Archive for August, 2008

Influence transparency a must

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

Little wonder — seeing as I work for a government transparency organization — that I think ministerial colleague and blogger Joseph Santos-Lyons (Radicalhapa.com) is correct about fund raising for the Unitarian Universalist Association presidential election campaign:

Are all donors revealed? Whats the timeline?

It gets back to influence, and as free people we deserve to […]

Before the blog, the log

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Back when I was in my Clinical Pastoral Education unit — which all candidates for Unitarian Universalist ministerial fellowship must complete — the on-call hospital chaplains recorded rounds, deaths and pastoral care issues in a large log book in the Pastoral Care office. A tight running log of the pastoral care life of the hospital. […]

New ethical certification for kosher food

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Religious life and ethical consumption are two of my interests. Non-Jews might miss growing story in the Jewish and secular press, so I want to mention Hekhsher Tzedek, a new kosher certification that includes the ethics of production in parallel with religious regulation. (For news about it, it’s easier to follow Rabbi Morris Allen’s […]

I think the Olympics have jumped the shark

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Between a suspicious history of corruption within the IOC, the inclusion of professional athletes in competition, its rampant commercialism, the tendency within the United States to value nationalism over internationalism, not to mention the use of the games by political powers for propaganda purposes and to cover human rights abuses — this year, but also […]

Post-Christian?

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

I’m hopping mad.

In a quotation given to the Washington Post for a story in yesterday’s paper (”Unitarians Keep the Faith After Attack in Church“) we have this from UUA public relations director Janet Hay Hayes is quoted has saying:

The denomination considers itself “post-Christian,” she said. “We include the teaching of Jesus and we appreciate the […]