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Acton News and Commentary -- 11 January 2006
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Acton Commentary
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January 11,
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As the nation
prepares to celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King
Jr. on Jan. 15, it’s time to broaden the discussion of
race relations in America to include not just blacks and
whites, but Asians, Hispanics and Native Americans. The
long fixation on black-white relations has obscured some
important measures of racial progress — or lack of it —
in American society, argues Anthony Bradley. “In fact,
the greatest impediment to appropriating King’s dream is
our unwillingness to move beyond a white social
barometer,” he says.
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This Week At Acton
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Woods to speak at Super Sunday XI
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Karen Woods,
director of Acton’s Center for Effective Compassion,
will be speaking Sunday, Jan. 29, in Muskegon, Mich., at
Super Sunday XI. The event features a dozen workshops on
leadership and is sponsored by Muskegon Methodist
Ministries and the United Methodist Church’s Grand
Rapids District. For more information, call (616)
744-4491. |
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 The
latest issue of Journal of Markets & Morality
features a new controversy between Michael T. Dempsey
and Robin Klay and John Lunn:
What Bearing, If Any, Does the Christian Doctrine of
Providence Have Upon the Operation of the Market
Economy? Available to all is the new
editorial by Stephen J. Grabill,
“The Digital Divide,” discussing a recent U.N. study
proposing that the business and volunteer sectors will
be largely responsible for the development of digital
infrastructure in Afracan and other developing nations. |
PowerBlog Highlights
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Apocalypse Now (and Forever)
Check out this review of James Howard Kunstler’s
new book, The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging
Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Atlantic),
which describes it as a “litany around the increasingly
fashionable panic over oil depletion.” This paucity of
oil will in large part contribute to a future in which
“the best-case scenario is a mass die-off followed by a
forced move back to the land, complete with associated
feudal relations. As the title implies, this is to be an
ongoing state rather than a crisis to be overcome - a
sentiment that the US critic Susan Sontag described as
‘apocalypse from now on’.”
Who is Pope Benedict XVI?
Despite his many writings, scholarly expertise
and long service to the Church as Prefect of
Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith as Cardinal
Joseph Ratzinger, there’s still much of an unknown
quality surrounding Pope Benedict XVI...
How To Kill a Small Charity
With a gracious spirit, let’s say that Section
317 of Senate Tax Relief Act of 2005 was penned with the
intent of fostering honest accountability in the charity
world. And, furthermore, let’s graciously allow that the
legislation was designed to send the message that the
Internal Revenue Service is vigilantly watching over the
donation of tax-deductible clothing and household
goods... |
Newsmakers
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An interview with research fellow Jennifer Roback
Morse was published by the Zenit News Agency.
“Righting the Wrongs in Modern Sex and Marriage”
(2006-01-09) focuses on the necessity of sexual morality
to maintaining a lifelong marriage in today's “hook-up”
society by interpreting ideas articulated by the late
pope John Paul II. Rev. Robert Sirico’s piece,
“Politicizing food makes the rich richer”
(2006-01-07), was published by the Detroit News.
Kishore Jayabalan, director of Acton’s Rome office,
speaks with Sheila Liaugmina on Relevant Radio on
the topic of
“Religious Liberty and the EU Constitution"
(2005-01-04).
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Acton Bookshoppe
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 “Social
Justice and the Question of Personal, Political, and Economic
Responsibility” featuring Rev. Robert A. Sirico, Bishop
Gumbleton, Sr. Miller, and Jennifer Roback Morse. |
In the Liberal Tradition
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 “More
and more thoughtful students of the race problem are beginning
to see that business and industry constitute what we may call
the strategic points in its solution.”
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