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...Chet Ramey, NOVELTY, OHIO...
...Jonathan Ramey raised his hand. Ramey, an ordained Baptist minister who is homeless, had gravitated to First United Methodist while living in a nearby shelter. "Can't a person benefit from someone else's suffering?" he asked. "My brother saved me from getting beat up more than once by taking the beatings himself. I'm going through suffering now," he said. "If I look at Jesus' suffering, I know I can do this." The other participants humored him for a few minutes but gave no ground...
...little while later, Ramey reflected on the meeting. "It's not that these people are not nice people," he said politely. "But they have a different reality. You get so high up, you don't have a clue as to the real truth of the Gospel, which is that suffering is part of salvation...
...many of the researchers whose work contributed to the frenzy are worried that their findings are being misinterpreted by the public. "The breathtaking PET scans of babies' brains have fueled a kind of anxiety that is unwarranted," says Craig Ramey, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Alabama, referring to the imaging technology that vividly depicts areas of high and low brain activity. "Parents may be conveying to their children a franticness about doing everything right." University of Chicago psychology professor Janellen Huttenlocher, who reported correlations between the size of toddlers' vocabularies and how much their mothers talk to them...
...care of mothers with severe depression show reduced brain activity as well as prominent effects in the parts of the brain associated with the expression of feelings. "This may result from such mothers' inability to relate affectionately and responsively to their infants," writes the University of Alabama's Ramey in his forthcoming book Right from Birth. "The longer the mother's depression continues, the greater the chances that her baby will have later behavioral or emotional problems...