Economic Justice and Poverty

PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANS & OUR GALACTIC FAMILY
Nancy B. Detweiler, M.Ed., M.Div.
www.pathwaytoascension.com

I know intuitively that Earth humans are not alone in the vast cosmos. Why, I wonder, would the Creator of all that is populate only one tiny planet with intelligent beings?

I’ve read the rebuttal. If intelligent beings exist elsewhere in the cosmos, why have they not made themselves known? Why, during all of our space explorations, have we not seen evidence of populated planets? Why do our scientists not perceive indications of human life as they peer into their high-powered telescopes?

I know intuitively that they have and they do. The powers that be have simply chosen not to disclose their findings to the people. In the 1990s, Laurence Rockefeller attempted to persuade the American government to release all documents depicting UFOs and contact with extraterrestrials. Documents relating to the “Rockefeller Initiative” were recently released by the Clinton Presidential Library and can be viewed at:
http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller%20Documents/Rockefeller...
Needless to say, our government has neither responded by telling the people what it knows nor has it given our scientists permission to do so.

The Episcopal Public Policy Network
Policy Alert

"This cycle – poverty that begets climate change, and vice versa – threatens the future of all people, rich and poor alike, and of all things in the world that God so loves."
The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori

ONE SABBATH
NOVEMBER 23 - 25, 2007
ONE: THE CAMPAIGN TO MAKE POVERTY HISTORY

We are compelled to care. Every major faith tradition emphasizes giving to others, especially those in need. This universal appeal to charity is rooted intradition, sacred writings and theological understandings. The faith-based call to care for others–to seek justice especially for the least of these–has motivated dramatic social change, and been an instrument of caring and healing throughout history.

I've been wrestling with Jesus for almost 50 years.

I mean, the guy has this way of getting all over you, under your skin, moving inside your head and never letting go!

The longer I have studied, listened to and observed him in the biblical record, in terms of his historical impact and in regard to the effect he has had on my own life and world, the more convinced I am that most people don't really understand him, what he said or who he was.

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"The moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."  Hubert H. Humphrey (with a nod from every religious leader known to humanity)