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Haiti and the ‘Pact with the Devil’
*Sightings* 1/18/10 True Stories — Martin E. Marty You know the old joke: When someone absolutely diabolical died, the rabbi asked if anyone wanted to say anything about him at the funeral. No one dared, as there was nothing nice to say. Eventually one stood up and said, “His brother was even worse.” Was anyone […]
SUNDAY CHURCH
Written by Tom Ehrich Sunday, 10 January 2010 Like many church leaders, I have been grappling with the steady decline of mainline Protestant churches over the past 45 years and trying to determine what we can do about it. It dawned on me that the problem isn’t what we do on Sunday. It’s how that […]
The World’s indigenous peoples
Friday, 15 January 2010 Commissioner Calma welcomes first UN publication on the state of the world ¯ ¿ ½s indigenous peoples Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, today welcomed the launch of the United Nation ¯ ¿ ½s first report on The State of the World ¯ ¿ ½s Indigenous Peoples. The report highlights how indigenous communities all over the […]
Clergy bullying ‘rife’
Clergy bullying ‘rife’ says Unite union By Martin Shankleman Employment correspondent, BBC News January 4, 2010 Workplace bullying of the clergy has become “rife”, according to the union Unite which says priests are being picked on by bishops and parishioners. The union has set up a hotline where the clergy can report abuse, and says […]
Euthanasia
The burden borne by the living PETER SINGER December 31, 2009 PRESIDENT Barack Obama’s Administration spent much of 2009 preoccupied domestically with the political fight over extending health insurance to the tens of millions of Americans who have none. People living in other industrialised countries find this difficult to understand. They have a right to […]
Esther Chavez – a special lady
Esther Chavez dies at 76; activist decried murders of women in Ciudad Juarez Chavez drew attention to the 1990s killings of several hundred women, which were largely ignored by Mexican authorities, and founded her region’s first rape crisis center. OBITUARIES December 27, 2009|By Tracy Wilkinson Jose Luis Magana / For The Times Reporting from Mexico […]
Obama’s law: what it tells us
GEOFFREY ROBERTSON June 28, 2008 Barack Obama, whose first presidency was at Harvard, turned his back on a lucrative legal career. Instead, he championed the poor – and the rule of law itself. IF BARACK Obama is elected president of the United States, it will be the result of another presidential election back in February […]
Arabs and the Reality of Israel
Peace will elude us until Arab world accepts the reality of Israel PEOPLE frequently blame individual aspects of the Arab-Israel conflict for the lack of Israeli-Palestinian peace. But applying such selective moral outrage, as did Paul Heywood-Smith and Bassam Dally in last week’s Inquirer, ignores the elephant in the room. This elephant isn’t Israeli settlements. […]
Angels
I only know the names of two angels, Hark and Harold. Gregory, age 5 Everybody’s got it all wrong. Angels don’t wear halos anymore. I forget why, but scientists are working on it -Olive, age 9 It’s not easy to become an angel! First, you die. Then you go to Heaven, and then there’s still […]
Birthday Present
I recently purchased a teddy bear for ten bucks. I called it Mohammed, and then sold it for 20 bucks. My question is, have I made a prophet? ************************************************************ One day a father gets out of work and on his way home he suddenly remembers that it’s his daughter’s birthday. He pulls over to a […]
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