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AugustAug 12 Tuesday 08
Voice of the Day: Mother Teresa on the poor
We should not server the poor like they were Jesus. We should serve the poor because they are Jesus.
- Mother Teresa
In My Own Words
Daily News Digest (by Ryan Rodrick Beiler)
The latest news on the Environment, Iraq, Israel and Palestine, the Georgia-Russia conflict, the Elections, Pakistan, North Korea, the Philippines, New Orleans, Privacy, Cuba and Zimbawbwe.
Power-Sharing in Zimbabwe (by Nontando Hadebe)
It is Tuesday, August 12, and the leaders of the political parties are still locked in talks of power sharing -- it was expected that a deal would be struck on Sunday, but to no avail, so the talks continue. Most of us are still digesting and coming to terms with …
Wedge Issues (Part 2, by Romal Tune)
During the summer of 2003, my cousin and his girlfriend celebrated the birth of their son Glenn Molex, III. I remember getting the call from his father and hearing the pride in his voice when he told me about the birth. My cousin and …
AugustAug 11 Monday 08
Voice of the Day: Jos
Christianity ... is always in need of re-simplifying, going back to its origins, ridding itself of the excessive superstructure it has acquired through history.
- Jos
Daily News Digest (by Ryan Rodrick Beiler)
The latest news on the Georgia-Russia conflict, China, Bolivia, Iraq, Energy, John Edwards, the Election, Commodity prices, Pakistan, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Israel and Palestine, and Isaac Hayes.
Verse of the Day: 'You have not obeyed me'
You yourselves recently repented and did what was right in my sight by proclaiming liberty to one another, and you made a covenant before me in the house that is called by my name; but then you turned around and profaned my name when each of you took back your …
South Africa's Complex Challenges (by Seth Naicker)
Being at home in the land of my birth, South Africa, over the last five weeks has been awesome. It is wonderful being amongst family and friends, and having our daughter Mahalia Khanya be with our "peeps."
However, as much as the wonder and joy of being home is …
Wedge Issues (Part 1, by Romal Tune)
As we draw closer to the candidate forum at Saddleback Church, I've had several conversations with clergy on the West Coast. Many are wondering if candidates will be asked about abortion and gay marriage. In California there is a ballot initiative on gay …
AugustAug 10 Sunday 08
Beer and Bible Night at Kudzu's (by Phyllis Tickle)
One of the great recent joys of my life has been a thing called "Beer and Bible," which happens every other Tuesday night at a small neighborhood pub in Memphis called, appropriately enough, Kudzu's. Kudzu, our bar's namesake, is the South's most ubiquitous form …
AugustAug 8 Friday 08
Voice of the Day: Etty Hillesum
That is why I must try to live a good and faithful life to my last breath; so that those who come after me do not have to start all over again.
- Etty Hillesum
Will an Apology for Slavery Lead to Real Repentance? (by Ben Sanders III)
On July 29, 2008, history was made in the United States House of Representatives – well, kinda. Last week, the House formally apologized for slavery, Jim Crow, and for the racist social consequences that have followed. Never before has the U.S. government …
Verse of the Day: Spirit of Gentleness
My friends, if anyone is detected in a transgression, you who have received the Spirit should restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness. Take care that you yourselves are not tempted.
- Galatians 6:1
Commenting on the Daily Digest (by Duane Shank)
More than a year ago, I posted a piece asking for comments from the readers of the Daily Digest. There were many useful ideas, and I've modified the Digest accordingly. I'm now about to leave for a week's vacation, and thought I'd ask again. The Daily Digest is …
China Bars Olympian and Darfur Activist from Attending Summer Games (by Elizabeth Palmberg)
Looks like Joey Cheek -- a winter Olympics medalist who co-founded the organization Team Darfur to protest the genocide incited by the regime in Khartoum -- will not be going to Beijing in support of the Team Darfur athletes about to compete in the Olympics. …
AugustAug 7 Thursday 08
Voice of the Day: Oscar Romero
Social sin is the crystallization ... of individuals' sins into permanent structures that keeps sin in being and makes its force to be felt by the majority of people.
- Oscar Romero
Salvadoran archbishop, assassinated in 1980
A Bias Against Sunday Segregation (by Sondra Shepley)
American churches are still segregated, and it is the way most of us—regardless of our race—would like to keep it. At least, so suggests the recent online CNN article titled, “Why Americans Prefer Their Segregated Sundays." Curtiss DeYoung, professor of …
Verse of the Day: 'do not let the sun go down on your anger'
Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not make room for the devil.
- Ephesians 4:26-27
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Daily News Digest (by Duane Shank)
The latest news on China, Afghanistan, Economy, US demographics, Abortion, the Death penalty, Guantanamo trial, Iran, Israel, Mideast, Zimbabwe, Iraq, Pakistan, and AIDS.
Another Religious Swing Vote (by Jim Wallis)
One of the stories I first heard on my recent visit to Australia was about what helped swing the vote last November to Kevin Rudd, the new Labor prime minister. I read some new political data by veteran pollster and researcher John Black, who is respected across …