At the corner of 14th and Euclid Streets NW in Washington, D.C., many evenings at
sunset, the Domino's deliveryman kneels down to pray.
This spring, the Survey Research Center at the University of Akron surveyed 587 leaders
of faith-based organizations with government contracts under federal programs regulated by
the charitable
Weapons sales to developing countries last year reached their lowest level in eight
years, according to a new report by the Congressional Research Service.
The Swedish appliance manufacturer ASKO dropped advertising that mocked eating
disorders in response to a campaign effort by the U.S.-based organization Dads and
Daughters.
There's more to the Lummi totem pole than meets the eye. At a time
when Americans asked themselves "What can I do?" in response to the Sept.
Wondering what to wear to the next Bible study or church potluck? Need high visibility
clothing for jogging at night?
Colombia's U'wa indigenous group, numbering only 5,000,
feared for their survival when U.S.-based Occidental Petroleum began plans nearly a decade
ago to drill on their lands.
Western Pennsylvania's Citizens Budget Campaign met last spring with the
Pittsburgh City Council to discuss the impact of the 2003 federal budget on their city.
The Glasgow University Media Group decided to research how much about the Middle East
conflict students learned from watching TV. This is what they found.
Two-hundred-seventy Haitian refugees—including children—have
been held for more than six months in a maximum-security prison in Miami pursuant to a
policy secretly intr
Brazilian popular educator Paulo Freire probably never thought his
ideas would revolutionize the fashion industry, but his student Maria Teresa Romeiro Leal
has done just that
In June, the African Religious Leaders Assembly on Children and
HIV/AIDS met in Nairobi at the request of the Hope for African Children Initiative and the
World Conference of
The world now has purple M&Ms, but hold your applause for the
little chocolates until the West African cocoa fields are rid of child slavery.
Daring Deeds. In June, seven women gathered on a boat on the Danube in
Austria to be ordained as Roman Catholic priests.
Here's the perfect gift for the hard-to-shop-for Lutheran in your life, or for
that matter any friendly neighborhood church reformer.
Nurit Elhanan and her husband, Rami, both 52, are campaigning for an end to the Israeli
occupation of the Palestinian territories. What's remarkable about their peace
campaign?
Twelve of the world's top 20 megacities are in Asia and the Pacific. Tokyo, with
more than 26 million people, is currently the world's largest city.
At Wimbledon in 2002, tennis great Serena Williams was asked how it felt to be
number one in the world.
John H. Timmerman's incisive look at poet Jane Kenyon could use a snappier title
because, more than a "literary life," it is a quintessential modern American
spiritual journey.
The Christian Coalition of Georgia, along with Peace State Methodist
and Baptist churches, are in a pitched battle to close down the state's video poker
machines.
International relief organizations in Kabul are employing 3,500 women bakers to ensure
that more than a quarter of a million Afghan school children are fed during the school
year.
Clergy, labor, and civil rights groups protested with employees outside a Miami nursing
home after the management filed objections with the National Labor Relations Board
alleging that union
It's the perfect Jackson & Perkins rose for fresh-cut
arrangements—velvety bright true red petals on the outside, hardy and
disease-resistant on the inside.
In Colorado, ranchers and environmentalists are collaborating in a common
cause—protecting water rights and sustainable land use.
Silence Please. A Catholic priest in Spain has installed a
state-of-the-art electronic jamming system in the church to silence the ringers on
cellular phones.
Worshippers at St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, in Glasgow,
Scotland, are now sharing pews with Scotland's most avant-garde artists.
The good news that's meant to be tossed! "Slip It and Flip It!"
That's right!
The Archbishop of Canterbury, in his annual New Years speech last year,
warned that his grandson would "discover a world of shocking inequality, a 20:80
world where 20 percent
Tapping the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil—which Congress
forestalled—would hardly make a dent in the 8-million-barrel-a-day foreign oil
addiction of the Unit
One average American uses 17 gallons of water daily in the shower. South African women
together walk the equivalent of a round trip to the moon 16 times a day to get water.
New Moon: The Magazine for Girls and Their Dreams is turning Hollywood inside
out by challenging the film industry's harmful depictions of women and girls with
their third annual "Turn
There are basically three kinds of power: domination, collaboration,
and satyagraha (truth force).
I once met a woman who—
in a frenzy of wild praise
and to fight the devil—ate glass.
Not shot glasses, juice glasses,
or tumblers; not pub pints
Since no one wants to be
Chevy Chase in the National Lampoon's
Vacation series, it has become hip to be an ecotourist: a responsible traveler, aiming
to conserve the environment and contr
In our ongoing
coverage of the bovine peace movement: Reuters radio revealed that ambassadorial cows are
crossing the highly militarized border between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
