I recently moved from Kalamazoo, MI where I was working for a small non-profit called the Center for Law and Renewal which was founded by and housed at the Fetzer Institute, a foundation that's mission is to promote the power of love and forgiveness in the emerging global community. I'm now living in Somerville, MA and attending Harvard Divinity School studying towards a masters in divinity and possible ordination in the Unitarian Universalist denomination.
My interests lie vaguely in intentionally integrating the mission and work of the Fetzer Institute into a religious community that emphasizes love and fogiveness in the universal sense over the specific ideology of any belief system while also validating the truths found in all religious traditions. I'm also very interested in incorporating a more indigenous model of worship with community performance art and expression like improvisational dance, singing and instrumentation and an emphasis on embodying our connection to the earth and each other. I hope to bring people together to find sustinance and stability so that they are able to engage in the world of service and activism with a fuller sense of their true self as they recieve and give to others.
Please, help me spread this message!
“SOS! Rescue Georgia!
In August 7, 2008 Russia attacked Sovereign Caucasus State-Georgia.
Georgia is 250 times smaller than Russia.
Russia conducted airstrikes on Georgian targets on Friday evening. The air raid from Russia bombs all territory of Georgia, from East to West.
Russia had started to bomb civil and economic infrastructure.
Russian aircraft raided Tbilisi (bombardment). Several Russian aircrafts were stroked down.
Thousands of people perished. Perished civilians, children and women.
Towns and settlements are ravaged.
Population lost homes, lost properties.
For now more than 3,000 people are dead as a result of aggression!
The escalation risked igniting a renewed and sustained conflict in the Caucasus region, an important conduit for the flow of oil from the Caspian Sea to world markets and an area where conflict has flared for years along Russia’s borders, most recently in Chechnya.
This is the Russian full-scale direct aggression!
Population is homeless, they have no simple belongings, food.
The humanitarian and ecological catastrophe is imminent!
Should one small nation be destroyed only because it is small?!
Help us!
We need humanitarian aid. We accept any support and aid: from any financial, to any material.
Thank you.
Please, contact me on e-mail: ibip@mail.com , as this mail ibip@land.ru has some problems.
(Tel: +995 32 538-204. Postal address: 6-63, Didi Digomi 3, Tbilisi. 0131).”