MICHAEL FREUND: Ezekiel is commanded by God to take two sticks. On one, he is to write "For Judah," and on the other "For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim." Then comes the crucial instruction: "Bring them together into one stick so that they become one in your hand" (37:17). Ezekiel's vision is not one of uniformity. The two sticks do not cease to be what they are. Judah remains Judah; Joseph remains Joseph. Unity does not erase difference – it sanctifies and elevates it by placing it within a larger shared destiny.


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Ketriel Blad: In other words, in order for a total restoration to take place, the restored Ephraimites from among the nations will have to become Jewish, in the legal sense of the word, thus accepting the Jewish authorities and becoming obedient to Jewish halachah. In the prophecy of Ezekiel 37:19 the Hebrew text can be understood as HaShem giving Yehuda's stick the function of being over Ephraim's stick and this way both sticks will become one. This teaches us that the Ephraimite movement that comes from heaven cannot rise apart from the Jewish people without submission to the Jewish leaders' authority. This is not for all the gentiles.

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To my fans and friends: 
Most of us reach at least one pivotal moment in our lives that better defines who we are. 
These last several months have been the hardest – but have also ended up being the most freeing months — of my life. 
To make an extremely long story short, I have come to be able to admit to myself, and to my family, that I am gay. 
I grew up in a very conservative Christian home where I was taught that my sexual orientation was a matter of choice, and had put all my faith into that. I had never before admitted to myself that I was gay, let alone to anyone else. I never wanted to be gay. I was scared of what God would think and what all of these people I loved would think about me; so it never was an option for me. I have been suppressing these attractions and feelings since adolescence. I’ve tried my whole life to be straight. I married a girl, and I even have two beautiful little kids. My daughter, Liv, is six and my son, Beckham, is two. 
I had always romanticized the idea of falling in love with a woman; and having a family had always been my dream. In many ways, that dream has come true. But I have also come to realize a lot of time has passed in my life pushing away, blocking out and not dealing with real feelings going on inside of me. I have tried not to be gay for more than 20 years of my life. I found so much comfort as a teen in 1 Samuel 18-20 and the intimacy of Jonathan and David. I thought and hoped that such male intimacy could fulfill that void I felt in my desire for male companionship. I always thought if I could find these intimate friendships, then that would be enough. 
Then I thought everything would come naturally on my wedding night. I honestly had never even made out with a girl before I got married. Of course, it felt anything but natural for me. Trying not to be gay, has only led to a desire for intimacy in friendships which pushed friends away, and it has resulted in a marriage where I couldn’t love or satisfy my wife in a way that she needed. Still, I tried to convince myself that this was what God wanted and that this would work. I thought all of those other feelings would stay away if I could just do this right. 
When Lauren and I got married, I committed to loving her to the best of my ability, and I had the full intention of spending the rest of my life with her. Despite our best efforts, however, I have come to accept that there is nothing that is going to change who I am. 
I have intensely mixed feelings about the changes that have resulted in my life. While I regret the way I was taught to handle this growing up, how much it has hurt me and the unintentional pain I have brought Lauren, I wouldn’t have the friendship I now have with her, and we wouldn’t have our two amazing, beautiful children. But if I keep trying to push this down it will end up hurting her even more. 
I am never going to be able to change how I am, and no matter how healthy our relationship becomes, it’s never going to change what I know deep down: that I am gay. Lauren has been the most supportive, understanding, loving and gracious person I could ever ask for, as I have come to face this. And now I am trying to figure out how to co-parent while being her friend, and how to raise our children. 
I have progressed so much in my faith over these last several years. I think I needed to be able to affirm other gay people before I could ever accept it for myself. Likewise, I couldn’t expect others to accept me how I am until I could come to terms with it first. 
I know I have a long way to go. But if this honesty with myself about who I am, and who I was made by God to be, doesn’t constitute as the peace that passes all understanding, then I don’t know what does. It is like this weight I have been carrying my whole life has been lifted from me, and I have never felt such freedom. 
In sharing this publicly I’m taking another step into health and wholeness by accepting myself, and every part of me. It’s not only an idea for me that I’m gay; It’s my life. This is me being authentic and real with myself and other people. This is a part of who I am. 
I hope people will hear my heart, and that I will still be loved. I’m still the same guy, with the same heart, who wants to love God and love people with everything I have. This is a part of me I have come to be able to accept, and now it is a part of me that you know as well. I trust God to help love do the rest. 
Trey

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Lefty Limbo: The Day He Asked For Docs.


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Lefty Limbo: "Dad, what kind of boots are those?" 
"They're Docs."
"Cool. Can I have Docs like yours too?" 
"Yes!"



The Most Reverend Metropolitan Athanasios [Nikolaou] of Limassol: The Orthodox Church has always prayed "for the Union of all" – I believe this to mean the return to and Union with [Israel] of all those who broke away and distanced themselves from Her ~ of Heretics and Schismatics ~ once they have renounced their Heresy and Schism and flee from those things with repentance and are integrated and joined – United – with the Orthodox Church in accordance with the teachings of the sacred canon. The Orthodox Church of Christ never lost the "unity of faith and the communion of the Holy Spirit" and does not accept the theory of the restoration of the unity of those "who believe in Christ," because it believes that the unity of those who believe in Christ already exists in the unity of all of Her baptised children, between themselves and with Christ, in Her correct faith, where no Heretics or Schismatics are present, for which reason She prays for their return to Orthodoxy in repentance. I believe that what is stated in article 5 regarding "the lost unity of Christians" is incorrect, because the Church as God’s people, united among themselves and with the Head of the Church which is Christ, never lost this unity and therefore is not in need of rediscovering or seeking it, because it always was, is, and will be just as the Church of Christ has never ceased nor will cease to exist. In other words, there do not exist other Churches, only Heresies and Schisms, should we wish to be more precise in our definitions. The expression "towards the restoration of Christian unity" is incorrect because the unity of Christians – the members of the Church of Christ – has never been broken, as long as they remain united to the Church. Separation from the Church and flight from the Church have unfortunately happened numerous times due to heresies and schisms, but there was never a loss of the internal unity of the Church. We confess one Church and that all the others are Schisms and Heresies. I maintain that giving the title "Church" to Heretical or Schismatic communities is entirely incorrect from a theological, dogmatic, and canonical perspective because the Church of Christ is one, as also stated in Article 1, and we cannot refer to a Heretical or Schismatic community or group outside the Orthodox Church as "Church." At no point does this text state that the only way that leads to union with the Church is solely the repentant return of Heretics and Schismatics to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Christ, which according to Article 1 is our Orthodox Church. The reference to the "understanding of the tradition of the ancient Church" gives the impression that there is an ontological difference between the ancient Church of the Seven Ecumenical Councils and the genuine continuation of the same until the present day, namely our Orthodox Church. We believe that there is absolutely no difference between the Church of the 21st century and the Church of the 1st century, because one of the attributes of the Church is the fact we also confess in the Symbol of Faith, namely that it is Apostolic. Article 12 states that the common purpose of the theological dialogues is "the final restoration of unity in correct faith and love." This gives the impression that we Orthodox are seeking our restoration to correct faith and the unity of love, as if we had lost the right faith and are seeking to discover it through the theological dialogues with the heterodox. I maintain that this theory is theologically unacceptable for us all. We owe it also to our brothers who find themselves in Heresy or Schism to be entirely honest with them, and with love and pain to pray and do everything possible to bring about their return to [Israel]. Never did the holy Fathers nor ever in the holy canons or rulings of the sacred Ecumenical or Local Synods, are Heretical or Schismatic groups referred to as churches. If the heretics are indeed churches, where is the single One Church of Christ and the Apostles?




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Jon Escudero: Half the time, you are your own worst Enemy.

Due to the recent turmoil between Lebanon and Israel, however, many have been repatriated back to the Philippines, while others have been relocated to Cyprus, a part of the Philippine evacuation plan.

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NOW.: Filipino influences have yet to infiltrate the mainstream in Lebanon. Yet there are far more Filipinos here than from any other Asian country. With an estimated population of 30,000, they make up seven percent of the country’s workforce, according to a 2008 policy paper by the Kanlungan Center Foundation based in the Philippines. There are about eight or ten locales like Ilokandia that cater to the Filipino community in the Hamra area alone, and in Dora there are many more, says store owner Zakaria Al-Jizi, a Lebanese married to a Filipina he met almost 25 years ago. Indeed, a lot of the restaurants that cater to the Filipino community are run by married Filipino/Lebanese couples, and such pairings are rare examples of the two cultures integrating and collaborating, as opposed to co-existing almost entirely separately.

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Neil Asher Silberman, Israel Finkelstein, David Ussishkin, and Baruch Halpern: The Book of Joshua (12:21) specifically mentions the defeat of the king of Megiddo and the allotment of his territory to the tribe of Manasseh;

JACQUELINE SCHAALJE: Beit Shean is mentioned as belonging to the conquered area of the Israelite tribe of Manasseh

NETANYA MUNICIPALITY: thanks to the Lord for giving them {Netan~ya, lot. "gift of God"} the ability to continue the legacy of the 12 tribes who settled in the Land of Israel, and particularly of the half~tribe of Manasseh, which settled in the region.

Stephen Epstein: Some went down the Mekong River into Vietnam, the Philippines, Siam, Thailand and Malaysia, while some of the Israelites moved to Burma and west to India.

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