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Author: John B. Chilton

Human Rights Watch documents Jos violence

February 10, 2011 No Comments

Eight Muslim youth in a car heading to a wedding were attacked on January 7 after they took a wrong turn and ended up in a Christian village in Barkin Ladi. Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that the following day the Nigerian army exhumed and returned to their families the corpses of five of them from shallow graves near the village. The three others remain missing. The following morning, January 8, Muslim youth in Jos indiscriminately attacked Christians.

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Assorted links, Episcopal edition

February 10, 2011 1 Comment

The links today relate to The Episcopal Church or the Anglican Communion: Bishop Senyonjo writes ABC; Bishop Mark Sisk interviewed by Theo Hobson; Connecticut Supreme Court hears property dispute; Seabury Western and the Kellogg School partner.

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Grave expressions in Britain

February 10, 2011 3 Comments

Traditionalists argue that graveyards are places of peace and contemplation and those who visit to lay flowers on Mum’s grave shouldn’t have to negotiate their way past piles of soft toys or be disturbed by the cacophony of competing wind-chimes. A public graveyard cannot ‘allow’ the unbridled shriek of competitive grief, because it’s a shared space and your way of mourning may detract from someone else’s. There has to be consideration for others.

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Bible talks about sex, a lot

February 10, 2011 3 Comments

Since the Bible never offers anything like a straightforward set of teachings about marriage, desire, or God’s perspective on the human body, the only way to pretend that it does is to refuse to read it. If we do take the time to read the Bible, we are likely to discover that the biblical writers do not agree with us, whatever version of sexual morality we are seeking to promote.

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Why believe Scientology?

February 10, 2011 2 Comments

In the current edition of The New Yorker Lawrence Wright reports on the Church of Scientology. Tuesday, Terry Gross interviewed Wright on Fresh Air. Wright

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Larry Summers defends childhood

February 10, 2011 3 Comments

How many of us asked the deepest philosophical questions of our lives when we were children, and shelved them once we were adults and didn’t have them time for them? And how many of us have anesthetized ourselves against the pain of seeing injustice of the world, injustice that even as children when we were well aware of?

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Vatican to host AIDS prevention, care conference

February 3, 2011 1 Comment

Monsignor Jean-Marie Mpendawatu Mate Musivi, undersecretary in the Vatican health office, told reporters Thursday that the Vatican’s position would be explained at the May 28 conference, to which the head of UNAIDS and other prominent AIDS researchers had been invited.

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Obama tells faith journey at breakfast

February 3, 2011 No Comments

My Christian faith has been a sustaining force for me over these last few years. When Michelle and I hear our faith questioned from time to time, we are reminded that ultimately what matters is not what other people say about us but whether we’re being true to our conscience and true to our God. “Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well.” – Obama speaking at National Prayer Breakfast

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Assorted links

February 3, 2011 No Comments

Duin blogging at WaPo; Casper church shelter; Egypt; the economic value of a church; Rowan’s latest sermon

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Anis on yesterday’s clashes in Egypt

February 3, 2011 3 Comments

Bishop Mouneer Anis has called on the people of Egypt to ‘give time’ for the country’s leaders to restore calm and establish ‘security, justice and democracy’. He wrote, ‘Today the government started dialogue with the opposition and we hope and pray that things will calm down.

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