by Kevin Jon Heller Excellent news — and a major blow to the AU’s promise of impunity for Bashir, given the symbolic and practical importance of South Africa for the continent generally: SOUTH Africa will arrest Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir if he visits the country, despite an African Union decision to ignore a war crimes warrant against him, the foreign ministry said yesterday. Civil society and human rights groups across Africa called yesterday for African sta
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South Africa Will Enforce the Warrant for Bashir
Thanks to the slightly creepy magic of Google Street View , the Fireshot add-on to Firefox, and my middling graphic editing skillz, I have managed to cobble together an annotated visual of last Thursday’s bike calamity . Click the image to embiggen it, as SJKP likes to say. A note on the directions indicated in the image: camera’s eye view here faces more or less due east down Burnside Street.
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Bike Calamity ’09, Annotated & Illustrated
Not to focus too much on US News & World Report this week, but their religion and politics writer Dan Gilgoff has another piece on the issue of LGBT rights, this time in the form on a mini-interview with the Human Rights Campaign’s Joe Solmonese. The focus is on the role of religion in promoting LGBT rights, and Gilgoff concludes that clergy are becoming a new lobbying force on behalf of equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender folks.
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The Growing Power of Clergy as a Voice for LGBT Rights
Examiner.com Interfaith Spirituality 101: what are three universal lessons from … Examiner.com Hinduism is often referred to as “the eternal law,” and that law includes making wiser choices (leading to more joy) by humbly acknowledging the limits of …
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John Turner Laboring under the misapprehension that political bodies listen to the opinions of mainline Protestant denominations (we didn’t even have a label for mainline Protestantism on this blog), the Episocopal Church recently repudiated the centuries-old belief that God gave Christian Europeans the right to wrest land away from benighted natives. A friend forwarded me an article from Indian Country Today celebrating the resolution, which calls for the overturning of an 1823 Supreme Court decision (Johnson v
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Doctrine of Christian Discovery
Book Review: From Eternity to Here: Rediscovering the Ageless Purpose of God by Frank Viola.
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Hidden Romance in the Bible
article courtesy of Ogi Overman at The Jamestown News : Nine added to ranks of Bill White Scholars By Ogi Overman When Bill White died in 1980, his obituary in the Greensboro News & Record mentioned that a scholarship fund in his name was being started and asked for donations. From that one solicitation came enough funds to endow the scholarship, and the following year the first William J. White Scholarship was awarded to Bobby Dawson
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David “Ogi” Overman with the Bill White story
So…today my mind is racing…AND my A-D-D is in full gear…so here is some randomness… #1 – This morning I got mad…REALLY mad…at stupid people. A few things hit me the wrong way and I just flat out asked God, “why don’t you just kill the stupid people?” (COME ON…you’ve probably asked Him to do the same thing…don’t lie!!!) That seemed like a good idea to me…until He reminded me that if He were killing people for stupidity that I would be the first one on the list! The ONLY reason I am in minis
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Seven Random Thoughts
A central Wisconsin father charged with reckless homicide for not taking his dying daughter to a doctor told police that he believed God would heal her and that he thought she was simply sleeping when she became unconscious. His wife, convicted of the same charge in May, testified that calling a doctor “would have shown complete disobedience” to what she and her husband believe in
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Father on trial in faith healing death of daughter; convicted mother defends actions
Hello again, so good to be able to report to you about all that God is doing here in the DR. Yesterday was our “free day”. We got to go around Santo Domingo and do some shopping and sightseeing. We definitely did that, but it seemed like we had just as much contact with people about God as we did on any other day. It is amazing to know that God has a reason for everything. We didn’t really know why our free day was in the middle of the week. Well, it is because God is the ruler of this uni
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Salem Baptist Church – Thursday