Do Something Useful for the Majority By Martha Burk The new Congress has been busy, what with scandals in the Justice Department and votes to reign in war spending with some accountability and better training for the troops. Both are good things, and rightly priorities. But both are likely to end with standoffs as they…
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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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Reforming Bishop to Head up Prison Monitoring Group By Ekklesia Staff Writers 21 Mar 2007 A network of prison monitoring groups is to be headed up by the Bishop of Worcester when he leaves his current post. Dr Peter Selby’s move will take place when he retires in September after 10 years in charge of…
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Bishops’ ‘Mind of the House’ Resolutions Tuesday, March 20, 2007 [Episcopal News Service] The following resolutions were passed by the House of Bishops March 20 during its annual Spring retreat meeting in Navasota, Texas. Mind of the House of Bishops Resolution Addressed to the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church Resolved, the House of Bishops…
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Slavery not yet Abolished, Say Archbishops By Ekklesia Staff Writers 17 Mar 2007 Forsaking the formalities of officialdom in their attempt to reach a new audience, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York have gone online to talk about the nature of the slave trade in readiness for the Walk of Witness to take place in…
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Most Mother’s Day Flowers Will come from Exploited Workers says Report By Ekklesia Staff Writers 15 Mar 2007 Flowers handed to mothers this Sunday will come from workers in developing countries who have risked their health for unsafe, insecure jobs supplying UK supermarkets, a new report suggests. ‘Growing Pains’ by anti-poverty charity War on Want…
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As you read these words a young man is waiting to pick up his next sex slave outside a group foster home near you. He is a pimp. He knows his job. He learned it when he was in jail for dealing drugs. ‘What you do,” he was told, “is find a group home for…
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In each generation, the real “sacred” of the Gospel will emerge quietly and gently, usually at the hands of those whom the strongest supporters of the sacred regard as inimicable to faith and good customs. James Alison in Faith Beyond Resentment page 181 James Alison’s many admirers will find in this book [Faith Beyond Resentment]…
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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 very…
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Last weekend your fearless reporter was a first time delegate at the 2006 Maine Democratic Party Convention in Augusta. Before I describe the problem, it was a SPIRITED, COMMITTED, EXCITED group of Americans. We are determined to throw the rascals out. And may do it. Great to be with them. With ONE GLARING OMISSION the…
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“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…
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The ERA’s first section states “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” It was intended to place into law the equality of men and women. It was sent to the states in March, 1972. The original seven year…
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