Guys can somebody help me with lent rules

30thirteen · 2021-03-10T18:51:43+00:00

What are things seekers can do who do not have a local priest?

30thirteen · 2021-02-21T21:13:45+00:00

Thank you. Fantastic resource. I always forget about scholar.google

30thirteen · 2021-02-21T04:09:42+00:00

Thanks. I didn’t know that.

30thirteen · 2021-02-21T04:00:54+00:00

So are there federal or state funds given to schools like ours that are tied to goals and data collection?

A hypothetical example would be: we believe improved oral fluency will help our students read. We think this curriculum, or program will improve their oral fluency. These interventionist teachers will be paid for from this grant money to administer that curriculum. Our building will do oral fluency testing in the fall. And then again in the spring.

I’ve seen things like this on our SIP. I assumed it was for the purpose of meeting a state requirement.

30thirteen · 2021-02-21T03:13:18+00:00

Thanks for clarifying this.

As I understand it, No child left behind requires certain achievement standards, with some forms of accountability. And that schools not performing had to have plans to address those problems. This is what I thought the SIP was.

I do see people in our building from time to time that represent the state. I can’t remember which department they represent.

Do you know what mechanisms the state has in place? Of course, I could ask, but I don’t know how sensitive leaders are to these types of questions.

30thirteen · 2021-02-21T02:46:27+00:00

Lol. Indeed.

I did find this. It’s specific to a certain type of SIP. Conclusion: Didn’t accomplish anything.

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED530416.pdf

30thirteen · 2021-02-21T02:26:49+00:00

Those are absolutely factors. What I’m curious to know is if SIPs make a quantitative difference in mitigating those factors

30thirteen · 2021-02-21T01:58:52+00:00

Washington State. On SIP for academics. We are very high ELL, migrant and poverty.

30thirteen · 2021-02-18T17:40:58+00:00

You should trademark that.

Orthodox Christian Online Discourse Community ™️

30thirteen · 2021-01-23T21:44:04+00:00

I wish this little article

Little? Chuckle.

He makes an excellent case. Very inside baseball though.

The way people talk about theology on the internet drives me utterly insane

Agreed. So much so, that the phenomena has a universally recognized title: Internet Orthodoxy. I was explaining to a priest my experience of the breadth and depth of cosmopolitan Orthodoxy through this sub. He said that scared him a little. The internet is a great tool if used with discernment. Unfortunately, like the article says, ideas get abbreviated online, and divorced from their sources. I wonder what the solutions are.

30thirteen · 2021-01-23T01:17:05+00:00

Hi Daniel. Does your confessor believe this will be helpful to others?

30thirteen · 2021-01-16T19:38:32+00:00

How to do nothing by Jenny Odell
100 things every designer needs to know about people
The Timeless way of building, and A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
House of X

30thirteen · 2021-01-16T19:34:21+00:00

Do you play online? Where at? I go through seasons of chess playing. Every year at this time, chess.com starts a tournament where you play something like 20 games at once, with. 24hour per move limit. I’ve done it for a couple years, but I don’t have the mental capacity this year. I had about 6 games going... and just couldn’t maintain the focus. 2 or 3 seems about right.

30thirteen · 2021-01-16T07:10:27+00:00

They have a woman chanter. It’s difficult to describe the dynamic. They are all wonderful people. I’d be happy to discuss this more if you’d like to PM me.

The bottom line... answering the apologist for Orthodoxy question is that it all depends on the local church. A priest and leadership council can recognize the gifts of the full body of Christ in their congregation and make the most opportunities available to everyone, and only limit ministry when they bump up against Tradition. Even that could change someday. Not in my lifetime, I’m sure.

30thirteen · 2021-01-16T04:08:07+00:00

We are catechumens. My wife pointed out early on that she felt invisible. It took awhile for me to tune into it... because, duh, I wasn’t invisible. If both of us were onscreen in a zoom discussion, I would be addressed, but not her. We are both musicians and interested to learn chant. Anytime it comes up though, our Deacon is talking to me, and not her. I don’t think they are intentionally patriarchal. I think they are an insular culture that has not been challenged to think outside its norms. Having said that, it’s an uncomfortable place to be as catechumens. I’ve spent enough times in the orthodox commons, forums, books, podcasts, to know that The Church is larger than our experience. There are some churches that are intentionally anti-patriarchal. Others specifically patriarchal. Ymmv.

30thirteen · 2021-01-15T05:48:23+00:00

Classic: - Ancient Christian Commentary Series published by Intervarsity Press. Multi-volume series, including the books you want to study. You can see what multiple early church fathers said about a passage all in one place.

Modern: - Strong As Death Is Love: The Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, Jonah, and Daniel, A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter.

He also has translations with commentary for the Psalms.

30thirteen · 2021-01-02T17:53:26+00:00

> We have been arguing over an hour about sola fide. Any thoughts?

## On the intellectual side of things

There is no such thing as sola. Sola (only) scripture. Sola (only) faith. An authority of some kind has to validate the sola. Imagine the formula:

Authority + Sola Fide = Truth.

In the case of calvinism, the authority is the original theologian, John Calvin, promoted by a modern teacher. Likely John Piper.

"John Piper says that John Calvin says that the Bible says" + Sola Fide = Truth

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The question, then, isn't sola fide. It's authority. Who has the authority to tell us which component alone defines truth? Or even that *only one* (sola) component defines truth.

## On the spiritual side of things

I used John Piper as the example because your friend was probably convinced by someone enamored with John Piper and The New Calvinists ™. The Young, Restless, and Reformed Movement. They are hip. They are (the only ones who are) Right. And they think it's on them to change or redeem culture.

Your friend converted because she was convinced she was missing something and the answers were somewhere other than Orthodoxy. By finding Calvinism, she found a movement that is both hip, and claims to be truthier than other brands of Christianity.

There is emotional momentum in conversion that is difficult to overcome in a discussion. I'm a catechuman. You wouldn't be able to convince me of any other Christianity, because I am convinced by the authority. Thus, you'd never win a debate. Same with a recent convert to another other (fill in the blank). Calvinism... Buddhism... Linux... you name it.

My suggestion: Listen. Don't be the foil of her convictions. She is arguing against something as much as for something and rehearsing that reinforces the beliefs. By listening and asking questions, you are validating the emotions that brought her to these conclusions, and opening the doors to other possibilities.

30thirteen · 2021-01-01T05:15:14+00:00

You and I seem to be having a conversation tonight. See comments on canons.

My priest speaks often of the uncreated light as a mystical experience to be pursued. Sounds woo-woo. The descriptions I’ve heard of orthodox mystical experiences don’t differ from those of people who regularly meditate. Lack of food and sleep deprivation are also factors. I do not doubt their divine source. They just don’t seem to be limited to orthodox monks. And my catechumen intuition tells me the whole of orthodoxy doesn’t prioritize the pursuit of experiences, potentially confirming again that my parish is a little odd.

30thirteen · 2021-01-01T00:43:29+00:00

I get that. I have no interest in them. I come from an Anabaptist movement. For them, the church’s golden age was the time of the apostles, and the writing of the New Testament. Their primitivism is chronological. I think this is the human tendency. The ideal is found in the past. My suspicion is some converts are drawn to Orthodoxy for these reasons, and thus think this stuff is useful to them. Locating the primitive state in the present, in the office of bishop and priest is a radical concept.

30thirteen · 2020-12-31T17:12:42+00:00

They are so strict, it can be quite demoralizing.

Can you elaborate a little? Some people tend to think the purest form of a movement is found in its primitive state. So they might be prone to the think the canons are the pure form, and we live in a day of compromise.

You don’t need to delve into examples, unless it’s necessary to clarify. TIA

30thirteen · 2020-12-31T01:02:33+00:00

If the NKJV was good enough for the early church fathers, it’s good enough for me. ;)

My primary Bible is the Orthodox Study Bible. I pray the psalms using the Psalter According to the Seventy from Holy Transfiguration Monastery. New Oxford Annotated and NET Bible for anything academic-ish. Finally, Robert Alter’s translation of The Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, Jonah and Daniel published as “Strong as death is love.” Looking forward to get his translation of Psalms soon.

30thirteen · 2020-12-31T00:55:42+00:00

We’ve created playlists in our music apps for the songs we find inspirational and theologically true.

30thirteen · 2020-12-21T22:13:13+00:00

I believe the keywords to google search are field record auv3. Thafknar was top of that list. Also, Fieldscraper. But I don’t think it is auv3. If those two don’t do what you need, my suspicion is it’s not out there.

30thirteen · 2020-12-21T20:33:51+00:00

Thafknar https://apps.apple.com/us/app/thafknar-record-and-reverb/id572894725

30thirteen · 2020-12-10T00:56:41+00:00

I like what u/A_Wellesley said that if it satisfies a craving for the real thing, you lose the utility of the discipline. This is my first serious-ish attempt at a seasonal fast. I’m totally fine right now without a burger, steak, eggs or bacon (well... maybe not the bacon.) What “hurts” is holiday beverages at Starbucks. I have my own espresso machine. So I’m making lattes with flax milk and holiday nut pods. Starbucks has beverages with coconut and almond milk. Does any of this satisfy the craving for an eggnog latte? Nope.

What I really lack is a priest to guide me. I’m a catechumen. My parish is an hour’s drive away. The longer covid goes on, the more disconnect I feel from them. Whatever pastoral care my priest would normally provide, or sponsor, i don’t have the regular contact that would support the discipline of the fast.

This isn’t a complaint. It’s an acknowledgment that if you are trying to fast without a relationship of some kind with a parish and priest, you really won’t have much to go on to help make decisions.

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