 Iran’s second sex
By Roger Cohen
New York Times
June 27, 2009
From Day 1, Iran’s women stood in the vanguard. Their voices from rooftops were loudest, and their defiance in the streets boldest. “Stand, don’t run,” Nazanine told me as the baton-wielding police charged up handsome Vali Asr avenue on the day after the fraudulent election. She stood.
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 Commentary: U.S. should leave Iran alone
By Roland S. Martin
CNN Contributor
June 18, 2009
Isn't it ironic that the president's conservative critics want him to stand up for democracy in Iran, when it was the United States that chose to destroy democracy and install a dictator we could control more than 50 years ago?
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 Religious freedom unkept vow in U.S.
By Azadeh Shahshahani
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
June 24, 2009
I have been watching with interest and apprehension the movement reverberating in my birthplace over the past few weeks. The cries of “Azadi” by the people who have poured out in the tens of thousands into the streets of Iran to demand greater freedom have defied the distance between us.
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 Five ways to fix America’s schools
By Harold O. Levy
New York Times
June 8, 2009
American education was once the best in the world. But today, our private and public universities are losing their competitive edge to foreign institutions, they are losing the advertising wars to for-profit colleges and they are losing control over their own admissions because of an ill-conceived ranking system.
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 When judicial activism suits the right
By Ramesh Ponnuru
New York Times
June 24, 2009
The two biggest controversies surrounding Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court have been her handling of that case and her comments about how ethnicity can affect judges’ reasoning…. The debates on these issues are highlighting a deep inconsistency in the way my fellow conservatives approach race and the law.
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 What do you say when they say nobody’s honest?
by Rushworth M. Kidder
Ethics Newsline
June 22, 2009
There’s nothing new about this argument. It surfaces among the ancient Greeks. It finds expression in Thomas Hobbes’s view that men in a state of nature, unmediated by government, are condemned to lives that are “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” How to address it remains a key task of the world’s major religions. And how deeply it’s believed will determine how the citizens of any nation view one another along a scale stretching from suspicion to trust.
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 Interfaith Disability Connection presents 2009 “Beyond Ramp” conference
IDC Announcement
May 21, 2009
The “2009 Interfaith Disability Connection Summit: Pursuing Inclusion Beyond the Ramp” is an August 9 event that will focus on how religious communities can make their houses of worship and programs more accessible and welcoming to people with disabilities and their families.
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 GOP walks fine line on opposing Sotomayor
By Ed Hornick
CNN
May 26, 2009
The Republican Party risks further alienation from Hispanics by challenging the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, who would become the first Hispanic, and third woman, on the Supreme Court.
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 In the absence of proof
By Bob Herbert
New York Times
May 23, 2009
The options are running out for Troy Davis, a man who has been condemned to death for killing a police officer in Georgia, but whose guilt is seriously in question.
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 200 executions and counting: Texas Gov. Rick Perry's cruel death tally
By Liliana Segura
AlterNet
June 2, 2009
"Executions in the U.S. have become largely a Southern practice. Last year, 95 percent of all executions were in the South. It is the legacy of the Old South and its history of slavery, lynchings and segregation that is the reason why the South executes so many people compared to other parts of the U.S.”
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 The Harlem miracle
By David Brooks
New York Times
May 8, 2009
Basically, the no excuses schools pay meticulous attention to behavior and attitudes. They teach students how to look at the person who is talking, how to shake hands. These schools are academically rigorous and college-focused.
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 New book praises Faith And The City public leadership program at
Columbia Theological Seminary
Faith And The City e.Newsletter
May 4, 2009
A public religious leadership initiative, undertaken jointly by Faith And The City and Columbia Theological Seminary, is described in a new book as one of “ten successful collaborative organizations [that] accomplished positive socio-economic change at local, regional and national levels.”
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 A crisis of affordability: How our public colleges are turning into
gated communities for the wealthy
By Andy Kroll, Tomdispatch.com
AlterNet
April 3, 2009
Over the past 30 years, the average cost of college tuition, fees, and room and board has increased nearly 100%, from $7,857 in 1977-1978 to $15,665 in 2007-2008 (in constant 2006-2007 dollars). Median household income, on the other hand, has risen a mere 18% over that same period, from about $42,500 to just over $50,000. College costs, in other words, have gone up at more than five times the rate of incomes.
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 Just 53% say capitalism better than socialism
Rasmussen Reports
April 09, 2009
Only 53% of American adults believe capitalism is better than socialism. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 20% disagree and say socialism is better. Twenty-seven percent (27%) are not sure which is better.
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 Islamic financing
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
Educational Broadcasting Corporation
April 10, 2009
Here at home, amid all the losses in the banking and housing worlds, there is one conspicuous exception. It’s the Islamic practice of doing business without charging or paying interest on a loan. Throughout the recession so far, Islamic financing has been growing at 10 to 15 percent a year.
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 What happened to the ban on assault weapons?
By Jimmy Carter
New York Times
April 27, 2009
The evolution in public policy concerning the manufacture, sale and possession of semiautomatic assault weapons like AK-47s, AR-15s and Uzis has been very disturbing. Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and I all supported a ban on these formidable firearms, and one was finally passed in 1994.
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 How to raise our I.Q.
By Nicholas D. Kristof
New York Times
April 15, 2009
If intelligence were deeply encoded in our genes, that would lead to the depressing conclusion that neither schooling nor antipoverty programs can accomplish much. Yet while this view of I.Q. as overwhelmingly inherited has been widely held, the evidence is growing that it is, at a practical level, profoundly wrong.
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 Obama’s ersatz capitalism
By Joseph E. Stiglitz
New York Times
April 1, 2009
The Obama administration’s $500 billion or more proposal to deal with America’s ailing banks has been described by some in the financial markets as a win-win-win proposal. Actually, it is a win-win-lose proposal: the banks win, investors win — and taxpayers lose.
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 Jack Kemp
By Dorothy Samuels
New York Times
May 6, 2009
A self-styled “bleeding heart conservative,” Mr. Kemp came to understand the importance of respecting the rights of people, regardless of race, during his time playing football. “I can’t help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with,” he famously said.
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 Empower teens to say no on their terms, not ours
By Jane Fonda
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
May 6, 2009
Sixty-two times each day, a teen girl somewhere in Georgia learns she is pregnant. That’s 62 lives changed forever. In far too many cases, these lives become much more difficult thanks to the huge challenges of being a mother too soon.
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 What does God think about the economy?
Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta
March 19, 2009
Would paying closer attention to the precepts of our faith traditions have kept us from this economic calamity? What is the role of religious and moral ethics in an advanced capitalist economy? Discuss these questions and more at the FAMA Assembly Meeting, Wednesday, April 22, 2009, from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm, Emory University Center for Ethics.
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 Columbia Seminary president to preach on 'Day 1'
Alliance for Christian Media
March 19, 2009
Rev. Dr. Laura S. Mendenhall, president of Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga., will preach April 19 on "Day 1," a nationally broadcast radio program also accessible online at Day1.org. She will offer a unique examination of the life of Doubting Thomas in a sermon entitled "Dealing with Mystery."
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 Seminaries and sex
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
Educational Broadcasting Corporation
March 27, 2009
According to many of America's pastors, one of the most common topics congregation members seek guidance about are sexual issues, such as teen sexual activity and marital infidelity. Yet few seminaries offer courses in sexuality, and fewer still require courses in this area.
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 The great shame
By Bob Herbert
New York Times
March 21, 2009
New data released by the Pentagon showed an almost 9 percent increase in the number of sexual assaults reported in the last fiscal year — 2,923 — and a 25 percent increase in such assaults reported by women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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 John Hope Franklin
By Brent Staples
New York Times
March 27, 2009
Every death leaves a conversation unfinished. The one I regret not finishing with the historian John Hope Franklin, who died Wednesday at the age of 94, focused on what it was like to be a rising black intellectual in the Jim Crow South.
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 The Mexican Evolution
By Enrique Krauze
New York Times
March 24, 2009
While we bear responsibility for our problems, the caricature of Mexico being propagated in the United States only increases the despair on both sides of the Rio Grande. It is also profoundly hypocritical. America is the world’s largest market for illegal narcotics. The United States is the source for the majority of the guns used in Mexico’s drug cartel war, according to law enforcement officials on both sides of the border.
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The Daily Me
By Nicholas D. Kristof
New York Times
March 19, 2009
When we go online, each of us is our own editor, our own gatekeeper. We select the kind of news and opinions that we care most about. Nicholas Negroponte of M.I.T. has called this emerging news product The Daily Me. And if that’s the trend, God save us from ourselves.
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 Report: Global executions doubled
in 2008, U.S. #4 in state killing
By Liliana Segura
AlterNet
March 25, 2009
As usual, the United States received the dubious distinction of being the only county left in the Americas that "regularly executes." Last year, the U.S. carried out 37 executions, with Texas responsible for 18.
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 Rosalyn Carter featured at Regional Council of Churches Pastors Breakfast Dialogue
RCCA Website
March 11, 2009
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, featured guest at the Regional Council of Churches Pastors Breakfast Dialogue on March 19, will discuss how our faith calls us to care for the mentally ill among us. The monthly event will be hosted by the Rev. Joanna Adams and Morningside Presbyterian Church, 7:30-9:00 a.m.
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 Chrislam
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
Public Broadcasting Service
February 13, 2009
In the largest city, Lagos, there are traditional, old-line churches. But there also are hundreds of banners and posters that invite worshippers to newer smaller congregations. None is more unusual than this one — both Christian and Muslim. The lectern holds both Quran and Bible. Invocations come loudly from both.
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 God and empire
by David E. Anderson
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
Public Broadcasting System
November 19, 2008
Reading the foreign policy positions of the top Democratic and Republican presidential candidates in a series of articles published in Foreign Affairs earlier this year, one found many descriptions of the United States. But not one of them used the “E” word — empire.
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 The death of the news
By Gary Kamiya
Salon
Feb. 17, 2009
No one can predict what the new information age will look like, and my version may be excessively dystopian. But one thing is indisputable: Reporting must be kept alive. With all its limitations and faults, it is a light that illuminates the world outside ourselves. And in an increasingly virtual and solipsistic age, that light is needed more than ever.
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 Our pigs, our food, our health
By Nicholas D. Kristof
New York Times
March 12, 2009
The larger question is whether we as a nation have moved to a model of agriculture that produces cheap bacon but risks the health of all of us. And the evidence, while far from conclusive, is growing that the answer is yes.
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 Seminary association to sponsor Latino immigration workshop on March 21
Faith And The City e.Newsletter
February 11, 2009
“Latino Immigration: Challenges for the Church” is a workshop for church leaders, including pastors, lay leaders, seminarians, and other interested individuals. Scheduled for Saturday, March 21, at Columbia Theological Seminary, the event is supported by the Faith And The City Programs at Columbia, Candler School of Theology, Interdenominational Theological Center, and McAfee School of Theology, working through the Atlanta Theological Association. Featured speakers include two scholars and authors on Latino/Latina faith and immigration issues, Harold J. Recinos, Ph.D., and Marie T. Friedmann Marquardt, Ph.D. To download the four-page brochure with program and registration information, click “Read more” below.
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 How words could end a war
By Scott Atran and Jeremy Ginges
New York Times
January 25, 2009
Across the world, people believe that devotion to sacred or core values that incorporate moral beliefs — like the welfare of family and country, or commitment to religion and honor — are, or ought to be, absolute and inviolable. Our studies…. suggest that people will reject material compensation for dropping their commitment to sacred values and will defend those values regardless of the costs.
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 Islam and modernity
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
Educational Broadcasting Corporation
January 9th, 2009
Ziade says in this day and age the principles of modernity should be universal — principles like the acceptance of individual and women’s rights, reason, doubt, and the separation of mosque and state. Instead, she says, Islamists are taking Egypt back to another era.
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 Religion and the Obama inauguration
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
Educational Broadcasting Corporation
January 23, 2009
“The role religion will play in the administration remains to be seen, but in Washington this past week, faith was a major part of the inauguration festivities and the days that followed. Kim Lawton has our report.”
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 Mercer professor releases statement on executive orders reversing U.S. detention policies
Press Release
Mercer University
January 22, 2009
It is striking that a refrain running through these executive orders is a concern for national security, foreign policy, and justice. The president has implicitly but clearly recognized today that the aberrant detainee and interrogation policies of the last seven years in fact damaged our national security, harmed our foreign policy interests, and violated core principles of justice.
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 Bailouts for bunglers
By Paul Krugman
New York Times
February 2, 2009
If taxpayers are footing the bill for rescuing the banks, why shouldn’t they get ownership, at least until private buyers can be found? But the Obama administration appears to be tying itself in knots to avoid this outcome.
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 The disciples of hatred, in their own words and images
By Brent Staples
New York Times
December 22, 2008
Nazi hunters have made an art of exposing war criminals through photographs taken in the death camp era. This strategy would have worked well against Southern lynch-mob killers who posed for the camera while murdering African-Americans in a campaign of terror that persisted into the mid-20th century.
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 Bread for the World: 2009 Offering of Letters Workshop, Atlanta, Jan. 31
From Event Flyer and Website
Bread for the World
January 7, 2009 (downloaded)
Bread for the World will offer an Atlanta workshop that provides advocacy tools, resources, and information to help individuals and organizations work more effectively for justice for hungry people around the globe. The workshop – designed especially to engage congregations, and campus and community organizations – is scheduled for January 31, 9:30 am to noon, at Central Presbyterian Church, 201 Washington Street, SW, in downtown Atlanta. For more information, contact Rev. Elizabeth Coleman at 404.827.0105.
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 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival,
Jan. 14-25
Website
Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
January 7, 2009 (downloaded)
The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival offers twelve remarkable days of great films with a Jewish twist. Enjoy the lineup of moving, funny, provocative, informative and uplifting features and shorts. There’s something for everyone! Tickets will be hotter than your bubbe’s homemade horseradish, so plan to order early and you won’t kvetch later.
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 Interracial churches
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
Educational Broadcasting Corporation
December 19, 2008
“I think my main passion is to get people ready for heaven. I think a lot of our people are going to go into culture shock when they get to heaven, and they get to sit next to somebody that they didn’t maybe sit with while they were here on earth. So we’re trying to get them acclimated a little bit.”
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 Muslim families removed from AirTran flight get apology
Los Angeles Times
By Cynthia Dizikes
January 3, 2009
After helping deliver the District of Columbia's first baby of 2009, Dr. Kashif Irfan boarded a flight to Orlando, Fla., with his wife, three children and other relatives to participate in a weekend retreat on the peaceful practice of Islam. But instead of taking off as scheduled, Irfan and his family were suddenly ordered off the plane, detained in the airport and refused passage by the airline after they were cleared by the FBI.
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 City of cold shoulders
By Walter Dellinger
New York Times
January 7, 2009
The scene of Roland W. Burris being escorted from the Senate by the Capitol police on Tuesday could be only the first act of an unpleasant and distracting drama. The wisest course for the Senate is to end the dispute by accepting the appointment.
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 Look ahead 2009
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
Educational Broadcasting Corporation
December 31, 2008
“I don’t think in my lifetime I’ve seen such an odd disconnect between political optimism and economic gloom. That President-elect Obama has had a popularity rating now in the 70s, sometimes the high 70s, people — even people who voted against him — are looking forward to change, and yet we all know what a mess the economy is in and how many challenges he faces.”
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 Yes, play politics in the White House
By Edward J. Rollins
New York Times
November 21, 2008
One of the first moves Mr. Reagan made after his inauguration was to create the White House Office of Political Affairs. I am sure from George Washington forward politics has been conducted in the White House, but Mr. Reagan wanted the job out in the open and its activities open to scrutiny.
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 An open letter to President-elect Obama
and the 111th Congress
By Paul Gasbarra
Public Agenda
November 20, 2008 (downloaded)
There are many challenges ahead of you: curing a sick economy, managing two wars overseas, helping Americans keep their homes, to name a few, and we here at Education Insights know that this will keep you busy for quite some time. However we must add to your long and daunting "to do" list the task of improving the educational system in our country.
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 U.S. Hispanic Catholics
Public Broadcasting System
Religion & Ethics Newsletter
November 26, 2008
The largest, youngest and fastest growing Catholic population in the United States is Latino. Although estimates vary, the percentage of Hispanic American Catholics is thought to range from one-third to 40 percent. With such growing numbers and intensity of expression, what do Hispanics bring to the American Catholic Church?
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 How our gutless media helped trigger
the credit crisis
By Trudy Lieberman
Columbia Journalism Review
November 20, 2008 (posted by AlterNet)
Media advice on credit issues certainly did not clean up the lending industry. In fact, says Warren, "the financial press worked in concert with the purveyors of dangerous credit instruments to make those instruments look reasonable. It was seen as savvy to use them."
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 Nurses shine, bankers slump in ethics ratings
Ethics Newsline
Institute for Global Ethics
Nov 24th, 2008
For the seventh straight year, nurses enjoy top public accolades in Gallup’s annual Honesty and Ethics of professions survey. Eighty-four percent of Americans call their honesty and ethical standards either “high” or “very high.”
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 TV ads for fast food contribute to child obesity
By Shari Roan
Los Angeles Times
November 19, 2008
Banning fast-food advertisements on television could reduce the number of overweight children in the United States by as much as 18%, according to a report published today from economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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 The people have a responsibility, and deserve the opportunity, to participate in change
By Ruth A. Wooden
Public Agenda
November 14, 2008 (downloaded by FATC)
Americans stood in lines to vote for hours and volunteered in staggering numbers in the final months of the campaign – and no matter which candidate they supported this was an impressive display of citizenship.
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 What are moral values? How important were they in the presidential election?
Harris Interactive
November 11, 2008
Conducted just before the election, The Harris Poll® found that about half (51%) of voters said that moral values were very important in deciding which candidate to vote for, however, the moral values most of these people had in mind were the personal characteristics of the candidates – their honesty, integrity and character.
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 Negative campaigning – what's new?
By Larry J. Sabato
Los Angeles Times
November 4, 2008
In 1800, Thomas Jefferson endured a presidential campaign in which supporters of his opponent, President John Adams, labored mightily to convince the public that the then-vice president was an atheistic coward hell-bent on ripping Bibles from the homes of God-fearing Americans. A Jeffersonian writer, in turn, called Adams a "hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and the firmness of a man nor the gentleness or sensibility of a woman."
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 A political manners manual
By Gail Collins
New York Times
November 8, 2008
With all the stories about people doing happy dances in the street and smiling on the subways after Barack Obama won, we have overlooked the dark side of the postelection mood.
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 The pornograph-izing of Sarah Palin
By Cara
Feministe
October 29, 2008 (posted on AlterNet)
Via Sociological Images – a truly great blog I discovered recently -- comes this story about a Sarah Palin lookalike contest held at Vegas strip club (oh, sorry, "gentleman's club"). Lots of bikinis, sexualized use of guns and sexism abound. You can view more photographs of the event here.
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 The learning curve and America's problems
Newsletter
Public Agenda
November 1, 2008
The U.S. needs a "New Pragmatism" to overcome the severe but solvable problems facing the nation, according to Public Agenda chairman and co-founder Daniel Yankelovich. In his Drucker Day address at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California, the social scientist examines why America's problem-solving skills have deteriorated, and lays out a new theory of the public's "learning curve" on difficult issues.
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Compassion, certainly, but justice, too
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Miami Herald
October 4, 2008
For what it's worth, the case against Davis is not exactly airtight. No murder weapon, DNA or other forensic evidence implicated him. Rather, he was convicted solely on the testimony of nine witnesses, seven of whom have since recanted. Two of them say police bullied and intimidated them into fingering Davis.
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 Racism without racists
By Nicholas D. Kristof
New York Times
October 5, 2008
One of the fallacies this election season is that if Barack Obama is paying an electoral price for his skin tone, it must be because of racists. On the contrary, the evidence is that Senator Obama is facing what scholars have dubbed “racism without racists.”
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 Why the Latino vote could decide the 2008 election
By Randy Shaw
AlterNet
October 1, 2008
For the first time in U.S. history, Latino voters could play a decisive role in a presidential election this year. If they do, we can thank Cesar Chavez and his protégés.
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 Trail of Dreams World Peace Walk returns to USA
News Release
Trail of Dreams World Peace Walk-A-Long
August 14, 2008
The Spirit of Truth Foundation announced today the final leg of its worldwide walk for peace. The Trail of Dreams World Peace Walk-A-Long will begin in New York City on January 21, 2009 and conclude April 21 in Atlanta, Georgia, where the foundation is headquartered.
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 Swedish spoken here
By Thomas L. Friedman
New York Times
October 5, 2008
Even though the dollar has strengthened a bit lately, we are going to need foreigners and sovereign wealth funds from China, Asia, Europe and the Middle East more than ever to survive this crisis — and they are going to need us to be healthy as well. In the process, we are going to become even more intertwined and dependent on the rest of the world.
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 Iran's proud but discreet Jews
By Frances Harrison
BBC News, Tehran
September 22, 2006
Although Iran and Israel are bitter enemies, few know that Iran is home to the largest number of Jews anywhere in the Middle East outside Israel. About 25,000 Jews live in Iran and most are determined to remain no matter what the pressures - as proud of their Iranian culture as of their Jewish roots.
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 One in 4 mammals threatened with extinction,
group finds
By James Kanter
New York Times
October 7, 2008
An “extinction crisis” is under way, with one in four mammals in danger of disappearing because of habitat loss, hunting and climate change, a leading global conservation body warned Monday.
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 W. Deen Mohammed, 74, top U.S. imam, dies
By Douglas Martin
New York Times
September 10, 2008
Imam W. Deen Mohammed, a son of the Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad, who renounced the black nationalism of his father’s movement to lead a more traditional and racially tolerant form of Islam for black Muslims, died on Tuesday in Chicago. He was 74.
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 Online student-teacher friendships can be tricky
By Mallory Simon
CNN
August 13, 2008
In Missouri in particular, a rash of student-teacher sexual relationships have spawned crackdowns on social-networking friendships.
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 We're teaching books that don't stack up
By Nancy Schnog
Washington Post
August 24, 2008
We've shied away from discussing a most unfortunate culprit in the saga of diminishing teen reading: the high-school English classroom. As much as I hate to admit it, all too often it's English teachers like me -- as able and well-intentioned as we may be – who close down teen interest in reading.
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 Interfaith gathering in Atlanta questions torture
Press Release
Mercer University
September 12, 2008
Speakers on the first day of the inaugural National Summit on Torture at Mercer University’s Atlanta campus Thursday told the more than 200 participants that “this summit affirms our values as Americans.”
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 Disrespecting the disabled belittles us all
By Mary Yoder
For the Journal-Constitution
August 28, 2008
It is a reality that around 85 percent of women with developmental disabilities are victims of violence or sexual abuse in their lifetimes and that 32 percent of males will be victims.
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 In a generation, minorities may be the U.S. majority
By Sam Roberts
New York Times
August 14, 2008
Ethnic and racial minorities will comprise a majority of the nation’s population in a little more than a generation, according to new Census Bureau projections, a transformation that is occurring faster than anticipated just a few years ago.
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 Slavery in U.S. lingered long after Civil War
Leonard Pitts Jr.
For the Baltimore Sun
July 28, 2008
Mr. Blackmon says white men were openly buying and selling black men under this system until after World War II.
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 Rich man’s burden
By Dalton Conley
New York Times
September 2, 2008
In other words, when we get a raise, instead of using that hard-won money to buy “the good life,” we feel even more pressure to work since the shadow costs of not working are all the greater.
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 Faith And The City Awards recognize outstanding public ministries
Faith And The City e.Newsletter
August 1, 2008
In July, Faith And The City and the Atlanta Theological Association named the two recipients of the first annual Beloved Community Awards for Best Practices in Public Ministry. They are the Southwest Ecumenical Emergency Assistance Center Inc., which provides emergency economic support for residents facing crises, and the Brookhaven United Methodist Church’s Recovery Bible Study Program, which offers spiritual support for individuals in substance abuse recovery.
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 Feeding hope, a multifaith celebration
Faith And The City e.Newsletter
August 15, 2008
The 4th annual multifaith worship service for Hunger Action Month (http://www.secondharvest.org), hosted by the Atlanta Community Food Bank (http://www.acfb.org/) and the Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta (http://www.faithallianceofmetroatlanta.org/), invitesall faith traditions to join together in the common goal of ending hunger in Atlanta -- recognizing that hunger is a spiritual issue as well as a societal issue. The worship service is scheduled for Tuesday, September 9, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm, at the Atlanta Community Food Bank facility, 732 Joseph E. Lowery Blvd. NW, Atlanta 30318. RSVP on line.
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 Minimum wage raise too little, too late
By Holly Sklar
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune News Service
July 22, 2008
Minimum wage workers have been stuck in a losing game of "Mother May I" with the federal government. Workers step forward when the government says yes to raising the minimum wage. Workers step backward when the cost of living increases, but the minimum wage doesn't.
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 Small boost, big dreams: Minimum wage hike helps lift Georgians out of poverty
By Cindia Cameron, Christopher Henry
For the Journal-Constitution
July 24, 2008
The federal minimum wage will increase today from $5.85 to $6.55 an hour. This amounts to $28 a week for a full-time worker —- less than the cost of half a tank of gas. At this rate, annual wages for full-time work still leave a family of three nearly $1,000 per year below the federal poverty rate.
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 Women are now equal as victims of poor economy
By Louis Uchitelle
New York Times
July 22, 2008
Across the country, women in their prime earning years, struggling with an unfriendly economy, are retreating from the work force, either permanently or for long stretches. They had piled into jobs in growing numbers since the 1960s. But that stopped happening this decade, and as the nearly seven-year-old recovery gives way to hard times, the retreat is likely to accelerate.
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 With no frills or tuition, a college draws notice
By Tamar Lewin
New York Times
July 21, 2008
Berea College, founded 150 years ago to educate freed slaves and “poor white mountaineers,” accepts only applicants from low-income families, and it charges no tuition.
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 Saudi king appeals for tolerance
BBC News
July 16, 2008
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has called on followers of the world's main religions to turn away from extremism and embrace a spirit of reconciliation. The king was opening a conference in Madrid which brings together Muslims, Christians, Jews and Buddhists.
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 Doctors push cholesterol drugs on kids
By Marie Cocco
Washington Post Writers Group
July 10, 2008 (Posted on AlterNet)
To the cocktail of drugs young children already are taking, the American Academy of Pediatrics is now recommending that some kids as young as 8 might benefit from cholesterol-reducing medication.
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 Obama must confront Muslim issue
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Miami Herald
June 29, 2008
Members of that community are feeling well and truly snubbed by Obama, who has visited a number of churches and synagogues, but has yet to find his way to a single mosque.
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 Guantánamo case confirms it: Justices are our conscience
By Bob Braun
Star-Ledger
June 13, 2008
This is one of those rare Supreme Court decisions, maybe a few dozen at most in the history of the republic, that will be remembered and debated and taught -- and not because of 9/11 or terrorism or the war in Iraq.
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 Judaism drawing more black Americans
By Rachel Pomerance
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
June 18, 2008
Pamela and Jim Harris have gotten used to the stares. It's not that people have never seen traditional Jewish garb before. They've just rarely seen it on a black couple.
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 Prime minister apologizes to native Canadians
By Rob Gillies
Associated Press
June 11, 2008
In a historic speech, Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized Wednesday to Canada's native peoples for the longtime government policy of forcing their children to attend state-funded schools aimed at assimilating them.
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 Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol
By Chris Ayres
The Times
June 14, 2008
Silicon Valley is experimenting with bacteria that have been genetically altered to provide 'renewable petroleum.' Some diesel fuel is produced by genetically modified bugs.
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 FATC TV forum on stewardship and water conservation
e.Newsletter
Faith And The City
June 13, 2008
During June, Faith And The City Forum examines conservation natural resources in “Water Conservation: Only the Beginning (Parts 1 & 2).” The 30-minute dialogues are hosted by veteran journalist Steen “Newslady” Miles. Panelists for the conservation discussion are: Ms. Presian Burroughs, interim associate director, Georgia Interfaith Power and Light; Rev. Tony Lankford, pastor, Park Avenue Baptist Church; Rev. Canon Debra Shew, canon for community ministries, Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta; and Dr. David Stooksbury, state climatologist and associate professor of engineering and atmospheric sciences, University of Georgia. The award-winning public affairs series airs fours days a week on Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters Cable TV Network.
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 Conference at Mercer: Religious Faith, Torture, and Our National Soul
Mercer University Website
June 10, 2008
On September 11-12, 2008, Evangelicals for Human Rights, with the National Religious Campaign Against Torture and Mercer University, will host a national summit on torture on the Atlanta Campus of Mercer University. You are invited to be a part of this examination of the journey of the United States, since September 11, 2001, from a nation that championed human rights to a nation that publicly acknowledges and supports the use of torture.
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 Media charged with sexism in Clinton coverage
By Katharine Q. Seelye and Julie Bosman
New York Times
June 13, 2008
Angered by what they consider sexist news coverage of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, many women and erstwhile Clinton supporters are proposing boycotts of the cable networks, putting up videos on a "Media Hall of Shame," starting a national conversation about sexism and pushing Mrs. Clinton's rival, Senator Barack Obama, to address the matter.
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 Ailing hospital reopens, but just barely
By Craig Schneider
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
May 27, 2008
This is a hospital as a ghost town. The emptiness, however, belies a surprising amount of action going on behind the scenes. Southwest Atlanta Hospital is a place haunted by its past; the biggest surprise may be that it is open at all.
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 Shield student loans from eye of storm
By Beverly Daniel Tatum
For Atlanta Journal-Constitution
May 5, 2008
In a knowledge economy, allowing educated talent – our future teachers, scientists, engineers, health care professionals, business leaders – to fall short of their goals because they don't have enough money should be unacceptable to those who can make a difference. The future we save will be our own.
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 Georgia judge who gave blacks-only lecture teams with Cosby
By Walter Putnam
Associated Press
April 25, 2008
Bill Cosby says apathy among some black Americans about violence, drugs, profanity and teenage sex has sunk to a level of asking someone to "pass the salt." Cosby and Superior Court Judge Marvin Arrington spoke at a forum for at-risk youths from the Atlanta area. Both men are black.
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 A nation at a loss
By Edward B. Fiske
New York Times
April 25, 2008
The United States, which used to lead the world in sending high school graduates on to higher education, has declined to fifth in the proportion of young adults who participate in higher education and is 16th out of 27 industrialized countries in the proportion who complete college.
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 Race and the race: A fiery theology under fire
By Michael Powell
New York Times
May 4, 2008
Black liberation theology “gives special privilege to the oppressed,” said Gary Dorrien, a professor of social ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York. “God is seen as a partisan, liberating force who gives special privilege to the poorest.”
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 PJB: A brief for Whitey
By Patrick J. Buchanan
March 21, 2008
How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he sat silent in a pew for 20 years as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered racist rants against white America for our maligning of Fidel and Gadhafi, and inventing AIDS to infect and kill black people?
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 That all may worship: Beyond the Ramp
Website Posting
Interfaith Disability Connection
April 15, 2008
“That All May Worship: Beyond the Ramp” is a one-day conference that will focus on how religious communities can make their houses of worship even more accessible to those with disabilities. Topics will reach beyond eliminating physical barriers and discuss creating services and programs in which all members can easily participate.
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 Harvey Newman appointed department chair at Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Faith And The City
e.Newsletter
April 18, 2008
Harvey K. Newman, Ph.D., former Faith And The City program director at Columbia Theological Seminary, has been appointed to a three-year term as chair of the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies (PAUS) in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.
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 Grady Hospital and the faith community: RCCA Pastors Breakfast Dialogue
Faith And The City
e.Newsletter
April 18, 2008
On May 15, the monthly Pastors Breakfast Dialogue of the Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta (RCCA) will begin a conversation between the faith community and the region’s busiest hospital. Guests include: Pete Correll, chair of Grady’s new nonprofit board of directors; Dr. Arthur Kellerman, associate dean for health policy, Emory University School of Medicine; and Dr. Lawrence L. Sanders Jr., associate dean for clinical affairs, Morehouse School of Medicine. Grady serves as a key training facility for both schools of medicine.
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 Grady Hospital ready for fundraising explosion
By Craig Schneider
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
March 21, 2008
Grady Memorial Hospital has long been a neglected stepchild of Atlanta's charity community, but it appears now on the verge of a fund-raising explosion. With the pump primed by an expected $200 million private donation, Grady supporters hope to attract tens of millions more for the cash-strapped health center.
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 Atlantans need to help new generation help others
By James Laney
For the Journal-Constitution
March 31, 2008
In a few weeks one of the largest cohorts of college graduates in history will receive their diplomas. They may well be the best educated and brightest ever to cross the commencement stage. They will need all their gifts, for they enter a sobered world.
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 A life-changing push for youth: City's educational underclass must break failure mind-set
By Marvin Arrington
For the Journal-Constitution
April 11, 2008
How can we sit idle while those most in need of a good education are failing at school and at life? We all know that a good education has the power to change lives. We know how to provide a good education to our young people.
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 The next president’s first task: A manifesto
By Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Vanity Fair
May 2008
In America, several obstacles impede the kind of entrepreneurial revolution we need. To begin with, that trillion dollars in annual coal-and-oil subsidies gives the carbon industry a decisive market advantage.
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 Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta elects officers
Faith And The City e.Newsletter
March 10, 2008
At its Feb. 13 luncheon meeting, the Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta elected a new slate of officers, including a new president, Rabbi Josh Lesser of Congregation Bet Haverim, who succeeds Imam Plemon El-Amin, resident imam of the Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam.
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 McAfee offers Urban Mission Workshop
Faith And The City e.Newsletter
March 10, 2008
McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University will offer a workshop, “Congregational Strategies for Urban Mission,” April 1-2, at the University’s Atlanta campus. The two full days of programming include keynote speaker Dr. Robert Franklin, a range of featured speakers, as well as plenary and practicum sessions on a variety of topics.
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 Obama should be proud to be named Hussein
By Juan Cole
Salon.com
Feb. 28, 2008
The attacks on Barack Obama's middle name have begun, but the likely Democratic nominee joins a long line of famous Americans with Semitic names, from Benjamin Franklin to Omar Bradley.
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 Story of Jesus through Iranian eyes
By Lara Setrakian
ABC News
Feb. 16, 2008
A new movie in Iran depicts the life of Jesus from an Islamic perspective. "The Messiah," which some consider as Iran's answer to Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ," won an award at Rome's Religion Today Film Festival for generating interfaith dialogue.
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 Big Brother endorses these playthings
By Bob Barr
For the Journal-Constitution
March 5, 2008
Two years ago in this column, I lamented the fact that toy manufacturers were cashing in on society's headlong rush toward constant and ubiquitous surveillance.
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 Time out of mind
By Stefan Klein
The New York Times
March 7, 2008
People in industrial nations lose more years from disability and premature death due to stress-related illnesses like heart disease and depression than from other ailments. In scrambling to use time to the hilt, we wind up with less of it.
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 Faith And The City TV: “World Pilgrims of Atlanta: Interfaith Relationships on the Road”
Faith And The City
e.Newsletter
Feb. 5, 2008
The award-winning cable TV program, Faith And The City Forum, takes a closer look at the interfaith initiative that coordinated seven international pilgrimages shared by Muslims, Jews, and Christians from Atlanta. The two-part panel discussion, “World Pilgrims of Atlanta: Interfaith Relationships on the Road,” is hosted by Steen Miles. Panelists are Imam Plemon T. El-Amin; Ms. Ameenah Sabree, Dr. David Taylor, and Rev. Jill Ulrici.
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 Faith And The City introduces Beloved Community Awards for Best Practices in Public Ministry
Faith And The City
e.Newsletter
Feb. 5, 2008
Is your community of faith or house of worship actively engaged in addressing specific community challenges? If so, and you feel it has some “best practices” to share with others, Faith And The City encourages you to apply for an award of $750 to recognize outstanding work being done to help build the beloved community in the larger metropolitan Atlanta area.” The award program is a new joint initiative of Faith And The City and the Atlanta Theological Association.
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 Levine to speak on “Jesus, Judaism and Anti-Jewish Preaching” at Mercer’s 2008 Wm. Self Preaching Lectures
McAfee School of Theology
Event Announcement
Jan. 22, 2008
Jewish New Testament scholar Amy-Jill Levine, Ph.D., of Vanderbilt University will be the 2008 presenter of the William L. Self Preaching Lectures, Feb. 18-19, at McAfee School of Theology of Mercer University on the University’s Atlanta campus.
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 We don't know what we think: Unrecognized attitudes lurk in our subconscious
By Mahzarin R. Banaji
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jan. 23, 2008
Our intense scrutiny of the presidential candidates has produced a relentless stream of questions, some thoughtful and relevant, others spectacularly irrelevant and even embarrassing: Why are you not more likable, Hillary? How good a Christian can he be with the name Hussein?
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The meaning of the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
By Coretta Scott King
King Center Website
Jan. 11, 2008 (posted by FATC)
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday celebrates the life and legacy of a man who brought hope and healing to America. We commemorate as well the timeless values he taught us through his example -- the values of courage, truth, justice, compassion, dignity, humility and service that so radiantly defined Dr. King's character and empowered his leadership. On this holiday, we commemorate the universal, unconditional love, forgiveness and nonviolence that empowered his revolutionary spirit.
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List of metro Atlanta events for January
 FATC TV forum host Steen “The Newslady” Miles pens childhood memoir
Press Release
Orman Press
December 31, 2003
Veteran journalist and former state Senator Steen “The Newslady” Miles has written a childhood memoir entitled Teenie: “Newslady in Training.” Described by reviewer and relationship expert Dr. Joyce Morley-Ball as a “must read” Teenie chronicles the childhood of Miles growing up in the 50’s and 60’s in the small northern Indiana college town of South Bend.
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 What is it about Mormonism?
By Noah Feldman
New York Times Magazine
Jan. 6, 2008
From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the First Amendment, they inserted a provision in the Constitution expressly prohibiting any religious test for office.
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 Why I believe Bush must go: Nixon was bad. These guys are worse.
By George McGovern
Washington Post
Jan. 6, 2008
As we enter the eighth year of the Bush-Cheney administration, I have belatedly and painfully concluded that the only honorable course for me is to urge the impeachment of the president and the vice president.
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 Felling water's best friend: Forested land under the ax from tax policy
By Steve McWilliams
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jan. 8, 2008
If we do not soon bring a measure of sanity to the rapidly escalating property taxes on forestland, Georgia's water management policy will continue to resemble someone using a sieve to bail water from a sinking ship.
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 "Megachurches" is topic of Faith And The City Forum TV program
Faith And The City e.Newsletter
Dec. 14, 2007
When Sen. Grassley recenlty requested financial information from six prominent megachurch ministries, including two based in metro Atlanta, he fueled a long-standing controversy. Faith And The City Forum's current public affairs dialogue is titled, "Megachurches: Ethics, Law, and Money," airing four days each week on Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters Inc. cable television network.
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Church on the Edge of Somewhere: Ministry, Marginality, and the Future
Book Review
Alban Institute
Oct. 14, 2007 (posted by FATC)
Most congregations today exist in what George Thompson calls the "middle of anywhere." They live comfortably with their surrounding culture, focusing their energies on serving the needs of the current members. These congregations have many strengths and gifts that they can exercise without changing a thing. But Thompson envisions a deeper, more prophetic call for congregations to explore the meaning of being in the world but not of it—a church on the "edge of somewhere."
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Nonprofit board good for Grady
Opinion by Andrew Young
For the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Nov. 26, 2007
As a community, our support for Grady Hospital is one very tangible expression of our commitment to help our neighbors who have no health care coverage -- those in need who otherwise would be ignored on "the road to Jericho." Faith And The City believes that our capacity as a community to provide such assistance is best facilitated by the creation of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit operating board for Grady.
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 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival expands 2008 dates, venues
AJFF Website
Sep. 17, 2007
The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival (AJFF) announced today new dates and venues for its annual showcase of outstanding international and independent films. The 8th Annual Atlanta Jewish Film Festival will run from January 16-27, 2008, expanding from 7 to 12 days. Screenings will take place at the Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 16 and Lefont Sandy Springs theaters, as well as at a new North Metro venue, the Regal Medlock Crossing Stadium 18 in Duluth.
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 Interfaith coalition urges continued progress in resolving Grady Hospital crisis
Faith And The City
October 17, 2007
The following letter, addressed to Pamela Stephenson, Chair of the Fulton-Dekalb Hospital Authority, was signed by majorities of the boards of three organizations – Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta, Faith And The City, and the Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta. Copies were distributed to all trustees of the Hospital Authority, as well as to DeKalb and Fulton County Commissions, Grady Advisory Group, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, and the Governor, Lt. Governor, and Speaker of the House of Georgia.
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 “Saving Grady Hospital” is topic of Faith And The City Forum TV Program
Faith And The City e.Newsletter
November 1, 2007
The challenges facing Grady Hospital and the faith community’s role in addressing those challenges is the November topic of Faith And The City Forum, a public affairs panel discussion that airs weekly on Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters Inc. cable television network.
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 RCCA celebrated 1957 Ministers’ Manifesto on race relations
Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta
November 7, 2007
On October 25, the Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta celebrated the 50th anniversary of the historic 1957 Ministers’ Manifesto on Racial Beliefs, a then-highly controversial call for justice and decency during the moral and political chaos that followed court-ordered desegregation of public schools. The Manifesto was initiated by the RCCA, known then as the Christian Council of Atlanta.
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 The morality of housing affordability
Making the Case for Housing Choices and Complete Communities: The next Generation
Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership Inc.
October 21, 2007, posted by FATC
If there is enough demand for high-priced housing, you'll get high-priced housing. That crowds out affordable housing, and no one corrects that with a moral or fairness perspective. Conscience needs to be part of the equation as well as just the brute factors of the marketplace. Too often in America today, the question of morality, the notion of what is right or what we ought to do, versus what we can do, is ignored.
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 RCCA’s Pastors Breakfast to recognize historic 1957 Manifesto on Racial Beliefs
Faith And The City e.Newsletter
October 5, 2007
The Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the historic 1957 Pastors’ Manifesto on Racial Beliefs, which was initiated by the RCCA’s predecessor organization, the Christian Council of Atlanta.
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 A time to speak
Time Magazine
November 11, 1957
Georgia's standpat segregationists got a shock with their Sunday [Nov. 3, 1957] paper. Glaring from the pages of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution was a statement signed by almost every leading Protestant minister in Atlanta – 80 in all – which came out foursquare for the Christian view of race relations, individual liberty and the law of the land.
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 Regional Council of Church’s Herchel Sheets Intern helps launch Impact UMC
By John Baker Brown Jr.
Faith And The City e.Newsletter
September 28, 2007
A nontraditional new-church initiative draws hundreds to multimedia worship and community-oriented ministry in Atlanta’s West End. “We call it a worship ‘experience,’ not a worship ‘service’.” We give people an opportunity to experience God, to get to know God in a unique way from 10 to 11 o’clock on Sunday mornings – and if they want more, we’re available.”
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 The world comes to Georgia, and an old church adapts
By Warren St. John
New York Times
September 22, 2007
When the Rev. Phil Kitchin steps into the pulpit of the Clarkston International Bible Church on Sunday mornings, he stands eye to eye with the changing face of America. In the pews before him, alongside white-haired Southern women in their Sunday best, sit immigrants from the Philippines and Togo, refugees from war-scarred Liberia, Ethiopia and Sudan, even a convert from Afghanistan.
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RCCA’s Pastors Breakfast features New Testament scholar Luke Timothy Johnson
Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta
September 12, 2007
Internationally noted New Testament scholar Luke Timothy Johnson, Ph.D., will speak at the September Pastors Breakfast of the Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta. He will discuss the first Christian councils – their purpose, authority, and influence.
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 Faith And The City's webmaster Stanley Leary to speak on photojournalism at Reinhardt College
Press Release
Reinhardt College
September 2007
FATC Editor's note: Stanley Leary is a professional photojournalist and technology consultant who maintains the Faith And The City website. In addition to traveling nationally and internationally on various freelance photo assignments, Stanley teaches photojournalism at Reinhardt College.
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 Annual “Empty Bowl Dinner” benefits Project Connect program to aid homeless
Jewish Family & Career Services
September 12, 2007
Jewish Family & Career Services’ annual "soup kitchen" event benefits the Project Connect program to assist homeless people. The Annual Empty Bowl Dinner will be held Sunday, November 11.
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Why even the new minimum wage
is not a fair wage
Opinion by Doug Gatlin
Faith And The City e.Newsletter
August 13, 2007
The debate about "minimum wage" is not the debate that really should be occurring among people of faith, people of goodwill, and people who believe that we are stronger as a nation when each individual and every family is stronger. Our debate should be about what constitutes a “fair wage,” a wage families can live on without public assistance.
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 Luce Foundation awards $100,000 to extend original grant to Faith And The City Leadership Institute
Faith And The City e.Newsletter
July 23, 2007
The Faith And The City Leadership Institute announced today that it has been awarded a $100,000 grant by The Henry Luce Foundation. The funding extends a $300,000 grant awarded in 2005 to help fund the interfaith Institute’s first two annual classes. The current grant will provide substantial support for an Institute-initiated coalition, Fairness for Georgia Families, which is working to expand faith community involvement in living wage issues.
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 Do business and Islam mix? Ask him
By G. Pascal Zachary
New York Times
July 8, 2007
He is a moderate Muslim religious leader and a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad. He is also a twice-married jet-setter. He has poured money into poorer, neglected parts of the world, often into businesses as basic as making fish nets, plastic bags and matches, while also teaming up with private-equity powerhouses like the Blackstone Group on a huge $750 million hydroelectric system in Uganda.
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 The reality of race: Is the problem that white people don't know or don't care?
By Robert Jensen
AlterNet
July 14, 2007
"Study shows that white people are mean and uncaring." That would have been my headline for a recent story from Diverse: Issues in Higher Education [that] reported an Ohio State University study of white people's understanding of the black experience. Curiously, the psychologists who conducted the research spun the data in exactly the opposite direction, and the conflicting interpretations tell us much about race relations in the United States.
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 "I am both Muslim and Christian"
By Janet I. Tu
Seattle Times
June 17, 2007
Shortly after noon on Fridays, the Rev. Ann Holmes Redding ties on a black headscarf, preparing to pray with her Muslim group on First Hill. On Sunday mornings, Redding puts on the white collar of an Episcopal priest. She does both, she says, because she's Christian and Muslim.
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 US Senate opens with Hindu prayer
By Aziz Haniffa
Rediff India Abroad
July 12, 2007
History was created in the United States Senate at 9.30 am on Thursday, when Rajan Zed, the Hindu chaplain of the Indian Association of Northern Nevada, opened the Senate with a Hindu prayer. A few Christian fundamentalists protested and began screaming, while holding the Bible aloft, "Lord Jesus, protect us from this abomination."
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 RCCA's Carter interviewed for Rockefeller Institute newsletter
Faith And The City e.Newsletter
June 13, 2007
Ethel Ware Carter, associate director of The Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta, was interviewed recently for the online newsletter of The Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy, a publication of the Rockefeller Institute of Government, State University of New York. Carter discusses the RCCA's origins and history, as well as its current goals, programs, and membership. View the Roundtable newsletter online or read a verbatim reprint in PDF format on this website by clicking below.
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