In a move to address the spiraling costs of higher education, the university’s Board of Regents has approved a 10 percent reduction in tuition and fees at the College for the coming academic year.
Paul Krugman: economics is not a morality play; the social and economic order we have doesn’t represent the playing out of some kind of deep moral principles.
“Many clergy and lay leaders have a hunger to see the dilemmas of their physical assets in a new light, and to find creative and innovative ways to deal with this long-standing, sometimes paralyzing, issue.”
To make ends meet, churches have laid off staff and frozen salaries, put off major capital projects and cut back on programs. At the same time, more of their congregation members and neighbors are asking for help with basic needs such as paying the rent and buying groceries.
In the next decade, churches and church leaders perceived to be addressing human needs, as well as the spiritual, local, global or “green” needs of the planet, will find people willing to support them. Those churches and leaders who possess an apocalyptic view of the future that focuses on escaping the challenges faced by humans and the planet will be increasingly marginalized and will accelerate their own decline.
The leadership of the United Kingdom has decided to deal with its economic woes by enacting a series of substantial budgetary cuts in an effort
A pair of climate change experts have discovered two less costly carbon-reducing options to alternative fuels, carbon storage, and forest conservation. $1 million on a
During the last three decades all significant income growth has been concentrated at the top of the scale. The share of total income going to the top 1 percent of earners, which stood at 8.9 percent in 1976, rose to 23.5 percent by 2007, but during the same period, the average inflation-adjusted hourly wage declined by more than 7 percent.
Our previous item on the placement practices of the Catholic Diocese of Chicago can be looked at from the perspective of the Nobel prize in economics awarded for work in job matching. Why might priests who have been credibly accused of child abuse be assigned to churches in neighborhoods where there are a relatively high proportion of minorities, and relatively low income?
Jesus warned us against money and possessions, so God obviously hates the plastic junk taking over my kids’ rooms, gratuitous gifts of scented candles, stacks of old magazines, and knick-knacks gathering dust just as much as I do, right? How nice when my religious values and the values espoused by HGTV, Better Homes and Gardens and Oprah all line up so nicely!