Hints and tips:
...First, the good news. People are still giving to charity....
...The prevalence of men in construction may itself skew the numbers: according to the Samaritans, men in their 30s to 50s from “disadvantaged backgrounds” are the group with the greatest suicide risk....
...Johnson, National Bishop, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada Mobeenuddin H....
...Two-thirds of the state’s Republicans are Evangelicals, but only half of those are classifiable as “hardcore Evangelicals” who vote chiefly on social issues rather than economic matters, says Steve Grubbs...
...Almost 15 per cent of US mobile phone owners have downloaded a Bible app, according to data from the Barna Group and the American Bible Society....
...Even Bill Cunningham, the society photographer, was ‘very, very, very dangerous. So watch it.’”...
...So should a society with great diversity of religions that no one particularly cares about....
...[Direct selling] is the biggest supplier of micro-businesses in the world, with around 63m people globally, and helps strengthen the position of women in society.”...
...“Air travel fuels the energy of international commerce,” he says with evangelical zeal. “There is no substitute for being there and no practical substitute for long-haul flights.”...
...of globalisation, powered by the free movement of goods, labour, capital and services....
...There are lots of churches in Iowa, but that is the way the frontier was settled, and they tend to be more stolid Methodist or Lutheran, disinclined to march to ban abortion....
...“Good, good,” she laughs and slaps the table. “That is what they are supposed to do. They don’t want to hear about that and they don’t care.” She enjoys the punchline so much she repeats it....
...Whether or not it is a good thing for religion, it has certainly been good for business. Lohasians are now the second-largest group on Beliefnet after Evangelicals, by Waldman’s estimate....
...Good Samaritan Bernard Arnault is having to play the Good Samaritan....
...Buckley Jr, founder of the influential US magazine, with helping to “move conservatism from the margins of American society into the Oval Office”....
International Edition