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compilation of the news articles
posted on our site during the previous
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October 8 - Emerging Leader Urges Christians to Shape Culture from Within
Article: Emerging Church
Comment from
UTT:
Tony Jones is one of the key
leaders of the Emerging Church movement.
Read the following article to
see that Jones' formula for building up
faith, opens the door for
embracing all faiths. The Emerging Church is a
bridge to a one world
spirituality that is unfolding and drawing young
people from many
families.
Tony Jones feels
uncomfortable when fellow
Christian leaders tell students to stand
"against" American
culture. He doesn't know if that's even possible
anymore.Jones
is a popular author and
speaker on the emerging church and youth
ministry. He is also national
coordinator of the controversial Emergent
Village which some have criticized as
undermining
doctrine and truth.
"We can strengthen their
muscles ... teach
spiritual disciplines ... [but] you
only get good at prayer by praying,
not only listening to youth
pastors talk about praying," he
added.
For now, what youth
leaders can do to help prepare
students is first understand
that they
have to grow into new generations of
faith, considering their
elementary and middle school faith is not big
enough for them when they go
into high school and then college,
Jones suggested. And part of
that growing process includes
allowing students to
question those beliefs they held as
absolute truth when they were
much younger.
Allowing
room for doubts and questions, however,
doesn't mean they're turning
their back on Jesus, Jones assured.
"It means that
the way that [students]
embrace the authority of Scripture is going to
be more nuanced and more
paradoxical and more complex than it was when
[they] were in middle
school," he noted.
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October 11 - Haniyeh: American Empire is collapsing
Article: Misc.
Comment from
UTT:
A major shift in the global
affairs in now underway. Islamic nations
empowered by petroleum are
now suggesting Allah is "punishing" non
Islamic countries by the
financial meltdown that is presently underway.
Expect to see a global
currency be proposed as a means of solving this
global problem with a global
solution.
America's opponents in the Middle East
are
gloating at the financial meltdown in the
United States, describing it as
the divinely inspired collapse of an
overstretched empire.
Hardline clerics across the
region as well as representatives of US
opponents like Hamas and al-Qaeda
have described the
plummeting stocks and frozen credit
markets in the United States as a kind of
retribution for American
misdeeds.
"We
are witnessing the collapse of the
American Empire," Ismail Haniyeh,
the Hamas prime minister in the Gaza
Strip, told worshippers during Friday
prayers. "What's going on in
America is a result of
the violation of the rights of people in
Palestine, Somalia, Iraq,
Afghanistan and Muslims around the
world."
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, a
high level Iranian cleric, was more blunt when he
addressed worshippers on Oct.
3, describing the situation as God's punishment. "We are
happy that the US Economy is in anarchy and the
anarchy is reaching Europe,"
said Jannati. "They are seeing the result of their
own ugly doings and God is
punishing
them."
Al-
Qaeda, America's
arch-nemesis in the region, was one of the first to
express satisfaction over
the financial crisis in a half hour video message early
in the month. "The
enemies of Islam are facing a crushing defeat, which
is beginning to manifest
itself in the expanding crisis their economy is
experiencing," said
American al-Qaeda member Ahmed
Gadahn.
"God has responded to the
supplications of the oppressed people," Mufti of
Mount Lebanon Sheik Mohammed
Ali al-Jouzo told the state-run news agency Thursday.
"It
is the curse that hits every arrogant
power.
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October 12 - Financial crisis reshapes world order
Article: One World Government
Comment from
UTT:
A power shift is
underway as a result of the
financial meltdown that is taking place
around the world. This is
preparing the world for a new world financial
order that will eventually
require a one world
currency.
As shell-
shocked central bankers and finance
ministers gather in Washington to confront
the world's financial meltdown
this weekend, that grinding noise in the
background is
the sound of the global balance of power
shifting.
"In a very bizarre way,
roles have been reversed in the global
economy," said Alex Patelis,
head of international economics at Merrill
Lynch. "The
typical troublemakers of the global
economy, the emerging markets, are
actually now the world's creditors.
"We do need a new world
financial order, and we will probably get
one as a side effect of this
crisis," he said.
The
meeting was designed
to "coordinate
[policies] to lessen the effects of
global market turmoil and the economic
slowdown on all of our countries,"
Mr. Paulson said.
Before the
meeting, President Bush issued a
plea for nations to
work together to address the
crisis, avoiding the go-it-alone
protectionist trade strategies that
worsened conditions during the Great
Depression.
"In an interconnected
world, no nation will gain by driving down
the fortunes of another. We are
in this together. We will come through it
together," Mr. Bush said
during an appearance in the Rose Garden
after a private White House meeting
with ministers and officials from nearly a
dozen nations and international
organizations.
"The
G-7 is not working," he said.
"We need a
better group for a better time."
"For more than two centuries,
the U.S. and Europe have exercised an
effortless economic, political and
cultural hegemony," he wrote. "That era is
ending."
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Sincerely,
Roger Oakland
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