A blast of guilt over being in the tank Apr 20, 2008
Lorenzo Dow, an American evangelist whose sermons were published in 1836, took issue with some Calvinist preachers "who make the Bible clash and contradict itself, by preaching somewhat like this: 'You can and you can't - You shall and you shan't - You will and you won't - And you will be damned if you do - And you will be damned if you don't.' ". safireonlanguage@nytimes. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Gordon Brown: The Bigger Picture Apr 17, 2008
But as a scion of his nation's Calvinist tradition and the son of a Church of Scotland Minister, Brown grew up marinated in duty which has perhaps contributed to the dour image the British press has long bestowed on him. Dark Suits, Buttoned Up Give or take the odd photo opportunity, such as a recent kickabout with French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Arsenal soccer stadium in London, Brown's lighter side is seldom on display when he meets foreign leaders. (Time.com)
Rich get richer, and older Mar 25, 2008
wrote on Mar 24, 2008 11:18 AM:" 'Bugs' makes valid points below; plus the old canards about 'government intervention' (virtually EVERYONE -- especially the richest -- wants government intervention via the Fed in the current mortgage lending crisis however!) and 'interference' are effective. People of course feel closest to their local governments and think that they can effect it directly --rightly often, see La Crosse's blocking of the notorious highway 'corridor' through the marsh in the late... (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Robert Dentler; helped draft school desegregation plan Mar 23, 2008
He was, she said, "a dreamer and a lover of poetry, and quite romantic about my mother and about the world. But he was a real Midwesterner, truly, truly forged in the Midwestern culture. He was a formal person and had a strict Calvinist upbringing, so he had a reserved nature and a work ethic.". Dr. Dentler graduated from Northwestern University in 1949 with a bachelor's in political science. (Boston Globe)
Editorial: Debtor nation Mar 19, 2008
Does one have to be an old-line Calvinist to understand that borrowing against your house in order to spend a couple of weeks sizzling in the Mexican sun is so reckless as to be almost a sin. If history is any guide, America will get through this economic shakedown just as it has done before. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
NW boss the odd man out? Feb 26, 2008
Steenland was the third of five children born to descendants of Dutch Calvinists ... Steenland's parents, Peter and Agnes, were orthodox Calvinists and political liberals, recalls Peter Steenland Jr., the eldest of the children and an environmental law attorney in Washington. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)
Belgium's beguinages gave refuge to women Feb 19, 2008
By the 17th century, the beguinages had almost completely disappeared from the Calvinist provinces of the north, but were maintained in the Catholic Lowlands. After a time, many beguinages were elevated to parish status and were assigned their own priest. (CNN -- Travel)
Getty Displays Two Lorrain Works Feb 13, 2008
The composition is perhaps an allusion to the itinerant papal nuncio's preaching against the Calvinist "heresy" in the Swiss Confederation's remote Alpine regions. Sources. (Suite101.com)
A life of their own Jan 26, 2008
This tyrannical authority is precisely what Miss Brodie's most intelligent pupil, Sandy Stranger, hates, and finally exposes, in her teacher: that she is a fascist and a Scottish Calvinist, predestining the lives of her pupils, forcing them into artificial shapes. Is this what the novelist does, too. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
After the Fed interest rate cut Jan 24, 2008
It's a policy that France and Italy consider too Calvinist and too German, that is to say indifferent to the needs of the Mediterranean economies that are suffering from the strength of the euro. That is set to worsen after the Fed's decision to launch a massive January fire sale of dollars. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
On the moral high ground Jan 20, 2008
She was a Calvinist Protestant. Every story in life became a moral problem to the point that she really didn't know what she wanted, but only what she thought she wanted on moral grounds. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Bishop locked out of churches over Turkish priest Jan 14, 2008
He was forced to carry out the ordination in a small Calvinist chapel in Istanbul. It was the first time in the 430-year history of the Church of England in Turkey that a sitting bishop has faced such protests. (Guardian Unlimited)
* Porsche and VW - one big happy family? Dec 31, 2007
"They have a frugal, almost Calvinist approach," said Garel Rhys, director of the Center for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff University in Wales. "They don't flaunt their wealth. This is a family that knew the dreadful conditions in Europe before World War II.". (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Frank Schaeffer's roundabout journey to find faith Dec 19, 2007
Francis and Edith Schaeffer were noted evangelists who welcomed seekers of all kinds to their Swiss compound, L'Abri, while their Calvinist rigor made them favorites of the likes of Billy Graham. Frank was a deep thinker with a bad temper; Edith enforced day-to-day piety with a steely smile. (Boston Globe)
A Secular Age Dec 14, 2007
" Philosophy, in Taylor's estimate, also enjoys a certain sanctification of mind and will. He cites Descartes to suggest how we are rational beings demanding to be ruled by reason governed by will. Today in Culture Freud's sense of the proud solitariness of the ego is also an example of the inner truth of the emotions asking to be controlled apart from formal religion, and William James's "Varities of Religious Experiences" indicates how people everywhere have a need to believe that can be... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Southern Baptist Convention Primed To Grow ... Universalistic? Dec 7, 2007
In the 2007 NAMB-CMR survey, Baptist seminary graduates from 1998 to 2004, who now hold church leadership positions, were polled on the following four statements: "I am a five-point Calvinist"; "God is the true evangelist and when He calls someone to Himself, His grace is irresistible"; "People do not choose to become Christians; God chooses and calls people who then respond to them"; and "I give a verbal presentation of the gospel (outside of church) at least once a week" ... As an aside, Jason... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
'Farewell to Alms': Darwin's part in the Industrial Revolution Dec 7, 2007
Over time, the "survival of the richest" propagated within the population the traits that had allowed these people to be more economically successful in the first place: rational thought, frugality, a capacity for hard work - in short the familiar list of Calvinist, bourgeois virtues. The greater prevalence of those traits in turn made possible the Industrial Revolution and all it has brought. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
'Zeroville': Man immerses himself in film to find story Dec 4, 2007
Raised by a Calvinist father whose demented devotion cast Vikar as a living sin, Vikar finds redemption in film when he musters the courage - at 20 - to defy his father and goes to the movies for the first time, seeing a bizarre double feature of "Blow-Up" and "The Sound of Music." Cinema's ability to represent and parse life, Erickson writes, "made sense to Vikar like nothing else had." Those two movies also initiate a recurring dream, one dreamed after every movie Vikar watches: "a... (San Francisco Chronicle)
A year before liftoff, Gehry's AGO already soars Dec 1, 2007
The back addition, to the south, was a cumbersome box, lording, like a dour Calvinist, over the pastoral landscape of Grange Park and the artful pyrotechnics of the Ontario College of Art & Design. The front was first imagined as an oppressive canopy in steel and glass running an entire city block along Dundas Street. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Obituary: Magda Szab Nov 28, 2007
k;t (Ancient Well, 1970) is a charming string of reminiscences of Szab;'s childhood, including vignettes of her parents, a Calvinist man and a Catholic woman, "two would-be writers" whose tales prompted her to write stories of her own. R;gim;di t. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Frederick the Great Nov 27, 2007
Despite being raised in a strict Calvinist household, Frederick encouraged religious freedom, even building a Roman Catholic cathedral in Berlin. He was passionate about freedom of expression and there were no limits on local newspapers or books published in Prussia. (Suite101.com)
Obituary: Jan Wolkers Nov 27, 2007
His parents belonged to the Calvinist Dutch Reformed Church, in which the teenaged Jan lost interest during the war, although his religious background often played a considerable role in his writing. He left school early to help in the shop and spent the latter part of the war as a "diver" - hiding to avoid forced labour in Germany. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Evita still deftly takes political loads off troubled minds Nov 26, 2007
She has moral rectitude, because obviously she is a long-standing Calvinist. "A president needs to deliver bad news with a straight face.". (Business Report, South Africa)
Shopacalypse coming? Nov 24, 2007
NEWSWEEK: You were raised a Dutch Calvinist. Is your upbringing reflected in the persona of Reverend Billy. (MSNBC -- Business)
The opposite of Thanksgiving Nov 19, 2007
In 1621 in Plymouth, migr English Calvinists struggled to make their way in the harsh climate of this New World ... This was part of their goal of simplifying and purifying the rituals of the Christian Church, which explains the term "Puritan." When they emigrated they brought the public-day tradition from Calvinist Europe ... Despite the seeming bleakness of the core Calvinist belief that humanity is fundamental depraved, Puritan theology always left a door open to sinners: If a sinner would... (Boston Globe)
A match made in heaven: Process of selecting clergy varies among denominations Nov 17, 2007
32 percent say their views are Calvinist. 33 percent say they are seeker driven. (The Clarion-Ledger)
UN Climate Chief Confident on Bali Progress Nov 7, 2007
"Even though I come from a Calvinist country, I don't believe that the answer to climate change lies in pain and suffering, cold showers and walking to work," the Dutchman said. (Reporting by Annika Breidthardt, editing by David Fogarty). (Planet Ark, United States)
Hillary Indecisive? Please Nov 2, 2007
Clinton is about as indecisive as a Calvinist on the doctrine of election ... Clinton is about as indecisive as a Calvinist on the doctrine of election. (Townhall.com)
Soccer: Klasnic and Stam; to play or to retire Nov 2, 2007
For his imposing 6-foot-3, or 190-centimeter, physique, he was known as "de Rots van Kampen" - the Rock of Kampen - the small Calvinist town in the eastern Netherlands where he grew up, the son of a carpenter. Like his father, Jakob, Stam was drawn to soccer, and like him he started as an amateur player while working as an electrician. (International Herald Tribune)
Hillary Finally Exposed Nov 2, 2007
Clinton is about as indecisive as a Calvinist on the doctrine of election. She knows exactly what she thinks about as opposed to where she should stand for maximum political effect on the issues. (Newsmax)
Turner Prize: A grisly bear but a great show Oct 23, 2007
Coley's nationality comes into play, too, for you could also read these words as a Calvinist declaration that Scotland will have no truck with Catholic superstition. If you saw such a sign in a communist country you would take it as a declaration of the supremacy of the state over religion. (Telegraph.co.uk)
The gent upstairs Oct 20, 2007
An unpaid dowry, an amorous landlady, a trumpeter and a brothel-keeper. Charles Nicholl pieces together the untold story of a Jacobean court case and asks what it reveals about the ordinary life of 'a certain Mr Shakespeare. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
The Election that Didn’t Snap -- How Gordon Brown Lost His Bottle Oct 16, 2007
Gordon Brown, son of a stern Calvinist clergyman, is famous for his gruff manner and insecurities. More than one commentator has referred to him as the Scottish Hamlet, much prone to brooding. (Human Events Online)
UPDATE: Pelosi defends refusal to put 'God' on flag certificates... Oct 11, 2007
Thus, the whole power over the subject of religion is left exclusively to the state governments, to be acted upon according to their own sense of justice, and the state constitutions; and the Catholic and the Protestant, the Calvinist and the Arminian, the Jew and the Infidel, may sit down at the common table of the national councils, without any inquisition into their faith, or mode of worship ... Thus, the whole power over the subject of religion is left exclusively to the state governments,... (The Drudge Report)
ZNet & Parenti: Contrary Notions Oct 9, 2007
To them, the Italian was a vice-ridden neer-do-well, a disorderly bumpkin lacking in Calvinist virtues, just the sort of person most in need of a dictators firm hand. . (Zmag.org)
McCain's Stand on 'Christian Principles' Oct 2, 2007
Today's Top Political Stories. The Romney web empire expands to include a site from the candidate's wife. (Washington Post)
Jeffersonian delights of a garden at season's end Sep 24, 2007
Calvinist that I am, I immediately began to try to imagine what I had done to deserve the rare dawn arrest. The deputy identified himself and then said, "I hope I haven't woke you up or nothin'." "No," I lied. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Not the drug of choice Sep 21, 2007
As a rather dour Karoo Calvinist I found this extremely embarrassing, but gritted my teeth and hugged with the rest. Courtesy of. (iAfrica.com)
'The Age of Rembrandt': starring patrons of a Golden Age Sep 21, 2007
A significant part was Dutch painting, which had long enjoyed a vogue in the United States, where it was taken to embody ideals that the nation could identify with: unembarrassed prosperity, a Calvinist work ethic, family values, nouveau luxe. All this was suggested in the 1871 acquisitions: in Jan van Goyen's view of the merchant city of Haarlem done in paint strokes as fine as embroidery stitches; in the overstuffed nursery scene of Matthys Naiveu's "Newborn Babe"; in a floral still life by... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Cut, cut but leave some fat Aug 15, 2007
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Elizabeth FarrellyAugust 15, 2007. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Meet the new American gigolo Aug 12, 2007
Brought up by strict Calvinists in small-town Michigan, Paul Schrader had never seen a movie until he left home in 1964 to study literature in California ... It opens like a near-documentary, establishing a character in his social milieu, then modulates into a noir thriller that destroys the protagonist's complacency and concludes on a muted note in which he achieves a certain redemptive transcendence while the director turns a cold Calvinist eye on the alienation and moral degradation of urban... (The Observer)
RELIGION: The Independents Aug 8, 2007
An online encyclopedia identifies the theology of many non-denominational churches as being loosely Baptist in doctrine and often borrow from charismatic, Pentecostal, Calvinist or fundamentalist ideas and practices. Baptism is a believer s baptism by immersion and identified as an ordinance rather than a sacrament. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Last of the great Hollywood outsiders Aug 5, 2007
Raised in Michigan by devout Calvinist parents of Dutch descent, Schrader was forbidden worldly amusements as a child and only saw his first film at 18. But once he arrived at UCLA in 1968, he was propelled into a universe of sex, drugs and cathartic excess. (Times Online)
Complete Story Jul 30, 2007
In fact, their action not coming to the aid of the stricken man was based on a notion that Mr. Bare s Calvinist forebears also adhered to, namely, that what happens to you is God s punishment (or reward) for your own, or your ancestors deeds. To intervene, then, would have been to go against the will of God. (Bradstown Kentucky Standard, KY)
UM Players Glad FSU Game Moved Jul 23, 2007
CALVINIST APPROACH: At Georgia Tech, fans might be wondering about offensive life after Calvin Johnson, the All-American wide receiver. It should be fine, according to Yellow Jackets senior running back Tashard Choice, who led the ACC in rushing with 1,473 yards. (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- Sports)
John Patterson Jul 16, 2007
Freddie could have added a few armless dwarves and masturbating mental patients to Ingmar's collapsing marriages and incipient dementia, and Ingmar might conversely have exercised a little Calvinist restraint on Fellini's capacity for incontinent Roman over-the-topness. But that would be pointless: in the end they'd just cancel each other out (which would be no bad thing to this avowed fan of Dreyer, Sjostrom, Pasolini, Bertolucci and any number of far more interesting Scandinavian and Italian... (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Poll: Catholics markedly less devout than most Americans Jul 14, 2007
Now it does I KNEW you were a Calvinist. That explains EVERYTHING.. (Hot Air)
The anti-shopping gospel Jul 10, 2007
He was raised a Dutch Calvinist in the Midwest, a faith he rejected as a teenager. He and Durkee partnered in writing political theater featuring the Rev. Billy, which he performs with his choir and band. (Los Angeles Times)
Last night's TV Jun 28, 2007
A Calvinist preacher at this point would urge the woman to lighten up. A woman has just got her future husband to crap in a Tupperware box to appease a holistic nutritionist. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Dutch courage Jun 23, 2007
Just why Haarlem should have broken the solemnity barrier is a mystery, though perhaps the conjunction of breweries and textiles, both giving a glossy shine to things, the humanist slant of its academies removed from Calvinist-canting Leiden, had something to do with it ... And if it's countervailing images of Calvinist sobriety you want (though any Calvinist mirror of the self whiffs a bit of oxymoron), you'll find enough dutiful sobersides in the show ... (Casteleyn and de Bancken turn up... (Guardian Unlimited)
Filling in for the Dad Jun 23, 2007
Mom says marriage is an antiquated institution that betrays our Calvinist heritage. But it sure beats the crap out of dating again, says my dad. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
"Rudy in drag was more convincing as a woman than Bloomberg ever was as a Republican."OPEN MIKEBy Michael Weiss Jun 21, 2007
ID cards "won't stop terrorism, they won't stop 'identity theft,' they won't stop illegal immigration," Scottish Calvinist Cath at ninetysix and ten. "The cards themselves will be disgustingly expensive, the national register will be wide open to malfunction and abuse, and the scheme as a whole represents an obnoxious inversion of the relation between citizens and the state.". (Slate)
Sympathy for the devil Jun 9, 2007
Later Stevenson was to agree with a reviewer who had described his ethics as a hindrance to fiction, "the categorical imperative is always with me, but utters dark oracles. This is a ground almost of pity. The Scotch side came out plain in Dr Jekyll." Stevenson may not have been able to throw off his Calvinist upbringing, but he did, at least in his youth, have a good bash at it. At 17 he began studying the family profession at Edinburgh University, but it was the "other" Edinburgh, the city of... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Iran: Past the Paranoia Jun 5, 2007
In the great Shia pilgrimage city of Mashhad, on the old Silk Road to China, I understood for the first time that this was something utterly apart, as separate from Sunni practice as a Sicilian Roman Catholic might be from a Scotch Calvinist. I have never felt so close to understanding the passionate pre-Reformation world of medieval Europe, its relics and devotees, its enormous, thronged, and gilded shrines. (The American Conservative)
Unlikely friendshipBrazil embraces the forgotten Dutch chapter in its history Jun 4, 2007
For 25 years from 1630, it was the Calvinist Netherlanders and not the Catholic Portuguese who held sway over this part of Brazil. The Dutchmen at the peak of their power set up the West Indies Company to trade in slaves from Africa and goods across the south Atlantic, and Brazil was their market. (BBC News -- Americas)
Meanwhile: I am, therefore I need to dance Jun 4, 2007
Facing what he saw as an epidemic of melancholy, or what we would now call depression, the 17th-century English writer Robert Burton placed much of the blame on the Calvinist hostility to "dancing, singing, masking, mumming and stage plays." In fact, in some cultures, ecstatic dance has been routinely employed as a cure for emotional disorders. Banning dancing may not cause depression, but it removes an ancient cure for it. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Crusader or killjoy? Jun 3, 2007
And is the SNP's tough stance on drink evidence of a Calvinist streak within Scotland's new ruling party. Few connoisseurs of Scottish culture would be foolish enough to deny the country has a problem with its alcohol consumption. (Scotsman)
hI'm a Paloma Valley High student and for some reason I felt like I knew them. It's really sad when someone so near in age and location dies. It's like a family member. More... Jun 1, 2007
Bill wrote on May 31, 2007 3:20 PM:" Enough with the Calvinist predesdination nonsense insisting it was their time and that they are in a better place. Dead is not better than living as there is no sky god to rescue you once your ticker shuts down. Thus, obey all traffic laws as engineers a lot smarter than us concluded that taking a curve at 110 mph violates all laws of known physics. ". pebbles wrote on May 31, 2007 3:50 PM:" This is so sad.My heart goes out the the families of these young... (North County Times)
Six Days, Later: May 30, 2007
This disputed detail colors our conflicting views of Lincoln as a "cold-blooded nationalist" and "stoic emperor" or a "tender, soulful figure of saintly probity and patience." While remaining resolutely "not any kind of churchgoing Christian," Lincoln appeared to settle on an uneasy blend of "enlightenment rationalism and Calvinist fatalism." Gopnik concludes that both versions of the "ages and angels" story are convincing, and appropriately so. Anthony Lane on the work of Georges Remi, the... (Slate)
Anti-Gay Kansas Church Members Plan to Picket Falwell Funeral May 18, 2007
The church cites a break with the Calvinist Baptist church as one reason they will attend the funeral in protest. "Falwell warmly praised Christ-rejecting Jews, pedophile-condoning Catholics, money-grubbing compromisers, practicing fags like Mel White, and backsliders like Billy Graham and Robert Schuler, etc.," the site reads. (Fox News -- Views)
The sacred and the secular May 17, 2007
Jonathan Edwards and the Calvinist preachers of the Great Awakening helped lay the groundwork for the American Revolution. The fiery abolitionist preachers of the early 19th century pushed the country toward civil war, which at a terrible cost in blood rid the United States of the blight of slavery. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Parents, It's OK To Praise Your Kids May 14, 2007
Sorry but this is yet another go round of calvinistic reactionism ... It is Calvinist mythos at its worst. (Slate)
David Turnbull, at 92; taught physics at Harvard University May 8, 2007
"By the time I completed high school, it was clear that I would have to find some career other than farming. In the post-Calvinist milieu of my home, it was taken for granted that any career should be directed toward human betterment, as it was understood." ... "The focus on Calvinist values and hard work, which was necessary to survive, stayed with him his whole life," his son said. (Boston Globe)
Shopocalypse Now and the rise of an anti-retail campaigner Apr 22, 2007
Talen, who grew up in a conservative Calvinist family in Michigan is himself determinedly lapsed. He began taking on the preacher role in "fits and starts" on stage through the nineties. (Business Report, South Africa)
Signs of the times Apr 10, 2007
It is an appeal to restore birch trees to the countryside, but the stern Calvinist morality is there, as it is in a statement he added to a print of a prison by Piranesi: "When the world took to tolerance it took to crime.". He carried the classical tradition through into this millennium, and his influence will, I think, become stronger as the scale of this achievement is recognised. (Guardian Unlimited)
