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entions of North
Korea's new young leader, Kim Jong Un.Meanwhile, North Korea has been angered
by increasing sanctions and ongoing U.S.-South Korean military exercises,
which have included a broad show of force ranging from stealthy B-2
bombers and F-22 fighters to a wide array of ballistic missile defense-capable
warships. The exercises are scheduled to continue through the end of the
month.This past week, the U.S. said two of the Navy's missile-defense ships
were moved closer to the Korean peninsula, and a land-based system is
being deployed to the Pacific territory of Guam later this month. The
Pentagon last month announced longer-term plans to beef up its U.S.-based
missile defenses.While Washington is taking the North Korean threats seriously,
U.S. leaders continue to say that they have seen no visible signs
that the North is preparing for a large-scale attack.The defense official,
who was not authorized to speak publicly about the Minuteman 3 test
delay and requested anonymity, said U.S. policy continues to support the
building and testing of its nuclear deterrent capabilities. And the official
said the launch was not put off because of any technical problems.The
globe-circling intercontinental ballistic missiles make up one of the three
legs of America's nuclear arsenal. There are about 450 Minuteman 3 missiles
based in underground silos in the north-central U.S. The other two legs
of the nuclear arsenal are submarine-launched ba
d suffer in the spotlight. Maybe
the new pope will keep his distance from the society, for fear
of giving an appearance of favoritism. Or, he could use his new
authority to become from their perspective
too involved in the society, like John Paul. And they wonder if
Jesuits would somehow be blamed for any of Francis' decisions that prove
unpopular.Jesuits were already at a crossroads when Francis was elected.
Although the order remains the largest in the church for men, membership
has dropped by more than half since peaking in 1965, Gaunt said.The
decline came mostly in the West. But In South Asia and India,
Christianity, and Catholicism specifically, have been growing, and so too
have the numbers of Jesuits in those areas. Gaunt calls it "the
changing Jesuit geography." India now has the largest national group of
Jesuits with just over 3,900 members, followed by the U.S., with just
under 2,500. About one-third of the world's 17,287 Jesuits came from developing
countries, a figure that is expected to rise in coming years.For U.S.
Jesuits, this has meant a long season of wondering where they go
from here. The order is restructuring in the U.S., merging their 10
smaller provinces into four larger ones.Lay people now staff most Jesuit
schools and ministries, so the order has started Jesuit spirituality retreats
and instruction for lay faculty and staff to help maintain the religious
identity of what they've built. Among the newer J
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<p style="font-size:xx-small;">onal baggage.When
I meet someone new, I get to talk to him or her
like a regular person. We joke around, talk about our families, and
then the inevitable happens. What do you do for a living? When
I answer this question, I typically get one of two responses. I
either get an onslaught of Christianese phrases -- Oh, praise the Lord!
What a blessing, brother Craig! or I get stonewalled, and the conversation
dies as quickly as it started.One time when this happened, the person
I was talking with politely shared that he didnt like religious people.
I chimed in that I didnt like religious people either. His mouth
nearly dropped to the floor. I explained that religion is about rules,
but being a Christian is about relationship.Now Im not saying is that
religious organizations are useless. Obviously, Im a part of one. I am
the pastor of a church and truly believe what Bill Hybels asserts:
The local church is the hope of the world. But in order
to reach the current generation and generations to come, we must change
the way we do things. Thats why we like to say, To
reach people no one is reaching, we have to do things no
one is doing.As churches, we dont have the liberty to change the
message, but we must change the way the message is presented. We
have to discover our "altar ego"and become who God says we are
instead of who others say we are.Peeling off the labels that cling
to our reputation brings great freedom for us as individuals and a
FILE: Nov. 18, 2010: In this file photo, Fisker Automotive's Fisker Karma,
a sports luxury plug-in hybrid car, sits on display at the 2010
Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles.APFisker Automotive -- the electric-car
maker that was granted a half-billion-dollar federal loan and on Friday
dismissed about 75 percent of its remaining workforce -- is purportedly
facing a lawsuit from the same firm that sued the government-funded Solyndra
company.Fisker laid off 160 of its roughly 210 employees Friday morning
from its Anaheim, Calif., location, according to Automotive News.Employees
told the publication they were given no severance pay besides compensation
for unused vacation days.According to the class action suit filed by Outten
& Golden, in a California district court, Fisker failed to notify the
employees 60 days in advance, violating the federal U.S. Worker Adjustment
and Retraining Notification Act and a similar state WARN Act.Outten & Golden
won a $3.5 million settlement in a similar case against Solyndra, according
to Reuters. The solar-panel maker received $535 million in loan guarantees
from the Obama administration before falling into bankruptcy in 2011.A source
told the news agency that Fisker will retain about 53 senior managers
and executives to primarily help sell off company assets.Fisker has received
$193 million of a $529 million Energy Department loan, mostly for work
on its luxury Karma vehicle that sells for about $100,000.
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