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For A Change

| December 01, 2006 | Boobbyer, Laura | COPYRIGHT 2006 For a Change. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

With a name like For A Change the choice of theme for the last lead story was an obvious one: living with change. And of course it' s not only at milestone moments like these that we face change. We wake up to it every day--global change, institutional change, personal change.

Read the papers and watch the television and you are left with the feeling that the world is in chaos--environmentally, morally, spiritually. The founder of Initiatives of Change, Frank Buchman, believed that the only thing to do in a crisis was to help people to change. If that is true, we've all got a lot of work to do--starting with ourselves. And therein lies some of the best news the world has ever heard--that however bad things get there is always the next step for each of us to take.

Here in the UK, there are signs of a growing awareness of the need to live with a conscience; department stores invite consumers to drink fair-trade beverages; the Post Office encourages people to make small ...

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