So SPG got this nutritionist Lauren Wingent a while ago to do an individual assessment with those who signed up for it. Regarding diet.
The advise she gave me:
Breakfast: 2 eggs, plain yogurt (more protein) with fruit, Smoothie, the shake mix (see photo of the free sample she gave me) I guess those VegaOne brand works too.
Eat every 4-5 hours.
Oatmeal with fiber
Limit bread in evening.
Crock Pot meals.
Avoid rice/bread = carbohydrate as much as possible.
The OP is Alex, on Facebook. I will make comments here below. Source: https://www.facebook.com/notes/shao-kai-tseng/%E5%B0%8D%E4%B8%AD%E8%8F%AF%E7%A6%8F%E9%9F%B3%E7%A5%9E%E5%AD%B8%E9%99%A2%E9%83%AD%E6%80%A1%E5%90%9B%E8%80%81%E5%B8%AB%E4%BA%BA%E4%BA%8B%E6%A1%88%E4%B9%8B%E6%88%91%E8%A6%8B/2189850764406365/
IChun
KuoShao Kai Tseng 沒多久以前,我的情況也如是你筆下踹踹不安的儲備師資。我一直知道自己身上被貼了什麼標籤,但是對標籤向來無感的我,仍然一路踹踹不安,一路又自顧瀟灑地走進了華神,心裡面就是神同在的應許,和他寶貴的呼召,一生的陪伴和帶領。這個人事案對我個人的傷害非常多層次,每個腦區都受震盪,其中最深沉的,大概是被質疑呼召,和諷刺我不合規格該離校。謝謝你從神學傳統的角度評析,我在閉門會議現場,宣讀了一個聲明,其中確實強調自己的福音神學立場,只是沒有被聽進去。整個閉門會議,有如創世紀一開始空虛混沌,好像很多神學、教規、傳統在一鍋湯裡,胡胡條條地煮成了滋味不明的宇宙。如今用化學主成分分析的方式,或可重新把我們萃取出來,回歸純粹,各從其類,彼此尊重。讓宇宙爆炸洪荒長成花園。
Mingji
Deem 我是外人,對實際情況如何不了解,無法說太多,也沒資格說太多。每一件懲戒的事情都有它的複雜性complexity,很多時候不是那麼的clear cut,我的原則是要傾聽當事人的實際情況,多了解事情的來龍去脈,再做議論跟決定,不然容易陷入論斷。我明白華人教會界的處境如何,對這種『傳統』特別敏感,但對教義(包括最基本的福音派聖經論的持守)及行政做事方式的合法性卻含糊其辭,這是很可悲的,也不是好見證。我自己也經歷過你所說的那種噩夢,你懂的。我就不多說了。
Shao
Kai Tseng陳富美 另外,華人教會向有「師母」的傳統,以為教會服事應該是買一送一。華神也有個師母團,定期聚會。有位老師跟他妻子認為,妻子不是丈夫的附屬品,所以那位師母不喜歡參加那些聚會,還遭到其他師母些許非議(或許那些師母無意非議我所提的那位師母,但我太太聽了,覺得那些師母講得「很難聽」)。
Kang PS 基本上同意曾老師的看法,也同意「與非基督徒成婚者是否適任華神教職」和「XYZ老師與非基督徒成婚,是否仍適任華神教職」,這兩者有重要的差異。至於對XYZ老師這事的適當處理,是否只是考量「與非基督徒成婚者是否適任華神教職」或必須考量「XYZ老師與非基督徒成婚,是否仍適任華神教職」,則我們的看法未必一致。
Rose
Chiu 坦白说,我是傾向支持華神的決定的,雖然我人不在其中,没有什麼立場,也没有了解事件始末。1.華神的超宗派,但对聖經的話的持守嚴谨,是我知道的。這事件肯定不好把宗派issue扯入。2.就我所知,華神老師及行政同工的对学校的重要决定是要等待所有人都同意才move on.
3.華神老師们的信念是生命的要求很重要,教牧同工要求自己在講台的講道和生命的承現一致。
4.記得我們在台北工作時,得到的印象是,員工不適合在类似fb的平台谈工作有関的事,尤其是負面情結.5.這是華神的家事,外人,尤其旅居国外不在同一文化背景的人,是不適於在fb論談的。比如就像我们老師在教導孩童時,也要注意孩子的家庭的背景,若是只是各家家規及作法不同,整华不影响聖經的应用,我們會尊重。另外,除非我在被認可可以参與意見,我會給予意見,但不會在fb上談論。畢竟現在忠於聖言教導的神学院不多.
Mingji
Deem 文章讨论的是神学院是否能根据其信仰告白作出惩戒其教师的决定。对我而言,这是关乎法理性的行政决定是否合理。但神学院不是教会,所以这里讨论的不是教会内的惩戒。我们的讨论也要不跑题才是。当然我也指出,该老师的婚姻也会有教牧问题,是她及其教会需要面对处理的,她在教会中,婚姻中,及工作中(神学院)中需要处理的。
Peter
K Chow 謝謝劭愷與 Mingji 的分享。在1970年代,創辦華神的宗派與差會有一定的默契,但許多內容沒有形成文字(當時沒有必要)。在婚姻方面的共識相當符合 WCF 24。神學方面雖然是跨宗派,但也有默契,包含福音派的聖經無誤立場。聖經底本無誤在華神信仰告白裡是第一條。對我這改革宗神學依循者而言,人的墮落影響理智、意志與情感。若思想、感受不順服聖經,就不可能達到真理,生活也不能討主喜悅。。。到了21世紀,整個東南亞華人福音派神學院的遊戲規則逐漸改變,聖經無誤提都不想提,並允許理性或感受凌駕在聖經以上。華神目前似乎沒有改革宗立場的系統神學老師(?)。。。2020年是華神建校50週年。這是一個好契機作反省,重新擬定「遊戲規則」。例如(1)是否仍舊接受聖經底本無誤?(2)神學多元性有沒有界限?(3)師生有沒有倫理守則(包含婚嫁、同性戀、墮胎。。)?(4)是否不再聘(保守)改革宗立場的系統神學老師?。。。現在公共神學比較流行。我認為凱波爾所開創的新加爾文主義在這方面可以有重大的貢獻。換句話說,希望改革宗思想在華神的第二個50年裡,仍有一席之地。
Tsun En
LuPeter K Chow WCF 24.3 III. It is lawful
for all sorts of people to marry, who are able with judgment to give their
consent.[5] Yet it is the duty of Christians to marry only in the Lord.[6] And
therefore such as profess the true reformed religion should not marry with infidels,
papists, or other idolaters: neither should such as are godly be unequally
yoked, by marrying with such as are notoriously wicked in their life, or
maintain damnable heresies.[7]
Shao
Kai Tseng陸尊恩 Thank
you for citing the WCF, to which I subscribe.
What is interesting is, according to this article, it is also a violation of
the 7th Commandment for a Christian to be married to a person who holds to
“damnable heresy”. This raises the question, whether a person who holds to a
damnable heresy himself is more qualified to teach at an evangelical seminary
than a person married to one such individual. The answer, I think, is obviously
negative.
The kind of Nestorian Christology that one of the most influential professors
at CRTS teaches is certainly damnable by the doctrinal standards of the
Westminster divines. Why, then, has nobody said anything about the
questionableness of his qualification to teach? Why is the case of Ichun
causing such a stir? Isn’t there something seriously wrong with the standards
by which we judge our seminary teachers?
Tsun En
Lu "跨宗派"的概念可以澄清一下。周功和牧師的意思,我的理解,華神創立之初是"非宗派"的,意思是說,華神本來沒有宗派神學的委身,只是一群創建者之間的"默契",那並不是一種清晰的跨宗派神學框架,但不等於沒有神學立場。周牧師提到了聖經底本無誤、婚姻教導方面的共識,看出改革宗神學對華神早期發展的影響。邵愷的意思,我的理解,他用一種比較新鮮的、"多宗派"的架構去評估華神的管理標準,每個教師應該就自己的宗派神學傳統對自己的良心負責。我猜想,邵愷用一種更明確的架構去評判華神目前不明確的架構。另一方面,周牧師觀察這個問題的切入點,則是華神需要澄清自己未來的走向;周牧師更偏好改革宗的底蘊,而不盡然是一種多宗派的框架。我不是華神的校友,不會在別人的事情上發表評論。華神在聖經觀上的共識是不清晰的,在婚姻觀上則有比較清晰的、保守的一方。我想這並不等於,婚姻觀在"校方"眼中比聖經觀重要,因為"校方"其實是一群需要繼續溝通的人。聖經觀的戰局要更比婚姻觀更複雜一些。不是沒有立場,而是還不到表露立場的時機。
Stephen
Chan 謝謝邵愷,謝謝尊恩!我们不是自負,但我们合在一起的智性的恩惠与責任实在是大的。我们要兼顧機構与个人,教義(邵愷)与制度是難的。我们都是人,一定有同感心与公義感。我们是 Intellectuals
(神學与聖經研究),不能不談理念。但要人月兩全是我们乏力的。我想到 CSL and Mrs.
Moore,但我認為他们是純友情。另外是 Joy,她曾經是共產主义者,這是美国猶太人常見的。但她加入聖公会還与兒子一起受洗。他(她)们很像邵愷所憧憬的跨界之愛,這也是我的心儀。但若在今天,CSL 多半更適合在 Vancouver School of Theology, 而不是維真或是未改名的倫敦聖經學院教神學。我是上一代的神學老師,很像 Leon Morris,
Stout, Torrance,同時為牧職也是學者,像周功和院長。現在台港神學院大部分老師是專業的神學人,我不單認同更肯定這現象。在後現代分殊化的大流中,如同路德加爾文的變革,我们要重新自我定位,對神學人,對牧職,對神學院,正如周院長所言。我深盼這次教許多人落淚的事件,可以成為我们的轉機,共同思索新一代的神學教育的範式。
Peter
K Chow 如果經文有不同的解釋,我的傾向是重新檢討經文的解釋,因為有一個,並且只有一個解釋是對的。各方應提出論證。雖然很難達到協議,但這個過程不可無。否則我們承認只有體系內的「真理」,沒有造物主所要我們領受的真理。後期韋根斯坦表面上似乎是對的,實質上其實是錯的(申二十九29)。希望在FB上也可以看到一些有關婚姻的經文的解釋與應用。即使無法達到一致的見解,解經的努力就是肯定有實質的真理,只是受罪影響的人(包含神學家)不一定願意領受。人心詭詐。
但我還是要再強調一次:西敏信條有很多內容是聖經沒有講的。1.6說這些內容是「by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from
Scripture」,而不是「expressly set down in Scripture」。這並不是「律法主義」,我想我不需要解釋這點。這也就意味,其實Westminster
Divines在deduced 的內容上並非教條主義的,都會承認信條並非無誤權柄。他們容許相當的彈性,而17世紀下半葉英倫改革宗神學家更有自己寫信仰告白或來修改西敏信條的風氣。信仰告白也從來不是用來分辨正統與異端的,譬如Saumur學派違反多特信經,但從來沒有被定為異端或逐出改革宗教會。John Owen早年嚴厲批評Saumur學派的預定論,但在Dissertation on
Divine Justice中卻盛讚該學派在上帝論方面的貢獻。
Shao
Kai Tseng 我其實很不樂見這人來淌混水。他是個網路意見領袖,把自己包裝成學者,其實並不是正職的教授(他發文的時候經常省略「兼任」二字,甚至有時省略「助理」),也沒有任何真正的學術研究成果,常以教授權威的姿態發言,發言內容卻經常是憤青的言論,擅長帶風向,製造對立,卻沒有真正激發年輕人思考。
Sam
Tsang simple view from an educator: any academic
institution that wants to be taken seriously needs to stop shooting itself in
the foot, unless the institution is merely a weaponized right arm of
evangelicalism. it's a real shame. i don't know Dr. Kuo, but based on this, i
stand with her.
Sam
Tsang i'm just concerned if this sort of procedures are
regular occurrences, the most basic integrity both in terms of employment and
education will certainly be called to question in the eyes of society.
Shao
Kai Tseng 感謝牧師如此深入、精闢的指教。我發自內心感到認同!這21條論綱也啟發我繼續思想一些問題,內容如下。
我最欣賞信義宗神學的地方,在於信義宗神學沒有改革宗那種鉅細靡遺的邏輯引申與神學體系。信義宗神學並不排斥弔詭的張力,而有時候改革宗神學太過強調邏輯的一致性。論及律法的第三功用,協和信條也肯定律法在信徒身上能夠引導我們討神喜悅,但西敏告白及大要理問答則是鉅細靡遺地列舉各種引申出來的應用。還好,十七世紀制定並持守西敏告白的改革宗先賢,並沒有把信仰告白當成絕對真理,甚至當時許多神學家會自行撰寫信仰告白,表達他們對西敏信條一些細節的疑慮。所以,西敏信條裡面,有些內容不是聖經直接講的,而是從聖經基本原則 "by good
and necessary consequence... deduced" 出來的,他們就不會將其絕對化。這就避免了律法主義的危險。在歷史上的所謂「正統時期」,信義宗與改革宗的辯論顯示,信義宗認為改革宗在許多神學觀點上過度引申。信義宗神學較不容易變成僵化的體系,便在於此。
路德本人確實在 “The Estate of Marriage” (1522) 一文中,明確表示對此議題的意見:
"Know therefore that marriage is an outward, bodily thing, like any other
worldly undertaking. Just as I may eat, drink, sleep, walk, ride with, buy
from, speak to, and deal with a heathen, Jew, Turk, or heretic, so I may also
marry and continue in wedlock with him. Pay no attention to the precepts of
those fools who forbid it. You will find plenty of Christians, and indeed the
greater part of them, who are worse in their secret unbelief than any Jew,
heathen, Turk, or heretic. A heathen is just as much a man or a woman-God’s
good creation-as St. Peter, St. Paul, and St. Lucy, not to speak of a slack and
spurious Christian."
Replace white flour with whole grains like quinoa, white basmati rice, whole grain oats, amaranth, barley, farro, and einkorn. Swap frozen meals for fresh fruits and vegetables. Instead of refined sugar, appreciate the natural sweetness of low-glycemic coconut sugar, maple syrup or dates. Enjoy gluten and dairy in moderation, opting for organic when possible. And so on.
She posted the note on her website, she has her own website! And here's the note, in case it gets taken down:
I Hate The Word “Bye”, But See You Later Maybe?
I have written this note several times in my head for over a decade, and this one finally feels right. No edits, no overthinking. I have accepted hope is nothing more than delayed disappointment, and I am just plain old-fashioned tired of feeling tired.
I realize I am undeserving of thinking this way because I truly have a great life on paper. I’m fortunate to eat meals most only imagine. I often travel freely without restriction. I live alone in the second greatest American city (San Francisco, you’ll always have my heart). However, all these facets seem trivial to me. It’s the ultimate first world problem, I get it. I often felt detached while in a room full of my favorite people; I also felt absolutely nothing during what should have been the happiest and darkest times in my life. No single conversation or situation has led me to make this decision, so at what point do you metaphorically pull the trigger?
I’m going to miss doing NYT crosswords (I was getting really good). That one charcuterie board with taleggio AND ‘nduja. Anything Sichuan ma la, but that goes without saying. A perfect plate of carbonara (no cream!). Real true authentic street tacos. Cal-Italian cuisine. Hunan Bistro’s fried rice. The pork belly and grape mini from State Bird Provisions circa 2013. Popeye’s of course. Bambas too.
I’m also going to miss unexpected hugs. Al Green’s Simply Beautiful. Cherries in July. Tracing a sleeping eyebrow. Smoking cigarettes. The Golden Gate Bridge at sunset. That first sip of iced cold brew in sticky August. Making eye contact with people walking down the street. When songs feel like they’re speaking to your soul. Jeopardy. Saying I love you. Late night junk food binges. Shooting the shit. And especially the no-destination-in-sight long walks.
No GoFundMes, no funeral, no tributes, no doing-too-much please. All I ask now is for you to have one delicious (I mean a really really great) meal in my honor and let me go, no exceptions.
It’s selfishly time for me to be happy and I know you can get down with that. Please try to remember me as a whole human you shared memories with and not just my final act. This is not your fault. It’s not exactly easy for me either, I’m here for you. I love you. I always have and I always will, I promise. Shikata ga’nai.
I’m coming home, Dad. Make some room up on that cloud and turn the Motown up.
I’m really sorry mama.
Always, TLC
============
And her credentials:
ABOUT ME
Tara Condell, MS, RDN, CDN is a New York City based registered dietitian nutritionist specializing in general nutrition, weight management, gastrointestinal disease, and diabetes care.
What does my credentials mean?
It means I spent way too much time and money in school, so I can legally tell you what to eat! Tara received her bachelor’s degree in dietetics from San Francisco State University. She completed her dietetic internship at James J Peters VA Medical Center and Master's of Science in Clinical Nutrition from New York University. Tara is well-versed when it comes to helping people tackle food; from working with lower socioeconomic Veterans in the Bronx to Manhattanites at Weill Cornell’s IBD Center.
Why nutrition?
I love literally everything about food - from the history, to the culture, and especially nutrition! My dad was a 'foodie' before it was considered popular and he made sure it was a focal point in all of my childhood memories. I was gnawing on chicken feet (actually a delicious dim sum dish) and went to my first Michelin starred restaurant all before the age of five. I knew I wanted to do something in the science realm (likely this stems from being the daughter of a Chinese mom and Jewish dad), and having a career in dietetics seemed to be the perfect way to blend the two together.
Tara's Affiliations Include
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Greater New York Dietetic Association
Chinese Americans in Nutrition and Dietetics (2015 award winner)
Nutrition Entrepreneurs DPG (2016 award winner, current PR/Marketing Coordinator)
For loosing weight, not to mention better health, this article confirmed that it's NOT running, walking nor cycling. But do muscle/strength training, metabolism resistance training, HIIT & eat less processed food. I guess, basically almost all covered by PiYo.
At the end of the sermon, the pastor recited a poem by William Cowper. He's been emotional sometimes, but this time it was too much for him to endure, so his cry was more obvious as he recited it. I was sure I heard some sympathetic crier on my 9.
I get that this poem, "Light Shining out of Darkness", was turned into a hymn, "God Moves in a Mysterious Way", which would be an apt comfort for those who felt victimized by the problem of evil. However, I still don't quite get why the pastor would get that emotional or cry about it. Especially when someone who's probably the most emotional guy in the room like me, was not feeling it. Not feeling it now either as I am trying to examine this poem further.
So I signed up to take/survey an online free course offered by Harvard. It's on Copyright. I had to write a short essay why I want to take the course and I was accepted. Twice. I wrote about how I don't think intellectual property exists, but intellectual recognition can be legalized. The first time was probably around 2017 and I did not have time to participate. I shall make time this time.
The course will not start until 1/31/2019 Thursday. But there's already readings and videos to watch. I shall COPY them for my own pleasure. But of course, though there will always be fools, out of their ignorance and pride, finding my stand "flippant", I shall give unto Caesar's [The government power] what's his, despite boldly making my case heard whenever I can.
These twelve lectures were prepared and delivered by Prof. William Fisher. The original versions were recorded during the Winter of 2013. Six have since then been substantially revised.
All of the lectures are licensed under a Creative Commons License, the terms of which are available on the Permission page. Some suggestions concerning the alternative ways of gaining access to and viewing them are set forth at the bottom of this page.