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AUG | Commentary: ACSWP's Desert Experience
Meeting in a high desert setting that overwhelms one with its wild, desolate views, the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy (ACSWP) sometimes overwhelmed one with its wild, desolate viewpoints. |
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AUG | Spinning Georgia
The religious left has no intrinsic ideological loyalty to either Russia or Georgia. Still, the Religious Left’s general rule is to side against pro-American forces, which presumably would mean Georgia. |
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AUG | IRD Commends Obama/McCain Forum
“Each of the three people on stage at Saddleback Church succeeded in his objective,” says IRD Vice President Alan Wisdom. |
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"The common mission [of the Anglican Communion] is more important than what separates us. The common mission is the MDGs [the United Nations' Millenium Development Goals]."
—The Rt. Rev. Colin Johnson, Anglican Bishop of Toronto, speaking at a July 31 press conference during Lambeth, the once-a-decade assembly of Anglican bishops in London.
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