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Tim Phelps, scheduled interview, Thursday, 1:54\n- \n
- Understanding employees; personality traits; childhood and young adult experiences; Israelite tribes and priestly classes; idea of co-authoring an eschatology piece with Dr. Gray; “you write one article a week and I got your back” (1:31); interest and curiosity about where our project is going<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Abigail Phelps, scheduled interview, Thursday, 1:50
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- Her work on offender re-entry; knowing someone with an abusive father; understanding personality types (My True Colors, e.g., helper, right thing to do, control, cerebral); experiences of prejudice; compartmentalization and Others; she recommends distributing our “Principles of Harmful Speech and Violence” to SPLC, ADL, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- Rebekah Phelps and Kathy Griffin, scheduled interview, Thursday, 1:49\n
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- Kathy into and through law school, with Becky’s help; Kathy’s journey in and out of the church; family relationships; Becky’s work in family law, its stress and emotions; “he took my client’s child when she was nursing that baby” (1:40)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- Singing hymns in the church (not recorded, ad hoc<\/em> participation)<\/li>\n
- Jonathan and Paulette Phelps, ad hoc<\/em> scheduled interview, Friday, 2:53\n
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- Students conducted this interview on their own.<\/li>\n
- Originally, six students were to accompany Jon and Paulette to Kansas City and observe their picketing. WBC canceled it, they said, due to safety concerns for our students.<\/li>\n
- School situations and family relationships; Paulette’s joining the church; racism and class; doctrinal matters; their impressions of our project, “fair not accurate,” Ps. 68:11 and “he’s simply enrolled in the army of the lord” (2:42:28)<\/li>\n
- “What possessed you to traipse across [many] miles… to come here and to want to sit through this? Seriously.” (2:43) As a teacher, I appreciate that Jon took the time to listen to the students reflect on their reasons for voluntarily signing up for this trip.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Field-observation of WBC picketing, Friday morning (not filmed)<\/li>\n
- Shirley Phelps-Roper and Brent Roper, scheduled interview, Saturday, 1:40\n
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- Charity in the WBC sense; Brent’s relations at work and charitable volunteerism; their early relationship; personality, temper, passion; Brent’s love for Pastor Phelps; posters that were eliminated; newborn babies’ names<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Jonah, Gabe, and Noah Phelps-Roper, with Shirley, scheduled interview, Saturday, 2:02 (G and N after 1:40)
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- experiences at school and college (e.g., bullied to “say you’re gay”); career plans; their questions about practicing Jews; participation with our project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Margie Phelps, scheduled interview, Saturday, 2:26\n
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- her work on the SCOTUS Snyder v. Phelps case, “I gotta know the story” (1:54:15 to 2:06:01); anti-WBC prejudice in agencies; managing chaos; style to improve: “how to effectively navigate a negative, disruptive, bullying person” (~32); possibility of co-authoring an op-ed on the draft “Principles of Harmful Speech and Violence”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Spaghetti dinner with Steve, Luci, Boaz, and Faith Drain (not filmed), Saturday. Thank you!<\/li>\n
- Family Bible reading led by Steve Drain, Saturday, 1 hour. Ecclesiastes ch.5<\/li>\n
- Bekah Phelps-Roper, Deborah Phelps-Davis, Faith Drain, Becky and Julia Jaques, Esther Griffin. Scheduled interview, Saturday, 1:08 hr:min\n
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- This was, in effect, a “bridging conversation” conducted by the Miami student team. Topics included personal interests, career ideas, relations within the church and with schoolmates, and popular culture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Field-observation of WBC picketing, Sunday morning (not filmed)<\/li>\n
- Church service, including sermon by Jonathan Phelps, prayers by Steven [H] (07:00) and Brent (39:50), two hymns, 0:49 min.<\/li>\n
- (Tim Phelps and Hillel Gray, ad hoc <\/em>planning of a co-authored article on eschatology and Zionism, Sunday, 0:33 min)<\/li>\n
- Sam, Jen, Isaac, and Moriah Phelps, (minors in room), scheduled interview, Sunday (1:42)\n
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- Hospice and nursing work; transgender girl in school and other challenges (“Why do you believe in a God that created people just to destroy people?” 19:05); dealing with emotions and religion in the workplace; missing the Hockenbarger parents; their “courtship” narrative<\/li>\n
- Value of retelling emotional stories and participating in the project’s interviews (Jen, Isaac, and Sam separate times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Charles, Rachel, Steven, Ruth, Bethany, (Jeremiah and Gideon) Hockenbarger, scheduled, Sunday, 2:10 hr:min\n
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- Rachel as a Judge Pro Tem working on state custory; Steven at work (40:20) “I am a robot” <joke>, Bethany at 47:30; Charles on our project different than media, and other scholars, by not having a certain end-product<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
This is a work-in-progress. We hope to prepare better summaries down the road.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- Rachel as a Judge Pro Tem working on state custory; Steven at work (40:20) “I am a robot” <joke>, Bethany at 47:30; Charles on our project different than media, and other scholars, by not having a certain end-product<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Sam, Jen, Isaac, and Moriah Phelps, (minors in room), scheduled interview, Sunday (1:42)\n
- Jonathan and Paulette Phelps, ad hoc<\/em> scheduled interview, Friday, 2:53\n
- Singing hymns in the church (not recorded, ad hoc<\/em> participation)<\/li>\n
- Kathy into and through law school, with Becky’s help; Kathy’s journey in and out of the church; family relationships; Becky’s work in family law, its stress and emotions; “he took my client’s child when she was nursing that baby” (1:40)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Rebekah Phelps and Kathy Griffin, scheduled interview, Thursday, 1:49\n
- Her work on offender re-entry; knowing someone with an abusive father; understanding personality types (My True Colors, e.g., helper, right thing to do, control, cerebral); experiences of prejudice; compartmentalization and Others; she recommends distributing our “Principles of Harmful Speech and Violence” to SPLC, ADL, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n