I was on Fox News last week doing an interview with rightwing talking head Stuart Varney. He began what became a very hostile interview by…
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Jeff Jarvis: Charity or Collaboration for the Times?
July 19th, 2009 |
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The Times and other papers opening up to the work of others is not an act of begging and charity but a bit of evidence of opening up to collaboration.
Ponting hosts black tie dinner for cricket WAGs in London
July 15th, 2009 |
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Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting hosted a gala black tie dinner for some of his team mates and their WAGS here on Tuesday.
While beauty Lee Furlong and her boyfriend Shane Watson joined 800 guests, including the entire British cricket squad to raise money for the charity foundation, absent from the group was the highest profile [...]
Faith, economics and ecology: New sins, new virtues
July 9th, 2009 |
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As the world heats up and economic dislocation ravages the poor, religious leaders offer up their diagnoses and prescriptions
GLOBALISATION, technology and growth are in themselves neither positive or negative; they are whatever humanity makes of them. Summed up like that, the central message of a keenly awaited papal pronouncement on the social and economic woes of the world may sound like a statement of the obvious.
But despite some lapses into trendy jargon, Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth), a 144-page encyclical issued by Pope Benedict XVI on July 7th, is certainly not a banal or trivial document. It will delight some people, enrage others and occupy a prominent place among religious leaders’ competing attempts to explain and address the problems of an overheated, overcrowded planet. …