The changing face of Africa
January 17, 2009
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A professor and several students at Brown University have created an animated map of Africa from 1879 to 2002 showing armed conflicts, changing rule (colonial,
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The neo-Thoreuvians
January 17, 2009
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It turns out that foresaking material possesions is as likely to turn you into a crank as a saint, writes Michael Agger in a book review for Mother Jones magazine: “I don’t mean to throw cold water on earnest self-improvement. But maybe we should set about such tasks in a way that doesn’t reek of personal branding.”
“So help me God”
January 17, 2009
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The 35 words of the presidential oath of office are found in the Constitution. And they are the only material in quotes in the Constitution. “So help me God” is not among them.
Conversations with a theocracy
January 17, 2009
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Bishop John Bryson Chane of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington recently spoke with Sister Maureen Fiedler of Interfaith Voices about his trip to Iran in October and his meeting with the country’s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Chane, Jefferts Schori to participate in Obama’s National Prayer Service
January 16, 2009
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Bishop John Bryson Chane of the Diocese of Washington will give the invocation and Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will offer the closing prayer at the National Prayer Service organized by the Presidential Inaugural Committee at 10 a. m. on Wednesday, January 21 at Washington National Cathedral.
Episcopal Church, Church of Sudan strengthen, expand relationship
January 16, 2009
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Those who follow interAnglican strife will no doubt recall that during the Lambeth Conference, Archbishop Daniel Deng Bull, primate of the Church of Sudan called
Update on the situation in Gaza
January 16, 2009
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The fighting in Gaza has waged on all week. The Church Times has a report on the situation and a number of pictures from the
Bishop Lamb, San Joaquin: CA Supreme Court decision
January 16, 2009
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I write to you to invite you into conversations with me regarding your relationship with the Episcopal Church in view of the January 5, 2009 California Supreme Court decision on property. I am, of course, not an attorney, but the decision is clear that all property and assets of a parish are held in trust for the wider Episcopal Church.
T. D. Jakes to preach at Inauguration morning service
January 16, 2009
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Bishop T.D. Jakes, the Dallas megachurch pastor, will preach at the private church service that President-elect Barack Obama will attend the morning of his inaugural, The Associated Press has learned. Jakes will give the sermon Tuesday at St. John’s Episcopal Church.
Banning torture
January 16, 2009
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A broad coalition of religious groups here in America are pressuring President-elect Obama to move quickly to recreate a ban on torture for prisoners in
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