I have been asked to give a brief presentation on the statement issued by the 2005 Presbyterian Peacemakeing Conference, A Call to Say “No” to Torture. More information and links to a mailing list are available on the accompanying webpage: No2Torture. More information about the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program is available on the PCUSA website.
I’m curious how others respond to this document, and will post a quick precis of my presentation after I give it on Sunday. (full text reproduced here, below the fold…)
Some related links (please post more in the comments…):
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I have just opened an account at ShareBuilder, and so I’m on an “ethical investing” kick. Christian Science monitor has an interesting article on DIY investing along with some related internet resources. –JA
I recently completed Dave Smith’s To Be of Use: Seven Seeds of Meaningful Work, and enjoyed it. More to come… –JA
In The Risks Digest Volume 24: Issue 8, there is a report indicating that (at least some of…) Massachusetts’ signage issues are actually Microsoft’s fault. I can’t stop giggling. –JA
I’m on a Mars Hill Review kick these days. What can I say? Radiohead fans should have a look at the following: Review: The Music of Radiohead –JA
Mars Hill Review has Interviews: A Conversation with Lauren Winner. Go, Lauren Winner fans, go! –JA
The Josh Kornbluth has a show on PBS. I have no idea what to do with this, other than suggest that others take a gander at Haiku Tunnel (or, of you’re a Netflix aficianado), then sit back and marvel with me. –JA
Jonathan Sacks’ recent Credo column in the Times was a reflection and words of hope regarding appropriate religious responses to the recent spate of natural disasters. Sacks is the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, for which there is an excellent website, with links to a variety of Sacks’ other work. –JA
Ken Myers recently gave the three lectures to a group of faculty and graduate students at Vanderbilt University, under the auspices of the Humanitas Project. The link above provides a PDF transcript of Myers’ lecture, Faithful Stewards or Terrestrial Gods? Christianity and the Chief End of Science and an mp3 audio stream of Word Made Flesh, Flesh Made Whole: The Embodied Character of Salvation and the Basis of Bioethics. Myers is the host of one of my favorite periodicals, the Mars Hill Audio Journal. –JA (more…)
Bill Moyers recently delivered the keynote address at the annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists in Austin, TX. They have posted a transcript as well as a full-length mp3 of the speech. Perhaps I’ve had my head in the sand, but this segment of the speech on changes at Corporation for Public Broadcasting really caught me off guard. I’ll try to dig up some more references for this and post them below; meanwhile read on for an excerpt from Moyer’s speech… (more…)