What does manhood mean today? That was the question posed by an Associated Press story that appeared in Thursday’s Daily Chronicle.
One response might be that if you have to ask, you’ll never know.
But the story went ahead with asking anyway. One of its sources – possibly the genesis for the story, or at least a person who asked the question earlier, was writer and non-man Ann Friedman. The story quoted a piece by Friedman titled "What Does Manhood Mean in 2013?" online at nymag.com, in which she writes:
"Ultimately, confusion about modern masculinity is a good thing: It means we're working past the outmoded definition."
Since when is manhood a concept that is out of style? I guess Friedman means the 1950s “Leave It to Beaver” version of manhood, in which the man earns money to support the family, then comes home and reads the afternoon paper and smokes his pipe in the living room while his wife fixes dinner.
Personally, I think it’s too bad for families that both parents often are forced to work outside the home even if one of them would rather stay home with their children. But do changing times that mean the definition of manhood is outdated? Are men really confused?
No, most of us aren’t confused, thanks. We just don’t lobby for ourselves all that much because its not necessary.
As a consequence, when an NFL Draft prospect announces he’s gay and people share bigoted views, the term “man’s man” becomes a negative descriptor. An NFL locker room is apparently a “man’s man” kind of place which would never accept a gay player.
Gives you the feeling that people think of a “man’s man” as an intolerant caveman, someone we’d be better off without. Think again, social justice crusader.
A “man’s man” is a cool guy. He’s a guy you want around.
A man’s man can catch and clean a fish. He can change a tire and he won’t complain if his clothes and hands get dirty. He can build and fix things, whether it’s the middle of summer or the dead of winter. You can borrow his Sawzall.
If he's on a date, a man’s man buys dinner. If he's married, he's faithful to his wife. He takes out the trash. He watches football, drinks beer, knows off-color jokes. He knows when to keep his mouth shut. He doesn't whine.
He might not have seen Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla’s TV comedy show “The Man Show,” but if you showed it to him, he’d be amused. Call him a “metrosexual” and he would not be.
Or maybe none of that stuff applies. What’s it to ya? A man’s man does not need to seek your approval or conform to a definition some columnist thought up.
Can a man stay home and take care of his kids while his wife goes out to work? Sure. He can be a nurse, he can teach school, he can be … the most interesting man in the world.
As Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once said about obscenity – something with which a man’s man might be familiar – in the case of manhood, you know it when you see it. Or when you don’t.
No, manhood hasn’t gone away, and there’s no reason for men to have to feel bad about thinking what we think and feeling the way we do – even if we don’t share those feelings that often.
As John Wayne, one of the greatest examples of a “man’s man” ever, said in the 1949 film “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,” “Never apologize. It’s a sign of weakness.”
Unless you have to apologize, of course. Like to your wife, or your mom, or your boss. Then it’s probably a good idea.
Of course, women can do most or all of the same things that men can. That’s great for society. People shouldn’t be told they can’t do something they enjoy and are good at just because of their gender; too bad for the Taliban if they don’t agree.
A man, after all, doesn’t feel threatened by women, or gay NFL players or movies about gay cowboys. The smart ones even realize when they can learn something from them.
Also, at least 70 percent of us wish we didn’t have to turn the lights off in the basement every night. Seriously, there’s nothing to be afraid of down there.
• Eric Olson is editor of the Daily Chronicle. Reach him at 815-756-4841 ext. 2257, email email@example.com, or follow him on Twitter @DC_Editor.


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Homily for the Presentation of a Festschrift to The Rev. Dr. Norman Nagel. By The Rev. Dr. Scott Bruzek
Evening Prayer at the Chapel of Laclede Groves Senior Living, St. Louis, Mo.
A Festschrift for the Rev. Dr. Norman Nagel in Honor of his 90th Birthday
8 November 2015
Down the hill from Westfield house, in the chapel of Trinity College, lies Alfred North Whitehead, the last great cosmologist of the 20th century. Whitehead once said that the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity on the far side of complexity, and that helps us makes sense of the Book of Daniel.
Frankly, this book is a mess. It is the complexity – and often the chaos – of hubris, exile, magic, dreams, visions, idolatry, insanity, assassinations, angelic warfare, and the ever-present threat of the End, the Real End, that makes this book so hard to apprehend. But then comes the simplicity of the text appointed for our prayers this evening, 3 verses from Daniel chapter 12. These 3 verses are the very simple story of a chosen people (12:1), an everlasting covenant (12:1) and the LORD who loves them so (12:1-3).
The best news this evening is that this very simple story is our story too. These are the elements of our life together, as we await our own Apocalypse: creation, pride, Promise, Christ, Golgotha, redemption, protection, and everlasting joy. This will someday be our Blessed End.
Norman, if you hadn’t been a pastor, Betsy says you would have made a brilliant kindergarten teacher. I think that’s true.
The best kindergarten teachers make most complex things – stars, frogs, prisms, honey, rain and maps, honesty, self-control, justice, mercy, faith, and love – clear and attainable. But if our LORD had given you that station and vocation, then our lives would have been poorer.
Think of all the simple things from you that we would have missed: the Way of the Law and the Way of the Gospel; the utter certainty of Absolution; the Word incarnate, in-Scriptured, and in-Spirited; the tattoo of Baptism; the tangible, forgiving touch of our Lord’s Supper; “…and where there is the forgiveness of sins, there is life and salvation”; gift, blessing, and for you; the joy of Luther and Lutherans and Liturgy and languages and “brilliant!” and tea and sherry and chatter and cigars and Valpo and Cambridge and Aussies and China and “it’s not a good work till it’s a forgiven work” and “Amen!” and the Gospel is always more.
See? On the far side, divine things don’t need to be complex, but in each generation these simple things do need to be bestowed or we will all be lost.
Here is a simple thing: it turns out that there is really only one story in Scripture, and that is the story of death and resurrection.
The Church tells this story in so many different ways: as Adam and Eve; as Noah; as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; as Moses, David, Elijah, and Deborah; as 3 men in the fiery furnace – or was it 4?; as “Repent!”, “Follow me,” the woman at the well, the prodigal son, and “get thee behind me, Satan”; as “surely this Man was the Son of God”; as Mary Magdalene in the garden: “they have taken away my Lord”; as Emmaus, with its Liturgy of pilgrimage; as Acts 2; and here now as Daniel 12:1-3.
This makes life and death pretty simple. If we run against this One and Only Story, our lives become terrifying, even if that terror strikes us only at our very last minute. Hell, after all, is when we get our own way for eternity. But when this Story it is received as gift and blessing, even the horror of the Last Days is a relief. Finally, the grind of sin is done. Finally the flash-bang of evil burns itself out. Finally the chaos is put to order.
And then we are left with this simple but profound truth: sin, death, hell and self never have the last word with us. Instead, the last to speak is Love: creating Love, Love promised, Love delivered, Love incarnate of the Blessed Virgin Mother, Love applied by the physical touch of Word and Sacrament, and Love embodied as the Church. Divine Love, for us, and never against us, always has the last word about us.
Life is really this simple: Jesus Christ would rather die than hold our sins against us. There is really just one story here.
Everybody knows that there is no story without a storyteller. It all started with our LORD telling us about Himself, but soon enough that became the ὁμολογέω of the Church, its same-saying, especially by those put into Christ’s Holy Office, as verse 3 says, those “wise leaders [who] shall shine like the bright vault of heaven.” That was the task our LORD put you to, Norman – storyteller – and though you would have been a brilliant kindergarten teacher, his choice has been a better use you.
This festschrift marks how his choice has worked itself out, how the story came from Christ to Church to you to us – your students, colleagues, friends and family – and then back to Christ again. Your life has been a gift, verse 2, for “your fellow-countrymen,” for “people [meant to be] delivered,” for “those who [now] sleep in the dust of the earth [but who were always meant to] wake…to everlasting life.”
It has now been 90 years of a that simple Law and Gospel story which has seen you and us through our sins and woes, our despair and bitterness, our self-inflicted wounds and innocent sufferings, to Christ’s altar, pulpit, lectern and font, through all those narrow straits into the wide places of forgiveness and healing and generosity and hope and joy and kindness and finally, someday, back home to Eden. This festschrift is a very real thank you for keeping the story simple, true and trustworthy, which is proof, you see, that it was not your story at all – after all, we are nothing but given to.
Praise to you, O Father, Son and Holy Spirit, for all of that and always more, always more. Now bless your servant, Norman, and his family, and his students, and his colleagues, and his friends, and bless your Church and your world through complexity and chaos to the simplicity of Christ’s saving sacramental touch, and someday, draw us all together into your eternal Rest, in Peace, and Life, and Love, and Beauty, and Light, where, one of our eternal joys will be seeing your servant, Norman, set among “…those who have guided the people in the true path,” “[as one of those who] shall be [shining] like the stars forever and ever” (12:3).
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit — yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin (James 4:13–17).
+ JESU JUVA +
When a person comes face-to-face for the first time with the magnificence of this holy space, set aside for the worship and service of God — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — it is hard not to notice what is taking place just beyond its towering walls of glass and steel scaffolding. Here inside, just within our view and reach, steadfast and firm stand marble altar, pulpit, font, and organ pipe, and we joyfully meditate in resolute peace on a divine Word that abides forever… but out there, beyond the glass… a tidal wave of industrious activity leaps forward at frantic pace. Busy highways give plain evidence of commerce in full swing; salesmen are racing to make appointments, vegetable trucks travel their local delivery routes, civil authorities patrol ribbons of concrete to protect and serve, the titans of the business world are late to meetings with their armies of attorneys.
Mom has just dropped the kids off at school and is on her way to the airport, headed out-of-town on a business trip. She’s making a mental note to call the dentist to change that appointment which is now conflicting with another ad campaign meeting just scheduled and popped up on her smartphone for three weeks from tomorrow. She feels a moment of guilt for texting while driving, but duty calls… and she is bucking for a promotion. Across town, Dad is fumbling with the space bar on his laptop — in the back of his mind wondering who he’s going to call about the balky transmission on the family’s aging minivan — while He brings up PowerPoint slide number seven (out of eighty-three) in his annual review of the strategic plan for an edgy, grumpy board of directors. The CEO shifts in his seat, still grimacing as he recalls his missing the winning three-footer on the eighteenth green at the club championship the prior Saturday morning; better schedule another putting lesson with the pro. The pro is talking with the course superintendent about fixing the pesky drainage problem in the sixteenth fairway; the course superintendent is not listening very closely because he’s thinking more about an upcoming, long-planned golf trip to Scotland next spring with his buddies.
It’s all but a sliver of one huge, interlocking mosaic of human determination, hopes, concerns, and designs.
And it’s all about influencing, controlling the future.
This morning, James the brother of our Lord reminds you that it is all too easy to forget and disregard and simply ignore God in all of this frenzied activity and planning. Yes, here you have Jesus and His cross held right before your eyes and preached directly into your ears and heart. But with a bit of tongue-in-cheek — and I mean no disrespect whatsoever to our wonderful coworkers across the street —there is a rather substantial office building that stands at elevation and dominates the expansive view from this consecrated spot where we sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in our hearts to God (Colossians 3:16). And then I hardly need point out that this very chapel is located inside of an office building — so that when you depart this space this morning and exit through those humongous doors, you’ll be returning to meetings and plans and a stacked Inbox and reports and hopeful expectations and anxious worries about future outcomes arising from our present common labors, our “getting down to the business” of the mission of God, the Church on the move, the Body of Christ in motion. The clock is running; let’s go!
I think this is fitting and proper and as it should be, at least for now, maybe right now in this chapel setting. Jesus, crucified and resurrected, comes in — in quiet, subversive, thief-like fashion — and He collides with the feverish, worldly enterprise of any man who is all too willing to “cut the cord” with his creator. At first, the Word appears to be little if not nothing. But all of the contemporary cues that surround us continue to confront you and me in a way that ought to give us pause before we arrogantly tear down our old barns… and begin building larger ones… and act as if the future were solely in our hands or that we were even given to know that any one of us is going to be physically standing, breathing here on the face of planet earth when the sun comes up tomorrow. Only “if the Lord wills.”
This is James’ call for you to repent, dear baptized: you are to be constantly watchful in regard to how you think and make plans for your life. It is all too easy to map out a path in which God has been relegated to a secondary, “ride along” position… but you are to remember that everything you do is utterly bound by the limits of His time and His will. To forget this is to fall back into the sin of boastful pride, which can only lead to your destruction. To forget this is to falter and give up the confident hope that is already yours — of eternal life in the bliss of paradise, life with God that surely has come to you as a gift, from outside of you, in the perfect righteousness of Christ for you. To forget this is to give way to fears and anxieties that will inevitably come when you love and trust and worship your own plans and efforts — for your heart is a veritable idol factory, and this morning I am bound to remind you that you are not at all immune to the idolatrous sins of “human enterprisology” and “strategic programism.”
It is as if James is saying, “Hold on.” Even if you are able to run around and get on with the “business” of life, you cannot attribute this ability to your own efforts, but rather you are to accept that you can do these things only by the blessing of God. For after all, “Of what sort is your life? A vapor, a mist — for to tell the truth, you are one appearing for a little while, and thereupon also vanishing away.”
So, yes, you make your plans and you labor to your utmost with all of those First Article gifts — your reason and your senses, your intellect, your physical body — but you do so with a constant, overriding awareness that it is all under the grace of God, who alone knows and directs all of the details concerning where… when… how long… what will happen. Absolutely forgiven for every sin of arrogant pride and over-reliance on self, you beseech your Father: “Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” You take to heart the wisdom conveyed through His servant Solomon: “Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring” (Proverbs 27:1).
And above all, you continually trust in the eternal will of Him who planned and undertook the greatest enterprise in all of human history, the Lord whose will and business it is that all are saved and come to a knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4), the One who broke into this world confessing to His Father, “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God’ ” (Hebrews 10:5–7).
Thankfully, so thankfully, dear baptized, at that loneliest, bloody place upon the earth, upon that cross dark-stained with the very blood of this Lamb of God, all of the plans and schemes and enterprise of sinful man — these meet their eternal end in the irrevocable will, the concluding judgment of God Himself. “It is finished.” And it is through His cross that you now gaze upon the world around you and have come to understand that — thankfully — you dwell and labor here for only a limited time.
This is God’s will and work and enterprise: that by the instruments of His grace, you have been brought to believe in this Son whom He has sent (John 6:29). And so together, we work, we labor, we strive, and it is all under His watchful eye, His mercy, His forgiveness and:
We impart a …hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. …[A]s it is written,
What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him [Isaiah 64:4] —
these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:6–9).
In the name + of Jesus. Amen.
+ SOLI DEO GLORIA +
Rev. Kevin Robson
Chief Mission Officer
The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
Good Shepherd Institute
Concordia Theological Seminary—Fort Wayne, Indiana
All Saints’ Day, A.D. 2015
In the name . . .
The 23rd Psalm is virtually universal. When you go to a funeral home, it is nine times out of ten the “go-to” Bible passage printed on the back of those little memorial cards that you take home. Tonight, we were nourished by one of at least three cantatas composed for Good Shepherd Sunday for the saints in 18th-century Leipzig, and for generations to follow of those who have ears to hear. And then, there’s that picture in our mind’s eye of the Good Shepherd. It’s one our earliest childhood memories—from the time we got that first children’s Bible illustrated with what the Shepherd of Psalm 23 must have looked like (coincidentally, a lot like the picture of Jesus later on in the New Testament!). And then that image was forever personalized as we sang in Sunday school, “I am Jesus’ little lamb . . .”
The psalm, of course, begins with the Lord: “Yahweh is my shepherd . . .”, it says. But it also says “my shepherd.” Though the Lord is running the verbs, the psalm is clearly written from the perspective of the sheep. With the Lord as my Shepherd, I will not be in want because he feeds me in green pastures (the good stuff!) and gives me drink from still waters. This evening’s cantata interpolated: “das wohlschmeckend Gras seines heilsamen Wortes”—the tasty grass of His holy Word. That’s the good stuff that the Good Shepherd feeds His sheep—God’s Word, written, preached, spoken, and sung into your ears and so into your heart, into your soul, restoring your soul. You see, the Good Shepherd is all about feeding and caring for you—the whole you, the you that is alive in Him and that will live with Him forever.
But sheep are sheep, and sheep are prone to stray, even though their Shepherd leads them in paths of righteousness. Let’s face it: we sheep are incredibly fearful. It doesn’t take much to shake us, does it? A nasty rumor in the congregation, a painful setback at work, a doctor’s report that wasn’t what we expected, a family conflict that just seems to fester. And sheep wander. We have wandering eyes. We have wandering imaginations. We have wandering fears.
But you have a Good Shepherd. Even though you may wander through that deep, deep shadow of death, the Good Shepherd doesn’t wander. He sticks right with you, because he himself has already “been through that valley, done that death.” You see, the Good Shepherd became a lamb, like you; but unlike you, a lamb of sacrifice on Calvary’s altar—once, for all people, for all sins, for all time. As we heard in this evening’s reading: “I am the Good Shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep” (John 10:10). Or as we sang just moments ago:
From God’s joy can nothing sever,
For I am
His dear lamb,
He, my Shepherd ever;
I am His because He gave me
His own blood
For my good,
By His death to save me. (LSB 756, stanza 4)
The Good Shepherd who laid down his life for you, now also prepares a lavish table for you. There, you see, the Shepherd becomes the Host . . . and the Meal. At the Good Shepherd’s banquet, he feeds you with his own body and blood, sacrificed for you on Calvary as the Lamb, now given you to eat and drink, for strength in the presence of your enemies. And he anoints your head with oil. Or, as this evening’s cantata interpolates: with the Holy Spirit, the oil of joy. St. Paul proclaims the Spirit’s anointing when he writes: “[God] saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior . . .” (Titus 3:5) From table and font, your cup truly runneth over.
And so, “goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.” Once again, the cantata adds: “On earth, in the Christian community.” How remarkable, but not surprising! Luther said, “Thank God, a seven-year-old child knows what the church is, namely holy believers and sheep who hear the voice of their Shepherd” (SA XII 2)—your Shepherd, the Shepherd who showers you with his goodness and loving-kindness, through his Word and his Sacraments, in your congregation this morning, here tonight, throughout your life . . . and forever. Yes, “and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” The cantata adds: “with Christ, my Lord.” Christ says: “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish . . .” (John 10:27).
Just this last Wednesday, seventeen years ago, my mother was suddenly killed in an automobile accident. That was the day that my family and I were packed up and ready to move from Michigan to St. Louis. Our phones had been turned off, so Pastor Heckert from a nearby congregation drove over to deliver the news of a “homecoming,” as he put it. Instead of driving to a new home in St. Louis, we drove to rural Iowa to celebrate that “homecoming” at my mother’s funeral.
As I mentioned, all of this happened the week prior to All Saints’ Day, and so on All Saints’ Sunday, my family and I were gathered in the house of the Lord—there in rural Iowa, there at the table of the Good Shepherd. And we heard those words of the communion liturgy, words we had heard so many times before: “Therefore with angels and archangels, and with all the company of heaven . . .” “. . . with all the company of heaven . . .” That All Saints’ Sunday, I heard those words in a way that I had never heard them before—that the loved one I had suddenly lost was now with Jesus; and that Jesus was now with me, feeding me his very body and blood, for comfort in my time of sorrow. You see, together with Jesus, we are together with each other . . . and “with angels, and archangels, and with all the company of heaven . . .”
“And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” Whether in this house, or in the halls of heaven, or at the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come—the Good Shepherd cares for his sheep, feeds his sheep, abides with his sheep . . . “that they may have life, and have it abundantly” (John 10:10).
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
October 4, 2015
We do not always know how to pray, so Christ gives us words in the prayer He has taught us. You never have to doubt your prayer when the words are given by Christ Himself. That same wisdom gave birth to our hymnal. While no hymnal is divinely inspired, we are blessed when the liturgy we chant is taken from Scripture and when many of the hymns we sing have been sung by the faithful for centuries, standing the test of time. Our hymnal has passed through scrutinizing theological review to ensure that it will us faithfully. And does it ever serve us well! Consider the order of service for Holy Matrimony found on page 275. Following the invocation, you hear these wonderful words that capture the beauty of marriage. “Dearly beloved, we are gathered here in the sight of God and before His Church to witness the union of this man and this woman in holy matrimony. This is an honorable estate instituted and blessed by God in Paradise, before humanity’s fall into sin.” Later, it continues, “The union of husband and wife in heart, body, and mind is intended by God for the mutual companionship, help, and support that each person ought to receive from the other, both in prosperity and adversity. Marriage was also ordained so that man and woman may find delight in one another. Therefore, all persons who marry shall take a spouse in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust, for God has not called us to impurity but in holiness. God also established marriage for the procreation of children who are to be brought up in the fear and instruction of the Lord so that they may offer Him their praise.” In other words, marriage is a blessing, a gift from God.
Christ gave marriage to man and woman when there was no sin. That is just how blessed an estate it is; built into the fabric of God’s good creation. But creation is now fallen, tainted with sin. Still marriage remains God’s blessed, holy gift. From the fall, marriage has been under attack. Satan hates all of God’s gifts, but he has particular disdain for marriage. In the fall, Satan seeks to undo what God had done in marriage. The two became one flesh by God’s grace. At the fall, Adam turns on his wife. God calls Adam to account for his sin and what does he do? He blames his wife – “the woman whom you gave me, she gave me the fruit!” Instead of confessing marriage as a gift, Adam blames it for his fall. And Satan smiled in delight. Satan attacked marriage then and he’s still attacking marriage today. You see it all around us. It is symptomatic of how much sin has blinded our age that we have become confused about what has been understood throughout history. Marriage is the lifelong union of one man and one woman. That has been under attack throughout the ages. Abraham looked outside his union with Sarah for a son. David perverted marriage by becoming culturally relevant by means of polygamy. But in our age, marriage has been redefined to be whatever you want. When marriage can mean everything, then it means nothing. Which shouldn’t surprise us because we are just like the hard-hearted folk of Moses’ day. Jesus says that Moses allowed for divorce because of their hardness of heart. Can the age of no-fault divorce be any different?
We rightly point out where our age has gone astray. But are we willing to point out where we have gone astray? And we certainly have abused marriage because we are sinners. And that is what sinners do. The fall perverts our view of everything. It perverts the most central reality of marriage. Marriage is a gift; it is not a human invention to be manipulated and re-engineered. Marriage is a gift. More specifically, woman is a gift to man. God looked upon Adam and said, “It is not good for man to be alone.” So the Lord created the woman and brought her to the man. Woman was given to man. Perhaps that is why I have observed men struggle more than women when a spouse dies. Certainly, losing a husband is hard for a loving wife. And certainly a husband is a gift from God to a woman. Yet I have discussed with other pastors how we often find a widower tied to his wife’s grave for months and years. Man needs woman. But that is perverted by some men to commandeer control over their wives, treating her as a servant rather than bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It happens in the Church as husbands will pervert God’s word so that they might justify their domineering control of their wives. The Biblical teaching of headship is used to force a wife into submission rather than to live in sacrificial love toward her. The Biblical teaching of the one-flesh union will be perverted into the requirement that she be available for his every physical demand.
Our perversion of marriage pours over into children. The Lord loves life, so He brings life from the one-flesh union as children are conceived and born. Today, we rejoice that the Lord’s gift of marriage has led to another child being brought to the font that she might be an heir of everlasting life. Still, in our sin, we have perverted the gift of children. On one hand, we commoditize children so that they are desired based upon economic stability or they are feigned because the economics are not right at this time. Others will overreact to such a de-valuation of children by turning them into a legalistic requirement of marriage. Children are not a commodity nor are they a burden of the law. Children are a gift within the one-flesh union.
If only that were the only way we have abused marriage. We have also treated it as an idol. That is the temptation with all of God’s gifts, pervert them to be the end-all rather than a gift from He who alone is our all. We have idolized marriage by seeing a man or a woman as somehow less without marriage. Similarly, we are tempted to see those one-flesh unions who have not been blessed with children as somehow less than those who have been given children. Was Jesus somehow less because He did not marry and did not father children? What about St. Paul?
Dignity, value and worth is found in one place. It is found in union with Christ. That allows for marriage to be seen in its proper light. Marriage is not for me to gain stature, dignity or whatever. Marriage is for me to serve another in a unique way. And if Christ has not united you with another, you can still serve others with all the beauty and dignity that is yours as a child of God. And if Christ has not blessed your one-flesh union with a child, you can still love and cherish your spouse faithfully and serve all those whom Christ has placed in your life.
Christ brings the woman to Adam who says, “This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh.” The depth and beauty of those words is only surpassed by God’s own words. “This is why a man will leave his father and mother and cling to his wife and the two will become one flesh.” Two become one. It is a mystery. If you think you have “two become one” all figured out; you don’t. It is a mystery that transcends our understanding. It is like the two natures in Christ. He is at the same time fully human and fully divine. How can that be? It’s a mystery. It is like the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – three persons in one God. How can that be? It’s a mystery. I can no more wrap my mind around “two become one” than I can wrap my mind around the two natures in Christ or the Trinity. I cannot fully comprehend it; but I can confess it. I can love and cherish it.
Love and cherish the mystery of two become one because it is a reflection of the greater mystery which is the one-flesh union of Christ and His bride the Church. Jesus sealed His marriage to His bride by shedding His blood for her that she might be cleansed and made holy. Christ gives His body and blood under bread and wine to His Church that His union with His bride might be tangible and real. Christ binds Himself bodily to His bride. This is where we find answer to how our sinful age attacks marriage. You will honor marriage as the one-flesh union of man and woman until death parts them because it proclaims Christ’s union with the Church. Christian men, you will not domineer your wife, for Christ does not domineer His bride. He serves her, perfectly, selflessly, sacrificially, completely. Whether you are married or single, engaged or divorced, widowed or yearning for a spouse, with a herd of children or praying fervently for just one child to be given, you will look to one place for fulfillment; you will look to Christ. The union which makes you whole, complete, never in doubt about your value, confident in your place in this world and in the world to come is the union in which Christ unites Himself with you by His body and blood.
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But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
We’ve all been there, and if you haven’t yet, you will be. I’m speaking, of course, of the deathbed of a loved one.
A few weeks ago, I was visiting a dear friend in the hospital with some brother pastors. We were there to sing hymns for our beloved professor, and it was great visit. But as we were leaving his room, a woman about my age came up and quietly asked whether we might be able to come to her mother’s room and sing there as well. So we did. Her mother was ninety-two. She was frail and unconscious, clearly nearing the end. And there at her deathbed, she was surrounded by her many children and grandchildren. The family was all there. And so was Jesus. You see, Jesus takes care of his family.
St. John is the only writer to record this intimate account of Jesus caring for his mother. The only other place where Mary is mentioned in John’s Gospel is at the very beginning, at the wedding at Cana, where she is alerted to the impending shortage of wine and tells Jesus, who replies: “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” And yet Mary tells the wine stewards in faith: “Do whatever he tells you” (John 2:4). You see, Mary knew that Jesus takes care of his family.
Mary knew that from the very beginning, when the angel spoke into her ears the incredible news of a child to be conceived in her womb by the power of the Most High, a child who would be called “holy, the Son of God” (Luke 1:35). And Mary’s faith received those words from the Lord, and the Son of God was thereby conceived in her womb. As we confess of Jesus,
“. . . conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate
was crucified, died and was buried . . .” (Apostles’ Creed)
You see, Mary also knew of the pain that would come to her infant son. For at Jesus’ Presentation in the Temple at forty days old, Old Man Simeon had prophesied: “Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel . . . and a sword will pierce through your own soul also . . .” (Luke 2:34–35).
Here, at Calvary, when Jesus’ hour had finally come, that “dagger to the heart” came to Mary also, as she beheld the son she once cradled in her arms—now beaten, mocked, and crucified as a common criminal, bleeding, and dying in agony. Yet, in the midst of all of that, Jesus took care of his family.
And Jesus takes care of you, too. For Mary and the “disciple whom Jesus loved,” are a picture of you and me, a picture of Christ’s holy church, his family. “I will not leave you as orphans,” Jesus promised his disciples (John 14:18). And he has not left you abandoned and alone in your sin. He has not left you alone to face death. He will not leave you alone at the deathbed of your loved one. And he will not leave you alone at own deathbed. For Jesus has already passed through death, for you. By his death and resurrection, Jesus has swallowed up death forever in victory (Is. 25:8; 1 Cor. 15:54). And through your Baptism, you have been buried with him into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead, you too might walk in newness of life. “For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his” (Rom. 6:4–5).
Jesus takes care of his family. As he took care of Mary and John at the foot of the cross, so also takes care of you and me, His Church. For “that same heart which began to beat in Mary’s womb and had been silenced on the cross, once again began to beat in that cold dark tomb, and it still beats to this very day. It still beats for you and me” (O.P. Kretzmann).

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Continued from Part Two… The Uptones Ska was relatively unknown in the United States when The Uptones got their start. Eric Din – who still leads a version of The Uptones today – recalls that he and a bunch of high school friends formed the group in 1981 to play the kind of music made
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It wasn’t a blg splash, but the Detroit Lions made a move at the start of free agency at 4 p.m. They signed wide receiver Kevin Ogletree to a one-year deal per ProFootballTalk.com.
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This recipe was inspired by a David Chang dish that includes browned radishes and turnips tossed in a honey soy glaze with shiitakes coated in crunchy rice crackers. I make it a lot and am always surprised by how complex the flavors are for few ingredients. I decided to try to turn all these flavors into an appetizer of sorts and I think the results were surprising and delicious. —savorthis
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medium turnip (or more if you have baby turnips)
crispy rice cereal (I used brown rice cereal)
Preheat oven to 450. Trim radishes leaving a bit of the stem. Peel turnip and slice into wedges similar in size to your radishes. Toss all in a bit of olive oil, season with salt and roast in the oven. Flip once they start to brown, about 8-10 minutes and remove when brown and tender. The radishes will still have a bit of a bite which I prefer but you can roast a bit longer if you wish. Allow them to cool slightly.
Meanwhile, crush the rice cereal slightly leaving a variety of textures. Grind the nori in a spice grinder to a coarse dust. Heat 1 T. oil in a pan and add the cereal and nori stirring until fragrant. Allow to cool.
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Grab a radish by the stem, dip it 2/3 of the way into the syrup allowing a bit to drip off. Dip into the rice mixture to coat. Repeat with remaining vegetables and serve immediately. You can also dip all the veggies into the syrup first, putting them on a sheet pan and dip them all in the cereal at once. In fact you could probably also serve the syrup in a warm dish (or over a burner) with the crushed rice on the side and allow people to dip for themselves.

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Knowing the history of this country, I have to say all the things that have been taking place lately is interesting but not surprising. Historians already know. We've seen this all before, especially with countries that are part of the African Diaspora.
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Dr. Ivy Walz joined the voice faculty at Ithaca College School of Music in 2011. For ten years she taught voice lessons, and vocal pedagogy. In 2020 she stepped into an administrative role as Assistant Dean, and this year 2021-2022 she is serving as Interim Dean.
For Dr. Walz, teaching and performing have always gone hand in hand. As an experienced pedagogue, she believes in student learning centered teaching that is based in sound technique and vitalized by integrative pedagogies, as well as her commitment to lifelong learning. In all areas of work she brings joyful dedication. She believes that diverse and inclusive learning environments are essential, and she is committed to creating and contributing to equitable, safe and welcoming spaces for all individuals. She is proud to serve on a collaborative faculty, and through her teaching, service, and leadership she strives to cultivate an environment in which students are learning to synthesize across their chosen curriculum.
As a voice teacher, she believes in leading students to discover what empowers them through access and exposure to a variety of skill building, artistic, and meaningful experiences. In her studio, students engage in processes for effective practice, care of the vocal instrument, and essential skills in the categories of articulation, resonance, breathing, healthy phonation, body awareness, and performance practice.
In her vocal pedagogy course, Basics of Vocal Mechanics, she teaches the anatomy and physiology of the vocal instrument. Through class lecture, hands-on activities and reflective assignments students develop a working map of the singing instrument.
Mezzo soprano Ivy Walz has been awarded numerous roles, solo performances and featured artist positions with opera companies, orchestras and chamber music groups nationally and internationally. She was a finalist for the American Prize in Art Song in 2019. She performs regularly, as making music is a fundamental value in all she does. For more information on her recent and upcoming performance activities, please visit www.ivywalz.com.
Dr. Walz is an active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. She is an engaged clinician who gives master classes on integrating healthy singing techniques with dynamic performance practice. She has been a guest clinician for Higher Voice Studio, TCO Teens, College Audition Advantage, Affiliated Choruses of Ithaca, Denver Art Song Project High School Competition and other schools, colleges and universities.
Ivy holds the DMA from the College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati and MM and BM in performance and education from Ithaca College School of Music.


Australian iTunes Store users got an early Christmas present today – FOX8, Movie Extra and Arena TV shows appeared on the TV Shows section of the Australian store today. There’s some good shows on board, including Family Guy, Mad Men and The Real Housewives of Orange County, previously US only shows. The Australian store also recently added Sony Pictures Television and Screen Gems shows. You can find them all here (iTunes Store link). Hit the ‘Read More’ link for a full list of all the new shows. – r.
Kathy Griffin: My Life On the D-List
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In our Spring 2021 D&O Newsletter, we reported on the FCA’s decision to pursue criminal proceedings against NatWest and what that might mean for directors.
On 7 October 2021, in the first prosecution for money laundering of its kind, NatWest entered a guilty plea before Westminster Magistrates Court. The FCA has confirmed that no individuals are being charged, but does that mean that directors can now rest easy?
NatWest has pleaded guilty to three charges of failing to comply with anti-money laundering regulations between 2012 and 2016. Those failures relate to the accounts of Fowler Oldfield, a gold dealership in Bradford which, during the period in question, deposited a total of £365 million with the bank. Of that amount, £264 million had been accepted by NatWest as cash deposits.
Following NatWest’s guilty plea, the case has been referred to Southwark Crown Court for sentencing in December. It is expected that the starting point will be a fine of £170 million, which would be on a par with the £163 million fine imposed by the FCA on Deutsche Bank in 2019 for anti-money laundering failures. It is possible that the fine could be doubled to £340 million; if such a fine were imposed any reduction given in recognition of NatWest’s cooperation and early guilty plea would be small consolation for the bank’s stakeholders.
Although the UK government has been divesting itself of NatWest shares (at increased speed following the news that the FCA was prosecuting the bank), it remains the majority stakeholder. According to online commentary, public sentiment is running high with many calling for the directors to be held accountable.
As reported in our Spring article, the FCA’s decision to pursue criminal proceedings against NatWest appears to be consistent with the recommendations made by the Financial Action Task Force in 2018 that the FCA should ensure that “effective and dissuasive sanctions apply”where there have been failures in supervision which undermine the UK’s anti-money laundering efforts.
It is also consistent with a more general shift by the UK government towards personal, rather than corporate, responsibility intended to reinforce the UK’s position as a robust financial market in the post-Brexit era. Earlier this year Kwasi Kwarteng announced proposed changes to the audit regime which could see directors face fines or suspensions if they are negligent in performing the duties they owe to auditors and, in April and July, a total of 27 individuals were sanctioned under the UK’s Global Anti-Corruption sanctions regime.
The criminal fine imposed on NatWest is likely to be the most significant financial sanction for money laundering offences ever seen in the UK. Directors may breathe a sigh of relief that the FCA does not intend to prosecute individuals on this occasion but the sword of Damocles is likely to hang over the heads of directors for some time to come.

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A stunning couple, a wonderful Church and the enchanting Saxon Mill in Warwick – this was always going to be an incredible Wedding to photograph.Read More
Sherbourne Park located just outside of Warwick is the quintessential Grade II listed country estate with picturesque grounds and a stately home complete with outdoor swimming pool (ideal for a chilled out wedding on a hot summer’s day!).
Lucy decided to get ready at the family home in Ladbroke close to Southam along with her four bridesmaids. It was then on to capture the guests arrival and Richard at Sherbourne Church.
After a lovely Wedding Service it was then on an amazing nautical themed Wedding Reception complete with boat – Ahoy!
Lucy & Richard certainly had a lot of luck with the weather as the guests chilled out on the lawns of the Park in 31C heat!
I chose a mix of candid portraits as well as some fun relaxed group photos with the couple’s friends and family.
A perfect country house Wedding with a perfect couple…Read More
Joyce & Sukhpal’s Wedding Photography at The Old Shire Hall, Warwick & Moor Hall Hotel in Sutton Coldfield
I just knew from the start that this wedding would be awesome! A gorgeous Bride & Groom and stunning wedding locations – this was going to be a Warwickshire Photographers dream shoot. Interestingly the couple fused a wedding ceremony in a Dutch style with a full on traditional Indian Party complete with drumming and dancing.…Read More
Faye & Lee’s Wedding Photography at the Stratford Park Hotel just outside Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
Yet another fantastic wedding at the Stratford Park Hotel & Golf Club located just outside of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire. The venue is a refined, rustic & contemporary location for the idyllic wedding. Set within acres of a beautifully landscaped golf club, the main function hall looks stunning with it’s oak beamed barn. The perfect wedding…Read More
A stunning Staffordshire vintage themed summer Wedding by Warwickshire Photographer Chris Fossey Photography
A stunning Staffordshire vintage themed summer Wedding by Warwickshire Photographer Chris Fossey PhotographyRead More
A stunning castle, a beautiful American Bride, a Norwegian Groom and guests from all over the world. This wedding was going to be special!Read More
A highly experienced Warwickshire based Wedding Photographer I know how to capture that big day perfectly and without fuss. I know couples don’t like posing all day and want to enjoy their wedding with friends, but still want some stand out portrait imagery. This is why I provide an awesome mix of both candid reportage photos and of course those show piece wedding portraits of the happy couple naturally!Read More
Kerry and Aron chose a stunning location for their big day – Walton Hall. The day started with Kerry and the Bridesmaids getting ready at the hotel and with an air of excitement filling the the upstairs of Walton Hall it wasn’t hard to find where the bridal preparations were being conducted! Kerry looked simply…Read More
Ardencote Manor is a sublime venue set amongst stunning grounds and a wonderful lake. I’ve photographed the venue a number of times and it never fails to disappoint. Add a lovely Bride and Groom and you have a recipe for a stunning Wedding. Ping’s family travelled all the way from Malaysia and Australia to share…Read More
Yet another truly international wedding this year! Amy’s family and friends travelled all the way from the United States to be part of the couples big day.
Coombe Abbey is a stunning venue for a Wedding set in beautiful countryside on the border of Warwickshire and Coventry. The venue has endless wedding photo opportunities so Amy, Matt and myself took full advantage of the glorious summer weather to capture some beautiful intimate portraits. With simmering summer temperatures and high spirits the party kicked off with a drinks reception on the terraces of Coombe Abbey and was followed by a sumptuous Wedding Breakfast in the Cloisters Room.
As the sun went down the party went on into the night. A truly amazing event to capture…Read More


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A man is in custody after leading Springfield Police on a pursuit that started in the city and ended near Marshfield.
The man was reportedly driving a stolen U-haul van, hitting speeds near 100 miles an hour on I-44.
He was also making bad passes and trying to avoid spike strips.
He was finally arrested after he rolled the van around the 100 mile marker and it caught fire.
He was injured in the crash.


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North Korea's UN envoy slams 'hostile' US policy
North Korea on Friday blamed U.S. foreign policy for the long-standing political crisis on the Korean peninsula, APA reports quoting Anadolu Agency.
"The urgent issue to be settled on the Korean Peninsula is to put a definite end to the U.S. hostile policy toward DPRK, the root cause of all problems," the North's deputy permanent representative to the UN Kim In Ryong told reporters at UN headquarters. DPRK is the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea.
Kim said the North would not abide by UN resolutions, which "lost their legitimacy, legality and impartiality", until the international community recognizes its right to "self-defensive measures" and the U.S. ends its "provocative maneuvers".
Meanwhile, Kim rejected "ridiculous" allegations the WannaCry cyberattack that affected hundreds of thousands of computers around the world originated from North Korea.
North Korea is barred from ballistic missile technology under multiple Security Council resolutions, and has suffered UN sanctions for more than a decade.
On Tuesday, South Korea's new government and the U.S. administration committed to "bold and practical" ways to denuclearize North Korea.
Tuesday's agreement came as President Moon Jae-in's security advisers met with visiting representatives from the U.S. National Security Council ahead of a planned summit with U.S. President Donald Trump next month.
The move represented a significant development from Seoul under the government of liberal leader Moon following his victory in last week's presidential election.
The agreement came after North Korea conducted its latest ballistic missile test Sunday, claiming the U.S. was within its sights and it had the capability to fire a large nuclear warhead.
The UN Security Council was swift to condemn the test but North Korea's director of Asian affairs, Pak Jong-hak, insisted Tuesday that Pyongyang would not be deterred.
"Until the U.S. and its followers make a right choice, we will further produce sophisticated and diversified nuclear weapons and striking means and push to prepare for necessary tests," Pak said according to the North's state-run KCNA news agency.
Meanwhile, the South Korean Navy revealed a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier group was to remain in the vicinity indefinitely, while Seoul's defense ministry warned it was ready to carry out a preemptive strike if it detected a missile threat from North Korea.
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There will be a total of 100 new features coming in 4.0, and Steve Jobs took to the stage at Cupertino’s Infinite Loop campus to highlight just a few of them during today’s developer’s preview.
Multitasking took the spotlight of the presentation, with Jobs admitting that while Apple wasn’t first to the party, it was going to be the best, “just like cut and paste.”
Multitasking will be able to take shape in a number of forms. For example, you’ll now be able to play music from your Spotify app while browsing the web, and you’ll even be able to control your playlist from your locked homescreen as you can with iTunes.
You’ll also be able to boot up the Skype app and have it running in the background so you’re always online and available to take calls no matter what you’re doing – you’ll simply get a pop up to inform you of an incoming call.
Background location services get a big tick too, so while you’re busy listening to music or browsing the web, you can still get turn-by-turn voice navigation instructions from a sat-nav app like TomTom.
Other multitasking additions include local notifications that don’t need to go through Apple’s servers before they get to you, fast app switching allowing applications to save their place when quit and restart instantly where you left off, and the ability to leave tasks, such as uploading photos to Flickr, to continue in the background.
Even better, Apple says it can provide all this without affecting battery life or performance.
But that wasn’t all 4.0 has in store. Here’s a few of the other highlights we can expect:
Users will now be able to bundle their favourite apps into folders for easy finding. This means you could shove all your games, for example, under one icon on the homescreen, and even better, it stretches the iPhone’s capacity from 180 apps to over 2,000.
Not only will you be able to customise your locked screen, but you’ll be able to tweak the background of your homescreen too.
While the iPhone has been capable of handling multiple mail accounts for a while, you’ll now be able to see all of your emails from all of them in one place. There’s also fast inbox switching for when you want to see just one account, the ability to organise emails by thread, and you’ll even be able to open attachments using apps.
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Does what it says on the tin. You’ll be able to download ebooks from iBooks to read on your iPhone, and you’ll be able to sync books and bookmarks wirelessly between your iPhone and iPad.
Sort of like Xbox Live for your iPhone games, the Game Center will be a social gaming network where you can view leaderboards and win achievements. There’ll even be online matchmaking for games you’re playing to find you suitable opponents.
Now for the bad news. Multitasking will be confined to 3G S and third-gen iPod touches only, meaning 3G owners will miss out on arguably the biggest feature of the update. Still with 99 other tweaks to look forward to, expect the update in the summer, while iPad owners will be able to get their hands on 4.0 in the autumn.
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(America’s Frontline Doctors) – America’s Frontline Doctors Chief Science Officer Dr. Michael Yeadon has said there is “clear evidence of fraud” in the Pfizer study that purports to claim 95% efficacy in their COVID-19 “vaccine.”
Yeadon was commenting on an article appearing in The Lancet and critiquing a documentary that scrutinized a Pfizer efficacy study, calling the distinction raised therein between relative risk reduction and absolute risk reduction “accurate.”
The Lancet article, entitled COVID-19 vaccine efficacy and effectiveness—the elephant (not) in the room, says that although attention has focused on vaccine efficacy and comparing the reduction of the number of symptomatic cases, “fully understanding the efficacy and effectiveness of vaccines is less straightforward than it might seem. Depending on how the effect size is expressed, a quite different picture might emerge.”
The article continues: “Vaccine efficacy is generally reported as a relative risk reduction (RRR). It uses the relative risk (RR)—ie, the ratio of attack rates with and without a vaccine—which is expressed as 1–RR. Ranking by reported efficacy gives relative risk reductions of 95% for the Pfizer–BioNTech, 94% for the Moderna–NIH, 91% for the Gamaleya, 67% for the J&J, and 67% for the AstraZeneca–Oxford vaccines.”
“However, RRR should be seen against the background risk of being infected and becoming ill with COVID-19, which varies between populations and over time. Although the RRR considers only participants who could benefit from the vaccine, the absolute risk reduction (ARR), which is the difference between attack rates with and without a vaccine, considers the whole population. ARRs tend to be ignored because they give a much less impressive effect size than RRRs: 1·3% for the AstraZeneca–Oxford, 1·2% for the Moderna–NIH, 1·2% for the J&J, 0·93% for the Gamaleya, and 0·84% for the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccines.”
“Pfizer reported that its vaccine showed a 95% efficacy,” explained the documentary, entitled COVID Shot or Not? “That sounds like it protects you 95% of the time. But that’s not actually what that number means.”
“That 95% refers to the ‘relative risk reduction’ (RRR), but it doesn’t tell you how much your overall risk is reduced by vaccination. For that, we need ‘absolute risk reduction’ (ARR).
“In the Pfizer trial, 8 out of 18,198 people who were given the vaccine developed COVID-19. In the unvaccinated placebo group, 162 people out of 18,325 got it, which means that even without the vaccine, the risk of contracting COVID-19 was extremely low, at 0.88%, which the vaccine then reduced to 0.04%.
“So the net benefit, the absolute risk reduction, that you are being offered in the Pfizer vaccine in 0.84%
“That 95% number? That refers to the relative difference between the 0.88% and 0.04%. That’s what they call ‘95% relative risk reduction’. And relative risk reduction is well-known to be a misleading number, which is why the FDA recommends using absolute risk reduction instead. Which begs the question: How many people would have chosen to take the COVID-19 vaccines, had they understood that they offered less than 1% benefit?”
In response, Dr. Yeadon said: “It’s worse, actually. In the Pfizer study from which the 95% claim comes, there’s clear evidence of fraud.”
“Why do I say that? Well, a study which is properly blinded means neither the subject, the study director, nor any other actor knows what each patient has received,” added Yeadon.
“Patients in clinical trials are obligated to follow ‘the protocol’, which specifies must-dos & prohibitions.
If it’s blind to the end, how could one group end up with five times as many subjects having their data pulled prior to statistical analysis in the test group compared with the control group?”
Yeadon expanded: “The story of how a large state within India solved its COVID-19 crisis is no surprise to those of us who’ve known since spring 2020 that our governments, media, and tech titans have been acting against our interests, both health as well as democratic.”
“We’ve known, for example, that highly qualified physicians and scientists are well able to treat and save most people infected by SARS-CoV-2. The methodology is simple: Attack the virus and the inflammatory and ultimately thrombotic disease phases rationally by administering targeted, multi drug treatments. These include Vitamin C and Vitamin D but in particular, Ivermectin, zinc and a zinc ionophore such as one of several old antibiotics like azithromycin.
Used in sequence depending on the presentation, in excess of 80% of patients avoid hospitalization and death, including in cohorts we regard as at high risk. Peter McCullough and colleagues have put themselves in harm’s way professionally in pressing home these simple messages.
Two remarkable meta-analyses (the highest level of medical evidence, a review of randomized, controlled clinical trials), authored by Tess Laurie and Pierre Kory, show conclusively that if you could choose only one medical treatment, it would be ivermectin. It’s safe, we’ll-tolerated, off patent and cheap to make, yet HIGHLY effective as a treatment for COVID-19. Reviews by Tess Lawrie and Pierre Kory are in the most read papers this year.”
“Yet not one major media channel has bothered to tell us this,” Yeadon continued. “Instead, they’ve lied about ‘horse deworming’ drugs and made false claims about safety.”
“This is what Uttar Pradesh used in a few short weeks to crush soaring COVID-19 deaths in this large Indian state. They didn’t do much vaccination. Vaccination has, separately, been shown by Steve Kirsch’s team, to have resulted in a median estimate of 150,000 deaths shortly after vaccination in the U.S.A. alone.
They made these calculations solely based on the publicly accessible database which collects adverse event reports, VAERS. Additionally, they used mechanistically plausible assessments of the most common, serious adverse events, finding for example that pulmonary embolism occurs at over 400 TIMES the rate observed after any other vaccine types since the database began operations a few decades ago.”
Yeadon added: “These novel technology gene-based agents cause our bodies to manufacture coronavirus spike proteins, and these alone are responsible for a substantial proportion of the adverse effects of being infected by the virus.”
“What have our governments, media, and technology titans been doing in the meantime?” he demanded.
“Rubbishing the experts, attacking the publications, suppressing information everywhere, and banning accounts that persist in telling the truth.”
Echoing remarks by Zelenko Protocol discoverer Dr. Vladimir Ze’ev Zelenko, Yeadon continued: “Having done this for well over a year, I’m confident that their actions comprise deliberate mass murder. Their objective appears to be to keep people as fearful as possible and receptive to vaccination. All of these claims are supported by plentiful public sources.
“But the scandal of depriving people of effective treatments while coercing them into submission to dangerous vaccination is the worst thing that’s happened in the world for decades, arguably forever.”
Dr. Yeadon concluded, urging people to “see the true scale of the lie before injecting their children.”