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Jimmy Carter dies: President Biden leads tributes to 'a man for all time'
US President Joe Biden says the world has lost a "remarkable leader" and a "man for all time" after the death of Jimmy Carter. Mr Carter, who was US president between 1977 and 1981, died at his home in Georgia while surrounded by his family on Sunday afternoon. Making a televised address from his family holiday in the US Virgin Islands, Mr Biden said his predecessor represented "the most fundamental human values we can never let slip away". (Sky News 12/29/24) READMORE>>>>>
US President Joe Biden says the world has lost a "remarkable leader" and a "man for all time" after the death of Jimmy Carter. Mr Carter, who was US president between 1977 and 1981, died at his home in Georgia while surrounded by his family on Sunday afternoon. Making a televised address from his family holiday in the US Virgin Islands, Mr Biden said his predecessor represented "the most fundamental human values we can never let slip away". (Sky News 12/29/24) READMORE>>>>>
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright passed away from cancer on Wednesday. She was 84. Albright, who immigrated to the United States in 1948, was the first female secretary of state in U.S. history. Originally from Czechoslovakia, Albright, then Madeleine Korbel, fled to England with her family in 1939 after the Nazis invaded her home country. The Korbels were Roman Catholics by faith but Jewish by heritage. According to USA Today, three of Albright’s grandparents died in the Holocaust. After the war, the Korbels briefly returned to Czechoslovakia but moved to the U.S. after the nation fell under communist rule. - Kayla Koslosky; Christian headlines 3.24.22
Dec 31, 2021: Martin County Enterprise: Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld are among the many noteworthy people who died in 2021.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld are among the many noteworthy people who died in 2021.
Dec 26, 2021: Detroit News: Desmond Tutu, South Africa's moral conscience, dies at 90
Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, an uncompromising foe of apartheid and a modern-day activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, died Sunday at 90. South Africans, world leaders and people around the globe mourned the death of the man viewed as the country's moral conscience.
Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, an uncompromising foe of apartheid and a modern-day activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, died Sunday at 90. South Africans, world leaders and people around the globe mourned the death of the man viewed as the country's moral conscience.
Dec 5, 2021: Newsweek: Bob Dole Tributes Pour in After Former GOP Senator Dies at 98
Tributes for Bob Dole, the former senator and GOP presidential nominee, poured in after he died Sunday at the age of 98.
Tributes for Bob Dole, the former senator and GOP presidential nominee, poured in after he died Sunday at the age of 98.
Aug 17, 2021: 62CBS Detroit: Former Rep. Paul Mitchell, Who Left GOP Over 2020 Election, Dies At 64
Former U.S. Representative from Michigan, Paul Mitchell, has died.
His family confirmed his passing earlier today following a battle with renal cancer.
Former U.S. Representative from Michigan, Paul Mitchell, has died.
His family confirmed his passing earlier today following a battle with renal cancer.
Aug 16, 2021: WXXV: Former Pascagoula City Councilman Joe Abston passes
Sunday, a former Pascagoula councilman and current finance manager at the Jackson County Port Authority lost his battle with COVID-19.
Fifty-one-year-old Joe Abston was moved to the intensive care unit at Singing River Thursday where he was on a ventilator and 100 percent oxygen.
Sunday, a former Pascagoula councilman and current finance manager at the Jackson County Port Authority lost his battle with COVID-19.
Fifty-one-year-old Joe Abston was moved to the intensive care unit at Singing River Thursday where he was on a ventilator and 100 percent oxygen.
Aug 4, 2021: Jackson Free Press: Sheriff Lee Vance Dies After Testing Positive for COVID-19
The sheriff of Mississippi's largest county has died, almost two weeks after he tested positive for COVID-19 amid an outbreak of the illness at a jail he oversaw. The Hinds County Sheriff's Department said an ambulance was sent to the home of Sheriff Lee Vance on Wednesday morning.
The sheriff of Mississippi's largest county has died, almost two weeks after he tested positive for COVID-19 amid an outbreak of the illness at a jail he oversaw. The Hinds County Sheriff's Department said an ambulance was sent to the home of Sheriff Lee Vance on Wednesday morning.
Dec 13, 2020: Campaigns & Elections: CONSULTANTS REMEMBER WOOTEN JOHNSON
The consulting community lost one of our own last week, and way too early. Julian Wooten Johnson, Jr., known as Wooten, was a campaign hack’s campaign hack before he passed away Dec. 6 at the age of 51.
The consulting community lost one of our own last week, and way too early. Julian Wooten Johnson, Jr., known as Wooten, was a campaign hack’s campaign hack before he passed away Dec. 6 at the age of 51.
July 24, 2020: Baptist News Global: Remembering John Lewis: An invitation to make ‘good trouble’
Rep. John Lewis has bequeathed to the church a call to make “good trouble” and to stir up the gift that resides in us: faith in God and faith in each other. I pray the followers of Jesus are finally ready to claim our inheritance.
Rep. John Lewis has bequeathed to the church a call to make “good trouble” and to stir up the gift that resides in us: faith in God and faith in each other. I pray the followers of Jesus are finally ready to claim our inheritance.
We live in an age of deep ideological and moral conflict, not only in politics but in social and political theory. Whatever might be one’s own convictions about the ultimate truth of the matter, it is not one on which all reasonable citizens will converge: as far as public moral reasoning goes, there are a number of reasonable ways of ordering social and political institutions. Each is convinced that his political views represent the truth, but to your neighbor they are errors. In the midst of this, mainstream political philosophy continues to spin out endless rationalizations of the theorist’s ideological convictions. What truly flummoxes contemporary political philosophy is how to seriously and productively theorize about a deeply morally diverse society. Given that this is a defining feature of our time, it is hard to overestimate how devastating a failure this is. --Gerald Gaus
