 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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