Faith And The City e.Newsletter

April 20, 2006
Volume 5, Issue 4

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• Education
• Faith and Politics
• Global Issues
• Social Environment

Resources

Come Blog with Us!
Faith And The City
April 20, 2005
This month, Faith And The City celebrates four years of e.Newsletter publication with the launch of its official weblog, Interfaith Dialogue Atlanta (www.interfaithdialogueatlanta.org).
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Education

Few students take tutoring, transfers under No Child Left Behind
Public Agenda Alert
April 6, 2006
Only 17 percent of students nationwide eligible for free tutoring under the No Child Left Behind law are taking advantage of it, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said this week. And less than 1 percent of all students eligible for school choice actually transferred to another school. Spellings said many school districts aren't telling parents about their options.
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"Neverwinter Nights" in the classroom
By Ami Berger
University of Minnesota News
January 31, 2006
"Educational computer games – they're not just for five-year-olds anymore," jokes School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) professor Kathleen Hansen as she navigates around the fantasy world of a computer game called "Neverwinter Nights" in her Murphy Hall office.
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Faith and politics

Can Islam and democracy coexist?
By Jean MacKenzie and Wahidullah Amani
IWPR Online
Posted on April 4, 2006
Abdul Rahman Jawed, Afghanistan's most famous Christian, is a free man. He has escaped the threat of execution for apostasy and been granted asylum in Italy, where he arrived on March 30. But the central question his case has raised is not so easily resolved. At issue is whether Afghanistan can be both a democratic state and an Islamic republic.
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Islam and democracy
By John L. Esposito and John O. Voll
Muslim American Society
Posted: August 19, 2004
The relationship between Islam and democracy in the contemporary world is complex. The Muslim world is not ideologically monolithic. It presents a broad spectrum of perspectives ranging from the extremes of those who deny a connection between Islam and democracy to those who argue that Islam requires a democratic system.
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The voice of fear and the voice of hope
By Michael Lerner
Tikkun Magazine
March 2006
For the past several thousand years, much of human society has been torn by a struggle between two worldviews or ways of understanding what it is to be human. The one view tells us that we are born into a world in which each person is out for themselves and life is a battle of all against all. The other view tells us that the world is composed of human beings who desire and need loving connection, recognition of who they are from others whom they respect, and joyous celebration of life and consciousness and freedom.
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Global issues

Americans wary of creating democracies abroad
Public Agenda Alert
March 30, 2006
Creating democracies worldwide has become a major U.S. policy goal. Yet we found most of the public ranks actively creating democracies in other countries as the least important of the foreign policy. Only 36 percent of Americans believe the United States can help other countries become democracies, while 58 percent say democracy is "something that countries only come to on their own when they're ready for it."
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Social environment

So, why don't they call themselves Hindu?
By Swami Shankarananda
Hinduism Today
October/November/December, 2005
Thousands of non-Indians follow the practices of Hinduism and are intrigued by its philosophy. So, why don't they call themselves Hindu? As Western Hindus, we are pioneers writing on a clean slate. We are on the cutting edge of a cultural and spiritual evolutionary process.
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Events

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Faith And The City posts brief event notices that must include a website address for additional information. Events should be concerned with public issues and/or civic dialogue.

Oct. 8-10: “Faith, politics, and policy.” Fall Conference, Candler School of Theology, Emory University.
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