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.
Day: June 24, 2013
Income inequality: how it happened, what it costs, how to fix it
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.
Inside Alpha: an atheist tries on the well-known evangelism program
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.
The wedding flash mob heard around the church
Andrew Brown of the Guardian writes:
Bishop of Milwaukee says no to same-sex blessings
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.
God in a cage match
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.