"The authors superbly deconstruct Thomas’s multiple narratives of critical life-events — the accounts vary depending on his audience — and it says much for their intellectual integrity that though they are clearly critical of their subject, their presentation allows readers to make their own judgments."
The New York Times
June 17, 2007
"Two Washington Post reporters have come up with one of the most intriguing portraits of the Supreme Court’s most conservative and controversial member, a profile of a stubborn man of complexity and contradictions who in the end emerges as an almost tragic figure—an often isolated human being starving for approval who nonetheless clings to the very traits and beliefs that ostracize him, brimming with self-justification, righteousness and self-pity."
The Daily Kos
May 27, 2007
"Merida and Fletcher, who themselves are black, frame Thomas's apostasy through what they term a prism: 'He is in constant struggle with his racial identity twisting, churning, sometimes hiding from it, but never denying it, even when he's defiant about it.'"
May 3, 2007
"Though (Emerge) magazine's two cover stories reflect the contempt many blacks have for Thomas, it is the newly released book by Washington Post journalists Michael Fletcher and Kevin Merida that gives a fuller measure of this complicated man. They explore the ups and downs of Thomas' youth, his time as a black radical, and his slide into the ranks of conservatism."
May 1, 2007
"Justice Clarence Thomas is the Supreme Court's most reclusive member, which is saying something. Deeply distrustful of the media, the justice also almost never speaks from the bench. As a powerful official who remains opaque to the public, he is a prime candidate for a careful, fair-minded biography. In delivering it, Kevin Merida and Michael A. Fletcher have done some quiet justice of their own."
The Washington Post
April 22, 2007
"Clarence Thomas is arguably the most powerful black man in America, one whose position as a Supreme Court justice merits more than a modicum of respect. Yet as authors Kevin Merida and Michael Fletcher make clear in 'Supreme Discomfort,' a new biography, Thomas has yet to get his due."
Aprl 30, 2007
"With 'Supreme Discomfort,' Merida and Fletcher have produced a fascinating profile of a deeply complex man."
The Plain Dealer
April 22, 2007
"Thomas never cooperated with the reporters. Despite that obstacle, they (Merida and Fletcher) have produced a superb book. It is not the first biography of Thomas. It almost certainly will not be the last — the justice appears healthy, and at age 58 might serve another 30 years minimum. So far, it is the best."
Special to The Seattle Times
April 27, 2007
"Merida and Fletcher conclude that rather than being a 'rigid ideologue' or 'Scalia's lapdog,' Thomas is 'a much more complex man, who cannot be easily categorized.' It's to their credit that 'Supreme Discomfort' sometimes captures that reality..."
David J. Garrow
Special to The Los Angeles Times
April 23, 2007
"Associate editor Merida and journalist Fletcher, both of The Washington Post, have done a superb
job with this both harsh and sympathetic life of Clarence Thomas, best known for the battle over his
confirmation 16 years ago, tinged not a little by the Anita Hill scandal. Drawing on many interviews
with friends, colleagues and others (Thomas did not cooperate), the authors describe a sensitive darkskinned
Georgian who was raised by his beloved grandfather."
"Merida and Fletcher present a lucid, well-researched account of Thomas's controversial life and jurisprudence."
“Scrupulously fair and endlessly entertaining. Supreme Discomfort by Kevin Merida and Michael A. Fletcher is the definitive work on the Supreme Court’s most elusive and fascinating personality.”
Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Run of His Life and Too Close to Call, legal affairs analyst for CNN, and staff writer at The New Yorker.
“Clarence Thomas, even as the quiet justice, is a clanging symbol of politics and race in our time. I can’t think of two writers I’d rather have cut through the cacophony of the Thomas mythology than Kevin Merida and Michael A. Fletcher. In Supreme Discomfort, they have found the divided soul that divides a nation."
David Maraniss, author of First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton


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Episode 8: POV - Larger Box Pt 2 - Church History
In this episode Jimmy and Patty continue the conversation in their Point of View (POV) series.
Taking a step backwards to see how our box fits into the larger box of the bible and church history is the next step in our POV series.
In part two of this larger box discussion we will be looking at the story of church history to see how our denomination or tradition fit into the larger story.
Graphs and Handouts!
UNDERSTANDING CHURCH HISTORY IN ITS BROADEST STROKES
Church History is a fun and intensive study that could literally take a lifetime life time of study, and still not know it all. Every believer, at any stage of their life, must make it a priority to understand church history, even if it is just in understanding church history in its broadest context.
We may not know all of the people involved and all of the nuances, but the basic story needs to be understood. This is our family history, and it is up to us to remember it. Our deep past effects us in more ways than many of us can imagine. The story of the church history is still here with us-- it is like a ragging river full of rapids and dangerous rocks. We can either understand the river of church history, understand our part in it and help to move the story forward, or we can be willfully ignorant and let the currents toss us around and throw us against the rocks.
You can learn to navigate the present by understanding the past, and move into a greater future. Or you can be swept up and caught up in forces and a larger story that WILL act on your life and your loved ones whether you are aware of it or not.
SECOND - HOW DOES YOUR CHURCH FIT INTO THE LARGER STORY
Our church tradition fits into a larger story that is fundamental to our identity as christians. This influences what a church teaches, what it preaches, and what it values. This in turn effects the type of church cultures that are created, and what types of relationships exist within the church.
In episode 6 we learned about how many different church denominations are out there. Those denominations are a record of different church cultures and a different set of value systems. This is key to understanding your own POV and the POV of others.
How the story of church history has played out in the way it has historically is important to understanding the larger drama that we are caught up in. The river of history that is carrying us along is very real. The danger of the rapids and the rocks is a very true and very present danger.
The key to navigating all of these hazards in understanding the Bibles emphasis on unity.
UNITY - WHY UNITY IS IMPORTANT
In both testaments unity is very, very important. A key principle in building your life, your church, and your relationships around the bible is to understand what is important to the authors of the Bible, and strive to make it important to you as well.
Unity in the Old Testament:
Unity was very important for God in the Hebrew Bible. It was important for his people remain a separate and distinct people group, and remain separate from their Canaanite neighbors and the world at large. A lot of what goes wrong in the old testament is that the Israelites fail to keep themselves as one unique people group. They fail to keep themselves unified as a separate and distinct people from the rest of the peoples of the world.
Unity in the New Testament:
The authors of the New Testament makes a lot of direct calls for the unity of all believers. The gospel authors, who actually knew that they were writing scripture, call out for unity often. The most famous is John 17 where Jesus has a speech and prayer about the importance for the believers to be united. The author of Luke and Acts addresses the concept of unity in a lot of places. The Jerusalem council specifically addresses this concept of unity between gentile and Jewish believers. All of the letters directly address the fracturing of the church along Jewish and gentile lines.
The reality of modern day Christianity seems to directly contradict the hopes and dreams of both the authors of the New Testament and the authors of the Old Testament. The body of christ (the church) has been shattered, and picking up the pieces and bringing it all together seems like an impossibility.
Bringing the world back together starts with us. Believers everywhere must strive to come together as one united family of God. Every age and every generation is called to this great task of unity. It is the great call to which we have been called. The great task that most of us are not even aware of.
WHERE DID EVERYTHING GO WRONG?
It’s hard to say if there ever was a united church. Especially before there was a new testament, it is hard for our modern sensibilities who get united behind what we believe to be the correct interpretation of scripture, to understand how a church defined itself before it had a new testament.
The study of the writings of the church fathers is a fascinating glimpse into the period right after the apostolic period, where the new testament cannon was being finalized. That is beyond the scope of this podcast, and I will refrain from geeking out about it. I will link some great resources for anyone wanting to go deeper there.
But it is safe to say that this desire to spit up and go our own way has been with us from the beginning, and that we are called to be partners with God to bring the world back together at all times, in every age, and during every generation.
We have some handouts!
While these are not ours, they will be useful for our discussion. The first is a portrait of what we think the Church Family tree looks like today. Lets take a look at this handout to see what observations we can make, and discuss whether this is a useful exercise to do in your own life.
You can download your own copy here:
The key is to find where your own tradition fits in and work backwards from there. Take note of the traditions that are closest to your own. Are there any surprises? Do you know some of these stories behind the spiting branches, and the different denominations? Do you have a good understanding of all of the branches getting down to the trunk?
*Youtube has great videos that paint a great picture of church history, and we will link some of them in the deep dives.
**Understand that church history can be a hotly debated topic. Almost every single branch of the tree sees the story a little different, and many would have some disagreements on how this diagram is arranged. Use this handout as a guide to deeper understanding and not as absolute truth.
FITTING YOUR DENOMINATION INTO THE LARGER STORY
Understanding that history is often recorded by people that are operating out of a specific frame of reference, a specific POV, and a specific box. Timelines and diagrams are useful for not only understanding what actually happened, but also for understanding what some people think happened.
What people think happened, or how they interpret what the facts mean is very important to our discussion of POV, and in our season of listening. What is often most important, is not what actually happened, but what people believe those events mean. The handout below was created by someone on the same branch of my own church tradition. Specifically from the Stone-Campell Restoration Movement branch of the Christian Family Tree.
Check out the site where I downloaded it from to find more about the church this diagram comes from:
Studying this is very revealing to see where my own personal tradition comes from, and it empowers me to choose where I want it to go. As discussed in the podcast my own tradition currently would have serious issues with this diagram, however even a few decades ago this is definitely what was mostly taught. Studying this can help us understand the larger POV of church history by narrowing it down to the recent church history, of where my specific church came from.
Looking at my own churches website you would think we sprang into existence in 1983 from disciples that came from somewhere else that is not really mentioned. However, there has been a bit of revisionist history going on in my own church tradition, that I personally think is a shame. (See NYCCOC History Video)
I think a better approach to church history is to look at the good and the bad and embrace both of them as part of our identity. Part of understanding our church history is looking at all of it, good, bad, and ugly so we can understand and learn from it. Even painful memories from our past has shaped our present. A lot of healing can come from embracing our painful past, and learning to be grateful to it for shaping who we are today.
I believed a lot of things that I now think are wrong, and I am sure that I am wrong about a lot of thing now. But what I am sure of is the need for transparency and to face the truth head on, and resisting the urge to rewrite our own histories-- no matter how much we may want to.
Ask your own church tradition if they have a useful timeline like this to see if you can better understand your own church's history, and begin to think about how that history could be effecting your own personal history. I personally had a bit of trouble finding reliable unbiased sources for my study of my own traditions past, but I will try and link what I have in the deep dives.
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Episode 8 C.O.W. (POV - Larger Box Pt 2 - Church History)
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In the meantime why don't you check out one of our book recommendations or deeper dives. That should keep you nice and busy for now.
Book nerds! Below are this episode's book recommendations. If you are interested in purchasing any of these books, then please use these links below.
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Bruce Shelly's Church History in Plain Language is a great introduction to the twisted tales of church history. While it is light in some important details, and it is a very protestant centric POV, this classic work is a very readable and concise primer for the beginning student of church history.
Okay this section is for deeper dives. Here we will be recommending a variety of resources that we could not fit into the podcast. Some were mentioned on the podcast and some were not mentioned at all. They are videos, other podcasts, online classes, and other ramblings that Patty would not let Jimmy bring onto the podcast otherwise it would be a four hour show.
Also all promised handouts should be found here.
Extra Credits is a youtube channel that makes and produces short animated videos that illuminate a historical topic. What I love about them is that they teach history by telling stories. The best history teachers and books are the ones who teach by telling stories. While it is not incredibly in-depth they do an excellent job of talking about this early time in christian history in a fun and easy-going style.
Also, if you like there style check out the rest of their videos about various ages of history you will not be disappointed.
For a more academic POV for the history of christianity, and one that would be more at home in a classroom setting check out Ryan Reeves videos on church history.
Ryan teaches historical theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and he has graciously recorded two church history survey classes and posted them on youtube for free!
You can find more about him at thegospelcoalition.org.
Early and Medieval Church History (Church History 1)
Reformation and Modern Church History (Church History 2)
My current church tradition comes from the International Churches of Christ family of churches. Steve Kinnard does an excellent series of lectures on church history, and he was great source for me when I wanted to know more about the Restoration and Stone-Campell movements. While I found them to be slightly biased towards the restoration movement, his lecture series were invaluable to me when I was first trying to wrap my head around how my local church fit into the larger story of church history.
You can learn more about Steve at his blog kingjesushearald.com.


A new company called AUO (AU Optronics) also famous for LCDs is set to bring down the cost of the next generation e-book readers in half, so that we’d have e-books costing $100 or less. For many the new e-book readers that are being released by Amazon and Sony are just a bit too expensive. Many want to make the switch to reading digital books but not at a $200 price point. $100 would be a good price for me and most consumers to really be motivated financially to make the switch.
E-book readers are a good idea for a number of reasons. 1) Less paper consumed overall since less newspapers and paperback books will need to be printed. 2) More portability as you will be able to carry your entire library of books.
We can tell that AUO’s aggressive approach to the e-book reader market also has to do with trying to regain market that it lost to Prime View that was awarded a manufacturing contract for Amazon and Sony’s products.


In his book Art and the Bible Francis Schaefer states “Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.” While the keyword here is “should” (meaning this is largely not the case) I could not help but immediately think of Charles Schulz the creator of Peanuts upon hearing it. As a Christian and artist Schulz exemplified what it meant to be” in the world and not of it.” Schulz has impacted people around the world through his comic strip and work. It is rare that you see a Christian artist leave such a mark on society, but to say the least Schulz did just that. If you want to fully understand Schulz you have to understand Peanuts. In an interview seen on the PBS American Master’s documentary Good Ol’ Charles Schulz, Schulz responding to people wanting to know the real him he said “People say they want to know the real me, that’s (Peanuts) the real me.” Schulz or as he preferred the be called “Sparky”, spent his life doing what he loved, manifesting his thoughts, feelings and worldview through the medium of comics. Sparky’s life and legacy could be summed up in three areas; the backstory to Sparky’s life, work, and worldview, Sparky’s contribution to art/comics through Peanuts and lastly the impact of Schulz/Peanuts on the whole of culture itself. For fifty years Sparky shared his life with the world through Peanuts, and still today his legacy still remains strong within the public consciousness.
In order to understand where a person ended in life, it helps to understand where they began. This is especially important to do when it comes to the life of Charles Schulz. Everything within world of Peanuts had some form of correlation or parallel to the life of Sparky. David Michaelis author of Schulz and Peanuts said about Schulz “like many artists, Schulz maintained that he could be known only through his creation.” If one wants to understand Peanuts one has to understand Schulz. Many people would look at a work like Peanuts and think “well that is just a cartoon” not realizing it to be a person’s worldview and being manifested daily in four illustrated panels.
The early life of Schulz was important as it would establish the basis for what would become Peanuts. Many of Sparky’s childhood experiences would be events that influenced and even haunted him his entire life. Charles Schulz was born in 1922 to Norwegians living in Minnesota. As was the standard with many Norwegians, his parents lived isolated lives. When telling the story of his life Sparky never began with his birth. Michaelis pointed this out in his book stating “He never began at the beginning, never with his birth or his early years, but always with his mother’s death.” From a very early age Sparky would take a pad and paper wherever he went and would often sit in corners doodling. He resented being an only child. Schulz would frequently spend time at his neighbor’s house, listening to their mother play Beethoven on the piano, as he practiced drawing, and making up stories of his pointer Spike, a notorious dog amongst neighborhood children. He often feared being forgotten or unseen. Sparky from time to time, recalled a story of riding rail cars with his mother and traumatically fearing being forgotten. Michaelis wrote “he never stopped believing that he would be forsaken and left behind, and that nobody cared.”
Sparky’s mother died when he was twenty one and days into being drafted. This, like many of the previously mentioned experiences, would become inspiration and drive for his medium. When Sparky returned from the draft he relied on odd jobs while practicing his drawing through correspondence courses. Not having a proper family Sparky found a lot of appeal in a Church of God where friends of his attended. The Church was a tight knit church treating one another like family, using terms such as “brother” and “sister.” It would be during a summer revival that Sparky would accept Christ and become and active professing Christian. The pastor of that church Bob Bearden said in the American Masters documentary on Schulz “There came a moment that Sparky put his gifts on the altar and said “Lord I am going to get myself out of the way, I’m going to concentrate on my gifts and I’m going to try to use those gifts to make the world a better place.” It was from there that Sparky began his work at Art Instruction Inc. in Minneapolis, and where those gifts he laid on the altar began to serve a purpose. It was here that what would become “Peanuts” started to take form. Under the name “Lil’ Folks” the Saturday Evening Post ran Schulz’s comic for a period of time until dropping it. It was not until Schulz resold/retooled the one panel cartoon to a four panel strip that the strip was picked up by United Features Syndicate in 1950. There are two parts to the life of Schulz, everything before Peanuts and everything after Peanuts. Peanuts became the life of Schulz until his death, which by staggering coincidence, was the same morning the last Peanuts ran in papers. Just as Peanuts began with Schulz it died with him.
Typically when a person leaves the sort of mark that Sparky left on a culture they did so through numerous works and achievements. For Schulz his success, his mark on the world came from one thing, just one, and that one thing was his comic strip Peanuts. In the Time Magazine article A Brief History of Peanuts Megan Friedman said of the strip “Saturday, Oct. 2, marks 60 years since Schulz’s first Peanuts strip hit newspapers. Since then, Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the gang have become the most recognizable cartoon characters in America — and have left an indelible mark on American culture.” Worldwide people know Peanuts, the characters and their stories. You can find the Peanuts characters on everything from Hallmark cards to children’s vitamins. The phenomenon of Peanuts even extended to NASA, as is shown in the Huffington Post article 20 Things You Didn’t Know about the Peanuts Creator, the Apollo 10 command module was named Charlie Brown and the lunar module Snoopy. On top of that, now thirteen years since the strip ended, Peanuts still remains as popular as ever. The question still remains however; what made Peanuts such an impact?
Peanuts chronicled the lives of the everyman Charlie Brown, the philosophical Linus, bossy Lucy, tomboyish Peppermint Patty, artist Schroeder and of course the beagle Snoopy. Caricatures directly drawn from people in his life, inserted with the personality and experiences of Schulz, Peanuts was different from any comic that had been seen at the time. In the American Masters documentary a friend of Sparky’s gives light to Peanut’s success “Peanuts came out in the Cold War era filled with Cold War comics. Peanuts brought sanity to the madness.” Peanuts talked about things that people did not typically talk about. Schulz used the cartoon setting to deal with real life problems, real life people could relate to. Over the years Schulz used Peanuts as a venue for talking about topics like depression, politics, divorce, emotions, life, death, Christianity and everything else in between. People of all ages could identify with the characters, and as the Huffington Post article showed even the President Ronald Reagan wrote a letter to Schulz saying that he could “identify with Charlie Brown”. In American Masters Schulz talked about a story he had heard once where a kid came home from school after having a horrible day, and told his mother that he felt like Charlie Brown. It was upon hearing the tale when Schulz realized that was the reason for Charlie Brown and Peanuts existence. One could say Peanuts was a journal of Schulz, his mind, his thoughts and feelings and that is why people related so well to the comic. Taken from the Time article A Brief History of Charles Schulz’s ‘Peanuts’ Friedman expresses the relevance Peanuts had to society “The “Peanuts” characters conversed in plain language and at the same time questioned the meaning of life itself. “Peanuts” depicted genuine pain and loss but somehow, as the cartoonist Art Spiegelman observed, “still kept everything warm and fuzzy.”
What drove Peanuts was obviously the worldview and mind of Schulz. In turn I truly believed his worldview impacted the worldview of others. While Schulz struggled throughout life, the American Masters documentary pointed out that he held onto being ordinary by teaching Sunday school and practicing his faith. Schulz was a Christian presence in an unchristian world. One of the best examples of this was the Christmas special A Charlie Brown Christmas. As far as Christmas specials go, this show went against everything mainstream society says Christmas is about. In the episode Charlie Brown struggles with the commercialism of Christmas and searches for the holiday’s true meaning. The show goes on to make the consumerism, as well as the attitudes of consumers at Christmas, look bad. It concludes with Linus blatantly reading the Christian Christmas story, and presenting a basic Gospel message. To this day A Charlie Brown Christmas runs worldwide without fail, and every year Charles Schulz teaches the gospel worldwide via the Christmas special. On top of that the countercultural message of Peanuts and Sparky’s beliefs impact people to this day. When you look at the life of Schulz through Peanuts, it gives a message that as people it is ok to struggle or to deal with emotions and problems. This is not a song often sung in Christianity or even out of it. To the Christian and non-Christian alike Schulz/Peanuts have been an encouragement to many. Apart from that the comic strips, cards, cartoons, and so on bring not just joy, but philosophy anybody can understand to people all over the world. Sparky’s impact also extended to other comics such as Bloom County. Michael Johnson in the New York Times article Tapping the Genius of Schulz points out that “Schulz was inspiration for Calvin and Hobbes, Garfield and Dilbert” Charles Schulz continues to inspire and impact people of all professions and standings years after his death. His legacy is one that will be seen far beyond even the current generation.
It is undeniable that Charles Schulz was a believer in the Christian faith. The interesting thing about him is, that while he never struggled with physical trials in life, many of his demons were internal or mental. Sparky was successful from a fairly young age, and even Peanuts took off fairly smoothly and still at its peak when it ended some forty something years later. Charles Schulz is an excellent example of someone who had taken the gifts God had given him and used it to impact the world. What is interesting is he did not do this through drawing religious cartoons, or finding a job that provided a career, placing cartooning on the side, but instead took what God made him good at and used his gifts at the risk of failure. Francis Schaeffer said in Art and the Bible “In God’s world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.” Through the means of Peanuts God helped Sparky deal with himself and other people do the same. Peanuts was about individuals dealing with the quirks, hurts and joys in life. One thing that hindered Schulz were things in his past that he could not let go, and quite a few problems he chose simply to not deal with. In the American Masters on Schulz his daughter stated her dad told her “he did not want to get counseling because he was afraid that it would ruin the strip.” At the same his flaws added a very real and admirable dimension to his persona, in that as believers we are not perfect, and while he arguably had everything, was just another struggling believer. In totality Schulz is a great inspiration and as said earlier, is an excellent example of what it means to be in the world and not of it.
Tis so much more to the life of Charles Schulz, and truthfully this post barely scratches the surface. To do the life of Sparky justice it would take more than what was provided here, yet this adequately sums him up his existence and work. Less and less I believe are artists of the integrity and character that Schulz had. He was well ahead of his time and stepped out in ways so many are afraid to. He took his gifts and calling, laid them before God, and regardless of ups or downs found this to be the key to his success. No matter what was said or done, how happy or sad he was, he always seemed to come back to that, the roots and call he accepted the day he placed his gifts before the Lord. It is because of Schulz’s faith and ability that Peanuts was and continues to be a prominent theistic presence in a not so theistic world.
“Happy 90th Birthday, Charles Schulz: 20 Things You Didn’t Know About The Peanuts Creator (SLIDESHOW).” The Huffington Post. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Nov. 2012. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/26/happy-birthday-charles-sc_n_2188327.html#slide=1800149>.
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Friedman, Megan, and 1990s. “A Brief History of Charles Schulz’s ‘Peanuts’ Comic Strip – TIME.” TIME.com. N.p., 1 Oct. 2010. Web. 4 Mar. 2013. <http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2022745,00.html>.
Johnson, Michael. “Tapping the genius of Charles Schulz – The New York Times.” The New York Times – Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 Nov. 2007. <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/opinion/07iht-edjohnson.1.8229024.html?_r=0>.
Michaelis, David. “Passages: The Life and Times of Charles Schulz – TIME.” Breaking News, Analysis, Politics, Blogs, News Photos, Video, Tech Reviews – TIME.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Dec. 2000. <http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,93141-2,00.html>.
Schaeffer, Francis A. Art and the Bible. Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Books, 2006. Print.
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The Story Guide Project was launched in 2017 as an effort to gather the collective wisdom of those who have become masters of the story. Without a compelling story, regardless of the medium, the audience will tune out. There is an art to telling a story on the stage, with data, in the board room, on air, in film and in countless other ways, and it is important to learn the tricks of the trade that facilitate communication across a host of media.
ORIGINS OF THE PROJECT
Our founder at Story Guide is Peter Robichau, an author, speaker and consultant who learned early on that mastering the art of storytelling is the best way to engage an audience and affect change. His struggles and fears related to communicating in front of large groups and to key influencers caused him to begin studying those who have risen to the tops of their fields.
Peter realized that the mode of communication has a profound impact on delivery – what might work in one venue might be entirely inappropriate in another. Changing channels from print to audio means changing the approach to storytelling, but the goal of all storytelling remains the same – to engage and impact. Peter’s goal is to capture the methods of leading story-tellers. The end goal of The Story Guide Project is a body of knowledge that can instruct and inspire generations of storytellers for years to come.
THE STORY “GUIDES”
Each of the contributors to the Story Guide Project will be notable experts in their respective fields. There is no single characteristic of a contributor to the project beyond their reputation for excellence in their given field. So while one guide might be a notable public speaker, another guide might never step on stage, choosing rather to practice the art of storytelling through film or radio. We will also seek out those who have mastered the more obscure aspects of storytelling such as letting data, facts and figures paint a picture that would otherwise be inaccessible.
STORYGUIDE: THE BOOK
It is our hope that the collective wisdom of the guides we meet along the way will be captured on video and audio recordings, their interviews transcribed and ultimately compiled into a companion book that can be shared with the world. This publication will be the definitive guide for anyone who has a message to convey, and wants to do so effectively. If you have a suggestion of a “master story guide” for us to interview, please email us at firstname.lastname@example.org … we’d love to follow-up on your suggestions!


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YA | Fantasy | Series Book 1
FIRST LINE :: eARC :: The first boy disappeared on the day of his birth, on a night when the pale yellow moon that ruled the sky turned red and bathed the heavens in the ghastly color of blood, the same night the Empire of Cokyri abruptly ceased its merciless attack.
Princess Alera is too young to recall a time when her kingdom had not been at peace, but when a Cokyrian breaches the castle grounds with questionable motives, she gets a quick history lesson about the horrific war 16 years ago that ended with the death of newborns. No sooner was the Cokyrian captured, however, did the enemy manage to escape! Alera wants to find more about it, but her father feels that she should focus her pretty, little head on deciding which suitor to marry and leave all the war concerns to him. Too bad all the suitors are either boring or full of themselves – and the only boy that Alera finds remotely interesting is the Narian who had been kidnapped by the Cokyrians during the war and recently escaped from their clutches.REVIEW :: I have mixed feelings on Legacy – on the one hand, the story has much potential and piqued my curiosity for the world that Carla Kluver created; on the other hand, I did not particularly care for the characters themselves. Told from Princess Alera’s perspective, I did not connect with her and she came across as a little immature to expect herself able to run a kingdom, despite her father’s misgivings. If she had demonstrated more efforts to prove her worth as a ruler instead of simply resisting her father’s approved suitor, I would have seen more reason to her reluctance. I wish that we had more of Narian - the enemy who challenges Alera to fight against the norm of thinking women as the weaker sex. The ending for Legacy is quite abrupt – I thought it was a rather awkward point of the story to end on - just when Alera's heart begins to break! I hope the characters kick it up a notch or two in time for the sequel because, if not, I don’t know if the story will be enough for me to continue on.
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FIRST LINE :: Jess stares at me in disbelief. “What do you mean, you’re moving to England?”
The mother-daughter book club goes international with one of its duo goes across the pond for a year. What better book to discuss than Pride & Prejudice – and what better way to hold weekly discussion than webcams? In the States, Jess, Cassidy, and Megan must face freshman year with a pining heart, figure skates instead of hockey sticks, and an anonymous Austen-esque fashion blog, respectively. The 2 British boys who replace their friend are NOT making high school any easier. Emma, on the other hand, is making the best of her last-minute move to England, but the queen bee Annabelle is set on making it memorable in the worst possible way. Will the book club survive the distance – or will they crumble like pies topped with shaving cream?REVIEW :: PIES & PREJUDICE sounds cute and it IS cute, but if you are expected a modern-day P&P this is not that sort of book. It is actually a 4th book in a series, although I felt that it could stand on its own merits. Previous books would simply serve to build relationships with these girls and their family. What threw me off was that PIES & PREJUDICE was told in 4 different voices. They didn’t seem very distinctive from each other, so I had to go back to the chapter heading to double-check the narrator every once in a while. I also found myself favoring certain storylines over others, which doesn’t allow for a smooth reading in case you are wondering. PIES & PREJUDICE definitely works to stimulate discussion between mothers and young daughters, especially in a book club, and I think this series is a neat idea!
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Many disciplines and resources can inform your thinking about reflective practices. Below is a list of various books, articles, podcasts, or videos our readers enjoyed and wanted to pass along. Interested in contributing to the list? Please contact firstname.lastname@example.org.
- Learning to Love the Swamp by Ellen Schall The core of leadership is learning to struggle and enjoy the “important, complex and messy problems that resist technical analysis” in social equity work. Read More
- Daring Greatly by Dr. Brené Brown Daring Greatly is a book by Brené Brown who is a professor and New York Times best-selling author that studies courage, vulnerability, empathy and shame. Read More
- An Everyone Culture by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey The culture you create in your organization is your strategy—and the key to success is developing everyone. Read More
- Negative Capability Concept by John Keats Negative Capability is a state in which the individual is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, and doubts, “without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” Read More
- Grantcraft Guide by Jan Jaffe and William Ryan Organizations have strategies. As individuals, don’t we need to use explicit strategies to navigate the shoals of complex situations? Read More
- The Dawn of System Leadership by Peter Senge Collaborative initiatives are the rage. Read More
- Achieving Mindfulness at Work, No Meditation Cushion Required by Matthew E. May We all have access to an “impartial and well-informed spectator.” Read More


|Book: Creating a Secure Church: BOOK TWO|
Part 1 : Objectives & Obstacles
Part 2 : Secure in Relationships
Part 3 : Secure in Ministry
Part 4 : When Things go Wrong
Part 5 : Concluding Thoughts
If you have read the preface of Book One you will have seen how these books came into being and my thanks again to those who have made me what I am.
And so to the book
Church isn't always what we'd like it to be. Why? Because church is people; redeemed people, yes, but still with God working on their lives! Which means we're still imperfect and therefore we get things wrong, so sometimes church us messy!
That's what this book is all about - a wonderful God working with less than wonderful people! How do you cope with some of the people who call themselves Christians? How do we cope when it all goes nastily wrong? How can we try to reduce the number of times that things go wrong?
Yes, that's why I've written this second book, because church isn't about being on your own, it's about relating to others who call themselves Christians, people who have still a long way to go before they get to heaven - they're on the way but the path is bumpy?
I hope you can cope with some of the things this book suggests. If you do, it'll be a better church!


Using the Global Open Knowledge Hub and Micro-projects to Enhance Climate Change Document Collections for the Caribbean Community
By Timo Baur
The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) coordinates the Caribbean region’s response to climate change, working on effective solutions and projects to combat the environmental impacts of climate change and global warming. It provides climate change-related policy advice and guidelines to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States through the CARICOM Secretariat and to the UK Caribbean Overseas Territories. It also provides various tools and the Clearinghouse service, an archive for regional climate change data and documentation, from which every month about 13,000 documents are downloaded by international and regional internet users.
Being part of the Open Knowledge Hub has helped the Clearinghouse team to enhance its service on many levels. Firstly, the Clearinghouse software interface was improved, so it could connect to the Open Knowledge Hub (OKhub). The project also provides an opportunity to network with similar organisations around the world and therefore increases cooperation, and has enabled the team to identify areas for improvement in the methods used for knowledge management.
Connecting to the OKhub has also increased availability of documents in the CCCCC Clearinghouse for a wider audience and allowed for increased outreach. For example, a document on Agriculture in Guyana in the Caribbean Community was accessed 195 times through the OKhub and a country profile on St. Kitts and Nevis 114 times. Of 724 total users that reached the CCCCC clearinghouse through the OKhub, 139 users came from the Caribbean, 92 from Central and South America, and 59 from Africa. Compared to average regular internet traffic, this shows a relatively high participation of Caribbean readers.
However, the most important change was that CCCCC predominantly work on large scale programmes, but support from the Open Knowledge Hub project allowed the team to conduct a series of micro-projects for extending and enhancing its knowledge base on specific local and thematic areas. This led to an increased dissemination of research that was formerly not published. On a more strategic level, the micro-funding allowed the team to demonstrate the importance of a small scale approach to targeted information gathering. As a result, CCCCC has started to plan core activities from these micro-projects into larger, regional projects as well.
Micro-project 1 – Sector-specific Collection
Within this project, two thematic experts collected, reviewed (for both relevance and quality), digitized, and published 198 sector-specific and climate change related documents that were previously inaccessible to the public. All of the documents focus on climate change in the Caribbean and the six sectors central for the Caribbean, (livelihoods and health, tourism, agriculture and fisheries, food security, water and renewable energy), or hold high relevance for Caribbean audiences including several useful guides, toolkits and handbooks.
Figure 1: Types of documents added during the micro-project “Sector-specific Collection”
Micro-project 2 – Collecting Climate Change & Development Resources in Grenada
The Open Knowledge Hub project facilitated the planning and execution of a second micro-project, co-funded by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network. The project arranged for a two week field visit to Grenada, during which a thematic expert contacted 33 in-country experts (government officials, NGO`s, corporations and academics) and identified, digitized and published 72 documents and tools relevant to Grenada and climate change. The authors were then contacted to grant us permission to publish their work and as a result all documents were published on Eldis through CCCCC Clearinghouse and the Open Knowledge Hub.
Figure 2: Change in the number of database entries per country between 9/2014 and 2/2016
Micro-project 3 – Cataloguing CCCCC’s library resources
Building on the support of the Open Knowledge Hub project, the CCCCC Clearinghouse was able to fund other activities and capacity building initiatives that relate to knowledge management, namely the finalization of cataloguing all hardcopy resources in the CCCCC`s library. This was done in cooperation with the Belize National Library Service (BLNS), that used the opportunity to train a team of librarians in digital cataloguing. In addition, IT staff training in IT Service Management was also supported.
Micro-project 4 – Enhancing information on impacts and adaptation to climate change and the small scale fisheries sector
Lastly, the support enabled the Clearinghouse team to initiate its own donor-independent micro-project to shed some light on knowledge management in the small-scale fisheries sector. This project assessed the state of knowledge on the impacts of climate change on the small scale fisheries sector in the Caribbean and explored possible adaptation approaches. In-country interviews were conducted in Barbados, and the project collected, digitized and submitted more than 25 relevant documents and submitted a comprehensive report on climate change and the small scale fisheries sector, including recommendations for approaches on enhancing knowledge exchange with the fishermen.
Understanding the Importance of Micro-projects
The micro-projects were all aimed around the operational necessities of regional information resource management – such as the targeted collection, digitalization, and cataloguing of climate change related documents with national and sectoral relevance. They provided the necessary smaller scope and timely small-scale funding to enable this kind of work and proved to be very effective. They have resulted in better digital availability and accessibility of previously unpublished information material, research and policy documents and project reports concerned with climate change in different countries of the Caribbean Community.
In large projects, it is often very difficult to effectively drill-down and provide the appropriate resources to address the scope of activities to fill gaps in information and data on specific sectors and geographic areas. Moreover, the time from planning to execution is much shorter for micro-projects. The projects were therefore able to provide the necessary operational resources to the knowledge management team to execute the work in a much shorter time. Micro-projects can also be executed in much more lean and direct ways, without much need for multi-stakeholder coordination, on the level of mid-level management, and with less organizational and bureaucratic hurdles.
In addition, the approach (and its success) has also already inspired some follow up projects. For example, the research that was collected in the micro-project ‘Sector-specific Collections’ is currently being synthesized into sector briefs. Other data collection and digitization activities will increasingly be planned into larger regional programmes, and another micro-project has started to collect and digitize a collection of documents gathered in over 20 years of climate change and environment related activities in St. Kitts and Nevis.
Moreover, because the collections and the research done as part of the micro-projects are available online through CCCCC`s clearinghouse database and OKhub.org, they have the potential to influence other organisations and inspire future projects. For example, the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) has requested copies of the report produced from the micro-project in Grenada, which has been downloaded 46 times since its creation in August 2015.
The micro-funding therefore provided an opportunity for the CCCCC to change the type of locally relevant information they were able to engage with. It helped the CCCCC Clearinghouse to gain flexibility in conducting micro-projects to fill current gaps in the database, and enhancing and expanding the service they provide to the climate change community in the region and beyond – such that more research on climate change in the Caribbean countries is now more widely available and accessible.
Featured image showing St Kitts and Nevis, sourced from https://www.flickr.com/photos/120420083@N05/ under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/


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Oh no my library loan ran out on Waking the Moon how tragic that I don’t get to finish.
In addition to the Book About Writing Craft that I’m reading, I started readingÂ She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard, and while it’s enjoyable in a way, I have this sneaking suspicion that it’s not going to end how I’d like it to.
If anyone wants to start a turn-of-the-century feminist/utopia/adventure book club, I amÂ in. Tentative syllabus:Â She,Â Herland,Â The Sultana’s Dream,Â Mizora, New Amazonia, Man’s Rights… Arqtiq sounds fun, being described as “exuberantly incoherent” so how can I resist? As a voice on the other side,Â The Republic of the Future andÂ Unveiling a Parallel, maybe?
I spent some time on Wikipedia just now and had a lot of fun.
I’m really into fairy tales this week.
East of the Sun and West of the MoonÂ -Â A fairy tale from Norway.
She rode a long, long way, until they came to a large steep cliff. The white bear knocked on it. A door opened, and they came into a castle, where there were many rooms all lit up; rooms gleaming with silver and gold. Further, there was a table set there, and it was all as grand as grand could be. Then the white bear gave her a silver bell; and when she wanted anything, she only had to ring it, and she would get it at once.
Our Fairy Tales Ourselves: Storytelling From East to WestÂ – Fairy tales and stories beyond the Hero’s Journey. I added quite a few things to my to-read list from this essay.


Who is worse than an illiterate person? One who can read but doesn’t!
This fact may hit you like a thunderbolt but it is true. And you certainly don’t want your kid to belong to that category, do you?
You want the best life possible for your kid. You want your kid to do well in school, get good marks and grades, get admission in the best possible institutions for higher studies, settle down and advance in his/her career and turn out to be a very good citizen, bringing name and fame for him/her self and make you proud. The foundation for all these to materialize is the love for reading in your kid. Yes, it has been well established that a good reading habit is key to academic success. It is more so in these modern days of information explosion.
Reading habit in kids:
But the reality is different & disturbing. Studies have concluded that kids begin to lose whatever interest they have in reading for pleasure and knowledge, other than for academic compulsions, by age eight. Then, the decline is further accentuated, never to look up again. Over the last 20 years, the percentage of late teens with no reading habit has doubled. This is an alarming trend, as it has far reaching repercussions.
If you ask the kids why they don’t feel like reading, they would come up with lame excuses like lack of time, too busy with academics, too exhausted etc. Some of the actual reasons may turn out to be that there are far too many diversions for kids these days; even if a kid wants to read, he feels the peer pressure that looks down upon reading.
So, what should you do?
1) Find out the areas of interest for your kid and try to stock up books relating to those topics. Let him/her read a few & zero in on favourite authors; it is then easy for you to stock up books of the kid’s favourite authors. Show keen interest in updating yourself about his/her favourite authors’ latest works and check with your kid if he/she has read them. Read those books yourself and take time to discuss and review with your kid. This will keep the interest for reading alive in your kid.
2) Go with the times and let the kid use any reading technologies that are in with the trend and those which are comfortable for your kid. The book may be accessed by your kid through kindle or other ebook sources, instead of the conventional print. So long as the kid reads, it should be ok.
3) Make a DEAR time, fixed for each day. This is Drop Everything & Read time, fixed before dinner, after dinner or any other suitable time, for any length of time desired. This is the time when everyone at home simply reads a book of his/her choice. This routine should never be broken unless in an emergency. The kid will soon develop the habit of reading regularly, which will stay for life.
4) Create the right ambience of reading at home, not only during DEAR time but at other times as well. Let there be a quiet corner stocked with plenty of books on various topics. You, as a parent must also be reading often in front of the kid, who will absorb the habit too. Remember, kids observe and learn to do whatever the parents do at home. Take pride that your home is a home of good readers, by encouraging and involving others too into reading. Subscribe to book libraries and use the subscription to get books, magazines etc., on varied topics so that the kid is exposed to them.
5) Look out for potential problems for the kid if he/she struggles to read; it may be due to problems with vision or a learning disability. Don’t hesitate to take professional help to solve the problem.
The more the kid reads, the wiser the kid becomes. The kid’s imagination expands beyond boundaries and gets enriched with knowledge distilled from the author’s treasure trove of knowledge and experiences. Let your kid be armed with this unmatched advantage and continue to enjoy reading lifelong.
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AS-662-W is a publication by Purdue University that discusses the ethical considerations surrounding the use and treatment of animals. It emphasizes the importance of assessing animal welfare through measures such as behavior and body condition. The authors argue that ethical considerations should be at the forefront of any animal-related decision-making process. The document covers a wide range of topics and provides an overview of the different viewpoints on animal welfare, including utilitarianism and rights-based approaches. It also covers the different ways in which animals are used and treated, including in agriculture, research, and entertainment. The authors provide practical guidance on how to assess animal welfare in each of these contexts, highlighting the importance of considering the animal’s physical and psychological well-being.
The publication provides an overview of the different stakeholders involved in animal welfare, including animal welfare organizations, industry groups, and regulatory bodies. It also emphasizes the importance of collaboration and communication between these groups in order to improve animal welfare outcomes. https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/AS/AS-662-W.pdf is an informative and thought-provoking publication that encourages readers to consider the ethical implications of their actions towards animals. It provides practical guidance on how to evaluate animal welfare in different contexts and emphasizes the importance of collaboration and communication between different stakeholders.
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have developed a new welfare assessment system that allows animal welfare to be assessed alongside other impacts of farming like carbon emissions and biodiversity. The system uses a range of welfare measurements to assess an animal’s quality of life and combines this with the length of the animal’s life, enabling farms to be compared based on their animal welfare standards. The findings will help address animal welfare concerns in livestock production at a time when demand for meat is increasing globally. The research was carried out on 74 UK pig farming systems, and different farm types were ranked on their animal welfare standards


Canada celebrates National Physicians Day on May 1st. The Canadian Medical Association chose to celebrate this day annually in recognition of the work of physicians and physicians-in-training across Canada. The Canadian Medical Association chose May 1st to pay tribute to “one of the most influential individuals in Canadian medical history”, Dr. Emily Stowe, her birthdate being May 1st. (1831- 1903)
What I find interesting in much of the published material is that there is a glaring omission to the fact that Emily Stowe was a Homeopath. I have to point that out right away because it’s, well, glaringly missing.
Emily Stowe was a Homeopath, a teacher, school principal, and a suffragist. She was the first female principal of a public school in Ontario. She was a founder of the Canadian Women’s Suffrage Association. She was a founder of Woman’s Medical College, which later became Women’s College Hospital in Toronto. She was the first female medical practitioner in Canada and the second female doctor in Canada. Remarkable achievements for a woman at a time where they were not allowed into medical schools in Canada and were not allowed to vote, etc.,etc.
Emily Stowe’s mother taught her herbal healing. Family friend, Dr. Joseph J. Lancaster was a homeopath and Stowe apprenticed with him during her teens and young adulthood. She studied at the New York Medical College for Women which taught homeopathy. After graduating in New York Stowe came back to Ontario. She was the first female physician in Canada because she did not have a licence to practice medicine so she practiced homeopathy. Stowe was forced to get further training as a foreign doctor and attended the Toronto School of Medicine in order to get her Canadian licence to practice medicine. She did not get a licence to practice because of the harassment from faculty and students that her, together with her only other female fellow student, Jenny Kidd Trout, experienced in the Toronto School of Medicine and Stowe refused to write the exams. She practiced homeopathic medicine for over a decade without a medical licence. Eventually Stowe was awarded the licence to practice. That is how Emily Stowe became the second female doctor in Canada.
Dr. Emily Stowe was inspirational in her fortitude, her accomplishments against all odds, and her championship of just causes. And she was a HOMEOPATH.
Canadian Medical Association, May 1: https://www.cma.ca/recognizing-work-medical-profession-cma-celebrate-national-physicians-day-may-1
The Canadian Encyclopedia, Emily Stowe. Article by Katrine Raymond, April 1, 2008: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/emily-stowe
Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, Inductees, Emily Stowe, MD: https://www.cdnmedhall.org/inductees/emilystowe
Schulich Medicine and Dentistry, Honoured Physician, Dr. Emily Stowe: https://www.schulich.uwo.ca/meds66/sculpture/honoured_physicians/Dr.%20Emily%20Stowe.html
Womens College Hospital, WCH founder, Dr. Emily Stowe, inducted in The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. Atifa Hamir April 30, 2018: https://www.womenscollegehospital.ca/news-and-publications/Connect-2018/wch-founder-dr.-emily-stowe-inducted-into-canadian-medical-hall-of-fame
Marilyn Freedman, Toronto Homeopath, Library https://torontohomeopath.ca/library


This may seem completely irrelevant, considering all else that's going on in my world right now, but I woke up in the middle of the night the other night, and this is what came pouring out. Just thought I'd share...
I miss libraries. Really big University libraries in particular. This may seem like an odd thing to miss, but there is definitely something to be said about being able to wander among thousands and thousands of books, touching the spines, pulling something that catches your eye off the shelf, sitting down between the stacks and taking a peek to see if it’s something you really want.
There’s a peculiar smell about libraries – a little musty, dusty, forgotten and old. But it never ceases to make me feel like I’ve found some secret treasure – a little giddy just to be there. I can spend hours and hours and hours in big libraries. There’s so much to look at – a never ending supply of things to open your eyes and your mind. And it’s all free and accessible to anyone who wants to spend the time looking.
Finding a book is relatively easy in the States. You have computers with special programs to find a book by title, author, subject, keyword, publisher, you name it, you can search for it. And not only will it tell you where in the library to go find it, but if it’s been checked out, when it is due to be back in, and how many copies they have. It’s brilliant really. Which brings me to the point of all of this – the library experience at a European University.
Granted, my only experience with the European University library system was in Spain at a University that shall remain nameless. However, it was so horrible, that I have sworn off them since. Here in Kosovo, I'm just plain too chicken. They are still on a paper card catalog system - the shock and horror to discover that, PLUS, it's all in Albanian, which I don't speak at all, even after 6 months of living here. I can order coffee, but ordering a book is beyond my grasp of the tongue.
So back to Spain - When I first walked in I waited for that library smell to hit me – years of books that had gone undiscovered, just waiting for my wandering hands to draw a finger across their spines and ease them from the shelf. Instead, it smelled of antiseptic floor cleaner and furniture polish. I looked around me, but all I saw were rows and rows of study cubicles full of students diligently pouring over stacks of papers, and the occasional book. Where were the book stacks? Where were the volumes and volumes in great rows that needed step-ladders to get to the higher shelves? Dismayed, I walked to the information desk and in my broken Spanish asked innocently “Where are all the books?” The librarian looked at me as if I had three heads, and said “In the reserves of course. What book are you looking for?”
Now if that isn’t the greatest question of all time. Therein lies the problem with the European system. If I knew what I was looking for, I wouldn’t be doing research in the first place. I wanted to browse, see if anything caught my interest, find something new to pour over for the next week. Uh-uh. Not there.You had to have already done extensive research to find a title you were interested in, a specific journal, with article name, author and date of publication before you ever even considered speaking with a librarian.
Now, at this University, they did have sort of a catalog system, but the depth of the information was elementary. Say for example I was looking for a comparative grammar of English and Spanish – keywords English and Spanish grammar. Unless the book or article had those specific words in the TITLE, you would come up with a blank page asking you to broaden your search and try again. Poop. How does anyone do research like this??? If you got lucky and you actually came across something that may have a glimmer of something you’re interested in in it, you then had to fill out a tiny slip of paper with every ounce of personal information you have – birth date, professor, name of course the books are for, your bank account number and your mother’s mother’s maiden name. You then took this little slip of highly confidential information to the retrieval desk, where some 18-year-old smirky student studied it very carefully and finally granted you persmission to see the book. If you had expected to get this book anytime in the near future, you would have been sorely disappointed. She would then tell you (seriously smirking, of course) to come back in 20 minutes to 2 hours. Where was this book? Siberia?
Mind you, this is the procedure if you were even in the right library. You see, there wasn’t just one library, there were at least 10 – one for each faculty, and little to no crossover between the content of each. Many times I took my little slip of paper to the desk only to find out that the book actually was in the branch of the library in Siberia and that’s where I would have to go to request it. Then I could sit there and wait 20 minutes to 2 hours while they retrieved the book from South America. This is really fun, isn’t it?
So you wait and wait and wait. When the book finally arrives, you check the index quickly to see if your needed topic is covered, scan a few pages, decide it’s completely irrelevant and start the whole miserable process over again. You are also limited to viewing three books at a time. So if you do actually find something relevant, you have to give it back to look at more useless materials.
It gets better. The really fun part is requesting something that’s in a special collection. When Smirky Smirkerton takes your slip of paper, she will then cautiously peer at you over the top of her glasses with one eyebrow raised, and quietly whisper, “follow me”. She will then escort you through a maze of hallways and corridors to a room with shelves of books (yes, real books!) in locked glass cases (rats, you still can’t smell them). She will then whisper quietly to the attendant there who will again look you up and down, and when she has apparently deemed you worthy, puts on a pair of white cotton gloves, unlocks a case, and removes the book in question. She then will proceed to open the book and hold it out in front of you and ask you what you would like to see. Once, I made the sorry mistake of reaching out to flip through the index. The book was quickly yanked from my reach, and if she had been quicker, I’m sure she would have slapped my hand. I wasn’t quite sure what to do with all this. Let me get this right - so I could look at the book, but I couldn’t touch it? That was correct. I couldn’t even turn the page, she had to do it for me. For all of this precaution, you would think that I was looking at an original manuscript of the Bible. But honestly, it was just a book on linguistic theory. Who could possibly want to be so protective of linguistic theory?? I wasn’t sure what I was looking for, but I was sure that I wouldn’t find it with someone else holding the book. This system was obviously just not going to work with me. In utter exasperation I left the library and went home and read some trash novel in two hours instead. It was a book I could touch, dog-ear the pages, spill salsa on, and not get arrested for it. I sniffed at it just for fun, smelled like book. Good.


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By Daniel Marcus
In 1981, veteran video producer DeeDee Halleck heard that author and teacher Herb Schiller was engaging in detailed analysis of the New York Times for a class he was teaching at Hunter College in New York City. Halleck invited Schiller to telecast his take on the Times on a Manhattan public access program, Communications Update. Halleck recruited other independent producers and video artists to work as the production crew, and Schiller gave six half-hour readings of the paper, analyzing its local, national, and international coverage, its place in the American business system, and its role internationally. The group was so pleased with the results that they decided to create an entire new series devoted to critical readings of newspapers, magazines, and media issues, dubbed it Paper Tiger Television and put the show on Manhattan public access in 1982.
The Schiller shows created the basic look and themes for future PTTV programs-cartoony backdrops, hand-held graphics, a handmade feel designed to inspire viewers to believe that they can make media too. Each show was hosted by a writer, teacher, or other media critic familiar with the style, message, and history of a particular publication. Tiger members helped with research and the aesthetics of the shows. Productions were usually telecast live from a ramshackle studio, creating an air of immediacy, informality, and yes, sometimes havoc. The aim was to uncover the political agenda of corporate media, and explore possibilities for a more democratic and open communications system.
Although the specific focus each week is on one publication, or media phenomenon, it is the intention of the series to provide a cumulative view of the culture industry as a whole. With the expansion of all sectors of the economy into the information business, it is important to keep track of how this is played out in the vehicles of mass cultures.
The collective generally has had about twenty-five members active at any one time, with six or eight heavily involved, doing research, painting backdrops, producing shows. The level of involvement ranges from the occasional to the obsessive. A Tiger might produce one show, work audio on the next, handle props on the one after that. Tapes of the shows began being distributed to universities, museums, access channels and art centers, and the New York State Council on the Arts came through with some basic funding. The whole thing ran out of Halleck's apartment, virtually all the labor was volunteer, and the group was able to make about twenty shows per year on almost no money.
Although most people are cynical about the media and are aware of being manipulated, most are unaware of how this manipulation is worked out issue by issue, ad by ad. Many people think of the media as a form of journalism, distinct from other areas of economic life. By going over a publication in detail, by examining how it is enmeshed in the transnational corporate world and by pointing out exactly how and why certain information appears, a good critical reading can invert the media 50 that they work against themselves. The next time a viewer reads a publication that was covered on Paper Tiger, each ad and each article becomes a reinforcement of the critical reading.2
Over the years, Paper Tiger and the shows it makes have undergone some changes. Fewer live shows are produced, post-production editing and tinkering have grown, paid staff hours have increased and there's a real office now. The concentration has moved from specific newspapers and magazines (the Tiger having trained its eye on virtually every major American publication at one time or another) to television and the presentation of issues across a broad range of media. More tapes deal with immediate political controversies and feature direct participants in social struggles, such as labor strikes and abortion rights battles, while maintaining a focus on how media representations do not reflect the realities of life for most people today.
Patterns of ownership of mass media vehicles consistently replicate the dominance of white, wealthy men whose values then find affirmation in the media they control. One of the themes common in Paper Tiger shows is this essentially undemocratic structure, a structure that has been the subject of discussion and dissent on an international level for many years and has become especially urgent with the rapid rate of privatization and concentration of ownership of communications technology and, thus, the control of the information that circulates globally.3
Paper Tiger has branched out in many ways. Production groups in San Francisco and San Diego have been founded on the PTTV model and contributed shows to the series. Paper Tiger spawned Deep Dish TV, the national network for access and alternative programming, which now operates independently (though PTTV does go to the DDTV office downstairs to use the fax machine). Paper Tiger also has lent its support to the fight to improve access facilities and opportunities in New York City, culminating in the creation and funding of Manhattan's first access center.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT MEETINGS: The ritual convergence of opposing powers, fiery debate and collective stewing. Everything is discussed Wednesdays, from upcoming conferences and festivals, demonstrations and lectures, to potential show proposals, aesthetics, goals, and available sublets. Plus screenings of shows new and old for critique. Once every couple of months it's a mailing party where we all get together and stuff envelopes over beers. Live shows are on Wednesdays. Mostly Wednesday night is what makes us a collective. It is the time we all get together to exchange information and get a look at ourselves. Be There!
The most recent effort to explore new communication possibilities has been PTTV's presentation of the Gulf Crisis TV Project, a five-hour compilation of footage from around the country and the world created in opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf. Distributed by Deep Dish and many PBS stations, the series combined two of Paper Tiger's main purposes: the exposure of mainstream media's unquestioning promotion of elitist views, and the creation of opportunities for marginalized voices to be heard. Throughout its ten-year history and over two hundred productions, these Paper Tiger essentials have remained-a dedication to smashing the myths of the information industry, and the presentation of an alternative vision of how communications can be used in our society.
Daniel Marcus is a member of Paper Tiger Television.
1 Dee Dee Halleck, "Paper Tiger Television-Smashing the Myths of the Information Industry" in Kahn and Neumaier, eds., Cultures in Contention, Real Comet Press, Seattle, 1985.
3 Martha Gever, "Reading Between the Lines," Paper Tiger Television Represents the Media, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, 1987.
4 May Ying Welsh, "Notes Toward a Paper Tiger Handbook," previously unpublished, 1990.
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History with Heart… History You’ll Love to Read.
Contemporary Fiction… with an element or two of truth.
Ah, yes, historical fiction. I love historical fiction, and I love Biblical fiction highest and best. We learn best in an atmosphere of enjoyment (Ralph Smedley of Toastmaster fame), and learning Biblical history by way of a novel is downright fun! And even contemporary fiction must contain accurate facts: If we place the story in Phoenix (as my Once Upon Some Holidays series has done), the places must be there. In a fictional town, there are still accuracies – like mention of ambulances, computers, adoptions, etc., must have accurate elements of what an ambulance contains and does, what a computer is able to do, and what laws apply to adoption. Think believable fiction!
The Truth Trilogy
A Roman’s Quest, Book 1. A first-century Roman centurion falls for a Jewish girl. Her father promises her to a fisherman. A kidnapping could become necessary.
Marcus Varitor, Centurion, Book 2. Marcus, one of Julius’s closest friends, is greatly attracted to Meskanhet, a lovely Egyptian slave in the household of Loukas. Marcus also wants a promotion to centurion, and the tribune offers him a chance … if he can bring in Barabbas. But then Meskhanet is kidnapped by a slaver and Barabbas is put on hold. Or is he?
The Truth Doesn’t Die, Book 3. One Roman senator, one physicians’ widow, a malicious would-be senator, a hungry bear … and the road to the cross. A story fraught with near misses, misunderstandings, danger, death, and disaster.
The Truth Trilogy, The three books in one thick paperback.
Short Stories written for series with other authors:
- Her Best Worst Day, Volume 10 in the Twelve Days of Christmas series. A Christmas short story about a young woman with an unusual moniker (Wednesday Miracle Blessing – better known as Wendy), a baby found in a trash can, a handsome EMT, and a television reporter with a soft heart.
- Mended by Mother’s Day, Volume 1 in the Summer in Sweetland series. Shellie has one prayer: that her grieving mother will find peace. It’s been two years since Shellie’s father died, and her mother retreats further and further from all family and friends. Zack, Shellie’s boyfriend, has a couple of suggestions. One is that they gather other grieving people together with her mother to try to talk things out. The other suggestion I’ll let you read about on your own.
- A Late Thanksgiving, Volume 6 of the ‘Tis the Season in Sweetland series. Will Smith tends to act before thinking. A man hurts a young woman he likes – well, maybe he more than likes Shellie – and Will goes after him to teach him a lesson. When the man winds up dead, Will is in deep trouble.
- Lawrence’s Christmas, Volume 2 of the Christmases Past series. On December 7, 1941, the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the Baxters’ world was turned upside down – not unlike anyone else in the United States. All of the Baxter bunch is supposed to gather at their parents’ house for Christmas. However, like a good part of the young men in the part of the world, Lawrence signs up with the army, and he’ll leave the day after Christmas. His brother Howard and his brother-in-law Ernest are both considering it, even though they’d be leaving their wives behind, but they’ll wait until after Christmas to sign up. They all want to make this Christmas, which might be their last one all together, special.
- A Short Engagement, Volume 1 of the Sonrise in Sweetland series. Will Smith is at it again. He asks Carlie to marry him on Valentine’s Day, but then he starts an argument and they wind up not speaking. It could take an act of God to get them back together, but never fear–forgiveness is big at Easter.
All but the first short story are parts of series that I edited or helped edit, thereby my name is on the cover – but I certainly can’t take credit for the unique and entertaining stories by the other authors!
My own series, Once Upon Some Holidays, releases this month (June 2015), all stories of holidays, compiled into one ebook or paperback. The book centers around the Mullens family in Phoenix, Arizona. They experience illness, death, and the pains revolving around teen years, friends on drugs, and discovery of God’s miracles of life, forgiveness, and love. As well as a new look at most holidays throughout!
Audio books of short stories are available from two of the series: Once Upon a Christmas Eve (from Once Upon Some Holidays), and The Short Engagement (from Sonrise in Sweetland).


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What I’m reading this month. Here’s a few books that you may not have read yet. These books might change your life.
Gail Collins – When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
Eve Ensler -Insecure at Last: A Political Memoir
Necessary Targets: A Story of Women and War
I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World
and of course The Vagina Monologues
Jessica Valenti – Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters
What books helped shape the way you view the world?
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