An Unreasonable Enthusiast
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Ukraine crackdown
From allout.org
This week, millions saw this dramatic photo of a gay man beaten by neo-Nazi extremists in Kiev, Ukraine. It’s shocking, but the anti-gay movement doesn’t stop there. As early as this week, Ukraine’s legislature is expected to vote in favor of new laws that will make it illegal to be gay or lesbian in public.
President Viktor Yanukovych is the only person with the power to stop the law in its tracks, but he has stayed silent as anti-gay sentiment grows. If he doesn’t speak out now, an entire generation will be forced into the shadows.
Here’s our chance: Ukraine has been trying to forge a “special alliance” with the European Union for years and this week an EU delegation focused on human rights will visit the country to advance the process. If we create a massive outcry in the next 3 days across Europe, President Yanukovych will be forced to finally speak out against the law or risk endangering his lucrative EU partnership.
Will you add your name to the call - we don’t have much time: www.allout.org/ukraine
Cross-posted at connexions
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“John Wesley” comes home on Wesley Day
“John Wesley” comes home on Wesley Day
Published on Methodist Church of Great Britain News Service | shared via feedly mobile
At a ceremony at Methodist Church House in London yesterday, the Revd Dr Leslie Griffiths, The Lord Griffiths of Burry Port, unveiled the nameplate “John Wesley” from a High Speed Train (HST) power car
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A wonderful mini-manifesto on storytelling by filmmaker Ken Burns. Well worth 5 minutes of your day.
Reblog because he’s right.
(Source: The Atlantic)
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We Don’t Do God … In Church
What could be stranger than Christians who don’t want to talk about God or with God?
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Blessing Gay Partnerships
A URC minister confesses his adultery and considers a Biblical response to gay partnerships
It’s not only what you know, it’s who you know. We must not only think, we must also look. I have seen — haven’t you? — the caricatures, fears, and revulsions of some people melt away through the warmth of contact and friendship with gay people, and through the undeniable goodness and loveliness of their partnerships. Above all – who you know — there is knowing Jesus. As the American Presbyterian minister William Sloane Coffin wrote: “For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection … of homosexuals with the love of Christ.”
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The scale of Africa on most map projections is extremely misleading. Here are many landmasses compared to-scale with Africa.
(Source: visualamor)
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