Tertullian associated the divine power of Christ, manifested at the Wedding Feast at Cana, as the same power that is responsible for "washing away the sins,"

Mary's presence and action at the Wedding Feast at Cana are profound in John's Gospel. Mary contributed in a significant way in the beginning of the signs, which revealed Jesus' divine powers. Through her intercession, Jesus changed water into wine and, as the evangelist John reported, "so revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in him" (John 2:11).

They protect the workers, not the jobs.

The owners of the platform giants consider themselves the masters of the universe, but in fact they are slaves to preserving their dominant position.

This may well result in a web of totalitarian control the likes of which not even Aldous Huxley or George Orwell could have imagined.

Something very harmful and maybe irreversible is happening to human attention in our digital age. Not just distraction or addiction; social media companies are inducing people to give up their autonomy.

They claim they are merely distributing information. But the fact that they are near- monopoly distributors makes them public utilities and should subject them to more stringent regulations, aimed at preserving competition, innovation, and fair and open universal access.

The network effect is truly unprecedented and transformative, but it is also unsustainable. It took Facebook eight and a half years to reach a billion users and half that time to reach the second billion. At this rate, Facebook will run out of people to convert in less than 3 years.

My foundations used to focus on the so-called developing world, but now that the open society is also endangered in the United States and Europe, we are spending more than half our budget closer to home because what is happening here is having a negative impact on the whole world

Companies earn their profits by exploiting their environment. Mining and oil companies exploit the physical environment; social media companies exploit the social environment.

In response to his removal as chief of Grouville, Luthuli issued "The Road to Freedom is via the Cross", perhaps the most famous statement of his principles a belief in non-violence: a conviction that apartheid degrades all who are party to it,

Luthuli and the Mabalanes expressed a “profound cultural ambivalence” about their identity, which straddled traditionalist and modern experiences.

Currently, we are looking at setting up an online learning site for NIMAA using the Moodle learning management system.  It is a widely accepted platform that does much of what we need.  We are starting to use it as part of the IT committee so that we can get a better sense of its capabilities and limitation.

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