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15 July 2008
Video | Bill Cosby at Adventist Church
According to the Hartford, Connecticut Courant, "More than 1,000 people heard Cosby at the Faith Seventh-day Adventist Church on Woodland Street. The event was organized by Steve Perry, principal of Capital Preparatory Magnet School in Hartford, and the church's pastor, Stephen Williams.
Rev. Otis Moss III: 2007 Proctor Institute Great Preachers Series. Courtesy of the Children's Defense Fund.
I like that: I was colonized, but now I'm carrying the Lord.
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17 April 2008
Truth to Media Power: Priest Cleans Up re: Rev. Wright
Not that I want to rehash the simplistic brouhaha over Rev. Wright, but this interview with Rev. Michael L. Pfleger reframes the issues prophetically.
It's great to see a minister of the gospel pushing back against the spinning ignorance of our gotcha political culture.
Only one day until the Compassion Forum. Already the pundits are opining about what this means for Americans of faith and the presidential candidates. It was not long ago that the media mostly treated the GOP as more Christian than Democrats, and forgot to talk about the interfaith diversity of the American public.
11 April 2008
Sunday's Compassion Forum Focus: Global HIV/AIDS
CNN is starting to plug Sunday's Compassion Forum.
Faith leaders will converse with presidential candidates about poverty, global HIV/AIDS, genocide and Darfur, climate change, human rights and torture.
9 April 2008
Sunday's Compassion Forum Focus: Darfur
I was down at the San Francisco Olympic protests this week, and while Tibet was the biggest draw, the green-shirted Save Darfur folks were a strong presence. Mix in Burma, the Vietnamese fishermen and it's pretty clear that the next U.S. president will have to take some serious leadership in addressing the human rights abuses fueled by run-away Chinese capitalism.
Learn more about this Sunday's Compassion Forum here. Faith leaders, presidential candidates and Jon Meacham of Newsweek this Sunday. 8PM ET/5PM PT on CNN.
DARFUR
4 April 2008
Remembering Dr. King | On War and Poverty
The Washington Post writes:
1 April 2008
Sports, Religion, and Social Justice
Some friends of mine, including my cool girlfriend, organized this panel discussion on campus. I thought - in light of Opening Day and all - that the questions might provoke some interesting discussion.
• Do pastors really need to know anything about sports?
• What can sports teams and sports fans teach Christians about community?
• How do athletics serve a liturgical purpose?
• Are sports competing with church in US society? How so? Is that a bad thing?
• What sermon will you give on Super Bowl Sunday?
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