Philadelphia Saves Week

February 23, 2010

Sunday, February 21st kicked off Philadelphia Saves Week. The theme of this year’s saves week is to “smart small, think big.”

Philadelphia Saves is a coalition of community groups, non-profit and government agencies, local financial institutions, and trained volunteers who are committed to helping Delaware Valley residents “Build Wealth, Not Debt.”  Through information, advice, and encouragement, Philadelphia Saves assists people who wish to pay down debt, build an emergency fund, or save for a home, education, investment, or retirement in order to improve their standard of living and most importantly, gain peace of mind.

The Philadelphia Inquirer talks about Philadelphia Saves Week in its recent article Saving can be a boon in a bad economy:

[Philadelphia Saves Week] encourages businesses and individuals to make saving more of a priority. Now is an excellent time for companies to promote the benefits and importance of saving to their employees and customers. For those in need of guidance, programs such as Philadelphia Saves are available to offer support, encouragement, and expert advice.

Multiple workshops are offered free to individuals throughout Saves Week. To view workshops that are being offered in the Philadelphia area, click here.

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The Big Questions in Science and Religion

February 18, 2010

ESSSAT-News recently reviewed Keith Ward’s The Big Questions in Science and Religion.

There is surely a need for handbooks and synthetic works providing a broad view of the sub-discipline ‘science and theology’: its main issues, the current discussions, and the standard positions.

…the book is very readable, offers an excellent introduction to our field, and constitutes a good attempt to put some order or organization into the many issues at stake. The work is useful and can be recommended as a broad introduction, very needed for those like me teaching the sub-discipline, and desperately looking for synthetic works for the students.

To read more about The Big Questions in Science and Religion by Keith Ward, click here.

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Become a Fan of the Gifford Lectures on Facebook!

February 16, 2010

Interested in the Gifford Lectures? Not sure what the Gifford Lectures are?

For over a hundred years the Gifford Lecture series has been one of the foremost lecture series dealing with religion, science and philosophy. In his 1885 will the jurist Adam Lord Gifford, convinced that true, felt knowledge of God when acted upon generated human well-being and progress, bequeathed £80,000 to the four Scottish universities (Universities of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow, and St. Andrews) for the establishment of a series of lectures dealing with the topic of natural religion. In dealing with their particular area of interest and expertise, lecturers are to discuss natural theology as a science, that is, “without reference to or reliance upon any supposed special exceptional or so-called miraculous revelation.”

Since the first lecture in 1888, Gifford Lecturers have been recognized as pre-eminent thinkers in their respective fields. Among the many exceptional lecturers are Alfred North Whitehead, Etienne Gilson, Werner Heisenberg, Max Mueller, and Iris Murdochand.

To find out more about the Gifford Lectures, please visit www.giffordlectures.org, or better yet, become a fan of the Gifford Lectures on Facebook!

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Harold Koenig to Speak at Washington and Lee University

February 12, 2010

Dr. Harold Koenig will present the Robert W. Root Lecture entitled Religion, Spirituality and Health: Definitions, Research and Clinical Applications at Washington and Lee University on Tuesday, February 16.

The lecture is free and open to the public. It will be held from 4:40 – 6:00 p.m. in the Stackhouse Theatre of Elrod Commons.

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New Widgets!

February 9, 2010

We’re pleased to announce we have two more widgets available! With a simple click of a button, Franklin’s Thirft and Thrift: A Cyclopedia are now available to preview and browse.

To access the widgets, please click the above links. Again we encourage everyone to copy and paste this wherever they desire. Post it on your blog, tweet it, attach it to emails, you decide!

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New Threats to Freedom

February 4, 2010

In our last post, we mentioned our new catalog and in this post, we’ll dig a little deeper into the titles contained therein. One of the books that has been getting the most interest so far is the new collection of essays, New Threats to Freedom. In it, you’ll find not only an impressive roster of contributors (including a Pulitzer prize winner, a Tony Award winning playwright, a perennial king of the non-fiction bestseller list), but also truly insightful and provocative thinking on some dangers that may have slipped past our intellectual defenses.

What are some of these new threats? I’ll let a handful of the essays speak for themselves:

“As traditional marriage declines, the ranks of single women are growing, and increasingly these women are substituting the security of a husband with the security of the state.” — Jessica Gavora

 “Ending the freedom to fail is a mean-spirited attack on the freedom to succeed.” — Michael Goodwin

“Since when has authority not claimed, when imposing trammels and curbs on liberty, that it does so for a wider good and a greater happiness?” — Christopher Hitchens

“The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.” — David Mamet

 “The new behaviorism isn’t interested in protecting people’s freedom to choose; on the contrary, its core principle is the idea that only by allowing an expert elite to limit choice can individuals learn to break their bad habits.” — Christine Rosen

Single women? Multiculturalism? Behaviorism? Haven’t we been taught that these are good things?! As you can see, this book is going to inspire some serious debate when it comes out in May.

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Spring 2010 Catalogs are now Available

February 2, 2010

If you’d like to see what we have in store for our Spring publishing list, you can head over to our website to download our full catalog. We’ve got a handful of great titles coming up that really show the full range of our diverse publishing areas.

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