Day: January 19, 2010

More bad news from Nigeria

“Jos is a state where different interests, different nationalities came together to form a vibrant state. You cannot rule out the issues of competition for power. To me, it is a competition for power among different groups. It’s purely issues of poverty, power and religion,” ~Director-general of Jos-based National Institute for Strategic Studies, Dan Fulani Ahmed.

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8 year old: help me help Haiti

“He asked the most important question: ‘Will you help me?'” said Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori … “We can do far more together than we can ever do alone. But it takes a leader [like Ismail] to start that.”

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CofE Drafting committee asks for slack

… please, have some understanding of those hard-pressed officers of Synod who work for the Church and have been writing, drafting and re-drafting to try to get something coherent to get to Synod.

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A God of patterned chaos

I don’t go along with a deistic argument: it used to be that God set up a steady state universe and withdrew, or set the universe off with a bang and withdrew, and now would be a simple feedback maths rule-setter. That still relies on an intelligence producing complexity argument, whereas the whole point of this is that simplicity produces complexity and intelligence.

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Early witness against slavery

The frequent enactment of legislation against the sale of Christians abroad supports the evidence that Englishmen regularly transported slaves across the sea to sell. . . . From the mid-tenth century on the slave trade was geared mainly to the export of persons abroad, although the internal trade did not cease.

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