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POPSVIS | Prayer and the President One thing for sure about public officials, most certainly the U.S. President, is that everything they do is public. Even his address at the National Prayer Breakfast last week and other faith-matters about the White House are not beyond constant scrutiny and analysis. Some of the attention borders on invasion of privacy, but with the President, nothing is private. __ SOURCE: http://google.twi.bz/gA ___ SEARCH: http://google.twi.bz/hA ___ VIS | VOYAGER VISION | My iWEB Blogs | http://me.twi.bz/m ALTACITIES | http://altacities.com | http://me.twi.bz/X ___ Help us reach 1,234 subscribers by 5:06 pm (7 sec) on 8-9-10 Matching the numerical sequence 12345678910 Details here | http://me.twi.bz/5 ___ 224 | A2G | Today, Tomorrow, Forever | According to Google
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POPSQuarterback sneak I'd have thought beer ads would have been the go. Or, as the author says, beer, trucks and fast food.
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POPSDomestic Violence in the Church Parsonage The faith based community must start taking a harder look within itself in order to be the haven of comfort for those within their membership. Battered women and men are living in churches, too, and sometimes in the home of the person who is appointed to guide our faith and our walk with God. Awareness and education are the keys to unlocking the doors of this "dirty little secret" within our churches.
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POPSI Can Find A More Worthy Charity "But think about those numbers, think about the power of the Salvation Army. It is a massive Christian evangelical organization — with a quasi-military structure and raising $2 billion a year — and it promotes discrimination against gays and lesbians in its employment policy; at local levels of government, going so far as to threaten to close soup kitchens in New York if the city enacted domestic partnership legislation; and at the national level of government, including negotiating with the Bush administration to guarantee that faith-based groups could discriminate against gays and keep their federal funding. We can find charities more deserving of our dollars and our volunteer time."
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POPSChicago Welcomes You: Helping a unique immigrant community adjust to life in the US
More: The problem is that a process that was designed for, say, German Jews fleeing to America during World War II or political prisoners escaping Castro’s Cuba is now expected to work for immigrants who may never have seen a streetlight, cooked on a stove, used a toilet that isn’t a hole in the ground or handled any type of currency. Booklets and handouts provided by governmental agencies are too simplistic to be illuminating. And the Karen are more likely than previous refugee groups to be illiterate in their own myriad and distinct languages… Chicago Welcomes You, a venture to develop a kit of bilingual orientation materials…The kit includes a 94-page book, a set of 29 ring-bound activity cards and an illustrated storybook… The book and activity cards are broadly organized into chapters covering health, safety, housing and so on, and are designed for both organized and ad-hoc learning experiences with volunteers.
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POPSPTSD & Faith-Based Initiatives At the VA
More from the article below: "The story of the mistreatment of returning veterans from Iraq is well known and shocking. But the role of religious ideology in that mistreatment—how, inside the government, it was a potent tool in the betrayal of an overwhelmingly Christian Army—is much less known. “I couldn’t stand to hear that phrase any longer—‘God was watching over me,’” Benimoff wrote. Sullivan explained to McLendon and the other attendees that the rise in benefits claims the VA was noticing was caused partly by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who were suffering from PTSD. “That’s too many,” McLendon said, then hit his hand on the table. “They are too young” to be filing claims, and they are doing it “too soon.” He hit the table again. The claims, he said, are “costing us too much money,” and if the veterans “believed in God and country . . . they would not come home with PTSD.” At that point, he slammed his palm against the table a final time, making a loud smack."
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POPSLegal Translation Workers Expect Increase In Corporate Takeovers THE MARKETING ANALYSTS focuses on the translation and interpretation needs of individuals, business entities, government offices, faith-based, and not-for-profit organizations. While our Boston Translation firm is well known for its work in the area of legal translation, we also have over 300-translators, each with native level proficiency and an advanced degree or certification in a wide range of fields.
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POPSFort Worth Translation Service;Fort Worth Translation Fort Worth Translation Service Leader: English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hindi, Korean
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POPSObama's Czars You will need to read the article at the site to see "why they qualified".
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POPSChristian drug rehab If you have been looking for a Christian drug rehab then our Faith Based Track is right for you. The faith based drug treatment track allows the client who is either a believer or has an interest in the teachings of Jesus Christ to strengthen their faith. Exploring and strengthening one’s Christian faith allows the client to maintain their recovery after treatment.
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POPSDeath Book for Veterans If President Obama is sincere in stating that he is not trying to cut costs by pressuring the disabled to forgo critical care, one good way to show that commitment is to walk two blocks from the Oval Office and pull the plug on "Your Life, Your Choices." He should make sure in the future that VA decisions are guided by values that treat the lives of our veterans as gifts, not burdens. Mr. Towey, president of Saint Vincent College, was director of the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives (2002-2006) and founder of the nonprofit Aging with Dignity.
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POPSPresident Obama's Ramadan Message (Ramadan Kareem) This month is also a time of renewal and this marks the first Ramadan since the President outlined his vision for a new beginning between America and the Muslim world. As a part of that new beginning, the President emphasizes that our relationship with Muslim communities cannot be based on political and security concerns alone. True partnerships also require cooperation in all areas particularly those that can make a positive difference in peoples daily lives, including education, science and technology, health, and entrepreneurship - fields in which Muslim communities have helped play a pioneering role throughout history. As this dialogue continues and leads to concrete actions, the President extends his greetings on behalf of the American people. Ramadan Kareem.
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POPSFaith Based Economics Just forget all of those people who make a living at looking at balance sheets, cost projections, and legislative analysis — trust us! For a party that screeched about returning science to its “rightful place” in policymaking, they seem highly enamored of tarot cards and entrail-reading when it comes to their own fiscal policies. The Obama administration and the Democrats have yet to learn that one cannot spend their way back into solvency. We already have government programs for medical care that don’t work. If Congress wants to overhaul Medicare/Medicaid to make it financially viable, the VA to make it responsive, and Indian Health Service to make it do anything for its consumers, that would be enough for any Congress to do.
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POPSThe Emerging Lie Have you heard of the Emergent Church? The Shift? Can you trust today's new evangelical leaders? Some are attempting to morph the evangelical platform into messages that deny the basics of Christian doctrine. It's often anti-God, anti-Bible, anti-truth. More interested in trends and politics than in obedience to God, they are attempting to sway evangelical opinion using propaganda and "divide and conquer" techniques. This is apostasy, a clear "falling away" and it is radically changing what some people believe. Sadly,these pastors and celebrities are not trustworthy representatives of Jesus Christ, no matter how clever and persuasive they may seem. Discover the liberal left's new agenda: not God's truth, but faith-based politics.
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POPSGood For You Masbury Often when others speak out for social justice they become targeted and when that happens you know you are doing something right ;) Some so-called Christians are so fearful of loving the world they often confuse it with "worldliness". Mas is one of those rare individuals who realizes that morality doesn't mean doctrinal beliefs. He understands the difference between right and wrong. He realizes that a moral compass does not have to be faith-based to be real. He is a true Christian because he realizes and speaks out for fairness and justice. He realizes that God is not as small or mean as some others would have us believe. He realizes God does not hate or discriminate. He does not believe that some Americans are better than others and that God cares only about sex. So Bravo! Mas. We need more people like you in the world. :)
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POPSMore Czars Than There are in the Russian Section of Hell The Obama Administration is not the first administration to appoint someone with broad powers to oversee a function. You know. A “czar.” So, why stop at 25-30 czars? Why not appoint a bunch more: * Gaffe Czar: Joe Biden. Sure, he’s vice-president, but he’s already doing the job of Gaffe Czar; why not make it official? * News Czar: Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf. You knew him as “Baghdad Bob.” He’d fit right in with this Administration. And it would give Robert Gibbs a break from having to make up explanations for things all by himself. * Anti-semitism Czar: Jeremiah Wright. He’s already promoting anti-semitism as much as anyone is this country. This would give him a larger platform. * Fashion Czar: Michelle Obama. Remember Jackie Kennedy? Michelle Obama is equally qualified. Except for having poor taste in clothes. And men. Previously, we’ve had Drug Czars, Energy Czars, and so on. But, Barack Obama has gone Czar crazy.
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POPS'Hooker for Jesus' weds Christian rocker The Hookers for Jesus Web site describes the organization as "an international, faith-based organization that addresses the realities of human sex trafficking, sexual violence and exploitation linked to pornography and the sex industry."
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POPSObama, Clinton, Kennedy Issue New Call to Serve With this "call", maybe Obama is putting out feelers to see if he will succeed in launching that other program. You know, the Civilian Security Force of which he said will be "just as powerful, just as well-funded, as our military".
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POPSPrivilege and Oppression A thoughtful article about the notion of Christian privilege and using this to justify anti-gay prejudice. And before some get their pitchforks out, no, it doesn't apply to all Christians. But there is a sizable chunk of Christians who probably do hold these views.
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POPSWH Announces Rest of Faith Council, Without T. Dungy "...scheduling conflicts...". Whatever. Coach Dungy is a widely respected, Scripture believing Christian man. I can not imagine him associating with a group of such diversely religious ideologies and agendas. He doesn't need this political posturing to add anything to his life.
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