Stories of rebuilding New Orleans
February 17, 2009
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Readers Digest tells the stories of the people who are still, four years after Katrina, rebuilding New Orleans.
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Hearing the voices of healthcare chaplains
February 17, 2009
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Hospital chaplains are involved in almost everything that happens at a hospital, from birth to death and listening to patients and loved ones at times of crisis and transition. Chaplains sit on hospital committees and train nurses and medical students, but they have little voice when it comes to public conversations about religion and medicine in this country.
God answers our prayers for unity
February 17, 2009
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Neither proponents nor opponents of women in the episcopate will go away, says Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, so we had better agree to disagree. Canon Rosalind Brown suggests that the Bishop is the focus of unity for the church when she or he models reconciliation.
Thomas Jefferson and miracles
February 16, 2009
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To this day, there are those who stand aghast at Jefferson’s chutzpah, and that raises a fair question: Does faith exist without miracles? Are there miracles at all, and if not, just how do we explain those events that inevitably become defined as such?
Chaplains create sustainable Christian house
February 16, 2009
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While in the house, residents will engage in several environmental and religious activities, including growing and harvesting their own individual plots of land, buying produce from local farmers markets, participating in group prayer sessions and committing to community service project
100,000 gathered in Brazil to save the world
February 16, 2009
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It wasn’t on CNN, but last month hundreds of theologians, activists, and indigenous people came together in Brazil to envision a new world; the gathering stressed diversity and sustainability, migration, and climate change.
The real world of Slumdog Millionaire
February 16, 2009
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With the new film Slumdog Millionaire currently grabbing headlines and awards, there is growing awareness of these slums of India. Rev Canon Pat Atkinson’s dedication to helping some of the very poorest people in the world has led to her being called Norfolk’s Mother Teresa.
Becoming church in a new era
February 16, 2009
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How do congregations make the shift from nostalgia to a new story like neighborhood? What kind of leadership is needed–by pastors and lay leaders–to move beyond the stuck places of “we’ve always done it this way” to a new way of listening for “where are we being led?”
New polling on importance of religion by nation
February 15, 2009
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Are Americans among the most religious people in the world? The answer depends on which “world” you’re talking about. If you’re referring to the entire planet, the answer is plainly “no.”
Only 4 in 10 believe in evolution
February 15, 2009
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On the eve of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, a new Gallup Poll shows that only 39% of Americans say they “believe in the theory of evolution,” while a quarter say they do not believe in the theory, and another 36% don’t have an opinion either way. These attitudes are strongly related to education and, to an even greater degree, religiosity.
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