Faith And The City e.Letter

Oct. 6, 2005
Volume 4, Issue 10

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Good Works: Hurricane Aftermath
By Gracie Bonds Staples
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sep. 15, 2005
Members of Atlanta's faith community issued a call to action Wednesday to guide congregations helping victims of Hurricane Katrina. "In the past, we've been fragmented in our approaches, but today we intend to call for unity,'' said Robert Franklin, board president of the Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta.
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Just a Living Legacy to the Leader of the Band
By Samuel G. Freeman
New York Times
Sep. 14, 2005
On the afternoon before Hurricane Katrina hit, as he was packing his car to flee, Lawrence Winchester called Prof. Prof was Edwin Harrell Hampton, Mr. Winchester's music teacher and bandmaster a half-century earlier at St. Augustine High School in New Orleans, and his mentor ever since. By now, Prof was 77, a widower with a failing memory, and it was the surrogate son who played the paternal role.
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Crises Bring Out the Best,
Worst in Some People
Opinion by Leonard Pitts Jr.
Miami Herald
Sep. 26, 2005
The women were on the roof of the hotel, calling for help as floodwaters rose. Then a motorboat full of police officers came by. ''Can you help us?'' the women cried. The police officers replied, ''Show us what you've got!'' and motioned for them to lift their T-shirts. The women said no. The police officers left them there.
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Exiles from a City and from a Nation  
Opinion by Cornel West
The Observer 
Sep. 11, 2005
It takes something as big as Hurricane Katrina and the misery we saw among the poor black people of New Orleans to get America to focus on race and poverty. It happens about once every 30 or 40 years.
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Uncivil Tone of Discourse Survives Storm
Opinion by Jim Wooten
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sep. 9, 2005
Katrina, in ways often frightening, provided a chance to see our values and our institutions under stress. New Orleans' immediate descent into anarchy the moment authority was immobilized revealed a deeply troubling immunity in some segments of the population to the values required to sustain a healthy society.
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Be Honest: Objections Faith-Based
Opinion by Jay Bookman
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sep. 12, 2005
"Teach the controversy." That's all that advocates of intelligent design ask. Go ahead and teach what they call the scientific evidence for and against the theory of evolution. But at the same time, why not also teach the "competing scientific theory" that only an intelligent being could have created the marvel of the world around us?
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Teaching In America: The Impossible Dream
By Zack Pelta-Heller
AlterNet
Sep. 15, 2005
The new book Teachers Have It Easy, which collects roughly 200 interviews with educators from around the country, couldn't have a more ironic title. Through compelling accounts, Teachers Have It Easy dispels one of the biggest myths about teaching in public schools -- that the paltry salaries educators receive are adequate compensation for summer vacations and "shorter work days."
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“Faithful Leadership in a Changing Context” – 2005 Enniss Lectures, featuring Rodger Nishioka (Oct. 15-16)
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"State of the Region" -- Atlanta Regional Commission's Annual Breakfast (Nov. 18)
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