Today is the anniversary of the unveiling and signing of A Religious Proclamation for Animal Compassion. If you haven’t signed it yet, please click on the icon on the right side bar. If you’re interested in my posts about the event, you can type in “Proclamation” in the search window, also on the right side bar.

I posted a few thoughts and a lot of pictures on a separate page. i’ll add to it. I just want to say that I had a good time talking with people, and really connected with a few, including two guys that arrived on the same shuttle bus that I was on. It was like deja vu to be back in the Washington DC area so soon after my trip last November, and I wonder if it’s going to become a tradition.
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Thank you to all who came to our “Engaging Religion” session. Since there was so little time, I didn’t have time to talk about a lot of things. But I did want to offer some live links to the videos of the speakers at the HOPE Conference, since I mentioned (Part 1) of our Presiding Bishop’s address. Check them out here.

I also mentioned that I had a transcript of (the Rev.) Steve Keplinger’s talk, which the audience had trouble hearing. It’s linked at the bottom of this page, along with others that are worth reading.

Here is a list of “humane humanitarian” charities to suggest, if your church is inclined to “send a cow” to a poor family in the developing world.

These are probably posted elsewhere, but I dug them out for the sake of any AR2008 visitors who came to our session, because they might be of interest. They were posted on a widely-read Episcopal blog site:
Climate Change, Hunger and Industrial Animal Agriculture
By Christine Gutleben and Lois Wye and
When a pet dies
By Jean Fitzpatrick
And here are a few other church-based animal-friendly resources, etc.
The Anglican Diocese of Newcastle’s animal resource page
The Episcopal Diocese of Washington’s animal resource web page
“Amen” publication of the Liturgical Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of New York on Animal Rites, with mention to ASWA & ENAW
The Presiding Bishop’s Easter Message that mentions diet, alludes to one of our Baptismal promises, “Do you renounce the evil powers of this world which corrupt and destroy the creatures of God?”, and makes reference to hamburgers, cattle-produced methane as it affects climate change.

I’ll add more later.