Global Organic Food and Beverages Market Report 2020 is to review the market, alongside its forecast from 2020 to 2027. The information directs, characterizes, and figures based on application area, types, Organic Food and Beverages leading players and developing areas. The year 2019 has been examined as the base year for the Organic Food and Beverages market. Statistical surveying Report tracks the significant market occasions including product dispatches, tech improvements, mergers and acquisitions, and the creative business techniques adapted by Organic Food and Beverages market key players. Alongside deliberately analyzing the key scale marketers, the report likewise centers around industry- particular drivers, limitations, openings and difficulties in the Organic Food and Beverages industry. This report offers a thorough analysis of the real market segments, and distinctive Organic Food and Beverages geographic countries, key market players, and premium industry patterns. It additionally centers on the Organic Food and Beverages key drivers, restrictions, openings, and difficulties.

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The Organic Food and Beverages major players are scanning for the different organization and to make an agreement with other conservative players:

Kerry Group Plc Kout Food Group Dean Foods Herfy Food Service Company Savencia Fromage & Dairy Kuwait Food Company Kraft Heinz Co Cargill, Inc. Danone SA HiPP GmbH & Co. Vertrieb KG Kellogg Co. Lactalis Groupe

Based on Organic Food and Beverages Types, this report avails market share and development rate of each type, and essentially split into:

Organic Foods Organic Beverages

Based on the Organic Food and Beverages end clients, the report centers around the status and viewpoint for significant applications, utilization (deals), overall industry and development rate for every application, includes:

Supermarkets and Hypermarkets Online Retailers Others

Provincial Information Obtaining Organic Food and Beverages Industry (Local Generation Volume, Utilization Volume, Income and Development Rate 2015-2027):

North America (United States, Mexico, Canada);

Europe (Germany, France, UK, Russia and Italy);

Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, Korea, India and Southeast Asia);

South America (Brazil, Argentina, Columbia etc);

Oceanian sub-region (New Zealand and Australia);

The Middle East and Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Nigeria, Brazil and South Africa);

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Prophecy Market Insights has recently published the Natural and Organic Food detailed market report which will help retailers, manufacturers, and distributors to understand and realize the market drivers, restraints, and opportunities to generate revenue, and trends that are instrumental in shaping the target market and its revenue.

Natural and Organic Food market report states the overview, historical data along with size, share, growth, demand, and revenue of the global industry. The report analyses the attractive opportunities in the market by explaining the fastest and largest growing segments across regions.

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Global Organic Starch Market Analysis

Persistence Market Research, in a recently published market study, offers valuable insights related to the overall dynamics of the Organic Starch market in the current scenario. Further, the report assesses the future prospects of the Organic Starch by analyzing the various market elements including the current trends, opportunities, restraints, and market drivers. The COVID-19 analysis section within the report offers timely insights regarding the impact of the global pandemic on the market. The presented study also offers data regarding the business and supply chain continuity strategies that are likely to assist stakeholders in the long-run.

As per the report, the Organic Starch market is set to grow at a CAGR of ~XX% over the forecast period (2019-2029) and exceed a value of ~US$ XX by the end of 2029. Some of the leading factors that are expected to drive the growth of the market include, focus towards research and development, innovations, and evolving consumer preferences among others.

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The report scrutinizes the prospects of the Organic Starch market in different geographical regions. The scope of innovation, consumer behavior, and regulatory framework of each region is thoroughly analyzed in the presented study.

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The report provides a thorough analysis of the different distribution channels adopted by market players in the global Organic Starch market along with the market attractiveness analysis of each distribution channel. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the different distribution channels is enclosed in the report.

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Key Players

Some of the key players are operating in the global organic starch market are, Purelife, International Sugars Inc., Neturz organic, ciranda, inc., RadchenUSA, Royal Ingredients Group, Briess Malt & Ingredients, Tate & Lyle, Roquette Frres, Marroquin Organic, AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG., Cargill, Incorporated., Ingredion Inc., Aryan International., Puris., KMC and others are looking for new opportunities and strategic business development in global organic starch market.

Opportunities for key players in the global organic starch market

Food and beverage industry is witnessing high growth rates throughout the globe, and starch is one of the key ingredients in the food and beverage products. Due to health consciousness, climate change, and changing food habits consumers are looking for healthy and organic food products that are made from organic and natural ingredients, which is fueling the growth of organic starch market. North America and Europe are prominent regions for the global organic starch market. People of these regions are highly health conscious and prefer natural and organic food products in daily consumption. The Asia Pacific is the fastest developing region on the basis of population and economy, having the highest number of food manufacturers and consumers. Asian consumers are becoming highly health conscious day by day, and the demand for organic and the natural food product is increasing on a huge scale. Countries such as India and China have the highest number of organic food manufacturers and a large number of organic food consumers, which has huge market potential and opportunities for the organic starch market. Middle East regions noticing an increasing demand for organic food products which can create huge opportunities for the global organic starch market in the near future.

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Theres nothing quite like a smooth, rich, andincredibly wholesomecup of matcha.

The uniquetea once only shared amongst the highest nobility in Japan has transcended from simply being an aristocratic beverage to one of the most lauded superfoods today. Besides its long list of health benefits, its is also backed by remarkable culture and tradition, which should still be celebrated, more so in our fast-paced modern world.

Like all teas, matcha isgraded by quality and provenance, and comes with its own set of rules for preparation. We break down everything you need to know about this verdant super-drink, as well as the best ones to shop today.

Matcha is derived from the same Camellia Sinesis plant thatall true teascome from, including oolong, black tea, and regular green tea. The only difference lies in the growing, harvesting, and production style.

Unlike other teas, matcha is the only form of green tea where you consume the whole leaf. These leaves are gradually shade-grown often in near-darkness by harvest time to crank up production of of chlorophyll and amino acids.

Only the smallest and youngest parts of the plant are chosen, steamed, dried, and sorted for grade in a laborious, time-consuming process to ensure the integrity of the tea, before getting de-stemmed and de-veined to become tencha. These leaves are then stone-ground into a delicate powder, hence the name matcha, or ground tea in English.

Matcha is always a brighter and frothier green than regular green tea thanks to its high levels of chlorophyll. Equipment is an essential part of the experience. In contrast to contemporary matcha culture ( think a green tea latte from Starbucks), traditionalJapanese tea ceremoniescalled chanoyu are centred on the preparation and offering of matcha, and involves specific tools like the chawan (tea bowl), chashaku (bamboo tea spoon), and chasen (tea whisk). Its roots in Zen Buddhism means that its preparation is still considered a mindful practice today.

High-grade matcha is made from leaves that are hand-picked, and is sweet or umami and smooth with no traces of bitterness thanks to its high amino acid content. Because the main area of cultivation in Japan is in Uji, a city south ofKyoto, its considered to have the ultimate terroir and is responsible for a majority of the countrys most distinguished (and also expensive) varieties.

Ceremonial grade matcha sits at the pinnacle of quality with a vibrant green hue. Its incredibly pricey, and should be reserved for whisking in water and not your DIY tea latte. To make fancy drinks,cakes, and other recipes, use culinary grade matcha, which is cheaper and wouldnt mind being subjected to high heat and your manhandling. Colour is a telling indication of quality too, so avoid the ones that have a brownish green colour.

Matcha powder is also best mixed with water under 80 degrees Celsius. On the other hand, regular green tea is often boiled to 100 degrees Celsius, which destroys its nutritional benefits.

To put its nutritional profile into perspective, youd have to drink 10 to 15 cups of regular green tea to match the nutrients of one cup of matcha.

This is because its higher in a catechin called EGCG, a potent antioxidant that stabilises harmful free radicals that typically damage cells and cause chronic disease and cancer. Beside being a nearly calorie-free beverage, matcha is also a great addition for those looking to shave grams off by also boosting metabolism and burning fat.

The high concentration of the amino acid L-theanine also promotes a state of relaxation and well-being, which makes it a much better alternative than coffee if you needcaffeinebut dont want to get highly strung. Matcha is, after all, the choice of drink for monks who want to remain alert yet calm during hours ofmeditation.

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That Sam-I-Am! That Sam-I-Am! I do not like that Sam-I-Am!

Penning these words from the Dr. Seuss classic, Green Eggs and Ham, (published Aug. 12, 1960, by Random House), my mind goes down memory lane 30-something years, to when my sisters boys were toddlers, and our ritual was to read this book several times a day, at their request.

It was one of the first books my mom taught me to read, launching a lifelong love of books.

When I became an aunt, reading became a favorite pastime with my niece and my nephews, and it wasnt unusual for me to make sure they had access to Dr. Seuss, because his whimsical writing style was as much fun for me as it was for them. It didnt hurt that it got them hooked on reading, too!

Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw wrote, Make it a rule to never give a child a book you would not read yourself, something many folks have taken to heart when sharing their favorite books with kids, regardless of their age.

For parents, I think if they are avid readers, they want their children to love to read, said Jacksonville Public Library Director Trina Stidham, also noting that concerned parents know that reading comprehension skills will help their children in school and in life.

And, characters like Sam-I-Am give children someone they can identify with as they deal with certain questions or topics.

Within the pages of a book, a child can see how their favorite character dealt with a difficult situation and hopefully the child might ask themselves, What would I do? Who would I go to for help? Stidham said. I think most adults would agree that within the pages of a book, a child can see and escape to a whole new world that engages their brain while staying safe at home.

As kids grow older, books marketed toward their age group begin to address tough subjects like bullying, diversity, divorce and dealing with emotions they may not understand, Stidham said.

Ive found that as the kids grow older, its pretty cool to be able to turn them on to books Ive enjoyed or found helpful.

An adult nephew of mine has asked for family recipes, and while Ive shared those taught to me by my mom, Ive also sent him a copy of Robb Walshs The Tex-Mex Cookbook: A History in Recipes and Photos, which focuses on the kind of food I grew up eating. Another excellent cook on my husbands side of the family received my copy of Lisa Fains The Homesick Texan Cookbook, which takes traditional Texas recipes to a whole new level.

For me, a book is a gift that keeps on giving. And when its one you count among your personal favorites, its a gift twice-over.

Visit your local library to discover the treasures meant to be shared with your favorite readers. In Cherokee County, residents are served by libraries in Jacksonville, Rusk, Troup, Alto, Bullard and Wells.

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The 1960s saw a rise in notable filmmaking techniques and stars; these are the 10 Best Picture winners of the 1960s, ranked by IMDb.

The 1960s marked a period of great transition in the U.S. film industry. While the early and middle part of the decade was populated by traditional Hollywood musicals, the end of the decade was a different story entirely. Once the Hays Production Code was revoked in 1968, the filmmaking climate of gritty, personal, character-driven stories began to emerge in high volume.

RELATED: Oscars 1920-2020: Most Influential Best Picture Winner From Each Decade

Of course, the social unrest of the Civil Rights Movement and assassinations of various respected world leaders such as JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King Jr., etc. began shaping the kinds of stories that were told on-screen post-1968.

Based on the famed Henry Fielding novel, Tom Jones earned Tony Richardson a pair of Oscars, one for Best Picture and another for Best Director. The film was also honored with Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay and Original Score.

The story follows Tom Jones (Albert Finney), a charming bastard rogue who gallivants across the English countryside looking for new women to bed. When Tom falls in love with Sophie Western (Susannah York), his playboy lifestyle is put to the test.

Carol Reed's Oliver! puts a lighthearted musical spin on Charles Dickens' infamous orphaned rascal, Oliver Twist. The film earned five Oscars in total, including Best Picture and Best Director (Reed).

The plot picks up when Oliver (Mark Lester) is auctioned to a mortician, prompting the young boy to run away from the orphanage and join a gang of juvenile pickpockets as a way to earn a living. The musical adaptation also won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for five-time Oscar-winning composer Johnny Green.

Johnny Green also won an Oscar for composing the score for West Side Story, the Best Picture winner of 1961. The classic gang-related musical earned 10 total Academy Awards, including Best Director honors for Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins.

RELATED: 10 Best Villains In Musicals

The story tracks the heated rival between street gangs The Sharks and The Jets. When an epic battle is planned to determine respect and ultimate supremacy, a love affair between Shark Tony (Richard Beymer) and Jet Maria (Natalie Wood) leads to absolute mayhem.

Fred Zinnemann won four Oscars for Best Director over his illustrious career. The final honor in the category came following the release of A Man For All Seasons, a historical drama that took home a total of six Academy Awards.

Adapted from the Robert Bolt stage play (who also won an Oscar for adapting his own screenplay), the film stars Paul Schofield as Sir Thomas Moore, a rebellious knight who stood up to King Henry VIII's (Robert Shaw) repudiation of the Catholic Church as a means of divorcing one wife to marry another.

George Cukor's adaptation of the classic George Bernard Shaw play My Fair Lady resulted in a total of eight Oscar Awards. In addition to producer Jack Warner winning Best Picture, Cukor was also given a Best Director award.

Audrey Hepburn stars as Eliza Doolittle, a blue-collar English ingenue who becomes the object of experimentation by the pretentious Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison). Higgins sets out to transform Liza into a radiant socialite and an upstanding member of society. However, Liza and Henry butt-heads at every turn until the dashing Freddy (Jeremy Brett) comes calling.

Midnight Cowboy still holds the distinction of being the only X-Rated movie in cinematic history to win Best Picture. The platonic love story between big city street hustler Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) and wide-eyed Texas cowboy Joe Buck (Jon Voight) also won Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay (Waldo Salt) and Best Director (John Schlesinger).

RELATED: Dustin Hoffman's 10 Best Movies, According To Rotten Tomatoes

When naive Joe Buck arrives in bustling New York City, he's immediately humbled by the difficulty of his surroundings. When he meets street-wise Ratso, he forms an unlikely bond that carries them all the way to sunny Florida.

The timely topic of racial justice and police discrimination was confronted head-on in Norman Jewison's In The Heat of the Night, named the Best Picture of 1967.

The film follows Virgil Tubbs (Sidney Poitier), a black police detective who is suddenly arrested for murder in Sparta, Mississippi while awaiting a train. When local authorities learn that Tubbs is the ace homicide detective in Philadelphia, an investigation to find the real killer ensues. Rod Steiger also won an Oscar for playing southern Police Chief Gillespie.

The second Robert Wise 1960s musical to win Best Picture includes The Sound of Music. Wise also won his second Best Director Award following West Side Story in 1961.

Julie Andrews stars as Maria, a young Austrian nanny who aspires to become a nun. When the rakish George von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) asks the convent for help looking after his seven unruly children, Maria is given the position. At first, the Von Trapp children treat her poorly, but over time, Maria's kindhearted nature wins the family over.

Billy Wilder walked away with three Academy Awards for his work on The Apartment. In addition to Best Picture, Wilder earned Best Director and Original Screenplay honors.

RELATED: 10 Best Billy Wilder Movies, According To Rotten Tomatoes

The uproarious sex-comedy revolves around C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon), a staid insurance salesman who does everything in his power to climb the corporate ladder. His brown-nosing includes loaning his apartment to various insurance executives to carry out their extramarital trysts. When Baxter's boss asks for the key to his apartment, he must figure out a way to satisfy all involved.

David Lean's sweeping historical epic Lawrence of Arabia remains one of the greatest cinematic achievements of all time. The seven-time Oscar winner currently ranks #109 on IMDb's Top 250 and holds a perfect 1000 Metascore.

Based on the historical writings of T.E. Lawrence, the story follows the titular English Lieutenant as he mobilizes a Bedouin Arab population in the Middle East and leads their uprising against Turkish forces during World War I. The four-hour film earned Lean his second Best Director Oscar after The Bridge on the River Kwai in 1958.

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A new week in Phase 2 means a mixed bag of events happening virtually, in-person (modified to accommodate physical distancing, of course), and, sometimes, a combination of both. We're here to guide you through our top picks in every genrefrom the Suffrage Special Whistle Stop Tour to a Naked Giants Album Release Party, and from a Town Hall talk with wildlife biologist Jonathan Slaght to the release of Chuck's Hop Shop's new Pay the Fee IPA benefiting King County Equity Now. In addition, check out our guides to supporting black-owned businesses and artists in Seattle, educating yourself through anti-racism resources, and donating to social justice causes. Find even more events on our complete streaming events calendar and our resistance & solidarity calendar, and check back on Friday for a roundup of the best local virtual events this weekend.

Mushroom Foraging for Beginners PNW fungi resource organizationSalish Mushrooms will lead a "fast-paced introduction" into mushroom-foraging. You'll learn about 10 types of mushrooms for beginners and where to find them, key characteristics to help with identification, and common poisonous mushrooms.

Auction of Washington Wines Online Auction & Virtual Gala Bid on a variety of wine-themed events and experiences through this live virtual auction and gala, whose proceeds will benefitSeattle Children's and Washington State University's Wine Science Research (who knew!).

POP+ Punk Book Club: 'Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl' Join an online discussion of Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, the wonderful memoir by living Pacific Northwest punk legend Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney, as part of MoPOP's Pop+ Punk series.

Spirits of Latin America Book Talk With Ivy Mix Bartender Ivy Mix will discuss her new book about her travels through Latin America to research the histories and cultures of agave, cane, and grape spirits, and will teach you how to make aNovo Fogo Organic Cachaa- based cocktail from the book. For the Seattle edition, cocktail bar Navy Strength will have cocktail kits inspired by the book available for pickup, and the first 30 people who register will get a free copy of the book.

Climate Change Impacts on PNW Trees Symposium ThePacific Northwest International Society of ArboricultureandUW Botanic Gardens will co-host this virtualsymposium on the myriad ways in which climate change is affecting trees in our region. Professional arborists and those interested in environmental activism are encouraged to attend and ask questions.

The Science Inside Climate Pledge Arena You may have read about Amazon's plan for the former Key Arena, which will be home to the newly monikered local NHL team the Seattle Kraken, when they announced it back in Junethe company's "zero-carbon certified" stadium will feature 100% renewable electricity, "the greenest ice in the NHL," locally sourced food, solar panels, andon-site stormwater retention for landscaping. But how?! The Pacific Science Center will break down how all of these environmentally conscious amenities will work.

The True Story of Tommy Tucker The Museum of Flight, in partnership with the Smithsonians National Museum of American History, interrupts your Tuesday-night routine to tell you about a very important celebrity squirrel namedTommyTucker,who not only traveled the country performing tricks but also helped sell war bonds while sporting the latest women's fashion accessories.

Live on KEXP at Home: serpentwithfeet "The Pentecostal-forged queerness of Sylvester meets the gossamer harmonies of P.M. Dawns Prince Be and the sexualized spirituality of Prince," wrote former Stranger contributor KathyFennessy ofJosiah Wise's (aka serpentwithfeet) debut album. "It's rich and full, yet as intimate as a prayer." TheBaltimore-born artist will perform live on KEXP's YouTube channel.

George Dyson with Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Technology Beyond Programmable Control Author and historian George Dyson traces the history of humans' relationship to machines inAnalogia: The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control. He'll join Town Hall in conversation with software engineerBlaise Aguera y Arcas.

Micheline Aharonian Marcom with Keenan Norris After being deported from the US, an undocumented college student travels back toCalifornia from Guatemala with a group of other migrants fleeing violence in their home country in Micheline Marcom's The New American. The Saudi Arabia-born, LA-bred author will discuss her latest novel withKeenan Norris (Brother and the Dancer).

Suffrage Special Whistle Stop Tour Thiseight-episode video series explores Washington State's role in the national women's suffrage movement, highlighting the local changemakers who led the way. Why a whistle-stop tour? The theme is based on the 1909 "Suffrage Special" train, which toted local and national suffragists across the country.

Virtual Silent Reading Party Thefirst worldwide silent-reading partywas such a huge success that we're making it weekly. Every Wednesday at 6 pm we're going to throw these parties, at least until stay-at-home is over.Attendees at the first Zoom silent-reading party included famous actors, writers, composers, artists, families, teenagers doing their homework, people staring into space listening to the music because it was just so beautiful, cats, and even one household on Orcas Island that was eating dinner and decided to broadcast the reading party as their background music. (What a brilliant idea!)It wasn't just a great party to be at. Behind the scenes, this was a roaring success as well.The Strangerbrought in revenue from the reading party for the first time ever, our musicianPaul Matthew Mooremadeten timesmore on Venmo tips than he's ever made in the tip jar at the Sorrento (thank you for your generosityhedeservesit!), and hundreds of people at the party have written us emails, clamoring for more. CHRISTOPHER FRIZZELLE

Jack's Prime Rib Dinner Tuck into a juicy slab of smoky prime rib cooked low and slow by Jack's BBQ, along with sides. Reserve a table for dine-in at either the Sodo or South Lake Union location, or place an order for takeout.

Jonathan Slaght: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl The rare Blakiston's fish owl, the largest living species of owl, coexists withbrown bears, tigers, and leopards in a remote forest in Eastern Russia. Unsurprisingly, it's in danger of extinction. Wildlife biologist Jonathan Slaght is rightfully obsessed with them, as he'll prove in this Town Hall talk concerning his bookA Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl.

Kevin OBrien with Laurie Frankel "Summer means breezing through thrillers, and you can't really go wrong with a new one fromKevin O'Brien, aNew York Timesbest-selling author and a member of the Seattle7Writers collective," Rich Smith wrote last year, adding that the author "is good about providing some substance with his confectionary stuff, so expect to tear through this gossipy, creepy book in a couple of days without feeling too empty inside." This year, the "Capitol Hill flaneur" (per Elliott Bay) will discuss his new book, The Bad Sister, about "two half-sisters who learn that theyre at the center of a copycat killers obsession with the brutal murders on a college campus fifty years earlier." He'll appear in conversation with Laurie Frankel (This Is How It Always Is) in this livestreamed event.

Kiku Hughes A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps in Kiku Hughes's new historical graphic novel Displacement. Hear the local author/cartoonist talk about her work with Third Place Books.

Pay the Fee IPA Proceeds fromChuck's latest beer, an IPA made in collaboration with Seapine Brewing (and named after the call to "pay the fee" to Black and brown communities who have suffered most under the actions of SPD), will benefitKing County Equity Now, which is led by and champions Black-led and organizations and communities.

Burke From Home Trivia Night Test your knowledge of natural history and culture for a virtual trivia night hosted by theHolocaust Center for Humanity and the beloved Burke Museum. Once you register, they'll send you a Zoom link with the info to play along on a trivia platform called Crowdpurr.

Grounded - Weep Wave & Antonioni BIG BLDG's cozy weekly music series will welcome psych rockers Weep Wave and the grungy alt-rock band about whom Jasmyne Keimig once wrote: "Antonioni is what I imagined, as a millennial, the great local Seattle bands of the '90s sounded like, back when Seattle was Amazon-free and you could rent a room on the Hill for, like, $200 and a bag of magic beans or whatever. It's easy to picture the characters from10 Things I Hate About Youlistening to them."

HDLSC Presents: Peyote Ugly Space out to synth-psych trio Peyote Ugly's trippy jams on High Dive's virtual stage.

NVCS Presents: Naked Giants Album Release Party Local rock trio Naked Giants will give you a sneak peek into their sophomore album, The Shadow, with this virtual Nectar performance. You can also see the band perform on-demand here.

SAMA Sounds: Carmen Rizzo, Meriem Ben Amor, Kiran Ahluwalia Join Seattle Sacred Music & Art and Seattle Theatre Group for an exploration of sacred sounds from around the globe, featuring live music every Thursday evening.

BJ Cummings with James Rasmussen & Paulina Lopez: The River That Made Seattle Author BJ Cummings will read excerpts from The River That Made Seattle: A Natural and Human History of the Duwamishonline and show new and old photographs highlighting the river's Native, immigrant, and industrialist histories. He'll be joined by theDuwamish River Cleanup Coalition's James Rasmussen and Paulina Lopez.

Goethe Pop Up Book Klub: Yoko Tawada's Memoirs of a Polar Bear Yoko Tawanda's dreamy novel Memoirs of a Polar Bearcenters three German polar bears who write books, perform at the circus, and find peace at a Berlin zoo. Read it and discuss your thoughts at this online book club with German cultural center Goethe Pop Up.

Maaza Mengiste & Salar Abdoh Maaza Mengiste, the author ofBeneath the Lions Gaze and the Man Booker Prize-longlistedThe Shadow King, will discussAddis Ababa Noir, an anthology she helped edit featuringEthiopias capital city from various perspectives.

MarginShift Presents: Barton Cardenas Harrison Roth and Wright Soothe your weary soul with poetry from Ebo Barton, Brenda Cardenas, Roberto Harrison, Dia Roth, and Carolyne Wright.

Molly Wizenberg Wizenberg is the co-host of the local comedy/food podcast Spilled Milkand the author of Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage, about the experience of opening Delancey, the acclaimed pizza restaurant in Ballard, with her ex-husband. She'll offer her life story as an insight into the changing nature of sexuality and the unexpected turns of life that can disrupt even the most seemingly stable families: At the age of 36, married to a man, she unexpectedly found herself attracted to a woman.

Strange Storytelling Hour Outside Worlds w/ Emmett Montgomery Storytellers recount peculiar tales and bizarre happenings based on their own experiences in this multi-episode series co-presented by the North Bend Film Festival. For this round, local comic and wizardly ex-Mormon Emmett Montgomery will tell tales revolving around "how to exist safely beyond our front doors."

Re/frame: Still Life Join Ann Poulson, the Henrys Associate Curator of Collections, for an interactive online tour of the gallery's collection.

Steven Holl: Making Architecture Renowned American architect Steven Holl will talk about his exhibitMaking Architecture, currently on view virtually at the Bellevue Arts Museum as part of the Seattle Design Festival.

Welcome to El: An Intimate Night of Comedy with El Sanchez Beloved local comedian El Sanchez recorded an intimate, hilarious show at the Fremont Abbey Arts Center just before the quarantine took effect. For those who missed it, the show is now on demand!

2020 Democratic National Convention Normally the DNC looks like a bunch of people milling about and giving each other standing ovations and waving signs. It's kind of like a concert festival, but for politicians who are just there to play the hits and get offstage. Maybe it'ssupposedto mean more than that, and maybe the 2020 version of the DNC, being held as a series of livestreamed, socially-distant events and speaking engagements when the country is literally on the verge of implosion, will live up to that. Watch live as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris officially accept their nominations, as other prominent Democrats like the Obamas, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders deliver speeches, and even as pop stars like Billie Eilish and the Chicks perform.

Pike-Pine Summer United Get 10% off your bill at local bars and eateries like Amandine Bakeshop, A Pizza Mart, Bateau, and tons of other places on Capitol Hill moving into Phase 2 of reopening by mentioning The Stranger's Pike-Pine promotion. Various locations (Capitol Hill)

Doe Bay Fest Artist Residency Local artists have been invited to post up in the Orcas Island-adjacent Doe Bay resort (which is currently operating at 50% capacity) to bring live music to the people throughout the summer. Catch sets in-person from performers like Anna Tivel and Ok Sweetheart this week. Doe Bay Resort (Olga)

Saint Joan Despite George Bernard Shaw's trenchant atheism, his classic depiction of the Maid of Orleans stresses her strength, bravery, faith, and humanity in the face of political and religious oppression. The original date of this production, staged by Mathew Wright, was canceled due to COVID-19. This is a digital rendition.

Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair The Seattle Art Fair was canceled, but a bunch of local galleriesmany of which are in Pioneer Squareare taking it upon themselves to keep the tradition alive while abiding by social distancing guidelines with a DIY, self-guided version featuring exciting new pieces by artists like Anthony White.

Seattle Design Festival Now in its 10th year, Design in Public's Seattle Design Festival will switch over their programming to the internet to continue to explore how urbanism, architecture, and design can further justice, ecology, and community. Look forward to livestreamed webinars and discussions, a weekly "Thinkercyze" virtual challenge, and even in-person displays throughout the city that you can visit while social distancing.

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Image: C. S. Lewis, by Anca Budisan.

Editors note: Published on August 16, 1945,C. S. LewissThat Hideous Strengthis a dystopian novel that eerily reflects the realities of 2020. This week and next, to mark the books three-quarter century anniversary,Evolution News presents a series of essays, reflections, and videos about its themes and legacy.

M.D. AeschlimansThe Restoration of Man: C.S. Lewis and the Continuing Case Against Scientismhas recently been republished in an updated new edition by Discovery Institute Press and in French translation by Pierre Tqui in France.

Seventy-five years ago today, in that momentous year 1945, C. S. Lewis published the third and final volume in his series of three space-fiction, mythopoeic, dystopian novels,That Hideous Strength.The novels are hard to categorize and have never reached the levels of popularity of his Narnia chronicles and satirical and apologetic works, but their over-arching philosophical project entails a profound meditation on thecharacter of Western and world history over the previous 150 years but especially during the catastrophic, apocalyptic period 1914-1945. The novel deserves comparison with the more famous dystopias such as the Russian Evgeny ZamyatinsWe(1924), Aldous HuxleysBrave New World(1932) and George Orwells1984(1949), and also the English Catholic-convert Msgr. R.H. Bensons apocalyptic fantasyLord of the World(1907); but it even merits comparisons with first-order philosophical-historical writing in the tradition of Thomas CarlylesThe French Revolution(1839) and Alexander SolzhenitsynsGulag Archipelago(1974) and with the history and philosophy of science as conveyed by Alfred North Whitehead, Pierre Duhem, and the great Hungarian refugee scholars Michael Polanyi and Stanley L. Jaki. The very width of its inter-disciplinary scope and depth of its philosophical-ethical penetration make it a hard book to categorize but are also characteristics of itsimportance and power as a work of metaphysical fiction.

Himself a wounded veteran of World War I, Lewis delivered in 1943, in the middle of a second, even vaster and more destructive world war, a series of invited university lectures in the north of England that were published by Oxford University Press later that year asThe Abolition of Man, a dystopian title with an innocuous-sounding, specialist subtitle,Reflections on Education with Special Reference to the Teaching of English in the Upper Forms of Schools. High claims continue to be made for this short, dense, lucid expository essay; the outstanding Oxford literary scholar A. D. Nuttall (1937-2007), author of one of the finest books of the last fifty years on Shakespeare, wrote of it: The argument as it unfolds is dazzling. It is in a way odd that a work which so thoroughly routs whole volumes of Nietzsche and Sartre is not more widely admired, especially as the style in which it is presented is brilliantly lucid. In Lewiss own Preface toThat Hideous Strength, he tells us that the novel is a tall story about devilry, though it has behind it a serious point which I have tried to make in myAbolition of Man. It is also a uniquely revealing ghost story and can be profitably read alongside the science journalist Deborah Blums excellentGhost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death(2006).

The novel is a narrative, fictional version of a philosophical anatomy of the satanic dimension and implication of much modern history from 1914 onwards, which Lewis himself had lived through, viscerally as a soldier, intellectually as a scholar, and vicariously as a spectator of world events and as a novelist. But unlikeBrave New World,1984,We,orLord of the World, it also contains a benign vision of human possibility and glimpses of beatitude. It reminds one of the clairvoyant, apocalyptic psychological and metaphysical insights of Dostoevsky but also contains visions of cosmic, human, and even animal and vegetable harmony that are reminiscent of St. Francis of Assisi, Dante, Spenser, Shakespeares late romances, Blake, Tolstoy, and G. K. ChestertonsThe Man Who Was Thursday. Albert Schweitzers reverence for life and the pious, imaginative ecology of Wendell Berry are more recent examples.

But if a way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst. For Lewis, the great modern apostasy that had led to the 20th-century Armageddons had taken place in the late 19th century with the marriage of Darwinian and Nietzschean thinking that simultaneously produced a calamitous decline in religious-humanist belief in Natural-Law theism and an enormous increase in post-moral cynicism and ruthlessness in the writings of Nietzsche and the emergent ideology of Social Darwinism, whether in its nationalist-fascist-militarist form, a so-called scientific-socialist Communist form, or in the less fully organized competitive-capitalist form. In 1992 the literary critic John Carey publishedThe Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939, in which he argued that during this whole period in the British Isles only two major writers withstood the glamorous, radically enlightened appeal of Nietzsche: G. K. Chesterton and Arnold Bennett. Lewis may well be seen as a disciple of Chesterton, and like him he felt the seismic shift of consciousness away from the often-contested but durable Judaeo-Christian Natural-Law tradition of figures such as Samuel Johnson, Burke, Jane Austen, Dickens, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Lord Acton, and William Jennings Bryan.

A.D. Nuttall astonishingly argues that Lewiss short philosophical treatiseThe Abolition of Manrouts whole volumes of Nietzsche and Sartre, but that its very lucidity has put modern intellectuals off and led to its undervaluation.That Hideous Strengthattempts to give a vivid narrative picture of how the gigantically potent Darwinian-Nietzschean heresy actually works out in practice, something that Lewis felt was truly evident during the decades of his life up to 1945. In an anti-reductionist 1972 essay on Blake, the combative Cambridge moralist and literary critic F. R. Leavis pointed out that Though we have to recognize that Darwins life testifies to the existence of intelligence and purpose, his theory of evolution offered to dispense with the need for thesewords (emphasis added).

Lewiss novel conveys the idea that the human person is inevitably, almost gravitationally, drawn to some conception of ultimate worth and significance. The difficulty that ensues, G. K. Chesterton epigrammatically put it, when people cease to believe in God is not that they believe in nothing, but that they believe inanything. The clairvoyant Dostoevsky saw that the destruction of the orthodox belief in the God-man Jesus Christ led to new divination and deification, the pursuit and celebration of the man-god, homo deus, foreshadowed by the Marquis de Sade and Max Stirner and Ralph Waldo Emerson, and fully articulate in Nietzsches conception of the post-moral Superman. It could take nationalist, racialist, imperialist, utilitarian, or Promethean-proletarian forms, or eventuate in a simple but thoroughgoing hedonistic egotism as in the Marquis de Sade and Stirner; but some assumption or assertion of ultimate worth or value, for individuals or groups nations, races, classes is inevitable. Language and conceptualization themselves assume or entail it.

In a brilliant pre-World War I essay On Reading, Chesterton had intuitively discerned the depth of the Nietzschean threat (so alluring to his friend George Bernard Shaw) and had compared Nietzsches celebratory, histrionic immoralism to Shakespeares depiction of the iniquity of the usurper Richard III in his play: what the incipiently mad egotist Nietzsche praised and celebrated, the orthodox Christian Shakespeare deplored and condemned. Suffering nightmares about his own murders, Richard tries to steel himself and his followers:

Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls. Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe. Our strong arms be our conscience; swords, our law.

Souls is of course ironic, as Richard does not believe in the soul at all, but only in the will. Richard is a cynical nominalist Conscience is but aword

The skeptical, nominalist thinking of Hume (a brilliant sophist G. E. M. Anscombe) and the French philosophes in the 18th century stripped the emerging natural sciences of their fiduciary rational core, creating a radically reductionist positivism that, as the distinguished contemporary Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski (1927-2009) put it, renounces the transcendental meaning of truth and reduces [even] logical values to features of biological behavior. In his history of positivist thought,The Alienation of Reason, Kolakowski entitles one chapter The Destructive Consequences of Humes Work.

The late 19th-century marriage of the sub-rational and sub-moral Darwinian idea of survival of the fittestand Nietzsches idea of the post-moral will to power produced a predatory mindset that had much to do with the sanguinary tragedies of the century to follow and our own time, as a large scholarly literature has shown. (Fine recent examples are Richard WeikartsFrom Darwin to Hitler(2004) and Yvonne SherrattsHitlers Philosophers(2013).)Sherratt notes that Nietzsches infamous workZarathustra, in which he had coined the idea of the Superman, was printed in 150,000 copies during the First World War, and handed out to German soldiers at the front.

LewissAbolition of Manis not a theological work, but a metaphysical argument, a brilliantly lucid philosophical treatise defending the perennial philosophy. ButThat Hideous Strengthis simultaneously a science-fiction, mythopoeic, and theological work, with roots in and affinities to Biblical apocalyptic literature,The Odyssey, DantesComedy, MiltonsParadise Lost, SwiftsGullivers Travels, and the transcendental visions of William Blake, most luminously in his 1803 Auguries of Innocence. A key passage for both Blakes visionary poems and Lewiss visionary novels is St. Pauls assertion in the Epistle to the Ephesians: It is not against flesh and blood that we [fight]; we have to do with princedoms and powers, with those who have mastery of the world in these dark days, with malign influences in an order higher than ours (Eph. 6:12, tr. Ronald Knox). Blakes late visions are often disappointingly intermittent and obscure, but he was clear in believing that The strongest poison ever known comes from Caesars laurel crown. The pursuit of power, without virtue, condemned by Christian thinkers such as St. Paul and St. Augustine as the libido dominandi, becomes the enlightened modern will-to-power of Nietzsche and his legion of admirers and disciples, including H. L. Mencken, Clarence Darrow, Emma Goldman, and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in the USA. Power without goodness, mental and physical force without ethics or justice, is that hideous strength.

Malign influences in an order higher than ours are depicted inThat Hideous Strength.The force connecting humans with these transcendental influences is ideological or philosophical by voluntarily opening themselves mentally to post-moral idols of power the intellectuals of the new technocracy, nowadays called post-humanists or transhumanists, enter truly trans-human realms of conceptual and existential reality. Less consciously than Marlowes Dr. Faustus, Lewiss new class of scientific-political conditioners collaborate with ferocious, predatory potencies in the universe. Even the popular contemporary futurist Yuval Harari worries today about unleashing new post-humanist technologies (Homo Deus, 2016). Lewis argued the point with particular brilliance in chapter three ofThe Abolition of Manin 1943.

Machiavellis, Marlowes, and Sades immoralist assertions have a gruesome, criminal irony and the first two thinkers are often ambivalent but Nietzsches penetrate higher and deeper in gnomic affirmations of destructive, inhuman effect. In 1884 he wrote of war: one must learn from warto sacrifice many and to take ones cause seriously enough not to spare human lives. With a kind of sick longing, the neurasthenic, intellectual Nietzsche ludicrously celebrates brutal visions of unjust and merciless power. Conscience is but a word that cowards use

Lewiss philosophical project in both the expositoryAbolitionof Manand the imaginativeThat Hideous Strengthis to show that none of the varieties of modern Naturalism can escape self-contradiction and self-refutation because language, rationality, ethics, and human cognition, conceptualization, intentionality, and identity themselves have metaphysical and supernatural dimensions.

Having vigorously argued against the Pharisaical Bertrand Russell in a notorious 1957 BBC television interview with him, the witty, sardonic moralist Malcolm Muggeridge went on to attack the Oxford logical-positivist philosopher Alfred Ayer in another interview for his glib, nihilistic nominalism, the emotivist thesis that ethics is never rational but only subjective: How you ever became Professor of Logic, Freddie, I shall never know. Nor do we now, in retrospect, except as the manipulative machinations of an elite, obscurantist, sophistical inner ring.

Trained himself at the very highest level in philosophy, like his contemporaries T. S. Eliot and Jacques Maritain, Lewis saw the ascendancy of all forms of modern Naturalism as both self-refuting and catastrophic, learnd foolishness often developing into transgressive iniquity. The Logical Positivists, Russell and Ayer, the Marxists and their scientific-intellectual fellow-travelers such as J. D. Bernal, J. B. S. Haldane, and C. P. Snow in Britain, were contemporary with the vastly influential American philosopher John Dewey (1859-1952), whose mind-numbing, tortuously obscure prose style resembles the endless circumlocutions of the depraved inner ring of intellectuals at the National Institute of Coordinated Experiments (N.I.C.E.) at Belbury inThat Hideous Strength: like Miltons fallen angels, by their perverse reasoning and language they are all in wandering mazes lost (Paradise Lost, II:561).

The only way to avoid metaphysics is to say nothing, the American philosopher E. A. Burtt argued in 1924 inThe Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, producing a classic epigram of the perennial philosophy. Voluble, moralistic Naturalists such as Russell, Dewey, C. P. Snow, and C. H. Waddington, whom Lewis critiques inThe Abolition of Man, carried forward the destructive project of Hume and the French philosophes and had no grounds for opposing the Nietzschean-Social Darwinist program that laid waste so much of the 20th century and whose confusions are still with us.

These concurrent influences make much more of a reality Petrarchs famous poetic lament of 700 hundred years ago about the occlusion of the light and life of reason: Ed si spento ogni benigno lume/Del ciel, per cui sinforma umana vita And all the kindly lights, by which human life is guided, are extinguished in Heaven Povera e nuda vai, Filosofia,/Dice la turba al vil guadagno intesa. You go poor and naked, Philosophy, says the crowd, bent on selfish gain. (Sonnet 7)

Yet it is the very luminosity of Lewiss argument inThe Abolition of Manand of his brilliant mythopoeic fable inThat Hideous Strength a fantasia of consciousness and conscience, not of the unconscious and dark will that continues to give intellectual, moral, and imaginative sustenance 75 years after their first publication. Philosophy is here properly clothed in her radiant garments, and the kindly lights of Heaven are not extinguished.

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Sharing the spine-tingling suspense thats a Blumhouse signature, each film presents a distinctive vision and unique perspective on common themes centered around family and love as redemptive or destructive forces.

This slate marks the first-ever program of Amazon Original movies on Prime Video that are thematically connected.

The films showcase exciting up-and-coming talent, alongside established actors in exceptional and shocking new roles. Welcome to the Blumhouse will launch in October, timed for the Halloween season, on Prime Video in over 240 countries and territories worldwide.

Amazon Prime Video will launch the initial slate of four films as double features starting with The Lie directed by acclaimed writer/director Veena Sud (The Killing, 7 Seconds) and Black Box directed by up-and-coming writer/director Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr. (Born with It), both premiering on October 6.

Launching the following week on October 13 is Evil Eye, from talented young directors Elan Dassani and Rajeev Dassani (A Days Work, Jinn) and executive produced by Priyanka Chopra Jonas (Quantico, White Tiger), and Nocturne written and directed by filmmaker Zu Quirke (Zugzwang, Ghosting), making her feature film debut. The latter four films will launch in 2021.

said Julie Rapaport, Co-Head of Movies for Amazon Studios.

The Lie is written and directed by Veena Sud, and stars Mireille Enos (The Killing), Peter Sarsgaard (An Education) and Joey King (The Kissing Booth 2, The Act). When their teenaged daughter confesses to impulsively killing her best friend, two desperate parents attempt to cover up the horrific crime, leading them into a complicated web of lies and deception. Produced by Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Christopher Tricarico, and Jason Blum. Executive produced by Howard Green, Kim Hodgert, Jeanette Volturno, Couper Samuelson and Aaron Barnett.

Directed by Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr. (Born With It) and script by Osei-Kuffour Jr. and Stephen Herman, Black Box stars Mamoudou Athie (Jurassic World 3, The Circle), Phylicia Rashad (Creed), Amanda Christine (Colony), Tosin Morohunfola (The Chi, The 24th), Charmaine Bingwa (Trees of Peace, Little Sista), and Troy James (The Flash, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark). After losing his wife and his memory in a car accident, a single father undergoes an agonising experimental treatment that causes him to question who he really is. Executive produced by Jason Blum, Jay Ellis, Aaron Bergman, Lisa Bruce, Marci Wiseman, Jeremy Gold, Mynette Louie and William Marks.

Based off the award-winning, best-selling Audible Original production from writer Madhuri Shekar, Evil Eye is directed by Elan Dassani and Rajeev Dassani, and stars Sarita Choudhury (Mississippi Masala, Lady in the Water), Sunita Mani (GLOW), Omar Maskati (Unbelievable), and Bernard White (Silicon Valley). A seemingly perfect romance turns into a nightmare when a mother becomes convinced her daughters new boyfriend has a dark connection to her own past. Executive produced by Jason Blum, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Lisa Bruce, Marci Wiseman, Jeremy Gold, Guy Stodel, Anjula Acharia, Emilia Lapenta and Kate Navin.

Nocturne is written and directed by Zu Quirke in her breakout feature debut. Starring Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria, The Handmaids Tale, Players Table), Madison Iseman (Jumanji: The Next Level, Annabelle Comes Home), Jacques Colimon (The Society) and Ivan Shaw (Insecure, Casual). Inside the halls of an elite arts academy, a timid music student begins to outshine her more accomplished and outgoing twin sister when she discovers a mysterious notebook belonging to a recently deceased classmate. Executive produced by Jason Blum, Lisa Bruce, Marci Wiseman, Jeremy Gold, Matthew Myers and Fodhla Cronin OReilly.

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Gabriel Rochelle, Path of the Spirit Published 1:51 a.m. MT Aug. 16, 2020

Fr. Gabe Rochelle(Photo: Courtesy photo)

It has long been the case that organized religion is on the wane in the United States. I have days of thinking thats good, days of thinking thats bad, but never mind. What I see happening, however, is that the gap left by the increasing lack of religion is being rapidly filled in by an alternative: social justice religion. Let me rephrase that: The gap left by the absence of puritanical, judgmental, finger-waving, name-calling forms of religion is being replaced by movements which mimic all the bad tendencies that people have always complained about in some manifestations of religion.

The social awareness scene is truly scary these days. I was never a fan of movements like the moral majority in the past. Those warriors did not speak to my soul and they didnt represent my understanding of Christian values or faith. I can go farther back: I was never a fan of Billy Graham and was chastised and rebuked for refusing to be involved in one of his major campaigns back in the 70s. I never went along with the crazy late great planet earth fanatics, either, but thats a tale to be told some other time. Ive lived through a lot of finger-pointing, accusations of being a communist, and assorted weirdness like being spat on in civil rights marches. Most of this stuff I could laugh off or disregard because it had no real cash value in the marketplace of ideas.

But that scariness pales in comparison to the rigid, puritanical political correctness that seems to be sweeping the nation these days. This year, the Left has gone nuts. There is still a liberal Left, in shreds, but there is also an authoritarian Left and theyre the ones in public view. Whenever I hear the word woke (which wasnt in anybodys vocabulary two years ago) I think I have to run the other direction. I will have offended someone; I will have become the scapegoat for someones standard of behavior. We are experiencing the authoritarian Left in full bloom. If you are not in line with the latest politically correct behavior you will be called out and shamed. If possible, the totalitarian Left will call for your firing from any responsible position. Friends, this is happening at our universities. Look at the recent flap over Professor Jonathan Katz at Princeton. Or more personally, note the interesting statistic that 61percent of Americans are afraid to speak their mind publicly because of fear of censure from either extreme. This is the society of freedom?

From my perch, heres the problem: if God is no longer in charge ultimately, or to put it another way if there is no overarching social contract in place whereby people live in accordance with an agreed set of values, then we are reduced to our little, small selves to rely on what we feel (not think!) offends us and our sensibilities. Because we are also in the age of entitlement, we then raise hell because we have been personally offended. Those who shout loudest win. Aesthetics replace ethics: What we feel is beautiful or true is good, whats not is bad.

No matter what you may personally believe or not believe, western society in particular has been in search of a soul since Nietzsche declared that God was dead near the end of the 19th century. Since that turning point, we raised up the great therapeutic society, and now we are reaping the burnt-out tailings of that movement in the exaltation of personal feeling as the be-all and end-all of societal striving. And it isnt pretty, folks.

Fr. Gabriel Rochelle is pastor of St Anthony of the Desert Orthodox Mission, Las Cruces. The church web site is http://www.stanthonylc.org. We welcome folks in ordinary times. Send an email if youd like to learn more.

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