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VOLUME 99 | ISSUE 22 | 30 APRIL 2015 |
THE WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY
10WHAT IS IT AND WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?
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Table of Contents | 2News | 3,5ASWWU | 4, 16Photos | 6Week in Forecast | 7
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The Collegian is the official publication of ASWWU. Its views and opinions are not necessarily the official stance of Walla Walla University or its administration, faculty, staff, or students. Questions, letters, and comments can be sent to [email protected] or [email protected]. This issue was completed at 12:47 A.M. on Thursday, April 30, 2015.
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Correction: In our previous issue, we mispelled the last name of Evelyn Ouro-Rodrigues. We apologize for this error!
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Ricky Barbosa
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Karl Wallenkampf
LAYOUT EDITOR
Mindy Robinson
HEAD COPY EDITOR
Andrea Johnson
PERSPECTIVE EDITOR
Benjamin Ramey
CONTENT EDITOR
Carolyn Green
BACKPAGE & CREATIVE CURATOR
Abigail Wissink
CULTURE WRITER
River Davis
FASHION WRITER
Alyssa Hartwick
FOOD WRITER
Rachel Peterson
HUMOR WRITER Lauren Lewis
NEWS WRITERS
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OFFICE MANAGER
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RELIGION WRITER
Kenton Gonzalez
opinion writer
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ADVERTISING MANAGER
Shandra Cady
SCIENCE & TECH WRITER
Daniel Hulse
SPORTS WRITER & PROMOTION MANAGER
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TRAVEL & LOCAL WRITER
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COPY EDITORS
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Take any ethics class and after circling around the answers to a few impossible situations you will find that the division
between “right” and “wrong” becomes murkier by the minute. There is always a huge spectrum to consider and there is hardly
ever an easy answer. I think the same is true to most of life — we are constantly faced with questions of grey rather than black and white.
Raising a topic like Spiritual Formation is daunting. As this is a heat-ed controversy very specific to Adventist culture, I believe there is a di-
vision of two groups: those inside the church without a clue as to what the discussion is even about (not to mention those outside the church), and
those who are informed.
This issue of The Collegian seeks first to define spiritual formation within the context of Adventistism. Secondly, we hope it will serve to encourage civil discussion on both sides. We are looking to provoke thought, not further controversy.
On a personal note, I encourage you to treat each grey area with caution, no matter what form it may take. It’s tempt-ing to become comfortable with where you are, just as long as it isn’t clearly in the wrong. I believe that as Christians and as human beings, we can be much better than that.
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This issue of The Collegian seeks first to define spiritual formation within the context of Adventistism. Secondly, we hope it will serve to encourage civil discussion on both sides. We are looking to provoke thought, not further controversy.
On a personal note, I encourage you to treat each grey area with caution, no matter what form it may take. It’s tempt-ing to become comfortable with where you are, just as long as it isn’t clearly in the wrong. I believe that as Christians and as human beings, we can be much better than that.
Alumni homecoming was held this past week, beginning Thursday morn-ing, April 23, and ending Sunday after-noon, April 26. Honored classes this year were the classes of 1955, 1960, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2005, and 1965, who celebrated their golden graduation anniversary to-gether. 871 alumni registered for this year’s homecoming, though the atten-dance was more than likely increased by non-registered local alumni and alumni whose graduating class was not being honored this year.
The four days were packed with events for alumni differing in inter-
ests, study fields, and ages. Events ranged from departmental dinners, a bird walk, various alumni lectures and presentations, Young Alumni Night at BluePalm, a 5k run/walk, class of 1965 Wanda Thompson’s art exhib-it “Mountains, Trees, and Light,” and many others.
The most popular event for all, however, was the Alumni Banquet, held Thursday evening, of which Di-rector of Alumni/Parent Relations, Terri Dickenson Neil, writes, “[the event] has become fun, entertaining, and purposeful.” 425 alumni registered for the banquet this year, and according
to Neil, the event “grows larger every year.” Homecoming wrapped up with the 17th Annual Alumni Car Show, which featured a broad range of auto-mobiles, including alumnus Alton Ol-son’s 1961 Chevy and junior automo-tive management major Adam Vigil’s 1965 Alfa Romeo Classic.
Of the weekend, Dickerson Neil comments, “I love the synergy created by having students involved through-out the weekend. It is a wonderfully col-laborative set of events. This goes well beyond the Academic Symposiums. For instance, our banquet featured mu-sic from our students, a Reader’s The-
ater written, directed, and performed by students, and of course PRISM and our other musical programs sprinkled throughout the weekend.”
Each year, an affinity group is se-lected for homecoming. This year, Deans and RA’s alumni of the men’s and women’s dorm were chosen, along with the 35th Alumni Egg Drop. Last year’s affinity group was the 100th an-niversary of ASWWU, and while next year is yet to be decided on, 2017 has plans on an I Cantori reunion. Anyone interested on more information for this or next year’s Alumni Homecom-ing can contact the Alumni and Ad-vancement Services Office at 509-527-2631 or Terri Dickenson Neil’s office at 509-527-2644.
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Elected Positions
G.L. 15 - Micah Hall for University Senate
G.L. 16 – Election Clarification for Intercampus
Voting and Eligibility
G.L. 17 – Added Responsibility for Incumbent
Executives
G.L. 18 – Presidential Annual Report
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EARTHQUAKE IN NEPAL
On Saturday, April 25th, a massive 7.8 earthquake ripped through the Katmandu Valley in Nepal. This de-struction of this massive earthquake spread to neighboring countries such as India and China, affecting the lives of over 8 million people. According to UNICEF, 1 million of the victims are children.
The death toll continues to grow above the 4,800 lives this earthquake has claimed. Devastation and heart-break are rampant, evidenced on the faces of all, and on the broken terrain itself. Massive camping grounds have sprung up on sections of large, mili-
tary lands. Many have lost their fam-ilies, homes, and anything to call their own. The weather has been extremely stormy, only adding to the desolation of the area.
For those in Nepal, Facebook cre-ated a safety check so that their loved ones could be assured they were all right (http://www.facebook.com/safetycheck/nepalearthquake).
The UN has launched an appeal for $415 million to provide emergency re-lief for the victims over the next three months. This appeal has yet to become reality. However, if the appeal does go through, many will receive various forms of aid such as clothing, food, temporary shelters, and more. Build-ings that once shaped Nepal’s skyline now lie in ruin. Most of Nepal’s ma-jor landmarks, such as the Dharahara tower and Durbar Square, are demol-ished.
In the wake of this tragedy, many individuals are attempting to leave Nepal. Many survivors are walking
miles to neighboring provinces or even as far as India.
Nepal’s biggest problems are found in the rural village communities, miles away from the center of metropolitan areas. “The biggest problem is reach-ing these villages,” stated Matt Darvas, an emergency communications officer for the humanitarian group World Vision. Though massive amounts of relief aid is pouring into the country, hospitals are running out of essential medical supplies and medicines.
There are many ways to help earth-quake victims. UNICEF, Samaritain’s Purse, and Direct Relief are only a few of the many charities that are accept-ing donations for earthquake relief. Do some research and get involved. Anything helps. Anyone can help.
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Week inFORECAST
LLU Allied Health ConsultationsKRH 217, All Day (Sign up at the Career Development Center. Appointment bookings may be full.)
ASWWU Food Eating ContestSAC Lawn, 5:00-7:00 P.M.
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Senior Photo ShootCTC 3rd Floor, 12:00-3:00 P.M.
Junior Voice Recital: Lindsay ArmstrongFAC, 3:00-4:00 P.M.
CommUnity: InTents, Alden WeaverUniversity Church, 11:00-11:50 A.M.
InTents: Jordan StephanKRH Lawn, 7:00 P.M.
UPCOMINGEVENTS
Tin ManMay 8
ASWWU Casablanca BanquetMay 16
International Food FairMay 17
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InTents: Stephan Farr& Rebekah RogersKRH Lawn, 7:00 P.M.
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THURSDAY April 301 73°
On this day in 1611, the King James Bible was published in London by the printer Robert Barker
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InTents: Jake Wilkinson & Tyler MartinKRH Lawn, 7:00 P.M.
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Hand-shaking has a long history, perhaps beginning in ancient cultures as a way for men to indicate that they carried no weapon and meant no harm. Though today we have little need to announce whether or not we carry swords or spears, my dad taught me how to shake hands when I was younger. Later, in high school, I took a cotillion and etiquette class in order to learn proper manners and basic dance steps. There, again, I refined my knowledge of hand-shaking. It’s an art form, as most manners are. It should be firm, neither limp nor crushing; it should have subtle shaking, because our hands are not pistons; it should last a few short seconds, or when the other person begins to relax; and if one extends a hand but is not met in return, the other person must not have noticed — lower the hand.1
Like any traditional act, hand-shak-ing has been melded through history, manipulated to serve various ends, and transformed into something that often carries meanings opposite to the original intention. There are ways of shaking hands to express dominance, and some like to crush other peo-ple’s hands in a severely disrespectful way. Hand shaking is not so different
from other activities, though, and it indicates sentiments absent in some discourse today. There are dialogues in the current sphere — political, so-cial, religious, Adventist — that would be improved if the interlocutors took time to stretch out their hands as a sign of good will: I carry no weapon against you.
This Collegian issue concerns the topic of “spiritual formation.”2 What does “spiritual formation” mean? I di-rect you to my friends Benjamin Ra-mey and Brooklynn Larson, who have worked hard to put it in context for you on pages 10-13. Whatever it is, there are some key things I wish were a greater part of the discussion, which I believe are in keeping with the an-cient tradition of shaking hands.
DialogueDialogue will be the only hope for
common ground and understanding in this “spiritual formation” debate. As mentioned before, handshakes should have a subtle pumping motion, not the crazed pitching some engage in. Similarly, in any dialogue in the top-ic of “spiritual formation,” one must maintain an understanding of nuance and subtlety. What does one mean by “spiritual formation”? Does the person you’re listening to think it’s the diabol-ical manifestation of end-times proph-ecy, the infiltration of the church by deceptive forces? Is it a somewhat less insidious thing — just an incorrect, Eastern, New Age way of accessing the spiritual? Or is it a term merely rep-resenting the wish for many people to come into a greater relationship with God, to have Christ “formed in you” as Paul says in Galatians 4:19? Many of the terms involved — prayer, breath-
ing, contemplation, meditation, cen-tering — have a wide usage, obviously enough. There are differences between Eastern meditation, Adventist med-itation, and meditation as a practice in general. Is “mysticism” merely a religious tradition which “encourages flights of the soul to God” which, “[a]s to the Christian faith ... is rare theses days and is relatively inconsequential,” or is it a darker reality?3 In these con-versations, specificity and nuance are critical, being able to understand the subtleties of the conversation. Just as you wouldn’t want someone to shake your hand up and down like they were pumping air into a flat tire, one shouldn’t use such vigorous language that meaning is lost.
DeferenceIf we extend our hands toward our
interlocutors in good faith and they are not returned, it does not need to be a signal to fight. I have heard of peo-ple literally holding their Bibles in the faces of those who they think are part of the “emergent church” or engaged in “spiritual formation.” However much this or other initial actions may encourage an escalation of hostilities, Christ was clear in demanding that we turn the other cheek. Just as someone might not shake your hand when you extend it does not mean a conversa-tion cannot occur. Likewise, some people on either side of the “spiritual formation” debate may refuse quarter to their seeming opponents. Conver-sation can still occur, but humility will be necessary.
DurationHandshakes should be brief. I’ve
been in some longer handshakes, and almost every one has felt like a pow-er play — each of us holding on to see who will let go first, as if that proved perseverance, or anything at all. Con-versations on spiritual topics should
not be this way. I do not want to imply that we should never have long con-versations about theology or its prac-tice. By no means — those can be some of the most encouraging and nourish-ing of interactions. Instead, one should not talk too long without allowing a response. This is a personal struggle, actually. If I talk too long, sometimes the other person simply assumes I will never listen to them, and will stop speaking entirely. We cannot create that possibility, here. There is too much at stake in religion for one side to leave the conversation. Those who decry “spiritual formation,” and those who support it or seem to support it, have a reason for their position. Long speeches interfere with listening, and we cannot engage in dialogue if our own speech is not brief.
DiscernmentThe issue of “spiritual formation”
provides numerous instances for bludgeoning. It is common to see personal or categorical attacks on in-dividuals, denominations, churches, and schools. It’s easy to say one side is narrow-minded, the other heretical. The terms often used are misleading and often unattributed. The practices mentioned are mostly undefined and described sensationally. Accusations I have listened to from churchmen like Rick Howard and Doug Batchelor can lead one to anxiously consider the dangers of an insidious infiltration of the Seventh-day Adventist Church by pagan, heathen, Eastern practices. On the other side, I have heard my peers decry the detractors of “spiritual for-mation” as hateful, unable to listen, and fear-mongering. In these myriad confusions, discernment is key. I am not the first to suggest this: nearly ev-eryone involved preaches discernment — one must be directed to prayerful consideration of the evidence and the biblical example. I will do the same, today. See for yourself what the Bi-ble says: “Do not despise prophesies, but test everything; hold fast to what is good.”4 God gave you a mind, use it with his presence.
I must suggest, however, that fur-ther investigation may be necessary. If, for instance, someone, say, Ted N. C. Wilson, condemns contemplative prayer, Google it. Find out what he is actually condemning. Then, take that and compare it with the Biblical ex-ample of prayer and see if there is any disunity. Pray and reason through his argument and the definitions of con-templative prayer. Perhaps it’s a form
of wayward spiritual activity used by Catholics that will lead you astray. Perhaps it’s a legitimate avenue of in-volving yourself with the gospel text that will open your eyes to Christ’s example.5 Only the duet of you and God will find the answer — use the evidence provided. However, as you go along the path of discernment, be neither limp nor crushing. You do not need to crush another person in your analysis. Every interlocutor deserves respect — including yourself. “Let all that you do be done in love.”6
Debates are always tense, and the “spiritual formation” is made only more intense by being a religious one. Religious debates haven’t always end-ed well — any cursory reading of the historical record will show beatings, wars, and genocides in the name of religion, God, or belief. No one needs to die, here. No one needs to be hurt. As we continue, join me in dialogue. I offer my hand to you.
1 Peggy Post, Emily Post’s Etiquette: The Defini-tive Guide to Manners, Completely Revised and Updated. 17th ed. (New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2004) 9.
2 I place this term in quotation marks because it is so laden with negative meaning. With quotation marks I mean for it to indicate the discussion that is currently ongoing in the church. Without quotation marks, in my view spiritual formation is the process of sanctifi-cation, of allowing God into my life to form me in Christ’s image as Paul would say in Gala-tians 4:19.
3 Miroslav Volf, A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2011) 6, 8.
4 1 Thessalonians 5:21, ESV.
5 Note that Ellen G. White states, “Many attend religious services, and are refreshed and com-forted by the word of God; but through neglect of meditation, watchfulness, and prayer, they lose the blessing… It would be well for us to spend a thoughtful hour each day in contem-plation of the life of Christ. We should take it point by point, and let the imagination grasp each scene, especially the closing ones” (De-sire of Ages, Nampa, ID: Pacific Press, 1940, p. 83). Interestingly enough, her sentiment that we should imagine these scenes, “point by point,” is almost identical to the language of “Gospel Contemplation” on the Ignatian Spiri-tuality website, found here: http://www.igna-tianspirituality.com/ignatian-prayer/the-what-how-why-of-prayer/praying-with-scripture
6 1 Corinthians 16:14, ESV
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Due to rising controversy, Jon Dybdahl’s book Hunger is no longer in print. It was first published by Autumn House Publishing, which was a division of Review and Herald Publishing. The criticism that Dybdahl has received regarding his book centers around two main ideas in the text: the use of prayer and meditation in Christian devotional practices, and the section “For Further Reading - Selected Bibliography.”
Dybdahl uses terms such as “Spiritual Disciplines,” “Contemplative Prayer,” and “Spiritual Formation,” all of which have been unreasonably dubbed Emergent Church heresies. The book develops these ideas as Christian practices that
revolve around Biblical principles — for example, the use of repentance, confession, and forgiveness as one of the doorways into the Spiritual Disciplines in chapter three.
The book ends with a section of selected readings for further information about how to spiritually develop oneself. This begs the questions, “Is it safe and/or moral for Seventh-day Adventists to read from non-Adventist authors?” and, “Can an Adventist read and recommend a section of a book without affirming the entire belief system of the author?”
Listed therein: Authors Henri Nouwen, Richard Rohr, Thomas Keating, Dallas Willard, Richard
Foster, and Thomas Kelly.
An excerpt from Hunger:
With the rising popularity in North
America and Europe of Eastern and
New Age religions, questions about
meditation have increased. Something
that many Christians may earlier
have simply neglected they now
fear as a subtle way to bring false
teaching into the church. My response
is that meditation is like music. A
powerful tool for either good or evil,
it can be God’s means for growth and
inspiration or the devil’s instrument
of deception and destruction. Let us
look then at the distinctions between
Eastern/New Age meditation and true
Christian meditation:
of wayward spiritual activity used by Catholics that will lead you astray. Perhaps it’s a legitimate avenue of in-volving yourself with the gospel text that will open your eyes to Christ’s example.5 Only the duet of you and God will find the answer — use the evidence provided. However, as you go along the path of discernment, be neither limp nor crushing. You do not need to crush another person in your analysis. Every interlocutor deserves respect — including yourself. “Let all that you do be done in love.”6
Debates are always tense, and the “spiritual formation” is made only more intense by being a religious one. Religious debates haven’t always end-ed well — any cursory reading of the historical record will show beatings, wars, and genocides in the name of religion, God, or belief. No one needs to die, here. No one needs to be hurt. As we continue, join me in dialogue. I offer my hand to you.
1 Peggy Post, Emily Post’s Etiquette: The Defini-tive Guide to Manners, Completely Revised and Updated. 17th ed. (New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2004) 9.
2 I place this term in quotation marks because it is so laden with negative meaning. With quotation marks I mean for it to indicate the discussion that is currently ongoing in the church. Without quotation marks, in my view spiritual formation is the process of sanctifi-cation, of allowing God into my life to form me in Christ’s image as Paul would say in Gala-tians 4:19.
3 Miroslav Volf, A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2011) 6, 8.
4 1 Thessalonians 5:21, ESV.
5 Note that Ellen G. White states, “Many attend religious services, and are refreshed and com-forted by the word of God; but through neglect of meditation, watchfulness, and prayer, they lose the blessing… It would be well for us to spend a thoughtful hour each day in contem-plation of the life of Christ. We should take it point by point, and let the imagination grasp each scene, especially the closing ones” (De-sire of Ages, Nampa, ID: Pacific Press, 1940, p. 83). Interestingly enough, her sentiment that we should imagine these scenes, “point by point,” is almost identical to the language of “Gospel Contemplation” on the Ignatian Spiri-tuality website, found here: http://www.igna-tianspirituality.com/ignatian-prayer/the-what-how-why-of-prayer/praying-with-scripture
6 1 Corinthians 16:14, ESV
1 http://www1.southern.edu/academics/academic-sites/religion/ecstatement.html
“A brief statement such as this requires that much be left unsaid. Rather than attempting a detailed defense of my book Hunger (which I freely admit is not a perfect book) I will instead offer three key points that I think relate to the issue at hand. First, I am a lifelong and happy Seventh-day Adventist Christian and, like Pastor Wohlberg, am opposed to all forms of spiritual practice that are out of harmony with the Bible or the Spirit of Prophecy. I wrote Hunger with the purpose of drawing people closer to Jesus so they would not be tempted by false spiritualities. Second, I believe that a growing, Holy Spirit-led Seventh-day Adventist can learn something, even from non-Adventist authors who may hold objectionable views on some subjects. Quoting such an author on one subject does not mean that we are in agreement with all their presuppositions or their views. A brief look at Ellen White’s writings and other Adventists demonstrates that this use is a long-standing practice in Adventism. Finally, in this and in all theological discussions, I would hope that we would shy away from specific public attacks on a fellow Adventist, particularly when we do so without first speaking to that person. Conversations after the fact are good. Conversations beforehand would be even better! Let us pray for one another, be quick to believe the best of one another, and most of all not allow ourselves to be distracted from our primary calling of sharing Jesus with a broken world.”
“Today, many Christian churches are wrestling with Emerging Church concepts. My research has revealed that such concepts are not only knocking on the door of Seventh-day Adventist churches too, but have to some extent already entered among us. I share the concerns expressed in the October 2013 Southern Adventist University School of Religion ‘Faculty Statement on the Emerging Church’1 that has recognized ‘the growing impact of the EC upon Seventh-day Adventist churches, colleges and universities.’ While addressing this topic is not the primary focus of White Horse Media — our mission is to reach a lost world with the gospel and three angels messages — I have spoken about Emerging Church dangers in a few select venues within our church. The Bible says there is ‘a time to keep silence, and a time to speak’ (Eccl. 3:7). As the signs of Christ’s return thicken around us, my hope is that Adventists everywhere will avoid all Emerging Church errors and counterfeit spiritualities, wherever found, press together (as much as possible), experience genuine revival in the deep truths of the Law of God and the message of Christ our Righteousness, rediscover our mission as God’s Remnant Church of Bible prophecy, and prepare to live in a holy, happy heaven.”
Eastern Meditation:
Presupposes impersonal pantheistic
Cosmic Consciousness
Aims to escape thought
Desires to find self and Cosmic
Consciousness inside
No Bible
HUNGER: SATISFYING THE LONGING OF YOUR SOULWestern/Christian Meditation:
Presupposes personal God
Begins with Thought
Wants to meet God in personal
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“Stay away from non-biblical spiritual disciplines or methods of spiritual formation that are rooted in mysticism such as contemplative prayer, centering prayer, and the emerging church movement in which they are promoted.” - Ted Wilson, General Conference President of the SDA Church
The term Spiritual Formation is widely used in Christianity to describe the disciplines one practices in order to develop oneself spiritual-ly in Jesus — simply put, “to form spiritually.” The 1997 edition of the “Seventh-day Adventist Minister’s Handbook” spends a chapter instruct-ing ministers on Spiritual Formation, which in-cludes reading, meditation, praise prayer, peni-tential prayer, and intercessory prayer. Spiritual Formation is included since it is essential to a pastor's leadership, preaching and courage.3
The Omega Prophecy refers to a letter Ellen G.White wrote to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (the cereal guy), concerning his book Living Temple. White feared that Kellogg's book promoted pantheism and pagan spirituality and labeled it the alpha of heresies by which the Omega here-sy would soon follow to usher in the end times. The current controversy over Spiritual Forma-tion is labeled by some to be that heresy (Letter 265, 1903, pp. 1-7).
The Emergent Church is a more ambiguous term used by various critics to label the per-ceived threats of Spiritual Formation invading Christianity systematically. Ultimately the term doesn’t have a straight definition but I called Pas-
tor Steve Wohlberg author of the pocketbook The Emergent Church Trap to gain some answers as to what he and others mean by it. Wohlberg explained to me that the Emergent Church is an interdenominational and even inter-religious movement that attempts to persuade the Church to give up its institutional focus and shift in or-der to become relevant with modern society. It focuses on experience and tends to highlight spiritual disciplines above church doctrine.4
The origins of Spiritual Formation and spir-itual disciplines can be traced back to early mo-nastic movements starting with St. Anthony, but a more important link can be made to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries with the cath-olic mystics. In many areas of Europe a reform movement within the Catholic Church emerged that taught a modern devotion that “consisted mainly of a life of disciplined devotion centered on the contemplation of the life of Christ and on its imitation.” The mystics wanted to person-alize the Christian faith; they wanted common people to experience God in a personal way. The Brethren of the Common life founded by Gerhard Groote “set out to attack corruption in the church and to call his followers to renewed
holiness and devotion.”5 Spiritual Formation is rooted in the story of Jesus and in the New Tes-tament where such acts as prayer, Bible-reading, Sabbath-keeping and service are encouraged. Paul, addressing believers, hopes for a time when “Christ is formed in you” (Gal. 4:19, ESV), language that suggests the term “spiritual forma-tion.”
The history behind Spiritual Formation as a discipline has led many critics such as David Fielder and others at Operation Iceberg and publishing house Remnant Publications to draw connections between modern Spiritual Forma-tion and its Catholic heritage — they suspect that if it’s Catholic, there must be something sinister about it.
Note: “Operation Iceberg is a self-supporting [Adventist] ministry… Operation Iceberg’s aim is to teach and share the historic and present truths, while at the same time expose heresy and aberrant teachings that threaten to undermine the historic faith.”6 Operation Iceberg hosts meetings at Adventist churches and write books that propagate fear-based arguments to stir up the remnant against anyone or anything that may be promoting personal devotion to Christ
above church doctrine — the long held truths given to the Adventist movement by God him-self.
Using sources from Wikipedia, Fielder en-courages readers to discover the history of Christian mysticism in his book Tremble; this tactic allies modern Adventist approaches to personal devotion with Catholic disciplines, thereby demonizing the practices themselves because of their Catholic heritage.7
But Fielder and other authors conveniently leave out not only the biblical background of Spiritual Formation but also the Catholic re-sponse to early mysticism in their works. Cath-olic authorities felt threatened by the move-ments because of the reliance on an individual experience with God which thereby cut out the middlemen, priests, bishops, and most impor-tantly Catholic Doctrine. The church did not take kindly to any challenge to their God-given authority to dictate how one should experience God through Christianity.8 The Catholic hierar-chy responded and sentenced a number of mys-tics like Meister Eckhart to death.
AN INTRODUCTION TO SPIRITUAL FORMATION AND THE EMERGENT CHURCH:WHAT IS IT AND WHY IS IT THOUGHT DANGEROUS?
A few months ago Brooklynn Larson urged me to check out a series of talks presented by the Sacramento Central Church in California. The sermons have rousing titles such as “The Emerging Church Controversy Within Adventism” and “The New Pagan Revival.” Their “Town Hall Panel” featured prominent Adventist speakers like Steve Wohlberg, Stephen Bohr, and even included a Walla Walla University faculty member.1 Obviously this peaked my interest; what is this new emergent pagan revival controversy going on in Adventism and why haven’t I heard or seen anything about it? I began to do a little bit of research.
I soon found out that the discussions revolved around a term known as Spiritual Formation. I
had heard the term thrown around a bit during one of my intro courses as a Theology major at Walla Walla University. It was explained to me as a big misunderstanding revolving around the language some authors use to discuss prayer and meditation in Christian devotional practices. Apparently there had been a large number of criticisms surrounding the use of these practices, those that implemented them, and the influence they have on one’s spiritual life.
When I began this project I expected to come to some sort of grand conclusion about the whole ordeal, some way in which I could mend what at first looked to be two warring schools of thought. An idealistic hope, but with noble intentions. Looking back now I’m
having trouble not just becoming extremely cynical.
First I will attempt to explain what Spiritual Formation is, where the concept started, and relate it to the current discussions plaguing our churches. Next we’ll hone in on why Walla Walla University and many of its employees, current and former, have been criticized by a particular groups of Seventh-day Adventists most notably members of Operation Iceberg.2 The third section will have a few quick readings representing the University’s response, and lastly I’ll present a few comments responding personally to the affair.
rameyBENJAMIN
Religion Writer
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Responses have varied and the University has generally taken a hands-off approach, refusing to answer many of accusations specifcally, but two notable works should be mentioned. The idea that Spiritual Formation practices have infiltrated our church and now permeate modern Adventist the-ology at places like WWU is not new.
John McVay: “The attackers — ‘the accusers of the brethren,’ if I may call them that — offer crit-icisms that are low on content and high on innu-endo, half-truth, and damnation by association. They offer their accusations from afar without
engaging the people they accuse (see Matthew 18:15-17). Those of us who know the people being attacked, who regularly listen to them teach Sab-bath School classes and preach and participate in committee meetings, simply do not recognize the extreme caricature the attackers offer. We know these people they attack to be godly and faithful Seventh-day Adventists who are working hard to draw others to truth.”13
Dave Thomas: “Behind the scenes there is be-lieved to be a great conspiracy involving a long laundry list of people and agencies, including a
host of Adventist leaders and educators, who are conspiring together to achieve these diabolical ends. The greatest fear is that if one gets involved with spiritual formation, the devil will gain access to the inner sanctum of life and will hypnotize a person without their even knowing it. Even the very elect are cautioned to beware lest they be deceived. Astonishingly, and very cunningly, the key avenue for the devil to perpetrate his designs is thought to be by way of devotional exercises themselves. Even the simple act of sitting in si-lence while meditating is feared as a possible ave-nue for the devil.”14
Alex Bryan Senior Pastor
Walla Walla University Church
Paddy McCoy University Chaplain
Walla Walla University
Tommy Poole Associate Chaplain
Walla Walla University
Dilys Brooks
Associate Campus ChaplainLoma Linda University
Sam Leonor
University Chaplain La Sierra University
Garrett Speyer
Youth Pastor Loma Linda University Church
Adventist schools including Walla Walla Col-lege ended up on a danger list created by Light-house Trails because of courses like the one at Andrews University titled “Spiritual Formation.” These classes were and still are a hit! They were always well attended by theology and non-the-ology students alike; they teach basic princi-ples of christian devotion: Bible study, prayer, meditation. As Andrews University sumarizes, In academic circles the expression spiritual for-mation is a synonym for spiritual growth toward godly maturity, or the process of Christian disci-pleship and sanctification."9
Many of you might be surprised to hear that Alex Bryan has been the center of heaps of contro-versy over the years. He takes flak from all sides; opponents love to take pot shots at our Universi-ty Church pastor for his involvement in The One Project as well as for some of his published works, such as The Green Cord Dream. Since Pastor Alex resides in College Place and teaches at Walla Walla University, the whole campus gets loosely tied in.
Jon Dybdahl, a beloved former professor and previous president of WWU, gained the attention of our heresy-seeking friends after publishing a book titled, Hunger: Satisfying the Hunger of Your
Soul. Dr. Dybdahl is criticized for lessons such as the following on solitude and simplicity:
“Silence and solitude play a crucial role in our spir-
itual life.
They remind us of how much we use our words and
actions to defend ourselves and our influence (manipu-
lating?) others…
Silence and Solitude often allow voices, needs, past
wounds and hurts, as well as inner fears, etc. to surface.
Solitude and silence create space for God to speak
and act.
Last but not least, solitude and quite give us physical
and mental rest. ” 10
THE ONE PROJECT:The One Project is a movement co-founded
by Alex Bryan and others after a pastors’ retreat. They realized that their experience needed to be shared and enjoyed broadly by other christians, it involves highlighting the supremacy of Jesus with Adventism. This is represented by their slogan “Je-sus. All.”
“We are committed to the idea that a Jesus-driv-en, Jesus-bathed, Jesus-backed, Jesus-led, Je-sus-filled, Jesus-powered, all-about-Jesus Adven-tist Church is the uncompromising directive from our past, the joy of our present, and hope for our future. We claim the Primal Adventist Impulse: a longing to be with Jesus.” 11
With other Seventh-day Adventist campuses, Walla Walla University has supported the One Project. Just this last February during the annu-al One Project Gathering titled “The Sermon,” the WWU Campus ministries team flew down to work as support staff for the entire weekend. WWU President John McVay and Pastor Alex Bryan were both presenters and were met with enthusiasm. Our University’s support of the One Project can readily be seen, we even have a student employee working yearlong as the Campus Minis-tries One Project Coordinator.
Operation Iceberg has targeted the One Project for their primary focus “Jesus. All.” stating that a message filled with the love of Christ apart from Adventist doctrine is mistaken and even danger-ous. One cannot be had without the other; if the long held truths of the Seventh-day Adventist church are overshadowed by a message that does not set us apart from other Christians our church will lose its potency.
Fielder’s book attempts to draw connections between those associated with the One Project to show that the conspiracy, those promoting dan-gerous ideas, are woven throughout our church system. He leaves out notable names such as John McVay, and Dwight Nelson; apparently Fielder is trying to chose his battles wisely.
Notable names on Dave Fielder’s ambiguous list of conspicuous individuals associated with the One Project. It implies some sort of underground movement or connection that brings these individuals together. 12
THE BLACK LIST
WHY WALLA WALLA?
OUR UNIVERSITY’S RESPONSE:
Much time is wasted worrying about the beliefs and intentions of others within the church, it is horrendous that even such controversies need to be spoken about or dealt with. The real danger to be found here isn’t in the Spiritual Disciplines, The One Project, or the teachings of Alex Bryan. The Adventist Church is in danger of propagat-
ing an atmosphere of fear and subjection, one that asks individuals to relinquish control of their own thoughts and hold fast only to what has already been approved at the highest echelons.
“Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly
upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and
partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a
kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your
troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole
thing — fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of
death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it
is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand‐
in‐hand. It is because fear is at the basis of those two
things.”15
CONCLUSION:
Spiritual Formation: To form oneself spiritually in Christ
Emergent Church: Ambiguos
Omega Prophecy: Thought to be end time heresy — Ellen White
DEFINITIONS
1 http://operationiceberg.com/media/, Town Hall Meeting Fea-tured guest Don Riley Ph.D2 Non-Adventists sources have criticized WWU as well as other Adventist institutions, but for the purposes of this article we’ll only address Adventists responses – keeping it in the family folks3 Seventh-day Adventist Minister's Manual 1997, pgs. 21-254 Interview with Pastor Steve Wohlberg of White Horse Media and an Operation Iceberg associate – December 22, 20145 The Story of Christianity by Justo L. González Ph.D pg. 427
6 http://operationiceberg.com/about/7 Tremble by David Fielder, Pages: 71-728 The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline and History of the Cath-olic Church, Volume 109 https://www.andrews.edu/sem/response.html10 Hunger by Jon Dybdahl Ph.d pgs. 93-9411 https://the1project.org/about12 Tremble by David Fielder 159-16113 Walla Walla University President Issues Statement Against
“Sinister Accusations” by John McVayhttp://spectrummagazine.org/article/john-mcvay/2014/11/26/walla-walla-university-president-issues-statement-against-sin-ister-acc14 The The Great “Spiritual Formation” Kerfuffle by David E. Thom-as http://spectrummagazine.org/sites/default/files/spectrum_journal/40.1_Winter%202012_Spectrum_WEB_file.pdf (page 44)15 Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell
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As you just read, there is much talk about Spiritual Formation, the Emergent Church, and the future of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. A part of this talk is criticism and concern directed at Walla Walla University as an institution as well as specific members of the Walla Walla University community and University Church family. Below is my analysis of the major
issues facing WWU in the context of the Spiritual Formation and Emergent Church debate.
Please keep in mind that the following interpretations and considerations are representative of my perspective as a Walla Walla University student. I do not represent the sentiments of WWU staff, faculty, or administration in any official capacity.
QUESTION 1 HOW SHOULD WWU REACT TO CRITICISM AND CONCERNS REGARDING SPIRITUAL FORMATION AND
THE EMERGENT CHURCH?
Ignoring the Spiritual Formation issue is tempting, par-ticularly for people who do not even see Spiritual Forma-tion, the Emergent Church, or the issues surrounding them as issues at all. On an individual level, simply picking your battles and ignoring an issue that is not important to you is an easy path to take, albeit not a particularly intellectually honest one.
But for an institution made up of critical thinkers and Christians dedicated to serving those around them, ignoring our fellow Christians’ meaningful criticism* is not an op-tion. Intellectually, we cannot claim to be an institution of higher learning while completely ignoring meaningful crit-icisms from people who have different or unique opinions and the best interest of WWU at heart. As Christians, we are also obligated to treat those around us with respect, part of which requires listening to those around us and recogniz-ing the difference in opinion that exists. Healthy assessments and discussions about issues such as Spiritual Formation and the Emergent Church provide Walla Walla University with an opportunity to remain a balanced, grounded, and inclu-sive institution.
*There is one caveat that I wish to include here: the criticisms
and concerns offered to WWU must be meaningful in order to be
considered. Criticisms based on circular reasoning or any other
logical fallacies are not meaningful. Furthermore, criticisms that
are so far out of the range of reality or are given in the form of
gossip, personal attacks, and innuendo do not help the University
to improve; they function to defame and tear down WWU. Any
criticism or concern that is not approached within the Christian
context of Matthew 15:18 is not only useless in the context of im-
proving WWU, but is also in direct conflict with the explicit in-
struction of Jesus Christ.
As I stated in my caveat, meaningful criticism can help WWU remain balanced and inclusive to people of many dif-ferent opinions. Unfortunately, not all criticisms and concerns regarding Spiritual Formation and the Emergent Church have been meaningful. In fact, many have been “low on content and high on innuendo, half-truth, and damnation by asso-ciation,” to quote President John McVay.1 Attacks like these are harmful to everyone involved and are particularly harmful to the unity and health of the church. Attacks like these are unchristian, unethical, and fruitless for everyone involved. Although it would be satisfying for those who would like to silence WWU’s critics or get revenge on some level, an attack is against the very principles Jesus outlined in Matthew 5.2 It is for these reasons that Walla Walla University cannot and should not engage in counterattacks aimed at those who per-petuate rumor, gossip, half-truth, and innuendo.
OPTION 1 Ignore
The Issue
Instead of ignoring the meaningful concerns of well-in-tentioned Christians or attacking those who attack WWU, Walla Walla University has chosen a different option en-tirely. Walla Walla University remains unwaveringly and openly dedicated to biblical truth, Seventh-day Adventist heritage, beliefs, and values, and the passionate pursuit of Christ. It is in that context that WWU responds to and ad-dresses meaningful criticism of any kind, including criticism and concern regarding Spiritual Formation and the Emer-gent Church.
OPTION 2 Attack the Attackers
OPTION 3 Stand Firm
larsonBROOKLYNN
Contributor
As Christians, we are also obligated to treat those around us with respect, part of which requires listening to those around us and recognizing the difference in opinion that exists.
Now What? And Other Questions For WWU
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I have never been on the receiving end of WWU’s response to appropriate criticism
regarding Spiritual Formation or the Emergent Church. I have no concern about WWU in the con-text of Spiritual Formation or the Emergent Church, so I have written no letters or emails, made no phone calls, and met with no administrators regarding these issues. Consequently I cannot state what WWU’s in-dividual responses to worried community members have been.
I will comment, though, on what I believe the appropriate response to any meaningful concern should be. The proper response, I believe, is one of thanks. WWU has an immense community of wonderful, well-meaning, and watchful people that only want the best for everyone involved. Critics who provide meaningful concerns should know that WWU appreciates their care, concern, and willing-ness to speak up about potential issues and conflicts they identify.
A note to those of you out there who care about WWU and aren’t afraid to speak up: Thank you. Your voice is being heard, and we will continue to listen to all perspec-tives that are presented in an appropriate manner. Whether we agree or decide to agree to disagree, your input is valued here on campus. Please continue your constructive, Christ-like, and careful attitude and actions towards WWU.
As an academic institution dedicated to “Ex-cellence in Thought,” it would be antithetical to WWU’s core beliefs for anyone to suggest that its faculty, staff, students, administration, and commu-nity members cannot disagree with WWU’s actions or beliefs on some level. It takes all kinds of people to make up a working community and not every-one is going to agree with everything that happens
here. Any member of WWU’s community should feel free to vocalize their meaningful concerns
and criticisms. However, they must ad-dress their conflicts in the biblical and Christ-like manner outlined in Matthew 15:18 that is practiced on this campus. Diversity of opinion and thought should be welcome on this campus.
That said, if criticisms and concerns are not meaningful and violate WWU’s other core belief in “Beauty in Expression,” the situation is entirely dif-ferent. Ugly, mean-spirited, unchristian, unhelpful, derogatory, insensitive, bully-like, discriminatory, untrue, and defamatory statements directed towards any group or person should not be tolerated from WWU faculty, staff, administration, or students. Even statements veiled in “bless his/her heart” con-cern that have any of the underlying intent or effects of the qualities listed above should be addressed in the same manner.
Walla Walla University is a friendly place. Ev-eryone should feel at home here. Sharing concerns about WWU, or defending WWU, should never be a reason for abandoning Christ-like love in favor of
invective or attack. We all learned earlier this year that WWU is willing to ban an entire social media platform in order to maintain a standard of “Car-ing For Others Online and Off.”3 In the same way, WWU should care for and protect its members while guarding its reputation as a University that upholds Christ-like behavior. If a faculty or staff member, ad-ministrator, or student continually and unrepentant-ly engages in defamatory, rude, offensive, untrue, or accusatory speech about WWU or a member of WWU, on campus or off, outside of the con-text of Matthew 15:18, they are not and should not be welcome here.
QUESTION 2 WHAT IF CRITICISM COMES FROM WITHIN WWU?
QUESTION 3 HOW SHOULD WWU AFFIRM
THOSE WHO VOICE MEANINGFUL CONCERNS?
Any member of WWU’s community should feel free to vocalize their meaningful concerns and criticisms.
Sharing concerns about WWU, or
defending WWU, should never
be a reason for abandoning
Christ-like love in favor of invective
or attack.
These questions do not have easy answers. The insights listed above represent one perspective and
one approach to an issue that is not only sensitive but also complex. When considering where you fit into this debate, please
consider this: we are all children of God. Healthy debate and discussion has its place. Genuine concern has its place as well. As we consider all the
paradigms and opinions involved, let’s all live by the standard that Ellen White set in her testimony to the Battle Creek Church: “Christ is our example in all things.”4
CONCLUSION
1http://www.wallawalla.edu/fileadmin/_temp_/McVay_statement_11.20.14.pdf.
2Matthew 5:21-26, 38-48. 3WWU students will recognize my reference to WWU Administration’s
decision to ban Yik Yak in response to bullying and shaming.
4http://text.egwwritings.org/publication.
LIFECULTURE 14
davisRIVER
Culture Writer
THE WILLOW AND THE BUILDER
TELESCOPE
SCOPE
the kaleidoscopeNew discoveries, far and near. Songs, books, and art, it’s shared right here. MICROSCOPE
Kings Kaleidoscope:this 10-piece band is a new
discovery to me; the other day I stumbled across
their song “Zion.” The raw vocals of Chad Gardner
ring blend with the clean tones of a worn-out Fender
Telecaster, occasionally graced by several stacked
vocal harmonies as the song blooms. Written as a tribute
to a lost friend, this song echoes true emotions of love and loss, as well as hope for
a better place.
Wiz Khalifa:Somehow I JUST heard the
rapper’s song “See You Again” for the first time this week. I
was blown away because it was the first time I had heard
Wiz Khalifa actually sound like he was fully, mentally present.
Teaming up with Charlie Puth, the duo featured this song
on the movie Furious 7 as a tribute to the late Paul Walker.
Between the crystal-clear vocals of Charlie Puth and the
slick, meaningful rhymes of Wiz, this song is a beautiful
tribute to the importance of friends and family.
Arboretum:Remember this band? If you used to
attende The Awakening at WWU, chances are you’ve heard these guys sing. After a time
of silence, local band Arboretum finally got back together and recorded a new song “Across the Shore.”
Check out this fresh new song at the Arboretum Facebook page!
vickyflipfloptravels.com
I set my sights on the willow tree
In the back of my backyard
I knew it wilted, so I stilted it
With wood that I had carved
I hammered nails and measured things
And built a sturdy floor
It took me six or seven days
Until it needed nothing more…
On a dark, cold, Connecticut night, Richard Miron and Adrian Simon set out to build a concept album that defied the rules of modern music production. Throwing aside com-mon norms such as traditional hooks, catchy themes, and cliché song topics, this young duo threw the norms to the wind and let their imaginations soar free. From these writing and record-ing sessions came a project called “The Willow and the Builder.”
I climbed up there with a beanbag chair
And I almost lost my grip
I threw it in and turned my chin
And there were her two lips
She said, “Are you alone?”
I nodded yes, and then she took my
sleeve
She said, “This house was made for
two”
And then fell in on top of me...
No rules. No guidelines. No labels breathing down their neck. Just two guys, some musician friends, and the magic of youth.
The most amazing thing about this album to me was the writing process. The duo decided on the title “The Wil-low and the Builder” and then separat-ed for a period of three weeks, writing their own songs and not sharing them with each other. Then finally they got together and shared a magical mo-ment where they played their songs to each other, tweaking and adjusting the sound to blend a storyline that follows the title “The Willow and the Builder.”
People come and people go
And sometimes I’m alone
I think it’s funny how it took me
Just a week to build my home
She said before she left,
“I’ve spent a lifetime on the ground,
I never though of, never dreamed of,
What a magic place you found…”
The musical story revolves around the childhood magic of running through the backyard, picking out a willow tree to build a tree house in. We can all relate to the imaginary ad-ventures that happen in tree houses, and this tree becomes a sort of friend to the child. As both the “builder” and the tree grow, good times and hard times come upon both. But along the journey we learn about growing, loving, and letting go. Written as a beautiful allegory for these things, the sadness of the willow is brought to life by the builder who finds beauty and recovery in its branches.
And I said,
“I don’t find, it finds me
I combine magic things and you,
You were the missing piece.”
To download this wonderful album for free or by donation, visit www.thewillowandthebuilder.bandcamp.
com
1. Teahouse Treehouse
2. Heartache
3. A Vast Emptiness
4. Mansion Man
5. Rosaline
6. What’s Next
7. Oh Willow! (Why Wallow?)
8. Cut It Down
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1 tbsp. fresh garlic, minced
3 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil (I used grapeseed oil which also worked great)
1 tbsp. fresh rosemary
15 oz. diced tomatoes
5 cans white beans
Desired amount of Tofurky Kielbasa meatless sausage or Turkey Kielbasa, thickly sliced and cut into 1/4 in. rounds
Desired amount of spinach
1. Sauté garlic in oil over medium heat for 30 seconds to a minute.
2. Add meatless sausage and sauté until golden brown, then add diced tomatoes and simmer about 2 minutes.
3. Next, add beans (drained). Cook until beans are soft (about 20 minutes).
4. Remove chili from heat and add fresh rosemary and as much or spinach as you like. I love spinach and since it cooks down substantially I ended up adding quite a bit.
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WHITE BEAN CHILIThis is one of the best chilis I have ever had! Adapted from the personal recipe box of Content Editor, Carolyn Green, this chili can be perfectly paired with crusty French bread, and is an “any day” comfort food. Rosemary helps to give this dish an incredibly delicious flavor.
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THE WILLOW AND THE BUILDER
Arboretum:Remember this band? If you used to
attende The Awakening at WWU, chances are you’ve heard these guys sing. After a time
of silence, local band Arboretum finally got back together and recorded a new song “Across the Shore.”
Check out this fresh new song at the Arboretum Facebook page!
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She’s crazy.
There’s no more to be said.
Not that she doesn’t care
or that her absence is based on
bad intentions, she just can’t leave her house
To venture outside of her coffee and gin, or
Her many responsibilities:
Watering the plants,
Feeding the terrier,
Lunch with Roberta,
Father Simon’s mass.
Wedged into routines and
Irresponsible shopping habits,
She must comb through every aisle.
There might be something she needs.
Something she didn’t see yesterday.
And at night she lies, still.
Cemented in the walls and the halls.
She won’t budge.
Not for me,
Mom’s wedding,
Or your graduation.
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China Says: Please stop hiring funeral strippers
Bans mourning wood
Hillary Clinton, Ben Carson Lead With Millennial Voters
Because they have so much in common
President Obama thanks Japan for
giving us manga and anime
Malia Obama says she’s Hatsune Muki’s
biggest fan
Kendrick Lamar teams up with health food company for ‘Beets Don’t Kale My Vibe’
salad
Not to be outdone, Eminem records
“Cleaning Out My Bowels”
Women In Russia Jailed For ‘Twerking’
At WWII Memorial
She said it was a “Zhukov Shake-off”
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I hope ya’ll don’t mind, but I need a break from thinking deeply about my spirituality. So instead I am going to
spend my page writing thank you notes. Enjoy.
Thank you, Alumni Weekend Car Show, for showing me what I can aspire to own after paying off all my loans. So shiny. A dream of the not so near future.
Thank you, elderflower Italian sodas at the Atlas, for creating a drink that makes me
feel sophisticated and confused. What is elderflower, and is there a youngerflower?
Thank you, WWU Softball intramural, for not providing helmets. FYI, softballs are not soft.
Thank you, Mt. View Apartments, for the one picnic table. It’s better than none right? Are they forcing residents to mingle?
Thank you, G.O.T. for coming back and providing me an hour of angst on Sunday nights! Dragons> Homework.
Thank you, Spring Quarter sunny days, for making me forget about my homework. I thought winter quarter was bad for focusing on homework.
Thank you, Walla Walla windmill technicians, for reminding my friends and I that the windmills are built on private property and that you can call the cops or shoot us. Don’t assume they don’t work on the weekends. Maybe they should stop — they might be less cranky.
Thank you, wild turkey that lives near Home Depot, for making me scream and pee my pants a lil’ as you attempted to fly across the street and in front of my car. That bird will dent your car! Reason #34 why I don’t like birds.
Thank you, new Snapchat update, for thoroughly consuming me. What does the smiley face with the sunglasses mean?
Thank you, Hot Mama’s Coffee shop, for scaring me to death. Don’t hang body suits from the ceiling! Why?!
Thank you, battle ropes in the Fitness Center, for providing 1-5 minute hilarious episodes of clenched, red, angry and determined faces.
Thank you, Glass Animals, for making a song called “Walla Walla.” Weird music publicity is good publicity.
Thank you, construction on Whitman Dr. for making College Place smell like a Honeybucket. I thought we were done with this nonsense?! Flashback to two years ago.
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NOTESwith
LAUREN LEWIS
PORTLAND SEATTLE SPOKANE ROOKS PARKMIDTERMS“Keep it Weird”
“Coquete Coquette” Of Montreal
Enjoy the rain
“Blue Skies”Noah and the Whale
Relax
“Lonesome Dreams”Lord Huron
For Bloomsday weekend
“Rollercoaster”Bleacher
Be confident
“New Shoes”Paolo Nutini
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WESTERN CIV.
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WALLA WALLA ROASTERY
HAMMOCKING @ PIONEER PARK
GRADUATION
HEADING TO THE FAC
SWIMMINGIN THE W.W. RIVER
PROPOSALS
GOING TO THE GYM
Get pumped to ask that girl for her number
“My Number”The Foals
It’s not really a lake
“Gooey”Glass Animals
Simply enjoy the mountains
“Lights Out, Words Gone”Bombay Bicycle Club
Get through your history class
“Greek Tragedy”The Wombats
It’s so far away; listen to
“Budapest”George Ezra
Chill
“Oblivion”The Indians
This is so cheesy you may need to bring crackers
“The Promise”When in Rome
The real world is coming
“Once in a Lifetime”Talking Heads
Get stoked about instruments with this wicked sax solo
“Jubel”Klingande
Get your date to say, “Yes”
“You and I”Wilco
Get wet and wild
“10,000 Emerald Pools”BORNS
Get your girl or guy to say, “Yes” and “I Do”
“I Do”Flagship
Sweat
“Work This Body”Walk the Moon
TRAVEL WITH MUSIC
lewisLAUREN
Humor Writer
Traveling is my second love, but music is truly my first. Then chocolate cake, reading, and freeze-frames of Olympic high divers come in third, fourth, and fifth. If you allow me to experience all of these things at once, I will faint from happiness and then regain my composure to hug or high five you. Sadly, bringing all of these things together takes planning, so if I were forced to choose only two, out of necessity, I would pick traveling
and music. I choose these because each builds upon the other. A very wise Sherpa/photographer named Amit once told me, “Life without music is like curry without salt.” I think this perfectly characterizes what I am trying to prove. Life with music, just like curry with salt, is exponentially better. Therefore, I have made a playlist for all of you. I recognize that during this busy time of spring and studies you probably won’t have time to run
off to Paris. However, I hope you listen to these songs as you run off to Rooks Park, Palouse Falls, Seattle, Portland, Spokane, Joseph, and all the other great places within a few hundred miles from here. Even if you can only travel to vespers tomorrow, presentations next week, or graduation in the near or far future, I hope you enjoy and have a great week!
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run an engine to power a generator than to sustain an entire human populace to get the small amount of energy from whatever electrical signals go on in the body.
To illustrate this further, I’m going to use some numbers and do some arithmetic with some estimated numbers. The amps required to feel a shock at 600 volts (V) is 0.005 amps (A).1 These numbers give the electrical power that can be transferred through someone without serious medical damage: 600V * 0.005A = 3 watts (W). Conversely, an “average” man’s basal (resting) metabolic rate is about 1,650 dietary calories per day, or about 80W. So, any device using humans as a mechanism to transfer energy is going to be terribly inefficient, with a maximum efficiency of about 3/80 = 3.75%, not taking into account transporting the food, removing the waste, and providing a habitable environment, which would consume much, much more energy.
“LEELA: Their bodies are used to generate electricity. The idea came from an old movie called The Matrix
BENDER: But... But wouldn’t almost anything make a better battery than a human body? Like a potato... or a battery?
FRY: Plus no matter how much energy they produce, it would take more energy than that to keep them alive.
LEELA: I know, I know, it sounds absurd. In fact, when The Matrix first came out, it seemed like the single crummiest, laziest, most awful dim-witted idea in the entire history of science fiction. ...”
And their criticisms are correct! Humans are not a good power source — we consume much more food than we “produce” electricity. Even if all the energy in the world was stuck in food, it would be much easier and more efficient to just burn all of the food to
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As I’ve written before, movie makers rarely attempt to create movies with accurate physics. The problem is so widespread that it prompted a book: Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics:
Hollywood’s Best Mistakes, Goofs, and
Flat-Out Destructions of the Basic Laws
of the Universe by Tom Rogers. The fact is, bad movie physics can be more than insulting, they can be misleading about things that are important but difficult to understand. The laws of thermodynamics, for example, are important and relevant for people to know, because without knowing that energy is conserved, perpetual motion machines look like good investments.
Without the knowledge that energy is conserved, a car that performs electrolysis on water to get hydrogen and oxygen which it then burns to get power to drive the wheels and perform electrolysis sounds like a good idea. But it’s not; the energy produced by burning the hydrogen will at the very most be the same as the energy consumed by electrolysis, and in most cases would be much less due to the inefficiencies inherent in converting energy.
The Matrix may be the biggest offender in getting thermodynamics wrong. In The Matrix, (spoiler alert) intelligent machines have taken over the world and have relegated humans to containment tanks where they generate electricity by living their lives in a virtual reality that is the eponymous matrix. Of course, it’s a terrible idea, one that garnered a hilarious aside in an episode of Futurama:*
Powering an entire world of, say, 1 billion machines that consume 1,000 W (an ample desktop power supply), would require 1,000,000,000 * 1,000W * (1/0.0375) * (1/3W) = 3.33 * 10^11 humans, or 333 humans for every machine. Given that the machines consume 1000W each, I would suspect 333 humans could readily overpower one. So, really, the shoddy justification used in The Matrix is not just unreasonable, it’s self defeating, because not only would the machines have to be incredibly stupid to use the humans as a power source, they’d have to be outnumbered 333-to-one. Way to go Wachowskis, you really borked this one up.
*Many of the writers of Futurama are math-ematicians. I like to think this bit of dialogue comes as a direct message from them.
1 https://sciencebasedlife.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/how-much-voltage-can-you-take-on-before-you-die/
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Science Writer
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If you have found yourself wandering around outside after class or on a Sunday afternoon, you are probably well aware that it’s a great time for any and all spring sports and activities. And while your intramural soccer team may have a goal differ-ential of -39, or your softball squad is still searching for
the most sensible batting order, we can appreci-ate the fact that we are outside again. Summer is on its way.
WWU’s varsity softball team wrapped up their season on a high note this past weekend. Hosting club squads from Eastern Washington, and Washington State University, the Wolves won big against both teams.
Against EWU, Devyn Diorio and Rilei Hill
each had two hits and three RBIs as part of a 12-4 Wolves victory. Later that day, pitcher Nicole Brown had one of her best games of the season. Brown threw seven innings of three hit ball, giving up one run and striking out seven batters, leading the team to a 4-1 win.
On Thursday night, the Walla Walla Univer-sity men’s club volleyball team is scheduled to play Whitman College at 8:00 P.M. in the WEC.
In case you are unfamiliar with the team, or don’t really know much about them, the Wolves Club plays against other college club teams from around the Northwest, including the University of Washington, WSU, Whitman, Gonzaga, and the University of Idaho. They play in tournaments hosted through an organization called the Pa-cific Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (PIVA) and have performed well in competition. Be sure to come out and support them for this intertown showdown.
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ALEX
With any plate of nachos you should expect to be satisfied and to enjoy every bite. Nachos are awesome. However, sometimes the only means of acquiring nachos is going through the Taco Bell drive-thru, waiting in line too long, and ending up with a soggy, sloppy disappoint-ment. Just like nachos, the NBA playoffs are fantastic most of the time, but round one served up a mixture of cheesy crispy goodness and unappetizing disappointment.
ROUND 1 : NACHO PLATTER
Even though it was a sweep, the Golden State/New Orleans series was fantastic. It gave the same feeling you get from going to a concert. The Pelicans kind of felt like the opening band who has just released a successful EP, and Anthony Davis almost stole the show. But the War-riors were the headliner. The Stephen Curry shot at the end of game three with his eyes closed, falling down, was a reminder how great he has been this year and how great his team is. The Warriors came back from 20 points down and ultimately took care of business.
This year’s Boston Celtics team may have been swept by LeBron and the Cavaliers, but man, they played hard considering the huge talent discrepancy between the two teams. There was a lot of roster turnover with the Celtics this year, yet everyone who was on that team was look-ing to make some sort of contribution in key playoff minutes.
Derrick Rose is doing Derrick Rose things! Heavy minutes, strong attacks towards the rim, acrobatic layups, finding open teammates — pretty much everything that disappeared when his knee injuries showed up is back and on display against a young Milwaukee team.
The Spurs/Clippers matchup is a showcase of two teams that have a real shot of winning the title, probably the only matchup in the first round where that could be said. It’s like ordering a high end nacho appetizer for $19.99 and being completely satisfied. The downside is you will probably be full by the time the entré comes out. Any chance the winner of this series is worn down when it’s time for round two?
“Coach, do you ever expect rajon Rondo to wear a Mavericks uniform again?” When the answer to that question is no and the series isn’t over yet, you know the nachos are soggy.
In Raptors/Wizards, there was a lot of talk before this series started that amounted to a whole lot of nothing, especially limited basketball enjoyment. Paul Pierce against the city of Toronto and Wale vs. Drake were the only storylines I could keep up with in the Raptors downfall.
Damian Lillard. He couldn’t play effective defense on Mike Conley, Beno Udrih, or Nick Calathes as the Portland defense crumbled behind him.
R. Smith swinging and knocking Jae Crowder in the head may as well have been J.R. Smith swinging and coming all the way around to hit himself in the face. Smith faces a suspension following a situation that should have been avoided to begin with.
Hawks/Nets. This matchup is the definition of soggy nachos. Nets PG Deron Williams finished game two with two points, a huge blown defensive coverage, and a missed game tying shot at the buzzer. Normally great Hawks shooter Kyle Korver responded in game three by shooting 1-8 from the field as the Nets won. Please. I just hope the series is over before I find myself turning on NBATV again.
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What are you most excited to do
this summer?
“The Middle East really know what’s up!...As far as food, not like women’s rights or anything.” - Shelby Seibold
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“Possibly watch a bunch of little kids at a daycare.”- Mae Liongco
“Teach kids how to ride bikes at camp.” - Matthew Burghart
I’ve mentioned this a few times over the last few weeks, but I am 100% ready for summer to start. There is nothing I want more than to lay on my couch all day and watch every episode of Game of Thrones (except not really; they’ve absolutely ruined the integrity of the story with the most recent episodes, but that’s beside the point). No matter how much I love summer and being a lazy bum and you probably do too, there are some standard summer activities that many people in our age bracket participate in that are pretty ridiculous and it’s time we talk about it.
CONCERTS
Nothing is worse than being surrounded by sweaty strangers who only vaguely like the band that you’ve been waiting to see all year while you’re trying to jam out. There’s also a 100% chance that you’ll be thirsty and have a random stranger fall on you whilst attempt-ing to crowdsurf. People are the worst, especially when
they’re pressed so close to you that you can’t move without accidentally touching a stranger’s butt.
ROAD TRIPS
Who wants to spend a load of money to be crammed in a car for hours on end with the same people and their poor sense of direction? Obviously no one sane. Who needs to see new parts of the world and get out of town when you could see the same places from the comfort of your computer screen? All this experience will leave you with is a hatred for fast food, an empty wallet, and a new appreciation for the term “personal space.”
CAMPING
I have one word for you: sanitation. You think that cooking over a fire and living in the dirt for a few days is going to help you stay healthy over the summer
months? Think again, friends. Camping will only leave you sweaty, smelling like a campfire, and (if you’re like me) exhausted because it’s ridiculously difficult to sleep on the ground.
In all honesty, though, these are all things that many of us have willingly experienced and enjoyed. Is this a sign of youth? Immaturity? Immunity to mosquito bites, large crowds, and the possibility of skin can-cer? I dunno. Maybe we only wish for summer for the change of pace. Maybe the old adage is true and the grass is greener on the other side. Maybe I’m only whining about these beloved summer activities be-cause they feel so far away with half a quarter of school to go. I don’t think, so, though. I highly doubt that while I’m going on camping adventures and jamming out to Mumford and Sons this summer I’ll be wishing that I was back in midterms week.
“You remind me of my mother, because she’s got a little dementia and a little OCD.”
- Professor Brandon Beck, to Johnel Lagabon
Similar to ours
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This might seem tricky;
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“If we wanted the Adventist church to grow we would not have separate dorms!”
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