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The Church of the Future: Urban, Minority and Progressive
Confessions of a Small-Church Pastor —
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The church of the future resides in an urban setting, consists of multiple minorities, and espouses progressive social values, according to two recently-released reports. While most church futurists have focused on church models (i.e., house churches vs. megachurches) in their predictions of the shape of church in ...15 hours ago -
Whats Fallen Since the Berlin Wall?
RaceWire —
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I cant believe that it’s been twenty years. I was a student at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, when Doug came bouncing across the student union concourse screaming, “The wall is down! The Berlin Wall is down!” Back then, I knew precious little about its significance. But this had to be big news because ...20 hours ago -
Lets Have a Grownup Conversation About Climate Change: Pembina Institute to Harper Government
One Woman. One Blog. —
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Denying Canadas Environmental Truths, (The Toronto Star, November 8, 2009) is another must-read. But be forewarned: youll free frustrated as youre reminded, yet again, of how far Canada has strayed from its once-proud record of environmental leadership -- and how far out of synch the Canadian government is with ...1 day ago -
Berlin Wall: The human rights perspective
The Interpreter —
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Claire Mallinson is Australian National Director of Amnesty International. She was a speaker at todays Lowy Institutes Berlin Wall retrospective . Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, many regimes in Eastern Europe refused to allow their citizens freedom to travel, and prisoners of conscience were jailed for trying ...1 day ago -
For rent: UN veto, barely used
The Interpreter —
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Mark’s latest post shows the benefits of applying cold, hard economic logic to the woollier world of international politics and the UN. I think the FCO could take it further. Instead of selling the permanent seat, why not rent the UKs veto (conferred by its ownership of a permanent seat on the Security ...1 day ago -
Berlin Wall: Asia the winner
The Interpreter —
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Huw McKay is senior economist for Westpac bank. He is a speaker at todays Lowy Institutes Berlin Wall retrospective . In 1989, living standards (approximated by GDP per capita) in the command economies of Europe, including the USSR, had been declining in relative terms since 1975. Outside Europe, command ...1 day ago -
Berlin wall retrospective
The Interpreter —
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The Lowy Institute is hosting a panel discussion today to mark the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Audio of the event will be on our website tomorrow, but over the course of today well feature posts from all three of our speakers, Lowy Institute Fellow and founding editor-in-chief of The ...1 day ago -
Weekly News Round-Up, 11/8
Women's Health News —
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Christine has a post at Our Bodies Our Blog about the passage of the health reform legislation last night. She notes As I watched Democrats congratulate themselves, it was difficult to feel celebratory. Passage of the Stupak amendment — which bars a government-run insurance plan from offering abortion *and* ...1 day ago -
They Pull at Your Heartstrings Poem - Libations Friday! 6 Nov 2009
The Social Poets —
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*** Is the News really Art? What pulls at your emotions when you watch a news story on television? From Denny: As Ive been catching up posting on all my blogs (too many interests) it struck me as a poem idea to take a look at the News - and if it could actually be classified as a kind of Art. Thats what you ...4 days ago -
Friday funny: Busy schedule
The Interpreter —
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Ive been travelling this week so this resonated with me ( thanks to Club Troppo for the link ). Watch video Have a good weekend.4 days ago -
UNSC: Going once, going twice...
The Interpreter —
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Mark Thirlwells suggestion that the UK ought to sell or lease its UN Security Council seat appeals to me, if only as a mental exercise to improve our understanding of exactly what price the UNSCs permanent members place on their seat. It is often said that the only thing really justifying the UKs permanent place ...4 days ago -
Friday linkage
The Interpreter —
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Cambodia pokes Thailand in the eye by making a rather unusual advisory appointment . Transcript of a recent speech by Professor James Cotton from the University of NSW to the Wilson Center on Australias relations with great powers. Timothy Garton Ash reviews a slew of new books about the fall of the Berlin ...4 days ago -
For sale: One permanent UNSC seat
The Interpreter —
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There has been much talk about how the global financial crisis will have geopolitical as well as economic implications. One way this might play out is on display in this story in the FT, which suggests that the UKs cash-strapped Foreign Office is leading the charge in a looming battle over the rising cost of ...4 days ago -
Ahead of PM’s visit, India, US discuss global issues
Thaindian News —
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New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) The build-up to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Washington later this month moved into top gear as India and the US Thursday discussed a host of global issues ranging from democracy and human rights to climate change and public health.The US team led by Under Secretary of State [...]5 days ago -
Ending AIDS’ Stigma
God's Politics Blog —
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President Obama and his administration were busy this past Friday. The president signed into legislation The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act, which according to CNN.com , “authorizes a 5 percent annual increase in federal support over the next four years.…1 week ago -
Regional Leaders Take More Confrontational Approach to Zimbabwe’s Crisis
God's Politics Blog —
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Over a week has passed after the partial withdrawal of the opposition party (MDC) from the unity government. While ZANU (PF) dismissed the crisis as a storm in a tea cup, regional leaders were united in their view that the…1 week ago -
Tuesday linkage
The Interpreter —
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New pictures of Osama bin Laden ? Readers have sent in more Middle East links : Ben recommends Aqoul , while Judah suggests the Middle East Institutes blog . Looks like the Wikipedia entry I complained about yesterday has been corrected . The system works! Last Friday I referred to the peculiar American ...1 week ago -
Big problems with small wars
The Interpreter —
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Peter Leahy , formerly Chief of Army, is Director of the National Security Institute at the University of Canberra. This post is based on remarks he gave yesterday at the launch of Mark ONeills Lowy Institute Paper, Confronting the Hydra . In Confronting the Hydra: Big Problems with Small Wars , Lt ...1 week ago -
New governments do the Dalai shuffle
The Interpreter —
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I have been watching carefully to see how new left-leaning governments in Australia, the US and now Japan would position themselves on a range of issues in order to forge closer relations with the Peoples Republic of China. It seems that when it comes to dealing with visits from the Dalai Lama, they are in ...1 week ago -
Introducing: Micro - World Visions Microfinance Initiative
UrbanMinistry.org: Sermons, Podcasts, MP3s, Grants, Jobs, Books on Christian Social Justice —
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At worldvisionmicro.org , you can browse entrepreneurs who are looking for a hand up, not a hand-out. Many of our entrepreneurs are women in rural areas who would otherwise be unable to access support of this kind. These small business owners will use the loan you funded to improve their business prospects and their ...1 week ago
