Food for thought: two months’ worth of the military budget would wipe out the student loan debt of every current student in America and then some.
Four months’ worth would send every student academically eligible to attend college to school for free.
Three months’ worth would pay for the entire reconstruction of the Gulf Coast, erasing Katrina’s [...]
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Memorial Day – a time to consider national priorities?
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Should there be a Muslim school in a predominantly Anglican, Australian town?
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
With its lace curtain bungalows and steepled Anglican church, the once tranquil town of Camden in New South Wales seems the most improbable of settings for a row that combines race and religion.
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Now the town, which lies on south-west fringes of Sydney, is confronting a very 21st Century issue: the proposal to construct an Islamic [...]
Video: Karen Armstrong: Charter for Compassion
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged compassion, religion, talks, TED on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As she accepts her 2008 TED Prize, author and scholar Karen Armstrong talks about how the Abrahamic religions — Islam, Judaism, Christianity — have been diverted from the moral purpose they share to foster compassion. But Armstrong has seen a yearning to change this fact. People want to be religious, she says; we should act [...]
Imagine
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged China, Dalai Lama, Olympics, Tibet on May 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Imagine if only 12 out of 6,000 churches, synagogues or mosques were left standing in the place where you live. Imagine if over a million plus of your people were killed.
Imagine thousands and thousand and thousands of strangers being sent to your home and taking up residence, swamping/overwhelming you and your remaining family members so [...]
