Day: June 2, 2013

“Poverty is what makes the rich rich”

| Posted on June 2, 2013 |

This formally inventive documentary traces “the history of poverty.” Credible and delightful, it is an hour long, but worth your time. It suggests that poverty is defended on moral terms as the engine of the economic system: it is want that makes people work.

A loan for a beggar

| Posted on June 2, 2013 |

How a micro loan changed a woman’s life in Bangladesh.

Roman Catholic Church hierarchy’s political influence waning

| Posted on June 2, 2013 |

Perhaps more problematic for the church: Its state-by-state setbacks on gay marriage illustrate a widening divide between the church hierarchy and its members, which may be undermining Catholic influence in American politics.

Focus

| Posted on June 2, 2013 |

AM Psalm 63:1-8(9-11), 98 PM Psalm 103 Deut. 11:1-12 Rev. 10:1-11 Kirkepiscatoid

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