December 2, 2007
The Lazarus Effect
World AIDS Day: Let us remember the victims and rejoice for the survivors.
This year (Product) RED raised over $50 million to fight HIV/AIDS.
This year (Product) RED raised over $50 million to fight HIV/AIDS.
Music Video: Annie Lennox
Featuring the new song Sing. It was recorded to raise money and awareness for the HIV/AIDS organization, Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).
Climate Change Leadership
Governors are taking the lead on climate change.
ACT: Tell congress to pass global warming legislation.
ACT: Tell congress to pass global warming legislation.
December 1, 2007
Writer's Strike
This brief video illustrates that money exists to pay the writers.
For more information check out the Wikipedia page.
For more information check out the Wikipedia page.
Evangelist's Expenses

"When I think of Jesus Christ and I think of the way we as Christians in many cases worship today, we are so unlike him, so unlike him in so many ways."
(CNN's Rick Sanchez--Transcript)
Ministry Watch rates Christian organizations for their transparency.
Chicken Cruelty

Burger King is beginning to use cage-free eggs.
Whole Foods Market have stopped selling cage eggs.
ACT: Call or Email Wendy's.
March on Burger King
Drug Sentencing

The sentencing ranges for crack cocaine have been lowered but more needs to be done.
"The lunacy in crack penalties will not be eliminated until lawmakers grapple with the mandatory minimum sentences now in place."
(Washington Post editorial)
For more check out the Sentencing Project or this ACLU report.
Food Shortage

ACT: Please consider donating to Second Harvest, a nation-wide network of more than 200 food banks and food-rescue organizations
UMC Provocative Questions

Wal-Mart Improving?

"The company's turnabout demonstrates the power of public pressure to change even the biggest corporations like Wal-Mart, which has based its business strategy on low costs at all costs"
(Michael Barbaro & Reed Abelson)
Alternative 9/11 Speech

From The Speech That Was Never Given by Brian D. McLaren
Film: Darfur Now
Out on DVD in March, this film displays the power of individual acts.
Also watch Frontline's online documentary On Our Watch.
Also watch Frontline's online documentary On Our Watch.
Do Something

In Lions for Lambs I saw this same theme of people wanting to contribute something or make a difference to improve the world. There is so much that needs to be done, but there is so much that can be done.
Whatever your passion is, whatever gets you upset or strikes you at the core--do something about it, for it, or to fight against it. And then try to do at least a little something once in a while for some of those things you're not so passionate about.
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