Apologetics
Vietnam: Govt belligerence escalates against Hanoi Catholics
Subj: Vietnam: Govt belligerence escalates against Hanoi Catholics. Twelve months ago the world’s media was transfixed by the sight of thousands of courageous, marching, anti-junta Buddhist monks in Rangoon, Burma. It has been both astounding therefore and sad that the largest public demonstrations to occur in Vietnam since the Communists took power have attracted only […]
Iran: parliament passes apostasy death bill
Subj: Iran: parliament passes apostasy death bill — UNHCR take note! — UNHCR TAKE NOTE! That apostasy (leaving Islam) is an enormously risky even deadly business in any Muslim country is not news to any apostate or to any serious religious liberty observer. That the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) does not always […]
Preaching Good News to the Poor
Sightings *9/25/08 Preaching Good News to the Poor — Debra Erickson It is by now old news – or should be – that evangelical Christians have developed a social conscience that goes beyond wedge issues like abortion and gay rights. Some are even (gasp!) registered Democrats. In the most recent issue of *Books and Culture […]
Money for Wall St but not for the Poor
QUOTE OF THE WEEK ================================================= It’s extraordinary to me that the United States can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can’t find $25 billion dollars to save 25,000 children who die every day from preventable diseases. – Bono, rock star and anti-poverty activist. (Source: The American Prospect Blog) ================================================= Hearts […]
Wall Street Crash
*Sightings* 9/22/08 Crash — Martin E. Marty “Worst Crisis Since ’30s, With No End in Sight,” screamed the September 18th *Wall Street Journal*, in company with all other headliners. The four authors of the full-page story tuck in this line under the sub-head “Spreading Disease:” The U. S. financial system “is trying to fight off […]
Elite Fundamentism – The Fellowship’s gospel of Capitalist Power
3 September 2008 The Family (or the Fellowship as it is also known), is a shadowy organisation founded in the United States in the 1930s to promote a gospel of theocratic capitalist power and American empire. Like a Protestant version of Opus Dei, the Family is best known for founding the National Prayer Breakfast in […]
War on poverty can be won
Critics argue aid doesn’t work. The reality is too little aid doesn’t work. * Tim Costello * September 19, 2008 NEXT week political leaders will meet in New York to try to get the world’s assault on poverty back on track. No doubt few business leaders in Australia will pay much heed to the United […]
Greed in the Economy: It’s the Morality, Sinner
************************************************* SojoMail a weekly email-zine of spirituality, politics, and culture http://go.sojo.net/ct/KdLWub11_4mK/ ************************************************* QUOTE OF THE WEEK No paramilitary commander operates alone. They operate with the military, and the man in charge then was General Montoya. – Sister Rosa Cadavid, a Catholic nun in the Medellin neighborhood who has publicly denounced operations in which the Colombian […]
American Islam Enters its Next Phase
*Sightings* 9/18/08 — Omer M. Mozaffar Thousands of Muslim mourners flocked to Chicago last week to bury their beloved Brother Imam, Warith Deen Mohammed, who died on September 9. They laid to rest what may be the single most significant legacy in the history of American Islam. Many of the roads that today define American […]
Talking to Terrorists
Israel, homosexuality, and Hollywood are targeted for elimination according to the young men from the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad. Aaron Klein, an Orthodox Jew and intrepid journalist, has made it a point to seek them out and get answers to his questions, as he tells Rachael Kohn in Jerusalem. Transcript This transcript […]
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