It’s Kristallnacht 2007 9/11 again. The ninth of November for Europeans. The burning of the synagogue in Ober Ramstdt during Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938. The local fire-department prevented the fire from spreading to a nearby home, but made no attempt to intervene in the synagogue fire. Trudy Isenberg Collection, USHMM Archives The US Holocaust Museum…
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British Churches Gear Up for Prison Week As Jail Population Hits Record High By Ekklesia staff writers — 2 Nov 2007 Churches across the country are gearing up to mark ‘prisons week’ as the UK’s prison population hits a record high. The week kicks off on 18th November 2007, when churches across Britain are being…
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Deacons Told: Do What you see is needed. Apologize to the Bishop Later. Presiding Bishop offers keynote address at biennial conference of U.S. and Canadian deacons By Kim Forman, June 26, 2007 [Episcopal News Service] Deacons are called to be the “nags of the church,” Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori told the biennial Conference of…
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Mother’s Day Proclamation Thanks to Lydia Thayer for this Arise, then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have breasts, Whether our baptism be of water or of tears! Say firmly: “We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and…
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UK Treasury, Pears Foundation Pledge £1.5m. for Holocaust Education Article by Jonny Paul, In the Jerusalem Post Britain’s Treasury and the Pears Foundation, a major contributor to education and civil rights causes in the UK and abroad, will each contribute £250,000 a year for three years to the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) to train instructors…
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Unions for a Global Economy By Harold Meyerson, April 26, 2007; The Washington Post The business press has barely noticed and the usual champions of globalization have been mute, but an announcement last week in Ottawa signaled a radical new direction for the globalized economy. The United Steelworkers — that venerable, Depression-era creation of John…
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Guernica — April 27, 1937 Â During the Spanish Civil War the Condor Legion of the German air force, supporting the Nationalists, bombed the Basque city of Guernica on April 27, 1937, an event memorialized in Pablo Picasso’s painting Guernica. Source: Click Here Â
Fascist America, in 10 Easy Steps From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all Tuesday April 24, 2007 an article in The Guardian Last autumn, there…
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This May Be From Katrina Today, Congress has the opportunity to help thousands of New Orleans residents come back home. Â The Gulf Coast Hurricane Housing Recovery Act of 2007 would re-open desperately needed public housing units and make sure there is no loss of affordable public housing in New Orleans. The bill quickly passed the…
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When the Saints Go Marching Out: Redefining St George for a New Era Paper by Ekklesia Staff Writers Abstract This paper proposes that the figure of St George should be reclaimed according to his true, hidden story – as a dissenter against the abuse of power, a contrast to religious crusades, a global figure we…
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An Optimism Too Far for Palestine-Israel? By Timothy Seidel in Ekklesia 12 Apr 2007 United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently travelled through the Middle East, making visits with Israelis and Palestinians, bringing with her, many have speculated, little more than another round of optimism. This familiar aura of hard-to-pin-down optimism was also found…
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St. Saviour’s is Beautiful People A Sermon by George Swanson Second Sunday of Easter, 2007 Jesus said to Thomas, “Happy are those who have not seen me.†In the name of Jesus, our dead and risen Saviour. Chilton Knudsen, the Bishop of Maine, visited St. Saviour’s this winter. At a meeting before the service she…
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Archbishop of Wales: Easter Fights Racism, Militarism, Nationalism, Sexism and Poverty By Ekklesia staff writers 8 Apr 2007 To believe in the resurrection of Jesus is to be incorporated in a spiritual and political struggle for life against death, empowered by God’s love rather than by the forces of oppression and division, says the Anglican…
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Progress Halted on Same-Sex Bill in Nigeria By Ekklesia Staff Writers 30 Mar 2007 The progress of a bill in Nigeria that that would impose brutal penalties on shows of affection between lesbian and gay people has been halted in the face of national elections in the country. It has been suggested that the Same…
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Day Care Debate Misses the Point By Ruth Conniff March 28, 2007 From the headlines about the latest day care study you’d think something big had happened. For the report click here; The Fox News story was typical: “Study Links Child Care and Bad Behavior”. Click here for Fox story: Â Local television news ran teasers…
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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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From Apology…to Moral Action on Slavery By Pearl Duncan on Ekklesia 28 Mar 2007 Duncan lives in New York is Author of the book-in-progress, “DNA Birthright Says Nobles, Slaves, Rebels & Roots.” You can visit her website at: http://www.pearlduncan.com/ My ancestors had a folk saying, “One hand don’t clap.” In that respect, words without actions…
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Email the Most Rev. Peter Akinola Ask Him to Stop Persecuting Gays See the Ekklesia Article Below His web site gives the following email address: The Rev. Canon Akintunde A. Popoola 24 Douala Street, Wuse Zone 5, Abuja, Nigeria. Tel:+234 9 5236950, 5230987, 5230989 Fax: +234 9 5231527 E-mail: communicator1@anglican-nig.org Tell us what you think…
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