Faith And The City e.Newsletter

May 16, 2006
Volume 5, Issue 5

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• Social Environment
• Physical Environment

Social environment

The dismay of our elders sums up U.S.
Opinion by Jay Bookman
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
March 30, 2006
An eerie sense of calm has settled over the nation's affairs -- a dead calm. It's not merely that the Bush administration has run aground on its own illusions. The real problem runs deeper, much deeper, and at its core, I think, lies the fact that out of fear and laziness we insist on trying to address new problems with old ideologies, rhetoric and mind-sets.
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Young baffles the AJC? Now that's curious
Opinion by Doug Gatlin
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
May 1, 2006
For Young, listening to those with whom we disagree is a vital step toward mutual understanding, respect and resolution -- perhaps something he learned at the side of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. And I suspect most of us would agree that -- in our increasingly complex and too-often polarized world - more listening would lead to more resolution.
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On being black at a Latino march
Opinion by Van Jones
HuffingtonPost.com
Posted on May 5, 2006
At Monday's "Dia Sin Inmigrantes/Day Without Immigrants" march in San Francisco, I saw a beautiful, exciting and hopeful vision of the future of this country. I also caught a glimpse of a familiar past, fading away. And I shed a few tears for both.
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Atlanta's core all too close to meltdown
Opinion by Bob Barr
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
May 10, 2006
For years, political candidates have been on to the fact that there are two Atlantas, one that exists within a few miles of downtown and the rest that sprawls in a mostly northern arc above the top of the city. Unfortunately, the corporate leadership of the first Atlanta that centered on downtown does not seem to have caught up with reality.
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Bling-bling, rap culture rob blacks of Ali types
Opinion by Kamau Bobb
May 12, 2006
Extravagance is awesome by definition. Many of these celebrities are fantastically popular and their lifestyles are public in the extreme. What is conspicuously missing from their public personas is a cause. Very few of them have taken a decisive public stand on any of the assortment of issues that are strangling the black community.
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Death epitomizes thug life
Opinion by Cynthia Tucker
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
May 10, 2006
It may be comforting to think that the violent lyrics of rap music are just the overly dramatic musings of creative, if rebellious, young minds. It's just words, isn't it? Think again. In the last 12 months alone, several young black men linked to rap music have been killed in disputes stoked by a code of conduct that finds respect in retribution and mistakes slaughter for strength.
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Citing a verse doesn't make a partisan into a scholar
Opinion by Tom Ehrich
IndyStar.com
April 22, 2006
Those who claim they are "defending the biblical faith" by demanding a certain doctrine or moral code based on a few convenient Bible passages that prove their point are actually undermining biblical faith in order to get their way.
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Bloggers strike back
Opinion by Glenn Greenwald
AlterNet
Posted May 11, 2006
With the consolidation of news media in this country, many Americans are frustrated by the closed and corporatized outlets for news and opinion. The same set of pundits have spewed their opinions, the same handful of established media outlets have decided what constitutes news and citizens have long been forced to just listen. The blogosphere is changing all of that.
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Physical environment

Federal study says Earth's atmosphere warming
Public Agenda Alert
May 4, 2006
A federal study on climate change concluded that the Earth's lower atmosphere is growing warmer as well as its surface. Skeptics of global warming had cited different surface and atmospheric temperatures as a reason for doubting climate change. But this is only the first of 21 studies commissioned by the Bush administration to examine the issue.
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Oct. 8-10: “Faith, politics, and policy.” Fall Conference, Candler School of Theology, Emory University.
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