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Alfreda Irwin, seated in front, with her staff in 1976, the 100th anniversary of the Daily. Third from left is Nancy Gibbs, current deputy managing editor of Time and author of The Presidents Club, which formed the basis for the 2012 Week Nine lecture platform. Standing sixth from the right is Mary Lee Talbot, who currently writes the Daily’s “Morning Worship” column. The newsroom was in the Post Office building where the Afterwords Café currently resides.

A history of The Chautauquan Daily through a peek inside the newsroom

August 26, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 1 Comment

In his book Chautauqua: A Center for Education, Religion and Arts in America, author Theodore Morrison presents a photo of the original 1876 staff of the Chautauqua Assembly Daily Herald. Among those seated in front of a building marked “Editorial Rooms – Assembly Herald” is the publication’s founder and editor, Theodore Flood.

The caption reads, “Anyone consulting the bound volumes of the Assembly Herald may well wonder how so much thoroughness and order emerged from these editorial quarters.”

Much has changed about Chautauqua’s newspaper in the 136 years it has been published — name, office, staff size and average age, tone, content and technology — but its mission has remained the same.

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The Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, Chautauqua’s pastor and director of the Department of Religion, will preach on “The Case for Ambiguity.”

Campbell gives season’s final sermon

August 25, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

“We are living in an age of certainty, and I want to make the case for ambiguity,” said the Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, director of the Chautauqua Department of Religion.

Campbell will be the preacher for the final Sunday of the 2012 Chautauqua Season at the 10:45 a.m. Service of Worship and Sermon. Her text is I Corinthians 13:4-13, and her title is “The Case for Ambiguity.”

“Even though the Scripture reading will be from the New Revised Standard Version, I will be preaching from the King James Version. I believe that we do see ‘through a glass darkly.’ That old translation is more poetic, but it is also more helpful in a time that is rooted in certainty,” she said. “I believe that it is in times of uncertainty, when we question our thoughts and decisions, that God can enter our lives. Chautauquans are leaving to go to an election burdened with certainty when we can only see anything partially.”

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Hunter: ‘You are not forgotten. You are loved. It is going to be great.’

August 25, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

“Most of us think reason and emotion are antithetical, but they need each other,” began the Rev. Joel Hunter at the Friday morning 9:15 a.m. Devotional Hour. His text was 1 Kings 3:5-9, and his topic was “Odd Couples: Reason and Emotion.”

In the Scripture, Solomon asks God for an “understanding heart.”

Hunter said, “I used to counsel couples planning on getting married to never try to work out a problem when they were angry. When adrenaline goes up, emotions go up, and reason goes down. I tell them to go out, calm down, then come back after prayer.”

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5 Chautauqua Giants: A way to say ‘I love you’

August 24, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

These Chautauqua speakers are giants, although they are not — yet — represented by Royce Carlton. The Oliver Archives Heritage Lecture Series will present “Five More Giants of Chautauqua” today at 3:30 p.m. in the Hall of Christ.

These speakers are Chautauquans giving tribute to Chautauquans who are greater than they are: GIANTS!

This Archives tribute is in its sixth year, an opportunity for Chautauquans to celebrate and respect ancestors — the Institution’s and their own.

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Hunter: ‘We see ourselves in Christ, and we focus on him’

August 23, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

I am talking this week about God’s complementarity, about partners that complete one another, but should never be married lest they become confused. Today, I want to talk about piety and practicality, about soul-shaping and service,” said the Rev. Joel Hunter at the Thursday morning 9:15 a.m. Devotional Hour.

His topic was “Piety and Practicality,” and his text was James 2:14-18.

“People easily confuse or substitute the one for the other,” he said. “That is because they are not sure of their role on Earth. They become indistinct and lose their personal mission. They try to replace the personal love of a personal God with service.”

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Hunter: ‘If love is to be effective, it has to be exclusive’

August 23, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

The Rev. Joel Hunter continued his series on “Odd Couples” at the Wednesday morning 9:15 a.m. Devotional Hour.

“These odd couples hold our lives in dynamic tension as we grow into the creatures God made us to be,” Hunter said.

His title was “Odd Couples: Believers and Unbelievers” and his text was John 17:13-20.

“Unbelievers are people who don’t believe like you do,” he said. The congregation laughed. “Becky, my wife, sat next to a rabbi on Sunday who said we need to be more radical about our own faith. By radical he meant rooted so that we become more the kind of person we are.”

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Hunter: ‘God’s revelation comes by the Word and the world’

August 22, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

“We are always learning about science and religion. They are not separate spheres; God has two major sources of revelation. In Scripture, we find specific revelation, and in nature, we find general revelation,” said the Rev. Joel Hunter at the Tuesday morning 9:15 a.m. Devotional Hour. His text was Romans 1:20, and his topic was “Odd Couples: Faith and Science.”

He noted that the sermon continued on his theme of complementarity. God made the world for differences to combine to be complete; they can go together, but they should never marry. Hunter said that his wife was a biology teacher, and he is a preacher, and they agreed to never combine their fields of expertise in their marriage.

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At 90, longtime Amp usher Nelson is ready for a second retirement

August 21, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

When Marshall Nelson turned 90 in April, he decided that 30 years was long enough to usher in the Amphitheater. But he wanted to read Scripture one more time on Sunday morning, and July 29, his wish was fulfilled. But just because he is retiring — again — from official duties, does not mean that Marshall will be sitting still.

While he has no big plans for his second retirement, Nelson will keep active in Jamestown in the winter and Chautauqua in the summer. Nelson was born in Jamestown in 1922. Like many young men of his generation, he enlisted in the Navy during World War II. He was sent to Bryant Stratton Business School and was assigned to Williams College for V-12 officer training. His ship was being built in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and he lived at the Sloan House YMCA while it was being built.

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