Faith And The City e.Newsletter
May 8, 2008
Volume 7, Issue 5
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Health
Leaders to discuss Grady’s mission to serve the poor
Faith Notes
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
May 3, 2008
Will the restructured Grady Health System’s board of directors change its mission and its relationship with the faith communities surrounding it? On Thursday, May 15, pastors and members of Atlanta’s ecumenical faith communities are invited to a dialogue with Grady’s new board chairman, Pete Correll, at the monthly Pastors Breakfast of the Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta.
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Faith and Politics
Race and the race: A fiery theology under fire
By Michael Powell
New York Times
May 4, 2008
Black liberation theology “gives special privilege to the oppressed,” said Gary Dorrien, a professor of social ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York. “God is seen as a partisan, liberating force who gives special privilege to the poorest.”
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Physical Environment
The future Atlanta? Pastoral is possible
By Teresa Durkin
For the Journal-Constitution
April 22, 2008
What will Atlanta look like 100 years from now? It's a daunting question. One optimistic view is much more pastoral than futuristic. Atlanta in 2108 could be a city that functions more like a forest ecosystem than a sprawling metropolis dominated by concrete, steel, automobiles and smog.
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Economic Disparity
The salaries of all public school teachers in New York City, paid to one man
By Paul Buchheit
AlterNet
April 25, 2008
Hedge fund manager John Paulson, who made a clever bet against subprime mortgages, made close to $4 billion. How much is 4 billion dollars? 4 billion dollars would pay a year's salary for ALL the public school teachers in New York City. Yet this money goes to one individual.
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Education
A nation at a loss
By Edward B. Fiske
New York Times
April 25, 2008
The United States, which used to lead the world in sending high school graduates on to higher education, has declined to fifth in the proportion of young adults who participate in higher education and is 16th out of 27 industrialized countries in the proportion who complete college.
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Still 'A Nation at Risk'
by Dan Lips
Heritage Foundation
May 1, 2008
The failure to address the crisis in public education suggests that Reagan might have been on to something when he offered his solutions back in the 1980s.
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Shield student loans from eye of storm
By Beverly Daniel Tatum
For Atlanta Journal-Constitution
May 5, 2008
In a knowledge economy, allowing educated talent – our future teachers, scientists, engineers, health care professionals, business leaders – to fall short of their goals because they don't have enough money should be unacceptable to those who can make a difference. The future we save will be our own.
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Global Issues
An insider's view of Iran
By Betty Jean Craige
For the Journal-Constitution
Published on: 04/22/08
Regime change? Activist's book is brimful of lessons on why the West should steer clear of force. In her memoir Ebadi recounts the consequences of two revolutions in Iran, one in 1953 and another in 1979, and shows why military force will not produce democracy in Iran.
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Social Environment
Georgia judge who gave blacks-only lecture teams with Cosby
By Walter Putnam
Associated Press
April 25, 2008
Bill Cosby says apathy among some black Americans about violence, drugs, profanity and teenage sex has sunk to a level of asking someone to "pass the salt." Cosby and Superior Court Judge Marvin Arrington spoke at a forum for at-risk youths from the Atlanta area. Both men are black.
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Out of step with many of his faith
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Knight Ridder Newspapers
April 29, 2008
James Lawson is out of step with modern Christianity. Ours is still an era wherein war, hatred and intolerance often wear a clerical collar. As Lawson puts it, "Much of Christianity in the United States has been more influenced by violence and sexism and racism and greed than by the teachings of Jesus."
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PJB: A brief for Whitey
By Patrick J. Buchanan
March 21, 2008
How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he sat silent in a pew for 20 years as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered racist rants against white America for our maligning of Fidel and Gadhafi, and inventing AIDS to infect and kill black people?
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A blind governor adjusts, and so does Albany
By Jeremy W. Peters
New York Times
April 21, 2008
Lots of governors rely on thick briefing books and helpful e-mail notes from their staffs. New York’s governor, David A. Paterson, who is legally blind, has his ears and what his aides call his Batphone.
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If we treated violence as a disease, would that help us find a cure?
Rachel Dissell
Cleveland Plain Dealer
April 28, 2008
"When we say violence is a public health problem, what we're really saying is that it's a preventable problem," Prothrow-Stith told a group of teachers, students and community activists recently at John Hay High School.
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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.
May 12: "Minimum Wage Strategic Planning Session." Georgia Minimum Wage Coalition. 10am to 2pm. Central Presbyterian Church. Lunch provided. RSVP: livingwageatl@hotmail.com or 404.222.0037.
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May 15: "Pastors Breakfast Dialogue: Grady Hospital and the Faith Community." Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta monthly event. 7:30 am. Providence Missionary Baptist Church, Atlanta. Free for RCCA members; $10 for nonmembers. RSVP to 404.523.5554, ext 231, or to ecarter@rccatl.org.
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May 30-Jun 1: “Undoing Racism Workshop: Ant-Racism Training.” The People’s Institute / Southeast Regional Office. Contact Joe “Seyoum” Lewis at 404.622.1133 or visit www.pisbatlanta.com.
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Aug 3: “That All May Worship: Beyond the Ramp.” Conference on making houses of worship more accessible to people with disabilities. Interfaith Disability Network, Shepherd Center, and First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta.
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Additional Events: Visit the website of the Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta at http://www.rccatl.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=108
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