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The Eric Metaxas Show
"parish council" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Okay, so you remember of the illustrious whiff and poofs at Yale, 1979, what happens that would interest us beyond the fact that you get to do this? Well, yeah, I came to I came to Christ. And it's not that I came to Christ. I was a sincere Catholic when I went through Yale. And I loved God, and I read my Bible, I used to go to the rectory. I was on the parish council, but I used to drink with my priest. He was interested in being kind of a buddy, and I didn't need a buddy. I needed a pastor. I needed a priest. So I let it double life. And I was really beneath all the high living and the jokes and everything. I was conflicted. And my senior year with the whiffs, that we each had a position within the group, and the guy who had the position called the nadir, which means the lowest point. He was the group drunk. And that was his position was to drink more than anyone else. The bibulus falstaffian figure. Well, what happened the summer before our senior year, he came to Christ, and he became as big a spirit filled Christian as he had been a high living drunk. With other spirits is really the sentence you were looking exactly. So he filled himself with the Holy Spirit and this guy came on like gangbusters. I mean, and he was talking about Jesus and just cutting a swath through the group. I was just gonna imagine that at a place like Yale, especially at the whiff and poofs, they didn't take kindly to this kind of stuff. That cuts rather dramatically against the grain. Of hyper secular cynical Yale. Yeah, you're breaking rank. Wow. And so he comes in and totally teased me off because I'm convicted, right? I have the position of the cook, which means I just do meals. My best friend was the position of the apothecary. Which you can imagine his job in the whip and poops. Right? He just giving you like jars of rainbows, Benny's, black beauties. Is that what we're talking about? Quaaludes. What are we talking about? Doctor feelgood. You can fill in the blank. I mean, it's fascinating that you actually had the weapon poops actually have these roles that they assign. You're supposed to be singing, but it's like a security guys that are all 21. So you can imagine, you know, anyway, so he, the lord starts working on him. My friend rob. And he is like not one. He doesn't want to have anything to do with Christ. Wait a minute. So the guy who came to faith the summer before senior year, what was his name? His name was Jim Jim yent. But he was the nadir. Comes into the senior year, and it's like having tenure. They can't kick them out because he is officially a whiffing poof. So he comes in, he brings Jesus in and your friend, the apothecary, you just mentioned something starts to happen with him. He starts to stir in him. And he named rob. And he is, he is as I was kind of a go for it guy, right? He was even more. And we were like this. We ran together all senior year, well, and I remember we actually went to the middle of the year. We went to a mass led by a charismatic priest, Ralph denar who had a healing ministry, right? And I don't know why we went, but we were there, and it was one of these things full Catholic mass, and then he was calling out healing, you know. Well, I mean, we should be clear in case people aren't tracking. In 1979, was really the height of the charismatic movement, which bled over into every denomination. So there was the Catholic charismatic movement, but it was in the Episcopal Church St. Paul's Darien, which was Terry Fulham. So this was going on all kinds of places. And this comes right out of the Jesus movement, the Jesus revolution, the Jesus people. So this is really kind of revival happening in a way in America. And so you're talking about a piece of that. Exactly right. That's exactly right. And that's so important because we forget that lutherans and Catholics and presbyterians and Baptists were all getting revived by the Holy Spirit. It wasn't the pentecostals which tend to be more of a blue collar movement. This was all your white collar denominations getting baptized speaking in healing. Anyway, we're in the car after the mass. And my friend rob looks at me and he goes, Jim, because I was called Jim back then. He said, I could never be a Christian like you. And I said, what do you mean? He said, if ever I was to become a Christian, I'd have to do it all the way. And he had me dead to rights. But wait a minute. He didn't realize he was speaking. That was a heavy statement what he said to you because he has no memory of this movement. He didn't mean to cut you, but he's kind of saying like, I couldn't be a Christian one who has one foot in the world and one foot in the church. If I were to do it, I would have to do it all the way. And that always got speaking to you through your friend inadvertently. Yes. And he was my guy, right? So there was nowhere to hide. I couldn't deflect and the Holy Spirit just nailed me right dead set..
The Eric Metaxas Show
How Pastor James Kearny Came to Christ at Yale
"You remember of the illustrious whiff and poofs at Yale, 1979, what happens that would interest us beyond the fact that you get to do this? Well, yeah, I came to I came to Christ. And it's not that I came to Christ. I was a sincere Catholic when I went through Yale. And I loved God, and I read my Bible, I used to go to the rectory. I was on the parish council, but I used to drink with my priest. He was interested in being kind of a buddy, and I didn't need a buddy. I needed a pastor. I needed a priest. So I let it double life. And I was really beneath all the high living and the jokes and everything. I was conflicted. And my senior year with the whiffs, that we each had a position within the group, and the guy who had the position called the nadir, which means the lowest point. He was the group drunk. And that was his position was to drink more than anyone else. The bibulus falstaffian figure. Well, what happened the summer before our senior year, he came to Christ, and he became as big a spirit filled Christian as he had been a high living drunk. With other spirits is really the sentence you were looking exactly. So he filled himself with the Holy Spirit and this guy came on like gangbusters. I mean, and he was talking about Jesus and just cutting a swath through the group. I was just gonna imagine that at a place like Yale, especially at the whiff and poofs, they didn't take kindly to this kind of stuff. That cuts rather dramatically against the grain. Of hyper secular cynical Yale. Yeah,
AP News Radio
NY Saint Nicholas Greek ChurchSt. Nicholas Greek Church reopens after 9/11
"A Greek Orthodox church that was destroyed in the September 11th attacks is reopened to the public at the World Trade Center site in New York. Parish council member Olga pavlos says the reopening of saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox church and national shrine is very emotional. It's been a long time coming. 21 years, a lot of hardships, a lot of ups and downs, but we finally made it. The church now overlooks the trade center memorial pools and an elevated park. Michael Soros with the Friends of saint Nicholas says the shrine completes the Trinity at ground zero. You have the museum. You have the reflecting poles, but now faith has been restored to ground zero. People from all faiths are invited to pray and meditate. I'm Ed Donahue
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"parish council" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"My mother in law, father in law, son, or daughter in law. And all other relatives by marriage, who treated my family with a lack of love. For all those words and thoughts and actions, or omissions, which injured and cause pain. I forgive them. Please help me to forgive my relatives. My grandmother, my grandfather, and uncles, cousins, who in any way have interfered in my family. Been possessive of my parents. Who have caused confusion and conflict. In my family, and turned my parents against each other. I do forgive them. Jesus helped me to forgive my coworkers. Who are disagreeable or make life miserable for me? For those who push themselves and their work on me, gossip about me. Who won't cooperate with me, who try to take my job. I do forgive them. I forgive my neighbors. For those lord who have been no easy letting their property run down. Not tying up their dogs. That run through my yard. Not taking in their trash barrows. Being prejudiced, and for all those who are running down the neighborhood, I do forgive them. I now forgive my priests and nuns. My parish council, my parish organizations, my pastor, the bishop, the Pope, the Roman Catholic Church, for their lack of support. Affirmation. That sermons, pettiness, lack of friendliness. Not providing me in my family with the support and inspiration we needed. For any hurts that we have received even in the long distant past. I do forgive him. Lord, I forgive all those who are of different persuasions. Those of opposite political views. Who have pushed their views on me, who have attacked me, ridiculed me, discriminated against me, make fun my life, and have hurt me. I forgive them. I forgive those of different
Woman's Hour
"parish council" Discussed on Woman's Hour
"Guess I just didn't have the passion for my locality. It's as simple as that. And I think that to be a good counselor. You know, as you've heard Tracy talking with such energy and passion. You need that. Well, at the same time, we also need people who, if you like what the rule book, who facilitate the energy of people who have that. And for me, that was my role. And I guess even if neither of those are for you, I do feel so strongly that out in our communities, people have a I would say as far as a duty to witness what is happening in their name. But I think people don't know if I may, Jackie, I just want to say, I definitely don't want to interrupt you because you are the chair of all charts. But even the word politics can make people think not to do with me. But they also perhaps don't know if they aren't party creatures party political creatures. They might think, how do I get into it? So is there something you'd say as advice? Oh, goodness. I mean, one of the things that I've been trying so hard to do over the last 12 months is really encourage people to go and find out more. There is so much information. And really accessible information, but the bit that's missing is the link that makes you say, actually, I will go and look at the information. So and what I would this real frustrations for me was when we lost the ability to hold virtual meetings. Because that really gave people an opportunity to literally to witness what was being done in their name by their local town or parish council. And we were seeing that there was a 20% increase in virtual attendance accounting needed. And if we'd had that, if we could continue with that, I think we would really make an impact on the number of people that are getting involved because part.
Woman's Hour
"parish council" Discussed on Woman's Hour
"Deliver for west Yorkshire. Surely it's got to be about having a drink in the rovers return. Jackie weaver chief officer of the Cheshire association of local councils. And shiv, of course, lockdown zoom, parish council foam. Good morning. Good morning. What role do you think local politics should play in people's lives? If they're not connected to it and why particularly do you think women should think about it? I know many women have are many women are. We're getting those messages as well. But from your perspective, Jackie. I think for me, and my interest is only local councils and by that I mean town and parish councils..
Think 100%: The Coolest Show
"parish council" Discussed on Think 100%: The Coolest Show
"Brother is the treasurer of rice. And so he said he would come is he's handicap in. I don't know if you'll be able to walk that far because he walked with a walker. Therm hoping it's not a problem for him to come because he can explain things also the same explaining to pick him. So i'm excited about that. No that's nice and that's that's so so we think about all this napoli now from louisiana and louisiana's called cancer alley certain of louisiana. That's right yeah tell people that. Explain that the cancer ally is considered a eighty five mile stretch between new orleans and baton h in death for this call came out and i'm in the middle that council alley car door. You know for years. I didn't know. Call elliott really. no no. actually. You know it's funny because i think people probably would think that people outside lose any how we think we we know. But you're right but we just not getting cancer that's right. Sob new and we didn't know interfere with the reason miss right. We didn't know that. Until i started digging into it and when i found out i had a when i found out i had autoimmune hepatitis. In two thousand sixteen. I started to read about it in a safe comes from industrial industrial pollutants and our our officials say that we can't prove that said. Just give me a little bit more time. And i will prove it because i'm going to hire either a scientist or some abolishes of somebody or jimmy someone to evaluate these chemicals. That's being emitted in our community and we will be until so associated pajama goals. Sixty six especially with cancer so we wanna prove to them then. The industry is causing us to be sick. Just gonna take a little while but desperate almost have done and if you understand that it that sometimes folks in our communities getting sick is debilitating like his folks can't work and a you know it is. And then they all kind of forms they become too self medicaid. They do all kind of thing. 'cause we don't they getting sick at threatening and this is all these are the impacts on these these chemicals that are being put into our communities anytime water now. Saw big part were you you fighting for the next generation to yes i because i'm bob not telling me to say it like that but i'm older now but i would like to live a long life but one of the young people to stay in saint james. I want them to move out so we need to save our little community we to save out cares. We need to rebuild it. Someone asks me. How would i help the community. I would say if i had the money i would by leeann that for multiple. Why our former sola may for most of. It's because of money and so we don't have the money to buy. But if i had the money. I would purchase that land and bill subdivision and and preserve the gravesites. That's there that's what i would do and rebuild saint. John's put up for the post office back for the grocery store back. That's what i would do. If i had the money about the the community. And why the on the ground. How these these chemical companies lied to the community and tell them about this. We need these jobs. And all that stuff to actually divide the communities webb community community the public officials demanded don't let that we didn't know they don't come to the community to speak to communicate per se it comes to speak to the parish council members parents president but governor. Don't come too big to the citizens of this of this community. They just top little fficials and not know outcome their minds or something in this beautiful picture but how they're gonna bring jobs in high on a breaking of prosperity of good things to the community. So i'm pretty sure they're bringing something under the table too but did not did not gonna say that so of the Find out about it. After our officials has already approved death. Let find out things after done. Because i was told. You can't stop the plan because the governor approved cussing with the governor. He's the person like people that like so we could. We can fight this. You can't fight the governor. The only the only the government's is a human being. You know we can fight. The the governor don't live in saint james. So how can we have our data to the poisonous more. Let him his neighborhood. So that's what. I was told the members of the of the cessation that i was in Didn't have any courage. Strength in everything just Once a month in telling everybody was going on with. Jim come coming chemical plants coming in and they will tell us. Give us updates. What was going on the white one lady. kamala breeds. She became fight the plane gift. Not if you send up your six. So they were discouraging. They tried to discourage us with me in a few others and the motive discourage us the movie fussing after we got the car after our meeting we went ingram. gera- deemed. She passed away. She say levin got the form opposition. We gotta stop this plan. You need to all from audited. As a map majority of another former organization she kept on to dominate several times. Poor geraldine she was thrown. All boy she could talk. Get up and i couldn't do that. But geraldine song baby but rise. She was at my house for the first meeting. Jared was there was sitting up there talking week on stop displaying needles. All excited my daughter was there. We took notes we did everything was so wonderful and then the next mccollum meeting. I said it's gonna be my garage. It was a little bit larger vestment. Nwc peak came to a member of the nwc fee. Came a health organize because we didn't know what to all we knew was because south from also we didn't know how to start an organization. We didn't know how to fight industry. We didn't know anything about about about any of this stuff. All of this is new to me. In newton my members when i went to qatar data study.
LBC Election 2019
"parish council" Discussed on LBC Election 2019
"Do need to look reasonably smart in the chamber. You are in. The parliament of the nation is not some sort of parish council meeting. Oh jacki weaver will be off to you. Spirits to comment on parish council meetings ian in jail. She's coming out this week. he's she's atelli walk. She's made the most of us and she. She's all over the place like a rash. She was even on the arches she yes she was really good on the autism. Actually tell you it for k still never heard an episode. And that's nothing to be proud of. Did i mentioned. I once went on celebrity mastermind and my species subject. Cr and i want to mention that nothing strangely. You did almost as often as you mentioned that your former him secretary. Can i mention something else. I did not. I was invited. I think made a mistake. I didn't really have any way around it. I was invited to the national television awards on thursday night. But i was invited Cruise to say because if you had been invited by good morning britain i think my resignation would be in the now. It's by part strictly crew. But i had a day when i was in my new hospital trust. I also i mean this. I'd actually turned it down before. I style of taking my for mental fitness week. Because i wasn't just didn't feel. I've got the head space to be able to work out and then i slightly regretted it because of course strictly wanted award going up on stay up on stage. Look why don't you soap me over these things you know. I'd like to be your agent. Would you have got me dressed up and made up and everything. That's the thing no wouldn't you to go. Yeah i know you would. And i still a slightly regretted it to be on the And you will win. Invite you again be winning again. Will i love to be fair. You didn't win before. I want on thursday night..
The Michael Knowles Show
"parish council" Discussed on The Michael Knowles Show
"The act of breastfeeding is not a particularly sexy act and it is not presenting said boob in a sexual way right but the boob is still sexually attractive to men. It doesn't your doesn't change the nature of the thing. It's not as though men are attracted to the female body. Only in certain circumstances we find the female body attractive in itself. So this is like. Sometimes you'll hear people say we don't need to teach women to be more careful when they go out. You know in a dark alley late at night. We just teach me to teach men not to be sexual predators. It's like yeah sure that that's a good idea. But you also need to teach people to be prudent and careful like it. We don't need to teach. We don't need to teach people to bring an umbrella outside when it rains. We need to teach the sky not to rain. Yeah no i yeah. People should have an umbrella and yes you should be in. You know you should take note of the weather but things are going to happen. This is a fallen world and there are going to be nothing all men or sexual predators but there are going to be predators not even sexual predators out trying to steal your wallet. They're gonna people trying to sell your pocketbook in a dark alley so you still need to take caution when you go down the dark alleyway and you are going to be it is it is a sort of sexual thing anytime. Any woman takes any part of her top off in public. So i would just recommend those little cover ups. They're fine saying you need to wear a burqa. Just little cover up there. I think it's good. Obviously women should breastfeed their kids. But i don't think we should tolerate public nudity because of that we can. We can take care of lots of different aspects of society all at once from max. Hi michael listening to your argument for leaving afghanistan. I'd like to hear your response to counter. You say because we have our problems at home. We should focus on those instead of problems elsewhere. But isn't that the equivalent of arguing that because of all the problems in the church today we should not focus on evangelization and spreading the faith to others. What are your thoughts on the scanner. Thanks and love the show. Dave volt no. I don't think it's a fair comparison because when we say evangelized saying spread the good news of the gospel and the church whatever. Her problems are and there are many problems. The church still has the basic truth of the gospel to evangelize right. I believe in god. The father almighty creator have an urban. Jesus christ is only senator lord who we could recite the creed. We know what the good news is. And so we can spread that even if our bishops are jerks and even if our episcopacy is falling apart and even if su from the parish council is ruining things we still have the message to spread when it comes to america spreading her values to the world. what are the values truth justice and the american way. You're not even allowed to say that in a superman movie anymore. You haven't for fifteen years. What is the american value. The is it the pride flag. I i bet a lot of people would say. That's the american value. We hang it up at our embassies. All over the world including the vatican including in kabul is that i i don't feel that that represents me i don't think i don't think trans pride or something is value that i want to sprint. But a lot of people believe that's what it is we don't we don't know what what the values to evangelize anymore. And so when. I when i make this point on afghanistan. I'm not making a prescriptive argument that we should and we must get out of afghanistan right now and it's the turnley perpetually moral thing to always be out of afghantistan. I'm not saying that or out of meddling in other countries affairs. I'm making descriptive observation. That we don't know what we stand for anymore. We don't know what we're doing there. That's why the people want to get out and until we figure out what it is that we stand for we are simply not going to be able to project power overseas. Which is what happened in afghanistan from alex. Michael please advise. I've been eating an apple a day. Dr ci is not going away. Am i buying the wrong brand. What's with dem apples. Thanks.
The Red Box Politics Podcast
"parish council" Discussed on The Red Box Politics Podcast
"I was getting a little people more leisure facilities in my area because my the area Zen so really midst onto under people. And there's a lot of families. New houses veterans families young children. And it's just about all the politics up to scratch. Is the beach friendly things. This is laura leisure facilities but like jessie fab big program with housing developments happening in small areas. Where where the infrastructure's actually they're available so it's a cable that coming we need some actual pox stretch for the families and children. Is there enough so prices doctors places says just about thinking of the wide spectrum robin. We're not having a day. They're coming what can we do and how he found the job conan actually starting to do it and i imagine people are getting in touch with you because who people who live in impacts hill. Is it what you expected. Yes is the shore arts definitely. Why will i expected it some. It's nice to be out of work cross with different authorities. My district counts outs. My counts counterparts in as time council. Where new we don't know exactly what we're going to being charter Not so it's nicer. Confide in my district outlives in my county councillors. I can't even do this. You can't do this and it's nice to be outta work cross across the spectrum and yourself jess did you. Did you sense any any wariness when you started the job from from colleagues king. Who is this child. I think everyone is not on very. I think i'm i don't look very really helped me but they will have been very supports avid helpful. So it's it's while. Aw and fray. What about you is expected. Did you sense any any tension when people saw this very young new counts less weight into that patch was really encouraging and really wanted an voices to come in. I am better than i could have imagined. And i wonder what all of you goals are. How long you gonna stick doing this. What's next and what the what the endpoint is freya thoughts about that. Is that something in the far distant distant future that you thinking about that will be may not really taking it as it comes. Obviously my antennas four years so just of seeing as guidance way i would use news ago someone asked me this sort of boss type person. I thought was the best question which was not a. What's your dream job. But what is your absolutely wildest dreams. The best it's ever going to go don't hold back. What is the thing which would blow your mind to end up doing fray what you think would. What do you think it would be. Would it be in politics. I think it would probably be working with other parish. Council said there's a serve within local politics and particularly in small rural communities westminster possibly connor. Well if we're not holding back not be. Prime minister offset that for the last five years to everybody. If we're talking realistic member. Paul and jess what about you. Same connery aghast. At into the job well you can come in august talks about on the on times when you sleep where you're actually not position just finding with you all night actually sort of a bit of a bit of a policy discussion if we're talking to maybe three feet chip. Mp's or prime ministers. You've seen the news this morning about well the reporting this morning about how we get young people to actually get the vaccine to to ease with our exit from the pandemic one idea. Apparently being followed by the prime minister is to require students to be double jobs if they want to get in there. Jose residents or goats that lecture theatres wonder what you think about that. And also the suggestions needing to be doj abdicate pre league football games and needs to be judge in the autumn to get into nightclubs..
Drilled
"parish council" Discussed on Drilled
"Story today. i'm you westervelt. And this is drilled. Season six the bridge to nowhere today the continuation of plastic. That's coming up after this quick break when i heard most coming into thank jane. The governor msa spring of two thousand eighteen. That's my i heard about embedded in the fall of two thousand eighteen. That's when i started rice both about all almost ten of us. And we will all riled up because we wanted to do something about it. This is sharon levin the founder of rise saint james and a leader of the opposition to formosa's plan to build in louisiana. I reached her by phone on a hot day in louisiana and she told me it was her daughter who i told her about the formosa project they call it the sunshine project and then sharing saw on the news that night it was presented like a done deal the parish council the governor everyone had signed off on it but within weeks sharon had invited her neighbors over to her house to talk about what they were gonna do that they. She started a faith based activist group to fight the project. Rise saint james and she's devoted every minute of her life to the effort ever since rise joined up with other groups in the area and they started marching protesting and looking for legal help within a few months. Formosa was back on the local news but this time the story was sharing and her opposition to the project. Here she is on. Wwl tv when this formosa was coming in. Look like something inside of me. Just click. because it's coming right next to me is almost two miles from from from where they want to build. Sheeran lives in saint james parish rate in that bullseye an role. I was talking about it. Smack in the middle of what's called cancer alley on the gulf coast a stretch of the mississippi river from baton rouge to new orleans. That's currently home to more than two hundred. Oil refineries petrochemical plants and manufacturing sites in no surprise some of.
Discover Lafayette
"parish council" Discussed on Discover Lafayette
"Defined mission and they stay in those lanes not so much direction. But it's it's they have a mission that's Correlates to the mission of the library were control so the border control of it is. That's the governmental entity. Yeah okay volunteers to you. That altered their point of this. There's a it's an eight member board. Seven appointed by the parish council and the one is an appointee of the mayor prison. that's hot appointed. Actually i was also appointed by the council after my term with Mir drill in so but then. The foundation is a private foundation in the friends of the private organization. Those all support that give team with elaborate is so there's communication that goes on in fact. It's not unusual to have members of the foundation on the on the border control Actually i believe one serves now. Joan joan wingate is were. John just went off the foundation which you serve on holidays board for quite some time. Thank this ocean involved in. Norris staley also served on both foundation board in the border control. So you see. There's a close connection between the two right. Here are all dependent on continued support of the library by the entire community absolutely. I know that there's been a. I'm assuming most people are listening to this. Might know the background. But if you wanna talk about that. The library has gone from being flush with millions of dollars that were saved so that libraries could be built with cash and that money has been tapped into for other such as drainage know who wants to be because of financial background. And i went through. I lived through a lot of this It's really started in springfield thousand eighteen The library had emily's renewal would just like the millers renewed. We're going to have this october. Okay now that millage renewal happened in the spring of two thousand eighteen and it was held on the weekend of the festival international and it did not pass turn out and some last minute allegations by some organizations that the library had too much money we did have a significant fund balance at that time upwards of forty million dollars but we had projects that that money was earmarked for one of them being the northeast regional library which has not been built now. It's questionable whether it will ever be built some expansions to the south regional brain north regional library. The north region library expansion has been put on hold. And i'm not sure about the south of this north in caring for right. South is along johnson street. And so anyway that at millage. The loss of that millage election was a big financial. Blow away like landon renewed bean. It's dad and scream dollars just went out the window point. And there were other opportunities. For councils to to mitigate that that lost a little bit by roll forwards millages at times when the property values went up now and those opportunities more and take in all told the libraries now in a position on and also i should say of that forty million dollar fund dallas. The council asked the public devote on redirecting ten million that fund balance in the public did vote to re redirected million that fund. Eight million in two million a recreation so anyway with all that having happened now in the most recent budget which is twenty twenty one budget for the city parish right. The budget now shows that the libraries losing a million dollars a year. And it's only got seven billion dollars fund balance left so we're okay for now but that's just kicking the can on the road basically. We've got a systemic problem and a gap between roads and expenditures is going to continue to occur enough to figure out out address. It issue you can. Maybe china light on a million dollar deficit per year. What is most of the money. Go to people questioning that. I don't know what i'm we'll that's all know. Some of the libraries take up to a million and a half two dollars a year. When i say some of the brains library so we have the main library right main. Library's probably around the two million dollar neethling. Let me just summarize until the saying that. The budget is about twelve million dollars right now just in broad terms and about eleven million dollars generated. That's the movements. But of twelve million two million so goes to maine million and a half the south. We've got an east regional library. We got a west now. We've got directional immune original libraries for for regional libraries. And we've got the main library right so you can see by losing a million and then if we lose the election in the spring we're talking about very severe cutbacks in services or the shutdown of ones. Nobody wants to see bad eighties. It has a You know cry wolf or your fire and crime theater but nevertheless it you've got to face the reality. It's a systemic problem. A million a year with only seven million dollars a fund out address. The council is about that before and let them know that. You just don't want them to be aware that. The problem's not martin and just if we just kicked that problem down the road someone's going to have to deal with the northeast library branch slated to be build that may be the area of our town parish that need a public library more than anywhere else absolute for accessibility to resources right at theaters. Because so many people who live in that area have to travel a longer distance to get to their public library. And what we were hoping was that it would be built and we'd be able to tie in with the schools in the area which definitely need to be close to ally library so the children would be able to access it more easily. They wouldn't have to get on a bus or him a ride to get to the library nor saw. Gw fog in schools ryan all of us and so when it would be a great asset to the community unfortunately we are having to look at the funding and how funding can be best. Used to to deal with what's needed so it brings to mind something that just happened a couple of weeks ago. There was A program that one acadian put on and it was called vibrant community summit. And you get your tail to go. I was on the road it was. I heard wonderful read. The book just spoke. It was excellent staying commuting. Exactly the point that he made was that lafayette is right on the precipice of going from good to great and that we have all of the elements in place right now that can make this a much greater community than it is now but if we don't have the resources available we won't get there and one of the resources is our public library system and that's something that people may not even be aware of the fact that that it's in jeopardy and that parts of it may not be able to function the way that it has in the past so that.
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"I mean our tax dollars. People can see. It's going into barnes and noble for free beautiful. So i wanted to let you guys talk i guess i we can talk about the foundation's role i gave you. Got that off your website. People even knew. I didn't realize you'll have different groups like there's friends of the library in the foundation in order to control free. People know much. Maybe you can start talking about what you do. I generally the foundation. It's i know. It's confusing to people. But on the other hand it's very important because we have so many people in the community who are involved with the library but what we do as foundation. We are a private nonprofit organization. It's volunteer all of the people who serve on the board. Our volunteers and our role is to supplement government funding for the library system. So what we do. Is we have fundraisers. We have an endowment which is really important because it's an endowment program that allows people from the community to donate books for in memory of a family member or in the name of a business and that so so with our program we have been able to raise over two hundred thousand dollars. Gosh since the start of the foundation and through careful investments we've been able to grow that to a significant amount and it. It helps us to help the library on things that they cannot purchase through their ordinary budget. The endowment is really important because the way that it works is you can donate one hundred hundred dollars to start with in the name of someone or a group whatever and once you get two thousand dollars than what we do. Is we purchase a book every year with your name inside the book. So that anybody who borrows that book knows that you have supported the library and this goes on in perpetuity. So that it's it never ends so once you get two thousand dollars in the endowment than this just goes on and on set of wonderful it really is. it really. Is a lot of people donate in memory of a family member or to support a particular. 'cause we have and we have several organizations at work with us but the thing that the way that it works and i have a chart that i use because there are so many pieces and parts to it but what happens is the people like the mayor or the president and the parish council and they are the ones who actually point the library board of control and that's the governing body of the library. What we do is we support. The border controlled the library director. We have connections with other organizations as well. The friends of the library is our partner and they do the book sale every year. That most people know about it there. There are a lot of things that we do. We've been able to Purchase the wall provide the funding for the interest to the children's department in the main library. Downtown if you've ever been down there it's off to the left and when you go in it it just looks like a place that children want to be so we. We've done that. We also are donated the rap for the bookmobile in the bookmobile travels around the parish and the the rap is one of those things that identifies it we also hands on education program that we're partnering with the friends of the library on and what that does it. It's a it's a public relations program to educate the public about what we do what the library does who it is. And the the catchphrase that we're using is that's my library you. So they're.
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"A question of the natural law it is not about sex. It is about violence. It's about killing human beings in the womb. And as for whether this is a fast moving fiasco the bishops of course have every possibility of creating. Yes with this. But like other people looking at the pope and wanting it to be one thing or another. I think people like this people like professor white would love this to become a fiasco. We'll see if it develops into one. But as far as i can see right now. These attacks are coming out precisely because this is very serious critique that's being put to catholic politicians out there in the public square. I said at our last posse that if if the bishops only produce words and no action well then the words are nice but still we haven't gotten anything further anyway further along what i'd like to suggest they do. Is they take a bigger. Like joe biden or like nancy pelosi and speak to them privately and may still persist in this stubborn refusal to enforce a natural law and follow church teaching that they make a public statement that they have warned. These people not to take communion. You often talk about archbishop. Brummel who excommunicated people in new orleans who were standing in the way of segregation and we're racists and that was real action taken by an american catholic bishop to draw a line in the sand because we believe in certain things. I think the same sort of thing has to happen. It may be impossible to forbid forward. But i think that it should at least be told they should. At least it should at least be said publicly that they've been told not to come forward because otherwise we are bishop. Show themselves to be toothless. The church cannot even enforce its own discipline on catholics. Yeah well and you've you've nailed it right there. The church's own discipline. It doesn't come from a website or a political party. This is canon law. It's in the canon law the church. This is the church's belief and doctrine. And what it means to be in communion so it doesn't matter whether i'm saying there's somebody else's saying that guy over there saying that's all just atmospherics that canon law requires that one live in continuity with this body of teaching to be considered in communion. That's all it's very simple in response to the decision to move forward on creating a draft document on eucharistic coherence president biden's parish holy trinity in washington. Dc released this statement. Holy trinity catholic. Church will not deny the eucharist a person's presenting themselves to receive it as the holy trinity parish council parish council.
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"Do you expect we'll see more of this from parishes across the country or parish councils well probably but you know the the biden paris here in washington is well known to be a liberal parish. I don't want to accuse anybody of heresy but liberal parishes tend to go their own way on a variety of different issues many of them. I have the suspicion. Don't even believe in real a lot of people in those parishes. Don't even believe in the real presence. We have statistics to support that. I would actually like to see the opposite. I would like to see bishops across the country. Do what i just mentioned. And that is tell. Politicians privately at first counsel them be pastoral but if they persist in public scandal. I mean that's the thing that can a nine fifteen in particular points toward it. this is just. You're i privately. Having an opinion that may be skewed away from catholic truth. It's being public figure who's causing scandal. And is misleading. People about what the faith is so i would like to see bishops individually because it can only do this individually within their own diocese come out and point to particular people who've been warned by my friend cardinal george in chicago before he died it had dick durbin senator dick durbin in multiple times. I used to tell him that he ought to take further steps in for various reasons he he couldn't or wouldn't but i think the time now is to move beyond this sort of stalemate that we've had where we say the right things but there's no further follow through. We need one of my writers at the catholic thing. Father timothy beverage called pastoral coherence to correspond with a eucharistic coherence. We've reached we've reached a point where though people say you're weaponising and politicizing the eucharist. What's actually happening is people are trying to frame this in as politics and as partisanship as a way of restraining the church law and what's required by the church so we'll see how this plays out but it's going to be quite a battle..
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"And the historic black community that exists only yards from the fence line. Charges of environmental racism are coming from the descendants of enslaved people who believe the silo complex is an existential threat to their community. NPR's John Burnett reports from Wallace, Louisiana. It's June teeth. A couple dozen folks, mostly extended family have come out to visit under a three century old oak tree. They eat roast beef sandwiches and peach cobbler, Drink whiskey and Dockery's and enjoy the laid back rural life on this lazy bend of the mighty Mississippi, But they fear change is coming. My name is Joy Banner. And have grown up here. My whole life were in Wallis, Louisiana. We don't want this way of life to be ruined is becoming more rare, primarily because there's so much industrialization, Joy Banner and the rest of this predominantly African American town are alarmed at the plans of Greenfield, Louisiana LLC. The company wants to put in grain elevators to store more than four million bushels of corn, wheat and soybeans. The grain will float down the Mississippi River in barges from the Midwest and get loaded onto cargo ships here in Wallis, that will deliver it around the globe. Supporters from the governor's office to the local parish council say it will create jobs and expand international trade. But neighbors see a massive industrial complex with one structure as tall as the Statue of Liberty, operating 24 7 with truck and train traffic, machinery, noise and dust escaping when grain is loaded and unloaded. Banner stands at the edge of her unincorporated village, Looking out over a field of sugarcane, the crop her enslaved ancestors cut from dawn to dusk..
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"A bitter fight has broken out between powerful backers who want to put a large grain terminal on the mississippi river in south louisiana and the historic black community that exists only yards from the fence. Line charges of environmental racism are coming from the descendants of enslaved. People who believe the silo complex is an existential threat to their community. Npr's john burnett reports from wallace louisiana. It's june t a couple. Dozen folks mostly extended family have come out to visit under a three-century-old oak tree. They eat roast beef sandwiches and peach. Cobbler drink whiskey and dockery's and enjoy the laid back rural life on this lazy bend of the mighty mississippi but they fear changes coming. My name is joy banner and have grown up here my whole life. We're in wallace louisiana. We don't want this way of life to be ruined is becoming more rare primarily because there's so much industrialization joy banner and the rest of this predominantly. African american town are alarmed at the plans of greenfield louisiana llc. The company wants to put in grain elevators to store more than four million bushels of corn wheat and soybeans. The grain will float down the mississippi river in barges from the midwest and get loaded onto cargo ships here in wallace that will deliver it around the globe. Supporters from the governor's office to the local parish council say it will create jobs and expand international trade but neighbors see a massive industrial complex with one structure as tall as the statue of liberty operating twenty four seven with truck and train. Traffic machinery. noise and dust escaping when grain is loaded and unloaded. Banner stands at the edge of unincorporated village. Looking out. over. A field of sugarcane. The crop cropper. Insulate ancestors cut from dawn-to-dusk. This property is where the proposed grain elevator site would be. Set up right next to us as you can see we would be living in the middle of this facility. Some two hundred industrial and petrochemical plants are located along the twisting river between baton rouge and new orleans. This industrial corridor has been nicknamed cancer alley. Study after study has shown that poor black communities near toxic air pollution suffer greater rates of cancer people at the june. Eighteenth picnic say. They're eras already foul and a giant grain elevator. Next door is bound to make things worse lawrence alexis ninety-three role resident. Who used to work in a sugar. Refinery goes bag. Dogs white dos. All his got those in a thick creole accent. Alexis says the plants up and down the river already produced red dust black dust and white dust. He's afraid the grain terminal will create even more dust and he doesn't think it should be allowed right next to their town. Author should be lawrence. Alexis has good reason to worry. You know we tend to think of grain as something that's not toxic not harmful but the reality is that the dust that comes from these facilities is not pure grain right. It's it's grain dust mixed with bacteria. Bird droppings rat droppings insect parts. Lots of things that could irritate your lungs and also potentially include toxins. Kimberly terrel is a research scientist at the tulane. Environmental law clinic which is representing wallace residents in their fight to stop the grain terminal. The other big issue is that when you have dust in the air and you have facilities releasing toxic air pollution that dust can essentially be a vehicle for toxics to get deep into your lungs and into your bloodstream but there are concerns that go beyond grain dust among the founders of wallace were emancipated slaves. Who toiled on nearby plantations. The attachment of their descendants to the soil is sacred and as deep as the oak roots joy. Banner in her twin sister. Joe run a cafe and wallace called the fee fillet named for the mysterious flickering lights in the swamp. They use recipes for tea. Cakes and prawo leans handed down from their great great grandmother. Mama joe who was born into slavery and they still tell the legend of the gown man said to originate with a slave owner who dressed as a ghostly figure to frighten his slaves into obedience these stories or an example of the way that we continue the networks that our ancestors sought to maintain. It's sad that we constantly threatened by being pushed out of something that our ancestors wanted for us. The proposed greenfield louisiana terminal will help not harm. The community says ceo adam. Johnson johnson says in a statement the state of the art grain elevators will diversify the tax base and create one hundred jobs. The company says it will significantly reduce environmental impacts by using fully enclosed conveyor systems and installing dust collection devices the local elected officials who support the project all declined interviews state agriculture commissioner. Mike strain says the wallace grain terminal fits into a larger project to build. Modern port facilities deepened the river and make louisiana more globally competitive. It is good for wallace. Louisiana's are the lifeblood of many different communities and quarter south. It provides jobs. Local jobs and boost to the local economy others believe the proposed wallace grain terminal is just the latest example of environmental racism. I don't think industry saw a black community as a viable community. I think they just ignored it and to me that smacks of a type of racism. Greg colton is professor emeritus of geography and anthropology at louisiana state university. He's written about race history and heavy industry along the river road and he says it's common for petrochemical corporations to by former plantation property and build plants just across the fence line from friedman's towns. There are many of these little linear villages that were a relic of plantations and there were predominantly african. American and oftentimes plants are situated adjacent to those very close to those the proposed grain. Elevator would also be located less than a half mile from the historic whitney plantation. It's an acclaimed museum complex dedicated to the telling of the slave experience rather than gushing over the greek revival architecture and the graceful. Oh galleys dough. Since at the whitney explained the brutal labor conditions and the little known eighteen eleven slave revolt along river road again joy. Banner the community activists leading the fight. Who's also communications. Director for the whitney. We have a great opportunity from historic cultural tourism. So there would be dustin grain noise that would be part of the museum. experience would be negative. Finally the principle behind the grain terminal is san francisco activist investor. Christopher james he recently made headlines when his investment firm engine number one achieved the unthinkable by installing three directors on the board of exxon mobil to pressure the company to reduce carbon emissions climate activists lauded him as a green david battling the petro goliath opponents in wallace. See him in a different light. They say the secretive permitting process has up to now shut them out. But when the us army corps of engineers consider as greenfield's application later this year they plan to speak up loudly and say don't let the grain terminal destroy this slave descendants community john burnett npr news wallace louisiana..
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"Um at your parish here And why you decided to get involved because our mutual contact don't give his name because they'll get mad We'll just ca. I call him. Be k b. B k b tells me might ask her why she got involved. Why did you start. Corpus christi for unity and peace cell. And it wasn't at our parish it was at saint elizabeth seton in carmel. So what happened was. There's this priest. Father ted rothrock stop. Yeah i know. I know i know it just. It's it's just terrible. What's been going on here in colonel and unfortunately it's with the same bishop so you know. He courageously said last june. He put out a bulletin. Basically saying that the organizers of black lives matter in in Are you know are evil. And and that people should be wary of them because they are are wolves in wolf's clothing. Okay bottom line. That's what he said. And that got leaked to a group called carey which is kurmule against racial injustice. Whenever i know. I know in that brought in black lives matter nintee- and they wanted father ted rothrock defrocked. So they influenced. I believe the bishop. I can't be sure of that but he almost immediately within three days suspended. Father ted of his priestly faculties all priestly faculties. He couldn't say mass to eat any even to people after that and he was suspended for nearly three months. Well as that was happening. This kerry group with black lives matter decided to Do a protest on the grounds of seton on july fifth and the bishop and the administrator at saint elizabeth seton authorized the to come on the grounds on sunday on the day of worship to protest with their group. They had signs. It said f you white people and so i organized. I spearheaded a huge prayer rally that day and on that day people were approaching me saying you realize this is bigger than father ted. What we're seeing in our country with these attacks on our faith it's huge and it's a tax on the sanctity of life. The sanctity of marriage our religious liberties natural lot our constitution that helps us defend all these other things so out of that was born our organization. And and we've been going strong and hope that people get to our website and sign up for you know. Are you know. Sign up the support us. Not you know. We're not even asking for financial. We're asking to support us with prayer and in read our pieces in our newsletters so sign up at corpus christi for unity and peace dot org okay. A corpus christi for unity and peace dot org union. Get a lot of people going. That's a big word ladders. All right now Is there been any fallout from what you did yesterday was any bishop. Said anything to you as your a as the priesthood. Early mount carmel. Or anyone said you gotta do come on you guys. Eat pipe this down. You can tone it down. This is a good thing because the trinity group is going to be part of your campus. Correct yell yes. They're going to be part of the campus. You know i. I think our pastor who. I've had a long time friendship with i was on the strategy committee at our lady I i was on parish council. I was very. I've been very active on the catechists..
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"A long time. And the when serving on the pass city parish council we voted to move to a split council on fixed the charter and the biggest reason why supported that was the current form of government. Which we've been living on for twenty something years and it never been changed. The charter never been amended and it was time for change and i felt like this is a step in the right direction and since then especially during budget time we talk about where your tax dollars are coming coming from and who's paying for what and who's getting the services who's getting the services and not paying for it and so i feel like we need fell counters on the city council all agreed unanimously. That we do need to have a committee of community people who are involved engaged to start having these conversations on okay. We've been doing this for year while look at what is opened our eyes to things that have always been happening having some really difficult and tough conversations. But that's a good thing. It's what we wanted in. So this will bring us to start having these conversations this dialogue to eventually when we do want to amend the charter. What changes need to be made right back. When the consolidation effort was done in the nineties. Lafayette was such a big city compared to the small municipalities. But that's kind of flipping upside down. And i guess my concern has been. We need to look at it and also just look at what is fair. And what worked. Twenty five twenty. Six years ago is just not working. Nail bed yeah. So with the fix the charter. If i can ask some issues were addressed like the two councils governing you know there's a parish council and then you're on the city council nail but some things must have come up that were either not anticipated or just not addressed in that ordinance that we all voted on. You know to approve. Fix the charter. So was it only when you guys started voting on the budget. Is that when people started realizing even though we have separate councils we still have to have joint budget approval. Is that when things started. I think it is when people really start with you. Know the first four years there was. I never really saw big community engagement and conversation around our budget even those open to the public multiple meetings at different times. And it's televised. I mean this year's budget people. I've never seen more engagement and more conversation on where our taxes are going and to me. That was wonderful. That was the goal is to make it easier to understand that you can see as a city of lafayette taxpayer. We're your dollars are going and just i'm loving it. I'm loving the conversation. And so you know this was never meant to be the fixed charter. And i said it then and i'll say it was never meant to be a. This is the end all do all. We never need to fix anything again it. It's meant to open our eyes and just take off the covers and see right. What's wrong open the hood. Let's look at it and have an honest conversation. Which is exactly what's happening now so in the more transparent you guys. Are you know the more people. I think will trust that. They can see where the money's going and they can either get more involved or at least say well. I understand nail. What's going really. It's it's complicated. It's so complicated. you know. And i've served on boards where i've managed nonprofit budgets in my own personal family budget multiple different types of work budgets my own professional life. And now this..