![]() ![]() In the majority decision, Chief Justice John Roberts said the admissions programs could not be reconciled with the "guarantees of the Equal Protection Clause.” In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the decision "rolls back decades of precedent and momentous progress. Podcast: The Future of Affirmative ActionĭECISION: : A divided Supreme ruled that the use of affirmative action in admissions programs at two universities was unconstitutional. ![]() Bollinger, regarding the constitutionality of affirmative action in higher education,and if institutions of higher education can still use race as a factor in their student admissions process. In these cases, the Court is reviewing its prior precedent, Grutter v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. Podcast: Free Speech, Same-Sex Marriage, and Anti-Discrimination LawsĭECISION: : In a 6-3 decision from Justice Neil Gorsuch, the Court held that the First Amendment prohibits Colorado from forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees. The Court is considering if a Colorado public-accommodation law violates the First Amendment’s Free Speech Clause if it compels a website artist and designer to speak or stay silent. In this case, an artist declined to design a website for a same-sex wedding, stating it was against her religious beliefs. Podcast: Presidential Power, Standing, and Student Loan ForgivenessĭECISION: : In a 6-3 decision from Chief Justice John Roberts in the Nebraska case, the Court said the Secretary of Education lacked the authority under the HEROES Act "to rewrite that statute to the extent of canceling $430 billion of student loan principal." The other challenge was dismissed for lack of standing. Among the questions before the Court are if the respondents have the standing to challenge the program in court if the Biden administration exceeded power granted to it by lawmakers and if the Biden administration used the proper procedures to adopt the program. These highly publicized cases involve the legality of the Biden administration’s student-debt relief program. Here is a list of the major decisions expected from the nine justices, including rulings on free speech, redistricting, the environment, student loans, immigration, and speech protections for internet content providers. With the Supreme Court approaching the start of summer, the justices will likely decide the Court’s major remaining cases by late June. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Our ministers will again go on retreat this spring to imagine and dream with one another about God’s movement within and through our church.Our Minister to Students, Dane Martin, will go on his own, well-earned sabbatical as he finds both rest for his soul and new insights into how to best share the Gospel with our youth.We will continue to care for those families and remind them of the love of God through embraces, cards, and casseroles. We will undoubtedly lose more of our beloved church members this year.We gained thirty new church members and baptized a number of people (including many youth!) this year and we welcome them into the life of our congregation!īut as I look back, I am also looking forward to what the Lord has in store for our congregation in 2023:.Revealed: The Book of Revelation (Eastertide). ![]() I was blessed to preach the following sermon series’ in 2022:.Together with four other North Carolina CBF churches, we are focused on the five traits of a thriving church: Compelling Clarity, Faithful Agility, Holy Tenacity, Rooted Relationships, and Dynamic Collaboration. Our Vision and Navigation Team entered into a process with CBF called the Thriving Congregations cohort.Out of that dreaming (and coupled with the results of a congregational survey) came our All Together Ardmore emphasis and our desire to see Community Groups form in peoples’ homes. Francis Springs Retreat Center, our ministers reimagined what spiritual formation could look like at Ardmore Baptist. You can read Lee’s reflections on her sabbatical here and here. She spent intentional time looking at the spiritual formation of children and how best to equip families to craft home cultures of discipleship. Our wonderful Minister with Children and Families, Lee Ritchie, embarked on a sabbatical.Every loss of someone we love is a reminder that we live in our “space between” in which we are awaiting the Resurrection and the reunion we will experience with those we love. Every one of them was a beloved beacon of goodness and wisdom for us. We lost a number of our stalwart saints in 2022.Here are a few highlights in the life of our church over the past year: I also use this time to look back over the previous year. Sandra McCracken has a beautiful duet with Josh Garrels called “ The Space Between.” The words explore that liminal week between holidays as a time of introspection and gratitude: I look forward to walking this road with you, sisters and brothers!ĭuring the week between Christmas and New Years’ Day, there is a song that I love to listen to. January 8 – The Walk: Worship and Prayer.During each of these weeks I am going to challenge you to consider how you can integrate these practices into your life. Together we will look at six spiritual practices that help to guide us as we walk the road of discipleship. Our destination is to grow closer to our Creator, but we need signs and guidance along the way.īeginning on Sunday, January 8, we will be starting a new sermon series called The Walk. Our spiritual lives are often described as a walk. We need signs and guidance along the way. When we walk to reach a destination, we have to rely on some help. We Americans don’t do much of that type of walking I have laughed at myself before that I will drive two miles one way to a park in order to walk four miles on a trail! But there is a big difference between aimless walking and walking to get to a destination. I have some favorite trails where I am content just aimlessly walking around for hours. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These Cards can be obtained during Shuffle** Times. Skill cards are what they sound like Skills in cards. Her task is similar to the Persona Compendium (more on it in "Persona Shopper"). Marie is the teenie-girl sitting in the Velvet Room. A helpful Costume guide if you are interested.When maxing Margarets S-Link -> Ask for another request and she will give your whole team a costume.Whenever you enter the TV talk to the Fox and pet it.A lot of Quests have costumes as rewards.Other Costumes are buyable goods in Okina City.A lot of them will be given to you just by progressing in the story. There are a lot of other costumes in the game. Equip it right away and once you go into battle you should obtain this achievement. Very early into the game your teacher will call you out at night and hands you a costume. Try to kill it either with Almighty damage or with strong physical abilites.ĭefeating a golden hand will get you this trophy + a ton of money and EXP. Try to enter the battle with an Advantage-Strike but dont let the enemy run into you otherwise he will get the advantage.ĭepending on the dungoen they are pretty much resistent to all elemental damage and they will try to get an opening and run away. Once you are close to them they will run away and you will have to hit them with your weapon. Golden Hands are easy to spot and are present in every dungoen. To obtain the advantage-strike and the achievement, you have to hit the back of the shadow with your weapon. Shadows are wandering around in dungeons and before entering a battle you can either have the first strke or not. For certain achievements you will need to change the difficulty level anyways if you want to make your life easier You can play the game in very easy or very hard. Changing the difficulty level of the game during or before the game will not have any influence on the story + endings or the achievemnts.Most of these achievements are achieved by just playing the game and the other ones are much easier to obtain once you know exactly what you are doing (Example: Hardcore Rise Fan, The Reaper Becomes the Reaped, Thorough Bookkeeper, etc.) I know it sounds stupid to say but this is neither Dark Souls nor a Final Fantasy game. But even if some achievements are annoying and grindy you should always keep in mind that this is a game to enjoy and have a fun time. And the achievements are a great motivation to play the game to its fullest. Persona is an amazing game to play and to enjoy.You will eventaually get them on your second one. If you have missed any of the ones in the first Playthrough. Thats why this guide is seperated in walkthroughs showing which achievements you CAN get and which one I RECOMMEND getting in this particular walkthrough. Getting all the achievements will take AT LEAST 2 walkthroughs if done right.Just read the tipps I give you and you should be fine Persona 4 Golden is quite forgiving when it comes to maxing everything. On my second playthrough I have done quite a few mistakes and still got all the achievements at the end. 2) that they seem like you are not allowed to do any kind of mistakes.1) basically let someone else tell you exactly how to play your game.The problem with those kind of Guides are that you This is not a strict guide telling you what to do ON EVERY SINGLE DAY.This guide is heavlily influenced by my own experiences with the game and a lot of researching during my playthroughs I had to check a lot of guides and Forums and what not to finally understand certain achievements. Persona 4 Golden is quite an old game and has countless of guides on the internet. ![]() The big ones are the main reason why I started this guide in the first place and they will have their own sections further down.I tried to make this as spoiler free as possible by obviously warning and blacking out every spoiler in the guide. ![]() |
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