From BBC News: Homophobic attacks have reached dangerous levels in sub-Saharan Africa and must stop, Amnesty International has said in a report. Governments are increasingly criminalising “homosexual acts” by seeking to impose new laws and draconian penalties, it adds.
The Economic Policy Institute has come up with a handy click-thru animation on income inequality–how it happened, what it costs you personally, and how to fix it.
Tabatha Leggett didn’t believe in God when she enrolled in the well-known Alpha program at a church in East London. She describes for the New Statesman what happened next.
Andrew Brown of the Guardian writes:
The Wisconsin State Journal reports that Bishop Steven Miller is not going to permit the blessing of same-sex relationships in the Diocese of Milwaukee.
Today’s Scriptures don’t use nearly so tame a metaphor for trying to contain God. Instead, they make their point with dramatic triumphs and escapes. Both the Philistines and the temple police learn that you can’t put God in a cage match.
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