09/18/2007
Talk at Province IV Women’s Conference, Kanuga
By Evelyn Piety - EGR Representative
Talk at Province IV Women’s Conference, Kanuga
April 26, 2006
by Evelyn Piety...
EGR Representative
Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast
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09/18/2007
A Simple Plan to Save the World
By by Jeffrey Sachs | May 01 '04
Ending extreme poverty, disease, environmental degradation, war? We asked one of the world's most influential economists—adviser to Kofi Annan and Bono alike—what would have to be done to put the world on a course to do exactly that. What follows is his modest little plan.
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09/18/2007
Bono’s speech at the National Prayer Breakfast,
By Bono
Well, thank you, thank you Mr. President, First Lady, King Abdullah of Jordan, Norm [Coleman], distinguished guests. Please join me in praying that I don't say something we'll all regret.
That was for the FCC.
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09/17/2007
What it is like to live on less than $1 a day
By Christian Science Monitor
BOWA, MALAWI) `At 8 a.m., after seeing her husband off to work and her children off to school, Selina Bonefesi puts on her entrepreneur's hat. Mrs. Bonefesi has a small business making fritters - fried cakes made of wheat, salt, sugar, and yeast. She'll spend the morning mixing, waiting for the dough to rise, and frying, cranking out as many as 300 of the tasty treats and selling them from her home to passersby. By the end of the week, between her household chores and running her business, she'll have logged more hours than a Fortune 500 CEO.
But she'll only earn about $1 a day.
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09/17/2007
Double Standard
By The Rev Mike Kinman
Much of the conversation about sexuality that threatens to consume us in the church is concerned with standards of behavior – what they are, what they should be and whether they are being applied fairly and equally.
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09/16/2007
A New Kind of Falling in Love
By by The Rev. Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
[Episcopal Relief and Development]
There was not a needy person among them, for as many as owned lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold. They laid it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need.
Acts 4:34-35
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09/08/2007
What One Person (and One Group) Can Do
By Elizabeth Henry
Elizabeth Henry, an Episcopal student at Davidson University, shares this story about her introduction to the Millennium Development Goals and What One Person (and One Group) Can Do
Two things sparked my interest.
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09/08/2007
Partnering with Kenya’s Poorest …….
By EGR Newsletter
That’s the bad news. The good news is that it is less than 20 years ago, much of the extreme poverty in South America and the Indian sub-continent has turned around, and, at least for economists like Jeffrey Sachs, the elimination of extreme poverty is possible within less than another twenty years.
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08/27/2007
0.7% and ONE -- What's the Deal?
By The Rev Mike Kinman
These two numbers get tossed around quite a bit as we talk about the Millennium Development Goals. Where do they come from? What's the difference? How are the related? It's really pretty simple:
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08/27/2007
What About the Poor Right Here?
By Kate Bishop
It's a common question about the Millennium Development Goals: Don't we have poor people right here in America? Kate Bishop of Maine gives her answer:
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