The Internet give us extraordinary tools to communicate a message to a large group of people. In recent months this ability has started to cause the fall of governments and given new life to populist movements. But there’s a downside. The anonymity of the Internet can allow people to take the every day squabbles of […]
Day: October 8, 2011
Faith and the Republican race
Yesterday an important Evangelical leader in Texas, Robert Jeffress, introduced Rick Perry (his governor) as a “genuine follower of Jesus Christ” and then went outside to meet with reporters to state that Perry’s opponent Mitt Romney is “not a Christian”. This represents the first real attack on Romney’s faith background of this election year, and […]
10th anniversary of U.S. war in Afghanistan: make jobs not war
Regas, rector emeritus of All Saints, Pasadena, and other clergy and faith leaders in vestments led the group, praying, chanting and singing, from La Placita past Los Angeles City Hall. He and others called for an end to the war and for the government to create jobs and to assist the poor.
ABC in Central Africa: Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia
UPDATED: The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is currently in Malawi as part of his visit to the Province of Central Africa. He met with the President on Friday according to the website for the Archbishop:
William Dwight Porter Bliss and Richard Theodore Ely
October 8 – Commemoration of William Dwight Porter Bliss and Richard Theodore Ely The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to the prisoners; […]
