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Mick McCabe| Special to Detroit Free Press

The 2021 Detroit Free Press All-State teams, from Divisions 1 to 8, as selected by special writer Mick McCabe:

Rec: Cornell Perry, Woodhaven (captain)

OL: Kamari Landers, Dearborn Fordson

OL: Masai Reddick, Detroit Cass Tech

OL: Cole Tinson, Romeo

OL: Amir Herring, West Bloomfield

OL: Danny Rosa, Traverse City West

Rec: Gavin Mesman, Saline

Rec: Teon Armstrong, Davison

QB: Bryce Underwood, Belleville

RB: Ethan Clark, Clarkston

RB: Caiden Sloan, Macomb Dakota

K/P: Adam Samaha, Ann Arbor Huron

DL: Sean Field, Novi Detroit Catholic Central

DL: Michael Williams, West Bloomfield

DL: Danny Honkala, Howell

DL: Tommy Phimister, Novi

LB: Biagio Madonna, Sterling Heights Stevenson

LB: Cross Dobbs, Grand Blanc

LB: Cameron Dyson, Belleville

DB: Parker Picot, Rochester Adams (captain)

DB: Jordan Ramsey, Sterling Heights Stevenson

DB: Joey Kostrubiec, Romeo

DB: Myles Rowser, Belleville

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Rec: Tyler Henry, Roseville

OL: Brett Weaver, Traverse City Central

OL: James Livingston, Dexter

OL: Ethan Gates, St. Clair Shores Lakeview

OL: CJ Aldred, Waterford Mott

OL: Lawrence Nash-Martin, Livonia Churchill

Rec: Quinn Fracassi, South Lyon

Rec: Aaron Rice, North Farmington

QB: Brady Drogosh, Warren De La Salle (captain)

RB: Cole Cabana, Dexter

RB: Jorden Collier, Ypsilanti Lincoln

K/P: Luke Silvernale, Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern

DL: DJ Caviness, Muskegon Mona Shores

DL: Aidan Wardell, Midland Dow

DL: Caleb Paarlberg, Caledonia

DL: Mason Muragin, Warren De La Salle

LB: Tyler Stolsky, Portage Central

LB: Aidan Vaughn, Walled Lake Western

LB: Tyler Weaver, GR Forest Hills Northern

DB: Jarvis McIntosh, Battle Creek Lakeview

DB: Carson Bourdo, Traverse City Central (captain)

DB: Orlando Trader, Jackson

DB: Jaden Mangham, Birmingham Groves

Rec: TayShawn Trent, Harper Woods

OL: Cam Heiss, Cedar Springs

OL: Brady Ploucha, Dearborn Divine Child

OL: Brendan Schanick, Flint Kearsley

OL: Gabe Landskroener, Riverview

OL: Brady Montie, Allen Park

Rec: Lynn Wyche-El, Detroit King

QB: Tyler Holtz, DeWitt (captain)

RB: Julion McCray, Battle Creek Harper Creek

RB: Christian Stokes, Harper Woods

RB: Nolan Ray, Birmingham Brother Ray

K/P: Nick Collins, East Grand Rapids

DL: Bryce Debri, DeWitt

DL: Josh Rau, Lowell

DL: TyQuarius Irby, Muskegon

DL: Charlie Lovell, Pinckney

LB: Malik Immoos, St. Joseph

LB: Kory Davis, Mount Pleasant

LB: Blake Bailiff, Detroit King (captain)

DB: Markell Gilford, River Rouge

DB: Damari Foster, Muskegon

DB: Aiden Brunin, Cedar Springs

DB: A.J. Martel, Mason

Rec: Saige Slanec, Croswell-Lexington

OL: Ryan Shinabery, Hudsonville Unity Christian

OL: Gino Tribuzio, Ortonville-Brandon

OL: Grant OBrien, Goodrich

OL: Bergen Grochoski, GR Forest Hills Eastern

OL: Kelly Clarke, GR Forest Hills Central

Rec: Landon Mikel, Edwardsburg

QB: Jake Townsend, Croswell-Lexington

RB: Lucas Storm, Lake Fenton

RB: Drew Chandler, Hudsonville Unity Christian (captain)

RB: JaMartae Hogan, Grand Rapids Christian

K/P: Trevor Houseworth, Edwardsburg

DL: Robert Sutch, Chelsea (captain)

DL: Max Muenzer, Lake Fenton

DL: Noah Gradeless, Adrian

DL: Ben Nelson, Holland Christian

LB: Jacob Kundinger, Freeland

LB: Cole McElvany, Milan

LB: Lance Wolford, Imlay City

DB: Logan McColley, Edwardsburg

DB: Cam Chandler, Hudsonville Unity Christian

DB: Luke Grove, Birmingham Detroit Country Day

DB: William Damaska, North Branch

Rec: Zach Person, Kingsford

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Meet the 2021 Michigan high school football All-State teams, Divisions 1-8 - Detroit Free Press

Jordan Peterson, a sometimes controversial author and social commentator, will appear at Birminghams Alabama Theatre as part of his 2022 tour.

The March 28 appearance, announced Wednesday by Red Mountain Entertainment and the venue, appears to be the only Alabama stop on Petersons Beyond Order tour. He will appear March 27 at the Saenger Theatre in Pensacola.

General public ticket sales begin at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 3, though Ticketmaster indicates that tour presales have begun.

The full title of the tour, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, refers to a 2021 book that is a followup to Petersons 2018 bestseller 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos.

Peterson, a Canadian academic and clinical psychologist turned social media star, has positioned himself as an opponent of political correctness and identity-based politics. This has fueled an ardent, largely right-wing fan base but has also led to accusations that Peterson at times merely puts a scholarly sheen on reactionary ideas, legitimizing misogyny and other discriminatory behavior.

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There was an interesting series of articles about refugees in the issue of 3 December. Resistance to the wrong sort of migrants goes back a way. The UKs 1905 Aliens Act tried to keep out Jewish people such as my ancestors fleeing persecution in Tsarist Russia, and there was resistance to accepting Jews from Nazi Germany until it was too late, though the Kindertransport was an exception. Zionists in Palestine agreed to accept wealthy Jews under the 1933 Haavara trade agreement with the Third Reich because they could share the economic spoils.

We could consider what resistance to helping others in need is really about. We have come some distance, but there is further to go. No one becomes a refugee by choice. Those who make it this far have more initiative and enterprise than all their armchair critics, with much to offer the UK. Managing asylum requires a fair, efficient and effective process. A policy of trying to deter migration by restrictive and legalistic means has as much chance of success as a maternity unit that turns away mothers about to give birth.Noel Hamel, New Malden, Greater London

What a shame that Jerome Roos introduced capitalism into his excellent essay (How the weather shapes history, 26 November). Throughout history, regimes have burned fossil fuels irrespective of ideology. The difference today is that we have never been more capable of mitigating climate change. By implying that capitalism is the bogeyman behind rising global temperatures, Roos encourages, however passively, the extremist views that hinder action.Sir Andrew Cook, Castagnola, Switzerland

I am not totally against anthropomorphic descriptions, but your headline The virus strikes back goes too far. Mutations are random and it is not helpful to see the virus as a sentient being with evil intent.Mary Davies, Lymington, Hampshire

A question for Phil Whitaker, on the interview with Jordan Peterson (Encounter, 3 December). Shouldnt an all-meat diet lead to scurvy? When wouldnt it? Dave McElroy, Reading, Berkshire

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Chaos is coming, so get ready.

That was the warning that four years ago iconographer and YouTube maven Jonathan Pageau offered to leaders of the Orthodox Church in Americas Diocese of the South.

The French-Canadian artist was reacting to cracks in cultural cohesion after Donald Trumps rise to power, with wild reactions on the left and right. And corporate leaders, especially in Big Tech, were throwing their woke weight around in fights over gender, racism, schools, religious liberty and other topics. Fear and angst were bubbling up in media messages about zombies, fundamentalist handmaidens and angry demands for safe spaces.

Pageau didnt predict a global pandemic that would lock church doors.

But thats what happened. Thus, he doubled down on his chaos message several weeks ago, while addressing the same body of OCA priests and parish leaders.

If some of you didnt believe me back then, I imagine you are more willing to believe me now, he said.

Pageau focused, in part, on waves of online conspiracy theories that have shaken many flocks and the shepherds who lead them. Wild rumors and questions, he said, often reveal what people are thinking and feeling and, especially, whether they trust authority figures.

Even the craziest conspiracy nuts, what they are saying is not arbitrary, he said in a Miami meeting of the Diocese of the South, which I attended as a delegate from my parish in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Its like an alarm bell. Its like an alarm bell that you can hear, and you can understand that the person thats ringing the alarm maybe doesnt understand what is going on. ... They may think that they have an inside track based on what theyve heard and think that they know what is going on. But the alarm is not a false alarm, necessarily.

The chaos is real, stressed Pageau. There is chaos in politics, science, schools, technology, economic systems, family structures and many issues linked to sex and gender. Its a time when conspiracy theories about vaccines containing tracking devices echo decades of science-fiction stories, while millions of people navigate daily life with smartphones in their pockets that allow Big Tech leaders to research their every move.

This chaos will lead to change, one way or another, he said. The goal for church leaders is to listen and respond with biblical images, themes and stories as opposed to more acidic chatter about politics. The pandemic was especially challenging for bishops and priests in ancient, liturgical churches, since life in their parishes is built on intimate sacramental acts including confession, Holy Communion and anointing the sick.

In Eastern Orthodox flocks, leaders also are trying to make sense of two conflicting trends. A census for 2010-2020 found that the number of Orthodox Christians in America shrank by 17%, with the large Greek Orthodox Church declining 22%. Other jurisdictions, including the OCA, showed slower declines, while the number of new parishes increased.

Meanwhile, Father Andrew Stephen Damick, an Antiochian Orthodox priest who specializes in online ministries, recently asked priests around the country about anecdotal accounts of rising numbers of inquirers and catechumens showing up at their parishes during the pandemic. Only three priests said that wasnt the case at their churches, while 28 affirmed the reports.

A number said that they noticed that the newcomers skew younger, wrote Damick on his Ancient Faith Ministries blog. Several said its more than theyve ever had in some cases, double. At his own Pennsylvania parish, the number of newcomers last year topped the total from the previous decade.

The vast majority of priests at the Diocese of the South meetings reported the same phenomenon. Several reported a pattern frequently seen online, with young men turning to Orthodoxy after following the writings and YouTube posts of University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson. This led them to online dialogues between Peterson and Pageau, which then led them to Pageaus The Symbolic World YouTube channel and other online Orthodox outlets.

All these guys ... these young men in their 20s and early 30s, theyre out there urgently hunting for something, said Pageau. I sympathize with the warrior, crazy-aggressive energy in these young men that crazy ball of warrior energy.

You can change the world with 2,000 guys like that. It has happened before.

Terry Mattingly leads GetReligion.org and lives in Oak Ridge, Tenn. He is a senior fellow at the Overby Center at the University of Mississippi.

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TERRY MATTINGLY: Facing modern chaos, priests need old symbols and truths - Kilgore News Herald

Future Pro Football Hall of Famer Adrian Peterson was released by the Tennessee Titans just over a week ago, but it didn't take him long to find a new opportunity. On Wednesday, the running back signed on with the Seattle Seahawks practice squad, as Pete Carroll wanted to add another running back to the fold since his ground game has been lacking.

The Seahawks aren't the only team that has been poking around the running back market as of late, as Peterson's former team in the Minnesota Vikings has been as well. Dalvin Cook was carted off the field last week during the Vikings' loss to the San Francisco 49ers, and an MRI reportedly revealed that hesuffered a torn labrum. However, head coach Mike Zimmer told reporters that Cook didn't tear his labrum, and would instead be day-to-day.

Even though it appears Cook is going to play through the injury, Minnesota reportedly worked outrunning back Kerryon Johnson. This upset Peterson's father, that Minnesota did not reach out to its franchise legend for a reunion.

"That's disappointing to me. He never heard anything from the Vikings and you go in and bring in a guy Adrian beat out in Detroit (in 2020)," Nelson Peterson said, via Chris Tomasson of the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

Peterson was open to inquiries when Minnesota decided to work out Johnson. Before being cut loose, Peterson played in three games for the Titans and rushed 27 times for 82 yards and one touchdown. He is currently fifth on the all-time rushing list with 14,902 yards, and owns several Vikings franchise records such as most career rushing touchdowns (97) and most career rushing yards (11,747).

It sounds as though the Vikings aren't looking for a full-time replacement since Cook will try to play through the injury. It could be viewed as a slight to a Viking legend if Minnesota brought in Peterson only to potentially cut ties with him a couple weeks later. Still, Nelson Peterson thinks it's silly that his son didn't get a call.

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