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FATC Forum Launches "New Season"
on AIB Cable TV
Faith And The City e.Letter
Nov. 10, 2005
The award-winning cable TV series, Faith And The City Forum Faith: Interfaith Dialogue on Public Issues, launches its fall season this month. The first program discusses Alligators in the Swamp: Power, Ministry, and Leadership, a new book inspired by Faith And The City and exploring the nature of power in pastoral ministry.
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A Holy Cover-Up
Sermon by Gary W. Charles, Pastor
Central Presbyterian Church
Oct. 30, 2005
People of faith, Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Socialists, are not absolved from seeking solutions to complex issues because they went to synagogue on Saturday or church on Sunday.
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Poverty in Atlanta Among Worst
in U.S., Study Says
By Giovanna Dell'Orto
Associated Press
Oct. 12, 2005
The depths of desperate, concentrated poverty – the areas exposed by Hurricane Katrina for a shocked nation to behold – are far from being unique to New Orleans. Atlanta ranks fifth… among the largest U.S. cities where the poor live in distressed neighborhoods that most never manage to leave….
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Who is Homeless in Atlanta?
Crossroads Community Ministries
October 2005
The number of homeless individuals in Atlanta on any given day varies from 7,000 to 12,000 – and every morning thousands of people wake up with no place to call home, no place to sleep, no place to eat.
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Resurrect New Orleans: A Better City is Possible
Opinion by Van Jones
YES!
Oct. 8, 2005
The best qualities and the worst features of U.S. society were on full display in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. And today we are still witnessing a frenzied tug-of-war between opposing aspects of the American character -- with the final fate of New Orleans hanging in the balance.
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Nation's Report Card Shows Progress in Math But Reading Scores Flat
Public Agenda
Oct. 20, 2005
The latest edition of the National Assessment of Educational Progress found that math scores for fourth and eighth graders rose slightly since 2003 and have increased significantly since 1990. Reading scores are more troubling, with tests showing little change since 1992.
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Is US Becoming Hostile to Science?
By Alan Elsner
Reuters
Oct. 28, 2005
A bitter debate about how to teach evolution in U.S. high schools is prompting a crisis of confidence among scientists, and some senior academics warn that science itself is under assault.
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Atlanta's Population Grows
62 Percent During Daytime
Associated Press
Oct. 21, 2005
No big city grows – and shrinks – at a higher rate each workday than the nation's capital, but Atlanta comes close, the Census Bureau said. Washington, D.C., sees its daytime population swell by 72 percent each day as commuters stream in. Atlanta is second among large cities at 62 percent.
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In the Heartland of the Civil Rights Movement
By Jose M. Kochuparampil
The Hindu
Oct. 2, 2005
Today, Atlanta, the city that is credited with the rare honor as the heartland of the Civil Rights Movements in the U.S., is proud to have the statue of this precious gem of India – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
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Little to Show After 10 Years
Opinion by Leonard Pitts Jr.
Miami Herald
Oct. 12, 2005
On Sunday, it will be a decade since African-American men descended on the Mall in Washington, 400,000 strong according to the National Park Service. An independent agency ABC Television retained said a minimum of 837,000 of us were actually there.
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Study Links Religion to Woes
Kay Campbell
Religion News Service
Oct. 15, 2005
More religion seems to mean more troubles, not less, around the world. Data from the past 10 years seem to indicate that the United States… has some of the highest rates of murder, infant mortality, teen gonorrhea infection and teen abortion in the developed world.
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Why Bill Bennett is Stupid, But Not Racist
By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Berkeley Daily Planet
Oct. 10, 2005
Applying the terms "racist" or "racism" to his stated example would seem to be out of place…. "Stupid" seems a better term to apply to Mr. Bennett, in not realizing how his words might be interpreted, or misinterpreted.
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Working Hard or Hardly Working
By Rachel Neumann
AlterNet
Oct. 19, 2005
Barbara Ehrenreich is one of those rare writers who is not only smart and unapologetically progressive, but really funny…. In the bestseller Nickel and Dimed, she worked at a variety of low-wage jobs with the idea of answering the question of how people in the working poor survive and make ends meet.
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A Wing and a Prayer For Migrants
By Giselle Velazquez
Pop and Politics
Oct. 6, 2005
While armed Minutemen patrol the border with guns, El Paso-based Paisanos Al Rescate (Countrymen to the Rescue) use an aging Cessna plane to deliver water and hope to desperate people facing a slow death in the desert.
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Now We Face Familiar Tune:
Aging Parents Need Our Help
Opinion by Sue Hutchison
Mercury News
Oct. 8, 2005
The evidence is everywhere that we need to start thinking about long-term care in the same way that we have been obsessed with child-rearing, stock portfolios and real estate.
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Study: Rich Nations Aiding 'Brain Drain'
By Alicia Chang
Associated Press
October 26, 2005
One of every four doctors in North America, Britain and Australia is an immigrant who attended a foreign medical school, contributing to a "brain drain" that deprives poor countries of good medical care, researchers say.
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Listening to Salman Rushdie
By Sandip Roy
Pacific News Service
Oct. 6, 2005
But I was talking about a reform movement. The purpose of that would be to reclaim Islam from the radicals. Islamic radicalism is relatively new. It had much less power 30 years ago.
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War is a State of Mind
Opinion by Uri Avneri
Tikkun
Oct. 19, 2005
Each of the two peoples has created a narrative of their own…. What an Israeli child and a Palestinian child learn about the conflict from their earliest years – at home, in kindergarten, in school, from the media – is totally different.
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Vatican Official: Faithful Should Listen to Modern Science or Risk Danger of Fundamentalism

A Vatican cardinal said Thursday the faithful should listen to what secular modern science has to offer, warning that religion risks turning into "fundamentalism" if it ignores scientific reason.?
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Faith And The City posts brief listings of event notices that must include a website address for additional information. To be posted, events should be concerned with public issues and/or civic dialogue.

Atlanta Regional Commission's Annual "State of the Region" Breakfast (Nov. 18)
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“Faith and Philanthropy: Exploring Linkages Between Spirituality and Social Action.” Presented by The Foundation Center-Atlanta; featuring Ambassador James A. Joseph (Nov. 18)
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PRI’s Annual Affordable Housing Summit, “Building Together the Beloved Community.” Featuring Pulitzer Prize winning syndicated communist for the Miami Herald, Leonard Pitts (Dec. 1)
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