Condolence Message from the President of Zambia’s United National Independence Party (UNIP) on the death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu

The President of Zambia’s United National Independence Party (UNIP),  Bishop Trevor Mwamba has expressed on behalf of his Party and himself to the family of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu; the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, and the nation of South Africa, his deepest condolences, on the death today, 26th December 2021, of Archbishop Tutu….
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We drive. They get sick.

Tar Sands: Environmental justice, treaty rights and Indigenous Peoples Clayton Thomas-Müller, March/April 2008, Canadian Dimension magazine Tar Sands: Environment justice, treaty rights and Indigenous Peoples Pulling crude from the tar sands As a conventional reserves of crude oil tighten, the race is on in northern Alberta, where fleets of dinosaur -sized trucks are tearing apart…
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Casandra May Be Right

What’s Going to Happen As we Start Running out of Cheap Gas to Guzzle? By JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER Thanks to Dick Atlee A few weeks ago, the price of oil ratcheted above fifty-five dollars a barrel, which is about twenty dollars a barrel more than a year ago. The next day, the oil story was…
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Buy or Steal this Book

This Book is Changing My Life So I dare you to read it! Better Yet: Get Your Bookstore to Stock It! New from Seabury Books — An Imprint of Church Publishing, Incorporated For Immediate Release The Fire of Your Life Written by Maggie Ross Maggie Ross, a life-professed solitary and mystic under vows to the…
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The Presiding Bishop Elect Writes

Dear George,   Oh, how I wish I could be with you to celebrate the life of one of the church’s pioneers!  It sounds like you have put together a remarkable tribute to her life’s work, work that is ongoing and will continue to flourish.  My prayers will be with you that weekend.  I am…
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Life is Good!

On June 6th, 2005, the day before our 47th wedding anniversary I “bought the farm” on the floor of the cardiac rehab unit in Ellsworth.  I woke up with an IV in each wrist and a strange nurse looking down into my face saying, “I just resuscitated you.  Hope you don’t mind.”  “Hey, that’s great,”…
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Sally Hemings & Her Sisters

“When a woman says no to a man, she subliminally looks death in the face.  Men have not only more physical strength—and the threat of that strength is always there, consciously or unconsciously—but in today’s society of inequality, men usually have more status and power than women.  If women learn not to be afraid of…
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