U.S.A. Today has obtained government analyses of hospital death rates, and published a feature story about the findings. It is the first time statistics such as these have been unveiled and compared. Health care chaplains, take note.
Avaaz.org has produced a progress report on their climate change, food crisis, Burma, Tibet, Zimbabwe, Iraq, Palestine, Israel, and other campaigns. Take a look to see how your efforts have affected change.
Below is an excerpt from the documentary Devotion and Defiance provided by the International Campaign for Tibet. You can watch the whole film here.
This courtesy of our good pal Phil: In today’s Washington Post, Kathleen Parker has an essential piece about Pastor Rick Warren’s recent faith and politics forum with senators and presidential hopefuls Barack Obama (D-IL) and John McCain (R-AZ). She rightly (I think) calls the event “supremely wrong” and “un-American,” concluding that “higher principles [are] compromised every time we pretend we’re not applying a religious test when we’re really applying a religious test.” She also closes the piece with a great insight from Thomas Jefferson:
