I finally started my kindle version last night, and couldn't stop reading until I'd finished the whole thing. I can truly say I both laughed and cried. It's a wonderful book.
Beg, borrow or buy a copy
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(1) When did the harbor activity begin moving south?At the moment, it seems to me that the question of what these towns might have been called at some point or another is of less primary importance. But these are just preliminary thoughts. I've got a lot more reading and thinking to do. Your critical feedback is eagerly hoped for, in the comments below...
(2) When did the old town lose prominence to the new?
History does not teach lots of little lessons. Insofar as it teaches any lessons, it teaches only one big one: that nothing ever works out quite the way its managers intended or expected.That, of course, comes from Gordon Wood's wonderful essay collection, The Purpose of the Past
The Battle for HistoryThere were a few chapters left to go, but I may just rest with those. If you're engaged by any of these quotes, I highly recommend picking this up
Narrative History
The Lessons of History
the task of a historian
on 'the New Historicism'
History as Fiction
Microhistory
Truth in History
History vs. Political Theory
History and Heritage
Microhistory is a reduction of scale, narrowing the historian’s scale to a specific small social group. But this reduction of scale is not meant simply to make it possible to observe the same things at a micro level that one can perceive at the macro level. The micro studies are not to be mere case histories illustrating what macro history already claims to know. The rationale for the micro history is that at the micro level one will see different things.This from around the 11 or 12 minute mark, perhaps. I'm not sure, because Baylor's video has been misbehaving a bit. Tonight, I had to close all other windows - AND be patient - to get the video to buffer and play. And Baylor's videographer seemed like such a capable guy. Meh.
Another of the Italian microhistorians Giovanni Levi, says, “The unified principle of all micro-historical research is the belief that microscopic observation will reveal factors previously unobserved. Phenomena previously considered to be sufficiently described and understood assume completely new meanings by altering the scale of observation.”
So the microhistorical studies are not examples for macrohistory, but experiments in search of what can only be seen at the micro level – in particular, what from the macro historical perspective is anomalous and discontinuous.
You think you're being a leader, but you're probably being a manager. Managers figure out what they want done, and try to get people to do it. ... Leadership is finding the right people, agreeing on where you want to go, and getting out of the way. Leadership means embracing the failure of your people if it leads to growth.After the 1:08 mark, things veer directly towards business and marketing, but the first 67 seconds apply directly to any group effort, imho. Of course it's all worthwhile, because Seth's a genius. Enjoy - then scroll down for my commentary.
Apparently you missed the part where I said, “the human institution of Pastoring has some grounds for justifying itself based on the extraction of scriptural principles and the application of those into differering contexts. Which is fine.” Or were you just deliberately overlooking that point for the sake of this response?Seriously, we just need to embrace this, y'all. Keep on pastoring. Better yet, start finding better ways to pastor. (Some of y'all might start with Michael Hyatt's post on the difference between Leading and Managing.) But don't get your hissies in a fit because somebody says it's not scriptural. It's not. Neither are church buildings. But really, so the heck what?
At any rate, you exegete out of context. Again, re-apply those principles in your own context if you prefer, but don’t imply that you’re following those principles sans anachronism. To wit: Your first quotation above refers to a plurality of shepherds, not to sola pastora. The Baptist model of elder board and teaching/preaching elder – it just so happens – is not matched in the NT itself. Your second quotation refers to a travelling apostle receiving an income. Peter’s travelling ministry precedes his visit to Corinth by many years, and poor Paul had to start a new business in every town he arrived at – not that he had much time for business, while he was mothering a new baby church.
You’re right, Jim, that I do respect the men and women whose hearts are drawn to pastoring, and that includes you as well. My critique of pastoring is simply that I find the structure to be counterproductive; it seems to inherently inhibit what Ephesians 4 builds towards, “that which every joint supplies”.
But I do respect your heart, Jim. You shared once about your upbringing, and it gave me new sympathy for your total depravity posts. At the bottom of Jim West – it appears – there is someone who simply hates to see sinful behavior causing pain, destruction and hurt to other folks. And Pastoring does limit that. It absolutely does.
In sum, I respect and affirm your right to Pastor as you do. I just don’t think you should imply that your kind of pastoring is structured at all like the NT’s pastoring. It’s not.
The idea is to cover every Roman emperor from Augustus to Romulus Augustulus in under two minutes. A new episode will be published on a Monday morning. By the end of the year we should be in the middle of the third century.He then included this hysterical thought:
I originally wanted to call the series "Who the hell was Nerva?" on the basis that while most of us have a fair idea of what big name emperors like Augustus, Hadrian and Constantine were up to, many - myself included - have only the haziest idea of the reign of emperors like Nerva.Nothing against Nerva, but I've basically no idea who the heckfire he was, either. ;-)