The End of White Flight

"The End of White Flight For the First Time in Decades, Cities' Black Populations Lose Ground, Stirring Clashes Over Class, Culture and Even Ice Cream By CONOR DOUGHERTYJuly 19, 2008; Page A1 Decades of white flight transformed America's cities. That era is...

Anstey Methodist Church

"John c 11  v 35 reads “Jesus wept”.I think that this is one of the most precious verses in the whole bible. So deeply did Jesus feel the grief of Mary and Martha at the loss of their brother that his heart was wrong with anguish, and he wept."

Anstey Methodist Church

"Eric Clapton, arguably the greatest living rock guitarist, wrote a heart wrenching song about the death of his four year old son. He fell from a 53rd-story window. Clapton took nine months off and when he returned his music had changed. The hardship had made his music...

Anstey Methodist Church

"I suppose that we have all seen cartoons of elderly gentlemen carrying placards containing our text. "Prepare to meet thy God". It seems almost as if this prophecy, first spoken by the prophet Amos, has become a joke. The end of the world is at hand, so, just in case there...

Anstey Methodist Church

"Jesus very often, if not always, demonstrated the significance of his words by the miracles that he performed. For example, his claim to be the bread of life was amply demonstrated by his feeding of the great multitude with just a few loaves and fishes. His claim to be the...

Famous heart surgeon DeBakey dies

In the late Sixies and early Seventies, news of heart transplants and artificial hearts was splashed over front pages around the world.  Dr. Michael DeBakey was in the forefront of such research.  He pioneered surgical treatments which are common now, but were...

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Census throws up treasure trove for trivia buffs

"Census throws up treasure trove for trivia buffs Ruadhán Mac Cormaic, Migration Correspondent How many Presbyterian Pakistanis live in Ireland? Are there Chinese-born Travellers? Widowed teenagers? Most pressingly, how many Lithuanian immigrants live in semi-detached houses...

British town votes to change a church to a mosque

On a chill night this winter, this pristine town adjacent to royal estates in some of England's most untouched countryside gave permission for a former Christian church to become a mosque.The narrow vote by the municipal authorities marked the end of a bitter struggle by the...

Darfur documentary brings religious leaders together

"Representatives of several different religious communities met yesterday at Christ Church Unity in Brookline to discuss ways to stop the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan, which the U.S. government has called a genocide."

Bush library an embarrassment?

Methodist University – alma mater of First Lady Laura Bush and sole finalist in the bidding for the location of the George W. Bush Presidential Library – worry that the new library could damage the university’s reputation, and some are demanding a referendum. Apparently...