William Booth's decision to stop practising the sacraments has become a mark of Salvationist identity. What does it mean for us today?
Salvationists continue to debate their relationship to sacraments, but not the sacramental. It is widely agreed that when Salvationists help to rebuild villages after a tsunami or offer clean water after a hurricane, we are doing something sacramental. But the relationship of these sacramental acts to Christian sacraments is not always addressed. Let me offer some reflections on the Army's historic position and engage it with contemporary questions, limiting my focus to what is often named the Lord's Supper. (Read more)
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Martin urges Tories to support Kelowna accord
Last Updated Fri, 02 Jun 2006 16:47:17 EDT
CBC News
Former prime minister Paul Martin is demanding that the Conservative
government make a clear commitment to the aboriginal community by living up
to the agreements made in the Kelowna accord.
'We have consulted long enough. We have studied enough. The time has come
for the government to act.'
-Liberal MP Paul Martin
Read more:
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/06/02/martin-kelowna.htm
The new PM started off by breaking the promises that he and his party have
made, now he is breaking promises that our country has made...surely this
can't all be legal.
Pray for us and our government...we need it.
Children polluted with chemicals: report
CTV.ca News Staff
Flame retardants, mercury and lead were just some of the toxic chemicals
found in the bodies of children and their parents in a cross-Canada study of
pollution in people.
"It makes me angry," Amy Robertson, a volunteer in the study, told CTV News.
"I feel victimized by the air that I am breathing and the things I have no
control over."
The report by Environmental Defence, entitled Polluted Children, Toxic
Nation: A Report on Pollution in Canadian Families, tested the blood and
urine of 13 people from communities across Canada.
Read more:
http://sympaticomsn.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060601/pollut
ed_bodies_060601
The Conservative government voted against an NDP bill that would have banned toxic pesticides again as recently as two weeks ago.
Environmental Defence Press Release:
http://www.environmentaldefence.ca/pressroom/releases/2006/20060601.htm
Health Canada (PCBs): http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/iyh-vsv/environ/pcb-bpc_e.html
Faith Nights, a spiritual twist on Frisbee Nights and Bat Days, are becoming popular ballpark promotions.
JAC Online
How many children will that cost me?
by Andrew Bale
How would we react if the currency we had to use every day didn't consist of pounds and pence (or dollars and cents) but consisted of small children. How would we feel if every time we bought a bottle of Coke it cost us three small children? Every time we bought a computer magazine we had to hand over 9 children and every visit to the movies (popcorn included) meant the execution of another 10. I wonder how we would feel about the following potential purchases?:
. Annual cable TV subscription (with movies and sports) = 1000 children
. A ride on a London bus = 2 children
. A high definition TV set = 4000 children
. A music CD = 30 children
. An iPod = 140 children
. A recently released DVD = 25 children
. A small family car = 25,000 children
. A middle of the road BMW = 60,000 children
. A newspaper = 1 child
. A cappuccino = 3 children
. A big Mac = 2 children ('Super size me' for an extra child!)
Imagine also that the deaths sanctioned by our purchases weren't quick and painless but were slow, lonely and agonising. In such a world how reluctant would we be to buy anything other than the very essentials? Yet impossible though it seems this is the world in which we live.
Read more: http://www.armybarmy.com/article10.html
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Batwoman comes out in comeback
LARRY MCSHANE
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Years after she first emerged from the Batcave, Batwoman is
coming out of the closet.
DC Comics is resurrecting the classic comic book character as a lesbian,
unveiling the new Batwoman in July as part of an ongoing weekly series that
began this year. The 5-foot-10 superhero comes with flowing red hair,
knee-high red boots with spiked heels, and a form-fitting black outfit.
“We decided to give her a different point of view,”
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/
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