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                           Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010
                    [5]The economy, faith and frustration
                  [6]African women find God at prayer tree
                [7]Shane Claiborne: Fusing Faith and Practice
                [8]Fund supports United Methodist archivists


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"It's how we react, how faithful we remain in the bad times, the 
frustrating
  times and the dark times that show the depth of our faith."  - 
Freelance
         writer Aaron Cross on the struggle to find full-time work.

The economy, faith and frustration

   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) - The search for full-time work has been 
frustrating
   for many recent college graduates. In a commentary, 2009 graduate 
Aaron
   Cross shares his own struggles to find a job but also argues that 
he and
   others who are unemployed should keep the faith. "For me, I 
believe that the
   right opportunity will come soon," he writes. "God will provide. 
He always
   does."

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African women find God at prayer tree

   OLD MUTARE, Zimbabwe (UMNS) - At the top of the steep part of a 
hill is a
   small tree surrounded on three sides by walls loosely constructed 
from piles
   of stones. Edith Bwawa, 49, and Rachel Mukoyi, 48, take off their 
shoes
   before approaching the open side. There, in bare feet, they kneel 
on rocks
   that litter the ground and pray. Like generations of Zimbabwean 
women before
   them, they have made the pilgrimage to this natural shrine on the 
hillside
   to encounter God.

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Shane Claiborne: Fusing faith and practice

   PHILADELPHIA (UMNS) - In 1998 at the age of 21, self-described 
"ordinary
   radical" Shane Claiborne co-founded a small monastic community, 
The Simple
   Way, in a row house in one of the poorest neighborhoods of 
Philadelphia. In
   an Interpreter Magazine interview, Claiborne shares his thoughts 
on what
   draws people to monasticism, how young people are changing the 
church and
   what "a wild guy" John Wesley was. You can read Claiborne's 
interview and
   other Interpreter articles at [18]www.interpretermagazine.org.

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Fund supports United Methodist archivists

   MADISON, N.J. (UMNS) - Josephine Forman was so dedicated to 
preserving the
   history of The United Methodist Church that she fought for years 
to save
   what  she considered to be the important records of the 
denomination's
   Southwest Texas Annual (regional) Conference. Now the late church 
archivist
   is being remembered through the Josephine Forman Dedicated Fund of 
the
   United Methodist Commission on Archives and History.
   Income from the gift will be used for the training of conference 
archivists,
   with a small portion of the principal given each year as a 
scholarship for a
   person of color training to be an archivist, says the Rev. Robert 
Williams,
   the commission's top executive. The Society of American Archivists 
has
   consulted with the commission on the project.


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