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News for the Common Good From the Minnesota Council of Churches May 6, 2008 |
Rural Churches: Ecumenical Community Service and Ministry
May 14 & 15 in Paynesville, Minn. or May 21 & 22 in Madelia, Minn.
Pastors and church leadership are encouraged to attend a 2-day workshop designed to energize ecumenical work to meet community needs through shared service and ministry. Please tell member churches in your judicatory. For more information contact Lynne Holman at lynne.holman@mnchurches.org or (612) 230-3211.
Funding for Churches in Greater Minnesota
Get resources to help you serve the critical human needs in your community through the Compassion Capital Fund Project. The focus of the training and grants to greater Minnesota community organizations is capacity building in leadership, program design, financial sustainability, infrastructure and community engagement. Click here to learn more or contact Lynne Holman at lynne.holman@mnchurches.org or (612) 230-3211.
Health Care: Divided We Fail
Help raise awareness of the great need for quality affordable health care and a secure financial future for all families. The Divided We Fail initiative is a broad nonpartisan coalition that includes AARP, the National Council of Churches and more offers speakers and “sermon seeds” for your congregation. Learn more.
Now Hiring: Administrative Assistant for Programs and Funding
Read job description and download application. Deadline May 12.
Musings for the Common Good
…our political coexistence, as subjects or citizens, depends on being able to agree about practices while disagreeing about their justification. For many long years, in medieval Spain under the moors and later in the Ottoman Near East, Jews and Christian of various denominations lived under Muslim rule. This modis vivendi was possible only because the various communities did not have to agree on a set of universal values. . .
It’s not surprising, then, that what makes conversation across boundaries worthwhile isn’t that we’re likely to come to a reasoned agreement about values. I don’t say that we can’t change minds, but the reasons we exchange in our conversations will seldom do much to persuade others who do not share our fundamental evaluative judgments already.
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (2006)
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Laurence S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy
The Minnesota Council of Churches manifests the unity of the body of Christ and builds the common good in the world in partnership with 24 member Protestant, Historic Black, and Orthodox judicatories representing more than 2,000 congregations and their 1 million members.
For more information contact:
Emily Jarrett Hughes
Assistant Director of Organizational Development
122 W Franklin Ave, Ste 100
Minneapolis, MN 55404
612-870-3600
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