It forms the very basis of many music scenes. How do performances contribute to meaning-making processes in cultural scenes? How is meaning in performance influenced by the structure of local scenes? How are musical performances, and the audience’s reception of music, shaped by the people who...
Conventional, comforting Christianity has failed. It does not work. For the churches that insist on preaching it,the jig is up.We cannot go back, and we should not want to. . . . In earlier American awakenings, preachers extolled “old-time religion” as the answer to questions about God...
‘Lapsing’ among Christians around the WorldMateria sacra: The Materiality of Religion in Ancient Egypt from the Dynastic to the Byzantine PeriodAccommodating the Other: Negotiating Christianity, Indigenous Practices, and Colonialism in the Jesuit Reductions500 Years of Christianity in the Philippines: ...
There are many reasons one might want to find out who owns a property or piece of land. Suppose you’re on a walk inNashville, TN,and you pass by a home that you instantly fall in love with and want to buy – perhaps an antiqueVictorian homeor a beautiful abandonedcarriage house. Or...
churches still consider this as something the church is facilitating. This is an example of the same activity crossing over from one type of program to another, as shown in the typology above (Fig.3). For instance, our review of the A.A. meetings in Nashville, Tennessee, suggests that, ...
Bob:So what’s really cool about that, and I’m making an assumption here, but when you say you built this curriculum, (and I want to hear what it is) but how many books are in this curriculum that you built? Is this 50 books or was this five to 10?
However, when it comes to "Delegation", many managers and business owners feel: "By the time I explained everything to my employees, I could've done it, all by myself,3 timesalready!" "After they screw everything up, who has to go back in there, re-do the whole thing...
Confiscated cash has also gone to local Chamber of Commerce chapters, youth baseball leagues, and local Baptist churches. How Civil Asset Forfeiture Works Civil asset forfeiture is big business and many times only tangentially related to law enforcement, if at all. But how does ...
Linda and I left a lot of family behind when we moved to Nashville a couple of years ago, and now we have people we love spread across the U.S. We are so grateful that we generally don’t have to factor in the financial cost of visiting them because of our rewards points. ...
Because I was so scarred from seeing many business owners in my life working themselves to the bone, I changed the question I always asked myself and essentially created a filter through which to make my decisions. For those who don’t know, this blog you are reading is my business. And...