Sharing the Ascension Experience
Bob Kalk Beijing will start a daily report mechanism on food safety during the “Good Luck Beijing” International tournaments officially to kick off on Aug 8, a test run for a food safety monitoring system designed for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.Sources with the Beijing Municipal Food Safety Office said that Beijing is going to share this system … Read more
Norway’s revived electric carmaker, now called “Think Global,” is raising more capital with the goal of producing 10,000 cars a year by 2009. Now Jan-Olaf Willums, chief executive of Think Global, appears to have some solid investors behind him. The firm started rolling again earlier this year, with a line-up including retailing tycoon Stein-Erik Hagen, … Read more
Current APA policy stipulates that no therapy should occur without “informed consent” of a gay or lesbian client. Jason Cianciotto of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force said he hoped the APA would declare that no young person could ever be deemed to have given informed consent, and thus no reparative therapy would be … Read more
Hitchens, when he runs up against the authentic religious life, withers. He tries vainly to deny its existence, since its recognition punctures his pronouncement that “religion teaches people to be extremely self-centered and conceited.” He writes of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that “in no real as opposed to nominal sense, then, was … Read more
Pope Benedict recently addressed all young people saying “I have noticed that against the tide of secularism many young people are rediscovering the satisfying quest for authentic beauty, goodness and truth. Through your witness you help them in their search for the Spirit of God.”Check Our Sources
Redeemed! 10 Ways to Get Out of the Gay Life, If You Want Out Although I have lived as a lesbian for my entire adult life, it is without a doubt my soul’s purpose to use my gifts to LOVINGLY share the truth about how we got here: how we came to be gay or … Read more
Public Divided on “Pro-Choice” vs. “Pro-Life” Abortion LabelsWhen it comes to Americans’ specific attitudes about the legality of abortion, public opinion is somewhat more conservative than its attachment to these labels would suggest. Nearly 6 in 10 Americans (58%) think abortion should either be limited to only a few circumstances or illegal in all circumstances. … Read more
Structures of social oppression, actual or perceived, are argued by many to be among the causes of war and other violent conflict. Such conflict also has obvious effects on social structure and on the possibility of attaining justice. Conversely, one cannot attempt to evaluate the ethical implications of violence, whether it be war, revolution, or … Read more
Well, when Jesus said, “Love your enemies (Matt. 5:44),” I really think he meant, “Don’t kill ’em!” And when he said, “Blessed are those who work for peace (Matt. 5:9),” that sounds to me like “Study war no more (Isaiah 2:4).” I’d say everything Jesus taught, and how “God in flesh” lived is 180 degrees … Read more
Peace is about having ‘social conversation’ – engaging with others in a way that affirms the mutuality in relationships and asks “How can we best live in relation to one another?”. Whether we ask the question in the context of relations between individuals, communities or nation states is irrelevant; what matters is that we ask … Read more