Weekly Meanderings, 9 August 2014

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 10:41 pm by Scot McKnight

Weekly Meanderings, 9 August 2014 2015-03-13T22:41:45-05:00 Scot McKnight

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Handmade poppies for the Tower of London:

Good news for Becky Hammon:

The San Antonio Spurs made history Tuesday by hiring six-time WNBA all-star Becky Hammon as an assistant coach, making her the first full-time female assistant coach in any of the four major professional sports.

Hammon, a two-time first-team all-WNBA player who had spent the past eight seasons with the San Antonio Stars during a 16-year career in the league, served as an unofficial coaching intern last season with the reigning NBA champion Spurs.

“Obviously, this is a big deal. The bigger deal is I feel like there’s been greater pioneers to even get to this point,” Hammon, 37, said during a teleconference Tuesday. “In some ways, it is trailblazing, but there have been so many other women doing really great things, and I’m just following in their path.”

A clear-headed evaluation of John Howard Yoder.

The “ideal” biblical family? Larry Largent:

There are two important elements to family life in the biblical period that have significant implications, not only for how we understand families today, but also for how we understand our relationship with God.

For much of the biblical period the ideal family was composed of the extended or joint-family household. This meant that multiple generations of family lived in the same house or compound. Referred to most often as the bet av, “house of the father,” the ideal Israelite household was made up of four generations (Lev 18:6-18): a Father and his wife, his father and his wife, his sons and their wives, his grandchildren, and any other dependents such as servants and bondsmen….

In so doing, they could achieve the ideal Israelite life: living and dying under one’s own vine and fig tree. That image is repeated again and again as a vision of prosperity and abundance in times of peace (See, 1 Kings 4:25, 2 Kings 18:31, Isaiah 36:16, Micah 4:4, Zech. 3:10). You live under your own vine and fig tree because you are free of outside threats, able to sustain yourself and your family, but you are keenly aware that your produce is dependent upon God

Kinship terminology was legal, political and filial.
Biblical Hebrew is, as Lois Tverberg has described, “word-poor” (Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus). Many concepts are grouped together, sometimes in ways we would not, under the same reference word. Where English tends to be precise, looking for slight differences of meaning between individual words, words in biblical Hebrew are less precise, building constructs off of multiple denoted concepts.

Why bring an Ebola patient to the USA?

A second American infected with the potentially deadly Ebola virus arrivedat Emory University Hospital on Tuesday from Africa, following the first patient last weekend. Both were greeted by a team of highly trained physicians and nurses, a specialized isolation unit, extensive media coverage, and a storm of public reaction. People responded viscerally on social media, fearing that we risked spreading Ebola to the United States.

Those fears are unfounded and reflect a lack of knowledge about Ebola and our ability to safely manage and contain it. Emory University Hospital has a unit created specifically for these types of highly infectious patients, and our staff is thoroughly trained in infection control procedures and protocols. But beyond that, the public alarm overlooks the foundational mission of the U.S. medical system. The purpose of any hospital is to care for the ill and advance knowledge about human health. At Emory, our education, research, dedication and focus on quality — essentially everything we do — is in preparation to handle these types of cases.

Amazing, amazing photographs:

Imagine leaving it all behind – leaving your boring city job and failed relationship behind to escape into the wild Australian outback and embrace your dreams. That’s exactly what nature and landscape photographer Julie Fletcher did 12 years ago when she left Sydney to take absolutely stunning photos of the Australian outback.

Fletcher’s photography captures the majestic beauty of Australia’s remote Southern region in all of its glory. She captures everything from haunting barren desert landscapes to beautiful beaches, and all the wildlife in between. Some of her photographs have received international recognition from the National Geographic and other prestigious organizations.

“There is nothing out there but at the same time there is so much if you just see and not just look,” she told Daily Mail. “This area has made me a better photographer by challenging me all the time. I am constantly looking for a different approach on the same subject.”

America’s happiest colleges:

Here are the happiest campuses in the country, according to Princeton Review.

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.

Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, Calif.

Clemson University, Clemson, S.C.

Tulane University, New Orleans, La.

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Rice University, Houston, Tex.

Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine

Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Mich.

Exercise at the airport:

PHILADELPHIA — Dana Donofree had half an hour to wait for her flight to Atlanta and decided to use the time by working out — in a terminal at Philadelphia International Airport.

Sitting on an exercise bike in Terminal D on a recent morning, Ms. Donofree was cycling at a leisurely pace, wearing jeans and checking her phone as jets taxied outside.

Without becoming sweaty, changing her clothes or paying fees to an airport gym, she was able to exercise while remaining near her departure gate, thanks to a set of newly installed workout machines.

In late June, the airport became the first in the United States to provide three types of low-impact stationary bikes for travelers to use in the terminal, free of charge, while waiting for their flights.

It’s a departure from the sedentary activities normally associated with waiting for a flight — watching television, reading a magazine, even standing on a moving walkway.

The challenging life of the WNBA player, Kristi Toliver:

On May 6, in an office at the Department of Domestic Affairs in Bratislava,Kristi Toliver — Virginia-born, Maryland-educated, as American as jazz — swallowed hard, signed some documents and swore on her “honor and conscience” to be a faithful and upstanding citizen of the Slovak Republic. A process that had been more than a year in the making was completed in a day and a half. Soon she was in possession of a Slovak passport, now a dual U.S.-Slovak citizen. She was, at least for basketball purposes, a European.

As she boarded her flight back to the United States, she was the same Kristi, but everything felt different. Behind her was another winter-spring season of Russian professional ball; ahead was another summer season with the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA .

Elite women’s basketball players are used to serving two masters — roughly 75 percent of players in the WNBA play overseas during the league’s offseason — but now, for Toliver, there would be a third: the Slovak national team. That was part of the deal for the passport.

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