If you are trying to reach me at andersoj@andersoj.org, I’m sorry. My service provider seems to be having email problems.
Please use andersoj.jsa@gmail.com as a backup if you need to reach me.
Update: I am adding some additional contact information to the “finding-andersoj” page linked in the sidebar. The URL for this page is: http://andersoj.org/oddments/secure/.
Update @ 1400: Sitelutions is working on this and they are befuddled. I’m sorry.
Update @ 1411: The trouble was traced down to an upgrade of their site-management software, cPanel. An upgrade was pushed earlier today which apparently tweaked the virus protection scheme which is attached to the mailserver. As a result, inbound email is reported to outside servers (i.e., all of you) as delivered, but is sitting somewhere in a mysterious antivirus queue and is never delivered to me. They are off looking for my errant email now. If you think you sent me a message today and I didn’t respond, please resend.
–JA
The New York Times has the following article: When Cleaner Air Is a Biblical Obligation (soul-sucking registration required) on the environmentalist lobby’s newest ally in congress: Christian Evangelicals. Blink Blink. –JA
The Very Rev. Sam Lloyd, formerly of Trinity Church Boston and now the Dean of the National Cathedral recently gave an excellent sermon on a uniquely unsentimental, Christian concept of love. For those so inclined, the Cathedral also provides a RealAudio stream of the message. An excerpt:
A few years ago I read an account by a Chicago lawyer named Thomas Geoghegan describing his first encounter with a soup kitchen. He was overwhelmed by the unpleasant smells and the terrible shape the men were in, but most of all he was disturbed because he had expected to love the poor and to be filled with a warm glow, and he wasn’t.
And so he complained to his priest friend, who replied, “You’re not down there for self-actualization.” But Geoghegan protested, “I didn’t feel any love for them.” The priest replied,
So what?…The church says nothing about that…Look, these nuns [who run the kitchen] aren’t liberals. They are conservative…They don’t care about “love” in our modern, interpersonal way. We, the liberals, want love: we go to soup kitchens to be loved. The nuns go there to feed people. That’s it. Give them something to eat.
It’s that cool, clear, unsentimental love that you find in people whose lives are given to loving.
Lloyd is an artist. –JA
A look back at The Culture of Narcissism:
The Overpraised American by Christine Rosen - Policy Review 133. Via Mars Hill Audio. –JA
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