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Oxford Scientists Will Torture Volunteers To Test Whether Or Not Prayer Will Bring Relief

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_____ENGLISH SCIENTISTS INTEND TO TORTURE -- CAUSE PAIN -- IN VOLUNTEER SUBJECTS AND WATCH TO SEE IF RELIGIOUS FAITH CAN HELP BRING COMFORT!!

Scientists at Oxford University are to torture people in laboratories in an experiment to see whether a belief in God is effective at relieving pain.

The scientists will apply a chilli-based gel to the skin of volunteers and ask them to try different strategies to lessen the burning sensation, including asking people with strong religious beliefs to draw on their faith to cope with the pain.

The experiment is one in a series that sees scientists join forces with philosophers, theologians and brain surgeons to tackle some of the most profound questions of the human condition: what is the nature of consciousness and how do religious beliefs manifest themselves in our brains?

The Oxford Centre for Science of the Mind will be led by the neuroscientist Lady Greenfield. "I believe the time is now ripe for the machinery of scientific method to come to bear on some of these questions," she said.

The study of consciousness and brain processes that give rise to strongly held beliefs have for long been on the periphery of scientific research.

With the advent of techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, which can take snapshots of brain activity, scientists believe they can obtain meaningful answers about how consciousness arises and what makes belief systems so widespread and resilient.

The group will first assess claims about consciousness and religion, including the suggestion that people with strong faith can use that to cope with pain.

In one experiment, Toby Collins, deputy director of the centre, will use anaesthetics and brain scanning equipment to investigate the boundary between consciousness and unconsciousness. In another, Dr Collins's team will use the chilli gel and ask volunteers to try to cope with the pain.

"We can ask them to try different beliefs, whether spiritual or otherwise. People can cope with pain in many different ways and what we'll be doing is looking at the activity in the brain."

The study could help to reveal how faith is represented in the brain. Other projects will look into the conditions that make people susceptible to strong yet irrational beliefs, such as the age people are exposed to certain ideas and the frequency with which religious messages are reinforced.

The centre has been set up for an initial two years with a $2m (£1m) grant from the US-based John Templeton Foundation, which promotes research into theology and science.

"People are realising these are the most exciting questions that anyone can ask," said Lady Greenfield. Understanding the basis of religious and other types of belief could help to shed light on the surge in fundamentalism and terrorism.

"One of the fundamental reasons why religious beliefs have to be taken seriously ... is that they are potentially very dangerous, and that can be true of other dogmatisms too," said John Brookes, professor of science and religion at Oxford. SOURCE: The Guardian. http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,9830,1388227,00.htmlbr id="articleend">

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PASTOR DIES WHILE PREACHING THAT HE'S GOING TO HEAVEN

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_____PREACHER SAYS FROM PULPIT: "WHEN I GO TO HEAVEN..." THEN COLLAPSES AND DIES!!

A Presbyterian minister collapsed and died in mid-sentence of a sermon after saying "And when I go to heaven ...."

The Rev. Jack Arnold, 69, was nearing the end of his sermon Sunday at Covenant Presbyterian Church in this Orlando suburb when he grabbed the podium before falling to the floor, said the Rev. Michael S. Beates, associate pastor at Covenant Presbyterian.

Before collapsing, Arnold quoted the 18th century Bible scholar, John Wesley, who said, "Until my work on this earth is done, I am immortal. But when my work for Christ is done ... I go to be with Jesus," Beates said in a telephone interview.

Several members of the congregation with medical backgrounds tried to revive the minister and paramedics were called, but Arnold appeared to die instantly, Beates said.

Arnold had been the senior minister at the church until the late 1990s when he began traveling to Africa and the Middle East to teach pastors. The cause of death was believed to be cardiac arrest. He had bypass surgery five years earlier.

Beates also recounted Arnold's death in an e-mail he sent to members of the Central Florida Presbytery.

"We were stunned," Beates said. "It was traumatic, but how wonderful it was he died in his own church among the people he loved the most." SOURCE: Yahoo! news

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AMERICAN PHYSICIANS HELPED WITH TORTURE & INTERROGATIONS....

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_____AMERICAN DOCTORS OFFICIALLY ACCUSED OF HELPING TO DEVISE TORTURE AT GUANTANAMO. --NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE !!

Doctors at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib used their medical knowledge to help devise coercive interrogation methods for detainees including sleep deprivation, stress positions and other abuse, it has been reliably reported.

An article in the New England Journal of Medicine provides the most authoritative account so far that doctors were active participants in the abuse of prisoners in America's "war on terror".

"Clearly, the medical personnel who helped to develop and execute aggressive counter-resistance plans thereby breached the laws of war," says the article, which is based on interviews with more than two dozen military personnel and recently released official documents. It adds: "The conclusion that doctors participated in torture is premature, but there is probable cause for suspecting it."

The issue that the administration had encouraged the use of coercive interrogation techniques was raised in the Senate confirmation hearings of Alberto Gonzales, the presidential nominee for attorney general. Mr Gonzales was attacked for a memo which said only the most severe types of torture were not permissible under US law.

The article accuses doctors of violating professional ethics by passing detainee health records to military intelligence, and by watching interrogation sessions.
It also describes collaboration with interrogators in which doctors and medics helped set the parameters for abuse, determining 72-hour "sleep management" schedules for detainees, approving bread and water regimens for those subjected to "dietary manipulation", and sanctioning long periods of isolation.

At Guantanamo and at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, doctors had the final say on the interrogation plan for each detainee. "The medic would screen him and ensure he was fit for interrogation ... After that the medic would watch over the interrogation from behind the glass," the article quotes a military police commander as saying.

Last August an article in the British medical journal the Lancet accused medics at Abu Ghraib of failing to report the beating of detainees and of forging death certificates. But the practices described yesterday suggest for the first time that medical practitioners played an active role in abuse.

"This is physicians and psychiatrists being involved in the design and implementation of interrogation plans," said Jonathan Marks, a British barrister and fellow at the Georgetown University law centre, who co-authored the report.

The article includes comments from the deputy assistant secretary of defence for health, David Tornberg, which suggest the Pentagon believes professional ethics do not apply in a time of war. That view has raised concern in the medical community. "You have to protect physicians from being ... used to serve military purposes," said Leonard Rubinstein, director of Physicians for Human Rights.


SOURCE: Special report from The Guardian:www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/0,13743,1000982,00.html

 

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NEW EUROPEAN "RELIGIOUS FREEDOM" LAW IS THE MOST REPRESSIVE ON THE CONTINENT

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NO “RELIGIOUS FREEDOM” HERE. NEW LAW IS EUROPE’S MOST REPRESSIVE !!

Following the recent adoption by the upper house of the Belarusian parliament of the controversial amendments to the country's religion law, all religious organisations in Belarus will then have to undergo compulsory re-registration over the next two years, and bring their statutes into line with the new law.

Both parliamentary and unofficial sources in Minsk told Keston that the revised religion law was adopted in the Council of the Republic with 46 votes in favour, 2 against and 4 abstentions, unchanged from the text adopted by the lower house of parliament on 27 June (see KNS 1 July 2002). One of the two senators to vote against the bill and the only one to speak up against it during the debate was Yadviga Grigorovich, deputy chair of the upper house's social affairs commission. "Religious peace in our country is very shaky. "...interfaith conflicts await Belarus," she told Reuters.

The new law would outlaw unregistered religious activity, require compulsory prior censorship for all religious literature; ban foreign citizens from leading religious organisations; publishing and education would be restricted to faiths that have ten registered communities, including at least one that had registration in 1982; and there would be a ban on all but occasional, small religious meetings in private homes.

In a one-man protest, the administrator of the New Life Protestant church, Vasyl Yurevich, stood outside parliament during the session holding banners criticising the bill. According to the website www.charter97.org, police detained him within half an hour and took him to the administrative court of Minsk's Moscow district, where he received an official warning. "This law is a disgrace to our state," he told the website. Its adoption will open the way to lawlessness, that's why I went to the square to express my protest against its adoption."

Oleg Kaminsky, a spokesman for the Council of the Republic, told Keston that ahead of the debate, 10,000 signatures had come into parliament supporting the bill. (In its coverage on 2 October of the bill's adoption, Belarusian television had claimed that 220,000 signatures had come into parliament in support and 550 against the draft law.) Asked why parliament had chosen to adopt a law that violated the fundamental human rights of people within Belarus, Kaminsky admitted that the law had defects. "When it comes into force the first step will be to adopt some amendments," he told Keston. "But it is better to have this law than no law." Asked why lawmakers had not waited until a better version was available, he declared: "That was the will of parliament."

News of the adoption of the bill brought predictable responses from religious communities. Andrei Petrashkevich, spokesman for Russian Orthodox leader in Belarus Metropolitan Filaret, was happy. "Thank God!" he told Keston by telephone. He stressed that the Orthodox Church had played an "active role" in the adoption of the bill, lobbying for it and collecting signatures in support in individual parishes across the country. "This was not an organised process, he claimed. "Parishes that wished to take part did so, at the initiative of local believers, priests or bishops."

However, all minority faiths contacted by Keston condemned the move. Georgi Vyazovsky, pastor of Christ Covenant Church, a Reform Baptist church in Minsk with nine other associated congregations, told Keston that the law was "very bad" and "against the Gospel". "It was adopted to support the Russian Orthodox Church." Vyazovsky said his church had written to parliamentary deputies to urge them not to adopt the law, but had failed. "The deputies were doing the will of Mr President."

Sergei Karnyushenko, spokesman for the Pentecostal Union, the second biggest religious community in Belarus by the number of communities, was likewise unhappy. "This law will affect all our communities, especially the small ones," he told Keston. "It will affect other faiths too." He said that although his Union has 494 registered communities, there are about 250 more whose registration has already been obstructed under the current law. He believes this will only worsen, despite the fact that the Union will have no problem retaining the status of a "religious association", which will be necessary in future to publish books and magazines, import religious literature, maintain religious educational establishments and invite foreigners for religious work.

Larysa Androsik, a Greek Catholic laywoman from Minsk, told Keston the new law would create "very many difficulties" for her church, which has only 14 registered communities and has faced official obstruction in Pinsk and Slonim and elsewhere to attempts to register local parishes. "It is already very very difficult for us to get a building to register as a church." Greek Catholic priest Father Igor Kandraceu told Keston from the western city of Brest that the Greek Catholics have been unable to register an association for the past nine years. "We have been in negotiation with officials," he told Keston. "They do not give an official refusal but negotiations drag on and on. Under the new law it will be even more difficult."

Androsik said the Roman Catholic Church had supported the bill. "They said they didn't see any problems with it, although they have many complaints about it."

Equally condemnatory was Artur Livshits, a lawyer and a member of the Civic Initiative For Freedom of Conscience, which has been campaigning against the law. "The first people to suffer will be the Protestants and all the non-traditional faiths," he told Keston. "It is not good for the Jews either. This will cause destabilisation of the religious situation in Belarus."

Livshits pointed out that small religious communities not able to muster the 20 adult citizens required for registration under the new law will be rendered illegal. "People won't be able to meet for religious purposes in private homes," he explained. "If someone wants to meet for Friday Shabbat prayers and light candles, it will be an offence. The police will take them from their apartment."

Although Vyazovsky objected to the restrictions in the new law, he told Keston he was not worried. "I'm a Calvinist. I believe in providence. We shall find a way to continue to meet, worship and publish literature. Even in the Soviet times people did this. God will provide the way."
SOURCE: http://www.keston.org/, The Keston Institute, UK

 

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MENTALLY ILL IRANIAN TEENAGED GIRL FACES DEATH FOR "PROSTITUTION"

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A MENTALLY ILL TEEN-AGED IRANIAN GIRL FORCED INTO PROSTITUTION BY HER MOTHER FACES DEATH PENALTY!!

A teenage girl with a mental age of eight is facing the death penalty for prostitution in Iran. The trial comes only four months after the hanging of another mentally ill girl for sex before marriage in a case that has prompted a human rights lawyer to prepare a charge of wrongful execution against the presiding judge.

The girl, known as Leyla M, is in prison while the Supreme Court decides on her "acts contrary to chastity", among the most serious charges under Iranian law. Under the penal code, girls as young as nine and boys as young as 15 can be executed.

In an interview on a Persian-language website, the 19-year-old says she was forced into prostitution by her mother at the age of eight. Amnesty International refers to reports that say she was repeatedly raped, bore her first child aged nine and was passed from pimp to pimp before having another three children.

She told the website: "The first time I was taken to a man's house by my mum I was eight. It was a horrible night and I cried a lot but then my mum came the next day and took me home. She bought me chocolate and cheese curls."

Iranian press reports say Leyla was charged with controlling a brothel, having sex with blood relatives and bearing an illegitimate child. Amnesty says the court refused to admit social workers' evidence of her young mental age and convicted her on the basis of confessions.

Her prosecution echoes the fate of an even younger girl, Atefeh Rajabi, executed in August. In her case a judge known as Hajj Rezai reportedly put the noose around her neck himself after convicting her on the basis of her confessions for the fourth time in two years. She begged for her life while being led to the gallows, shouting "repentance".

Shadi Sadr, a human rights lawyer representing Atefeh's family, has filed a suit of wrongful execution against the judiciary and is preparing a murder case against Mr Rezai after uncovering new evidence. She has found documents seen by The Independent that prove Atefeh was mentally ill and her confessions should not have been used.

"There is an article in the penal code that if somebody is sentenced to lashing on three separate occasions for the same offence, the fourth conviction incurs the death penalty," Ms Sadr toldThe Independent. "The same judge tried her for each of these past cases but we haven't been allowed to see the files."

A different man was involved in each of Atefeh's convictions. All refused to confess but the judge said it was obvious they had sex with her and sentenced them each to 95 lashes.

After her trial, Atefeh said she had been a victim of sexual assault during spells of mental ill health. After her first conviction in 2001 when 14, she spent time in a state facility for the "socially harmed". Ms Sadr has obtained documents written by officials there backing up her story.

An undated report written by the facility's psychiatrist says she had a history of "chronic sexuality" and was given to "pseudo hallucinations" and seductive behaviour. He diagnosed her with borderline bipolar disorder.

People in Atefeh's neighbourhood wrote two petitions - one before her conviction and one afterwards - affirming that she suffered from mental illness and begging for leniency. Ms Sadr has been unable to locate the defence lawyer in the case.

After the verdict, Atefeh wrote to the High Court, saying: "There are medical documents that prove I have weak nerves and soul. In some minutes of the day and night I lose my sanity. During these attacks any kind of positive or negative actions may be done by me. In a society where an insane person can be serially raped or abused it is no wonder that a person like me is the victim of such an ugly act." Ms Sadr says Atefeh's mental state should have invalidated the case.

The day before the execution Atefeh told her aunt she had written three words to the High Court: "Repentance, repentance, repentance." In Iranian law, somebody who repents their crime is granted the right to appeal against their sentence.

A social worker's report says Atefeh's father and brother were heroin addicts and after her mother's death "she sought affection on the streets".

Ms Sadr says it is impossible to verify lurid claims in dissident websites about an improper relationship between girl and judge. "We will never know what happened between Atefeh and the judge because she is dead, he won't tell and she was tried in a closed court."
NOTE: Sent to us by a reader. Written by Angus McDowall in Tehran

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TECH SUPPORT ASKED TO INSTALL LOVE

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IF LOVING COULD BE AS EASY AS INSTALLING A NEW PROGRAM/span>!!

Tech Support: Yes, ... how can I help you?

Customer: Well, after much consideration, I've decided to install Love.  Can you guide me though the process?

Tech Support: Yes. I can help you.  Are you ready to proceed?

Customer: Well, I'm not very technical, but I think I'm ready. What do I do first?

Tech Support: The first step is to open your Heart.  Have you located your Heart?

Customer: Yes, but there are several other programs running now.  Is it okay to install Love while they are running?

Tech Support: What programs are running ?

Customer: Let's see, I have Past Hurt, Low Self-Esteem, Grudge and Resentment running right now.

Tech Support: No problem, Love will gradually erase Past Hurt from your current operating system.  It may remain in your permanent memory but it will no longer disrupt other programs. Love will eventually override Low Self-Esteem with a module of its own called High Self-Esteem.  However, you have to completely turn off Grudge and Resentment.  Those programs prevent Love from being properly installed. Can you turn those off ?

Customer: I don't know how to turn them off.  Can you tell me how?

Tech Support: With pleasure.  Go to your start menu and invoke Forgiveness.  Do this as many times as necessary until Grudge and Resentment have been completely erased.

Customer: Okay, done!  Love has started installing itself. Is that normal?

Tech Support: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program.  You need to begin connecting to other Hearts in order to get the upgrades.

Customer: Oops! I have an error message already.  It says, "Error - Program not run on external components ." What should I do?

Tech Support: Don't worry.  It means that the Love program is set up to run on Internal Hearts, but has not yet been run on your Heart.  In non-technical terms, it simply means you have to Love yourself before you can Love others.

Customer: So, what should I do?

Tech Support: Pull down Self-Acceptance; then click on the following files:  Forgive-Self; Realize Your Worth; and Acknowledge your Limitations.

Customer: Okay, done.

Tech Support: Now, copy them to the "My Heart" directory. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching faulty programming.  Also, you need to delete Verbose Self-Criticism from all directories and empty your Recycle Bin to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back.

Customer: Got it. Hey! My heart is filling up with new files. Smile is playing on my monitor and Peace and Contentment are copying themselves all over My Heart . Is this normal?

Tech Support: Sometimes. For others it takes awhile, but eventually everything gets it at the proper time.  So Love is installed and running.  One more thing before we hang up. Love is Freeware.  Be sure to give it and its various modules to everyone you meet.  They will in turn share it with others and return some cool modules back to you.

Customer: Thank you, God.

SPECIAL THANKS TO:  Mary and Maury Phillips at careervisions.com in Louisville, KY!!

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SCIENTOLOGY AWARDS ONE OF THEIR OWN, TOM CRUISE, AN AWARD FOR VALOR

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SCIENTOLOGY GIVES TOM CRUISE AN AWARD EVEN THOUGH HOLLYWOOD HAS NOT!!

Even though Tom Cruise has so far been unable to win an Oscar, his Church of Scientology co-congregants have stepped in to provide the actor a trinket to place on his mantle: a diamond-encrusted "Freedom Medal Of Valor".

The 42 year old Cruise is an Scientology adherent. Scientology believes in the existence of aliens and is it reported that the mega-star thinks his new award is out of this world! Cruise has been nominated and by-passed for an Oscar three times.

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ABORGINAL TRIBESPEOPLE ATTACK TSUNAMI RESCUE HELICOPTER WITH BOWS AND ARROWS!!!

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ABORGINAL ISLAND TRIBES USE BOWS AND ARROWS TO ATTACK TSUNAMI RESCUE HELICOPTER!!! AS RELIEF WORKERS TRIED TO BRING TSUMAMI AID TO REMOTE ANDAMAN ISLAND, NATIVES ATTACK HELICOPTERS WITH ARROWS !!

An Indian helicopter attempting to drop emergency supplies to the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands has been attacked by tribesmen’s weapons: bows and arrows.

Indian officials had feared that the endangered tribas living on the islands may have been devastated when the recent massive Tsunami struck.

While not enjoying being attacked by bow and arrows, the authorities do wryly admit that the silver lining is that it appears that the aboriginal tribes have survived.

But, not all. The BBC reports that over 6,000 Andaman and Nicobar Islanders are confirmed as either dead or missing. What’s worse, still thousands of others are reported to be thus far unaccounted for.

The relief helicopter was operated by the Indian coast guard and was making a low pass to drop food and water onto Sentinel Island when it came under attack.

A senior police officer told the BBC that no crew members were injured. Further, the police spokesperson said that Indian authorities are relieved that, at least, the bow and arrow attack is evidence that the tribes have not been totally anhiliated by the earthquake and sea surges as many had feared.

The Andaman and Nicobar archipelago is home to several aboriginal tribes, some of which are extremely isolated and not often visited by outsiders.

Officials say that they believe that the tribes may have survived the tidal wave’s devastation by noticing the behavioral changes in birds and marine life, which would sense the impending Tsunami and flee. The humans would, perhaps, have then followed suit and fled to higher ground, inland from the coast. .

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MIRACLE IN THE TAX OFFICE

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__________THERE IS A GOD! IRS DOES THE RIGHT THING!

This isn’t going to be the biggest headline of the day, but it is one of those small, wonderful things that occurs so rarely that one wants to share it with friends.

A relative of mine ran into some financial difficulties a while back and fell behind on his obligation to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. They gave him a “coupon book” to use in bringing his outstanding tax liability up-to-date.

But, a few days before Christmas, he discovered that the I.R.S. had “raided” his bank account and taken out thousands of dollars – every penny that he had, in fact.

Didn’t it matter that he had his coupon book and was diligent about making his payments?!!!!

It was impossible to reach his accountant between Christmas and New Years, so the plan was to contact his C.P.A. the first week of 2005.

What happened instead is one of those joyous little “proofs” that God exists: the IRS, all on its own, discovered that it has made a terrible mistake and it returned 100% of my relatives’ money to his account! Unbidden!

Praise the Lord!

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TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE RAISED AS "CONVENTIONAL CHRISTIANS" HAVE LEFT THE CHURCH!!!!

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__________AUTHOR SAYS TWO-THIRDS OF CHRISTIANS RAISED IN "CONVENTIONAL CHURCHES" HAVE LEFT !!

Two-thirds of those born between 1946 and 1964 (those now aged 40 to 58) who were raised in the mainline Christian denominations (Methodist, Congregational/United Church of Christ, Presbyterian, Episcopal, American Baptist and some Lutheran bodies) left the churches in which they were raised. Two-thirds of the largest generation this country had ever known left their families of faith. Since 1965, virtually all mainline Protestant denominations steadily have lost members and churches. Many who were raised in the Sunday schools and church youth groups of the '50s and '60s left these churches, never to return.

These were congregations and denominations that were open to science and said one could believe in God and learn from Darwin. These were groups that emphasized the place of reason in faith. They were in the forefront of the civil rights movement and gave a priority to civic involvement and social justice. They prized tolerance and respect for other religions. To be sure, they were not the only religious groups of which such things were true, but they were among the key markers and characteristics of mainline Christian churches.

Where did the lost generation go? Did they become conservative Christians? Some did, but not many. Most either became secular, without any religious identity or practice, or pursued their own, often individual, spiritual path. Scholars dubbed it "A Generation of Seekers." A core value for this generation is personal choice. There's a lot to be said for personal choice and finding one's own path. One of the things that cannot be said, however, for such values is that they sustain strong institutions. These are not the values of those who build or grow institutions.

In fact, many in this generation understood themselves, and not without reason, as anti-institutional. This is a corollary of the emphasis on personal choice. "Thanks, but no thanks. I'll do my own thing." It is true, of course, that any and all institutions are capable of corruption and of serving only themselves. It is also true, however, that institutions are the keepers of our shared memories and the carriers of our collective hopes." By Tony Robinson, a teacher, speaker and writer. He is the author of "Transforming Congregational Culture." He can be contacted at anthonybrobinson@comcast.net.

The Love Church Worldwide communion is a small denomination that was formed by dedicated, intelligent, and socially-conscious people who include some of those very same positive-thinkers who drifted away from the mainline denominations after they fearfully abandoned their franchises as forces for changing and healing our violent and often repressive world.

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