emergence: name, connect, nourish, illuminate
Jonny Baker offers very insightful and helpful reflections on emergent-emerging-emergence-etc. ... Thanks, Jonny.
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Pro-Life and Pro-Obama?
Why is another important Pro-Lifer coming out for Obama ... find out here. I think you'll find his reasons fascinating.
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Election Items …
As more mud is being slung in the presidential campaign, it's nice to come across a positive story like this one ...
If you're a Pro-Life person who supports McCain/Palin because they're Pro-Life, I hope you'll check out the Matthew 25 Network's new information on Obama and abortion here. See especially this page.
If you're concerned about both candidates being truthful, check out this . This piece takes up a challenge from Senator McCain regarding truthfulness.
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more on financial crisis
My friend David Bodanis offers a thoughtful theological reflection on the financial crisis here in the Financial Times. David is writing a book on the Ten Commandments ... which should be excellent.
Another wise friend, economist Bob Goudzwaard, forwarded these reflections he had written for some friends in the UK ... Bob's co-authored book Hope in Troubled Times is a brilliant engagement with the same questions I grapple with in Everything Must Change.
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Torture
I am a passionate participant in the growing anti-torture movement, led by David Gushee and others. I recently blogged about a disturbing report, indicating that Southern White Evangelicals are more likely to support torture than Americans in general. So a number of us are making this request for your expression of support. I hope you'll take a moment and respond ... and I hope you'll ask the religious leaders in your life if they have take a stand yet. This tide must be turned.
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Our nation, our allies, and our enemies now know that the United States has committed torture against foreign detainees. And regardless of the motivation for doing so, torture is a nonnegotiable moral issue that we need to end once and for all.
That's why, last June, I was one of more than 200 military, security, and faith leaders who signed a nonpartisan Declaration of Principles calling on the President to issue an Executive Order to ban torture. Since then, thousands of citizens have joined us, and I hope that you'll consider doing so, too.
You can read a *summary of the effort* in this recent God's Politics blog post:
And you can *sign the Declaration* here.
I hope that you'll sign on, and that you'll in turn send this message to your friends and colleagues. Thank you for taking this stand with me.
Sign the Declaration!
*TORTURE IS UN-AMERICAN, IMMORAL, AND BAD FOR SECURITY.
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