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All a-twitter at Number 10

Downing Street's microblogging team is monitoring us from the depths of the Prime Minister's bunker.

Submitted by Simon Barrow on 11 May 2008 - 10:49am.
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McLaren talks to Associated Press

Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises and a Revolution of Hope, argues that Christians must work for systemic change that deals with the causes of human suffering.

Submitted by Simon Barrow on 11 May 2008 - 10:21am.
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Torture not a Christian family value

United Methodist Church minister and research psychologist Andrew J. Weaver has maintained a principled campaign against mixing Methodism and political mendacity.

Submitted by Simon Barrow on 9 May 2008 - 11:23pm.
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Women's rights and religious liberty

Rowan Williams' recent lecture on the religious grounding of universal human rights raised difficult questions about the status of women in relation to freedom for faith.

Submitted by Simon Barrow on 9 May 2008 - 6:08pm.
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Getting money through to Burma

Our friend and colleague Simon Keyes at the St Ethelburga Centre for Reconciliation and Peace has a practical suggestion for supporting Burma.

Submitted by Simon Barrow on 9 May 2008 - 5:06pm.
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Distinguishing Islam and 'Islamism'

Is it that 'new atheists' like Sam Harris simply don't understand religion (beyond assembling everything bad they know to attack it with), or is the failure to distinguish positive and negative deliberate?

Submitted by Simon Barrow on 8 May 2008 - 3:45pm.
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The first non-evangelical evangelical president?

Over on the Wall Street Journal blog, Steven Waldman president and editor-in-chief of Beliefnet.com, has some interesting things to say about Barack Obama and the evangelical vote.

Submitted by Simon Barrow on 8 May 2008 - 3:36pm.
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Carter on the Gaza tragedy

Ex-US President Jimmy Cater, now devoting his time to human rights and peace work, has condemned as a "crime" the treatment of people in Gaza.

Submitted by Simon Barrow on 8 May 2008 - 10:58am.
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JustPeace60 declaration

The 8 May is the 60th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel - something that has occasioned both great hope and great despair.

Submitted by Simon Barrow on 7 May 2008 - 8:25am.
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Obama, Wright and wrong

The Democratic presidential contest has been getting ugly. And Barack Obama's church ties have become both a boon and a bane.

Submitted by Simon Barrow on 7 May 2008 - 7:23am.
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