HUGS for the homeless
November 27, 2007
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Church youth group members in Reno, Neveda, devised a project last year that became such a success they are doing it again this Christmas. Moved
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Silence your cell
November 27, 2007
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Ex-nurse Elizabeth Edmunds, mother of six and grandmother of five, is asking every cell phone user on the planet to put their minds and mobiles into silent mode for three minutes at 10am GMT, in a mission to demonstrate the world-changing power of silence and stillness.
Bono dazzles powerful to end poverty and combat AIDS
November 27, 2007
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As proof of his potency in Washington, one need only look at the crowd that Bono, 47, draws one fall evening … on Capitol Hill. Surrounded by administration officials and Hill staffers — Democrats and Republicans — and musicians from Mali, he mixes easily with these folks, most of whom he knows and greets by first name.
The Miniature Earth
November 26, 2007
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If you could express what the world would look like if it were a community of only 100 people, what would it look like? This
Slo mo schism
November 26, 2007
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The new religion correspondent at the Guardian, Riazat Butt, has mixed feelings about the slow fracture of the Anglican Communion. In a column in Religious
Drenched in grace
November 26, 2007
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Drenched in Grace was “A celebration and recovery of the traditional breadth and diversity of Anglicanism. The time has come for us to re-articulate our theological credentials as Anglicans, for whom inclusiveness, acceptance and listening to other points of view and tradition are not optional extras, but central to our Christian identity.”
Rowan Williams under quick burst attack
November 26, 2007
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The Sunday Times chose to interpret the interview as an assualt on the United States as the “worst” imperialist nation, an accusation not made in the interview. Meanwhile, John Bolton, a former US ambassador known for his neocon views, launched a vitriolic attack on the archbishop and all critics of the US-led war on BBC Radio 4 Today.
Reaching out for peace
November 26, 2007
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Episcopal bishop John Bryson Chane of Washington recently visited Iran to discuss the points of contact between Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and found among the
A revisionist history of tolerance
November 25, 2007
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“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg,” Jefferson could write in 1781. A century earlier, such individualism was unthinkable to most Europeans. Indulging heresy, as Benjamin Kaplan points out in his new history of religious tolerance, threatened not only to pick their pockets but also to endanger their souls.
New Washington Post Faith Blog
November 25, 2007
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Faith is more than beliefs. It is about right and wrong, justice and injustice — about remaking the world. “Faith in Action” is a new blog that tracks the activities of people of faith across the globe and across religious traditions. It maps their engagement around critical issues, from global health to the environment — from AIDS to zebras.
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