What's New

For Blog entries see Keith's blog or Kate's blog.  

November 27, 2009 -- added Zoning  Code statement

October 10, 2009 -- added "Let it Fail"

September 9, 2009 -- added No Impact Man (Kate's blog) and No Impact Man (Keith's review)

September 8, 2009 -- added Kamran Pasha on Jesus and Vegetarianism

August 17, 2009 -- updated our Superinsulation Results 

August 5, 2009 -- added The Ethics of Free-Range Eggs

July 31, 2009 -- added The Gorilla in Early Christianity

July 4, 2009 -- added Bring the Criminals to Justice?

June 5, 2009 -- added Be the Change -- did Gandhi really say this?

June 4, 2009 -- added Make England Great: A Peak Oil Thought Experiment

April 14, 2009 -- added audio of a radio interview of Kate Lawrence on KAFM, March 12, 2009

April 14, 2009 -- added audio of a Teleclass featuring Kate Lawrence on April 13, 2009 (only the portion with Kate)

March 10, 2009 -- added Advertising and Materialism

January 26, 2009 -- added The Politics of Peak Oil and Have You Heard About Transition Towns?

January 12, 2009 -- added What to do about Gaza?

January 5, 2009 -- added The Practical Peacemaker by Kate Lawrence

November 29, 2008 -- added Dear President-elect Obama

November 20, 2008 -- added The "Hirsch Memo"

November 12, 2008 -- added The Spiritual Dimension of the Economic Crisis

October 27, 2008 -- added Superinsulation Results, some data on how our superinsulation project is going

October 22, 2008 -- added Discussion Questions for The Great Work

September 2, 2008 -- added Discussion Questions for Reinventing Collapse

August 21, 2008 -- added Boobs, Not Bombs?, a comment on Rory Freedman's article on going naked in animal rights demonstrations

June 26, 2008 -- added A Global Marshall Plan?, a discussion of the proposal by the Network of Spiritual Progressives

May 26, 2008 -- added The Memory of Violence, a half-review of Chris Hedges' book War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

April 28, 2008 -- added a review of Barrie Wilson's book, How Jesus Became Christian

March 26, 2008 -- added A Hand Made Tale, a review of James Kunstler's novel World Made by Hand

March 12, 2008 -- added The History of Vegetarianism in America: A Work in Progress, a review of the book Vegetarian America

March 2, 2008 -- added Against "War in Any Form"

February 29, 2008 -- added Buddhism and Heifer International

February 17, 2008 -- added Goodbye, Regina

February 8, 2008 -- added Uncommitted for President

January 18, 2008 -- added an Update to the letter to Laurie David about vegetarianism and global warming -- Laurie David now uses the V-word.  

January 4, 2008 -- added Audio CD of Meditation Chimes

December 9, 2007 -- added Peak Oil at the Movies, a review of A Crude Awakening, Crude Impact, and What a Way to Go.  Part 6 of the series on "The Collapse of Civilization."  

November 24, 2007 -- added House Superinsulation Project, describing how we've attempted to retrofit our house to conserve energy

November 24, 2007 -- added Decline and Fall, a review of Are We Rome?  Part 5 of the series on "The Collapse of Civilization."  

October 13, 2007 -- added Vegetarianism, Al Gore, and PETA

September 20, 2007 -- added Implications of the Jesus Family Tomb at Talpiot

August 28, 2007 -- added Do Some People Need Meat?

August 20, 2007 -- added Wikipedia on the Ebionites -- the Saga Continues 

August 2, 2007 -- added The Jesus Family Tomb -- and Peak Oil

July 21, 2007 -- updated America Enters the Crisis Period with an addendum, giving my vote for January 31, 2007 as the date of the fabled "Fourth Turning"

July 21, 2007 -- Arthur Poletti’s Polemic Against Al Gore

June 28, 2007 -- A Better Way to Fight War Crimes

May 4, 2007 -- added Laurie David and Vegetarianism

May 3, 2007 -- added A Letter to Laurie David about Global Warming and the Cattle Industry

April 27, 2007 -- added a response to Shemayah Phillips' review of The Lost Religion of Jesus posted on Amazon.com

April 5, 2007 -- added a review of Take This Bread by Sara Miles

January 15, 2007 -- added Defeat: Another Inconvenient Truth

September 17, 2006 -- added "Help! Peacemongers!" by Uri Avnery.  

August 21, 2006 -- added Does something new need to be said about the Middle East? and Uri Avnery's speech at the Tel-Aviv anti-war rally August 5, 2006

August 21, 2006 -- added Who Were The Ebionites? and Wikipedia on the Ebionites

June 30, 2006 -- added The Brother of Jesus (book review of Jeffrey Bütz's book of that title)

June 7, 2006 -- added The Family of Jesus (book review of The Jesus Dynasty)

May 24, 2006 -- added The Da Vinci Code: A Modern Religious Romance

May 24, 2006 -- added Is Honey Vegan?

March 20, 2006 -- added Against the Scholars

March 13, 2006 -- added America Enters the Crisis Period

March 9, 2006 -- added Vegetarian or Vegan? Lighten Up, Guys!

February 2, 2006 -- added 'Addicted to Oil': Twelve Steps to End Oil Addiction

January 16, 2006 -- added Sustainable Beef (Again), a response to WorldWatch's comments upon publication of my letter

December 22, 2005 -- added The Collapse of Civilization, Part 4: Five More Good Books on the Collapse of Civilization!

Deember 11, 2005 -- added Are "The Chronicles of Narnia" Christian?

November 16, 2005 -- added The Jesus Seminar Meets the Ebionites: Were the Ebionites a Legalistic Group?

November 16, 2005 -- added McDonald's Lawsuit is Over.

August 5, 2005 -- added Is "Peak Oil" Here?, a review of Kenneth Deffeyes' Beyond Oil and Matthew Simmons' Twilight in the Desert.

August 3, 2005 -- added 10 Steps to a More Peaceful Life, by Kate Lawrence.

August 3, 2005 -- added Recent Resources on Eastern Spiritual Practice and Vegetarianism, by Kate Lawrence.

August 3, 2005 -- added The Temple Cleansed Again, by Ellen G. White

August 2, 2005 -- added Flesh As Food, by Ellen G. White.  

July 5, 2005 -- added Too Radical For PETA, a discussion of PETA's backing away from their "Jesus was a vegetarian" campaign.

June 21, 2005 -- added the Appeals Court decision (PDF document) to the section on the McDonald's Lawsuit section.

June 9, 2005 -- added Peak Oil and "The Long Emergency," a review of James Kunstler's book The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century.  

June 9, 2005 -- added Would We Be Better Off Without Technology? a review of Eric Brende's book Better Off. 

June 9, 2005 -- added McDonald's Lawsuit Fries Vegetarian Nerves (originally published in the May/June 2003 Vegetarian Living); made small additions to the McDonald's article overview.

June 7, 2005 -- expanded my "autobiography" a bit.  

May 10, 2005 -- added The Origin, Fate, and Aim of Vegetarianism, a lecture given in 1982 by Carl Anders Skriver which discusses radical Christianity and vegetarianism.

May 10, 2005 -- added The Origin of Christianity, a review of Charles Vaclavik's book of the same name.

May 10, 2005 -- added Traditional Christianity and Vegetarianism —
Three Book Reviews which reviews Good News for All Creation, Is God a Vegetarian?, and God's Covenant With Animals.  

February 14, 2005 -- added Collapse: Coming Soon to a Civilization Near You! (book reviews of Collapse, Something New Under the Sun, and The Collapse of Complex Societies)

December 9, 2004 -- added Sustainable Beef?

September 6, 2004 -- added Jews for Jesus -- Why Not?

June 16, 2004 -- added The McDonald's Lawsuit: What's the Story? and associated material.

May 25, 2004 -- added a link in the Links section to an interview of Keith Akers by Mike Hudak and Bill Huston -- warning, this is a large file, duration: 42:26, 9.6 MBytes.

May 20, 2004 -- added the offer of an audio CD of a talk by Keith Akers on The Lost Religion of Jesus.

March 4, 2004 -- added Is The Lord of the Rings Christian?

November 12, 2003 -- added A Model for Social Change, a review of the books on generations and social change by William Strauss and Neil Howe

November 1, 2003 -- added Why are the Recognitions and Homilies Important? -- "Frequently Asked Questions" about the Recognitions and Homilies

November 1, 2003 -- added The Clementine Homilies, another early Christian document of interest to students of Jewish Christianity

October 27, 2003 -- added The Recognitions of Clement, an early Christian document of interest to students of Jewish Christianity

September 3, 2003 -- added a review of Dominion by Matthew Scully

June 30, 2003 -- added a review of The High Price of Materialism

May 5, 2003 -- added The Early Christian Attitude to War, a book by C. John Cadoux, first published in 1919

March 27, 2003 -- added A Victory of Community Over Politics in Crawford, by Nathan R. Spoonseller, and a speech on the peace issue by Karen W. Gallob

February 8, 2003 -- added Colloquium on Peak and Decline of World Oil Production, by R. J. Johnson

February 3, 2003 -- added Rice for Peace, from various sources.

November 30, 2002 -- added Grazing Is Not the Answer, a review of Welfare Ranching, edited by George Wuerthner and Mollie Matteson

November 30, 2002 -- reformatted most pages into text tables, set at 67% width, for easier reading.  

November 9, 2002 -- added A Proposal to Listen for Peace and Security, from the Plum Village web site.

September 27, 2002 -- added Charles Fillmore and Spiritual Vegetarianism, a collection of quotations compiled by Will Tuttle

September 21, 2002 -- added About Iraq

September 14, 2002 -- added The Universal Prayer Circle for Animals, by Judy Carman and Will Tuttle 

September 11, 2002 -- added Community and Individualism

September 7, 2002 -- added The Night In Which All Cows Are Black, a review of Hegel's philosophy

August 13, 2002 -- added Nourishing Others, Nourishing Ourselves by Kate Lawrence 

July 19, 2002 -- added Is Nothing Sacred?

May 23, 2002 -- added Jesus and the Money Changers by J. R. Hyland

February 25, 2002 -- added a review of Charles Patterson's book Eternal Treblinka

February 20, 2002 -- added a book review by Animal People

December 28, 2001 -- added What Would Jesus Do About Terrorism?

December 18, 2001 -- added a book review by Will Tuttle

December 16, 2001 -- added Christian / Vegetarian Dialogue

December 13, 2001 -- added a book review by Leena Isac

December 13, 2001 -- added Vegetarianism, World Peace, and Justice by Dilip Barman

November 26, 2001 -- added Unity and Early Christianity

November 26, 2001 -- added excerpts from the essay by Charles Fillmore, As to Meat Eating

November 26, 2001 -- added Strange New Gospels

November 26, 2001 -- added Was the Last Supper Vegetarian?

September 1, 2001 -- this web site goes live.