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Re: “Imboden superintendent: Disputes accounts on gay graduation speaker, says no outside speakers in future”
JTSims: While you're sitting there in your church looking around at other people who are such sinners, keep this in mind: "For ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God"--Romans 3:23.
All us sinners (you and I) might also remember what Jesus himself said in Luke 6:42.
Now I have to go get this plank out of my eye. Good luck with yours!
Re: “Arkansas Republicans hate on Nancy Pelosi, in LR today”
Commonsense: "...nothing infuriates me more than reading this blog and be(sic) told im(sic) a racist..."
There are other blogs you could read. For the sake of your blood pressure, please go find one.
Re: “Top of the morning: Call KUAR and make a pledge”
Max: Doc bristles any time charter schools are even slightly criticized. He has "obsessive disdain" for any such criticism.
Re: “New state historian chosen”
Patience: That was very interesting reading (after I finally found The Ark-Hist List Serve).
Jane Hooker apparently thinks she's the queen of the world. Oh well it's good to know who the divas are before one starts a new job. Too bad the selection process seems to have been "politics as usual".
Re: “Tech Park Board member 'furious' over 'unilateral' decision-making”
Yossarian: "Make people, not business, the focus of city government"...
What a refreshing idea! That alone could usher in a bright new future for LR.
Of course, it's not very likely to happen, is it?
Re: “The Monday night line”
ARWTH: I listened to the vimeo podcast and made a few notes of my own:
1. Mr. Fryer says residents of these chem-free transition houses are "compelled to follow the rules". You make it sound like anything goes in the Oxford houses. Sounds to me like it's do right or get kicked out.
2.Clearly this is not a get rich quick scheme, as you imply. He does not encourage the listener to get in to this to make a quick buck; instead he makes it clear they are seeking "churches and civic organizations to get involved", and "to mentor their (the transitional houses') people".
3. The reason he says Arkansas could use 50 -60 transitional houses is because there are so many people who NEED a chem-free place to continue their recovery when they finish their 30 day intensive treatment, rather than going right back to the environment which led them down the drug path before. Recovery is a long process. And the jails are full.
4. In trying to involve church congregations, Mr Fryer also says "We don't need money--we need support: toilet tissue, a package of hamburger meat". The point is, people in recovery and their families need to feel that the local church supports their recovery as people and as families.
That leads me to what annoys me about your post--I get that you say "NIMBY!" But not everybody who is trying to help people with addiction problems is in it for the money, and from what I know of the Methodist denomination, they are definitely not in it for the money. From the vimeo link and the Oxford website, I don't think Oxford is, either.
As for the residents being "unsupervised", I think you're using the word in an inflamatory and probably inaccurate way. However, this is not a prison and not an inpatient treatment facility, so no, they don't have guards. The operative word is TRANSITION--they are working hard to get ready to re-enter the world at large without resorting to old, dangerous ways. They are working to build new, better lives for themselves and their families.
And yes, there is a similar (though unrelated)organization in my neighborhood, so don't
think I'm speaking pie in the sky.
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Re: “UA prof writes on the 'junk science' of 20-week abortion bans”
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