Faith And The City e.Newsletter
November 12, 2007
Volume 6, Issue 11
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Faith And The City News
Interfaith coalition urges continued progress in resolving Grady Hospital crisis
Faith And The City
October 17, 2007
The following letter, addressed to Pamela Stephenson, Chair of the Fulton-Dekalb Hospital Authority, was signed by majorities of the boards of three organizations – Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta, Faith And The City, and the Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta. Copies were distributed to all trustees of the Hospital Authority, as well as to DeKalb and Fulton County Commissions, Grady Advisory Group, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, and the Governor, Lt. Governor, and Speaker of the House of Georgia.
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“Saving Grady Hospital” is topic of Faith And The City Forum TV Program
Faith And The City e.Newsletter
November 1, 2007
The challenges facing Grady Hospital and the faith community’s role in addressing those challenges is the November topic of Faith And The City Forum, a public affairs panel discussion that airs weekly on Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters Inc. cable television network.
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RCCA celebrated 1957 Ministers’ Manifesto on race relations
Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta
November 7, 2007
On October 25, the Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta celebrated the 50th anniversary of the historic 1957 Ministers’ Manifesto on Racial Beliefs, a then-highly controversial call for justice and decency during the moral and political chaos that followed court-ordered desegregation of public schools. The Manifesto was initiated by the RCCA, known then as the Christian Council of Atlanta.
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Faith and Politics
Senate member seeks financial records of Atlanta megachurches
By Christopher Quinn
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
November 6, 2007
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) sent letters requesting detailed financial documents to two metro Atlanta preachers and four other ministries nationwide whose leaders are known for opulent, or as the ministers would say, blessed, lifestyles.
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The theology of American empire
By Ira Chernus
Foreign Policy in Focus
November 7, 2007 (posted by AlterNet)
American foreign policy is built on a deep foundation of Christian theology. When it comes to foreign policy, we are all influenced by theological foundations that we rarely see.
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Social Issues
Why Black people support Michael Vick
By David Wright
ColorLines
Sept/Oct 2007
The thing that seems to mystify the mainstream media and much of the white public is that a significant number of Black people see the Michael Vick saga as a racial issue.
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Editorial: What part of 'illegal' don't you understand?
By Lawrence Downes
New York Times
October 28, 2007
America has a big problem with illegal immigration, but a big part of it stems from the word "illegal." It pollutes the debate. It blocks solutions.
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Does Barbie need a man?
By Amie K. Miller,
Greater Good
October 19, 2007 (posted on AlterNet)
According to the National Study of Gay and Lesbian Parents, 85 percent of gay dads and 82 percent of lesbian moms worry about their kids facing prejudice because they have gay parents. It's a real concern.
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Indian-American elected Louisiana's governor
By Adam Nossiter
New York Times
October 21, 2007
Bobby Jindal, a conservative Republican congressman from the New Orleans suburbs and the son of immigrants from India, was elected Louisiana's governor Saturday, inheriting a state that was suffering well before Hurricane Katrina left lingering scars two years ago.
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Nobel to Lessing, incisive voice of women's fate
By Motoko Rich and Sarah Lyall
New York Times
October 12, 2007
Doris Lessing, the Persian-born, Rhodesian-raised and London-residing novelist whose deeply autobiographical writing has swept across continents and reflects her engagement with the social and political issues of her time, yesterday won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Education
Lessons learned: New teachers talk about their jobs, challenges and long-range plans
Public Agenda Alert
Oct. 10, 2007
This new report by Public Agenda and the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality finds new teachers in middle and high school feel most vulnerable to challenging teaching conditions.
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Global Issues
Emerging voice of mainstream Islam
By Robert Pigott
BBC News
October 12, 2007
A total of 138 of the world's top Muslim leaders, clerics and academics have written an open letter to the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury and other leaders of the Christian world. It warns that world peace depends on better dialogue between them, and points to the fundamental beliefs each have in common.
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Nigerian space program isn't a 419 scam
By Mark Anderson
Wired
October 19, 2007
Nigeria, a country whose best-known technological export is probably the flowery e-mail output of its "419 scam" artists, is ramping up a scrappy space program that's working wonders with a relatively small investment.
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The Bush Administration plans to blame you for Iraq
By William Astore
Tomdispatch.com
November 9, 2007 (posted by AlterNet)
The world's finest military launches a highly coordinated shock-and-awe attack that shows enormous initial progress. There's talk of the victorious troops being home for Christmas. But the war unexpectedly drags on. The United States in 2007? No, Wilhelmine Germany in 1917 and 1918, as its military dictators… pushed Germany toward defeat and revolution in a relentless pursuit of victory in World War I.
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Events
Guidelines for Posting Events
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.
December 20: "Pastors Breakfast." Monthly event of Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta. Hosted by Cascade United Methodist Church. 7:30 AM. RSVP to 404.523.5554, ext 231, or ecarter@rccatl.org.
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