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The Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) have issued a Statement of Faith for the upcoming Copenhagen climate summit on behalf of nine of the world’s major religions, which together reach out to 85 per cent of the world’s population.
The eyes of the world are on Copenhagen [...]
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It is rare that religion and science find agreement, but that is what happened when Britain’s Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks spoke at a meeting on saving the earth from climate change.
“The great Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson published a book in 2007 called “Creation”, subtitled An Appeal to Save Life on Earth,” Sacks told leaders of [...]
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Posted on August 2nd, 2009 by G Cameron
A new working paper published by the National Bureau for Economic Research in the US produces some interesting findings about religiosity and university education, among which is this:
Being a humanities or a social science major has a statistically significant negative effect on religiosity — measured by either religious [...]
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I’m slow off the mark on this one.
In June this year Liverpool Hope University is hosting The Big Hope. The university’s website describes this as
a Congress for future leaders and young people of all faiths and life stances; meeting together and listening to the experience and wisdom of the leaders of today
“Towards the creation [...]
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L to R: Stephen Timms MP, Alistair Burt MP, Rt Revd Christopher Herbert
“It’s a long time since I’ve spoken at a political meeting where so many people turned out to listen,” said Alistair Burt MP, as he addressed an audience of 180 in Welwyn Garden City’s Campus West building on Monday night, 7 April, on [...]
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Tony Blair, originally uploaded by WalkingGeek.
I was invited to attend Tony Blair’s recent lecture in Westminster Cathedral (that’s the Catholic cathedral) on “Faith and Globalisation“, but was otherwise committed that evening.
Here’s the opening paragraph [...]
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I am in the middle of prepare=ing to chair a meeting in Welwyn Garden City this evening on the theme of Faith in Government. The speakers will be the Rt Revd Christopher Herbert, Bishop of St Albans, Stephen Timms MP, Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform at the Department for Work and Pensions, [...]
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This is what I saw when I looked out of my bedroom at Hotel Vihiluoto in Kempele, between Oulu and Oulu airport, in Finland’s frozen north. The Gulf of Bothnia is just beyond the trees. The temperature never rose above -3ºC the whole time I was there (20 to 24 March) and fell as [...]
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The Barber’s Diaries is a film crying out to be made. In fact, David Henderson, a very good friend of mine in Washington DC, has been working with Charles Ellis’s descendants and with contacts in the movie industry to persuade someone to fund the production. They are also looking for a novelist or a scriptwriter [...]
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