First Friends 4 Pdf
Muredac Ford
In the bestselling tradition of The Presidents Club and Presidential Courage, White House history as told through the stories of the best friends and closest confidants of American presidents.
Publishing history teems with books by and about Presidents, First Ladies, First Pets, and even First Chefs. Now former Clinton aide Gary Ginsberg breaks new literary ground on Pennsylvania Avenue and provides fresh insights into the lives of the men who held the most powerful political office in the world by looking at the friends on whom they relied.
Gary Ginsberg grew up in Buffalo New York, home to two US presidents. A lawyer by training, he has spent his professional career at the intersection of media, politics, and law. He worked for the Clinton administration, was a senior editor and counsel at the political magazine George, and then spent the next two decades in executive positions in media and technology at News Corporation, Time Warner and SoftBank. He has published pieces in the the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and was an on-air political contributor in the early days of MSNBC. He lives in New York City with his wife and two sons. First Friends is his first book.
From high up in the sky, the Moon has spent her whole life watching Earth and hoping for someone to visit. Dinosaurs roam, pyramids are built, and boats are made, but still no one comes. Will friends ever come visit her?
At the end of the narrative, five pages have been dedicated to explaining the science of earth and space and a bunch of cool facts. For example, it would take you one month (twenty-nine and half days) to get to the moon from Earth and despite having no air, weather or life evident on the moon, water was found there in 2009! At least two of the pages explain the stages of space rockets and the stages it takes to launch and land one on the moon and then return home.
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I went off to Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, smugly assured of my secular faith. My worldview was promptly blown up when I took my first class with professor Max Carter. Max introduced me, and many of the young adults in my Quaker Leadership Scholars Program cohort, to a Quakerism that did not shy away from Christian spirituality but rather used it to strengthen our faith and practice. He helped us connect with early Friends and mystics, to make sense of our schisms and why contemporary Quakerism looks the way it does. He helped us claim ownership over it, and imbued us with a sense that we might have the power to reimagine it. I came to understand that to call myself a Quaker and not a Christian was no longer possible: living with integrity meant I had to choose to go deeper or go elsewhere.
The times are severe, the need is great. And we must hasten: we all agree. But whither shall we hasten? Two directions we must hasten in order to plumb the depths and scale the heights of life. We must hasten unto God; and we must hasten into the world. But the first is the prime need; though the world be aflame by its own blindness and hate, and narrow ideals. We must first hasten unto God. [Those] whose heads have not rested in the bosom of God are not yet ready to be saviors of the world.
This Friend speaks my mind. Studying the radical social movement of the early church in Scripture gives us a road map for Spirit-led social change: for answering that of God in all people. Personal spiritual deepening work helps us understand each of our places in the movement, and gives us strength and energy for the work ahead.
Olivia, many thanks for your thoughtful and insightful article. Although I have been interested in Quakerism all my life, I have never formally joined, even though there is a large part of me that would like to. The reason for that is the fact that liberal politics seem to dominate the discussions both online and in person. Specifically, the harsh criticism of Israel among certain Friends has forced me to maintain my distance. Much of my family is Jewish, and my children were raised in the faith. Their maternal grandparents both survived concentration camps. They were lucky enough to survive, but most of their family members did not. Yes, I have had strong disagreements with many segments of mainstream Jewish thinking, to the point where I yanked my kids out of a Jewish day school, but support for Israel is a non-negotiable in our family. Nor would we support an Israel that is so weakened by land concessions that the nation would be unable to defend itself against terrorist onslaughts; a quick study of the realities posed by a world map would serve to illustrate the absurdity of whittling Israel down even further. (Strange how I never hear proposals that the US or other developed nations give away vast portions of their questionably acquired territory.)
There is much common ground where liberals and conservatives could share an honest debate, particularly in the areas of abortion and restorative justice, but the current suppression of free speech in too many arenas, coupled with the lack of respect in our society and the ongoing deterioration of our education system, render that possibility more difficult.
Brilliant insights. Hard to exceed the radicalism progressivism of Jesus saying everyone from leper to king to prostitute is equal at that time, which is still hard for most in our hierarchical societies to grasp. Love enemies is his and our ultimate challenge.
Our public high schools are not banned from teaching history of world religions and philosophies, so all students better understand the complex and interconnected world we now inhabit, and explore new ways forward together.
When I attended my first meeting, only about six years ago, I had been actively practicing centering. I had a practice that occupied my left hemisphere (monkey mind) allowing my deep mind (right hemisphere) to participate in the synergy that is a gathered meeting. Now, I do not use the aforementioned practice. Being in the presence of Friends centers me.
From my perspective, it seems that helping newcomers learn to center may be the greatest service we can offer. One experience of a gathered meeting changed my life forever. Continuing to experience The Light in the presence of Friends brings deeper meaning to my study of scripture, all scripture, but especially Christian scripture.
First Friends facilitates cross-cultural exchange through friendship, connecting Vanderbilt University international students with Americans on and off campus. An annual program coordinated by International Students & Scholar Services (ISSS), First Friends begins each academic year as hundreds of students travel from around the world to study at Vanderbilt. International students join First Friends to experience American life and culture. At the same time, they bring unique experiences from their home countries that they are ready and willing to share with new friends.
ISSS draws partners from a variety of community sources, including civic and religious groups, as well as Vanderbilt faculty and staff. Interested partners must go through a background check and attend a First Friends orientation session, hosted by ISSS. Interested students also attend an orientation prior to meeting their partners. Qualified partners are then matched and introduced in the early fall semester.
First Friend partners schedule visits with one another but are encouraged to meet at least once a month. Time spent together need not be extravagant. Partners often invite students for a family meal as a good starting point. Many students simply want to see how Americans live on a daily basis. An invitation to a routine family activity may be more interesting than a special performance or planned event. Because First Friends is intended to be a cultural exchange, the relationship should be reciprocal. Students and partners alike are encouraged to take the initiative in sharing their own cultural practices in this mutual friendship experience.
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Going to the north side of campus reminded me of when I first arrived to campus. The first event of Native Pre-Orientation was actually a dinner right after getting back from my First-Year Trip at the neighboring DOC House on the south-side of the golf course. We passed that house and I realized it's actually been almost twenty weeks since that first dinner where I met almost everyone I was now going sledding with. And here we are, sharing almost every meal and going on random impromptu sledding trips. Thanks, Pre-O.
The golf course was abuzz with families, a handful of other Dartmouth students, and surprisingly a lot of middle-aged people armed with skis and snowboards. Joining the fray, my friends and I hiked up a snowy hill with our freely-obtained Walmart-brand circles and looked down with very eager eyes.
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