What's the church about? Is it about community socializing? Is it about small groups sending aid to the poor? Is it about making sure we get to heaven? Is is about feeling superior to those who don't go to church?
In the past fifty years, at least ten million people have been killed in wars, and the majority of them killed by Christians. Outside of international wars, the only thing that has saved the western, Christian world from beiing the leader of brutality was the rule of Mao Tse Tung.
Earlier this month, the progressive Christian publication Sojourners, chose not to run an ad campaign encouraging churches to welcome and fully include LGBTQ people. The campaign included a video, depicting a lesbian couple and their son being met with both suspicion and welcome when they visit a new church, is part of the Believe Out Loud coalition’s Mothers Day campaign. http://www.believeoutloud.com
The number of seniors living in poverty spiked at the beginning of the financial meltdown, reversing a decades-long trend and threatening one of Canada’s most important social policy successes.
I often speak about how people of faith provide the impetus for national discussions and dramatic shifts by appealing to heart and soul. I love recalling the leadership of, among others, William Wilberforce, Nellie McClung, Tommy Douglas, Martin Luther King Jr., and Desmond Tutu.
There was a time when Haiti was front page news. Then, quite suddenly, it stopped. There was a magic moment when it appeared just for one day on the front page of The Globe. The story was a very misleading one about how the Haiti schools are helping the children deal with the tragedy. It neatly failed to point out this was one school, for rich kids, and that most Haitian children have no schools at all.
There has been almost no dicussion of why the US aid (and some others) consisted so largely of soldiers.
It's interesting to read conservative newspapers, and to see how they blame our economic woes on social spending. That is, they blame the recession on the poor. That''s surely remarrcalbe that such a disorganized and, well, poor group could have such an effect on national and international affairs.
The reality is that such opinion is as silly as anything Marx wrote. It's quite the same sort of one sze fits all nonsense. Most isms, liberalism, conservatism, capitalism, communism, socialism are pretty silly in their one size fits all approach.
I was helping a friend of mine do his taxes this evening and I am steaming mad!!!! This man makes less than the low income cut off (poverty line) and after already having paid over $2300 in taxes over the year, he owes $76. Is that insane or am I insane for thinking it is?
Dear Make Poverty History Supporter,
These are hard words to write. Every minute of every day, a mother dies in childbirth or pregnancy. 24,000 children under 5 years old die every day.
These are staggering figures, made all the more tragic because these women and children are dying needlessly. Simple, low-cost, tried and true interventions could prevent most of these deaths. We know that, because we take them for granted in our world. It explains why 1 mother in 7,300 dies in childbirth in the industrialized country, while 1 mother in 22 forfeits her life in Africa.
