Poor farmers helping rich countries
March 23, 2009
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Small farmers from poor countries are helping larger rich countries cope with the financial crisis.
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Nigerians push back on anti-gay laws
March 23, 2009
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There is no mention on either the CANA or ACNA websites of the support given by the Church of Nigeria (and other Christian churches) to the proposed Nigerian Same Gender Marriage (Prohibition) Act. Do CANA and ACNA support the Church of Nigeria’s position?
Author of “The Disabled God:” dies at 44
March 23, 2009
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By the time the theologian and sociologist Nancy Eiesland was 13 years old, she had had 11 operations for the congenital bone defect in her hips and realized pain was her lot in life. So why did she say she hoped that when she went to heaven she would still be disabled?
Faith and waste in public life
March 22, 2009
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Updated, March 28, The Economist: The participants were not asked directly how religious they were but, rather, about how they used any religious belief they
Economists are good for something
March 22, 2009
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Many in need of a kidney transplant die before they ever get to the top of the queue waiting for transplants. The problem would not
TEC part of broad pro-trade coalition
March 22, 2009
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We write to highlight our concerns related to the global financial crisis, U.S. trade policy, and the effect of these two factors on developing countries and poverty. It is unusual for the development, faith-based, and business communities to write a joint letter to the Administration and Congress, but the current global financial crisis warrants such common efforts.
Intimations of “an ultimate reality?”
March 22, 2009
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Some baffling discoveries led Bernard d’Espagnat to believe all creation has a wholeness and interrelatedness… One of these is entanglement, the way that paired subatomic particles remain linked even if they move far apart, so that experimenting with one automatically effects the other without any apparent communication between them.
Pullman lauds Williams, but asks if his strategy is working
March 22, 2009
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Philip Pullam has debated with, among others, the former Bishop of Oxford, Richard Harries, the local atheist, Richard Dawkins, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. Of the last, he says, with unmistakable awe in his voice: “Oh, I would not dare take my life in my hands by arguing with him. He is far too clever for me – I am a storyteller and that’s the beginning and end of it.”
Vatican press office applies profilattici
March 21, 2009
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The Times reports that the Vatican press office has altered the words of the Pope who had said to reporters Aids was a “tragedy that
What did he say this time?
March 21, 2009
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We are especially concerned about those who are using large sums of money to lure our youth to see homosexuality and lesbianism as normative. – Peter Akinola
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