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Today is World Day of Prayer and I know scores upon scores of discord is being settled everyday by consciencious people just like me and you. People who know we are more than our complexions, cultural, ethnic and national backgrounds. People who know we are All God's Children and deserve to be treated as such.Today is World Day of Prayer and I know scores upon scores of discord is being... more
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95-year-old Crow Indian who went into battle wearing war paint under his World War II uniform has been awarded the nation's highest civilian honor.
Wearing a traditional headdress, Joe Medicine Crow on Wednesday received the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House. The award was clasped around his neck by President Barack Obama.
"Dr. Medicine Crow's life reflects not only the warrior spirit of the Crow people, but America's highest ideals," Obama said as he introduced him and called him "a good man" in the Crow language.
Medicine Crow broke tradition and briefly spoke after Obama gave him the medal, telling the president he was "highly honored" to receive it.95-year-old Crow Indian who went into battle wearing war paint under his World War II... more
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For a formidable and growing global community of supporters, the prospect of Native American activist Leonard Peltier finally leaving prison inspires a longing that cuts to the depths of the soul.
So Peltier’s first parole hearing of the Obama Era — on Tuesday, July 28 — inspired hope of an intensity that will have a major impact on the new presidency. A decision must come from the Federal Parole Commission within three weeks. His attorney is calling for a surge of public support that would create an irresistible political climate for Leonard’s release.
The relationship between Peltier and those who have followed his case over the decades can be intensely personal. His imprisonment has come to stand not only for five centuries of unjust violence waged against Native Americans, but also for the inhumane theft of the life of a man who has handled his 33 years in jail with epic dignity, effectiveness and grace.
Peltier’s latest parole hearing convened at the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where he is currently held. According to Eric Seitz, Peltier’s Honolulu-based attorney, Peltier spoke for more than an hour “with great eloquence” about the nature of his case, his imprisonment and his plans for freedom. “The hearing officer seemed to listen carefully,” said Seitz. “We thought it went very well.”For a formidable and growing global community of supporters, the prospect of Native... more
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A one-minute abstract/horror film based on the Saw film series. Produced by the Documentary Film club at the Native American Community Academy in Albuquerque, New Mexico.A one-minute abstract/horror film based on the Saw film series. Produced by the... more
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I've heard so much about how "great" a single payer system will be for America, but I have to ask: if the Federal Government can't get it right for our Native Americans, why should we trust them with our care?
From the New England Journal of Medicine
"The outdated, understaffed hospital in this community had only four beds, a busy outpatient clinic with five working exam rooms, and a small emergency room with four stations. A few run-down trailers held additional clinics and services. A sign on the door of the emergency room cautioned patients not to bring firearms into the facility — a constant reminder of perennial violence and trauma. After the vast, shiny university teaching hospital in which I had most recently worked, this facility came as quite a shock.
Part of my job was to help cover the emergency room. Although the hospital was built to be staffed by 12 physicians, only 3 others worked there when I arrived. During every emergency room shift, I cared for adults and children with broken bones from unintentional injuries and car accidents, attended to patients in various stages of alcohol or drug intoxication, and treated the unfortunate and often preventable complications of chronic disease.
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Although the federal government has a trust responsibility to provide health care for American Indians and Alaska Natives, the Indian Health Service is substantially underfunded and understaffed. This service was established in 1955 to provide primary care and public health services on or near Indian reservations. Although it can take credit for great improvements in health status, significant disparities in health and the quality of care persist 50 years later (see Figure 1). Many factors contribute to these disparities, but the failure of the federal government to adequately fund the Indian Health Service for the provision of care to the 1.8 million patients it is supposed to serve means that the promises of treaties signed in the 1800s have never been fulfilled. Indian Health Service per capita health care expenditures are much lower than those of other health care systems in the United States."
Here's another article by the Commonwealth Fund
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/usr_doc/roubideaux_qualityhltcare_aians_756.pdf
Finally, read this article, from which I got my title:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tim-giago/how-will-universal-health_b_218636.html
"Those Americans opposed to it compare it to Canada's or Britain's health care systems, which they say are nothing but socialized medicine. The Indian Health Care system, deemed a "historic failure" by Sebelius, has also been labeled as socialized medicine, and the fact that she would label it as a failure does not place much faith in an even larger universal health care system. It just seems that every time the federal government takes total control over anything, failure is almost assured. Watch out General Motors."
"This brings us full circle to the old saying, 'If you think the government can solve all of our problems ask an Indian.'I've heard so much about how "great" a single payer system will be for... more
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Archaeologists are slowly unearthing the ghastly secrets of Cahokia, an ancient city under the American heartland
Ever since the first Europeans came to North America, only to discover the puzzling fact that other people were already living here, the question of how to understand the Native American past has been both difficult and politically charged. For many years, American Indian life was viewed through a scrim of interconnected bigotry and romance, which simultaneously served to idealize the pre-contact societies of the Americas and to justify their destruction. Pre-Columbian life might be understood as savage and brutal darkness or an eco-conscious Eden where man lived in perfect harmony with nature. But it seemed to exist outside history, as if the native people of this continent were for some reason exempt from greed, cruelty, warfare and other near-universal characteristics of human society.Archaeologists are slowly unearthing the ghastly secrets of Cahokia, an ancient city... more
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Economics has merged with sex, drugs, and rock and roll in the buzz of our World while the issues of hunger, poverty, and disease do get press, but the real answers to these problems are ignored or unknown. We who know need come together to spread the truth.
The hidden science of Embera people, as held for millennia in the clan of the traditional medicine family I am married into, begs to be known. The suffering of our fellow man is a common cry of which much business has been made, and as this commercialization has grown so has the suffering.
It has been my life to witness and understand the processes that cure cancer, diabetes, AIDS, alcohol and drug addictions, and other ills. It has been quite an experience. Just the memories are humbling as often comes to my mind my own inadequacies in attempting to share this medicine way with others.
It seems that my expectations were very naïve. My feeling was childlike in that I felt it would simply be a matter of telling the truth of what had been presented to me, and that others would follow to help spread this knowledge for the benefit of all.
First I learned about the medicine, and a few years later our Creator led me to its source. Here in the Republic of Panama, since the European invasion, the dominant culture has thrived in its own malignant way. Just outside the big cities limits there is a practice that has been an unbroken continuous act of tradition in a millenarian healing science in which people of all cultures, mostly what some would call poor people, have benefited thru miraculous cures.
My attempts to bring this practice into the forefront have been met with mostly disbelief, and uncaring. Although on some occasions there have been those who have wanted to profit on this knowledge for their own petty gain.
In the years of our struggle there are many stories within this theme of healing, but the one constant that is ever present is that this knowledge has been gifted to this humble Embera clan by God, and that His will is what will prevail.
My words have become like prayer, my prayers are like my breath, a constant action necessary to life. In knowing that life breeds life thru the covenants made with our Creator, and that the process of right living is what honors our agreements and maintains balance between our world and the others; well, this is the history of our journey in healing. This is not so much about the individual, but what we together can do for the common good.
One of the basic elements in healing is the application of positive mind and prayer. An illness will not take as firm a hold in a right mind as in one that has no faith. Another facet of equal importance is to adhere to a proper diet while on a healing regimen. The diet need not be vegetarian rather free of refined sugar, low in fats, and free of chemicals and other additives.
The best food is prayed over and whose source is one of a happy life. In other words food is sacred and should be treated and eaten as such. Medicine is a food that when gathered and prepared in the right way offers powerful healing.
The positive mind and prayer of the person who is ill along with those of family and friends is what best allows the spirit of the medicine to enter into the body brining the patient back to health. Now if this sounds easy beware and take from my experience. There is much that is evil in our world, and we are nothing without God.
As far as individuals go there are not many real healers left, and while the options for those who are looking are maybe overwhelming the truth is what begs to be known.
Why is it not a recognized right to allow traditional Native American medicine as an alternative to treat cancer patients, and other ills in the United States?
Why is it that so many believe that cancer, and AIDS cannot as yet be cured? How can we as a family of human kind understand we are not the owners of things, rather recipients of this gift of life...PlanetCancer.org Raymond HermenetEconomics has merged with sex, drugs, and rock and roll in the buzz of our World while... more
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Recently I read an article in a local newspaper, and looked at the accompanying photograph. It was about an event for a large group of adolescents with cancer here in the Republic of Panama. Upon understanding the material presented it was like being hit by an enormous wave of mixed feelings ranging from anger, to despair, to a sense of urgency for people to learn to think with their hearts instead of the falsehoods that have been placed in their minds.
The children of which the article was about were invited to a theatre of live actors, and then were treated with food from McDonalds and candy. In the photograph one could clearly see two mothers who are Native American Embera. So many things raced in my mind making me need to slow down, to write this down.
The irony of women born into a culture of people who are renowned healers killing their kids with junk food, and sugar, was like a sucker punch that caught me off guard. This cultural genocide has condemned their children while propagating the commercial advancement businesses that thrive on the suffering of our people, of all people.
My wife the healer, a woman of knowledge, my closest friend, and spiritual advisor, tells me it is so difficult to move forwards in a right way in these times as so many of us have lost faith in God. This is my dilemma in that my own faith drives me on in spite of whatever difficulty, but of course it is not me at all. In the prayer of these words our Creator has left His mark. Please read on letting this prayer share with you a bit about the life we lead in our home.
My family is a clan of Native American Embera healers. At the time this is written we have three patients living with us in the way of traditional medicine, and many others who come to be treated, and continue their treatments and recuperation at home. They need to regularly come over to receive medicines, and keep up the communication by cell phone so that my wife can give them any needed instructions that may come about.
It is the patients who live with us that are more immersed in this medicine way that succeeds where modern medicine does not. A young mother with full blown AIDS, and her infant son, in the time that they have spent here has been like passing from night to day. She has gained healthy weight along with a return to her youthful energy levels, while her son is parasite free, eating healthy for the first time. He has also been changing his dysfunctional behavior into the angelic playfulness of a happy boy.
What is so disturbing is now this young woman feels compelled to leave our home. She has been offered a job back where she has been living with her extended family. The father who raped her, the mother who did nothing along with the rest of her family members, are waiting her return in anticipation of her first paycheck. Her new boyfriend and ex husband who she has been stringing along are also.
This woman has been told many times, has hopefully come to understand, that one must honor their parents, but that she needs to separate herself, and her son, from her families parasitic behaviors. She has also been instructed not to have sexual relations during the entire time of her recuperation which could be up to a year. Now that she and her son are leaving our home we pray that she will be able to do this. Most of my empathy is with the boy. Her son is a miracle child, and a joy to be around. Now that he is going back into a nest of sin all that he will have is our prayers, and the time he has spent here with his mom.
In a previous blog is mentioned a medical doctor who brought us a cancer patient in the last stages of her illness. She got to coming over almost on a daily basis to receive poultices, and medicinal baths, in addition to a botanical remedy my wife prepares that through our Creators will cures cancer. Basically cancer is won through faith, and discipline to act with the proper diet to weaken the cancer, and... www.myspace.com/raymondhermenetRecently I read an article in a local newspaper, and looked at the accompanying... more
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Look what the Federal Government is doing to the Native Americans.
***This article has been chosen as a discussion topic on PFP Movement Radio, http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pfpmovementradio Friday night at 6pm-8pm. Please Call In To The Show, 347-633-9636. COMMENTS will be included in the show so feel free to discuss or ask questions here on current.com as they will be addressed during the show. This article will also air on Freedom Hour Saturday at 9pm-10pm on Movement TV http://www.peacefreedomprosperity.com/?page_id=36***Look what the Federal Government is doing to the Native Americans.
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A friend of mine recently wrote me to ask my opinion about Section 297.5 of the California Family Code that grants all the rights and responsibilities of marriage to same sex couples and what is the big deal about Proposition 8 in California. Below is what I wrote him in response. I would love to hear your comments about the issue of marriage. What is Marriage? Now? In History? What makes a family?
Here is what I wrote to my friend:
What most gay people want is Federal Marriage Equality. The LGBT community is split on whether or not to call it Marriage, Same Sex Unions, Civil Unions or Domestic Partnerships. Personally I don't care what they call it so long as the rights are equal as far as both State and Federal law are concerned.
However, there are those in the LGBT community that will not be satisfied unless it is called Marriage and it is recognized by all 50 States and the Federal Government. Some of the vocal activists are actually working for the opposition but their job is to make the other side seem utterly rediculous and to influence the position of swing voters. But that is another story entirely.
I did a paper on Marriage for my Sociology, Anthropology, and Writing classes and I had to study the definition of marriage now, in the recent past, and throughout history. What I discovered is that marriage has meant many different things at different times. What constituted a kinship family tie and the motivation for creating unions has also changed throughout time and in different parts of the world. There has not been ONE version of marriage that has remained constant over the entire world. Of course many people are ethnocentric or plain self centered and don't have an awareness radius of more than 5 feet around them. So these people, who lack much awareness of the bigger picture, assume that whatever is currently their definition must be THE DEFINITION now and for all time. These ignorant people aren't to blame, they are products of the education system they were immersed in and the cultural systems they were immersed in as well.
Since the days that Empires came into existence, marriage within the boundaries of an Empire such as the Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, or Early American (when women didn't have any rights to vote or own property) marriage was a way of conveying wealth and ensuring succession of power and land rights etc. Marriage was a financial contract and the consolidation of the wealth of two families.
In other parts of the world, no empire, marriage has been more fluid and varied. For example, in Island nations of the Pacific, marriage rights and property ownership was vested in the woman. She selected her husband she owned the property. Where as in Native American tribes of North America, marriage/kinship was between a brother and sister as the core group, while the brother chose the father of the baby, the parents were the brother and sister, the father of the child had no parental rights. Other North American tribes had various versions of what constituted a couple and many made accomodations for people they considered "third sex" or "two sexed". Some people have concluded that this was talking about gays or intersexed/hermaphrodite individuals. In most tribal cultures, these people were considered especially blessed by the spirits or gods because of their differences to the majority. And in some places there are formal contracts for marriage whereas in other parts there are informal contracts made on a word; a promise. Does a piece of paper make a marriage?
Well in America today, marriage is still about economics and raising families, only attitudes have changed such that people of same sex can have children either through in vitro or donated sperm or ova. They can form informal families without a paper, but the sticky thing becomes when there is an issue that involves either Federal or State law. It has been proven time and again that no state is under obligation to honor the laws of other stA friend of mine recently wrote me to ask my opinion about Section 297.5 of the... more
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Mark 16:15 John 1-5 Ephesians 1: 3-4 & 1: 9-10
(Valparaiso, Indiana) - Rev. Dr. George Cairns of Chesterton, Indiana delivers a Sunday homily about “the major evils of today – genocide and ecocide” entitled “Repent or the Time is Near” on May 31, 2009 at the Union Community Church in Valparaiso, Indiana.
In this two part homily video series, Rev. Cairns discusses the “Cosmic Christ” and a related story in “The Lutheran” magazine by Elaine Siemsen, the United Nations definition of genocide, the loss of language and other heritages in Indigenous peoples like the American Indian, Ecocide, the acclaimed ABC News Special “Earth 2100” and how many experts believes the Earth and its inhabitants are facing the “the Sixth Great Extinction” of the world.
Cairns talks about the results of the American Museum of Natural History national survey on Ecocide that “reveals a biodiversity crisis” and is entitled “Scientific Experts Believe we are in the Midst of Fastest Mass Extinction in Earth's History: Crisis Poses Major Threat to Human Survival; Public Unaware of Danger”
With the statute of limitations up, Rev. Cairns confesses his childhood antics to prevent a highway construction project from ruining the woods in which he played - now an interstate freeway has “vaporized” those woods that meant so much to him while growing up.
The other homilies on Celtic Christianity take a look at several topics including the European roots of the Celts (primarily Scotland and Ireland) and how Earth-based cultures can impact the future of civilization including actively protecting the environment, respecting fellow humans, different cultures and nature.
Cairns works closely with Rev. Gregory Jones on several social fronts.
Rev. Jones is the pastor of the Union Community Church and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theology at Valparaiso University.
Founded in 2007, The non-profit Turtle Island Project is known for its ongoing work with Native American issues and the other wing involves other Earth-based religions like the Celts. Dr. Cairns is the co-founder of the nonprofit Turtle Island Project.
Rev. Cairns continues to work closely with the foremost Celtic group in the world, the Iona Community in Scotland.
Celtic Christianity Today
www.celticchristianitytoday.org
youtube & bliptv:
http://celticchristianity.blip.tv
www.youtube.com/celticchristianity
Rev. George Cairns, Spirit Cafe blog, United Church of Christ
http://i.ucc.org/FeedYourSpirit/SpiritCafe/CafeBlog/tabid/83/Default.aspx
Iona Community
www.iona.org.uk
www.isle-of-iona.com
www.iona-nwf.org/links.htm
Union Community Church, Valparaiso, IN
http://unioncommunitychurchucc.blogspot.com
Rev. Gregory Jones, Theology Department Valparaiso University
www.valpo.edu/theology/faculty/gregoryjones.php
http://faculty.valpo.edu/gjones
The Lutheran Magazine: Who is the Cosmic Christ? By Elaine Siemsen
www.thelutheran.org/article/article_buy.cfm?article_id=2696
United Nations: genocide
www.preventgenocide.org/genocide/officialtext.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history
www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/p_genoci.htm
www.hawaii-nation.org/genocide.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide
Native American Genocide:
www.nemasys.com/ghostwolf/Native/genocide.shtml
www.exiledmothers.com/babies_taken_for_adoption/native_american_babies.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_death
www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/01/a-native-american-language-goe.html
Ecocide:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecocide
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1574160052/bookrags
American Museum of Natural History survey on Ecocide:
www.well.com/~davidu/amnh.html
www.well.com/~davidu/extinction.html
www.well.com/
www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/02/is-mass-species.html
ABC News Special “Earth 2100”
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Earth2100
Sixth Great Extinction:
http://rewilding.org/thesixthgreatextinction.htm
www.nerc.ac.uk/research/issues/biodiversity/sixth.asp
www.well.com/user/davidu/sixthextinction.htmlMark 16:15 John 1-5 Ephesians 1: 3-4 & 1: 9-10
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(Valparaiso, Indiana) - Rev. Dr. George Cairns of Chesterton, Indiana delivers a Sunday homily about “the major evils of today – genocide and ecocide” entitled “Repent or the Time is Near” on May 31, 2009 at the Union Community Church in Valparaiso, Indiana.
In this two part homily video series, Rev. Cairns discusses the “Cosmic Christ” and a related story in “The Lutheran” magazine by Elaine Siemsen, the United Nations definition of genocide, the loss of language and other heritages in Indigenous peoples like the American Indian, Ecocide, the acclaimed ABC News Special “Earth 2100” and how many experts believes the Earth and its inhabitants are facing the “the Sixth Great Extinction” of the world.
Cairns talks about the results of the American Museum of Natural History national survey on Ecocide that “reveals a biodiversity crisis” and is entitled “Scientific Experts Believe we are in the Midst of Fastest Mass Extinction in Earth's History: Crisis Poses Major Threat to Human Survival; Public Unaware of Danger”
With the statute of limitations up, Rev. Cairns confesses his childhood antics to prevent a highway construction project from ruining the woods in which he played - now an interstate freeway has “vaporized” those woods that meant so much to him while growing up.
The other homilies on Celtic Christianity take a look at several topics including the European roots of the Celts (primarily Scotland and Ireland) and how Earth-based cultures can impact the future of civilization including actively protecting the environment, respecting fellow humans, different cultures and nature.
Cairns works closely with Rev. Gregory Jones on several social fronts.
Rev. Jones is the pastor of the Union Community Church and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theology at Valparaiso University.
Founded in 2007, The non-profit Turtle Island Project is known for its ongoing work with Native American issues and the other wing involves other Earth-based religions like the Celts. Dr. Cairns is the co-founder of the nonprofit Turtle Island Project.
Rev. Cairns continues to work closely with the foremost Celtic group in the world, the Iona Community in Scotland.
Celtic Christianity Today
http://www.celticchristianitytoday.org
youtube & bliptv:
http://celticchristianity.blip.tv
www.youtube.com/celticchristianity
Rev. George Cairns, Spirit Cafe blog, United Church of Christ
http://i.ucc.org/FeedYourSpirit/SpiritCafe/CafeBlog/tabid/83/Default.aspx
Iona Community, Scotland
www.iona.org.uk
www.isle-of-iona.com
www.iona-nwf.org/links.htm
Union Community Church, Valparaiso, IN
http://unioncommunitychurchucc.blogspot.com
Rev. Gregory Jones, Theology Department at Valparaiso University
www.valpo.edu/theology/faculty/gregoryjones.php
http://faculty.valpo.edu/gjones
The Lutheran Magazine: Who is the Cosmic Christ? By Elaine Siemsen
http://www.thelutheran.org/article/article_buy.cfm?article_id=2696
United Nations: genocide
www.preventgenocide.org/genocide/officialtext.htm
www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/p_genoci.htm
www.hawaii-nation.org/genocide.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide
Native American Genocide – then and now:
www.unitednativeamerica.com/aiholocaust.html
www.nemasys.com/ghostwolf/Native/genocide.shtml
www.exiledmothers.com/babies_taken_for_adoption/native_american_babies.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_death
www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/01/a-native-american-language-goe.html
Ecocide:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecocide
American Museum of Natural History survey on Ecocide:
http://www.well.com/~davidu/amnh.html
http://www.well.com/~davidu/extinction.html
http://www.well.com/
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/02/is-mass-species.html
ABC News Special “Earth 2100”
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Earth2100
The Sixth Great Extinction:
http://rewilding.org/thesixthgreatextinction.htm
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/issues/biodiversity/sixth.asp
http://www.well.com/user/davidu/sixthextinction.html(Valparaiso, Indiana) - Rev. Dr. George Cairns of Chesterton, Indiana delivers a... more
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(Valparaiso, Indiana) - Rev. Dr. George Cairns of Chesterton, Indiana delivers Sunday homily entitled “The Cost and Joy of Discipleship” on May 3, 2009 at the Union Community Church in Valparaiso, Indiana.
The homilies on Celtic Christianity take a look at several topics including the European roots of the Celts (primarily Scotland and Ireland) and how Earth-based cultures can impact the future of civilization including actively protecting the environment, respecting fellow humans, different cultures and nature.
Cairns is working closely on several social fronts with Rev. Gregory Jones, pastor of the Union Community Church & Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theology at Valparaiso University.
Celtic Christianity Today
http://www.celticchristianitytoday.org
Celtic Christianity Today youtube & bliptv:
http://celticchristianity.blip.tv
http://www.youtube.com/celticchristianity
Rev. George Cairns on Spirit Cafe blog, United Church of Christ
http://i.ucc.org/FeedYourSpirit/SpiritCafe/CafeBlog/tabid/83/Default.aspx
Iona Community, Scotland
http://www.iona.org.uk
http://www.isle-of-iona.com
Iona Community New World Foundation: Iona associates, friends in U.S.
http://www.iona-nwf.org/links.htm
Union Community Church, Valparaiso, IN
http://unioncommunitychurchucc.blogspot.com
Rev. Gregory Jones, Theology Department at Valparaiso University
http://www.valpo.edu/theology/faculty/gregoryjones.php
Turtle Island Project TV (bliptv & youtube)
http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv
http://www.youtube.com/MunisingWhiteHorse
email:
TurtleIslandProject@charter.net
Artwork of Saint Columba, Wikipedia: Saint Columba, Apostle to the Picts
Saint Columba banging on the gate of Bridei, son of Maelchon, King of Fortriu.
Source: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, Scotland's Story
Saint Columba banging on the gate of Bridei, son of Maelchon, King of Fortriu.
Created by illustrator John R. Skelton in 1906.
Copyright expired
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Wikipedia Iona Island (Scotland) topo map
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iona
Iona Abbey photo, Wikipedia
Image owned by John Naisbitt & licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/72548
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Old Iona map showing sites of monasteries and abbey from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iona
Image from a book or document for which the American copyright has expired and this image is in the public domain in the United States and possibly other countries.
Source: Celtic Scotland, p.100
http://books.google.com/books?id=oJoQAAAAYAAJ
Author: William Forbes Skene in 1887
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August 1983 wide panorama shot of Iona Island from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iona
Iona (island), Scotland, view from the Fionnphort-Iona ferry
This image has been released into the public domain by its author, Dr. Torsten Henning, who grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DrTorstenHenning/photogallery
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Coracle boats on Wikipedia: Small coracle in Wales:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coracle
This image is hereby released into the public domain worldwide by its author, LinguisticDemographer at the Wikipedia Project.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LinguisticDemographer
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Author Ian Bradley biography of Saint Columba:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/divinity/rt/staff/icb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Bradley
http://www.alibris.com/search/books/isbn/0947988815
http://ionabooks.com/0947988815-Columba.html
http://www.amazon.com/Celtic-Christianity-Making-Chasing-Dreams/dp/0748610472
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Photo of Stained Glass Window of Saint Columba in St Margaret's Chapel, Edinburgh Castle from Rampant Scotland Website:
http://www.rampantscotland.com/know/blknow30.htm
Saint Columba & Celtic Spirituality websites:
http://www.columbacommunity.com/files/saint_columba.htm
http://leadershipinministry.com/an_introductory_reading_li.htm
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Contemplative Prayer/Centering Prayer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C(Valparaiso, Indiana) - Rev. Dr. George Cairns of Chesterton, Indiana delivers Sunday... more
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The Federal government has been forced to demolish and rebuild hundreds of uranium-contaminated structures across the Navajo Nation, where white Cold War-era mining of the radioactive substance left a legacy of disease and death.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its Navajo counterpart are focusing on homes, sheds and other buildings within a half-mile to a mile from a significant mine or waste pile. They plan to assess 500 structures over five years and rebuild those that are too badly contaminated.
The Native American plight needs to be recognized and dealt with as the darkest stain on American history. While the Jewish Holocaust receives daily attention, this issue is swept under the rug as part of revisionist history. Why are the Native Americans still treated as sub-human in modern times? I went to my father's reservation a while ago and it is desolate land that isn't fertile and people are forced to live in trailers while others profit off land that they shared with the animals until the invasion of America.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Story?id=3764417 The Federal government has been forced to demolish and rebuild hundreds of... more
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12th Anniversary Retreat
Spirit of Place
Encounters of Spirituality and the Environment
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Wisdom in Wilderness: The Poetic Vision of Mary Oliver, a Spirit of Place kayaking trip retreat
Kayaking 40 miles along the shores of Lake Superior coastline
August 3-7, 2009
Cost: $850 (Limited to 10 persons)
Interfaith kayaking trip along 40 miles of Lake Superior shoreline, while reading journals of 16th Century Jesuit Missionaries to the Ojibwa tribe; discussions of spirituality and nature; hearty meals including smoked fish and homemade bread; Lodging in an Historic Inn and rustic lakeside cabins.
Facilitators: Rev. John Magnuson & Rev. Lee Goodwin
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God and the Bomb
Science, Faith and the Future of Nuclear Technology
Nov. 12-15, 2009
Pecos Benedictine Monastery, New Mexico
(20 miles north of Santa Fe and 60 miles from Los Alamos)
Historical perspectives on the development of the Atomic Bomb
Small group dialogues on the faith and science with psycho-social insights on the challenge of nuclear technology
Prayers and reflection with members of the Benedictine Community
Ethical considerations for the promise and threat of nuclear energy
Afternoons in Santa Fe and at the Los Alamos National Laboratory with daily hikes in the Sangre de Christo Mountains.
Presenters:
Larry Rasmussen, PhD., Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary
Robert Kraus, PhD., Deputy Director of Research and Development, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Facilitator:
Rev. Jon Magnuson, Director, nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute,
Cost: $850
Limited to 12 persons
Registration Deadline: September 1, 2009
Requires a $250 deposit
Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute:
http://www.cedartreeinstitute.com/kayaktrips.html12th Anniversary Retreat
Spirit of Place
Encounters of Spirituality and the... more
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Blanding » Anger and fear generated by federal charges of artifact looting in the vast deserts of southeastern Utah merged with sorrow Thursday when James Redd - a physician and defendant in the case - was found dead on his Blanding property.
Townspeople gathered at the bottom of Redd's long private driveway Thursday evening, many of them weeping, the day after federal officials announced the indictments of 24 people (including Redd) in the theft and sale of more than 250 American Indian artifacts from the Four Corners area.
The San Juan County Sheriff's Office did not return repeated calls for information on the cause of Redd's death Thursday, but law enforcement officials familiar with the circumstances and speaking on condition of anonymity said it appeared he took his own life.
James Redd was previously accused and acquitted in trespassing on Indian sites in the 1990s.Blanding » Anger and fear generated by federal charges of artifact looting in... more
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A community of Grave robbers and looters is finally being charged with a federal offense. While some say collecting artifacts from public lands is a "hobby," what actually is happening here is the looting of ancient graves and unauthorized archeological digs.A community of Grave robbers and looters is finally being charged with a federal... more
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In Peru's Amazon: Indigenous leaders oppose a government push to develop their ancestral lands illegally and have had to do so with force. The government has killed 15 Natives and reports that 5 police were killed in the most recent land-grab attempt. Gas exploration on their ancestral lands in Peru's Amazon has again spotlighted the traditional plight of Native Americans. With the push for more energy the Indigenous People have been forced to protect what little land they have left.In Peru's Amazon: Indigenous leaders oppose a government push to develop their... more
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Celtic Christianity Today Homily “The Goodness of Creation” on April 26, 2009 at Union Community Church, Valparaiso, IN by Rev. Dr. George Cairns of Chesterton, IN.
Rev. Dr. George Cairns delivers Celtic Christianity Today homilies:
The homilies on Celtic Christianity take a look at several topics including the European roots of the Celts (primarily Scotland and Ireland) and how Earth-based cultures can impact the future of civilization including actively protecting the environment, respecting fellow humans, different cultures and nature.
Cairns is working closely with Rev. Gregory Jones on several social fronts.
Rev. Jones is the pastor of the Union Community Church and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theology at Valparaiso University.
Founded in 2007, The non-profit Turtle Island Project is known for its ongoing work with Native American issues - and the other wing involves other Earth-based religions like the Celts. Dr. Cairns is the co-founder of the nonprofit Turtle Island Project.
Rev. Cairns continues to work closely with the foremost Celtic group in the world, the Iona Community in Scotland that is a dispersed Christian ecumenical community working for peace and social justice, rebuilding of community and the renewal of worship.
Cairns is a research professor of Practical Theology and Spirituality at Chicago Theological Seminary, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and lives in Chesterton, Indiana.
Cairns recently completed a six-part "contemplative reading and discussion" of Philip Newell's book "Christ of the Celts" at the Union Community Church. Cairns and his wife, Nancy, recently hosted a conference on Celtic Spirituality, Ecology, and Participative Consciousness.
Dr. Cairns says:
Celtic Christianity is a strand of the Christian tradition which developed during the
middle of the first millennium. Its full flowering in Ireland and Scotland continued for several hundred years before it was incorporated into the dominant church as many of its traditions were lost or suppressed.
There are two major reasons for this recovery and reconstruction of Celtic Christian practical theology for the church today: Church Renewal & Engaging and transforming the genocide and ecocide taking place today.
We are concerned that our current individual and systemic western consciousness is disembodied and ill. We believe that this process started several thousand years ago in the late Paleolithic. We are not trying to turn back the clock to the Stone Age. But we do know that a change in consciousness must begin if our planet and we are to survive.
What we have lost is participative consciousness, which understands that our lives are profoundly related to the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of all of creation. Another way of putting this is that we are completely relational beings. Reconnection with all of creation as sacred and responsive
and alive is our great task in the early 21st century.
We have living guides to help us such as Celtic Spirituality, Native American Spirituality and post-modern science. I believe we need to integrate the profound gifts of these resources and open ourselves to deepen our relationships with all of creation.”
Related websites:
Celtic Christianity Today
http://www.celticchristianitytoday.org
Rev. George Cairns on Spirit Cafe blog, United Church of Christ
http://i.ucc.org/FeedYourSpirit/SpiritCafe/CafeBlog/tabid/83/Default.aspx
Iona Community, Scotland
http://www.iona.org.uk
Iona Community New World Foundation: Iona associates, friends in U.S.
http://www.iona-nwf.org/links.htm
Turtle Island Project
http://www.TurtleIslandProject.org
Union Community Church, Valparaiso, IN
http://unioncommunitychurchucc.blogspot.com
Rev. Gregory Jones, Theology Department at Valparaiso University
http://www.valpo.edu/theology/faculty/gregoryjones.phpCeltic Christianity Today Homily “The Goodness of Creation” on April 26,... more
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Presbyterian EarthKeeper Jill Martin of Ford River Township in Delta County writes the fourth of seven columns about the environment and the interfaith Upper Peninsula (U.P.) EarthKeeper Tree Project that planted 12,000 trees across the Upper Peninsula in early May 2009.
The EarthKeeper columns and news stories appeared in numerous U.P. newspapers including the Marquette Mining Journal, the Escanaba Daily Press, the Iron Mountain Daily News, the Houghton Daily Mining Gazette, the St. Ignace News, the Marquette Monthly and the Ironwood Daily Globe.
Jill Martin is a Presbyterian EarthKeeper team member, an environmental scientist with Wilcox Professional Services in Escanaba and a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Escanaba.Presbyterian EarthKeeper Jill Martin of Ford River Township in Delta County writes the... more
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