Podcasts about one act play

It was an excellent week for Fine Arts. Band and choir participated in the UIL Concert and Sight-Reading, while the One Act Play advanced to Area for the first time in over 10 years!

Stockdale High School One-Act Play earned the District Champions title on Tuesday, March 4, in Cuero. Individual awards include Honorable Mention All-Star Cast Brooke Stahl, Alex Ray, Shawn Dukas, and Sam Burrier; All-Star Crew Maddie Heathcoe; and All-Star Cast Karolynn McKinstry and Kendra Hummel. They competed Friday, March 7, and won second place in the Bi-District competition in Edna and are advancing to the Area competition on April 9 in Seguin. Individual awards went to Outstanding Technician Ana Gray, Best Technical Crew Member Calvin Cowey, Honorable Mention All- Star Kendra Hummel, and All-Star Cast Karolynn McKinstry.Article Link

Poth High School One-Act Play came away from Bi-District competition on Friday, March 7 as Bi-District champions. Several of the cast and crew also received individual honors. Congratulations!Article Link

Live Audio Play Reading of ADULTS, a New Play by Maizy Broderick Scarpa Produced by Sandcastle Theater Company Directed by Lana Richards Stage Management & Production Support by Ariella Wolfe, and J. Lyn Monks CAST MAGGIE: Kathleen A. Poe JO: Sarah Palmero STAGE DIRECTIONS: Sara Curtis ABOUT THE PLAY In the wake of their mother's death, two middle-aged sisters navigate feelings, friendship, and funeral logistics. In real-time and through flashbacks, the sisters grapple with their relationship with each other, their larger-than-life mother, and themselves. Will the bond that's tethered them since childhood survive the seismic shift? CONTENT WARNING PG13; mature themes, reference to death of a parent PLAYWRIGHT'S NOTE We aren't very comfortable acknowledging grief in American culture, nor do we have many spaces that hold the complexity of familial relationships. I hope that ADULTS creates a communal moment of celebration; a place to honor the absurdity, pain, insight, connection, humor, and contradictions of moving through time with people whose love supports, chafes, and reminds us who we are. *If something in this play feels particularly familiar, consider telling someone near you after listening...and inviting them to share their experience in return. – Maizy Broderick Scarpa Learn more about the playwright: http://www.maizyscarpa.com/about.html DIRECTOR'S NOTE In an early conversation, Maizy talked about how ADULTS is in some ways an inverse of the traditional kitchen sink play, where there is an appearance of a happy family and life, but when you look closely there is conflict and darkness and bad-feeling. Instead, the circumstances of ADULTS are very grave, but at its core are two characters who love each other very much. And it's through that love and trust they are able to work through those challenges of life. I'm excited to share the characters and the relationship at the heart of this piece. – Lana Richards SPECIAL THANKS Congregation Bet Haverim, Polly Klaas Community Theater, UC Davis Department of Theatre & Dance, and Sacramento City College Music Department. Graphics by Lynndhop Music by Lesfm (song title: The Beat of Nature) Sandcastle Theater Company is committed to nurturing and producing new plays, growing a broader theater community, and creating accessible opportunities for people to experience original stories. STAY CONNECTED facebook.com/sandcastletheaterco https://instagram.com/sandcastletheaterco www.sandcastletheaterco.org sandcastletheaterco@gmail.com https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/sandcastle-theater-company

Forrest Musselman, from Rushford-Peterson High School, joined Vineeta to preview a weekend of arts at St. Kate's

Forrest Musselman, from Rushford-Peterson High School, joined Vineeta to preview a weekend of arts at St. Kate's

CTL Script/ Top Stories of December 21st Publish Date: December 21st   PRE-ROLL: 01.20.25 ETOWAH MILL HOLIDAY SCREEN & RINK_FINAL From the Ingles Studio Welcome to the Award-Winning Cherokee Tribune Ledger Podcast  Today is Saturday, December 21st and Happy Birthday to Samuel L Jackson ***12.22.24 - BIRTHDAY – SAMUEL L JACKSON*** I’m Keith Ippolito and here are the stories Cherokee is talking about, presented by Credit Union of Georgia.  Cherokee County Asks Lawmakers to Consider Sales Tax Referendum Etowah Teacher Earns National Career Education Award Cherokee Schools Announces REACH Georgia Scholars We’ll have all this and more coming up on the Cherokee Tribune-Ledger Podcast, and if you’re looking for Community news, we encourage you to listen and subscribe!  Commercial: 06.26.24 CU OF GA FREE CHECKING_REV_FINAL STORY 1: Cherokee County Asks Lawmakers to Consider Sales Tax Referendum Cherokee County commissioners are urging the legislative delegation to propose a Homestead Option Sales Tax (HOST) referendum, aiming for a 1% sales tax to eliminate property taxes for homeowners and fund road improvements. The Board of Commissioners approved a resolution for this, seeking a November 2025 ballot inclusion. The proposed HOST would allocate 75% of proceeds to reduce property taxes and 25% for capital projects, primarily roads. A 10-year sunset clause is suggested, allowing voters to decide on its continuation. The initiative aims to benefit both residents and visitors, with a quick implementation if approved. STORY 2: Etowah Teacher Earns National Career Education Award Lt. Col. (Ret.) Stephen Bergey, a career education teacher at Etowah High School, has been recognized as the Region II New Teacher of the Year by the National Association of Career and Technical Education. This award honors outstanding CTE teachers who demonstrate classroom innovation and dedication. Bergey, with a 20-year military and diplomatic background, has led Etowah's JROTC program to numerous accolades, including the 2024 Distinguished Unit Award. He holds multiple advanced degrees and has been elected president-elect of the Georgia Association of Career and Technical Education. STORY 3: Cherokee Schools Announces REACH Georgia Scholars The Cherokee County School District is celebrating its new class of REACH Georgia Scholars, a program offering mentorship and college scholarships to promising middle and high school students. This year, four eighth-graders—Sara Chance, Farrah Fascitelli, Fernanda Hernandez, and Leila Morris—were selected. The district held a signing day-style reception to honor them, followed by recognition from the school board and Superintendent Mary Elizabeth Davis. REACH Scholars who meet program requirements can receive up to $10,000 in scholarships for eligible Georgia universities or technical colleges. We have opportunities for sponsors to get great engagement on these shows. Call 770.874.3200 for more info.    Back in a moment  Break: Drake Realty (Cherokee County) STORY 4: Cherokee County Theater Programs Earn Honors at Regional Contest Cherokee County School District theater programs excelled at regional One Act Play competitions. Etowah High School won the Region 5-6A championship with "Eurydice," while Sequoyah High School won the Region 6-5A championship with "Little Shop of Horrors," also placing third in the 5A state competition. Sequoyah's production will perform at the Georgia Thespian Conference. Both schools received individual honors for acting and technical roles. Cherokee High's Brandon Mears and River Ridge High's Tripp Scurlock earned Best Actor awards in their respective regions, with additional All-Star Cast recognitions for students from both schools. STORY 5: Brooke Ice Tapped as Lead Advisor for Cherokee Fire Explorers Brooke Ice has been appointed as the new lead advisor for Cherokee County Fire and Emergency Services' Explorer program, succeeding Capt. Michael Sims, who led the program for 17 years. Sims, a former Explorer himself, guided the program to numerous successes, including many first-place trophies at competitions and helping over 50 former Explorers pursue careers in public safety. Ice, also a former Explorer, brings extensive experience and passion to her new role, aiming to maintain high standards while introducing new initiatives. Sims will continue to support the program as Committee Chair, ensuring its continued success. Commercial: 12.14.24 FALANY DEC_FINAL STORY 6: Cherokee Commissioners Approve 85 Townhomes on Bells Ferry The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners approved a rezoning request for an 85-unit townhome development on 10.66 acres at 6355 Bells Ferry Road. The development, by David Pearson Communities, will feature owner-occupied townhomes with two-car garages, a pool, and a clubhouse. The project includes 2.25 acres of open space for a pedestrian path. Initially proposed at 102 units, the plan was revised to 85 units after density concerns. The development will have a density of 7.97 units per acre, aligning with county standards. Despite some local opposition, the project was seen as a responsible use of the property. STORY 7: Cherokee County School Board Appoints New Chief Academic Officer The Cherokee County school board appointed Joshua Heath as the new chief academic officer on December 12. Heath, who joined the district in July as the executive director for accountability, succeeds the previous officer who retired earlier this year. With 12 years of educational experience, Heath is also a CCSD parent and spouse of a district teacher. 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Esta semana, en Islas de Robinson recuperamos una de nuestras sesiones de arqueología. Suenan: THE DAVID - "ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER LIFETIME / I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW" ("ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER LIFETIME", 1968) / THE PEANUT BUTTER CONSPIRACY - "DARK ON YOU" ("IS SPREADING", 1967) / CREATION OF SUNLIGHT - "IN THE MIDDLE OF HAPPY" ("CREATION OF SUNLIGHT", 1968)/ DANTALIAN'S CHARIOT - "SUN CAME BURSTING THROUGH MY CLOUD" ("CHARIOT RISING", 1967) / LES FLEUR DE LYS - "GONG WITH THE LUMINOUS NOSE" ("REFLECTIONS", 1968) / PLASTIC CLOUD - "SHADOWS OF YOUR MIND" ("PLASTIC CLOUD", 1968) / THE COLLECTORS - "ONE ACT PLAY" ("THE COLLECTORS", 1968) / THE MANDRAKE MEMORIAL - "STRANGE" ("THE MANDRAKE MEMORIAL", 1968) / THE LEFT BANKE - "SHADOWS BREAKING OVER MY HEAD" ("THERE'S GONNA BE A STORM", 1967) / MUSIC EMPORIUM - "WINDS HAVE CHANGED" ("MUSIC EMPORIUM", 1969) / THE FREDRIC - "LORI LEE LOVELAND" ("PHASES AND FACES", 1967-69) / RUTHANN FRIEDMAN - "THE SKY IS MOVING SOUTH" ("WINDY: A RUTHANN FRIEDMAN SONGBOOK", 1968) / GENTLE SOUL - "THROUGH A DREAM" ("GENTLE SOUL", 1969) /Escuchar audio

Ken shares a One-Act Play he wrote then plays it again, stopping it periodically to explain his thought process and why he made certain decisions. If you're a student of writing this episode is for you! Listen to more podcasts like this: https://wavepodcastnetwork.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Falls City High School One Act Play brought home well-deserved awards from the Area and Regional performances, held April 13 and 23 respectively. Area awards went to: Jacob Ryan, Best Tech Tianna Drumm, All Star Cast Mary Barnard, All Star Cast Sami Saenz, Best Performer Regional awards went to: Sami Saenz – Best Performer Mary Barnard, All Star Cast Gloria Graham, Honorable Mention Tech Crew, Honorable Mention Congratulations to Falls City One Act Play for their hard work and dedication to the art of theater.Article Link

Congratulations to the Falls City High School One Act Play troupe, who advanced to the Area performance in Three Rivers on April 13. Several members of the cast and crew received individual awards at the March 26 Bi-District performance, including Tianna Drumm and Mary Barnard for All Star Cast; Sami Saenz for Best Performer; and Jacob Ryan for Best Technician.Article Link

Congratulations to the Poth High School One Act Play cast and crew, who earned first place in District competition March 20! They will now compete in the Bi-District competition. Several members of the cast and crew received District honors, including Keegan Wallace, Best Performer; Kamryn Hernandez, Emylea Escamilla, and Falin Parson, All-Star Cast; Aldyn Johnson, Avery Dziuk, and Grace Holloway, Honorable Mention All-Star Cast; Ashlyn Danley, Honor Crew.Article Link

Congratulations to Stockdale High School's One-Act Play cast and crew! The troupe earned second place in District competition and will compete in Bi-District March 25-26 at Lackland High School in San Antonio.Article Link

Congratulations to the cast and crew of La Vernia High School's One Act Play, who earned second place in the District competition March 9 at Cuero High School with the play, “The Women of Troy.” They advance to the Bi-District competition, which will take place Friday, March 22, at La Vernia High School! Performances in the Bi-District contest begin at 11 a.m. and are open to the public; tickets are each. La Vernia is scheduled to perform first that day. Congratulations to these individuals on their District awards: •Best Performer — Elise Davis •All Star Cast — Eva Mendoza...Article Link

Congratulations to the talented members of Falls City High School's One Act Play, who will be advancing to the Bi-District performance on Tuesday, March 26. Some members of the cast and crew received individual recognition, including Owen Friesen for All Star Cast, Tianna Drumm for All Star Cast Honorable Mention, Sami Saenz for Best Performer, Mary Barnard for All Star Cast, and Chloe Cavalier for Outstanding Technician.Article Link

Today we'll flex our improv chops at The Royal Y'all Leap Year Comedy Improv Show, at Pacesetter Gallery in Flowood, Thursday, February 29th, with troop member, John Howell and MPB Closed Captioning Supervisor, the soul of MPB's Ed Said, and improv troop member Keri Horn... then we're off to Mississippi State University in Starkville for the 18th Annual Charles H. Templeton, Sr. Ragtime and Jazz Festival, happening now through Saturday the 24th with Charles H. “Chip” Templeton Jr., Son of Charles H. Templeton, Sr. and Director of MSU's Small Business Development Center... before a final stop in Hattiesburg at Janet Langhart Cohen's one-act play, “Anne & Emmett”, presented by New Stage Theatre, happening Tuesday, February 27th at the Thad Cochran Center on the campus of USM…. & of course, we'll let you know what's happening around your neck of the woods! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This Week in TAPPS: We wrapped up two state championships last week with one still going! Hear results and highlights from Fall Soccer, Volleyball, and awards from One Act Play, plus what's coming up this week and next week! TAPPS Tickets: https://tapps.biz/tickets TAPPS TV: https://www.tappstvnetwork.com/TAPPSTV/ TAPPS Photos: https://tapps.smugmug.com/ Follow TAPPS Soccer, Volleyball, and One Act Play on twitter! https://twitter.com/tappssoccer https://twitter.com/tappsoap https://twitter.com/TAPPSvolleyball We are always looking for things to cover in our podcasts. If you have any questions, feedback or suggestions for coverage, please send an email to talk@tapps.biz. Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/matrika/overdrive License code: SQ4Y9EFAA6RUMZ7E

Good fiction justifies its existence by asking a question relevant to the human experience. Derwin and Nick justify the existence of "Spacers: The Ballad of Tommy Sampson" by asking the question, "Who is Tommy?"Good fiction justifies its existence by asking a question relevant to the human experience. Derwin and Nick justify the existence of "Spacers: The Ballad of Tommy Sampson" by asking the question, "Who is Tommy?"

This Week in TAPPS: We're on our way to Round Rock for the #TAPPSfallsoccer Final Four, then out to Waco for the #TAPPSvolleyball Final Four and Kerville for the One Act Play State Championships! But first we have team results from last week's #TAPPScrosscountry State Championships! It's a busy week! TAPPS Tickets: https://tapps.biz/tickets TAPPS TV: https://www.tappstvnetwork.com/TAPPSTV/ TAPPS Photos: https://tapps.smugmug.com/ TAPPS Radio: https://tapps.biz/radio/ Follow TAPPS Soccer, Volleyball, and One Act Play on twitter! https://twitter.com/tappssoccer https://twitter.com/tappsoap https://twitter.com/TAPPSvolleyball We are always looking for things to cover in our podcasts. If you have any questions, feedback or suggestions for coverage, please send an email to talk@tapps.biz.

During a desperate descent into madness, Derwin has decided to write and star in a one act play called, "Spacers: The Ballad of Tommy Sampson!"

This Week in TAPPS: We're out in Waco for #TAPPScrosscountry 2023 AND IT'S COLD AND WET! Dress accordingly or watch live on TAPPS TV! Plus results from the 2023 Fall Band Championships and Field Hockey Showcase last week. In this episode you heard music from the marching band of Nolan Catholic High School in Fort Worth and the drum line of St. Thomas' Episcopal School in Houston from the 2023 TAPPS Fall Band Championships. Get weather updates on Monday's Cross Country Championships on twitter here https://twitter.com/tappsxcountry plus results and updates as we go through each race. TAPPS TV: https://www.tappstvnetwork.com/TAPPSTV/ TAPPS Photos: https://tapps.smugmug.com/ Fall Band Results https://tapps.biz/2023-marching-band-field-band-results/ https://tapps.biz/2023-drumline-results/ Field Hockey Results: https://twitter.com/tappsfhockey Fall Photo Contest Instructions: https://tapps.biz/fall-photo-entry-procedures-atpi/ Follow TAPPS Basketball, Soccer, One Act Play, and art on twitter! https://twitter.com/tappsbasketball https://twitter.com/tappssoccer https://twitter.com/tappsoap https://twitter.com/tappsart Previous Music Competition Recordings: https://soundcloud.com/tappstalk/albums We are always looking for things to cover in our podcasts. If you have any questions, feedback or suggestions for coverage, please send an email to talk@tapps.biz.

This Week in TAPPS: Match Play Golf, Team Tennis, Fall Band, One Act Play, Alignment, Brackets, and more! Match Play Golf Info: https://tapps.biz/athletics/match-play-golf/ Team Tennis Info: https://tapps.biz/athletics/team-tennis/ We are always looking for things to cover in our podcasts. If you have any questions, feedback or suggestions for coverage, please send an email to talk@tapps.biz.

SportsTalk and his compatriot step into the roles of the GMs of their two favorite teams. What follows is an emotional journey of heartfelt goodbyes and new beginnings. We present....Deadline Dealings: A Star Wars Story (all improvised, if that wasn't already clear).

771-Your Life Isn't a One-Act Play

In this episode we explore a very rare piece of work by Raymond Carver, his one-act play "Carnations". Our special guest was a fellow student, friend, and actor involved with the writing and production of this "forgotten" play in Arcata, California in 1962. 

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Gary helps to mark Anzac day, and reflects on the experiences of those who fought in the Gallipoli campaign during the First World War.  As well as the troops of Australia and New Zealand, many Scottish regiments saw action there too, some of whom shared their stories with the late Jock Duncan, and which we now share with you.  We also pay tribute to the late Jock Elliot of G1 Reeds and the Inveraray and District Pipe Band, who sadly passed away recently. Music and clips played1. Daimh, with ‘Jerry's Pipe Jig (Jerry Holland), Slainte do Mhabu (Colm O'Rua), Donella Beaton (George Johnston), Munera e Casu (trad) from Moidart to Mabuhttps://www.daimh.net/2.  Australia Highlanders with ‘From Maui to Koma (B Worrall) and Alive ( C Mathers) from Sans Peurhttps://www.allcelticmusic.com/artists/Australia%20Highlanders%20.html3. Excerpt from Jock's Jocks: a One Act Play, by Gary West. Cast: Scott Gardiner, Chris Wright, Charlie West and Gary West. Based on oral history recordings made by the late Jock Duncan, Pitlochry. Includes a spoken-word version of ‘The Band Played Waltzing Matilda' by Eric BogleThe Book, Jock's Jocks, is available from the Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust athttps://www.gordonduncan.co.uk/4. William Boyle with Stirling Castle, Aspen Bank, The Smith's a Gallant Fireman, The Rose Among the Heather, The Ferryman, Sleepy Maggie, Pigeon on the Gate, The Farmer's Daughter, The Kilt is My Delight, The High Road to Linton (all trad), from Bagpipe Virtuoso 5. Manawatu Scottish Society Pipe Band with The Calling' (S MacKenzie, 98 Jig (Gordon Duncan), The Sporting Pitchfork (trad), The Famous Baravan (Gordon Duncan)https://www.greentrax.com/6. Clip of Mr John Haward, President of Box Hill RSL, Australiahttps://boxhillrsl.com.au/ 7.  Inveraray and District Pipe Band with ‘Amazing Grace' from A Night in That Landhttps://idpb.co.uk/8. Mark Saul with ‘Journey to the Centre of the Celts' from Scotland: the Music and the Songhttps://www.greentrax.com/    Support the show

Summary In this conversation, Pastor Bill and Pastor Newms discuss their study of Genesis chapter two, verses four through seven. They started their study from the beginning of Genesis and talked about how it wasn't a Jewish text initially. They also discussed how the Scriptures were the beginning of the story for the Jews before they went into captivity in Babylon. Pastor Bill reads from the Christian Standard Bible, not because he thinks it's perfect, but because no translation could be perfect as it's impossible to know the intentions of someone when they were writing the scriptures. They go through the verses word by word, looking for words that are different and could indicate that something deeper or more is being said. They discuss the creation of the earth and the heavens, the absence of shrubs and plants, and the mist that watered the ground before the creation of man. They then talk about how the Lord God formed the man out of dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, making him a living being. Overall, their discussion focuses on the deeper meanings and insights that can be gained from studying the Scriptures in detail. The speaker discusses the significance of the phrase these are the records of the heavens and the earth concerning their creation at the time that the Lord God made the earth and heavens in Genesis chapter two, verse four. They explain that while the first part of the phrase is not particularly noteworthy, the second half - which refers to Jehovah and Elohim - is significant as it defines Jehovah as a specific, divine being. This, in turn, gives us an idea of when the text may have been written, as Jehovah is not identified by name until Exodus chapter three. The speaker goes on to mention that this chapter describes the story of Moses and the burning bush, which is where God first refers to himself as Jehovah. The conversation revolves around the book of Genesis in the Bible, specifically the story of Moses and God's revelation of his name, Jehovah. The discussion touches on the idea that Moses might not have existed but the point is that God shared his name with humanity at a certain time. This is significant as it is the first time that God identified himself by name to mankind. The conversation also touches on the structure of Genesis, which follows a pattern of recording human interactions with God and tracking the genealogies of specific individuals such as Adam, Noah, and Abraham. It is noted that Genesis is not a history book but a religious text useful for teaching, correcting, and building up faith. The discussion concludes by emphasizing the importance of understanding that Genesis is a record of oral histories and human interactions with God, rather than a book of direct descendantship or religious clubs. In a conversation between two pastors, they discuss the significance of the story of Abraham in the book of Genesis. They note that Abraham was found faithful and God chose to favor his bloodline, which is why his lineage is blessed and why the scriptures still exist. The pastors also point out that before God whispered to Abraham in the desert, the whole world had forgotten the name of God. They emphasize that Genesis chapter two has ties that are connected to future scriptures and that people refer back to these scriptures frequently. Both pastors agree on the importance of understanding the context of the Bible and how it informs our understanding of God's plan for humanity. Chapters 0:00:00 "Transcript: Season 4, Episode 13 of The Berean Manifesto - Faith, Hope, and Love for the Modern Christian"  0:02:58 Weekly Update: Quizzing Competition and Gaming Beta Testing  0:05:26 Discussion and State Event Anecdote  0:10:21 Transcript of a Podcast Episode: Messing with Children for Fun with a Professional Writer  0:14:44 A Casual Conversation with a Pastor.  0:16:50 A Conversation on Favorite Movie Scenes and Coping Strategies for Bad Days  0:19:52 A Casual Conversation on Coping with Bad Days and Humorous Jokes about Jesus 0:22:54 A Discussion on Genesis 2:4-7: Word by Word Analysis with Pastors Bill and Newms  Analysis of Genesis and Exodus: The Use of Names for God  0:30:02 Analysis of Genesis: The Naming of God and the Cycle of Genealogies  0:37:51 A Discussion on the Significance of Abraham and Genesis Chapter Two in Biblical History  0:39:13 A Discussion on the Cultural and Linguistic Context of the Word "Jehovah" in the Bible  0:41:01 A Casual Conversation between Pastors on Genesis 25  0:46:28 A Discussion on Genesis 2:6-7: The Creation of Man and the Importance of God's Personal Involvement  0:48:46 Analysis of Genesis 2:7: The Formation of Human Beings from Dust  0:59:18 Discussion on the Concept of God's Breath and the Human Soul  1:00:15 A Discussion on the Spiritual Significance of Breath and the Beginning of Life in Different Faiths  1:09:13 "The Berean Manifesto: A Weekly Podcast on Faith, Hop, and Love for the Modern Christian"  Transcript 0:00:00 Pastor Bill: It's. Hello, and welcome to season four, episode 13 of The Berean Manifesto. Faith, Hope, and Love for the Modern Christian. I'm Pastor Bill, and I am joined, as always, by Pastor Newms. And Pastor Newms was telling us about some stuff about his day, and we've just kind of been hanging out while the intro music played because we record this live, right? Every Sunday night we record this live at 06:30 p.m. Central Standard Time. And if you're enjoying listening to this podcast not live, then you might enjoy coming and hanging out on Twitch or Facebook or YouTube in the chat. You froze me? 0:00:52 Pastor Newms: Yeah, I forgot if I opened up my little thing to take a screenshot that it would freeze you like this, but not like that. 0:01:03 Pastor Bill: Why are you screenshotting me? 0:01:05 Pastor Newms: I'm not screenshotting you. Okay, screenshoting a bathroom layout. That is kind of like what I'm talking about, but not quite. 0:01:15 Pastor Bill: But see, we were talking about that before we went officially live. 0:01:19 Pastor Newms: Well, I didn't say what it was. I didn't say why. 0:01:22 Pastor Bill: I didn't say why I was sending you a screenshot of a bathroom. 0:01:25 Pastor Newms: Yeah. 0:01:25 Pastor Bill: Going to randomly throw that in there and let listeners wonder. 0:01:28 Pastor Newms: Let them wonder. Let them wonder. 0:01:29 Pastor Bill: So if you wanted to join us live and be a part of the conversation, you can type in the chat. Like just now, we got a chat message from Zaydie, who's one of our regulars on Twitch. She just said hi, but if at any point she wanted to be more part of the conversation with questions or concerns like last week, like last week, then she could. And I would like to invite everyone who's listening to avail yourself of these technological capabilities as well and join us on Sunday nights when we record live. All right, Pastor Newms, how was your week? 0:02:11 Pastor Newms: Strong breath is a good waves. No, my week was pretty good. 0:02:16 Pastor Bill: Your week was strong breath? 0:02:18 Pastor Newms: Yeah, strong breath like a good strong exhale. No, my week was good. Monday through Friday was just busy, but not bad busy. It was just work busy. And then yesterday, the state finals for the Junior Bible Quiz thing that Seraphina has recently gotten involved in. 0:02:58 Pastor Bill: Was there. 0:02:59 Pastor Newms: And so there were people from across Tennessee, mainly from Knoxville, the Nashville area and then, of course, the Memphis area and then someone from outside the state. But their state doesn't have one, so they're part of our state for the finals. And the number one place gets an automatic the number one team for Quizzing gets to go to nationals and then so many other teams get to go to regionals which then they can try to place in nationals. And so it's kind of cool. And so I coached that yesterday, and so that was a lot of up and down the stairs and a lot of around and around, which is fun, but it was good because the girls had fun and both of them beat their daily high scores, which was good, so it was fun. And then that's really all the only memorable thing I did this week. Everything else was pretty much just normal work. I did finish, not finish. I did more of the Diablo four open beta this week. This is the last open beta before launch on 66, and so that was fun and got to play with that some more, so it was good. 0:04:46 Pastor Bill: Cool. 0:04:48 Pastor Newms: How was your week, Pastor Bill? 0:04:50 Pastor Bill: Well, in my neck of the woods, so last week we had been talking about Gerg and his old One Act Play stuff, and I didn't have all the correct information. So Wednesday they had their, what they were what we called bi-district competition. 0:05:07 Pastor Newms: Okay. 0:05:08 Pastor Bill: Which they placed in one of the top three positions. So they do move on, but apparently they move on from by district into area, and then if they succeeded area, then they move on to region, and if they succeed at region, then they move on to state. 0:05:26 Pastor Newms: Okay. 0:05:30 Pastor Bill: But they only had to do good at by district in order to letter to get a letterman's jacket. So he's going to get a letterman jacket now because of how they did him by district, so that's cool. 0:05:44 Pastor Newms: That is kind of cool. Yeah, that is pretty cool. 0:05:50 Pastor Bill: And then, you know that new little bug on my Windscreen. 0:06:01 Pastor Newms: The Mic isn't new. 0:06:03 Pastor Bill: Why are you pointing at it? 0:06:05 Pastor Newms: No. 0:06:05 Pastor Bill: Transcribing software that I had discovered and started using, and it was kind of touch and go. Yeah, it turns out they were in alpha when all that was going on, and they launched the official beta this week, and I was able to get into the beta, so I'm in the beta for that and that's going well. Yeah. So I've been using some of that. 0:06:29 Pastor Newms: This week, putting a bunch of our stuff in there, just no, but I've. 0:06:35 Pastor Bill: Been going through there and pointing out the obvious. Well to me, obvious to me. Places that need work, need fixed features, they could add, things like that. I still only get a certain amount of time, so I want to go that out appropriately and make sure that all our episodes are actually getting time in the transcriber. So I'm trying to save all of my transcription, allotments to make sure that this podcast is actually getting those first. 0:07:10 Pastor Newms: And then right, that makes perfect sense because that's what we want, because it's a great tool. 0:07:17 Pastor Bill: Yeah, it's really good with the summaries and the quotes and the chapter markings and a world class transcription algorithm that just blows other services like Google out of the water, really is just crazy. Amazing how accurate the transcription is now. It's still got some issues here and there, but it's just here and there. It's not like with Google where I would spend hours going through it and going, well, that's not right, and oh, now I've got to listen to this, and it's to figure out what was actually being said, because this is just garbage on the page here. I have no idea what this transcription was trying to say here. 0:08:05 Pastor Newms: But with. 0:08:06 Pastor Bill: This new service, there's none of that. It's just like a word here or. 0:08:08 Pastor Newms: A word there, which really worries me, because when I was doing the transcription and looking at it, I never noticed any of that where whole areas were wrong. Or I would read it, and it would read fine, and then I'd keep moving on, which really worries me because what was I reading? 0:08:33 Pastor Bill: Yeah, what were you reading? 0:08:34 Pastor Newms: What was my Dyslexia filling in the blanks that Google just left out? And I was just like, yeah, it looks great. 0:08:41 Pastor Bill: Yeah, Gertrude typecat looks great. Yeah, perfect sense. Perfect sense. Good job, Google. Okay. 0:08:53 Pastor Newms: But at least it's not as bad as being AI anyway. 0:09:00 Pastor Bill: All right, so it's your week. You pull a card for the faster, so if you want to go ahead and pull your card for it, get there. 0:09:08 Pastor Newms: I forgot about this whole segment, I'll be honest. Mentally blocked it out. I probably just more grumbling as I do it. Okay, here we go. You ready? Okay, side note. So we're at this state event, right? So there's these churches, Assemblies of God churches from all over the state and area, and some churches that aren't necessarily Assemblies of God, but at one point were. So they're using this curriculum, blah, blah, blah, blah. 0:09:42 Pastor Newms: I hear this little girl talking to her coach, who I find out is also her father, and I don't know. No, I don't know. You will have to ask him. I'm sitting there, and I'm like, what is this little girl bothering her dad about? And there's only a couple of hymns in this room to begin with, because we're moving from room to room, and it's group to group. And that team had four girls, and I've got two girls on my team, and two people up there are girls, and there's one dude, me and him. 0:10:21 Pastor Newms: So I don't know what she's about to ask, either him or me, but that's fine. And these are all elementary school kids. It's kindergarten through fifth grade, I think. Anyway, no 6th grade, because then the teen stuff is 7th through high school. 12th. That's the end goal. So then this little girl turns around, and for those of you out there in podcast land who don't know me in real life, I'm bald. I have a beard. 0:11:01 Pastor Newms: I wear graphic tees. Yesterday. Said y'all need Jesus. Thought it was appropriate. And I have black dipped fingernails like the professional dip nails. And I walk with a cane because arthritis. So I'm sitting there, and this little girl looks at me. But I love to mess with people. There is no people group more fun to mess with than children, though, because children are just they'll almost believe anything. 0:11:42 Pastor Newms: They're fun to mess with. Talking gibberish to a child and acting like it's complete normal while they look at you in fear that they've lost their mind. There's fun things you can do in situations like these types of situations. Excuse me, sir. And she's turned around so she's not talking to the guy in the front. I'm like, yeah, what's up, hon? Do you have children? Do you have girls? Do you have children that are girls? 0:12:20 Pastor Newms: What? Do you have little girls? Do I have little honey, I'm sorry, I'm a little confused on what you're asking. Are you asking if I have? Are you asking if I'm a father of girls like children? Yes. I'm like, okay. And part of that is that's fun. Second part of that is, is she asking if I own dolls? Is she asking, like, there's lots of things that that could also mean. Like, I'm like, I'm not sure what she's at. Like, you know, and I was like, yeah. 0:12:56 Pastor Newms: Mind you, Seraphina is sitting there and she's like, yeah, me? I'm like, hey, turn back around. Where are you supposed to be? Paying attention? 0:13:05 Pastor Bill: And. 0:13:08 Pastor Newms: She'S like, oh, okay. And that's the answer. And I'm like, Why, hon? No idea. I'm not doing anything that is, I have no idea what's going on. Well, why are your nails black? And I'm like and in your mind starts racing 1000 directions of things you can say, ways you can say it, what you could say, oh, well, they just turned this color. There's so many places you could go to just have fun. And so I look at her and I say, do you know what punk music is? 0:14:09 Pastor Newms: Are you familiar with the term grunge? What the dad goes, that 80s rock and roll you don't like? She goes, oh, yeah. I was like, well, in that culture and cultures that came after it, singers, fans, those of us, we wear a lot of black we do black nails. It's good. Oh, okay. So it has nothing to do with. 0:14:44 Pastor Bill: The fact that you have daughters? No. 0:14:48 Pastor Newms: She's like, okay. Because there are people men let their children paint their nails or toenails. 0:14:57 Pastor Bill: I have pink toenails right now. 0:14:58 Pastor Newms: I know, that's why I was saying. 0:14:59 Pastor Bill: Because I have two daughters. 0:15:02 Pastor Newms: It was a funny aspect of and then later I'm sitting there and I'm like, I tell this to Zaydie. And I thought to myself and I said, there was a small part of me that wanted to be like, have you heard of punk? Have you heard of grunge? Are you familiar with Lgbtqia? And just see what happens. But I was like, It's not the time to throw at other churches. And you never know what these children have been. And so I'm like, yeah, exactly. 0:15:44 Pastor Newms: Says black nails just happen when you hang out with bats all the time, they just over time, your nails turn black. But yeah. So I had to share that because I noticed them flash. And I was like, oh, I got to tell you that because it was such a great and the dad's, this big country dude, was wearing the shirt with the pocket and the flaps on the back for the air, even though you know he's not but you know what shirt I'm talking about. If you're from the country, everyone knows what shirt I'm talking about. It allows airflow through the shirt, blah, blah, blah. 0:16:18 Pastor Newms: But yeah. So I'm like, anyway, okay, get to know the pastors. Here we go. I can't answer this question. Pastor Bill, what is your all time favorite scene from a movie? 0:16:39 Pastor Bill: Favorite theme scene? Scene from my all time favorite scene from a movie. 0:16:50 Pastor Newms: All time favorite scene from a movie. What's a part of a movie that you find yourself quoting accidentally? What is that scene that is forever in your mind that you love so much while Pastor Bill is thinking all I will say about two of the first scenes that come to mind, they're both from this movie, so we will not be talking about them. But if you want to, this is the movie right here. All my favorite. This is the favorite. 0:17:31 Pastor Newms: We just passed St. Patrick's Day. They were all over news outlets and stuff because it's a St. Patrick's Day movie right here. All my favorite scenes. Pastor Bill. Go ahead. 0:17:43 Pastor Bill: I have no idea. You love movies. 0:17:46 Pastor Newms: Homie. 0:17:47 Pastor Bill: Yeah, but a scene, a particular scene? No clue? 0:17:53 Pastor Newms: Nothing came to mind? 0:17:54 Pastor Bill: No. 0:17:55 Pastor Newms: Okay, pull another card since neither of us could technically answer it. All right. When you're having a bad day, what is the best thing you can do to help cheer yourself up? 0:18:18 Pastor Bill: Drink a cup of tea and go back to bed. 0:18:20 Pastor Newms: Cup of tea and go back to bed. So if I think about it, Biggs is you can't handle the truth. It's a good scene. 0:18:29 Pastor Bill: You can't handle the truth. 0:18:33 Pastor Newms: My favorite is probably music. If I actually have to recenter myself and focus on my day, I can't just piece out my number one is definitely just go back to bed. Like I will often. Afternoon. Just I'm done. I'm going take a nap. I'll figure it out when I wake up. I do that. But if I have to continue focusing, it's music. It's putting certain music on, depending on what's causing the bad day, will dictate what style of music will help the day be marginally better till I can get to nap time? 0:19:19 Pastor Newms: Yes. The short answer is just nap time. Just go back to bed. 0:19:28 Pastor Bill: Yeah, just go back to bed. 0:19:30 Pastor Newms: There was that old saying, oh, someone must have woke up on bed on the wrong side of the bed today. Blah, blah. And then there would always be that add on. Some people would add they should go back to bed and get back out on the other side. Stuff like that. And you're like, yeah, I agree I should go back to bed, right? Yeah, I agree with you. 0:19:52 Pastor Bill: There's that audio quote from some guru that was going around for a while that says, if the day is Effed F it, just go back to bed. Don't try to fix it. Give up. Try again tomorrow. 0:20:08 Pastor Newms: There is a certain amount of accuracy in that statement of you can't control it, don't let it ruin you. I mean, see, Biggs, I can't do music on all day because of meetings and everything. I can't actually have it fully audible all day. Plus, Me and Sez have very different styles of music. So Me just turning mine on one. But yes, he does that sometimes just for the reaction. He'll do it when I'm in the middle of work, he'll text me and then turn around and just lean back so he could see around my monitors and just look at me, waiting for me to see whatever he sent wherever he sent it. 0:21:28 Pastor Newms: So that way he gets the reaction. 0:21:33 Pastor Bill: But yes, Sez, I mean, Jesus did take naps. Like, he was sleeping in the bottom of the boat, and everybody's like, we're going to die as a horrible storm. And Jesus is down below like, I love sleeping on water beds. This is great. 0:21:55 Pastor Newms: So for those out there, I will read the joke. For those out there who are now going, what is Pastor Bill and Newms talking about? Sez is that why Jesus decided to sleep in a cave for three days? He was having a very bad day. Which I can't say I hate the joke. I really can't. There was a little more work put in than that, but it was a bad day. 0:22:29 Pastor Bill: It was a bad 40 years. 0:22:32 Pastor Newms: It was a bad several years. 0:22:35 Pastor Bill: He was God, and then he became a human being. 0:22:39 Pastor Newms: That's some bad time. 0:22:41 Pastor Bill: That's a bad 40 years right there. 0:22:42 Pastor Newms: He needed a break. All right, what are we even talking about today? I already. 0:22:54 Pastor Bill: So we started this year, this season at the beginning of Genesis. And we went through Genesis One and we talked about Genesis One. Then we went through some in John One, and we talked about how Genesis One isn't a Jewish text per se. It was borrowed from another culture, who, let's be honest, borrowed it from another culture, who borrowed it from another it's one of these things where it was this is common knowledge, and now we're going to include it with what the descendants of Jacob believed. So now we've gotten up to Genesis, chapter two, verse four, which technically was the beginning of the Scriptures for the sins of Jacob, the Jews, the Jewish people before they went into captivity in Babylon, right? This was the beginning of the story. And we're going to do verses four through seven, I believe. I'm going to open my Bible. 0:24:14 Pastor Newms: And. 0:24:15 Pastor Bill: I am going to read from the Christian Standard Bible. Not because I think it's perfect. I don't think any translation is I don't think any translation could be, honestly, because it's impossible to know what the intentions of someone were when they were writing the scriptures that they were writing. And also that would negate the need for faith, and faith is a pretty important thing. Okay, verses four through seven. These are the records of the heavens and the earth concerning their creation. At the time that Lord God made the earth and the heavens, no shrub of the field had yet grown on the land, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted. But the Lord God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground but mist would come up from the earth and water all the ground. Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being. All right, that's Genesis chapter two, verses four through seven. So when we go back through these and we're looking at these word by word, like we've been doing, and we're looking the main thing that we're doing when we're looking word for word is we're looking for words that are different, that are a clue to the fact that there's something more being said there or there's something deeper being said. There's more message there than just the poetic phraseology, the Phrasing that we see at face value, right? And so we get this thing where we read, these are the records of the heavens and the earth concerning their creation at the time that the Lord God made the earth and heavens. These first words, these are the records of the heavens and the earth. There's nothing special there. There's nothing great and hidden there. When the first thing of note that happens in Genesis chapter two, verse four is when we get to that second half of the phrase and we say at the time that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. And here we see the words Jehovah and Elohim. Elohim is still that plural God that we've been using before, but now we've given it a prefixed word that defines the word down into we're not actually talking about the plural gods anymore. Now we're talking about a specific being who is a divine being, right? So we're defining that YEHOVAH is an Elohim. He is this Godly personage. He is this divine personage. And the reason this is actually of note is because it tells us when this was written, or at least it lets us know how early it could have been written. Okay, well, how does that happen? Okay, so God doesn't identify himself with the name Jehovah until Exodus, chapter three. So if you want to turn over to Exodus chapter three, we'll see the first time that God calls himself Jehovah is in verse 14, exodus, chapter three, verse 14. God replies to Moses. This is the burning bush, right? So Moses is walking by looking for a lost sheep in his herd, and he notices that there's a bush on fire, but it's not actually being consumed by the fire. And he goes, that's kind of weird. I'm going to go check that out. So, you know, that phenomena where you're driving by a wreck and everybody's turning to look at the wreck and it's causing traffic. That's what Moses did. I'm going to go check that out. It's none of my business, but I'm going to check it down anyway. And so God is in the bush and he's having a conversation with God. And God says, you need to go tell Pharaoh this is the let my people go speech. And Moses says, well, who do I say is sending me? Yo, wrong script. I'm in exodus 314. 0:30:02 Pastor Newms: Did I. 0:30:04 Pastor Bill: Give her no, it's the right scripture. God replied to Moses, I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites. I am has sent me to you. So in the first place, he says, I am who I am. And this is actually three words that then become the conjunction for the words I am Jehovah. This is the first time that God actually says, my name is call me this. And we know this is the first time because if we turn forward to Exodus six, chapter I'm sorry, exodus, chapter six, verse three, right? And if we start in verse two, it says, then God spoke to Moses, telling him, I am the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty, but I was not known to them by my name, the Lord. And therein the Lord. It says Jehovah in the original language there. It's actually the word jehovah. So God appeared to Abraham. God appeared to Isaac. God appeared to Jacob. God had very intimate conversations with these people. God appeared to Methuselah and Enoch. And God appeared to Noah. Well, I didn't appear to Noah, but talked to Noah through an intermediary, an archangel, but never identified himself by name until he got to Moses. Now, a lot of scholars believe that Moses didn't exist and that the character of Moses is actually an amalgamation of stories from different people over different times. And that's not the point. The point is that God shared his name with humanity at a certain time. And at that time is when they wrote down or after that time is when they wrote down the Genesis account. This. Genesis Chapter Two, right? And so when we get to verse four and we see the word Jehovah, a word that isn't given to mankind for another not 4000, 3000 years. 0:32:58 Pastor Newms: Because. 0:32:58 Pastor Bill: It'S 2000 years from here to 2400 years from here to the flood, and then another 2000 years from there to David. But we're not quite to David yet. So, yeah, it's about 3000 years after creation. 0:33:12 Pastor Newms: 2500. 0:33:15 Pastor Bill: Ish ish somewhere in there. 0:33:18 Pastor Newms: Yeah. 0:33:20 Pastor Bill: So, obviously, it's written after that time because that's where we got that word. That's when that word was given to mankind by God. And so, once again, this is not God saying, this is what happened, right? This is mankind writing down thousands of years later what the oral stories are that they've been passing down and what it is that they believe happened. This is not God telling the story. This is mankind telling our understanding of the story right? Now. Do we believe that all scriptures, god breathed and useful for this and that? And I'm not going to quote the actual scripture from the New Testament, but yes, we believe that God inspired, god breathed, but also at the same time, we're not actually creating a history book here. We're creating a religious text that is useful for teaching, correcting, building up faith, all of those things, not a history textbook. All right, so there is this cycle that happens in Genesis where it says, these are the records, or these are the genealogies of blah. And then it'll fall that cycle again, and it'll do it for Adam, and then it does it for Noah and his sons. Then it does it for Abraham, and it's a cycle over and over again. It's this pattern that they're following. That where they're making a point of showing a line where we've tracked through the oral histories all of the encounters that we know of from God. Now, Moses isn't claiming direct descendantship from Adam as some kind of, look at me, I'm in some kind of special religious club. He's not claiming descendantship from Abraham to be in some kind of club. What Genesis is doing is genesis is recording human interactions with God, whether or not those are following the same bloodline. But it just so happens that Abraham was found faithful and that God chose to favor his bloodline. And that is why we still have these scriptures, is because the line of Abraham is blessed, because Abraham was faithful. If it had been someone else that had heard the whispering of God's voice in the desert and had listened, it would be some other people, would have been the favored people of the Lord. But in that story of Abraham, the whole world had forgotten the name of God. They had all forgotten who God said he was. In the beginning, nobody knew what the name of God was anymore. God hadn't actually told people what his name was yet as far as Moses was concerned. And so God comes whispering to Abraham, and Abraham believed that the voice was God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness. Sorry. Excuse me. All right, so that was Genesis 24. And I know I'm building a lot of future look into this. The thing is, we couldn't do that in chapter one because they weren't connected to anything. They literally weren't connected to the rest. But chapter two numes. You're on mute. I can see you agreeing, shaking your head and stuff, but you're on mute so nobody can hear you. 0:37:51 Pastor Newms: I wasn't saying I'm just nodding sorry. 0:37:53 Pastor Bill: Okay. 0:37:54 Pastor Newms: Yeah, I hadn't actually said anything. I actually checked when you said it. I was like, am I? And I look in my bouncing because I'm a nasal breather. 0:38:04 Pastor Bill: Anyway, so Genesis chapter two, though, has all these ties that are connected. And as we progress further, we're going to see in the future people referring back to these scriptures over and over and over. And so we don't want to ignore what other people built onto this. But we couldn't do that with Genesis one because it wasn't actually tied to the rest of the story. It was separate and was adopted. Right. And so there are times in the future we'll say, well, in the beginning, blah, blah, blah, but it's different. It's different because this is actually written within the culture that's then referencing it later. And so it's all this web that we're looking at. And so we're trying to approach it from a learning standpoint. That's why there's more pulling in of future events that is going on now, because they're actually connected. 0:39:13 Pastor Newms: Yeah. And that's exactly how it really is. When you look at stuff like that, it's interesting where the name Jehovah as it is truly comes from and how the etymology of it that at what point in time we added a J, at what point in time, all those types of things to the translations as well. It's interesting to see those aspects. 0:39:44 Pastor Bill: Yeah. The word Jehovah that we then call Jehovah. 0:39:48 Pastor Newms: Yeah. 0:39:49 Pastor Bill: And even that word itself, can we talk about that word for a minute? 0:39:52 Pastor Newms: Which word? 0:39:54 Pastor Bill: Jehovah. 0:39:56 Pastor Newms: Which word? 0:39:57 Pastor Bill: It means oh, I'm sorry, H3068. It means the self existent or eternal. Moses says, who should I tell them is sending me? And God says, the God that exists because I want to. I self exist. I exist because I want to. 0:40:26 Pastor Newms: Yeah. When we jump to Exodus 314, when you're talking about, wait, I just did what Biggs did earlier, where I stayed in Genesis and turned to 314, as opposed to so obviously you were like, oh, what? Obviously it is genetic. And I had the exact same moment he did earlier, where I was like, that verse doesn't have that in it. And I went, oh, yeah. Hey, look. Like father, like son. Look at that. Look how that happens when you look at that. 0:41:01 Pastor Newms: I am that I am even in it. It's to exist. That is to be to come to pass. That is that which what also where. 0:41:21 Pastor Bill: Is. 0:41:24 Pastor Newms: Because I is it's such an interesting aspect that what was the first. 0:41:38 Pastor Bill: Thing in all of creation, god going, I want to I want to exist. 0:41:46 Pastor Newms: Okay, so I'm going to say something and this is definitely also they did numsian aspects. This is not Berean ecclesiaste. This is. Just news. There is no way in any universe ever. And I'm sure I'm wrong, so I'm fully aware that I am wrong in what I am saying that God said I Aunt Two, as you just said. 0:42:20 Pastor Bill: Just like you thought I was mispronouncing doggone if before we get to heaven, Jesus, God's like, welcome home, folks. 0:42:34 Pastor Newms: Actually a redneck to be very upset with myself for saying this, but there. 0:42:43 Pastor Bill: Is no way we're all going to get our Glorified buys. We're all going to be just fat butter balls running around. 0:42:52 Pastor Newms: Where I'm going with my thought process. I'm like, I'm going to be mad at myself if I'm wrong. But no, there's no heavenly language that sounds like that. 0:43:12 Pastor Bill: But he will sing the people who talks like that in their life, and that makes them comfortable. And to the person sitting next to them who was royalty and was very well put together, god will sound majestic. 0:43:24 Pastor Newms: And royalty bib overall, I swear, that's going to mess me up. That's going to mess me up something great. What's really going to be funny is if he shows up, however they show up with just despite me at this point, just once, just once, right when I come over the gate. Hey, I'm joking. 0:43:51 Pastor Bill: Are you always the one saying I had a sense of humor? 0:43:54 Pastor Newms: I'm joking. I really am. I promise. Here it is. And then I will be in overalls, as Big said, be just stuck in it. Okay. 0:44:09 Pastor Bill: All right. Genesis 25. No show up on the field had yet grown on the land, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted for the Lord god had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground. So we've got this very human centric point of view going on where the author is trying to make it clear, very clear where we are in the story, right? God created the heavens and the earth, and this is an account of everything that happened. But where we are in the account, there's no shrubs, there's nothing growing, there's no plants, there's no mankind even. There's no rain. Mist is just coming up out of the ground. I find it interesting that they thought about the mist, though. They're like, yeah, the mist, the mist came up out of the just like it does now. When we get dew, we get the morning dew. There was morning dew. Yeah, that's all there was, though. 0:45:14 Pastor Newms: There was dew and fog. 0:45:16 Pastor Bill: Yeah, there was just dew and fog. 0:45:22 Pastor Newms: I will say, and I'm sorry for all of Podcast Land, because it's my fault. Since we had the joke, all of your country has come out and you've leaned into it more accidentally because I made you fake it, and now you've made it. Just throwing that out there, that was one of the most Twingy readings of five I have ever heard in my entire existence. That you fight so hard to not come across as that across the podcast. And I just threw a wrench at 50 minutes in tonight of just here is Decatur Bill, as opposed to Bill. 0:46:05 Pastor Bill: Let me hit reset on my there's. 0:46:08 Pastor Newms: Your regular podcast voice. 0:46:12 Pastor Bill: Take out the hit. Okay, so that brings us to Genesis Two Seven, because all of Two Six was all about the mist, right? All of Two Six was about but there was mist. 0:46:28 Pastor Newms: The whole face of the ground. 0:46:31 Pastor Bill: I also find that everywhere it missed. It everywhere. There was nowhere that it didn't miss, basically. 0:46:36 Pastor Newms: And that's part of that whole at this point in the creation story, there is no desert. 0:46:45 Pastor Bill: Maybe I think it's basically all desert, but with misty. Right? 0:46:50 Pastor Newms: That's what I'm saying. It's not like nothing is dried out, but nothing is like vegetative as the mist comes and there's not as much of everything. 0:47:13 Pastor Bill: Okay, then we get to Genesis, chapter two, verse seven. Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being. That is the most toned down way to say such an amazing thing ever, right? Okay. So the Lord God jehovah elohim the self existent god personally. Right. So we have this formed, but then it's got the 8th attached to it, h 853, the 8th that we talked about before, where it denotes that it wasn't just a divine command. It was God got down in the dirt and personally did the forming. He didn't outsource this to someone else. 0:48:21 Pastor Newms: I will say my favorite parts. First off, I find it funny Big said wet sand, which really works with the analogy that's given, which is a potter. But I love the words it says to compare to is to mold into form. But before that, it's squeezing it into shape. 0:48:46 Pastor Bill: And I love the squeezing into shape. 0:48:51 Pastor Newms: It's not the drop it on the thing and make a pot. 0:48:55 Pastor Bill: It's the. 0:48:59 Pastor Newms: Squeezing and going, okay. No, okay. You know, I just it's such a good word that is just form, which is a very boring word for what that word, actually, that word means English sucks. Anyway. 0:49:27 Pastor Bill: Okay, so it says the Lord God formed the man. Right. But it doesn't actually say formed the man. It says personally molded human being. It doesn't identify human being as male, yet it says it created the human being. It doesn't say it created the man, Adam. It created human. It it's out of and there's this word that then it uses that it hasn't used yet that if you're looking at in the original language and you're going along and you're like, okay, cool. Okay, we're building up. We're getting momentum. And then you hit this roadblock where you hit this word, AW far. Now, AW dom is human being from ruddy, from blood in the cheeks. And that's fine. That's H 120. That kind of works. We've heard that before. That fits with what we're looking at. Even the word for soil or country, earth, ground is 127. And then we get to off far and it's like, it's kind of this stumble. It's the word dust as powdered or gray, hence clay, earth, mud, ashes, dust, earth, ground, mortar, powder, and my favorite rubbish. So remember now remember these are disconnected, but remember in Genesis one, they said the earth was formless and void. And it uses this word that is a euphemism for cesspool, for just disgusting, just mix of all this primordial ooze. This is basically this chapter's equivalent of saying god didn't use the good stuff. God didn't go to the top of the mountain and get the holy dirt. God went down and he got the bad stuff. He got the worthless stuff. He got the stuff that shouldn't have been elevated into humanity and chose that medium. He chose to elevate what was the lowest of the available building blocks. And it's this weird speed bump when you're going through it. And it still doesn't make any sense to me why? Except there is some kind of beautiful, poetic, I don't know, contrast there that the whole universe, the heavens and the earth and their stars. And he's called up the ground and he's commanded all this stuff to happen. And then he chooses the rubbish, the mortar, the powder, the ash and mud, the clay, the gray powdered dust, the wet sand, the bad wet sand, even. 0:53:21 Pastor Newms: Yeah. And one thing I find interesting is when you look at that word, 860, 83 and in strongs, it says it comes from this word which is only used the other word is only used once in the KgV overall. But it's either meaning either to be gray or perhaps rather to pulverize. And you're like to be dust, to be cast into dust. It's not a nice because I was like, why is it just bad dust? Okay? It's gray dust, like not even like the good dust that blows through it's. 0:54:18 Pastor Bill: Like when you were talking about it, it wasn't that they put it on a potter's wheel and turned it and made it no, this is the stuff that the potter has on his hands. When he's done that, he then goes like this and claps his hands and a cloud of dust comes off of his hands. That is the unusable stuff. That's the stuff that we're made out of the stuff that any reasonable potter would go, there's no value there. I can't use that for anything. That's just the rubbish. That's just the leftovers of creation. I made all this beautiful stuff. And this is the refuse pile. I'm going to use that to make my prized possession. Okay? And then the beautiful part comes where okay, so he's formed and molded this human being, not male human being, not female human being, but human being. And he breathes life into it. But it's not just breathing life into it. It is Nesh AMA. It's H5397 the breath of life. And this word is a puff that is wind, angry or vital breath. Divine inspiration, intellect. Intellect for human or animal, it is a blast of breath. It is the soul, it is the spirit. All of these words. There is this idea that comes from the word life here I think sorry, I've got a poll in the middle of my screen and it's making it hard to read some of the stuff in esore. 0:56:30 Pastor Newms: Turn that sound off. 0:56:33 Pastor Bill: Okay. I can't remember where it comes from but there's this idea that God took a chunk that this breath is a chunk that God took of himself and shoved it into man. Right? That the whole breathing poetic euphemism is just that just a poetic idea trying to describe God taking a chunk of his own divine self and putting it into mankind. And I wish I'd written more notes on that because I've looked at it in the past and tracked down where that idea comes from. But for some reason I didn't actually include it in my notes for bringing that to you guys. It's an idea that's rejected by a lot of theologians because theologians deal more in the gnostic, more in the scientific. Well, we can see it talked about more and more and less in the mystical and less in faith necessarily. But there's a lot of mystical stuff going on here and so it's not a big jump to read this and agree with the idea that this divine inspiration, the intellect, that this soul, the spirit is actually a piece of God. One of my commentaries, though believe it was keel and Delich called that belief as tantamount to what's the word my mind just went blank. Heresy. Heresy. Tantamount to heresy to say that the human soul, the human spirit is a piece of God. I don't know though. I'm kind of inclined to agree that we're born with a piece of God in us and we move forward in life and it's our duty to find faith in order to go back to spend eternity with God. 0:59:18 Pastor Newms: So I think part of it is that breathed into. So I find it interesting sometimes when we look at people's thought processes around it but when it's like the swab test with saliva when you breathe out there's bits of you in what you're breathing out. And so to me it's kind of like that. Like there is that aspect of because I think some people take the. 1:00:15 Pastor Bill: Where. 1:00:16 Pastor Newms: God took a piece of himself and put it they're like, oh, well, that means you think that you're part God. And it's like, no, there's difference between having a piece of something and being something. And I think that's where some people have a real big hiccup with that thought process is just because words are hard. 1:00:45 Pastor Bill: But words are hard. 1:00:47 Pastor Newms: It's that aspect of often the you know, if you breathe on something, you got spit in your breath all the time. I know I'm equating this to the physical, but there is that aspect. And so with that, well, that's basically. 1:01:11 Pastor Bill: All of what Genesis is doing, right? Trying to everything to physical way we can understand. 1:01:17 Pastor Newms: And so when we look at that breathing, when you breathe into someone, stuff moves between it's one of those aspects. And so I think that's where and I don't remember we've talked about it before, so I tried to find it quickly if I could in past notes and things, but I couldn't. But it definitely is a belief that I think some people struggle with. But to me it's that piece of connection also. It's the part that allows us to connect as we are. Three parts that breathed in part is the part that allows us to connect to God as being created by Him. So that's what I wanted to say about that. 1:02:31 Pastor Bill: Yeah. Let me look up something right quick that just dawned on me. I don't want to say it and then it'd be a bunny trail, wild goose chase. Right. So Psalms 42. And if we start at verse five why my soul are you so dejected? Why are you in such turmoil? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him, my Savior and my God. I am deeply depressed. Therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Herman, from Mount Mizar. Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls all your breakers and your billows have swept over me. The Lord will send his faithful love by day his song will be with me in the night a prayer to the God of my life. So that's the verse that I've heard preached where it's talking about the deep within David, his soul, his spirit. He's comparing that to God as being the same type of being the other Deep. Deep cries out to deep on twitch says the other Abrahamic. Faith still equate the first breath a baby takes as a soul entering the body. My Islamic friend D, when we had talked about this, he talked about the heartbeat after ten weeks was when his faith taught him that was when the baby had a soul. And so I don't know if that was just his particular sect of Islam, but yeah, his group very much believed that the baby had a soul before it took its first breath outside of the body. But yeah, the Jewish faith for a very long time, not so much anymore, because Jewish faith is more secular now than it was before. But the Jewish faith itself believed for a very long time that the first breath a baby takes is when it becomes a living being. Which is why you find scriptures that talk about if you're getting into a fight and you accidentally hit a pregnant woman and the baby dies, then you just owe reparations to the family. It's not considered murder. It's just considered you offer them reparation is because they believed that it wasn't a living spiritual being until it took its first breath. Now, we believe a lot of what modern Christianity believes about when a baby becomes a living being is based off of scriptures that talk about God forming the baby in the womb and God knowing you before you're born. All of these things lead to the belief that, well, that baby is a living being that has a relationship with God and there is a deep crying out as deep already from within the womb. And so it's an issue that everyone has to deal with on their own, between them and God. Not saying that in a judgment way. I'm saying that in a literal, I trust you to work out between you and God what you believe on that issue and how you're going to handle yourself and your life, and you will, no matter what, always find love and acceptance from this guy. I wish there were better resources in this country, in this world to prevent unwanted pregnancies, to prevent rape and incest, to prevent hungry children, to prevent women getting pregnant when they didn't want to, when they weren't ready. And we don't live in that world. We just don't. And I can't, at the one hand, say one thing and then the other hand condemn someone who's a victim of the systemic world that we live in that found themselves in a bad situation either. So, anyway, I totally didn't intend to talk about those type of topics tonight, but we kind of touched on that a little bit there. All right. The Berean Manifesto is a weekly podcast that comes out on Wednesday nights at 07:00 p.m. Central Standard Time. If you found this talk helpful or you've enjoyed it, or you think it might be helpful to someone else, you can, like, share, follow, send this episode to someone else. You can go to our website, ekk house, and on there you can find out which Facebook, which Twitch, and which YouTube that. You can come and join us live on Sunday evenings at 06:30 P.m. Central Standard Time when we're recording the podcast. And as you've heard tonight through the chat there, you can actually be a part of the conversation and bring up things that you know about, like says did about Abrahamic faiths or like Biggs did about wet sand earlier, and just be a part of the conversation. It deepens the conversation. It brings more meaning to what we're doing, and it really. 1:09:13 Pastor Newms: Is. 1:09:15 Pastor Bill: The vision of what we want this to be is more interactive and less preachy and more exchanging. All right, that's all I have for tonight and Pest News. Did you have any final thoughts you wanted to tag on here at the end before we no, not really. Okay. 1:09:37 Pastor Newms: I think the important ones we talked about. Yeah. 1:09:45 Pastor Bill: Okay. All right. We love you guys, and we hope you have a great week. 1:09:49 Pastor Newms: Be safe out there. 1:09:51 Pastor Bill: And until next time. Bye.

Congratulations to members of Falls City High School One-Act Play for their winning performance at the Bi-District competition in Kerrville! Falls City was one of three schools advancing to Area on Saturday, April 1, in Three Rivers.Article Link

East Central High School's One-Act Play has advanced to Bi-District! Individual awards include Best Performer, Christian Nathaniel; All-Star Crew, Syd Urias; All-Star Cast, Emanuel Lopez; Honorable Mention All-Star Cast, Aden Farris; and Honorable Mention All-Star Cast, Sa'Nyah Crockett. The team will compete in the Bi-District contest Thursday, March 23, at 4:30 p.m. at Madison High School in San Antonio. Good luck!Article Link

This week is National School Social Worker Week and we have the best group in the state who serve each of our campuses! We also discuss our One Act Play advancing and last weekend's North Texas Teen Book Festival was attended by 20 scholars from across AISD.

Brent mentioned The One Act Play is going to State on Friday. Also how students and staff are participating in the Vasaloppet this weekend. Maren talked about her part in the One Act Play, tennis, National and Minnesota Honor Society and her plans after graduation. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wcmp-news/message

On this edition of The Arts Section, host Gary Zidek sits down with the executive director of the Gene Siskel Film Center, Jean de St. Aubin. The longtime arts leader is stepping down next month after 20 years at the helm of the acclaimed cinema organization. Theater critic Kerry Reid stops by to talk about a new production of the musical TICK TICK BOOM! Later in the show, Gary catches up with the curator of 20th annual CUT TO THE CHASE One Act Play Festival. And Gary checks in with Julie Tiao Ma, the president of the Chinese Fine Arts Society to learn more about some of the Lunar New Year programming taking place over the next couple of weeks.

This Week in TAPPS for Monday, November 28th, 2022. In this Episode: Football State Championship Lineups, Cheer State Championships, Esports Venue Announced, One Act Play on TAPPS Talk. Football fan info: https://bit.ly/3tZuWoC Cheer fan info: http://bit.ly/3idU9Jb Visit our website tapps.biz/talk

Hear what One Act Play is like from the people who made it happen this year. Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/infraction/high-school License code: QRCGPAMBJZIFSWKL

It's Monday, November 14th, 2022, here's what's in this episode of This Week in TAPPS. Hear straight from Last Week's Championships in One Act Play, Volleyball, and Fall Soccer, plus updates on football, cheerleading, fall photo, and all state meetings taking place this week. We've got a preview from our upcoming episode on One Act Play, hear from some of the judges in this year's competition and from some winning directors. Full episode later this week.

Happy Halloween! We're coming to you from the 2022 Cross Country State Championships in Waco and we have a lot going on this week in TAPPS. Get information on today's championship along with interviews from two coaches competing today, fall soccer season nearing the playoffs, volleyball area games approaching, a recap of last week's Field Hockey championship along with SMH coach Valerie Lohr, plus reminders for AD's and head's of school. In Fine Arts we've got One Act Play district results coming in (before they are even posted) and a recap of last week's Fall Band State Championships. And more! Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/jonny-boyle/ska-of-the-mountain-king License code: FVGTLYJHK42CUHZV

Hear John, Gazelle, Scott, Kimberly and Jacob talk about the One Act Play Viable and how it is bringing hope and healing to one audience at a time – while also raising support for the sponsoring pregnancy clinic as a … Continued

This is an our Monthly Professional Development with Educational Theatre Consultants. We've had many requests to republish is for you. In this episode, Billy explains the process for cutting a play for contest.   Educational Theatre Consultants Get theatre related PD each month, a community of theatre educators with whom you can share, and access to our online classes. For $35 a month, tax fee, your school can invest in your Theatre professional development. https://educational-theatre-consultants.mn.co/  

We hope you enjoyed your Labor Day Weekend! News on transfer deadlines, AEC election results, eSports, One Act Play, and more This Week In TAPPS. Transcript here: https://bit.ly/3D2yyfd

I geeked out a bit over this one. Tony Award nominee, Jennifer Schriever was amazing to chat with. Such a down-to-Earth person and has already created such great work. Enjoy this week's chat with someone outside of the state of Texas and One-Act Play.    https://jenschriever.com/ @mrblakeminor https://blakeminor.com  

In the past, you had to play sports to earn a high school letter jacket. But these days, they're awarded for a variety of activities, and some Floresville High School students recently “lettered” — in One-Act Play! Cast and crew of the Floresville High School One-Act Play all received enough points during the 2021-22 contest season to earn their letter jackets. While most of the cast and crew had already lettered in other activities, three members — seniors Evie Kirschling and Zeke Edwards, and junior Vincent Violeta Agquiz — gained their jackets in One-Act Play and collected them in early...Article Link

Gordon "Gordy" Wiseman—better known as Gabriel Emanuel—wrote Mr. Begin, a one-man play about the life of renowned but controversial Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, nine years ago. But in May, Israel awarded it and him the prestigious Prime Minister's Prize for 2022, an award that only goes out every year to a select few artists. What's less common is for the award to go to a Canadian. While Wiseman now lives in Israel, he's originally from Winnipeg, born into an artistic family. His three brothers all work in the arts: Ron is a musician, Howie is a filmmaker and Bob was a founding member of Blue Rodeo. Gordy, pushed by his parents to get a real job, became a lawyer. But the law couldn't contain his artistic impulses. Mr. Begin delves into the lessons and legacy of the sixth Israeli prime minister's career, echos of which resonate deeply with the country's messy modern-day politics. Wiseman believes it isn't a coincidence that it took an outsider, a Canadian, to analyze and dive into the issues. Now, with this award under his belt, Wiseman joins The CJN Daily to explain why he hopes Canadian Jewish theatres will mount the play, which dives into uncomfortable issues surrounding Israeli politics, warfare and anti-terrorism measures, including Israel's involvement in the infamous Sabra and Shatila massacre. What we talked about: Visit Gabriel Emanuel's website Watch a trailer for _Mr. Begin_ Listen to Gabriel Emanuel's music Read about Israel's cycling team Credits The CJN Daily is written and hosted by Ellin Bessner (@ebessner on Twitter). Victoria Redden is the producer. Michael Fraiman is the executive producer. Production assistance by Gabrielle Nadler and YuZhu Mou. Our theme music is by Dov Beck-Levine. Our title sponsor is Metropia. We're a member of The CJN Podcast Network. To learn how to support the show by subscribing to this podcast, please watch this video.

Steven Kane is an American television and theater writer, producer and director.Personal Life: Steve Kane was born in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, where he graduated from Cherry Hill High School West as a proud member of the 1985 and 1986 New Jersey Knowledge Bowl Championship Teams. His rock band, Next Century, almost came in third in back to back "Battle of the Bands" contests (Kane played key-tar) but he did manage to win consecutive "Best Director" awards in the school's annual One Act Play festival. He also had a girlfriend.Flush with these early successes, Kane went on to major in English and French at the University of Pennsylvania before attending graduate film school at the University of Southern California. His USC Masters Thesis, a short film entitled Heroic Symphony, garnered awards at film festivals around the country. He had several girlfriends during this time.Career: Kane got his start in the entertainment industry writing and directing independent film and theater. His first feature film, The Doghouse, won Best Director at the NY Indy Film Festival. His collection of One Act plays, Out of Your Mind, had a successful run in Los Angeles at the GuerriLA Theater.His television credits as a writer and producer include The Closer (for which he received an Edgar Nomination), Major Crimes, Alias, NCIS, and Without a Trace, as well as comedies American Dad and Curb Your Enthusiasm. From 2012-2018, he served as Creator, Executive Producer, and show runner of TNT's The Last Ship, a post-apocalyptic drama based on William Brinkley's novel of the same name.In 2019, it was announced that Steven would join the HALO series at Showtime as Showrunner, Head Writer, and Executive Producer.Dramatizing an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant, Halo the series will weave deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the future. In a war for humanity's very survival, our deadliest weapon is our greatest hope.See Master Chief, Cortana, the Covenant, and the other Spartans of Silver Team more in this epic trailer for the new Paramount+ Original Series, Halo. Find the Halo, win the war. Stream the premiere of the new original series Halo on Thursday, Mar. 24, exclusively on Paramount+.In its adaptation for Paramount+, HALO will take place in the universe that first came to be in 2001 with the launch of Xbox®'s first “Halo” game. Dramatizing an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant, HALO the series will weave deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the future.The series stars Pablo Schreiber (the Master Chief, Spartan John-117), Natascha McElhone (Dr. Halsey), Jen Taylor (Cortana), Bokeem Woodbine (Soren-066), Shabana Azmi (Admiral Margaret Parangosky), Natasha Culzac (Riz-028), Olive Gray (Miranda Keyes), Yerin Ha (Kwan Ha Boo), Bentley Kalu (Vannak-134), Kate Kennedy (Kai-125), Charlie Murphy (Makee) and Danny Sapani (Captain Jacob Keyes).

Steven Kane is an American television and theater writer, producer and director.Personal Life: Steve Kane was born in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, where he graduated from Cherry Hill High School West as a proud member of the 1985 and 1986 New Jersey Knowledge Bowl Championship Teams. His rock band, Next Century, almost came in third in back to back "Battle of the Bands" contests (Kane played key-tar) but he did manage to win consecutive "Best Director" awards in the school's annual One Act Play festival. He also had a girlfriend.Flush with these early successes, Kane went on to major in English and French at the University of Pennsylvania before attending graduate film school at the University of Southern California. His USC Masters Thesis, a short film entitled Heroic Symphony, garnered awards at film festivals around the country. He had several girlfriends during this time.Career: Kane got his start in the entertainment industry writing and directing independent film and theater. His first feature film, The Doghouse, won Best Director at the NY Indy Film Festival. His collection of One Act plays, Out of Your Mind, had a successful run in Los Angeles at the GuerriLA Theater.His television credits as a writer and producer include The Closer (for which he received an Edgar Nomination), Major Crimes, Alias, NCIS, and Without a Trace, as well as comedies American Dad and Curb Your Enthusiasm. From 2012-2018, he served as Creator, Executive Producer, and show runner of TNT's The Last Ship, a post-apocalyptic drama based on William Brinkley's novel of the same name.In 2019, it was announced that Steven would join the HALO series at Showtime as Showrunner, Head Writer, and Executive Producer.Dramatizing an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant, Halo the series will weave deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the future. In a war for humanity's very survival, our deadliest weapon is our greatest hope.See Master Chief, Cortana, the Covenant, and the other Spartans of Silver Team more in this epic trailer for the new Paramount+ Original Series, Halo. Find the Halo, win the war. Stream the premiere of the new original series Halo on Thursday, Mar. 24, exclusively on Paramount+.In its adaptation for Paramount+, HALO will take place in the universe that first came to be in 2001 with the launch of Xbox®'s first “Halo” game. Dramatizing an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant, HALO the series will weave deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the future.The series stars Pablo Schreiber (the Master Chief, Spartan John-117), Natascha McElhone (Dr. Halsey), Jen Taylor (Cortana), Bokeem Woodbine (Soren-066), Shabana Azmi (Admiral Margaret Parangosky), Natasha Culzac (Riz-028), Olive Gray (Miranda Keyes), Yerin Ha (Kwan Ha Boo), Bentley Kalu (Vannak-134), Kate Kennedy (Kai-125), Charlie Murphy (Makee) and Danny Sapani (Captain Jacob Keyes).

Members of Floresville High School's One-Act Play invite the public to their performance, “As It Is In Heaven” by Arlene Hutton, an award-winning play that gives audiences a glimpse into the lives of nine Shaker women and their experiences of visions, gifts, and angels. This powerful play resulted in seven All-Star cast, four Honorable Mention, one Best Performer, and four Honor Crew awards for FHS One-Act Play, who are the 2022 reigning District Champions. The group has advanced at Zone, District, Bi- District, and most recently, advanced to Area competition for the first time in school history! See them live...Article Link

The Floresville High School One-Act Play advanced to Area competition for the first time with their incredible performance at the Bi-District contest of “As it is in Heaven,” by Arlene Hutton. They also brought home individual awards for Zeke Edwards, Honor Crew; Evie Kirschling, All-Star Cast; Sarah Middleton Jay, All-Star Cast; and Jaylee Jarzombek, Honorable Mention All- Star Cast. They competed at Area on April 2 at MacArthur High School in San Antonio, and while they did not advance to Regionals, the students walked away with several individual awards to Haidyn Greenwell, Honor Crew; Jaylee Jarzombek, Honorable Mention All Star...Article Link

The Stockdale High School One-Act Play troupe is headed for Bi-District competition. The La Vernia Foundation for the Arts congratulated the troupe March 22, and presented them with a check for 0. This contribution supports the drama program, acknowledging the cast and crew for advancing to UIL Area competition, which takes place April 1 at Highlands High School in San Antonio. The play, directed by Stockdale High School teacher Randy Lynn, is “Peter Pan: The Boy That Would Not Grow Up.” “This is a great accomplishment for Stockdale High School, as this is the first time in school history that...Article Link

Congratulations to the Falls City High School One-Act Play company for finishing first in District competition on March 12, in San Antonio. They competed at Bi- District on March 17 in Kerrville, finishing third and advancing with their show “Blithe Spirit.” They will perform at the Area competition on April 2, at Falfurrias High School. Students honored with District awards include: Best Performer, Trey Saenz; All-Star Cast, Lauren Dziuk, Jeweliette Graham, and Sami Saenz; Honorable Mention All-Star Cast, Madi Ryan, Kassie Liska, and Hagan Boysen; and Outstanding Tech Award, Shelbi Moehrig. Bi-District honors went to All-Star Cast, Sami Saenz and...Article Link

Episode 31 - Weekly Recap and Interview with Xavier Contreras and Macey Hein. Weekly Recap of spring sports, UIL journalism, One Act Play, and FCCLA happenings...then an interview with a couple of senior athletes Xavier Contreras and Macey Hein. 

La Vernia High School's One Act Play cast and crew have cause to celebrate — they're off to Bi-District competition! The play, “The Cry of the Peacock” won in the district contest March 5. Individual honors also were awarded: •Outstanding Technician — Johnny Tolly •All-Star Cast — Grace Breithaupt and GraceAnne Weaver •Honorable Mention Cast — Heydon Kelly and Carly Weiss. Congratulations!Article Link

Congratulations to the Poth High School One Act Play cast and crew, for winning the recent district contest! The troupe also garnered several individual recognitions — Best Performer, Billy Johnson; All-Star Cast, Falin Parson; All-Star Cast Honorable Mention, Keegan Wallace; and Outstanding Technician Award Team, Gabi Rodriguez. The play is under the direction of Dr. Tiffany K. Polasek. Break a leg at Bi-District!Article Link

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Episode 128 Hello and Welcome to another potentially useful episode of the TCAPSLoop Podcast! I’m not entirely sure if I’m legally allowed to introduce the co-hosts without first asking their consent so you'll have to listen for that reveal.     TCAPSLoops Moment of Zen A little consideration, A little thought for others, makes all the difference. - A.A. Milne Turns out Social Media isn’t all bad. I was browsing through teacher twitter a few weeks ago and came across a great tool shared by our #edtech hero, Liz Kolb concerning student privacy and immediately thought this would be a great pod topic. Not surprisingly Danelle and Stephie saw it too and had started scripting out a one act play based on the chart. Sadly, Stephie and Danelle were not quite prepared to share the trailer for the their new production but they do share thoughts on student privacy and copyright in the classroom.    Potentially Useful Links: Digital Legal Responsibilities for Teachers chart by Liz Kolb   Ethics in a Digital World by Kristen Mattson   Creative Commons Licenses   Tech Tool of the Week:  Sources for Icons Use with attribution - https://www.flaticon.com/ Freely use (but cannot sell)  - https://fonts.google.com/icons      Thanks for listening and inspiring!  

This episode features our EdTC Professional Development on cutting a play for competition.    We hope you will join our Professional Learning Community. https://community.educationaltheatreconsultants.com/plans/107265?bundle_token=828293b2e81060592ec158f022abad0a&utm_source=manual    

Cast members of Nixon-Smiley High School's One-Act Play competed at Davenport High School on March 5. Although the team did not advance, the entire cast received acting awards! This was a phenomenal feat, as the cast had only six rehearsals together prior to the contest. Great job, team!Article Link

Helen discovers something very unsettling about her boyfriend of two years, whose nickname is 'The Handler'.

We have a great COVID-19 dashboard to celebrate and we're closing the gap on our Wildly Important Goal. Also included in this episode are discussions about the upcoming colorguard championships and the bi-district qualifying One Act Play at AHS!

A one-man table reading of a one-act play that was inspired by the various customers' interactions.

Congratulations to the Falls City High School One-Act-Play cast and crew for advancing to Bi-District! Each member of the cast garnered awards at their recent competition, including Sami Saenz, Best Actress; Trey Saenz, Juliette Graham, and Lauren Dziuk, All-Star Cast; Madi Ryan, Chance Krudwig, Kacey Zaiontz, and Kassie Liska, Honorable Mention All- Star Cast; and Abbie McReynolds, Outstanding Tech Award. Great job, everyone! Good luck at Bi-District!Article Link

East Central High School's One-Act Play will compete at the UIL District 27 competition on March 22. Students Rayne Pollard and Ethan Soltero secured top-performer awards. Emory Kennemore, Illiana Perez, and Sergio Aguilar received awards for their performances. Kirstyn Urias received an award for her work on the technical crew.Article Link

This week, Maddy and Will talk to Hannah and Matthew from theater. We discuss One Act Play, plants, and overalls.

The cast of Pella Christian’s One Act Play, including Trent Van Gilst, Caleb Belzer, Seth Van Gelder, and Lauren Dunsbergen, discuss earning All-State nominations from the Iowa High School Speech Association.

One Act will be performing tomorrow night in hopes of winning region, so make sure you come on out and support this great group of students!

In this short episode we speak with two people about the upcoming One Act Play competition. How will the judges prepare for a competition where different schools are operating under different sets of COVID-19 guidelines? How, if we are able, will we put on an in-person championship? Find out in this episode of TAPPS Talk. Follow TAPPS One Act Play on twitter https://twitter.com/tappsoap Find out more about this podcast as well as links to subscribe on our website https://tapps.biz/talk/ See what competition looked like last year: https://tapps.smugmug.com/ Catch up on the full webinar for One Act Play directors: https://youtu.be/sNsYk8hkFiM

How Do I know, an original play is performed audio only. Written by Matthew Garlin and starring Amelia Smith and Matthew Garlin.  A young couple waiting for when the wife is going to deliver their first child, question if they are going to be good parents.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/matt-garlin/support

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What does the Future of Cybercrime Look Like? Find out in this solo Brett Johnson episode. Brett interviews a well-respected cybercriminal who owns several Telegram Channels. But there is a catch. The guy refuses to have his voice heard and will only communicate by text. For our listeners and because Brett Johnson is THAT guy? Brett plays the part of the criminal in what promises to be one of the most interesting, educational, entertaining, and enlightening podcast interviews of the year. Also featuring a new Fake News Report Segment. The Unethical Life Segment will Return with the next solo episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode I have the chance to interview Zoe Sanders who wrote the one act play, Torn. I was also able to speak with Isabel Berry about how she came to direct the play for a recent 24 hour theatre festival at Hammond High School. You'll want to listen to this entire episode because you'll have the opportunity to listen to a performance of this play in its entirety. You're in for a real treat! 

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Acting Out at CBU... Tonight, the annual Elizabeth Boardmore "One Act Play Festival" begins. Meet some of the people involved to get a sense of what you can see on stage. Todd Hiskcock is the Artistic Director of the Boardmore Theatre. Bridget Baldwin is a playwright and director. And actors Graham McNabb and Bryan Nash give a preview of "This is a Chair", which is directed by Bridget.

In this epic, long awaited, much anticipated, never duplicated episode of Ramble On About Movies, the Ahoys will discuss all of those things mentioned in the title, plus CLASSIC Batman photo over reactions AND OUR video game adaptations. Neat! As always, like, comment, subscribe, and share! Let us know what you think! Follow us! On Facebook: www.facebook.com/RambleOnAboutMovies On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXN302AJIgATdUzH8Gdlnhg?&ytbChannel=Ramble%20On%20Movies On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/rambleonaboutmovies/id1097862476 On Podomatic: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/rambleonaboutmovies On Twitter: @RambleOnMovies @Handsome_Cheese @OhHiDanNye

Join us with our guest Stephen Henel from local Albany theatre, Confetti Stage, as we talked about stand-up, one act play festivals, The Theatre Association of New York State (TANYS), abstract theatre, and theatre ghosts! 

In this episode, Annie discusses with Billy how the Texas UIL One-Act Play contest has affected his life and has impacted educational theatre in Texas.   

What an honor to have dinner with Mr. Luis Munoz, all the while picking his brain about One-Act Play, high school theatre, classic movies, and much more. Enjoy this interview with one of the most fascinating minds in theatre education to ever live. Make sure you subscribe if you enjoy the show. @mrblakeminor - Twitter @MinorWisdom - Facebook

Jessica joins Jim again for a fun discussion of TRUE DETECTIVE Season 3, CAPTAIN MARVEL, OZARK, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT and how she broke his heart on Valentine's Day! (GASP!)Director of the Netflix sensation ABDUCTED IN PLAIN SIGHT comes Skye Borgman comes to talk about the movie that has the whole nation talking! (note: there is some electronic interference for about a minute of her interview. It will pass. Well worth the listen.)We talk to Louis Hunter of the Deep In The Heart Film Festival and Jim uses the 3RD RAIL segment to...congratulate someone for doing it right.Check out ONE ACT PLAY by Landry Gideon.Jim's Marvel Rankings:MARVEL COUNTDOWN Captain America: Winter SoldierAvengers Infinity War. Captain AmericaGuardians of the Galaxy Civil WarThor : RagnarokAnt ManSpider-man HomecomingIron ManAvengersBlack PantherGuardians of the Galaxy 2Ant Man and the WaspCaptain MarvelThe Incredible HulkDoctor StrangeThorIron Man 3Iron Man 2Avengers 2Thor: Dark World

Cam and Steven visit with AHS senior Ben Hahn about this year's one-act play production.

In this episode, the guys put commentary to the 1986 cult musical Little Shop of Horrors. The guys discuss the roots of this as an Off-Broadway Musical and who from this cast was in the original stage cast, the resume of Director Frank Oz and the musical connection between this movie and Disney. Joe talks about a terrible One-Act Play that he wrote in high school. Todd brings up a hoax that had Disney bringing a park to Toronto and the guys pay tribute to John Candy. Joe reveals who could have been in this movie and who was almost forced into this movie against Frank Oz's wishes. Joe explains the technical aspect of shooting the singing scenes with the Audrey II puppet. For Extra Credit, we recast the movie for a modern day remake. Find our T-shirts on Teepublic https://www.teepublic.com/stores/miscast-commentary

Day 195.B. I mentioned in a previous episode a short one-act play I wrote called "Rocks". I used this as an example of how subjective comedy can be. I personally had a lot of fun writing this little play but still wonder if I will probably ever be the only person in the world that finds the play amusing. This episode, I do a cold read of the play for your listening (dis)pleasure.

On this edition of Fort McMurray Matters, Diana Moser and Hanna Fridhed discuss the upcoming One Act Provincial Festival in Fort McMurray on May 25 and 26.

Hosts, Jordan and Skye, sit down with cast members of ORHS’s one act play, Tracks.

Pastor Mike acts out a one act play based on Jonah 3:1-5, 10

In our final episode of the fall season, J-B alum Austin Penfield sits down with his former teacher, and 2-time defending D1 champion head volleyball coach Tera Stutheit. They talk about Tera's coaching background, how she has also been involved with the One Act Play, and what's it's like being around this group of girls.

Jen Browne is back to discuss upcoming fall events for the Center for Literary Arts. The One Act Play festival returns to the Palace for it's 8th season September 30, 2017 at 7pm.  Playwrights from all over the world submitted work and the winners have been announced.. do not miss this event. Purchase your tickets at Main Street Books in Frostburg, Allegany Arts Council, and CLA.  The Fall Reading Series Starts this September 19th. All of the reading series will be held at 7:30pm at the Lyric Theatre 20 E. Main Street Frostburg that is free and open to the public. This series features Charley Henley, Chauna Craig, and Robert Earl Price.  Coffee with the Writer an informal discussion with writers with coffee and pastries with writers from 10-12pm on the first Saturday of each month with Frank Senese and Barry Weinberg in October 7 and November 4; drink hot Clatter Coffee and eat the sweet treats from Lorenzo's  Stop into the CLA they are open Monday and Friday from 12-6pm Wednesday 12-2:30pm Saturday 9-4pm 

Heidi joins us to discuss the 7th annual One-Act Play Festival that is being held September 24 at the Palace Theatre in Frostburg MD. This is the one and only festival in our area to feature new original work. Three One-Act plays will be performed and a discussion will take place after each performance.  The Center of Literary Arts is located at 22 East Main Street in Frostburg, MD they host several events throughout the year including the Indie Lit. Fest happening Oct. 14-15 2016.  Check out the CLA's Podcast "The Speakeasy"        Enjoy!!

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Episode 51: Two One Act Play Interviews   This week we look back at two podcast interviews before TFP ever existed. It's two one act play interviews: Ruth Wareham shares her production experience with Emotional Baggage and Billy Houck talks with his students about performing two plays from A Box of Puppies. Show Notes A Box of Puppies Emotional Baggage Subscribe to The Theatrefolk Podcast On iTunes. On Stitcher. Episode Transcript Welcome to TFP, The Theatrefolk Podcast. I am Lindsay Price, resident playwright for Theatrefolk, coming at you from in front of a little foam box. Hello! I hope you're well. Thanks for listening. Today, it's a blast from the past. Theatrefolk podcasting before there ever was a TFP. Episode Fifty-One So, for the next two weeks, we're going to be opening the vault as it were to the Theatrefolk podcasting past and this week is from the way, way past – way back, man! I'd like you to know that I just made double V-signs of the microphone. So, both these interviews are over five-years-old. And why would we post interviews that are over five-years-old? Well, they both involve one-act plays of ours and they both share interesting production experiences. They both talk about what it was like to perform these plays – one from a director's experience and one from a cast actor's experience. And I know that, for our customers, they – you – when you're looking at a play, you want to know just what it's like to read a play or see a play, but also, you want to know the experiences of others that can help in how you visualize and how you take in the play. And so, the first interview is with Ruth Wareham who directed a production of Emotional Baggage and had quite the interesting – and I use that word with fully gritted – adjudication experience. Lindsay: Hello there, podcast listeners. This is Lindsay Price at the International Thespians Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska. And I am with… Ruth: Ruth Wareham. Lindsay: Ruth Wareham. And Ruth came up to our table the other day and introduced herself as the director of Emotional Baggage which I'm always glad to meet directors who do this play because it has varying reactions. Tell us about why you chose it? Ruth: I definitely wanted something different. I wanted something that would challenge my students, especially with being required to go to District One at competitions, who are always looking for something that's a little unique, that would, you know, take people by surprise. It definitely did that and I'm very focused on the process of doing a play, not just the final outcome, and I thought that this would be something that would be a very fun, creative process to be a part of with my students. Lindsay: It's a very different play. Tell people why. Ruth: Well, first of all, there's no dialogue which makes it unique. The story is done through pantomime with the suggestion of use of music. Lindsay: When you saw the script for the first time, did it freak you out? Ruth: Well, I had read a summary about it so I knew what I was getting into. I definitely had to read it a few times. It's not something that's obvious, that's self-explanatory. And, you know, when you have the dialogue there, things just kind of pop into your head, obviously. So, I could tell it was something different. I wouldn't say I was, like, scared. I was really, actually, it intrigued me. Lindsay: That's good. That's a good way to be. Ruth: Yeah, and I come from a dance background so I thought this would be a neat opportunity to do some creative movement. Lindsay: And what did the students think? Ruth: They were so excited about it. Even when I tried to give a synopsis of what our show's going to be for the next season at the previous into the school year and I could even just see the interest on their face when I said we were going to do that show. So, they were very excited about it,

Buckle up for this episode, because it's a rocky ride. We've come to the Third Ecumenical Church Council. And for those of you who remember this one from Season 1, you know where in for troubled times. We're looking at the Council of Ephesus in 431 and the battle between Cyril & Nestorius.The First Council at Nicaea in 325 dealt with the challenge of Arianism and it's goofy ideas about the deity of Christ. It produced the Nicaean Creed, which became the standard statement of orthodox Christianity. But Arians managed to finagle things around and by a clever game of semantics, managed to hang on to their core ideas while appearing orthodox. The Nicaean Creed's less than comprehensive statement on the deity of the Holy Spirit became their undoing, when they claimed the Spirit was merely a force or influence, not a divine person co-equal and eternal with the Father and Son. So another council was called in 381 at the Eastern Capital of Constantinople, where Arianism was finally outed as heretical, and the Nicaean Creed was filled out to embrace a more comprehensive orthodox statement on the Holy Spirit.It was the language devised by the Cappadocian Fathers that was finally used to settle in on the Doctrine of the Trinity, that God is One in Essence, but Three in Person.Once the doctrine of the Trinity was conveyed in language all could agree on, the next issue up for theological consideration was how to understand Jesus. It's clear Scripture says He's both God and Man. How then were people to understand that? Was He two persons or one? Did He have 2 natures or one? And if he had two natures, who did those natures related tone one another since God and man are very different? THAT's the subject that was debated 50 years after Constantinople at the Council of Ephesus.There were actually 3 councils held at Ephesus. The first in 431, a second 18 yrs later, and a third in 475. But it's only the first in 431 that's reckoned as being one of the 7 Ecumenical Councils.As we get in to this, it's good to know that the 23 yrs from 428 to 451 when the Council of Chalcedon met, is probably THE most crucial period in the development of Christology, that branch of theology dealing with the nature of Christ.Nicaea had made it clear the orthodox position was that Jesus is both God and Man. It said: “We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father . . . For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary, and was made man.”The question next up after hammering out how to describe the Trinity was, “How do we describe the God-Man, Jesus? We just said He's God & Man. How do those two natures interact and relate to each on IN Jesus? How much of Jesus is God and how much is Man? Does He have one mind or two? One Soul or Two? One Will or Two? Since God is bigger than man, maybe His divinity overwhelms the humanity. Or, maybe Jesus sublimated His deity and lived solely as a human?To many modern believers, all this may seem abstract & too ethereal to worry about. That mentality can only exist precisely because theologians and church leaders of the 5th C wrestled with and settled the issue for us. Most Christians don't concern themselves with such lofty ponderings because they assume smart guys figured all that out long ago and their formulas have ensured the success of the Church's Mission ever since. So, no need to go back and worry about all that. The smart guys have it covered. Keep in mind, there was a time when that formula didn't exist! And the smart guys hadn't nailed down exactly how to understand, then SAY what they understood. One of their most difficult tasks was finding exactly the right words by which to articulate what they'd come to understand Scripture said.Today we say that Jesus is Fully God & Fully Man. He is one person with two natures. These natures, while different, aren't in competition with each other. Nor are they mixed into some kind of hybrid that merges the human & divine. Before the Incarnation, Jesus had one nature as God. But Jesus took on humanity in the Incarnation and as Phil 2 says, emptied Himself of His divine prerogatives. Exactly what that means, theologians and Bible teachers have wrestled with for hundreds of years. But from the way Paul describes it, we get the sense Jesus, while fully God, chose to live primarily out of His nature and identity as a man, so that being found in a mortal body, He fully experienced the reality of humanity and was in all points, tempted just as we are, yet without sin. So, He was no less God in the Incarnation, but He chose not to live His life on Earth from that nature. Then, after His ascension back to Heaven, He kept his humanity, so that today, a God-Man sits at the right hand of the Father in glory forevermore.BUT – and here's the point, we can state that with great confidence today only because there were people in the 4th and 5th Cs who labored over it for decades, to first understand it, then to put it in just the right words that they could state it without misrepresenting Who & What Jesus is. The Council of Ephesus was crucial, a major milestone in that development.The Council was the result of a clash between two schools of thought on how best to understand the dual nature of Jesus. Both sides believed Jesus was one person with two natures, but they differed widely in how they understood and stated it.One side so strongly emphasized his dual nature, it at times sounded as though they advocated, not just two natures, but two persons. The other side so emphasized Christ's unity it seemed at times to say that while technically He had two natures, the divine so overshadowed the human, it reigned supreme and relegated the human nature of Jesus to a kind of spiritual coma.Sadly, The Council at Ephesus was such a mess and so fraught with turmoil that while it took pains to crush the idea Jesus was two natures in two persons, it never really made clear how He was two natures in one person. That's why the Council of Chalcedon was called just 20 years later. The Church realized Ephesus needed to be followed up by a Council that would tighten up its Christology and to wash the bitter taste from its mouth due to the wrangling at Ephesus.JD Kelly writes of the Council of Ephesus, “At no phase in the evolution of the Church's theology have the fundamental issues been so mixed up with the clash of politics and personalities.”The story of the Council of Ephesus revolves around two individuals; Cyril of Alexandria and Nestorius of Constantinople.But before we can get to them we need to back up and talk a bit about church politics.Wait; what? Church politics? Is there such a thing? Sadly, yes, all too often. It's the result of involving people. I know there are those of you who subscribe to CS who've been shocked and appalled by some of the sad chapters in church history. I know because you've written in to share your unease.You see, we have this idea of the Early Church that it was all love and light. You know those early chs of the Book of Acts; they loved each other and had all things in common; Kumbaya!Don't forget the other passages earlier in the Gospels; when the disciples argued among each other over who was the greatest. Jesus had to set them straight on that account more than once. Then in Acts, we read even the great Paul had a falling out with Barnabas over how to conduct one of their missionary journeys. Acts 15 records the real first Church Council in Jerusalem when church leaders argued over what to do with all the new Gentile converts. And even with them deciding what to do, there were people who didn't like the decision & continued to do their own thing, causing Paul a massive headache later.No – regrettably, there's always been a measure of politics in the Church. It may be at the Council of Ephesus the reality of that became most obvious for the first time.As we saw in Season 1, in the first Cs of the Church, just a few churches rose to exert a huge influence over the regions around them. Jerusalem was of course considered HQ's at first. Antioch in Syria became a regional center, as well as the Church in Alexandria. It's understandable why they would. Alexandria was the Romans Empire's 2nd largest city while Antioch was the 3rd, and by far the largest city of that entire area. Alexandria wasn't just a large city; it had a long reputation going back many generations as a center of scholarship, bolstered by its world famous library. To these 3 centers, Rome was quickly added as a fourth. Later, when the official capital of the Empire was shifted East by Constantine to Constantinople, that city's church became important due to its proximity to the Imperial Court. Constantinople's rise coincided with Jerusalem's decline. There just wasn't anyone left in the leadership of Jerusalem's Church that was recognized as carrying the mantle of the Apostles. That mantle now rested in Antioch, Alexandria, Rome and Constantinople. Two power axis developed; one btwn the Old Capital of Rome & New Rome, the new capital in Constantine's City; then btwn Antioch & Alexandria. The thing is, Rome was way off in the West and selected its own leaders without meddling on the part of the others churches. In the East, it was a much different matter. The Church of Constantinople simply didn't have the theological legacy and heritage to develop mature leaders of its own. So it picked its Patriarchs alternately from the older works at Antioch & Alexandria. And of course, whichever church had supplied the Capital church with its leader had bragging rights and the ear of the Emperor as well as his court. The problem was, while Alexandria was supposed to have superior academics & a more refined theological mojo, Constantinople often selected as its Patriarch someone from Antioch. And as far as the Alexandrian church was concerned, “That dog just ain't gonna' hunt.”Have you ever heard the term “Byzantine?” I'm not referring to an era of history. I mean the adjective that speaks of something hopelessly tangled and complex. It's often used to describe a bureaucracy that's so elaborate and convoluted, negotiating it is a herculean task. That phrase comes from the royal court at Constantinople, the City whose original name was Byzantium. While the Emperor lived in ostentatious style in his palace, he surrounded himself with layers of bureaucracy to make the Sun King Louis XIV's Versailles  look like a One Act Play. What that meant to the church in Constantinople was that there were factions at court always vying with each other for power. Since Church & State were hand in hand, the Patriarchate of the Church was a political football because whoever was the leader of the Church had massive influence on imperial policy. History tells us there were times when the Emperor wanted one Patriarch while factions of His court, even members of his family, wanted another.All of that plays into the Council of Ephesus.And like a serial episode of a TV story that ends each week in a cliffhanger, we're ending this episode here, a step away from what ends up being bloody debate and brawl that was the Council of Ephesus.