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- BlogTue, 7 Aug 2012A New United Nations
Over the past year, we have seen several debates at the United Nations on the best way to address the Syrian crisis. Because of commercial and geopolitical interests, Russia, one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, has blocked the majority of resolutions aimed at alleviating this crisis. One of the many... more...
- BlogTue, 31 Jul 2012Still Dying After All These Years
In church on Sunday, as is our custom, mention was made in the morning prayers of those US service members who have died in Afghanistan, our nation’s longest war. Our church is about a half hour’s journey from home—when things go right—and this particular Sunday was clearly one of those times when nothing was... more...
- BlogWed, 25 Jul 2012I Just Own It
In the era of mutual funds, exotic financial instruments and blind trusts, what accountability do those who “own” the portfolio have for how the money is invested and the impact of the money on the world? This question is front and center in the 2012 Presidential election because of Mitt Romney’s continued use of the... more...
- BlogMon, 23 Jul 2012Considering the Crisis in Syria
Last month as I participated in a discussion at UNHCR’s World Refugee Day in Washington, DC, many questions came up regarding the situation in Syria. As the situation there worsens, I am deeply saddened to know that such a beautiful country—that millions of hospitable people call home—is in an armed struggle. ... more...
- BlogTue, 3 Jul 2012Health Care, God and Nature
Congressman Paul Ryan(R-WI) appeared Sunday, July 1st, 2012 on ABC’s “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos to decry the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 which he, along with others who oppose it, refers to as “Obamacare.” Congressman Ryan was... more...
- BlogFri, 15 Jun 2012The Spirit of Work
“The Spirit” is a phrase with many connotations. It can mean ghosts, or the Holy Spirit of the Trinity, or the “soul”, or just the enthusiasm for one’s high school or college. On the evening of June 13th at Intersections International’s Power and Values program, The Spirit by whatever definition was... more...
- BlogTue, 27 Mar 2012An Emotional Call to Action: “Please don’t...
This is in response to the tragic loss of Trayvor Martin and an emotional call for action so we then can manifest change. more...
- BlogTue, 27 Mar 2012The Intersection of Life and Death (and So Much...
Your pastor, Rev. Charlie Morris, and I were classmates at New Brunswick Theological Seminary. It was a different time then: the end of an era known as “the sixties,” a time of dramatic changes in the church, a time when the Vietnam War was still raging. One of the issues that confronted the church then, as it does now, is... more...
- BlogTue, 27 Mar 2012Gving Meaning to Trayvon Martin's Death
The Trayvon Martin incident has brought to the surface deep conflicts and fissures in not just Sanford, Florida where the incident occurred, but clearly in the larger community of "black and white" America. The President's comments and the many other accounts of African American parents shine a bright light on the real,... more...
- BlogThu, 1 Dec 2011Stink As Free Speech
It appears that we want our protests to be neat, clean and smell nice. Isn’t it ironic, if you are a billionaire or a multi-national corporation with enough money to “Occupy” neon bill boards over Times Square, TV ads, direct mail to millions of people, or sell cancer producing cigarettes -- the Courts will... more...
