Day: September 3, 2010

Environmental saints

Mallory McDuff writes about saints who respond through faith to environmental degradation here on earth, rather than wait for heaven.

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Blessing the gadgets

The Rev. Lisa Vaughn of St. Timothy’s Church near Halifax, Nova Scotia, will be blessing mobile phones and other gadgets this weekend.

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A willing teacher

In 1833, many Americans still supported slavery. Many others hated both slavery and abolitionists. They thought slavery was evil but feared that giving immediate freedom to millions of poor, uneducated black slaves might hurt the U.S. economy, flood the country with beggars and criminals, and cause a serious break between the North and the South. So few white Americans supported the abolitionist cause that in 1831 only twenty-five of Garrison’s five hundred subscribers to the Liberator were white.

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