Group Studies - Environment
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Group Studies - Gambling
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Group Studies - Family
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Group Study - Pornography
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When Grandmothers Speak
Set between a tiny village and the largest slum in Africa, comes a story of two remarkable grandmothers. A Grandmother’s Tribe is a 54-minute documentary that reveals the lives of countless grandmothers of Africa, left behind after the loss of their own children, who, with determination and tenderness are now responsible for the rearing of their orphaned grandchildren. • It is estimated that in sub-Saharan Africa, Continue Reading →
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Whither the Weather…
Well, it’s been a drizzly and cool Spring up here in Winnipeg, my home town.
Folks are not just getting restless, we’re getting mad. Somewhere deep in our bones we feel it’s just not RIGHT.
We had a cold winter. That, we’re used to. That, we expect. The universe is not doing anything it shouldn’t do when January is frigid in Winnipeg. The fact that we Prairie Continue Reading →
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Ethics and Pandemics
With the flurry of activity and worry around the new “swine flu” outbreak, people can be forgiven for thinking it’s no time for ‘ethics’, but from where I sit, pandemics have everything to do with ethics.
A pandemic tests the moral fibre of a community. Do we really care about our neighbors, and about the way in which we might help them in their time of Continue Reading →
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Txt Cmndmnts
The 10 Commandments, in TXT Spk: #3: No OMGs BY Cliff KuangFri Jun 5, 2009 at 5:59 PM The wits at McSweeney’s just posted a list of the 10 Commandments in text speak. RT@theLORD:
1. no1 b4 me. srsly.
2. dnt wrshp pix/idols
3. no omg’s
4. no wrk on w/end (sat 4 now; sun l8r)
5. pos ok - ur m&d r cool
6. dnt kill ppl
7. :-X only w/ m8
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Poverty and Corruption
PRIYA was five years old. She dreamed of going to school next year. When admission dates were announced in August, Priya’s mother dressed in the best clothes she could find to take her excited daughter for her entrance exam. Then they waited for the result. A whole year later, thousands of children like Priya from the poorest classes were still waiting to be admitted to Continue Reading →
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A Great Friend Has Moved On
Booth College and the Salvation Army Ethics Centre said goodbye to a longstanding friend this week. GERALD FOLKERTS was born in Vancouver and graduated from Dordt College (Iowa) in 1980 with an education degree in Fine Arts and moved to Winnipeg to begin a teaching career that would span eighteen years. He later left the classroom to devote more time to painting works that continually Continue Reading →
