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CNN’s on an abstinence kick
Monday, December 3rd, 2007With two stories in two days. + Pastor Rob Bell’s Sex God book and tour (12/2). + President Bush’s abstinence education as an HIV/AIDS prevention strategy (12/1). Related + Christianity Today rebuffing Mark Driscoll’s charge that Rob Bell is a heretic. (Why does Mark Driscoll repeatedly find himself in such silly controversies?) + Rob Bell’s [...]
Courageous Leadership Award: WCA Leadership Summit
Monday, August 13th, 2007At last year’s Summit, Bill Hybels and Richard Stearns of World Vision announced the “Courageous Leadership Award,” a $100,000 cash grant to a church whose innovative response to the global AIDS pandemic would serve as a model for churches around the world. True to their word, they presented three finalists and announced the winner before [...]
Experience AIDS
Thursday, June 14th, 2007World Vision continues to innovate as it raises awareness about the global AIDS pandemic. Its interactive AIDS Experience website — which places viewers in the shoes of African children contending with AIDS — just received a Webby Award (think, Oscars of the internet). Compelling stories humanize an issue that very easily can get bogged down [...]
Wednesday’s Weekly Webcast
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007Focus on HIV/AIDS – Urbana 2006
Sad
Friday, December 1st, 2006a) That ABC News would report a historic moment in the global war against AIDS — Rick Warren’s invitation to democratic Senator Barak Obama to address the 2006 Globl Summit on AIDS and the Church — with this headline: Dissention Among Religious Leaders Sparks Protests Over AIDS Summit b) That some within the evangelical community [...]
Willowcreek, Part 4
Friday, August 11th, 2006Hybels’ response to Bono: An appeal re. AIDS The church cannot sit idly by and rationalize nonengagement to the global AIDS pandemic. Every church MUST do something. We will give an account for how we respond to AIDS. What can a church do? 1. Educate selves. Creates urgency. 2. Engage in the efforts to alleviate [...]
ONE Voice AGAINST Global Hunger and AIDS
Tuesday, June 14th, 2005Join evangelical leaders such as Billy Graham, Rick Warren, and John Stott, along with celebrities such as Bono, Brad Pitt, Penelope Cruz, and Cameron Diaz (who said evangelicals and Hollywood can’t mix?) in urging President Bush and ordinary Americans to increase support for the fight against global AIDS, starvation, and extreme poverty. Check out the [...]