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Peter Beinart, of The New America Foundation, and Rev. Daniel Schultz, of Religion Dispatches, debate the history and current relevancy of theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.
"God is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith is Changing the World"
Posted July 25th, 2009 by Marilyn GlaimIf you could only read one book on the role of religion in the world today, God is Back would be the one to read. John Micklethwait, editor in chief of the Economist and his colleague, Adrian Wooldridge, Washington Bureau chief for the magazine, have continued their many years of writing collaboration on this their fifth book, in which they lay out their purpose as an "attempt to explain. . .
During a memorial service Tuesday for the late singer Michael Jackson, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat, stood before a packed Staples Center in Los Angeles with millions more watching on television and unveiled a bill that would honor Michael Jackson the humanitarian.
8 May 2009
What the Church Can Learn from the GOP
Of course, some might question the linking of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the GOP. But as Adventists prepare to gather in Georgia for our quinennial General Conference Session and select a new leader in about a year, we might look around to other institutions as we seek to navigate the 21st century.
Elizabeth Lechleitner/Adventist News Network reports:
A Seventh-day Adventist will help United States President Barack Obama's administration consider the concerns of faith communities as it makes policy decisions,
25 March 2009
The Financial Gangs of New York
Why are President Obama and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner so bloody deferential to the financial gangs of New York, the same Wall Street thugs whose reckless greed drove the invention and build up of the toxic bank assets in the first place? That is the question faith leaders should be asking. After all, the religious community has a whole lot of skin in this game.
As a British colony, Zimbabwe was part of what used to be called Rhodesia. President Robert Mugabe won the first general election of independent Zimbabwe in 1980, promising good things for the country’s future. At that time Zimbabwe, with its well-tended farms and orchards, was considered to be the bread basket of Africa. But in 2000 President Mugabe began seizing farms from white land owners and redistributing them mostly to black government officials who did not cultivate the land.
( March 16th, 2009 )
“I believe” must be etched in every classroom, the screensaver on every computer and cell phone, it must be internalized in the heart of every student until dreams are born as to whom they can become and the contribution they can make to the development of their nation.
6 February 2009
Randall Balmer: God in the White House
Evangelical Randall Balmer, professor of American religious history at Barnard College, Columbia University discusses how God talk has changed in American presidential politics. He think that President Barack Obama embraces faith in a different way than George W. Bush.
15 January 2009
Adventist Pastor Becomes Governor General of Jamaica
The Prime Minister of Jamaica, Bruce Golding, announced that Dr. Patrick Linton Allen, the president of West Indies Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, will become the new governor general of Jamaica.
Elizabeth Lechleitner at the Adventist News Network explains:
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