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Day: October 18, 2010

General Seminary to sell unspecified properties to stay afloat

October 18, 2010 8 Comments

The adoption of this plan represents a comprehensive solution to financial challenges that have been a drain on morale and a serious impediment to the Seminary’s mission for many years, GTS trustees today took a bold but very carefully considered step to leverage assets through the sale of residential properties. The payoff is the substantial if not the complete elimination of all General’s debt

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PBS interviews author of book on Muslim-Christian conflict

October 18, 2010 No Comments

Eliza Griswold: The belief that there is one and only one way to find God, and the understanding that that leads immediately to an enemy, because everybody else is wrong. That kind of binary division between us and them, the saved and the damned, I wondered if that was inherently violent because you were setting yourself against another person.

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Income inequality: too big to ignore

October 18, 2010 1 Comment

During the last three decades all significant income growth has been concentrated at the top of the scale. The share of total income going to the top 1 percent of earners, which stood at 8.9 percent in 1976, rose to 23.5 percent by 2007, but during the same period, the average inflation-adjusted hourly wage declined by more than 7 percent.

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Belgian cardinal says AIDS is just punishment for promiscuity

October 18, 2010 11 Comments

The Catholic Church in Belgium has been battered by scandals and missteps over the past year, and now its new leader, the conservative Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard of Brussels, has sparked a fresh controversy with comments declaring that people afflicted with AIDS are receiving “a sort of immanent justice” for their sexual practices.

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The third evangelist

October 18, 2010 No Comments

The third Evangelist is Luke, who was a physician in the world,

and dwelt with the apostles, and with Paul afterward,

serving the Almighty without any sin

in a pure life, ever without a wife, filled with God’s Spirit,

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