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...tell people the basic gist of the plot, and they say, ‘Oh, it’s fiction,’” said Schama. “And I say, ‘No, no it’s written like narrative history, and it’s kind of like biography, but it reads like a novel...
...turn around the table reading and discussing passages from the Biblical Exodus. King and Heschel might have recalled the day they marched from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama three years earlier, arm in arm, standing up for equal rights and protections for all Americans, regardless of race or religion. Like those sitting around him, King would have remembered that the fight for freedom is an ongoing one; every generation has its own Pharaoh to enslave the vulnerable...
Modern day Pharaohs like hunger, poverty, and disease continue to enslave much of the world’s population. Eighteen thousand children die every day from hunger according to the U.N. food agency. Almost half of the world lives on less than $2.50 a day. UNICEF reports that one in every two children lives in poverty, and one out of every seven has no access to healthcare. Malaria is a curable and preventable disease that continues to kill a child in Africa every 30 seconds...
...years ago, 192 nations came together in New York City to reaffirm the promise of freedom from want. They established the U.N. Millennium Development Goals and pledged to achieve them by 2015. These eight goals address the root causes of global poverty: tyrants like infectious disease, hunger, and gender inequality. Now, five years from the deadline, none of the goals are on track to be accomplished. These goals, once beacons of hope in the fight on global poverty, are becoming broken promises to people across the world...
Modern malaria control, however, cannot be accomplished by money alone. Successfully combating the injustice of malaria requires cooperation across the lines that divide society—lines like religion, ethnicity, socio-economic status, and gender. In countries across Africa, groups are recognizing this need to work with one another in order to make real progress on eradicating the disease. In Mozambique, Together Against Malaria brings Christian and Muslim leaders together to utilize religious infrastructure to improve access to malaria prevention measures. In Nigeria the same is being done by the Nigerian Inter-faith Action Association, which will help distribute...