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Expanding Women in Ministry – Jesus Creed One of the arguments of our new book,The Blue Parakeet, is that any church that calls itself biblical must permit women to do now what they did in the New Testament, and that includes prophesying, teaching, praying and founding churches. Edubuntu Home Page…

Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death – NYTimes.com Some shoppers who had seen the stampede said they were shocked. One of them, Kimberly Cribbs of Queens, said the crowd had acted like “savages.” Shoppers behaved badly even as the store was being cleared, she recalled. “When they were saying they had…

Commentary: Avoiding the fear and shame of foreclosure – CNN.com Excellent commentary from CNN on the new American dream:: Financial responsibility

A Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis in memory of brenden foster « beauty and depravity Dawn of A New Interregnum « The Baseline Scenario According to the official website of the President-Elect, there are 59 days until inauguration. Let’s call it nearly two months. The good news is that…

NPR: $700 Billion? Try $7.7 Trillion The U.S. government is prepared to provide more than $7.76 trillion on behalf of American taxpayers after guaranteeing $306 billion of Citigroup Inc. debt yesterday. The pledges, amounting to half the value of everything produced in the nation last year, are intended to rescue…

U2 Album Still Not Finished | U2 news article from @U2 WITH THE RELEASE of U2's 12th studio album delayed until February, and the band still mixing furiously in a London studio MOJO are unable to name for fear of an instant fan-siege, guitarist The Edge has called the MOJO…