think oh well he's a pastor well not exactly I was ordained as a deacon in the Southern Baptist Church uh but that is no longer a valid ordination since I got thrown out of the denomination uh so I have no qualifications whatsoever and you've wasted your lunch 30% of the audience
Next, how much you get out and participate face-to-face with people in a social way. He was a church deacon .
So yeah, it was very fun. Male #3: When Deacon was going down on his plane, what would go through your mind if you knew you was gonna die, or you’d be in really bad condition if you survived? Elijah Kelley: Oh wow.
You know, if you were the vicar of Barchester, it didn't matter how many people you got in through the door, that wasn't even remotely part of your -- all that mattered was you got on with the deacon of Barchester. And the same, I think, is true of quite a lot of the Catholic countries. It's obviously not just that, because you could argue there's been a more competitive market in most European countries since the beginning of this century. But I think, by then, the share level to which
I am the chair of the board of my daughter's private school. And I also am a deacon at my church. So you think about all the intersections of the LGBT family, your work family, and then all the ways we try to give back to the different parts of our lives
You can tell. Under his leadership at the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, Boston Harbor, which had been dubbed the dirtiest harbor in America, was cleaned up. He then became chair and president of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. This is the teaching hospital for Harvard University and is consistently ranked as one of the best hospitals in the United States.
So I just looked at it on my phone. Thanks. Score one for John Deacon .
No one's perfect. No. And you had mentioned your sister and also that you serve as a deacon for your church. How does religion come into your life, and especially since it can oftentimes be perceived as, by members of the LGBTQ community,
And they go, Sally? Our Sally, our one who's our deacon , our most faithful person? It happened in every faith community that we went to.
And it surprised everyone because she was a full church member and very devout. Because she was, the church deacon and another man went to pay a call as a courtesy on her. And first they stopped off to see the little girl who had accused her.
computer which I bought for a project and I walked into the office and I said why are you using a laptop when there's two big computers are to use and she said you hated them well I in Deacon so I said okay why do you hate them tell me why you hate them and she said the screen was like a dis attack and then she printed all her homework on tan
And I tried to learn how to play a couple of songs. But then all they wanted me to do, they just showed me this interview with John Deacon . They said, hey, can you just like show us your accent, English accent.
You got down with it. Yeah, yeah. My father was a deacon in the church. My mom was a choir director.
It's all full of tall tales unless you happen to believe, as one woman reported, after having vowed to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, that she flew on a stick with her church deacon and two others to a satanic baptism and that the previous Monday she carried her minister in spectral form through the air along with having previously conferred in her orchard with a satanic cat.
pill." And then you get on the phone to dad and harass him to take that it's an amazing system. The second one is developed across the river at Beth Israel Deaconess, Dr. John Halamka who is a polymath if I ever heard one. If you haven’t seen it check his blog my life as a health care CIO. He has five official titles as well as many others
So I just looked at it on my phone. Well, yeah. And it was like, oh, there's John Deacon in our midst.
So let me see-- I look forward to your questions and challenges after. OK. OK? Thanks. OK, so this is Terrence Deacon . I had met him shortly after this book had come out, "The Symbolic Species." He's spent 20 years as a neuroscientist at Harvard
As Cat mentioned, for over 20 years, I've been coaching girls' soccer in my hometown, in Newton, Massachusetts. And during that time, I've also had the privilege and the luck to run a number of complex organizations-- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Mass Water Resources Authority, and so on.
And then, I was like, well, that's not happening, I sort of moved on with my wife. But then, like a month later, I got a call, saying that like, you know, Joe, they said that you really look like John Deacon , the bassist. So I googled him, and I was like, oh, no.