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RCCA’s Pastors Breakfast features New Testament scholar Luke Timothy Johnson
Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta
September 12, 2007
Internationally noted New Testament scholar Luke Timothy Johnson, Ph.D., will speak at the September Pastors Breakfast of the Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta. He will discuss the first Christian councils – their purpose, authority, and influence.
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Faith And The City's webmaster Stanley Leary to speak on photojournalism at Reinhardt College
Press Release
Reinhardt College
September 2007
FATC Editor's note: Stanley Leary is a professional photojournalist and technology consultant who maintains the Faith And The City website. In addition to traveling nationally and internationally on various freelance photo assignments, Stanley teaches photojournalism at Reinhardt College.
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Annual “Empty Bowl Dinner” benefits Project Connect program to aid homeless
Jewish Family & Career Services
September 12, 2007
Jewish Family & Career Services’ annual "soup kitchen" event benefits the Project Connect program to assist homeless people. The Annual Empty Bowl Dinner will be held Sunday, November 11.
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Beat a woman? Play on! Beat a dog? You're gone
By Sandra Kobrin
Women's eNews
Posted August 23, 2007, on AlterNet
[W]hile male student-athletes are 3 percent of the population, they represent 19 percent of sexual assault perpetrators and 35 percent of domestic violence perpetrators.
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Walking a mile: How Indians and non-Indians think about each other
Public Agenda Alert
August 29, 2007
This new study is one of the most in-depth examinations ever made of the thinking of American Indians and non-Indians about each other.
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Boys cast out by polygamists find help
By Erik Eckholm
New York Times
September 9, 2007
Over the last six years, hundreds of teenage boys have been expelled or felt compelled to leave the polygamous settlement that straddles Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah.
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The outcome of wanting (gay) sex
By Sandip Roy
New America Media
Posted Sep. 5, 2007, on AlterNet
I come to defend Larry Craig, not to bury him. He is a homophobe and a hypocrite. He is a holier-than-thou Senator with feet of toilet paper. But Larry Craig has been forced to resign his seat for all the wrong reasons.
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Rejecting radical Islam -- one man's journey
CNN.com /US
August 17, 2007
The path to faith often takes unexpected twists. In the case of Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, the road went through three of the world's major religions -- Judaism, Islam and Christianity -- and ultimately brought him to the FBI.
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Short on labor, farmers in U.S. shift to Mexico
By Julia Preston
New York Times
September 5, 2007
An increasing number of farmers have been testing the alternative of raising crops across the border where there is a stable labor supply, growers and lawmakers in the United States and Mexico said.
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Presidential campaign coverage rises, war coverage falls
Ethics Newsline
Institute for Global Ethics
August 20, 2007
Study finds that Fox News covered the war only half as much as its rivals, while MSNBC spent twice as much time on presidential campaign as its rivals
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What's wrong with America
By Will Durst
AlterNet
August 14, 2007
You know what's wrong with America? Our national obsession with "me." Nobody ever thinks about "us" anymore. It's all about "me". "You" are on your own.
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More students finish school, given the time
By Jennifer Medina
New York Times
August 21, 2007
New York City is at the forefront of a movement to recognize that for a significant number, high school might stretch into five, six, even seven years.
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Smashing capitalism!
By Barbara Ehrenreich
HuffingtonPost.com
Posted August 22, 2007, on Alternet
The American poor, who are usually tactful enough to remain invisible to the multi-millionaire class, suddenly leaped onto the scene and started smashing the global financial system.
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The great plastic bag plague
By Tara Lohan
AlterNet
September 5, 2007
Each year across the world some 500 billion plastic bags are used, and only a tiny fraction of them are recycled. Most of them will have a short lifetime with a consumer -- and then they're thrown away.
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The world's fourth-largest city outlaws billboards, calls it 'visual pollution'
By David Evan Harris
Adbusters
Posted August 21, 2007, on AlterNet
In 2007, the world's fourth-largest metropolis and Brazil's most important city, São Paulo, became the first city outside of the communist world to put into effect a radical, near-complete ban on outdoor advertising.
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CARE Declines federal food aid
Public Agenda Alert
August 16, 2007
The international relief group CARE has caused a furor in the aid community by refusing $45 million in U.S. food aid, according to The New York Times.
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Turk with Islamic ties is elected president
By Sabrina Tavernise and Sebnem Arsu
New York Times
August 29, 2007
An observant Muslim with a background in Islamic politics was voted in on Tuesday as president, breaking an 84-year grip on power by the secular establishment and ushering a new religious middle class from Turkey's heartland into the center of the staunchly secular state.
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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 faith, interfaith and public issues.

September 20: “RCCA Pastor’s Breakfast with Scholar Luke Timothy Johnson.” Regional Council of Churches. RSVP to 404-523-5554, ext 231, or ecarter@rccatl.org.
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October 1-15: "Daniel Pearl World Music Days.” Daniel Pearl Foundation. Global network of concerts using music to diminish hatred, encourage respect for differences, and reach out in friendship.
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October 3: “Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta (FAMA) Membership Luncheon Meeting.” 12-1:30 pm at Mosaic Mediterranean Cuisine Restaurant, 398 14th Street, Atlanta, near Al Farooq Mosque. Lunch $10 plus tax and beverage. Includes discussion and a tour of new mosque. RSVP to Jan Swanson at 404.622.3399 or worldpilgrims@bellsouth.net

November 11: “Annual Empty Bowl Dinner.” Event benefits Jewish Family & Career Services’ Project Connect to aid homeless people. For more information and to order tickets, visit www.jfcs-atlanta.org/emptybowl.asp or call 770.677.9329.
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