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The wife of Anthony Perkins, the original Norman Bates, Berry Berenson, died as a result of being a passenger on one of the 9/11 planes. James

A central issue in Stendahl's position is the understanding of Galatians 3: 24,25: 24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. KJV 24 So that the law was our custodian until Christ came, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a custodian; RSV As evinced by the different translations above, one view is that the purpose of the law was to bring people to Christ, presumably by convincing individuals of sin and driving them to Christ for forgiveness. The KJV reflects this view. The RSV translation says that the law was to keep us [safe] until Christ came. I agree with Stendahl on this point. Verse 25 says that we are no longer under a schoolmaster. That is what the RSV translation indicates. The law's purpose was to safeguard us until Christ arrived. Once Jesus came, the law ceased to have an active roll in our life. Luther held to a continuing roll for the law. This was his "second use" of the law. The NPP relinquishes the second use to the work of the Holy Spirit. The traditional SDA interpretation of the law aligns with that articulated by Thomas Aquinas. He divided the law into different sections, as do SDA: "Wherefore to worship God, since it is an act of virtue, belongs to a moral precept; but the determination of this precept, namely that He is to be worshipped by such and such sacrifices, and such and such offerings, belongs to the ceremonial precepts. Consequently the ceremonial precepts are distinct from the moral precepts." "Therefore besides the moral, judicial and ceremonial precepts, the Law contains others which are called "commandments." [The "commandments" (mandata) spoken of here and in the body of this article are not to be confused with the Commandments (praecepta) in the ordinary acceptance of the word.]" "Furthermore the commandments may be distinguished from the precepts, so that those things be called "precepts" which God Himself prescribed; and those things "commandments" which He enjoined [mandavit] through others, as the very word seems to denote. From this it is clear that all the precepts of the Law are either moral, ceremonial, or judicial; and that other ordinances have not the character of a precept, but are directed to the observance of the precepts, as stated above." Question 99, articles 1-6 SUMMA THEOLOGIAE: The precepts of the old law (Prima Secundae Partis, Q. 99)

Brewers sweep the Dodgers in the NLCS to reach the World Series for the first time since 1982 LOS ANGELES (AP) — After 44 years, the Milwaukee Brewers are finally going back to the World Series. https://apnews.com/article/brewers-dodgers-score-nlcs-cfd30befcec42a035cbea5cae3bf746c? ps:Congrats to the Brewers winning the NL to face the AL winner!!

EAarlier I selected one of the above days and read through the reporkt. I saw that Ted wilson spoke a ckouple lof times. I attended the General Conference session that elected Ted Wilson as GC Psresident. I thought highly of his klFather and expected the same for Ted, as President. He has been replaced. I consider it to be time fo rhim to retreat from governilng the direction of the SDA Church. I believe that he could do a good work for this Church iff he wold leave that for others. I believetlhat the time has come fo rhim to depart fr kokm all administrative and governlmance of the SDA Church. We donot need him attending ansd speaking at such meetings as we jusst held. Hlis time as a SDA Leader ils finished and he shold leave that to others. Just my personal opinion. Gregory Matthews

The so-called Annual Coulncil is one pf two important meetings that are held by the General Conference each year. This 2026 meeting ended recently. In this thred provide you with links to information related to those meetings. The first set of links is kprovided by Spectrum. Annual Council–Friday–Focus on OneVoice27 and a Leader Resignation Over Korean Money Scandal Annual Council—Sunday—Membership Trends, Church Manual Concerns, and New VP Elected Annual Council 2026 – Monday: Church Finances Grow Despite Auditing Worries Annual Council 2026 – Tuesday and Wednesday: Newly-Elected NSD President and “Adventist Intelligence” Introduced To che ck on what Adventist Today might say about those lmeetilnggs see: https://atoday.org/

This is not new. These statements go back to at least 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190212174634/https://glendalecitychurch.org/about-us I am not sure how they are affiliated.

"Glendale City is a Christian church affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist denomination (www.adventist.org) Our congregation was one of the first Adventist churches established in this part of Southern California. While we continue to partner with this denomination, we are in a posture of protest against the unjust actions taken by our General Conference that attempt to undermine the contextualized work of the Adventist churches and centers of education in the Western United States. We are in solidarity with the actions of our Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (www.puconline.org) that: • Ordain both women and men as clergy • Protect the right of Adventist centers of education to teach current science to its students while honoring God as Creator • Stand with congregations that welcome and include our LGBTQ loved ones in their faith communities." About Us

👋 Kindness to go! Illustration: Allie Carl/Axios Doing good can be refreshingly simple — like this example from reader Ray Cunningham of Issaquah, Wash., who turned a random act of kindness into a habit: "Whenever I'm out for a run, I give a wave to everyone whom I meet along the way, whether they are walking, running or cycling. Just a simple acknowledgment that we're in this together as a community. I've noticed over time that many of those who've seen me before start giving me waves back."

🐐 Trump's scapegoats Sen. John Cornyn at the U.S. Capitol in September. Photo: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images Trump is preemptively blaming Cornyn and Karl Rove for "doing everything possible to make it hard for Ken Paxton" to win the Texas Senate race. "If Ken Paxton loses, it will be because of WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Political Hacks like John Cornyn and Karl Rove," Trump posted on Truth Social. 🤠 Why it matters: That's a far cry from "clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose." Trump won Texas by 14 points just two years ago. What to watch: Trump's post comes the same day FEC campaign finance reports confirmed Elon Musk's efforts to help Paxton across the finish line. Musk gave $158 million to the Senate GOP's main super PAC in September over two transactions, as Axios reported this morning. The day after each Musk donation, SLF made an equal-sized transfer to a Texas PAC— a pop-up super PAC dedicated to electing Paxton. The big picture: A new poll this week in Texas showed Democratic candidate James Talarico with a narrow lead over Paxton, 50% to 47%. Republican leaders warned Trump for months that if Paxton won the primary against Cornyn, it would cost the party far more to keep the seat. Those predictions are proving true, with more than $500 million in ad spending already flowing into the Texas Senate race, according to AdImpact. The other side: Talarico is getting pummeled with some of that money, but he's far from defenseless. He was already on the air in August, when Paxton and Republicans were still figuring out their game plan — and who would foot the bill. Talarico raised $64 million in the third quarter off an army of small donors. His campaign said 97% of contributions were under $100. Talarico's fundraising prowess allowed him to raise hard dollars, which command lower ad rates. "Oh my god, holy crap, I saw Talarico," Moreno said today. "I don't even know how you raised $64 million in a quarter. I mean, that's a number that's mind-blowing." Paxton brought in $18 million. — Stef Kight and Hans Nichols ps:Of course lets just blame everyone else and not the person that's responsible for the mess that the republican/trumplican party is in!!!!!

🍗 Republican "Last Supper" Sen. Bernie Moreno wants his fellow Republicans to cancel their holiday plans and jam through "everything that we could possibly get" if they lose the majorities in November's midterms. Why it matters: Republicans couldn't muster the votes for a megabill this summer, and leadership is not confident they can now. 📞 But Moreno is calling for the GOP to make a bigger push in the event of losing power. "We will do a reconciliation bill, one way or the other," Moreno — who said it is "more likely" the GOP holds the Senate — told reporters outside the Capitol today. But if Republicans lose: "It'll be the Last Supper. So it'll be a giant reconciliation bill where we take all the Republican priorities that we can get done." "If we lose the House and the Senate, we should be here from Nov. 9 until Dec. 31 with no break at all," he said. "Like, we'll have turkeys here for Thanksgiving." Zoom in: Conversations have been ongoing in congressional offices about what a reconciliation package might look like in the lame-duck session between the election and the new Congress next year, a source familiar with the matter tells us. "We are working with the House and White House to develop what all is included to be able to sell to the public and our Republican colleagues when we return," Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chair of the Budget Committee, told us. Election outcomes won't substantively change much for frequent holdouts like Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) who are on their way out. That's not to mention Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), who are appropriators and known to break from the party. What to watch: Republicans face a long to-do list in the lame duck, including funding the government for the next fiscal year, passing emergency defense spending and raising the debt ceiling. Those could all be considered part of a massive reconciliation package that requires just a majority vote to pass. But not everything qualifies for the reconciliation process — and big bills can cause big headaches. Other to-do items include: Passing the National Defense Authorization Act Reinstating FISA Section 702, the warrantless wiretap authority Passing the farm bill Passing permitting reform Confirming nominations Between the lines: Some of the administration's top priorities are banking on the partisan-led funding maneuver of reconciliation, including President Trump's sprawling Golden Dome missile defense system, autonomous weapon advancement efforts and upgrades to the F-35 fighter jet. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told attendees at an Army conference yesterday the Pentagon needs "a minimum" of $350 billion to "rebuild the military." The intrigue: If Republicans lose the Senate majority, it will almost certainly be Moreno's job to try to win it back. He is running for National Republican Senatorial Committee chair — so far, unopposed. — Stef Kight, with contributions from Axios Defense reporter Thomas Novelly

Warning Signs (Joe Raedle / Getty)   View in browser America just had its last major checkup on inflation ahead of the midterm elections, and the results aren’t looking good. Yesterday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released September’s update to the Consumer Price Index, one of the most important metrics for understanding how much Americans actually pay for goods and services. (Among them: cupcakes, dental care, sports equipment.) Overall, costs for consumers have been rising faster than economists expected. They’re up 3.7 percent over the past year, and September marked the largest monthly increase since April—much of which had to do with massive Iran-war-driven spikes in energy prices. That’s just the first half of the problem. At the same time, the BLS revealed yesterday that Americans now have less spending power than they did earlier this year. Real wages—the average amount, adjusted for inflation, that workers earn an hour—have tumbled back down to about where they were when Donald Trump retook the presidency last January. Prices are now rising so fast, across so many different industries, that they’ve overwritten nearly two years of wage gains. As the economist Jared Bernstein put it in his CPI postmortem today, “It’s one thing to cope with high prices when your earnings are at least keeping pace with inflation. But when they’re falling behind … well, that makes for a much tougher equation.” Kevin Hassett, the Trump-appointed director of the National Economic Council, said yesterday that he sees a “whole bunch of good news” in the CPI report—namely food prices (they’ve held relatively steady) and prescription-drug prices, which have gotten lower (something he credits to Trump’s online drugstore). The sheer scope of the data makes it easy to cherry-pick examples. The prices of both milk and cookies have gone down since August too, so at least Trump’s economy has been good to Santa. But as economists and Democratic politicians have been quick to point out, the overwhelming majority of the data don’t support that optimism. For example, the prices of other everyday goods, such as coffee, clothing, and hardware, have all gone up. Taken together, the BLS numbers offer a compelling explanation for Americans’ frustrations with the cost of living. Another recent report helps put those frustrations in context: People’s confidence in the economy is approaching a record low, per the preliminary October results of the University of Michigan’s consumer-sentiment survey. And according to today’s BLS data on wholesale prices, businesses are reckoning with higher costs too. The Producer Price Index is now at its highest level in four years. Not all of this is attributable to Trump. The price spikes are the result of a “perfect storm” of macroeconomic forces, Heather Long, the chief economist at the Navy Federal Credit Union, told me. The AI boom, for example, is clearly behind some of September’s computer-related increases. Bernstein told me over email that the breadth of last month’s price movement is part of what’s so concerning. Even when you strip away the volatile energy and food categories, what’s known as the “core” inflation rate is still up 2.6 percent year-over-year. Widespread hikes across these core categories—including housing, hotels, and recreational goods—suggest that the problem has to do with more than just foreign policy. Still, these new BLS reports carry dire warnings for the president and his party. When Trump began his second term, he claimed to have inherited the worst inflation in United States history. Today, inflation is rising faster than it was last January, and Trump’s own actions have undercut his claim that we’re living through an economic “Golden Age.” The tariffs that he implemented last year had a dramatic impact on all kinds of consumer goods. Without those duties, economists at the New York Fed estimate that prices would have declined into early 2026. “For every percentage point increase in average tariffs, consumer goods prices increase by about a quarter of a percent,” the report reads. The president’s decision to bring the country into a costly, protracted war with Iran has also made energy more expensive around the world. In America, gasoline alone is up 9.1 percent since last month and up 34.2 percent since last September, per the BLS. Trying to reclaim the narrative, Trump has recently been putting some of the blame on Ukraine. He said on Saturday that President Volodymyr Zelensky “wants to make problems for the world” by attacking Russian diesel refineries. (Rebuking Trump, Zelensky told the Financial Times today that Ukraine will keep attacking refineries anyway.) Although it’s true that the war in Eastern Europe has contributed to higher diesel prices, experts agree that the bigger culprit is the war in Iran. As a stopgap measure, Trump temporarily lifted some restrictions on tax-exempt diesel use, and he made a controversial deal with Russia over the weekend to import potentially millions of tons of diesel. The agreement has been widely denounced as a betrayal of a U.S. ally during wartime, and analysts are doubtful that it will be enough to get prices down. Trump has lately been urging voters to look away from the economic reality, even promising to hand out millions of $5,000 checks if Republicans hold on to their majority in the midterm elections. Judging by the forecasts for his party’s races, Americans aren’t listening. Inflation tends to speak for itself. Related: Everything Trump wants to do causes inflation. Trump campaigned on affordability. Now he’s calling the idea a “con job.”

Iraq parliament fills Cabinet posts, naming a US-sanctioned deputy prime minister Iraq's parliament voted Thursday to appoint ministers to previously vacant Cabinet posts and complete the country's government - including a deputy prime minister who is under U.S. sanctions. Read More.

Judge tosses ex-CIA head John Brennan's document preservation lawsuit against the Justice Department A federal judge on Thursday rejected a lawsuit from John Brennan that sought to force the Justice Department to preserve investigative records so that the former CIA director can challenge any eventual criminal case against him as a selective and malicious prosecution. Read More.

Average long-term US mortgage rate holds at 7.4%, remaining at highest level in nearly 3 years Mortgage rates held steady this week, keeping the average long-term U.S. home loan rate at its highest level in nearly three years. Read More.

Wisconsin's Republican candidate for governor keeps his distance from Trump in nail-biter campaign Democrats got the matchup they wanted for governor in Wisconsin. Read More.

Japan's Takaichi says chores and makeup add hours to her workday, sparking debate on gender roles Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ’s comments about the additional work she has to take on as a woman compared to her male predecessors have sparked a debate about gender roles in the country and have put her performance under the spotlight. Read More.

EU leaders push back on a major budget proposal, putting a deal by end of the year in doubt European Union leaders voiced strong opposition on Thursday to a new proposal for the bloc’s long-term budget, raising serious doubt about whether the key spending package will be agreed by the end of year. Read More.

Teen shooter kills 4 at Oregon elementary school before being shot by a witness A 16-year-old shot his way through locked doors to get into an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday, killing three children and a teacher. He was then shot by a person at the scene who followed him inside, authorities said. https://apnews.com/article/oregon-school-shooting-silver-rail-elementary-b0642ec5cd3da0db24227a2798e2c6ce?

Worrisome trend Not all parents are outwardly anti-vaccination, but more and more of them are delaying their children’s shots. An expert says the consequences are just as dangerous.

The forecast is in A looming super El Niño will influence winter weather patterns across the US, bringing heavy rain or snow to some. See which areas could be hit hardest. 🌧️ Download the CNN Weather app

☀️ 1 for the road: New sunscreen hits shelves Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios The first sunscreens using bemotrizinol — sometimes called BEMT — are hitting store shelves after the FDA approved them in June. Bemotrizinol has long been the go-to sunscreen option in Europe and elsewhere. Dermatologists say it offers broad protection but without the downsides of other sunscreens, including white streaking. BEMT has decades of safety data behind it, including studies showing that it has minimal absorption into the skin. Go deeper ... Learn more.

🐶 Luna, a Jack Russell terrier that's been on the loose around Yellowstone National Park for over a month, was caught and reunited with her owners this week. Go deeper.

🤖 Apple and Meta, whose leaders have spent years trading barbs over privacy and the future of computing, are joining forces to bring one of America's most powerful open-weight AI models to Apple's high-end Macs. More from Ina Fried.

Trump, after bipartisan backlash, says Pentagon won’t livestream execution of Fort Hood shooter WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that the Pentagon will no longer livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, after the announcement faced bipartisan criticism and Vice President JD Vance said he wouldn’t watch it. https://apnews.com/article/trump-fort-hood-execution-9b48781e88660064bf0f5aa020db8df7? FBI agents and analysts fired for roles in Trump classified files probe sue to get their jobs back WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI employees fired for their roles in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s retention of classified documents at his Florida estate sued Thursday to get their jobs back, calling their terminations unlawful acts of “political retribution.” https://apnews.com/article/fired-fbi-agents-lawsuit-trump-patel-maralago-69d3544a73ddcdb54f164807adde85ea?