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Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation

November 27, 2008 No Comments

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God.

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Handwashing eases evil-doing

November 26, 2008 No Comments

A study just published in Psychological Science shows that washing with soap and water makes people view unethical activities as more acceptable and reasonable than they would if they had not washed themselves.

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Colorado Springs church target of police search

November 26, 2008 2 Comments

More than 20 officers cordoned off the block-long church complex at 601 N. Tejon St., evicting its controversial pastor, the Rev. Donald Armstrong, who wandered the sidewalk in clerical garb, a copy of the warrant clutched in his right hand.

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Africa looks to Obama

November 26, 2008 No Comments

The 400 ex-combatants at the reintegration center we work with? They stayed up the whole night watching the election on DSTV and sport Obama hats and t-shirts. My favorite experience so far: the nation’s leading imam gripping my hand, looking me in the eye: “Thank you for electing Barack Obama.”

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KJS: “The subject has not come up”

November 26, 2008 No Comments

The Presiding Bishop noted that a November 26 report in The Times of London newspaper, that suggested the Joint Standing Committee had discussed plans to discipline the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone for its recent incursions into other provinces, was untrue. “The subject has not come up.”

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The true meaning of Thanksgiving

November 26, 2008 No Comments

The Continental Congress and its president were thankful for the new nation, but beyond that they also sought forgiveness. Washington’s proclamation said the nation was to “beseech God to pardon our national and other transgressions.”

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Giving combat drones ethical judgment

November 26, 2008 No Comments

Dr. Arkin, a Christian who acknowledged the help of God and Jesus Christ in the preface to his book “Behavior-Based Robotics” (MIT Press, 1998), reasons that because rules like the Geneva Conventions are based on humane principles, building them into the machine’s mental architecture endows it with a kind of empathy.

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Evangelicals warm to Advent

November 26, 2008 3 Comments

Family Christian Stores, the nation’s largest Christian retailer with 301 stores nationwide, has seen sales of Advent-related items climb 35% in the past year.

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Archbishop of Canterbury reflects on Advent

November 25, 2008 No Comments

I suppose if you did one of those word association tests on ‘Advent’, the other word you’d come up with straight away would be ‘calendar’. That’s all that most people these days are really aware of where Advent is concerned. The Advent Calendar is a countdown to Christmas, and it means daily sweets and chocolates. ~Rowan Cantaur

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Southern Cone “suspension”: Sabre rattling? Trial balloon?

November 25, 2008 8 Comments

The penalty being considered against the Southern Cone, which has 22,000 members in Argentina and surrounding nations, includes the removal of voting rights at the forthcoming meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council, the central governing body of the Anglican Communion, in Jamaica next May

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