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Billy Graham meets the evangelist of outrage
A comparison of two books by guys in their 90s. One, history’s greatest evangelist, the other a concentration camp survivor who helped draft the UN Declaration of Human Rights.National prayer breakfast for the 99 percent
“Every year there is a gathering of [American] faith, political, business, military and media leaders. . . . It is called the National Prayer Breakfast. This breakfast is by invitation only with a cost of $650.00 a plate.” So says a group called “People’s Prayer Breakfast.” So while Obama was praying with the big wigs, they held a parallel event.New article online: 40-foot inflatable missile protest
A former U.S. nuclear submarine captain was arrested along with others at a naval base in Washington state in a commemorative protest of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The center piece of the protest was a full scale inflatable Trident II (D-5) missile.Calling for pitches: Geez 26 The Politics of Leisure
Everyone needs a break sometimes, but even leisure is political. Are eco-tourism, tourist missionaries and stay-cations important innovations or just frugal fallout from the latest financial crisis? What’s your idea of post-capitalist fun?Geez publisher knocks consumer Christianity, speaks at college
This past week Geez publisher Aiden Enns attended _You’re Richer When You Think_, an interdisciplinary studies conference on economics and faith at King’s University College as a keynote speaker.Wab Kinew on the Strombo show
Hip-hop artist and CBC radio producer and host Wab Kinew outlines five things he believes Canadians need to stop saying about First Nations peoples.New article online: The Bechdel Test for women in movies
A tool designed to help dodge guy-centric cinemaPrivileged? We need to talk
Invitation to the community forum on privilege, Sunday, January 15, 2012, at 4:30 p.m.at Exchange Community Church, 75 Albert Street (2nd floor) in Winnipeg.New article online: A walk in the dim valley
Will Braun wrestles with privilege.Believe in the power of . . . patriarchy?
Have yourself a merry little family.
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