This is a story about my driver too, and I feel about it the way Jeff Ritter does:
Each of the major clubmakers had a spot on the range, as they still do today, and that’s where I had my first Sasquatch sighting. A bogey golfer, I found the square crown so outrageous, I forgot most of my swing flaws. Staring down at that matte-black clubhead, I thought, “Ridiculous! Just take a swing and see what happens.” The ball rocketed off the face (occasionally), with a sharp and distinct sound (more on that shortly), and flew straight and true (sometimes*). A square head! What a concept! What would come next? Trapezoids? Maybe an octagon? What about sticking a flying saucer on the end of a shaft? Anything seemed possible.
(*It’s impossible to quantify whether this club was really that much better than my current driver. Clubmakers sell us on belief as much as anything. But I was convinced this driver was at least a slight upgrade, and that’s all it took. I was hooked.)
Here’s the thing about the Sasquatch: Its gaudy, black-and-highlighter-yellow paintjob and goofy square head are jarring. But its true trademark is the sound it emits after impact. Golf has been around for several centuries, and nothing in the game’s history has produced a racket quite like the ‘squatch. It’s like bashing a rock with an empty soup can, like slamming a stone with a mailbox, like cracking a clubface against …
You get the idea. It’s abrasive. Cacophonous. Absurd. But it didn’t bother me, because I was striping it. (From time to time.)
HOUSTON –Tristan Love is one of Houston ISD’s youngest assistant principals ever. It’s an astonishing accomplishment, considering the 26-year-old was once an active gang member.
Love went from the Bloods to the books and a full scholarship to Wiley College to be part of the reincarnation of the Great Debaters. That scholarship was thanks to Denzel Washington’s $1 million donation. This first day at school at Sam Houston High is one that he could have never scripted.
“Ten years ago, I wouldn’t even think I would be alive right now,” said Tristan Love. “You’re talking about 2006. I’m glad I made it to 21. I’m 26. I feel like I’m living on house money now.”
At 12 years old, Love was the new kid on the block in the Allen Parkway Village Apartments. He made the only choice he thought he had: to become a blood.
“You join a gang so you can protect your family, you can protect what you have,” he explained to Eyewitness News.
At the end of his freshman year at Lamar High School, he got into a fight with a Crip in the gym. That fight turned into an all-out brawl.
“I found out later that summer I wasn’t allowed to come back to Lamar,” he said.
Afraid of what his mother would say, he ran away from home and says he roamed the streets trying to stay out of trouble.
Over the next year, two of his close friends were killed. He moved with his dad in Fifth Ward and started school at Booker T. Washington. Someone broke into his house and burned it down. He believes that was gang-related. From that, he connected with a program called Communities in Schools that made sure he didn’t drop out. They sent him to a conference in Minneapolis and he came back with a fresh outlook on life.
“I can’t say that I was out of the streets. I can say that my 11th grade year I was very serious about my education,” he said.
An injury kept him out of football and basketball that year. He randomly went with a close friend to watch her in a debate tournament. Her partner didn’t show up, so she pulled him in. He says it was a natural fit and he was good.
He was accepted to his dream school, Morehouse College. But the summer after graduation, he found out he and his friend earned a full ride to debate at Wiley College, home of the Great Debaters profiled in the 2007 movie starring Denzel Washington. The Academy-Award winning actor funded the scholarships to bring the team back.
“They called us the Great Debaters 2.0,” Love told us with a huge grin.
After graduating from Wiley, he came home through Teach for America to teach biology at Sam Houston High. Now in his fourth year, Monday was his first day of school as assistant principal. He’s only 26.
Rachel Miller gets this right, in spite of what new leader Denny Burk says about CBMW: if they want to change on this, they need to say so. Telling a new story doesn’t change history; it’s called narratival revisionism.
As you can see from these excerpts, and I encourage you to read the full posts, the doctrine of the Eternal Subordination of the Son has been fully embraced and clearly taught by CBMW. These articles were written by a CBMW editor and an executive director. They ran on CBMW’s own website as representative of the doctrinal position of the organization. The posts appealed to Bruce Ware and Wayne Grudem as authorities on ESS (notice they use ESS and ERAS interchangeably).
The articles teach that ESS is not a take it or leave it doctrine. Despite what Denny Burk wants to say today, ESS has been taught as the only biblical position. In part I, Robinson says that we “are bound to joyfully affirm all that the Bible affirms. That factor alone is reason enough to classify this doctrine as important for further study.”
It is also clear that from the beginning the doctrine of the Eternal Subordination of the Son was linked to the version of complementarity taught by CBMW. As I’ve said before, ESS/EFS/ERAS has been a part of CBMW from the earliest days. It is foundational to all they teach and cannot be separated out.
What are you doing with your “one wild and precious life”?
Christy Osler reports on U of Chicago’s welcome belief in freedom of speech:
Don’t expect safe spaces or trigger warnings during your time at the University of Chicago, incoming freshmen.
In a letter sent to the class of 2020, officials of the prestigious university warned students that they are committed to freedom of speech and expression, and won’t protect students from ideas and opinions different from their own:
“Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so-called ‘trigger warnings,’ we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual ‘safe spaces’ where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own.”
Exactly how much should you tip a pizza delivery drone?
That’s just one question likely to vex hungry New Zealanders who could soon find their Domino’s Pizza order landing on the doorstep via an aerial drone.
Other quandaries to ponder: What happens if it starts to rain before my food arrives? What if the neighbor’s dog beats me to the door? Is creating a pizza delivery drone really the best use of an engineer’s time?
Who cares? It’s pizza, and now it flies!
Domino’s Pizza Enterprises in New Zealand has successfully demonstrated a flying drone that can transport pizza, and the chain will partner with a drone delivery company called Flirtey to make the service available to customers later this year, according to the Guardian. The paper reports that New Zealand approved commercial drone delivery last year, becoming one of the first countries to allow such services.
Domino’s Pizza Enterprises holds the master franchise rights for the Domino’s brand in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, France and Germany, among other countries. The largest Domino’s international franchise, the company has 1,900 storefronts in all.