According to Wikipedia:
The first modern Father's Day celebration was held on July 5, 1908, in Fairmont, WV....[I]t was first celebrated as a church service at Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South, now known as Central United Methodist Church. Grace Golden Clayton, who is believed to have suggested the service to the pastor, is believed to have been inspired to celebrate fathers after the deadly mine explosion in nearby Monongah the prior December. This explosion killed 361 men, many of them fathers and recent immigrants to the United States from Italy.
Here is that story in video form, created by Patrick Ball for his father this Father's Day...
The Story of Fathers Day from Patrick Ball on Vimeo.
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Happy Father's Day!!
Posted by: Carla at June 21, 2009 4:48 PMHey Jasper- you may want to make an addendum to your quote of the day as not to confuse our friends- the Randy Alcorn you have quoted is not "our" Pastor Randy Alcorn of Eternal Perspectives Ministries, author of over 30 books including the brilliant "Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments" but another (pro-abortion) columnist of the same name who must enjoy the confusion he causes!
Blessings!!
Posted by: Michelle at June 22, 2009 4:11 AMThose durn scientists and statisticians are at it again.
Jason Malloy of GNXP has collected a bunch of interesting abstracts from the National Bureau of Economic Research, including Ted Joyce's latest on the Steven Levitt abortion-cuts-crime theory:
1. No link Abortion and Crime US and UK
1. Abortion and Crime: A Review
Theodore J. Joyce
Abstract -----
Ten years have passed since John Donohue and Steven Levitt initially proposed that legalized abortion played a major role in the dramatic decline in crime during the 1990s. Criminologists largely dismiss the association because simple plots of age-specific crime rates are inconsistent with a large cohort affect following the legalization of abortion. Economists, on the other hand, have corrected mistakes in the original analyses, added new data, offered alternative tests and tried to replicate the association in other countries. Donohue and Levitt have responded to each challenge with more data and additional regressions. Making sense of the dueling econometrics has proven difficult for even the most seasoned empiricists. In this paper I review the evidence. I argue that the most straightforward test given available data involves age-specific arrest and homicide rates regressed on lagged abortion rates in the 1970s or indicators of abortion legalization in 1970 and 1973. Such models provide little support for the Donohue and Levitt hypothesis in either the US or the United Kingdom.
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15098