Saturday, September 22, 2018

In the news, Thursday, August 30, 2018


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from Anglican Journal
News & Media Website in Toronto, Ontario

Churches are on the front line of mediation efforts across the world, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby told the United Nations Security Council August 29, in part because they are often “the only functioning institutions in a fragile or pre-conflict situation.” He said that churches and other faith communities are “intimately present where there are conflicts; we cannot and will not walk away from them.” He cited the role of Sudanese Anglican Primate and Archbishop Justin Badi Arama in peace efforts in South Sudan.

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from Breitbart
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, American conservative news and opinion website

Email Logs Reveal Correspondence Between Clinton Associate, Fusion GPS, and Russians at Trump Tower Meeting
Attorney Edward Lieberman, whose late wife Evelyn served as Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff, exchanged numerous emails with the co-founder of the controversial Fusion GPS firm and Russian participants in the infamous June 9, 2016, Trump Tower meeting, documentation provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee shows.

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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS

Don’t let billionaires set priorities for attorneys general
If a pro-life gazillionaire were giving funds to state attorneys general to go after Planned Parenthood, the left would quite rightly go bonkers. But ex-Mayor Mike Bloomberg is doing much the same, except he’s paying AGs to pursue green-energy litigation. It’s still wrong. With grants to an NYU School of Law center, Bloomberg funds “special assistant attorneys general” in at least six states to work on clean-energy, climate-change and other environmental cases. It would be one thing if the billionaire were paying a nonprofit legal foundation to litigate for his causes, or if AGs were using their own budgets to prioritize environmental law. But this is a private citizen setting the agenda for law-enforcement officials.

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from The Daily Caller
RIGHT BIAS

MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR ADDS ‘PERFORMED WELL’ TO LIST OF OFFENSIVE PHRASES
MSNBC contributor and Washington Post Columnist Jonathan Capehart Wednesday night, became the first person to declare the term “performed well” as hurtful and offensive to African-Americans. Capehart appeared on “The Last Word” with Lawrence O’Donnell and was asked about comments made earlier in the day by Ron DeSantis. Capehart responded, “We are all focusing on the ‘monkey’ line,” adding “but that was the third of three things that he said that I as an African-American picked up right away.” Capehart continued, “The second word that he used that the more that I hear it, the more angry I get about it. … DeSantis said he watched the Democratic debates, and that Gillum performed well. Not that he had good ideas that he disagreed with, but he performed well. So you have an African-American who’s articulate, who performs, and is, you know, monkeying things up.”

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from Psephizo  (Blog)

What is the future of ‘gathered’ church?
At the beginning of August, Jude Smith (who is team rector of Moor Allerton and Shadwell in North Leeds) wrote an intriguing and slightly pessimistic article on the challenges facing the idea of the gathered church meeting on a Sunday morning, and I have been pondering it over the last few weeks. The context was the headlines about the financial challenges being faced by her diocese—but her observation was that there are deeper challenges we all face which are not to do with financial, but to do with the personal and social pressures that discourage regular, disciplined meeting together for worship (however we understand that). She sees the challenge in five main areas: 1. The end of early retirement will mean fewer energetic volunteers with time to give to run things. 2. Commitment to grandparenting, as families are increasing dual-occupation and dual-income because of financial pressures. 3. Childolatry, where children are given what they want, and need to add skills to their CV to compete for places at university and in work. 4. Shifts and gigs which means that work patterns for those in employment are more irregular. 5. The death of practical skills means that we will need to call in the professionals.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from U.S. News and World Report
Publisher in Washington, D.C.

Germany Warns on Serbia-Kosovo Land Swap Idea
Germany warned on Friday that redrawing Serbia's border with Kosovo would fan ethnic tensions, but the EU's top diplomat said the bloc would abide by a deal if it respected international law. Belgrade and Pristina have both this month raised the idea of redrawing their border. Politicians and analysts in Belgrade say that a agreement allowing Serbia to maintain control over northern Kosovo, in exchange for the Presevo Valley, an ethnic Albanian-populated area in Serbia's south, could be acceptable to both sides, overcoming years of friction and allowing both nations to move towards EU membership.

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