– How the largest Movement in the world came into being, and why no one saw it coming…
Paul Hawken decribes a phenomenon that “is the largest social movement in all of history, no one knows its scope, and how it functions is more mysterious than what meets the eye.”
“What does meet the eye is compelling: tens of millions of ordinary and not-so-ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.”
Find out more about Paul Hawken and his hope for our future in this article how to remake the world.
We hear a lot about the “bottom line†these days. When people talk about the bottom line it is generally associated with money and profit. But what kind of society are we living in if we put profit before people and their real needs? What kind of society are we when our government ends up with billions of dollars of profit to give away, when basic needs, like decent health services, are not being met?
The Rev John Thomas, president of the US United Church of Christ, has been arrested in a protest about the Iraq war outside the White House in Washington DC.
Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has said that Richard Dawkins and other apostles of anti-religious sentiment are oversimplifying complex issues and often missing the point. His comments came in a weekend lecture on ‘misunderstanding religion’ at the University of Swansea.
Wesley Mission has called for an end to discrimination in the workplace, more flexible employment opportunities and increased funding for community based care as part of a 21-point reform plan to address the major issues impacting people with mental illness.
The time has come when ethical investments are out-performing regular ones. With carbon trading, global warming, renewable energy and similar things becoming mainstream, those who invest according to biblical principles are actually reaping the rewards.
Peace by Peace is a new magazine produced by the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
The first edition includes: an interview with Norman and Pat Kember; a photo-essay on building peace; the work of the Palestinian Center for Conflict Resolution; and how reconciliation and marathon running are being combined in Peru.
This magazine is availabe for free online. You can find it here.
Eureka Street has an eye for those who fall between the cracks. There are ever increasing demands on church organisations and social services to meet professional benchmarks for service delivery. They ask if it means churches are no longer able to prevent people from slipping through support networks.
Russia and two former Soviet republics have four of the world’s top 10 most polluted places, according to the Blacksmith Institute, a New York-based nonprofit group.
Blacksmith did not rank the top 10 because complete health records from some developing countries were unavailable.
For each site the group included the number of potentially affected people, who could face problems ranging from asthma to premature death.
The annual list was compiled with help from specialists at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Hunter College in New York, India’s ITT, University of Idaho, Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York and others.
The full report can be found here.
While around 4 million people have fled Iraq in recent times, Sweden is making headlines for being possibly the only country in Europe that could be described as welcoming to those displaced from Iraq.
In particular, Sweden is taking care of teenagers who are alone and desperate, but still make the difficult journey to find sanctuary.