Faith And The City e.Letter
April 20, 2005
Volume 4, Issue 4

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Jim Wallis, Author of Book, “God’s Politics,” to Visit Atlanta
News Release
Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta
March 30, 2005
The Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta will bring Jim Wallis – speaker, author, and international commentator on ethics and public life – to Atlanta, May 25-26. Author of several books, Wallis’ most recent is God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It.
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The World House
By Robert M. Franklin
Sightings
March 31, 2005
As war rages in Iraq and as President Bush advocates a budget that many fear will further neglect the nation's poor, the writings and ministry of Martin Luther King, Jr., are as relevant as ever…. We have inherited a large house, a great world house in which we have to live together – black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Muslim and Hindu – a family unduly separated in ideas, culture and interest, who, because we can never again live apart, must learn somehow to live with each other in peace." In other words, "whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly."
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Muslim Refusenik
By Terrence McNally
AlterNet
April 8, 2005
At a moment when America is at war in a Muslim country due in part to the electoral muscle of the Christian Right, I agree with those who speak of a clash of civilizations. But I don't see Jews and Christians versus Muslims. I see fundamentalist, pre-scientific, pre-enlightenment Jews, Christians and Muslims versus Jews, Christians, Muslims and non-believers who, in their search for meaning, ask questions and question answers…. In her controversial best-seller, The Trouble with Islam Today, Irshad Manji, a spike-haired, lesbian Canadian who looks younger than her 36 years, challenges fellow Muslims to revive a lost tradition of free inquiry within Islam.
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"FOBs" vs. "Twinkies": The Language of Intraracial Discrimination
By Grace Hsiang
Pacific News Service
Posted on AlterNet April 15, 2005
In the Asian community, the slurs heard most often are not terms such as "Chink" or "Jap," but rather "FOB" ("Fresh Off the Boat") or "white-washed" (too assimilated). When Asian Americans hit puberty, they seem to divide into two camps, each highly critical of the other…. Members of the first cling to their ethnic heritage. They tend to be exclusive in their friendships, often accepting only "true Asians”…. Members of the second group reject as many aspects of Asian culture as possible and concentrate on being seen as American.
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Fighting for the Op-Edisphere
By Danny Schechter
TomPaine.com
Posted on AlterNet April 9, 2005
In the old days, the op-ed page of any newspaper was the place set aside for opinion, in part to preserve the myth that the rest of the paper was somehow objective and viewpoint-free…. That has changed as the media system itself changes, with more media concentration and uniformity of approach influencing what we see and read. Just as the "news hole" in many newspapers shrinks, so does the space allocated for opinion.
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Critics Say It Shouldn't Be So Hard to Fire Tenured Professors
By Kyle Henley
The Christian Science Monitor
Posted on Yahoo! April 11, 2005
Divisive college professors are nothing new in academia. Every so often, though, they catch the public's attention and stir up controversy…. The latest case in point: University of Colorado Prof. Ward Churchill, whose controversial essay likening 9/11 victims to Nazis has reignited the long-simmering debate over tenure and academic freedom in higher education.
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Study: 54 Acres of Trees Lost Daily
By Stacy Shelton
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
April 15, 2005
Every day, construction crews lay another 28 acres of asphalt, concrete and rooftops on top of metro Atlanta. That's nearly equivalent to the inside of Lenox Square or Gwinnett Place mall.
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Event: Undoing Racism Workshop (April 22-24)
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Event: Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta (FAMA) Assembly (June 7, 12 noon, May Meeting Cancelled)
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Event: Undoing Racism Workshop (July 15-17)
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Event: World Pilgrims Trip to Israel (August 2005)
Contact: Sherry Frank, 404.233.5501

Event: Undoing Racism Workshop (Oct. 21-23)
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