CACE Electronic Journal
Center for Applied Christian Ethics, Wheaton College,
Wheaton, Illinois September
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Welcome
to our September eJournal. I often wonder what many Christians think and expect
when they pray “thy kingdom come” as Jesus taught us. Is there any
sense of anticipation or hope that the reality of the kingdom will be reflected
in our lifetime? When we think of the pain and difficulties all over the world,
do we only look to the return of Christ for the remedy, or do we have any sense
of responsibility for providing a glimpse of the reality of God’s kingdom,
even if we remain humble enough to resist thinking our own efforts will usher
in the fullness of the kingdom? This month CACE is co-sponsoring an event that
challenges us to think about morality and the HIV crisis. On September 20 at 7:00
pm in Barrows Auditorium we will have the opportunity to hear from a panel that
will address questions such as the relationship between faith and one’s
perception of the crisis, and also how one’s response to this predicament
can be instructive for how we confront other moral challenges. When we think of
a world that is broken while we pray for the entrance of the kingdom, what do
we do in the face of such daunting crises? The campus community and public are
all invited to attend as we begin to answer this question.
Please see below for some of our upcoming events this Fall. We are very excited
about the speakers and discussions that will take place, and we hope you will
join us as we consider engaging the moral challenges in the world. Wheaton College
is always a wealth of activity and September is no exception. We would like to
also recommend the Conservatory of Music's Symposium Celebrate
Africa on campus Saturday, September 22nd. At 7:00 PM Ladysmith
Black Mambazo will be presented by the Artist Series at Wheaton College Edman
Memorial Chapel.
In this month’s journal, we are featuring an abstract
of a recent article by Professor Sandra Joireman from our Politics and International
Relations Department, which looks at some of the security concerns which arise
from attempting to confront the AIDS crisis in Africa.
Vince Bacote
Director of CACE
Upcoming Events:
HIV
and Morality
Thursday, September
20 7PM, Barrows Auditorium.
CACE co-sponsors with the Mosaic Initiative for an evening of lively discussion
with panelists from Wheaton Academy, Human Rights Campaign, Wheaton Bible Church,
Global Lifeworks, and others. Visit our webpage
for full list of participants.
"Christian
Moral Engagement in Politics"
Thursday, October 11, 7 PM Coray Event Center.
Senator Dan Coats R-IN, former member of Congress from 1981-1999, joins us along
with former Congressman Victor Fazio, Jr., D-CA who served from 1979-1999. Michael
Gerson, Wheaton grad and former speech writer for the Bush White House, now op-ed
columnist for The Washington Post and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign
Relations will be our moderator.
Wheaton
Lecture in Christian Moral Formation
Thursday- Saturday, November 9-10, 2007
CACE welcomes to campus, Gideon Strauss for our Christian Moral Formation Lectureship.
Gideon is the Research and Education Director of the Christian Labour Association
of Canada and editor of Comment, the journal of the Work Research Foundation.
Faith in the Halls of Power
Wednesday, November 14 3:30 - 5 PM, Blanchard 339
Michael Lindsay, Rice University, Department of Sociology has recently completed
the nation’s largest and most comprehensive study of public leaders who
are people of faith.CACE events are free and open to the public. See www.christianethics.org
for our 2007 - 2008 Event Schedule
HIV/AIDS in Africa
and US National Security
by Dr. Sandra Joireman
Wheaton College
"HIV/AIDS
in Africa," Africa- US Relations: Strategic Encounters,
Donald Rothchild and Edmond Keller (eds.),
(Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006), p. 147-166.
ABSTRACT:
The U.S. response to HIV/AIDS in Africa reflects the way in which Africa
fits into the U.S. national security agenda. Increased awareness of the causes
of terrorism has made Africa more critical to the national security agenda of
the United States than it has been in the past. The African security concerns
of greatest interest to U.S. policymakers are terrorism and state failure. Economic
underdevelopment, coupled with HIV/AIDS, may produce an environment in which
weak or even failed states are unable to stem the growth of terrorist groups
within their borders. Moreover, other threats to U.S. security occasionally
materialize in states unable to adequately police their own borders and assert
state control outside the capital. HIV/AIDS is a security threat, but it is
indirect and played out at multiple levels of analysis: within individual bodies;
clustered within families and communities; and with destabilizing effects on
the capacity of the state. Thus, HIV/AIDS links human security and international
security in unique ways. AIDS is a disease; it is neither a weapon nor a state.
Yet, it has been perceived by two US administrations as a threat to national
security because of its potential for destabilizing states.
Draft of paper
in pdf form.
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