“As Shee Preachers Hold Forth Christ”

As the ship sails forth.

This concluding article comments on what we learned from the conference, what we still need to know, and what we need to do now. It describes what participants said about the impact of the conference and the follow-up steps that have been taken so far. In terms of what we learned, there was agreement on the importance of culture in understanding literacy and health literacy; the importance of c...

Preachers who are not believers.

There are systemic features of contemporary Christianity that create an almost invisible class of non-believing clergy, ensnared in their ministries by a web of obligations, constraints, comforts, and community. Exemplars from five Protestant denominations, Southern Baptist, United Church of Christ, Presbyterian, Methodist and Church of Christ, were found and confidentially interviewed at lengt...

The Healing Christ

In keeping with our theme, Health and Hope, we began on Tuesday to examine the concept of whole person healing which affirms that we can live out the reality of being created in God’s image. As God’s image becomes restored in this process, the God-given mental, social and spiritual capacities of our patients become liberated and their physical health renewed. In this way, we can counteract the ...

FORTH Annotated Bibliography 5.31.11

Stack Caching in Forth

Stack caching speeds Forth up by keeping stack items in registers, reducing the number of memory accesses for stack items. This paper describes our work on extending Gforth’s stack caching implementation to support more than one register in the canonical state, and presents timing results for the resulting Forth system. For single-representation stack caches, keeping just one stack item in regi...