest letter or least stroke of a pen will by any means disappear from the law until everything is accomplished. Anyone who practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven, but whoever loses even the smallest of these commands will be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven." Huh, what do we make of that? Or even right in the chapter we're looking at here, look at verse 14. He says in verse 13, "Serve one another in love," and in verse 14 he says, "The entire Law is summed up in this one command, to love your neighbor as yourself." Clearly, Paul doesn't think the Galatians are done with thinking about that or obeying it. He commanded it of them, that they should love their neighbors as themselves. Why would Paul write that if the Law had nothing to do with this whatsoever? Seems to me then, that the law shows us that we're sinful and wicked. We do not obey what God's told us to do, it brings us as broken, helpless sinners to the cross. There we find forgiveness, there we find simply by faith total forgiveness and reconciliation with God and we're given the gift of adoption as sons and daughters and the gift of the indwelling Spirit of Christ who then brings us back to the law and says, "Now obey this." But not for the forgiveness of sins, but so that you may live the most beautiful, fruitful life you can possibly live as a child now of the living God. That seems to be the rhythm that we have here. III. Six Vital Questions The essence of our salvation is justification apart from any transformation in us, just by faith, leading to a continual transformation in which we become more and more obedient to the law by the power of the Spirit. And it's not easy to understand that sometimes. We struggle understanding that. So I wanted to ask some questions and I had a helper in asking these questions. A Puritan pastor who lived in the 17th century, Samuel Bolton. And in 1645 he wrote a little booklet by the title, 'The True Bounds of Christian Freedom.' What are the boundary lines around Christian freedom? The true bounds. And he asked six questions and they became kind of the outline that's going to carry us through the rest of the message. Six really probing questions and these are going to lead us to some very practical important issues in the Christian life, things that you probably asked yourself. This sermon is pretty dense. It reminds me of, I was saying it to my wife, it reminds me of this shipping crate that we paid for with our own money to ship stuff back from Japan and it wasn't by the weight, I don't think, it was by the volume. And I was taking cases off the cassette tapes so that we could get all of them in there. We used cassette tapes back then, some of you don't even know what those are. But anyway, and just things that we've just... I was looking at paperbacks and I didn't like the first half of the book, so we'd rip that and the second half we'd keep. It was that bad. We were just whatever... I mean, that's what this sermon's like. So I guess what I'm saying is, there's going to be a lot of truth that's going to fly by you. I would recommend you go back to the website and listen to it, slow it down because these are weighty questions. And I've summarized basically a 300-page book in the sermon that's about to follow. So yeah, it hasn't even started yet. That's all intro. Question 1: Does our being made free by Christ deliver us from the law? Question 2: Does our being made free by Christ deliver us from all punishments for sin? Question 3: Is it consistent with Christian freedom to perform duties because God has commanded them? Question 4: Can those freed by Christ come into bondage again through sin? Question 5: Is it consistent with Christian freedom to perform duties in order to be rewarded for our obedience? Question 6: Does the freedom of a Christian free him from all obedience to other people? Question 1: Does our being made free by Christ deliver us from the law? Question number one: Does our being made free by Christ deliver us from the law? But what is the law? The word is used in a variety of ways in scripture. Sometimes it refers to the Old Testament like Moses, Psalms, Prophets, the writings, all of that together called law. Jesus called Psalm 82, "It is written in your law, 'I have said you are Gods'", that's Psalm 82, but he calls it law. Sometimes the word is used to refer to just the first five books of the Bible, the Books of Moses. So Moses equals law, that happens a lot. Sometimes it's just the word of God, in general, just anything spoken by God is law. Isaiah one speaks of it that way, "Hear now the law of our God," etcetera. Just anything that God says is law. So that would extend even into the New Testament, any of the gospels, Paul's epistles, Peter's, all of it, law. Now, theologians talking about Old Testament, especially the books of Moses, the law of Moses divided into three categories: Ceremonial law, civil law, and moral law. Now examples of ceremonial law are circumcision, dietary regulations, sacrificial system, worship, annual feasts, clothing regulations, other things like that, things to do with the beards, all those things, ceremonial law that set the Jews apart as holy and enabled them to worship in that pattern. Civil law was the laws by which the nation of Israel were run and operated: Kingship, taxes, property issues, things like that. Scholars tell us that Christians are freed from any observances of those. We don't need to make three times a year pilgrimages to Jerusalem, we don't have to offer bulls or goats or sheep or any of those things, those days are over, we are free from that. But the moral law is different, it seems different, it feels different. If you look at the 10 Commandments, You shall have no other Gods. You shall not make any idols. Remember the Sabbath day. Honor your father and mother. You shall not murder or commit adultery or steal or bear false witness or covet. These things seemed timeless and generally are called 'moral law'. Remember that Jesus's summary of the law, I think tends to point toward the moral law, although it does include the ceremonial and civil law too. But he said, "The first and greatest commandment is this: 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all you strength and with all your mind. [He said] The second commandment is like it; 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'" Very thing Paul quotes in the same text. So I guess I'll just make a simple assertion to answer the question. The moral law, the moral law remains a rule of daily life for God's people, for Christians. We are still obligated in some sense to follow it. When Paul says, "We are free from the law," he clearly doesn't mean we don't need to love God or love our neighbor anymore. Clearly, he doesn't mean that. I can't imagine any Christian teaching that that's true. The New Testament epistles make it clear that the moral law still binds Christians today. For example 1 John 4:21. There the apostle John says, "He has given us this command 'Whoever loves God must love his brother also.'" That word "must," does that bother you? Christians must love God and love neighbor. So the moral law is still binding on us. The very own passage we see that Paul's enjoining the Galatian Christians to serve one another in love on the basis of the fact that the law says, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." And so that's still binding on our consciences. We still must do it. Second assertion though, and this is key in understanding the New Covenant. God's grace continually works in us to enable us to keep the moral law. That's the essence of the New Covenant, that's the essence of the salvation. We are free from the law as it condemns our souls to hell. We are free from the compulsion and the fact that the law doesn't lift a finger to help us. Instead now in the New Covenant, we have been empowered from within by the Spirit to keep it and we're being transformed by that. I love what it says in Ezekiel 36, and this is so beautiful, verses 25:27, there God says to the prophet centuries before Christ what he's going to do in the New Covenant. He said "I will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols." "God's grace continually works in us to enable us to keep the moral law. That's the essence of the New Covenant, that's the essence of the salvation. We are free from the law as it condemns our souls to hell." That is justification, forgiveness of all of our sins. "I will sprinkle water on you and you will be clean. And I will give you a new heart and put a new Spirit in you" that's regeneration. He's changing us from within. "I will remove from you your heart of stone and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you. And I will move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws." Do you see it? It's a whole different stance that we have now. Having been forgiven completely of all of our sins, past, present, and future we do not ever earn forgiveness by future obedience, that never happens. But now having been transformed, heart of stone out, heart of flesh in, yielded and submissive now to God, by the Spirit, we obey God's law. How beautiful is that? And so it says in Hebrews 8:10, "I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their heart." So does being free from the law, does that mean being free from the daily need to obey God's moral law? No, it does not mean that. But it does mean being free from needing to obey it on our own, left to ourselves without the law lifting a finger to help us, only telling us what's right and condemning us if we don't do it, that's what the law does. We are not on our own, we are aided by sovereign grace. And it does mean that we are free from the moral law's power to send us to hell. Amen? Sent to hell because we don't love God and sent to hell because we don't love our neighbors as ourselves, we're free from that. Amen? Instead, now we are commanded to live it out. The moral law, loving God with all your heart, loving your neighbor as yourself, describes the most beautiful, the most peaceful, the most fruitful possible life a human being can live. It describes it beautifully, it is the life that Jesus himself lived every moment. It is the very life the Holy Spirit of God within us is working in us more and more, and it is the life we will live forever in heaven, Amen. We will live the love of God and love of others in heaven forever. Jonathan Edwards preached a great sermon called 'Heaven is a world of love.' Heaven is a world of love. And in it part of the message he proclaimed that since 1 John 4:8 says, "God is love," it follows that, "God is an infinite fountain of love, seeing that he's an all sufficient being, and it follows that he is a full and overflowing and an inexhaustible fountain of love, seeing he is an unchangeable and eternal being. He is an unchangeable and eternal source of love. There, even in heaven dwells that God from whom every stream of holy love, yea, every drop that is or ever was proceeds. The source of all love there has ever been will be right there in heaven." So I couple that statement from Edwards with the beautiful verse in Revelation 22 describing the new Jerusalem. Remember how it talks about that in Revelation 22:1-2, "Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, flowing clear as crystal from the throne, flowing from the throne of God and of the lamb down the middle of the great street of the city and on each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing 12 crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations." Well, there in Revelation 22, it just says it's the river of life but Edwards just says it... We could also say it's a river of love and it flows into us and forever we'll be drinking that healing water and we will bear fruit of love. Love to God and love to neighbor forever. Now, what I'm saying is, that that is the kind of life we can increasingly live here and now by the Spirit. Love for God by the power of the Spirit, flowing from the throne of God and love for neighbor flowing from the throne of God and that is awesome. Question 2: Does our being made free by Christ deliver us from all punishments for sin? Alright. Question number two: Does our being made free by Christ deliver us from all punishments for sin? And we would add, here and now on earth. There will be no punishments, no suffering, no chastisement in heaven. No. But here on earth are we free from all punishments and chastisements for sin? Is it possible, that God can completely forgive us for all sins past, present, and future, cover us in the righteousness of Christ, promise us heaven when we die and still chastises us and punish us for sins that we commit now contrary to his law here on earth? And the answer is, Yes! Absolutely. Not only it is possible, if you're truly a child of God, he will do that for you. It's part of his fatherly love for you to chastise you and to discipline you when you break his laws, when you violate his commands. Alright, there's lots of scriptural support for this. We'll get to one very clearly in Galatians 6:7. It says, "Do not be deceived, God cannot be mocked, a man reaps what he sows." So the law of sowing and reaping points toward punishments for sins. We'll get to that in a minute, and I'm not going to unfold that fully because we'll get a chance in the future, God willing, to talk more. Then there's the clear teaching in Hebrews 12 on God's fatherly discipline. It openly says, "The Lord disciplines those he loves and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son," Hebrews 12:6. Christ himself makes this clear statement in Revelation 3:19, "Those whom I love, I rebuke and discipline, so be earnest and repent." That's the loving language of your Savior. He says, "If I love you, I'm going to rebuke you and discipline you, so be earnest and repent, when you need to repent, repent." There're many examples from scripture, like David and Bathsheba. David was forgiven over his sins but really the rest of his life was impacted by what he did with Bathsheba. We have the Corinthians at the Lord's Supper, where it says that many of them were weak and sick and a number had even fallen asleep because of their sins with the Lord's Supper. That's pretty strong fatherly chastisement. Why did God discipline his forgiven children? Well, he disciplines us, it says in Hebrews 12:10, "For our good that we may share in his holiness." So in order that we may share in his holiness, he is going to discipline us and chastise us for sins. "Why did God discipline his forgiven children? ... So in order that we may share in his holiness, he is going to discipline us and chastise us for sins." Well, what disciplines may we expect? Well, let's start with the law of sowing and reaping. Okay? Perhaps a Christian couple may have premarital sex. It is possible they may have to face the challenging circumstances of premarital pregnancy as well. Just because we're free from the law doesn't mean that we're free from consequences for sin. Alright? Perhaps a Christian may stray into internet pornography, he may lose his job as a result. Perhaps a Christian may get into habits of overeating, he may gain a lot of weight as a result. Perhaps a Christian may get angry and say some very unkind thing to a friend, that relationship may be damaged severely because of that statement that was made. A lie may deeply damage trust. A pattern of laziness can come in resulting in someone failing to do preventive maintenance on the car and not changing the oil, running out to 12,000, 14,000 miles, 16,000, until suddenly, you're hearing some strange sounds from under the hood and you're not quite sure why. The mechanic will tell why. It's like, "I just think to remember putting this decal up here four years ago, what happened?" So law of sowing and reaping, you reap what you sow. We'll talk more about that when we get to, God willing, Galatians 6. But then there's also disconnected fatherly discipline where he sees spiritual attitude, some pride, some spiritual laziness, some other things, and he'll just bring a different unrelated chastisement in your life, like a health issue or a financial issue, and he's just disciplining you. And we should learn to walk in the fear of our father's discipline. You should fear sin and its consequences. That's not a bad thing to do, and just because you are no longer under the law, doesn't mean that you don't need to fear what sin can do to you and what God's fatherly discipline can do. Question 3: Is it consistent with Christian freedom to perform duties because God has commanded them? Question number three: Is it consistent with Christian freedom to perform duties because God has commanded them? Friends, I hope so. How many commands are there in the New Testament? Isn't it nice to know you don't have to obey any of them? That doesn't make any sense! Of course, we must obey God. Being free from the law doesn't mean that we don't obey God, still. Paul is continually giving commands to the people he's writing to. There are many commands in Galatians, like right here in verse 13, "Serve one another in love." That's a commandment. Okay? At the end of the chapter he says, "Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit." That's a command. "Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other." There are some commands. Next chapter, Galatians 6:6, "Anyone who receives instruction in the word must share all good things with his instructor." That's a command. It says in Hebrews, in... Sorry, in Galatians 6:10, "Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who are of the family of believers." There are all kinds of commands. There are many commands in the epistles, many commands in the gospels. It's so clear that Christians must still obey Christ and Christ's message to the apostles even though they are not under law, but under grace. Now, obedience comes from love. Jesus said it very plainly, "If you love me, you will obey what I command," John 14:15. Also, obedience comes from faith. The more you believe in Jesus, the more you'll obey him. Because it says in Romans 1:5, Paul speaks of the obedience that comes from faith. So, a heart filled with love toward Christ and filled with faith in Christ will be an obedient heart. That's the clear teaching of the New Testament. And what will we obey? Obey God's word. Obey God's commandments. Can we call that God's law? Yes, we must obey God's law. But not for the forgiveness of our sins, that's been settled. We are not justified by obedience to the law. It's so that we can live a life pleasing to the Lord, so that we can have fruit for him, so that we can stay away from those wicked moral, immoral things that God says he hates. That's why, we have to be so clear about that. Now, we are free from obedience as if it's a burdensome duty. It says in 1 John 5:3, "This is love for God to obey his commands and his commands are not burdensome." We're free from duty as some kind of a trade by which we earn things from God. We're not workmen; we're sons and daughters. We're not hired hands and we're free from duty as if done by slaves. We don't have the spirit of slavery, but the Spirit of sonship by which we cry out, "Abba, father." So Christian obedience becomes Christian delight. Question 4: Can those freed by Christ come into bondage again through sin? Well, in order to answer this, it's not a simple yes or no. In order to answer this, we have to understand two different kinds of bondage. There is a universal bondage to sin and to Satan as a tyrannical principle, and then there is a partial gradual temporary bondage that comes through false doctrine, believing false doctrine or false living, living in license. We have to make a distinction between those two. Now first and foremost, let me tell you the good news. If you are justified now, you are a Christian. You can never ever sin your way back into Satan's kingdom again. Isn't that awesome? Just think about that. You will never sin your way back under Satan's dominion again. You're free from him, and you'll never sin your way back into condemnation or sin your way back into wrath again. We are free from those forever. Jesus rescued you and he will never give you up, so you cannot sin your way back into that kind of bondage, ever, but you can sin your way into habitual temporary bondage. There are two ways to do it right in Galatians 5. Alright. Galatians 5:1 says, "It is for freedom that Christ has set you free, stand firm then and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery." Clearly, it's talking about the Judaizers, their false doctrine. Don't listen to legalistic doctrine, whether from false teachers that come from the outside or from your own legalistic heart from the inside and you have one. You really do and so do I. We all struggle with legalism, all of us. And so through false understanding of the gospel, you can behave like a slave when you're really a son or daughter. And that's very tragic. You don't need to do it but it can happen. And so you are trying to break free of certain things in your life and you're thinking like a slave, and you're acting like a slave and you're forgetting the cross of Christ and the grace of God and the in-dwelling Spirit and all that, and you're trying to do it on your own. You're acting like Jesus never came. And that's the very danger that Paul wrote to Galatians about. Don't do that. You're free. You are free, so live like it. So don't act in a legalistic way. The proof of the pudding is, what do you do when you sin? And you're convicted by the spirit of sin, what do you do? Now, the two wrong things you can do at that point, legalism or license are both wrong. Okay? What He wants you to do is humble yourself before him, confess your sins honestly and completely to him, be honest with him in what you did, go in your heart again to the cross. Say, "Christ died once for all, he doesn't need to die again, it's sufficient. His blood has been shed, I am forgiven, I am covered by faith alone, by grace alone. Thank you, Jesus." You may need to grieve, and mourn and wail, and deal with the depths of it, that's all fine. But ultimately what you do is you trust in Christ alone for forgiveness. But so many of us are tempted to try to earn our way back in. Try to earn our way back in. Don't do that. So legalism, is one way you can start just acting like a slave, you put chains on yourself through legalistic practices. Don't do that. The second way you can do it is by the bondage of license of sin. Sin is so tricky, and so entangling. It's a net, this big billowing net and you're trying to walk through without getting tangled up, and it's just so easy for sin to entangle you through habit, habitual sin. You get drawn in, you do something once, you jump out, but then you go back in and pretty soon you're just there all the time. A lust can deceive you and surprise you into some sin. Some internet site visited or some movie watched, something like that. Or spiritual laziness can trick you into skipping your quiet time once and then maybe a couple times a week, and then more and more. Or skipping church a little bit more and more just so nice to have Sunday morning to ourselves. And just little by little you're just in bad habits. Proverbs 24, says, "A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a bandit, and scarcity like an armed man." You just give yourself a little leeway, a little license, just a little extra sleep and pretty soon you're enslaved. Some excess enjoyment of various pleasures, not sinful in and of themselves but soon you've built up the habit, living for pleasure, living for things to watch or places to go, or fun things to do, or foods to eat, or for sleep. Paul's clear warning in verse 13 is, "You, my brothers, are called to be free but do not use your freedom for the flesh." He also says very clearly in 1 Corinthians 6:12, "Everything is permissible for me," it's usually in quotations, like, "What you're telling me, everything's permissible for me, right? I can eat anything I want now. Alright, fine, let me go with it." "Everything's permissible for me," as you say, "but not everything's beneficial." "Everything is permissible for me" as you say, "but I will not be enslaved by anything." Are you enslaved by anything right now? Have you enslaved yourselves by bad habits? Are you enslaved to food, or to drink, or to fun, or to sleep, or to things you're looking at? Are you enslaved? Now, these forms of bondage, both the legalism and license bondage, are temporary. And the beauty of the gospel is that any time, you can get out, anytime. That's what it means that you're not a slave. You can walk away. Like Christian and Hopeful, in "Pilgrim's Progress," you have the key right here, pull it out, put it in and walk out of doubting castle. You can do it any time. Those of you that know "Pilgrim's Progress," you know that story, the rest of you don't worry about it. Anyway, you can get out any time. You are free, you don't ever need to sin that sin again, you don't have to work your way back, just stop sinning. By the power of the Spirit, you're free, at any time. So keep in mind, Galatians 5:1 and 5:13, and stay away from those guardrails. And don't go into bondage anymore. Question 5: Is it consistent with Christian freedom to perform duties in order to be rewarded for our obedience? Question number five: Is it consistent with Christian freedom to perform duties in order to be rewarded for our obedience? Are there conditional blessings in this life? And are there conditional rewards in this life and the next life that are based on your obedience to God's laws? The answer is yes. there are. There are some blessings that will only come to you if you obey him. And all rewards are conditional, all of them are conditional on you doing the works that cause the reward. You have to do them to get rewarded. Now, the rewards are a very big topic in the New Testament. Probably the best chapter on rewards, I think, is the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew Chapter 6. Jesus teaches us very plainly and in detail about rewards. He says, "Be careful not to do your acts of righteousness before men to be seen by them. If you do, you'll get no reward from your father in heaven. So when you give to the needy, don't announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues, in the street corners, to be seen by men, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. [Why Jesus?] So that your giving maybe in secret and your father who sees what is done in secret, [what?] will reward you." "And when you pray, don't announce it, and be on the street corners like the hypocrites. But when you pray go into your room, close the door and pray to your father who's unseen, and your father who sees what is done in secret, [what?] will reward you." And when you fast, don't disfigure your face and say to everyone, 'Hey, I'm fasting, I'm fasting all day, but no, it's good, I'm fine, it's all good.'" Don't let anyone know you're fasting. So that your fasting may be in secret. "And your father who sees what is done in secret, will reward you." That's three times Jesus has told you, how you're going to be rewarded for giving to the needy, and for praying, and for fasting, extend that up to all Christian duties, you will be rewarded for whatever good you do in the Christian life by faith for the glory of God, out of love for others. He will reward you, but you have to do those things. He doesn't give the rewards for nothing, they are conditional. There are no rewards for prayer given to people who didn't pray. There are no rewards for Christian giving, given to people who didn't give. There are no rewards for evangelism to those that didn't evangelize. The rewards are conditional, and so Jesus then goes beyond, and this is the clearest statement you can find on this, "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and thieves break in and steal, but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven where moth and rust do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Let me ask you, you study with me the book of Galatians. Can you store up justification by your works in heaven? Please shake your head no, everybody no, no, we can't do that. Can not earn justification. Can you store up righteousness in standing with God by your good works? No. Can you store up enough points so he'll adopt you as a son or daughter? No, all of those things are given by grace. Then what are you storing up so you will be rich in heaven? Rewards. It's the very thing he is talking about all chapter, rewards. Be rich in good works. Be rich in courageous opportunities to share the gospel. Be rich in missions, rich in prayer, rich in generosity to the poor and needy, rich in acts of service to your brothers and sisters in Christ. Be rich, and on the other side of judgement day, you'll spend eternity enjoying those rewards. But they are conditional. The more you do, the more you'll get. The measure you use is the measure you will receive. Now here's something that will blow your mind. All Christians in heaven will be perfectly happy but not all Christians will be equally happy. Work on that one. Alright. Your circuit-breakers are tripping and I see it now... I see some smoke coming up from ears. Alright. Our happiness in heaven will be unmixed by any poison at all. It will be pure. Pure happiness, but some people will have smaller cups and others bigger cups. And the size of your cup is dependent on how you live right now. You live... The measure you use is the measure you'll receive. So be generous now and you'll have lots and lots of commendation and praise from your father in heaven. Those things are conditional. "All Christians in heaven will be perfectly happy but not all Christians will be equally happy." And earthly blessings are also many of them conditional. Some blessings he gives you and you don't deserve it. We don't deserve any of them. All of this is by grace. That's all a sermon for another day. But all of the rewards and blessings are grace but there's some blessings he will only give to people who meet the conditions. Let's take assurance of salvation for example, that's a blessing, to just know, just really know that you're forgiven. But if you're just living in sin as a justified Christian and you're just violating your conscience all the time, God will withhold the blessing of assurance from you, and you won't be sure that you're born again. Conversely, somebody who is sacrificially by the spirit putting sin to death they have a vibrant, a vigorous assurance. Lots of earthly blessings are conditional on your obedience, okay? Lots of verses I'm skipping them. Let's just go on. Question 6: Does the freedom of a Christian free him from all obedience to other people? And then question six: Does the freedom of a Christian free him from all obedience to all other people? No it doesn't, okay? We are commanded to submit to God-ordained authorities. So just because you're under the law, doesn't mean you don't need to obey the civil government, or that you don't need to obey the TSA at the airport. Try that one out, okay? Go ahead and try it; no don't try it! "Hey I'm free from the law, happy condition and right through." Alright, we'll see how long you're happy okay. They [TSA] will make sure you're not. You're going to be spending a lot of time with them that day. So yes, we must submit to God-ordained authorities. We must submit to the government. We must submit to the President and to the senators, and to the lawmakers, and to the state police, and to people who have the right to command us. Wives must submit to their husbands as to the Lord. Children must submit to their parents. Okay? These things are true. Church members must submit to their spiritual leaders. Hebrews 13:17, "Obey their authority," that's what it says. So, yes, we must submit. It says very plainly in Romans 13, "Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, he who rebels against the authorities, rebelling against what God has instituted and those who do so will bring judgement on themselves." Okay. But, obviously, we don't have to obey our human authorities when they contradict the word of God as it says in Acts Chapter 5, "We must obey God rather than men." VI. Application to Unbelievers and Believers So finally, I just want to take a moment and apply these things. If you came in here as a non believer, you are invited here, you've never been. This is a heavy sermon, mostly meant for those that have been thinking about these things for a long time. But there is something here for you. And what I want to say to you is all of that freedom, I've been talking about, it doesn't describe you right now. If you're not a Christian, you weren't a Christian when you walked in here, you're not a Christian now, you're actually a slave of Satan, you're a slave to sin, you can't help but sin. But here's the good news. Jesus Christ Son of God died on the cross in the place of sinners like you and me to give you hope of eternal life. Trust in him. That's all. And as soon as you trust in him, your invisible chains will fall off, and you will be free, as free as any veteran Christian has been in here who's been a Christian for 50, 60 years. You'll be free immediately. Free from all these things. And then you can understand these six questions, and the rest of you look at them. You know how to answer them now. Does being free from the law mean that we no longer have to obey it in any form? No, it doesn't mean that. We still have the moral law. Does our being made free by Christ deliver us from all punishments for sin? No, God may still chastise us and punish us when we violate his law. Is it consistent with Christian freedom to perform duties because Christ has commanded them? Yes, you have entered a kingdom, and there's a king there, and he will command you. But his commands are not burdensome. And he doesn't leave you alone but by the Spirit he enables you to obey them. Can those freed by Christ come into bondage again through sin? No, if that means you're back in Satan's kingdom; but, yes, if you're talking about temporary chains you put on yourself through foolishness, bad doctrine, and willful sin. You can enslave yourself. Cut free. Step out. Question five: Is it consistent with Christian freedom to perform duties in order to be rewarded for our obedience? Yes, all of God's rewards are conditional given to those who obey. Judgment day is clearly a time in which God will give to each person according to what he has done, and that's by God's law. And finally, does the freedom of a Christian free him from all obedience to other people? No, we must still submit to God-ordained authority. Close with me in prayer. Father, we thank you for these things we've discussed today. I pray that these weighty questions and their weighty answers would rest on our hearts that we would understand what kind of life we may now live by the spirit in order to be maximally fruitful, maximally pleasing to you, and bring great joy to our own hearts in Jesus name. Amen.

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