hunger, food, obesity, starvation …
Have you seen the "fat map?"
Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein offers insight into food as a form of energy here. Quotable quotes after the jump ...
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Countdown Day 85
… over 90 percent of the so-called new converts come from the 40 percent of the population who are already “in the choir,” and less than 10 percent come from the “unchurched majority.” So we have a lot of Baptists becoming Pentecostals, and Catholics becoming Episcopalians, and so on, but surprising few “unchurched people” getting connected with the church. (5)
From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (available February 9, 2010)
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Countdown Day 86
The last person in line, a woman who had been married to a pastor who left her and then left the ministry, wipes her eyes and says with a shaky voice: “You’ve put into words what I’ve always known was true, but I was afraid to say.” (2)
From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (available February 9, 2010)
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Countdown Day 87
I believe in “one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church,” as the old creed says, and in the holy faith with which that church is entrusted. And I believe that, as with Sarah and Elizabeth, just when you think the old girl is over the hill, she might take a pregnancy test and surprise us all. (xi)
From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (available February 9, 2010)
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Countdown Day 88
I feel about my tenure as a pastor the same way I feel about my experience as a father: I gave it my very best, but my kids – and my congregation – deserved much better, so I always feel like apologizing. (x)
From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (available February 9, 2010)
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