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SPOILER-FILLED DISCUSSION: Join me and my cohosts this week as we time travel back to the age of the Nintendo 64. We are playing "Cavern of Dreams", an N64 inspired 3D platformer where you play as an adorable dragon named Fynn. Save your brothers and sisters from the evil clutches of a mysterious villain as you solve puzzles and help some quirky characters along the way. Tyler 'Bynine' McMaster - https://x.com/BynineB Benjamin 'RetroNuva10' Keckley - https://x.com/RetroNuva10 Tasch Ritter - https://x.com/taschdraws Steam Tutorial - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3121917003

Join me and my cohosts this week as we time travel back to the age of the Nintendo 64. We are playing "Cavern of Dreams", an N64 inspired 3D platformer where you play as an adorable dragon named Fynn. Save your brothers and sisters from the evil clutches of a mysterious villain as you solve puzzles and help some quirky characters along the way. Tyler 'Bynine' McMaster - https://x.com/BynineB Benjamin 'RetroNuva10' Keckley - https://x.com/RetroNuva10 Tasch Ritter - https://x.com/taschdraws

I'm beyond thrilled to shake things up a bit and have a guest join me on the show! My guest Erica Keckley, who you might recognize from the Happy Women Travel More Facebook Group, is a fellow adventurer, middle-school English teacher, book lover, loyal listener of the podcast, and we've been having the most delightful chats about all things travel.  During this interview, she's generously sharing her journey of discovering her and her husband's unique travel styles. Spoiler alert: it involved a bit of trial and error, plus one pivotal trip that was the right destination, but the wrong adventure that led her down the path to taking her best vacations ever. This episode was an absolute blast! Erica's authenticity shines through, and I appreciate how real and honest she got with us. Her story is packed with takeaways that I believe you'll find not only useful but also liberating. So, buckle up for some travel wisdom and fun anecdotes! Connect w/ Erica inside the Happy Women Travel More Facebook Group: https://facebook.com/groups/happywomentravelmore Connect w/ Erica on Instagram: https://instagram.com/wildlifeandwater 

Many remember Elizabeth Keckley from the film “Lincoln” as Mrs. Lincoln's dressmaker and confidant. But the story of the woman behind that film character is much deeper and fascinating and dramatic than most know. Just press play to hear the whole story. ———  Click on search links to see if there are episodes with related content: Cicely Hunter, Black History, People of Note, Women's History, ——— Podcast Transcript: I'm Cicely Hunter, Public Historian from the Missouri Historical Society, and here's history, on eighty-eight-one, KDHX. ——— Black women displayed their skill and brilliance as they wove and stitched together pieces of fabric to create beautiful ensembles. One woman whose ingenuity brought her from St. Louis to Washington D.C., was Elizabeth (Lizzie) Hobbs Keckly (also spelled Keckley). Her toiling and skillful hands whisked her into prominence as she created dresses for President Abraham Lincoln's wife, Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. Widely held as a controversial book, Elizabeth Keckley published a narrative detailing her experiences and life in Behind the Scenes: Or Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House in 1868. ——— Keckley was born enslaved in Virginia during February 1818, and she worked as a domestic servant from a young age, learning how to sew alongside her mother. Keckley's slaveholders moved her, her mother, Agnes, and her son, George, to St. Louis in 1846 in hopes to improve their economic fortune. She was hired out as a seamstress and dressmaker to sustain the Garlands. She expressed, “With my needle I kept bread in the mouths of seventeen persons for two years and five months.” ——— Keckley desired freedom and labored as a skilled seamstress to obtain it, gaining a reputation as the best dressmaker in St. Louis and working with prominent families. Her clients offered to loan her the money to purchase her and her son's freedom, and in November 1855 she borrowed $1,200—about $35,000 today. For the next five years, she worked to repay them. ——— In 1860 she moved east—first to Baltimore and then Washington, DC. She was soon sewing dresses for the wives of Jefferson Davis and Stephen Douglas and her most notable client, First Lady Mary Lincoln who Keckley became her confidante and dressmaker. ——— For more information about St. Louis Black history, please visit our website mohistory.org/aahi. Here's history is a joint production of the Missouri Historical Society and KDHX. I'm Cicely Hunter and this is eighty-eight-one, KDHX, St. Louis. ———

This week, Stauney introduces us to Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley. Born into slavery and working as early as age four, Elizabeth dealt with the injustices of physical and sexual abuse, feeling the full brunt of the rampant racism in early U.S. History. However, Elizabeth would rise far above her birth to go on to buy her and her son's freedom, start a dressmaking business and employ 20 other women, and then spend four years as the personal modiste to Mary Todd Lincoln, the First Lady of the United States and wife of 16th President Abraham Lincoln.  Episodes Like This One: Lil Hardin Armstrong, Women Artists of the Olympics Follow us on Instagram @morethanamuse.podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2023 Predictions Series: Paul Keckley & Chris Hemphill The 2023 Predictions Series continues with Paul Keckley, Managing Editor of the Keckley Report, and Chris Hemphill, Sr. Director of Commercial Intelligence at Woebot Health. Paul and Chris take us all across the landscape to discuss how they expect hospitals and health systems to respond to financial pressures and calls to become more consumer-centric. How can we be more courageous with tackling public policy, bias in healthcare data, and the mental health of our nation? All that, plus the Flava of the Week about looking back and sharing gratitude. How do we break away from the day-to-day demands on our time to be grateful for how far we've come? Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

The 2023 Predictions Series continues with Paul Keckley, Managing Editor of the Keckley Report, and Chris Hemphill, Sr. Director of Commercial Intelligence at Woebot Health. Paul and Chris take us all across the landscape to discuss how they expect hospitals and health systems to respond to financial pressures and calls to become more consumer-centric. How can we be more courageous with tackling public policy, bias in healthcare data, and the mental health of our nation? All that, plus the Flava of the Week about looking back and sharing gratitude. How do we break away from the day-to-day demands on our time to be grateful for how far we've come?  This show is produced by Shift Forward Health, the channel for change makers. Subscribe to Shift Forward Health on your favorite podcast app, and you'll be subscribed to our entire library of shows. See our full lineup at ShiftForwardHealth.com. One subscription, all the podcasts you need, all for free. (#246)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The miniVHAN is excited to welcome aboard Paul Keckley, health care policy analyst, widely known industry expert, and frequent speaker and advisor to health care organizations. We spoke with Paul to get his singular view of the health care landscape today and his thoughts on VHAN's opportunities and responsibilities as a clinically integrated network. Have ideas to share or questions about VHAN and the miniVHAN podcast? Contact us at memberinfo@vhan.com. Guests this episode: - Paul Keckley, PhD – Managing Editor of The Keckley Report

What Policies Can Unbreak Healthcare? Affordability. Value. Accessibility. These issues are driving health systems to change more quickly than ever. But what is needed to better align health care with consumer expectations? Join host Chris Hemphill and Dr. Paul Keckley, an independent healthcare advisor that participated as a facilitator for the Affordable Care Act, as they discuss this and much more. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

Affordability. Value. Accessibility. These issues are driving health systems to change more quickly than ever. But what is needed to better align healthcare with consumer expectations? We discuss this and much more with Dr. Paul Keckley, an independent healthcare advisor that participated as a facilitator for the Affordable Care Act. This conversation is brought to you by Actium Health. For more information about our show or guests, visit hellohealthcare.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What we found to be true: Enslaved people actively participated in the informal and formal market economy.  So much so that Elizabeth Keckley a skilled seamstress whose dresses for Abraham Lincoln's wife are displayed in Smithsonian museums, supported her enslaver's entire family and still earned enough to pay for her freedom.

Learn about Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, the formerly enslaved dressmaker who became a confidante to first lady Mary Todd Lincoln. In 1863 Keckley founded a relief association for newly freed Blacks and in 1868 published her autobiography, Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House,To learn more, read Keckley's autobiography at the internet archive, The Elizabeth Keckley Reader, Volumes 1 & 2, two collections of essays and other published works about Keckley, check out the dresses she designed online, including the one for Mary Todd Lincoln that resides at the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian, or watch her short biography on YouTube produced by the Smithsonian Channel. Keckley, played by Gloria Reuben, is also a featured character in Steven Spielberg's 2012 film Lincoln.More resources:https://www.whitehousehistory.org/from-slavery-to-the-white-house-the-extraordinary-life-of-elizabeth-kecklyhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/obituaries/elizabeth-keckly-overlooked.htmlGood Black News Daily Drops are based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar for 2022,” published by Workman Publishing, and available at workman.com, Amazon, Bookshop and other online retailers.Beats provided by freebeats.io and produced by White Hot.For more Good Black News, check out goodblacknews.org or search and follow @goodblacknews anywhere on social.

When I reflect on Elizabeth's life and legacy, I am acknowledging a woman who demanded freedom and found that through the means of fashion. She was able to build a career for herself, even more notable due to the discrimination and injust circumstances of the time. She became the dressmaker and close friend to the first Lady, and despite their falling out, her dresses remain and are in museums now. From slavery to an estbalished skillful seamstress, Elizabeth Hobb Keckley was quite the woman. LOST HISTORY: Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/c93ebce64726/lost-history-newsletter Socials: https://www.instagram.com/lost__history/ https://www.tiktok.com/@lost__history DEPOP: https://www.depop.com/alexandrarain/ *20% of proceeds will be donated to the Loveland Foundation* WRITING: Growing Pains: https://www.amazon.com/Growing-Pains-Alexandra-Rain/dp/1093543965 Opinion: https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2022/01/19/alexandra-rain-teach/ SOURCES: https://www.whitehousehistory.org/from-slavery-to-the-white-house-the-extraordinary-life-of-elizabeth-keckly https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/black-designers-fashion-history-virgil-abloh-telfar-clemens https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/1850?amount=1200

Joining today's podcast is Dr. Paul Keckley and Nate Kaufman. During this podcast learn how uncertainty is playing a role in healthcare policy and how partisanship has become the driver with more activity going to the state level. They share some of their biggest concerns which includes healthcare expenses going up faster than revenue. They also share their recommendation for the healthcare industry to relook at anything that is tied to patient care and to refocus on hospital operations. And don't miss as Nate and Paul describe the top 3 things they recommend for a CEO to focus on. Dr. Keckley is Managing Editor of The Keckley Report and Managing Partner of The Keckley Group which provides market research, advisory, and policy analysis services to health systems, health insurers, technology companies, and investors.He is widely considered an industry thought leader on healthcare industry trends and regulatory policy and served as a facilitator between the White House Office of Health Reform and major industry trade groups in developing the Affordable Care Act.Nathan Kaufman is Managing Director of Kaufman Strategic Advisors. With over 40 years of experience as a strategist, executive, and negotiator, Nate is considered one of the nation's most experienced industry experts. He is a strategic advisor to healthcare executives, boards, physician groups, and other healthcare companies. He is known for his practical advice focusing on succeeding in the new post-ACA, MACRA, value-based- risk environment. In addition, he is a seasoned negotiator and has successfully completed hundreds of transactions. Resources: Watch Dr. Paul Keckley's Gratitude Symposium Presentation Watch Nate Kaufman's Gratitude Symposium Presentation  Contact:Paul Keckley, PhDManaging Editor, Managing PartnerThe Keckley Report and The Keckley GroupNate Kaufman M.S.Managing Director & FounderKaufman Strategic Advisors, LLC 

Today is the inaugural episode of the Ranching Side Hustle series. We are introducing this concept today with my new cohost, Tyler Keckley. We talk a bit about what we hope to accomplish with this podcast and what Ranching Side Hustle means to us. We then talk a bit about Tyler's operation and how that has evolved for him. We are VERY excited for this series and hope to see it become a podcast all on its own.

This episode of The Executive Compensation Podcast features Virginia Rhodes, partner, and Jeff Keckley, lead consultant, of Meridian Compensation Partners. Virginia has more than 20 years of experience consulting in all areas of compensation including program design, benchmarking, and governance in best practices. Jeff also consults on a variety of issues including peer group selection, benchmarking, and severance arrangements. Many organizations continued to struggle during 2021. Compensation committees face tough decisions in determining executive payouts while taking into account supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, raw material price increases, and other uncontrollable factors. In the podcast, Virginia and Jeff break down various ways companies are adapting annual and long-term incentive programs to cope with these pressures. They talk about why it is easier to make adjustments to annual plans, especially considering that investors and proxy advisors generally have a negative view toward adjusting performance-based long-term incentives after the fact. You'll also learn how companies are designing more flexible plans by adjusting annual performance periods, widening target performance ranges, and building discretion into the plan from the beginning. After you listen, connect with Virginia Rhodes and Jeff Keckley on LinkedIn. This episode is brought to you by Meridian Compensation Partners. Learn more by visiting MeridianCP.com.

In this special episode of The Break Room, you'll hear an insightful, intimate, and intriguing conversation between two industry thought leaders: Privia Health CEO Shawn Morris and Dr. Paul H. Keckley, Managing Editor of The Keckley Report. Hear these two experts discuss Big Tech's role and President Biden's agenda, independent providers and health systems, and much more as we analyze the past, present, and future of healthcare.

HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer interviews Paul Keckley, managing editor of The Keckley Report and author of an upcoming column in hfm magazine about the economy and healthcare spending, public health and the pandemic, and the cost effectiveness of health.   Mentioned in this episode: The Future of Strategic Investment

Dr. John Troup speaks with Dr. Paul Keckley on the future integration of dietary supplements into the healthcare world, including what it will take for dietary supplements to be eligible for FSA/HSA benefits. They explore the influences of the changing self-care industry on disease prevention and optimal well-being. Hosted by: John Troup, Ph.D.

Actors’ Theatre of Louisville Artistic Director Robert Barry Fleming makes the art personal and DC area artist Danielle Drakes talks about her career in this episode that examines the now by looking to the past.

Today we speak with Tyler Keckley, owner/operator of Southern Roots Ranch in Northwest Ohio. Tyler is a first generation cattleman who has an incredible journey to present day. We talk about the challenges of being a first generation rancher, along with the benefits. We also speak about balancing a ranch with an off ranch job, wife, kids, and various other obligations. Check Tyler and Southern Roots Ranch out on Facebook.

Today we speak with Tyler Keckley, owner/operator of Southern Roots Ranch in Northwest Ohio. Tyler is a first generation cattleman who has an incredible journey to present day. We talk about the challenges of being a first generation rancher, along with the benefits. We also speak about balancing a ranch with an off ranch job, wife, kids, and various other obligations. Check Tyler and Southern Roots Ranch out on Facebook.

The ties between health policy and healthcare delivery have been critical, but there has been an ongoing tension between state and federal approaches regarding our industry.  During the coronavirus pandemic, healthcare crisis relief legislation has been passed to support health systems' response to the crisis. Additionally, relaxation of legislation has hastened the adoption of interoperability and telemedicine. In this episode, I speak with Paul Keckley, a healthcare policy analyst and widely known industry expert. Paul is an advisor to healthcare organizations focused on long-term growth, sustainability and advocacy strategies. His past experience includes facilitating sessions between White House Office of Health Reform and major health industry trade groups as private sector input through the Affordable Care Act. Listen in as we discuss how health policy might shift to support our industry in a post-COVID19 world. Show Notes: -      PaulKeckley.com -      Paul Keckley on LinkedIn -      Paul Keckley on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Tuning Healthcare, Paul Keckley, Managing Editor of The Keckley Report, a healthcare policy analyst and widely known industry expert discusses major changes across the industry. Hosted by Nigel Ohrenstein, Senior Vice President at Lumeris, Paul shares insights from his experience in working on the Affordable Care Act, how primary care is evolving, the changing dynamics between payers and providers, and the why leadership, technology, scale and access to capital will support the move to risk. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

As a widely renowned industry expert, Paul Keckley has a first-hand view of the changing forces in healthcare today. In addition to being Managing Editor of The Keckley Report, Paul is a distinguished writer and researcher, who also worked extensively with industry trade groups on the development of the Affordable Care Act. In this episode of Tuning Healthcare, Paul shares insights around key factors that are impacting payers, providers and consumers during the industry’s constant state of change. “There are winners and losers in every sector, and the winners in those sectors have the technology, have the scale, have access to capital. They've got leaders that see a future where they're paid for a result instead of volume. They are looking at individuals, they're not looking at patients, and they're looking at ways of treating that go beyond a pill or a test.”– Paul Keckley In this episode, Paul talks to Lumeris Senior Vice President Nigel Ohrenstein and discusses: • The pace of industry change from volume to value, • Insights from working on healthcare reform and the Affordable Care Act, • The evolution of primary care and where health systems need to prioritize, • Changing dynamics between payers and providers—and who will win and lose in the future, • Private equity interest in primary care models and holistic care, • The importance of leadership, technology, scale and access to capital in enabling the move to risk. Cited works: • Text Message Alert 1 Sound. Available at http://soundbible.com/2154-Text-Message-Alert-1.html. • ECG Sound. Available at http://soundbible.com/1730-ECG.html. • AM Radio Tuning Sound. Available at http://soundbible.com/2099-AM-Radio-Tuning.html. • Intro music. Gordon Household. August 2019. WAV File.

Paul Keckley, researcher, author and managing editor of the Keckley Report, talks with Joe Fifer about social determinants of health and better relationships between clinical and finance.

Paul Keckley is a long-time healthcare policy analyst whose both worked within hospital systems and advised major healthcare organizations, but when he recently collapsed on a golf course due to severe dehydration, he was given an up-close and personal view of the murky world of hospital billing. We spoke to Keckley about his experience, the challenges of deciphering hospital bills, and why he thinks it will be market forces, rather than price transparency, that rein in healthcare costs.

Not Equality in ALL Things (Equality under the Law) Philemon 15-16 and Galatians 3.23-38(29) As you may know, it has been more than two years since I became “the respondent” to complaints about my United Methodist ordination credentials because of my marriage to Jim Schlachter, my life companion for 31 years. The reactions to challenging unjust church law enshrined in the United Methodist Book of Discipline were expected and anticipated. I was prepared for most of the emotional roller coaster. Then, this past March, the North Central Jurisdiction Court of Appeals heard the appeal of the Church’s Counsel (think Prosecuting Attorney). They appealed the faithful dismissal by the West Ohio Committee on Investigation (think Grand Jury) of two of the three charges. They appealed the dismissals. In the hearing at the Jurisdictional Court of Appeals, both I and my counsel were refused voice or standing in the matters directly affecting my sexuality, marriage, ordination, and ministry. They justified it by the policies and practices that flowed out of the Book of Discipline. They denied me fair process. I was betrayed by UM leaders, disciples of Jesus, and reasonable people. I felt betrayed by the book and by the church. You know it, too, through T.C.’s experience and those who’ve gone before her. It has been made clear there is no equality for me or same gender loving people in denominational law. Betrayal is a sad, all-too-frequent, human reality. Filmmaker Ava DuVernay, in her documentary 13TH, explores the history of race and the criminal justice system in the United States. The film's title refers to the 13th  Amendment which freed those held in slavery in the U.S. and prohibited slavery except as punishment for a crime. In other words, it granted freedom to all Americans, except criminals. There's the loophole, written into the 13th Amendment, embedded in the Constitution. It has been used in the historic criminalization of black people and the incarceration patterns that flow from it and the extremist white supremacist activism that leans on it. The betrayal of African-Americans was laid once again in the exception and then entrenched in policies and practices. That’s not equality, that’s criminal! We, United Methodists, also know the implications of fine print!! As long as homosexuality is defined in our church law as “incompatible with Christian teaching,” elected church representatives will concoct demeaning definitions of same gender loving people, establish harmful unjust policies, and develop practices of enforcement to sustain them. As long as homosexuality is described as “incompatible with Christian teaching,” same-gender loving disciples will be betrayed by the book, the church, its leaders, its systems, its pastors, and its congregations. There is NO EQUALITY as long as it remains. In Tony Kushner’s script and Steven Spielberg’s movie, Lincoln, Thaddeus Stevens, who is played by Tommy Lee Jones, was part of a concerted radical strategy to get the Thirteenth Amendment passed and thus abolish slavery in the United States in 1865. The radicals of the day strategized to avoid inflammatory questions about racial equality (namely the full-enfranchisement of voting rights for African-Americans). In order to secure much needed moderate and conservative votes, they withheld that position from the discussion. The vigorous debate in the House of Representatives was transcribed in the Congressional Record. With the poetic license of the movie’s author and director, the key moment was captured like this. Stevens is challenged on the floor of the House to answer the accusation of Representative George Pendleton that supporters of the Thirteenth Amendment believe in equality of African-Americans, slaves and free, in all things including voting. Stevens responds with sarcastic vigor, then thunders at his accuser, “Even you, Mr. Pendleton, deserve equality under the law.” And then to the entire House, “Therefore, again, and again, and again, I say, ‘I do not hold in equality in all things, only equality under the law.’” The House erupts with cheers and jeers. This speech prompts Mary Todd Lincoln who is observing from the balcony in the House gallery to indicate her concurrence with Steven’s point in a remark to her black dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckley. Keckley abruptly excuses herself and angrily leaves. For Keckley, anything less than equality in all things, was equality with an exception. Both Stevens and Mrs. Lincoln betrayed her that day. History shows us Keckley was right. We, United Methodists, know the same when friends and allies stop short of full inclusion and fall short of justice for queer persons, their families, congregations, and pastors. Despite a variety of lived experiences and a diversity of practice across the connection, especially as you experience it here at Foundry United Methodist Church and among other Reconciling United Methodists, all of us are tempted to excuse ourselves angrily and leave!!! Yet we stay. And we fight. And we do what some call “Biblical Obedience” which others call “Ecclesial Disobedience and Covenant Breaking.” Today, we, United Methodists are fighting for and about PEOPLE, no dismissive issue! We are fighting about whether LGBTQ+ people should, on the basis of human dignity and worth, have full rights, responsibilities and respect in our church communities. We, lgbtq+ United Methodists, 1) know only second class citizenship as baptized members. We may not marry our loves in our own sanctuaries. 2) We know only diminished access as called leaders and clergy. We are denied lay and clergy leadership roles, OR encouraged to seek our calling elsewhere OR counseled to live in a closet. 3) We know the personal judgmental assault on our humanity and sexuality. We are the topic of debate without participation, the object of punishment without voice. Yes, we beat our breasts. Yes, we cry out “How long, O Lord?” The book and institution have become an imprisoning force. Where is our Christ? But our greatest betrayal lies beyond us and is even deeper than our own. For us, we know in our bones and in our spirit, that it is the gospel that the United Methodist denomination has betrayed! Into this 50 year struggle for United Methodists, especially in our unique historical context in the United States, ancient and Biblical Philemon has given me vision and courage. Despite its brevity, twenty-five verses on a single page of the Bible, this letter is a profoundly human gift in scripture. When Paul is imprisoned in Ephesus, he is held in custody with Onesimus who becomes more than just another prisoner to Paul. He becomes Paul’s spiritual companion during their shared incarceration which shapes and forms them both. After a time, Paul sends free Onesimus home to Philemon. Now Philemon was the former master of Onesimus who had been enslaved because of indebtedness. Philemon had slammed the door behind Onesimus when he ran away. Upon release from prison, Onesimus was reluctant and afraid to return to that environment. So, Paul writes a letter carried, delivered, and presented by Timothy to Philemon in early faith community in Colossae as a means of re-introduction between Onesimus, Philemon, and the community. This original letter is relevant today because it brings to the center one who has been marginalized. It is the living expression of marginalized and otherwise invisible Onesimus. In this narrative, he stands bravely, freely, and willingly next to Timothy as the letter is read to the congregation in public meeting. During the reading, Onesimus stands as emissary with the letter and watches the faces of those in the congregation who are cheering or jeering his life and faith. This is not Joseph of the Multi-colored Coat standing alone in prison, sensing the presence of the Holy in quiet, desperate isolation. This is not Paul or Silas together in a jail in Philippi, energized by their activist experience, arrest, and singing. No, this is Onesimus, the freed prisoner, returned runaway, now disciple of Christ who is the lead character in his own proclamation of the gospel. Here is the gospel in Paul’s answer to inequality: Onesimus. “No longer a slave, but brother.” That’s the Christian answer to inequality. Onesimus. No longer separated, second-class, diminished, or criminalized! In Christ, each one of us becomes a sibling of Christ in the household of God. In baptism, we are named as Beloved Children of God, siblings to one another. In conversion and confirmation, we claim Christ as our own and are claimed as Christ’s very own. Not equality in all things, EQUALITY IN THIS! Equality in Christ! Freedom and liberation in this Beloved Community! It is not about the charity, patronage, or inclusiveness of Paul OR the transformation, conversion, repentance of Philemon BUT about the particular person, gifts, graces, call, mission, and ministry of Onesimus! When we see it in our queer selves, when others stand with us, we rise! Not just for our lives and loves, not just for ALL people, but freely for Christ and for the Gospel. As Galatians 3:28 interprets, “In Christ there is no division, Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female, among us all are equal.” With, in, and through baptism “in Christ”, you are equal to one another within that community. We are no longer under a custodian, but equal! Philemon, the person, is a perfect test case. As we have seen, Paul sent Onesimus back to Philemon so that Philemon might – that is, must – freely recognize Onesimus by voluntarily fulfilling his own baptismal commitment. Christians cannot be equal and unequal to one another at the same time. Philemon is directed by Paul to live in a completely new kind of relationship with Onesimus in all aspects of their lives. The former habits of their relationship and the power imbalances of it must now change in the house, in the congregation, in the economics of the market, and in the politics of the square. That’s what the General Conference in February 2019 has before it. When the people called-Methodist and its elected representatives freely recognize the equality granted by Christ to lgbtq+ disciples and voluntarily fulfill their baptismal covenant to them, they will and must remove “the incompatibility” clause! Equality under the law! As of old, it is still today, with this radical good news. This gospel is so radical that the church at large has as yet refused to pay it any attention. Therefore, we are called to see ourselves not only as Onesimus but also as privileged and powerful Philemon. There are those among us today and within the United Methodist Church and our Reconciling traditions we do not treat as equal and free. They stand like Onesimus before us. Therefore, we must also face our privilege and power. We are Philemon and have betrayed our own baptismal promises 1) in relationship to women and People of Color, (We have not kept the promises we professed.), 2) in relationship to UM’s from across the continent of Africa in all their diversity (We have minimized their agency, dishonored their faith, and judged the “colonialized” gospel that “we” taught.), and 3) in relationship to lgbtq+ (We have not stopped the harm or held to the full equality and freedom of the gospel we profess.). For our own integrity and credibility, we are invited to make the necessary changes in ourselves for equality and freedom. Paul calls Philemon to renounce his privilege and be willing to suffer loss, both socially and economically. To give up his rights to collect a debt and punish an estranged runaway slave, Philemon must imitate Christ’s own willingness to give up his equality with God. It is personal, not private. It is a public matter, and everyone is watching. Which pushes us to the last challenge? We are also called to be Paul who wrote this missive while in prison for the gospel in Rome when he sent Onesimus back with his letter to Philemon. Paul declared freedom for all while in prison. Was Paul in chains because of the gospel or did the gospel itself put Paul in chains? You see even in freedom we are in chains. So the question is, “Has the UMC put us in chains because of the gospel or has the gospel put us in chains because of the UMC?” Will our love of Christ and practice of love and equality toward all persons bring the UMC to constrain us? It may try. Will the UMC constrain us because of our brave commitment to Equality for ALL? It may try. But we stay and bear witness, not for equality in all things, but boldly for EQUALITY in the Gospel. That’s what makes the church whole and that’s the mission of the church. It is about us, because it is about the GOSPEL! And it’s a pretty good gift for the 23rd anniversary of becoming a Reconciling Congregation. Here’s to another year, and another, and another . . .

In this everyday hero episode we will take a look at a woman who lived an incredible life, Elizabeth Keckley.  Born into slavery, she worked her way to freedom and even into the White House as modiste for Mary Lincoln.  You do not want to miss out on this amazing true story of a hero that has very recently risen to prominence.

Paul H. Keckley, PhD is an Independent Healthcare Research and Policy Analysis. As the Managing Editor of The Keckley Report, a healthcare researcher and widely known industry expert; every week, Dr. Keckley simplifies the world of health policy and key industry trends so you don't have to. In addition to The Keckley Report,  he authors, a monthly column for Health and Hospital Networks and has published three books and 250 articles. During the period preceding the passage of the Affordable Care Act, he facilitated sessions between White House Office of Health Reform sessions and major health industry trade groups as private sector input was sought in the legislation. He serves on the board of Healthways Inc. as an Advisor to Western Governors University and the Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy, and is a member of the Health Executive Network . Paul Keckley The Healthcare Blog - Paul Keckley Sound Health Options

Five years ago, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. And today, we have Navigant's Paul Keckley looking at the goals of the law and discussing what's working and what's ahead for the ACA. So Is It Working? Has it increased access to coverage? Yes, at least for some, and at least for now. Has it reduced costs? It's too soon to know. Has it improved the public's understanding of the U.S. health system? Regrettably no. What's Ahead? The stakes in the states are higher The winners and losers are shaking out Innovators with value-driven solutions are disrupting the status quo The ACA will be a spotlight issue in Campaign 2016 Tune in to listen to more of what Paul Keckley has to say with our host Patricia Salber (@docweighsin).

We talk with writer Joan Gage about Elizabeth Keckley, a largely-forgotten woman who rose from slavery to become a seamstress and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, and who wrote a memoir of her remarkable life. And attorney Joanie Burroughs tells us about Beate Gordon, who almost single-handedly wrote women's rights into the Japanese Constitution after World War II.

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Early and costly proposals for healthcare reform are creating clouds of uncertainty on the healthcare horizon, providing scant relief for organizations stymied by the economy, patient safety issues and internal budget restraints, observes Paul Keckley, Ph.D, executive director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. As he prepares a mid-year review of financial and legislative trends shaping the healthcare industry, Keckley anticipates a slow and bumpy road to EHR adoption and defines the three key elements of the platform for a new generation of care-giving and care consumption at a community level. Keckley examined how the industry is faring in 2009, including the impact of stimulus funding on the industry, the potential and expected shape for reform and other industry trends during the June 25, 2009 webinar, Healthcare Trends in 2009: A Mid-Year Financial and Legislative Update.

Guest: Nancy H. Nielsen, MD, PhD The first of two programs consisting of excerpts of a panel discussion examining the issues surrounding healthcare coverage for millions of uninsured Americans. The panel was presented by U.S. News and World Report's National Issues Briefing, in association with the American Medical Association. Panelists include Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), Senate Finance Committee Chairman; Mary R. Grealy, president of the Healthcare Leadership Council; and Paul H. Keckley, PhD, executive director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. Brian Kelly, editor, U.S. News and World Report, moderates. The panel was introduced by Nancy H. Nielsen, MD, PhD, president of the American Medical Association. Given latest U.S. Census profiles of uninsured Americans, and the obstacles to retaining coverage, including evolving private sector and employee work patterns and gaps in existing health care plans, panelists debate possible solutions -- from group coverage to state and federal benefits plans -- as well as current and emerging solutions from within the Administration and Congress, the presidential candidates, and other experts. The panel was recorded on September 23, 2008, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Guest: Nancy H. Nielsen, MD, PhD The second of two programs consisting of excerpts of a panel discussion examining the issues surrounding healthcare coverage for millions of uninsured Americans. The panel was presented by U.S. News and World Report's National Issues Briefing, in association with the American Medical Association. Panelists include Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), Senate Finance Committee Chairman; Mary R. Grealy, president of the Healthcare Leadership Council; and Paul H. Keckley, PhD, executive director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. Brian Kelly, editor, U.S. News and World Report, moderates. The panel was introduced by Nancy H. Nielsen, MD, PhD, president of the American Medical Association. Given latest U.S. Census profiles of uninsured Americans, and the obstacles to retaining coverage, including evolving private sector and employee work patterns and gaps in existing health care plans, panelists debate possible solutions -- from group coverage to state and federal benefits plans -- as well as current and emerging solutions from within the Administration and Congress, the presidential candidates, and other experts. The panel was recorded on September 23, 2008, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.