A Tree Falling in the Woods

Church, Courts, College; Minister, Mediator, Educator

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Did you know that the Presbyterians were first to set up their banners in WV? Now we are almost forgotten. #pcaga https://t.co/AQI0GcWHeT

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If you or someone you know is considering a call to ministry, I want to personally invite you to come under care of your presbytery and begin the process of seeking direction and confirmation before you spend tens of thousands of potentially misguided dollars on education.

[Albert Mohler @albertmohler]

If you or someone you know is considering a call to ministry, I want to personally invite you to attend @SBTS Preview Day this fall on October 15. Meet our world-class faculty, tour our beautiful campus, and learn what makes it so special. Register at https://t.co/dyvUWmcxGk.

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@clbolt Dr. Mark Minnick, Spring 1990, "Except a corn of wheat fall to the ground and die, it abides alone." Chapel, BJU, 25 minutes.

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@TSHamiltonAstro This is awesome! Congrats Tim!

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The coldness of a risk algorithm that weighs risk to oneself more than to others gradually dulls the pain of having to keep people out. It is their choice, and coldness begets coldness. Unfortunately.

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In particular cases an individual’s vaccine risk “algorithm” should weigh more heavily the risks the unvaccinated pose to the unintentionally susceptible, like my wife, for whom the vaccine did not work. Our home is off-limits even to some people who are close to us.

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It hurts—and I comprehend the reticence—but being shut off from our home is the price some must pay for their principles or fear.

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When plain folk do history it captures plain folk perspectives, which has a kind of value that highfalutin folk could do with more of sometimes, even if it don’t always measure up in other ways.

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New River Presbytery Fall Retreat and Meeting! Sign up now!! https://t.co/pbco9mdQe0

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In my Presbyterianism in WV, I explore this contradiction in terms of those who attached themselves to the Southern Church even though they clearly disfavored slavery:

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@derekradney Facing decisions that needed this reminder. Thx

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“West” is not an adjective in our minds, so it makes no sense to replace it with “Best.”

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I don’t care for “Best Virginia.” It plays on the notion that West Virginia’s identity relates to Virginia, as in “the Virginia that is to the west.” WVians have no consciousness, awareness, or identity relating to VA that it does not also have of its other border states.

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@AstorAaron

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@AstorAaron It differs from the common antibody test that is downplayed for checking vaccine effectiveness.

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@SongsForHorses Interesting. Not familiar with this trend or what it means. As a lifelong, eighth-gen WVian, Appalachian identity has been held fairly dear by me and mine. Could this be an outskirts trend? The edges have shrunk leaving a center for which post-appalachia is not a needful thing?

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@IVMiles @the_tent_peg Ooh! Ooh! Hillbilly Elegy!

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@IVMiles So, I liked the movie.

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@IVMiles I have literally been run off the road by a mother angry with her sassy daughter barreling head on at me in my lane. She laid on the horn at me as I swerved off the road into the grass while continuing straight ahead in my lane without flinching.