Volume 3, Issue 8
August 28, 2004


Article: Atlanta to Host Annual Meeting of World Council of Churches U.S. Conference
Faith And The City e.Letter, August 2004
The World Council of Churches will visit Atlanta October 5-6 for the annual meeting of the organization's United States Conference. Featured speakers for the meeting -- which carries the theme, "the Power and Promise of Peace" -- include the WCC's international Secretary General Samuel Kobia and North America President Bernice Powell Jackson.
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Article: Film Depicts Suffragists' Struggle for Women's Voting Rights
National Council of Jewish Women, August 12, 2004
The Atlanta Section of the National Council of Jewish Women will sponsor a viewing of the film, Iron Jawed Angels, which depicts two activists who broke from the mainstream of the women's rights movement and created a more radical wing to secure women's voting rights in the 1920s.
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Opinion: Political Role of the Masjid
By Siraj Islam Mufti
American Muslim Magazine, July 2003
Muslim minorities must abide by the laws of the countries in which they live, participate fully in the democratic process, and use the available means to empower and better their communities. Attending to the community's collective affairs is an obligatory duty, and our neglect of it is the major source of our problems, regardless of where we are living. This situation must change if any improvement is to be expected.
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Opinion: Gospel Fantasy
By Mark S. Burrows
The Christian Century, June 17, 2004
If you've not read Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, you're in a shrinking group. More than 7 million hardback copies of the novel are in print, and it has by the publisher's count been translated into more than 40 languages...Brown's novel is a tract set in a fictional frame...[that] relies on slipshod scholarship and mixes occasional fact with a large measure of fantasy.
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Event: "Forum on Religion in the 2004 Elections," Atlanta (September 8)
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Event: Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta, 9/11 Interfaith Service (September 11)
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Event: "The Power and Promise of Peace," World Council of Churches, Atlanta (October 5-6)
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Event: Bridging Faith and Health: The Role of the Church (October 11-13)
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