Sunday morning talking heads political talk show

AFTER a few philosophical religious rado programs, I will be watching the Sunday morning talking heads political talk shows, as usual, for most Sunday mornings.

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On my refrigerator is a refrigerator magnet from folk song artist Jay Mankita, for his melodic and memorable album, 'Dogs are watching us." He talks about their trust in us (unlike cats, some might add; others have inspired the trust and love of one or more cats, but that's a different day's posting).
Some of us may find this topic mildly to moderately offensive (some may find it greatly or even profoundly bothering or offensive). It's an obvious takeoff from the song 'God is watching us' which gave many folks pause in the face of an unsettled society in multifactorial upheaval.

Others might think, well, if God is not vegan or even vegetarian (think of all the omnivorous animals in the creation and the deadly 'food chain' observation, even if some of us are exempt, as perhaps the stewards - we humans - who can honor God in the respect of loving all creation (a la NT scholar and professor Richard Alan Young: Is God a Vegetarian?), then at least (omnivorous) dogs CAN be (and should be, for ethical reasons.

Others object, but though cats need taurine (which CAN now be synthesized in a lab (it's good to be gifted with the neurological complexity that enables rational behaviors AND rational analysis, which can lead to the social construction of scientific method and scientific results which reshape society according to socially desirable HUMANE values), (omnivorous) dogs clearly CAN be not merely vegetarian, but also vegan.

The watershed book in the Vegetarian Dogs (and possibly! cats) movement was Dogs and Cats Go Vegetarian by the co-authors whose surname rhymes with EDEN: Barbara Lynn Peden (who did most of the journal research, I'm told; she is now a folksinger, I'm told) and her former husband, James Peden, who in the divorce got full rights to their shared book production AND VegDog & VegCat and empire (he had a paying job on the side and could sustain the D&GV 'empire' (enterprise) ("Harbingers of a New Age"), and she, claiming no extra-corporate skills of her own (though she had done most of the journal research and networking), left with little in the way terminated employees often do, with no IP rights to the work they have done along the way. Jim has since written new literature and a new chapter in the re-released book. In this light, one ought to read the book about Little Tyke, the vegetarian (not vegan) lioness, sold by the American Vegan Society (she died from being overstressed and overexposed on television as a celebrity - read 'oddity' or 'curiosity')

Blaming PETA in the recent media blitzes about vegan - read that again - not vegetarian but VEGAN dogs AND CATS - are those who (IMHO rightly) are concerned that some animals are, when not technically assisted with periodic lab-derived supplementary doses, suffer - read that again - SUFFER. However, the question persists, particularly in a Christian (read Genesis: God gave the animals the world; there was no DEATH (thus no killing for food) in Eden (rhymes with Peden).

More broadly, in monotheistic, Abrahamic 'traditions' of receiving the common literature of Genesis, the problem remains. Mohammed reported taught that 'it is better to drink milk than to eat meat', and while not PROSCRIBING the eating of meat (forbidding or teaching that it is wrong), there is remarkable tolerance in some branches of Christendom and Jewish practice, and even calendared encouragements of it (for its spiritual and 'meditative' or devotional benefits - as in Lent or in PRAYER AND fasting, etc.). Some monastics are largely or always vegetarian in some branches of Christendom. Dissident NON-MONASTIC groups have been suppressed, but often for doctrinary (not doctrinaire, but doctrinary - related to teaching or 'doctrine') or 'non-subscribing' (to doctrine) reasons.

What concerns me, though, is the philosophical problem of thinking inductively in the present world (as we all must) and committing oneself to a loving, rational (and both all-wise and all-knowing AND all-powerful) Deity, known among the uninitiated as God, though sometimes and by some through more personal names, quite reverently thought.

God has an interest in our intentionality - our behaviors - deliberate and unintentional

Some ways of being ourselves behaviorally and mentally are better (or at least less objectionable) than other behaviors. Some secular folks agree to this much; not all do.

In Genesis we are given stewardship in the sense of caring for all life; from this our (a) ecological and (b) humane AND (c) sociological stewardship obligations are derived.

In terms of our spiritually-derived public policy contributions, how can we endorse (let alone mandate) that we OR others care for animals - and humans, too - and the ecosystem in ways that trade off the well-being of some for that of others, even if mathematically one is numerically or quantitatively better.

Further, we’re helped along in this reflection by the prophecy of Isaiah, where the predatory rests with the herbivore, and there is no more exploitation of one (type) of the other (type), nor of one (type) by the other (type).

So, is keeping carnivorous animals, even pre-existing animals BEFORE any possible PHASING OUT of carnivorous animals by massive spay-neuter programs, ethically tolerable, particularly for those who derive at least part of their moral reasoning and rationale from Biblical sources and indirectly from others who also derive their thinking from those Biblical sources/texts?

Searching for vegan-friendly pet food is laudable in general, but specifically in light of this contextual reflection, that somehow, in the process BEFORE God becomes 'All in All', we ought to live in light of the eschaton, the hope of which (perhaps the Indwelling spirit, would be a foretaste or earnest (like earnest money) of one's spiritual inheritance, a life in a world of no more violence, for which righteousness we are to hunger and thirst (and surely our food would be characterized by having no violence).

sleeping the rest of Sunday and Monday until 7:30 am to catch up on his sleep deficit

Blogged and did laundry Saturday, when I should have been snoring in the bedroom.

Deciding whether to sleep all weekend, from now through early Monday morning. Looks as if i will.

Celebrating the annual 'Great American Meatout' - kicking the meat habit - far out of history

Meetings & 2009 EIGHR all day; recovering from 'a bug' - probably hundreds of millions of such bugs!

Stuffed noise cleared with salty water; dry throat assuaged with cold filtered water, I go to sleep.

"I never get sick", but I dragged through my last 2 of 8 hours today; I may have the flu.

Preparing student acceptances for June 8-12 2009 HSPH Ethical Issues in Global Health Research event

Struggling to get home to watch (a) 24 and (b) House; or is it (a) House and (b) 24?

Accepting students (who paid) into the 2009 EIGHR course: http://www.HSPH.Harvard.edu/bioethics/

Looking for thoughtful, articulate, kind, principled vegetarians to write celebrative songs about the joy of living by vegan values!

Looking for thoughtful, articulate, kind, principled vegetarians to write celebrative songs about the joy of living by vegan values!

Preparing 2009 EIGHR acceptances for June 8-12 after attending Sat AM session of 2009 National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference @Harvard

Preparing for National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference at Harvard Friday/Saturday, then 2009 EIGHR student acceptances for June 8-12.

Preparing for public ethics workshop Thur 1-5 pm;Natl Undergrad Bioethics Conf @Harvard Fri/Saturday

VejNaturals Wed PM; Natl Undergrad Bioethics Conf @Harvard Fri/Sat;public ethics wrkshp Thurs 1-5 pm

Preparing for National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference @Harvard Friday/Saturday &public ethics workshop for Thursday afternoon

Psyched about meeting Paul Krugman (Nobel Prize, Economics) at HMS this afternoon.

Psyched about HOUSE at 8 pm and 24 at 9 pm tonight; then because I'm zonked, I'll go to sleep early.

Processing applications for the 2009 HSPH Ethical Issues in Global Research course.

Attended 3 GREAT nutrition lectures by 3 city school food service directors at HSPH: they do MUCH.

I'm marketing the 2009 EIGHR course - Ethical Issues in Global Health Research: http://www.HSPH.Harvard.edu/bioethics/ Attend if qualified.

https://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k32021&pageid=icb.page246717

The Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Divinity School

present

The Second Annual Symposium on

The Roles of Faith-Based Organizations in Public Health

Thursday, March 12th

1:00 - 5:00 pm

Harvard-Yenching Institute, Auditorium

2 Divinity Avenue ● Cambridge, MA

Reception to follow symposium

Welcome: Dr. Daniel Wikler, Professor of Ethics and Population Health, Harvard School of Public Health

Opening Address (1:00-1:45 pm)

“Health and Faith in the Obama Era”

Kimberly Konkel

Associate Director for Health, Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, HHS

Panel 1 (1:45-3:15 pm)

Faith-Based Organizations in Public Health: Constitutional, Legal, and Ethical Issues

Melissa Rogers

Director, Wake Forest School of Divinity Center for Religion and Public Affairs;

Member, President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Richard Katskee

Assistant Legal Director, American’s United for Separation of Church and State

Kevin Outterson

Associate Professor, Boston University School of Law

Moderator: Richard Parker

Lecturer in Public Policy, Sr. Fellow, Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School

Panel 2 (3:30-5:00 pm)

Contraception and Faith: Including the Voice of Religion in Family Planning

Dianne Luby

President and CEO, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts

Rev. Eugene Rivers, III

Pastor, Azusa Christian Community; Co-chair, National TenPoint Leadership Foundation

Allan Hill

Andelot Professor of Demography, Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health

Lisa Sowle Cahill

 J. Donald Monan Professor of Theology, Boston College

Nadine Weidman

Associate, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

Moderator: Dr. Marcia Castro

Assistant Professor of Demography, Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health

Sponsored by: The Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health; Africa Health Forum; The Office of Student Life, Harvard Divinity School; HSPH Student Group for Reproductive Health and Rights

This event is open to the public.

Questions? Please contact Alyson at arosewoo@hsph.harvard.edu

The Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Divinity School

present

The Second Annual Symposium on

The Roles of Faith-Based Organizations in Public Health

Thursday, March 12th

1:00 - 5:00 pm

Harvard-Yenching Institute, Auditorium

2 Divinity Avenue ● Cambridge, MA

Reception to follow symposium

Welcome: Dr. Daniel Wikler, Professor of Ethics and Population Health, Harvard School of Public Health

Opening Address (1:00-1:45 pm)

“Health and Faith in the Obama Era”

Kimberly Konkel

Associate Director for Health, Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, HHS

Panel 1 (1:45-3:15 pm)

Faith-Based Organizations in Public Health: Constitutional, Legal, and Ethical Issues

Melissa Rogers

Director, Wake Forest School of Divinity Center for Religion and Public Affairs;

Member, President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Richard Katskee

Assistant Legal Director, American’s United for Separation of Church and State

Kevin Outterson

Associate Professor, Boston University School of Law

Moderator: Richard Parker

Lecturer in Public Policy, Sr. Fellow, Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School

Panel 2 (3:30-5:00 pm)

Contraception and Faith: Including the Voice of Religion in Family Planning

Dianne Luby

President and CEO, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts

Rev. Eugene Rivers, III

Pastor, Azusa Christian Community; Co-chair, National TenPoint Leadership Foundation

Allan Hill

Andelot Professor of Demography, Dept. of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health

Lisa Sowle Cahill

J. Donald Monan Professor of Theology, Boston College

Nadine Weidman

Associate, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

Moderator: Dr. Marcia Castro

Assistant Professor of Demography, Harvard School of Public Health

Sponsored by: The Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health; Africa Health Forum; The Office of Student Life, Harvard Divinity School; HSPH Student Group for Reproductive Health and Rights

This event is open to the public.

Questions? Please contact Alyson at arosewoo@hsph.harvard.edu

http://maynardsclark.blogspot.com/ Faith-Based Orgs in Public Health, Thur Mar 12, 1-5 pm, Harvard-Yenching Inst, 2 Divinity Av Cambridge MA

http://maynardsclark.blogspot.com/ Faith-Based Orgs in Public Health, Thur Mar 12, 1-5 pm, Harvard-Yenching Inst, 2 Divinity Av Cambridge MA

The Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Divinity School

present

The Second Annual Symposium on

The Roles of Faith-Based Organizations in Public Health

Thursday, March 12th

1:00 - 5:00 pm

Harvard-Yenching Institute, Auditorium

2 Divinity Avenue ● Cambridge, MA

Reception to follow symposium

Welcome: Dr. Daniel Wikler, Professor of Ethics and Population Health, Harvard School of Public Health

Opening Address (1:00-1:45 pm)

“Health and Faith in the Obama Era”

Kimberly Konkel

Associate Director for Health, Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, HHS

Panel 1 (1:45-3:15 pm)

Faith-Based Organizations in Public Health: Constitutional, Legal, and Ethical Issues

Melissa Rogers

Director, Wake Forest School of Divinity Center for Religion and Public Affairs;

Member, President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Richard Katskee

Assistant Legal Director, American’s United for Separation of Church and State

Kevin Outterson

Associate Professor, Boston University School of Law

Moderator: Richard Parker

Lecturer in Public Policy, Sr. Fellow, Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School

Panel 2 (3:30-5:00 pm)

Contraception and Faith: Including the Voice of Religion in Family Planning

Dianne Luby

President and CEO, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts

Rev. Eugene Rivers, III

Pastor, Azusa Christian Community; Co-chair, National TenPoint Leadership Foundation

Allan Hill

Andelot Professor of Demography, Dept. of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health

Lisa Sowle Cahill

J. Donald Monan Professor of Theology, Boston College

Nadine Weidman

Associate, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

Moderator: Dr. Marcia Castro

Assistant Professor of Demography, Harvard School of Public Health

Sponsored by: The Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health; Africa Health Forum; The Office of Student Life, Harvard Divinity School; HSPH Student Group for Reproductive Health and Rights

This event is open to the public.

Questions? Please contact Alyson at arosewoo@hsph.harvard.edu

The Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Divinity School

present

The Second Annual Symposium on

The Roles of Faith-Based Organizations in Public Health

Thursday, March 12th

1:00 - 5:00 pm

Harvard-Yenching Institute, Auditorium

2 Divinity Avenue ● Cambridge, MA

Reception to follow symposium

Welcome: Dr. Daniel Wikler, Professor of Ethics and Population Health, Harvard School of Public Health

Opening Address (1:00-1:45 pm)

“Health and Faith in the Obama Era”

Kimberly Konkel

Associate Director for Health, Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, HHS

Panel 1 (1:45-3:15 pm)

Faith-Based Organizations in Public Health: Constitutional, Legal, and Ethical Issues

Melissa Rogers

Director, Wake Forest School of Divinity Center for Religion and Public Affairs;

Member, President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Richard Katskee

Assistant Legal Director, American’s United for Separation of Church and State

Kevin Outterson

Associate Professor, Boston University School of Law

Moderator: Richard Parker

Lecturer in Public Policy, Sr. Fellow, Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School

Panel 2 (3:30-5:00 pm)

Contraception and Faith: Including the Voice of Religion in Family Planning

Dianne Luby

President and CEO, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts

Rev. Eugene Rivers, III

Pastor, Azusa Christian Community; Co-chair, National TenPoint Leadership Foundation

Allan Hill

Andelot Professor of Demography, Dept. of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health

Lisa Sowle Cahill

J. Donald Monan Professor of Theology, Boston College

Nadine Weidman

Associate, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

Moderator: Dr. Marcia Castro

Assistant Professor of Demography, Harvard School of Public Health

Sponsored by: The Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health; Africa Health Forum; The Office of Student Life, Harvard Divinity School; HSPH Student Group for Reproductive Health and Rights

This event is open to the public.

Questions? Please contact Alyson at arosewoo@hsph.harvard.edu

Dementia risk TRIPLED for those who DON'T EAT ENOUGH FRUITS and VEGETABLES

Oh, the conflicts in vegan friendship; a workplace agenda forced the decision - still 100% vegan

Plugging away in Longwood; much is accomplished, so celebrate another day of working productively.

Callig it aniht for the day. G'night!

Heading for home: will I stop by the dry cleaners for fresh shirts or the grocery for refreshments?

Watching 24 for 2 hrs, then sleeping for work Longwood Tuesday for documents, speeches, lectures

Another hour on the summer intensive research ethics course, then home to HOUSE and 24

Maynard will spend snowy Sunday in talking heads political TV talk shows, sleeping to prepare for Monday, catching up on electronic matters.

spending weekend in Longwood Medical Area marketing & organizing 2009 Research Ethics summer course

There are SO many things to do in this job, and I have three FT jobs packed into 40 hours

Suffering Firefox and connectivity problems like one would NOT believe, like atheists trying to pray

Passed the half-way mark today in this week's work in Longwood Medical Area: some victories & wins

Watching Obama tonight at 9 pm EST, then back to LMA for remainder of week

Very sleepy; don't know why; sleep deficit is cumulative.

Friend me everywhere, PARTICULARLY if you've friended me in one place but not in others. I only have 3672 friends on Facebook!

'Friend' me everywhere - PARTICULARLY kif you've friended me in one place in not in others.