The World Association of Newspapers and the World Editors Forum have condemned what they say are the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council’s repeated efforts to undermine freedom of expression in the name of protecting religious sensibilities.
Although FEMA and insurance companies have been slow to respond to the victims of the tornado that struck Windsor, Colorado, the churches have been quick
Bennison admitted he was also concerned about his own future. “Any disturbance in the parish would reflect poorly on my leadership in the parish at that time.”
J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, was the Harvard University commencement speaker this year. Her themes were the benefits of failure and the
…poverty is not only about the lack of financial resources, but more centrally about an absence of opportunities and choices which allow people to build decent lives for themselves and their families.
Although the Bible speaks of humans receiving dominion over the earth from God, that dominion has never struck me as authorizing humans to destroy the earth. The Navy gave me authority over sailors. My commission – like that of all Navy leaders – was to help those sailors develop, not destroy them.
The irony in Enmegahbowh’s name is evident in his life and ministry. Born Ojibwa, and reborn a Christian by baptism, he was a man of two peoples. To be “the man who stands by his people” meant, in his case, to be forever in the middle ground between two peoples.
It is all very busy. We are delighted people are still registering but the conference is nearly full now. Bedrooms have almost run out!
Anna, The Lambeth Conference 2008
The Southern Baptist principle of local church autonomy means it’s up to individual churches — and not the convention — to screen employees and take action against offenders, the committee said. Local church autonomy rules out creating a centralized investigative body to determine who has been credibly accused of sexual abuse or anything else, it said, and the convention has no authority to bar known perpetrators from ministry.
One of the most common stereotypes in heterosexual marriages is the “demand-withdraw” interaction, in which the woman tends to be unhappy and to make demands for change, while the man reacts by withdrawing from the conflict. But some surprising new research shows that same-sex couples also exhibit the pattern, contradicting the notion that the behavior is rooted in gender.