January 2011
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Day 2 in Philly: a Note
“What we did in the past includes setting up camps for Israeli and Palestinian youths. These kids had been taught by their environment that they’re enemies ever since they were very young. So we brought them together, put them as room-mates, and see what would happen” -Juliet S
I think this initiative is very good indeed. Bringing the youths from two nations in war where they...
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Burnt Bread
Febe: Hey Stuart, I'm sorry that u get a burnt bread. It'll taste awful :(
Elaine: Yes, is that okay?
Stuart: It's completely fine. You know what, I was once volunteering to a homeless woman. Then every morning, when we were preparing the toast, we would have the white, brown, and black (burnt) bread. The kids were always take the burnt one. When I ask them why, they said that they're used to it. Then I found out, it's because the mother was always busy, so that she couldn't watch the toast. Everytime she prepared the toast, it would get overcooked and burnt because she was always doing something else as the single mom. So I learn to be grateful for what I have.
--Breakfast time, 9th Jan 2010, The Conwell Inn, Philadelphia.
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“A melody is like a woman in a bar that you are instantly attracted to – the part...”
– Judy (taken from http://davidchoimusic.com/davidchoistory)
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WatchThis is one of the reasons why I love Boston Legal =)
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Please expect some Boston Legal spam! :D
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Whose message are they hearing?
Eric Rudolph and the young people of Whitwell are two very different responses to one of the most important questions of our time: in a world of passionate religiosity and intense interaction, how will people from different faith backgrounds engage one another? Rudolph responded to people who were different by building bombs of destruction. The students of Whitwell responded to diversity by...
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Religious Pluralism: A Story from Whitwell
Middle school students in Whitwell, Tennessee, are giving tours of one of the most profound Holocaust memorials anywhere in the world: a German railcar that was used to transport Jews to Auschwitz. The young people ask guests to imagine how it might feel to be one of the seventy or eighty Jews packed into that tight space, hearing the wheels clanking as the train took them to torture and death....
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Religious Totalitarianism: A Story of Eric Rudolph
Eric Rudolph is in court pleading guilty. But he is not sorry. Not for the radio-controlled nail bomb that he detonated at New Woman All Women Health Care in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed an off-duty police officer and left a nurse hobbled and half-blind. Not for the bomb at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta that killed one, injured dozens, and sent shock waves offear through the global community....