Volume 3, Issue 2
February 9, 2004


Feature: Where Do You Stand on Critical Public Issues?

Should the Word "Evolution" Be Removed from Georgia Textbooks?
Whatever your position may be -- for or against -- in the public debate over this controversial issue, you can learn more about it and share your views with elected officials who will influence the final decisions.
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Guest Column on Evolution: Ideology Holds the Reins

As a geneticist, I know that censoring scientific speech is a bad idea. One historical example may help illustrate this point. In the early 1900s Russia had a solid reputation in the biological sciences, including two Nobel prizes in medicine. (First published in the Atlanta-Journal Constitution; reprinted with author's permission.)
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FYI: End Homelessness in Atlanta
Upcoming Faith And The City Newsletter Focuses on Homelessness and Features New Format

The upcoming Faith And The City Newsletter for Winter/Spring 2004 will focus on homelessness in Atlanta and feature a new 12-page format with broader coverage and a range of photographs. Articles include a call to action for area congregations from Ambassadors Laney and Young, a first-person perspective by a writer who is homeless, and a full-color spread on the Atlanta Habitat House interfaith initiative. The newsletter is available in print or electronic format. To subscribe free of charge, click here. To review previous newsletter issues, click here.
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24th Annual Poor People's Day at the Capitol: A Call for Justice for All

Hundreds of poor working people from across Georgia will gather to demand justice through education and action on February 11 and 12 when the Up and Out of Poverty Now Coalition mobilizes organizers, advocates, and citizens for the 24th Annual Poor PeopleÕs Day at the Capitol. The event will be held at Trinity United Methodist Church, 265 Washington Street, Atlanta.
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FYI: Georgia Center for Nonprofits Announces 2004 Schedule

The Georgia Center for Nonprofits has the January-March workshop schedule on their Web site, http://www.gcn.org. Follow the links for 'training'. The topics cover management, fundraising, computing, marketing, etc. You can register online at the same Web site. Questions: please contact training@gcn.org or 678-916-3046.

Event: Workshop on The Heart As It IS -- Spirituality and Writing by distinguished American poet Michael Dennis Browne
February 14, Central Congregational Church (United Church of Christ)
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Event: Emory University's Fifth Annual Symposium on Science and Religion
February 17, Emory University's Cox Hall Ballroom
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Event: Reception and Address by James D. Wolfensohn, President of The World Bank Group. Introduction by Ambassador Andrew J. Young. Presentation of the SCIS Award for Reducing World Poverty.
March 2, Atlanta History Center, McElreath Hall Auditorium, 130 West Paces Ferry Road, NW, Atlanta
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Event: Interfaith Disabilities Network meeting
March 3, The Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam, 560 Fayetteville Road, Atlanta
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