From jefferis at petersonsales.net Tue Jan 27 16:38:32 2009 From: jefferis at petersonsales.net (Jefferis Peterson) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:38:32 -0500 Subject: [Roundtable] A couple of recent articles on Economics Message-ID: Just a couple of articles written outside my normal vein... Jeff God?s Controversy with Capitalism: Usury, Corporations, and a Cry for Economic Justice Published January 15, 2008 http://www.scholarscorner.com/political/usury.html "...The reason that God has a controversy with capitalism is not because of the system of capitalism and private ownership, but with the abuse of capitalism by economic powers which enslave the common man..." A Real Stimulus Plan... Please! "Where There is No Vision, the People Perish..." - Proverbs 29:18 January 27, 2009 http://www.scholarscorner.com/political/stimulus.html "... let us think long term and create an infrastructure that will last for generations, not just for 2 years. If we think back to the Eisenhower era's establishment of the Interstate Highway System, its effect on commerce and growth has lasted generations. If we think of JFK's Space Program, it created thousands of industries..." ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jefferis Peterson, Pres. Web Design and Marketing http://www.PetersonSales.com From jefferis at petersonsales.net Thu Mar 12 09:18:23 2009 From: jefferis at petersonsales.net (Jefferis Peterson) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:18:23 -0400 Subject: [Roundtable] Welcome new members. Message-ID: Hi folks, this list has been quiet of late, but I'd be interested in knowing what interests or questions brought you to subscribe. The floor for discussion is wide open. I recently redesigned the scholarscorner.com website to bring it up to more current standards and make it easier to navigate. I have been working on two books of late, one about the priesthood of all believers and a children's book. My web design business runs in spurts of late with the economic downturn, so when it is quiet, I work on those, but I've not added but a few articles to the website lately... Mostly about economics. As always, feel free to chime in. Jeff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jefferis Kent Peterson http://www.scholarscorner.com Feeling Guilty? Are you "Pardoned or Paroled?" Such is God's economy: "One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers lack." - Proverbs 11:24 ?You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor." - Lev 19:15 From hempelstudios at gmail.com Mon Mar 23 14:02:44 2009 From: hempelstudios at gmail.com (Sarah Hempel Irani) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:02:44 -0400 Subject: [Roundtable] Newbie Message-ID: <80a419e70903231102r2a8d5337pc5f2203ebab32f2c@mail.gmail.com> Hello Everyone! My name is Sarah and I live in Grove City, Pennsylvania. I come here from Frederick, Maryland where I lived for eight years. I grew up a child of the Navy, but consider myself from Michigan. I lived there for six years with my family and went to college in Hillsdale for four. I usually identify myself as a sculptor, but these days I am doing more house-keeping and thesis-writing than sculpting! I'm finishing up a Master's degree in the Humanities, with a focus on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. I am very much interested in art and the way that it intersects with religion, especially Christianity. I'm constantly grappling with questions of faith and art, wondering my place as an artist in the Kingdom. It is nice to meet the all of you! Blessings, Sarah -- Sarah Hempel Irani, Sculptor www.HempelStudios.com From jefferis at petersonsales.net Mon Mar 23 15:10:16 2009 From: jefferis at petersonsales.net (Jefferis Peterson) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:10:16 -0400 Subject: [Roundtable] Newbie In-Reply-To: <80a419e70903231102r2a8d5337pc5f2203ebab32f2c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: On 3/23/09 2:02 PM, "Sarah Hempel Irani" wrote: > Hello Everyone! > > My name is Sarah and I live in Grove City, Pennsylvania. I come here > from Frederick, Maryland where I lived for eight years. I grew up a > child of the Navy, but consider myself from Michigan. I lived there > for six years with my family and went to college in Hillsdale for > four. I usually identify myself as a sculptor, but these days I am > doing more house-keeping and thesis-writing than sculpting! I'm > finishing up a Master's degree in the Humanities, with a focus on > Medieval and Renaissance Studies. I am very much interested in art and > the way that it intersects with religion, especially Christianity. I'm > constantly grappling with questions of faith and art, wondering my > place as an artist in the Kingdom. > > It is nice to meet the all of you! > > Blessings, > Sarah HI Sarah! Just wanted to share a story. I was in my senior year of my M Div program at Wesley Theological Seminary, and since I was full of my needed credits, my wife encouraged me to take a course on the Arts in Worship, taught by Catherine Kapikian ( https://www.wesleyseminary.edu/events/ID.38/event_detail.asp). It turned out to be one of the best courses I took at seminary. Aside from the fact of the great pressure to memorize and learn and analyze facts, doctrines, theology, and the like, the stress of constant reading and study made seminary challenging if not always enjoyable. Catherine had us keep journals, and during the course, I got to experiment with art (I had almost been an art major in college, but they did not teach art, they taught ?feelings?...) And not only was part of my creativity unleashed, I found it liberating in the sense that with art, part of the risk of creativity is the necessity of failed projects... Things that did not turn out in the way you hoped. But like grace, your projects could fail, but it didn?t mean you were a failure. It was actually and act of faith to try to create, whether or not it worked out. The process was part of the joy. I?m probably not saying it really well, but there were few other realms of learning where such freedom to fail was a necessary part of the learning process. Creativity can?t be kept on a leash and can?t be saved from all risk. In the end, I did a painting of the Creation, which was my own but abstract expressionism like some of Kochuska?s (sp?)... My parents didn?t understand it, so I gave it to Catherine. She still has it. I?ve developed since a theology that creativity is part of the image of God in humanity. In fact the first task given to Adam in the Garden was a creative act of ?naming the animals.? That was before tilling and even before reproducing ! :-) Jeff ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jefferis Peterson, Pres. Web Design and Marketing http://www.PetersonSales.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: