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The Local Church and Poverty
DwainDStewart
Introduction When Jesus said that amongst us we will always have the poor (Mt. 26:11) I often wonder whether His disciples deeply understood how timeless that statement of truth would be. Today more than ever we are bombarded with visual representations of the enormous poverty-gap within the world. The goal of this position paper is to examine the various causes that contribute to poverty. As ... ...more
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What My Cat Taught Me About Community
EnglishMajorLeagues
I didn't grow up with cats. My mom was allergic, and our house wasn't made to house felines. All the cats I ever interacted with were mean, and my bad experience of being clawed by the shop cat at the florist shop where my mom worked, and by the housecat that lurked in the shadows of my grandparents' house, turned me off to cats in general for years. Then I met Jack. Jack was born a feral ... ...more
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War of lords
Bijayalaxmi Das
While the world economies fired bombs and missiles, the terrorised citizens hid in exile, the bloodshed roads, soaked in the stench of riots, the scattered pieces of metal and gunfire, the deafening screams of the wronged, the violations in the name of slogans standing strong. What national interest are we protecting, at the cost of these innocent lives? what international treaties are we ... ...more