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The Ugly truth about our pursuit of the beauty myth
Amy Kirkwood September 17, 2007 It’s time for new analysis of why women take big risks for body image. I AM a healthy, active and happy 26-year-old woman, surrounded by other seemingly healthy and happy women. We should be in the prime of our young lives: embarking on careers, travelling, falling in love, thinking about […]
Our Debt to Russia
Remember our debt to Russia Paul Keating September 5, 2007 THE visit to Australia by Vladimir Putin is the first ever by a Russian head of state or head of government. President Putin, who arrives on Friday, is representing Russia at this week’s APEC leaders’ meeting. Moscow’s membership of APEC is as much an accident […]
Pakistan needs politicians from the grassroots
Pakistan needs politicians from the grassroots, not the elite William Dalrymple NOT far from the ruins of the ancient city of Mohenjo-Daro lies Benazir Bhutto’s feudal estate of Larkana. In this backward and arid region amid the dry salt flats of the Indus plain, Bhutto’s family have long been the most prominent land owners, and […]
Evan Almighty (movie)
Jan and I attended a preview of this crazy movie last night, and enjoyed it. Briefly: this sequel to Bruce Almighty is a comedy of biblical proportions, reportedly costing $175 million (perhaps the most expensive comedy ever?). Steve Carell (‘Evan Baxter’) is a newly-elected senator on Capitol Hill. What he doesn’t know is that he’s […]
Finishing Strong/Ending Well
Finishing Strong/Ending Well: Leaving Congregational Ministry at the Top of Your Game * Finishing Well: From Microscopic To Macroscopic * Pastoral Resources From the Alban Institute By Roy M. Oswald Pastors nearing retirement often find themselves living the paradox of possessing a rich reservoir of accumulated wisdom and yet feeling constrained by a depleted spirit. […]
The Sinister story behind chocolate
Steve Chalke September 18, 2007 CHOCOLATE is regarded as a treat, a sweet luxury often given as a gift. But that is only part of its story. The rest is more sinister. Two hundred years after the British Empire abolished the slave trade, nearly half the world’s chocolate is made from cocoa grown in Ivory […]
Muslims who convert risk being killed
Bishop warns that Muslims who convert risk being killed Jamie Doward, home affairs editor Sunday September 16, 2007 The Observer One of the Church of England’s most senior bishops is warning that people will die unless Muslim leaders in Britain speak out in defence of the right to change faith. Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of […]
Converts from Islam
17th September 2007 Sunday Times and Dispatches program highlight problems faced by British *The issue of apostasy from Islam is beginning to receive mainstream media attention in Britain, as is shown by yesterday’s Sunday Times article (see below), and also by an episode of the Dispatches program, “Unholy War”, which is investigating violence and intimidation […]
Methodist Beliefs
Early next year we will be having a Conference wide celebration on the Joy of Wesleyan Believing. Our Lay Ministry Team will be asking every church and pastor to join in a study of United Methodist Beliefs. The text for the study will be a little book that I recently published, United Methodist Beliefs (John […]
Guilty!
By John Dear SJ Created Sep 11 2007 – 08:42 On Sept. 6, a federal judge in Albuquerque, N.M. found six of us guilty for trying to visit the office of our senator. We will be sentenced in a few weeks. The message? It is a federal crime to attempt to speak to an elected […]
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