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Interpretation

Mirror Mirror on the Wall: The Facts About You

Christine Sachs | Posted 08.06.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Being Present, Spiritual Practice, Self-Awareness, Self Image, Emotional Wellness, How You See Yourself, Self, Interpretations, Interpreting, Self-Esteem, Interpretation, Healthy Living News
Christine Sachs

Real change doesn't happen in opposition -- it happens in awareness. What might happen if you became aware of your interpretations of your life?

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Seeking Truth In A World Of Competing Narratives

William Grassie | Posted 06.30.2012 | Religion
Read More: Hermeneutics, Conflict, Big History, Gadamer, Narratives, Religion and Science, Jürgen Habermas, Interpretation, Truth, Ideology, Interfaith, Ricoeur, Religion News
William Grassie

Is there some other way to adjudicate between the competing metanarratives that shape our lives and identities, determining how we think and act, what we hold to be true and good?

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Big History: Engaging the New Narrative of Science

William Grassie | Posted 03.26.2012 | Religion
Read More: History, Science, Evolution, Cosmology, Religion and Science, Interpretation, History of the Universe, Big History, Religion News
William Grassie

Religionists who deny certain facts of this Big History, who don't understand or accept the scope of the important details of this new unity of knowledge, do great damage.

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What The Bible Really Says About Slavery

Greg Carey | Posted 08.22.2011 | Religion
Read More: New Testament, Greg Carey, Interpretation, Bible, Slavery, Paul's Epistles, Paul's Letters, Christianity, Slavery in the Bible, Christianity and Slavery, Religion News
Greg Carey

Slavery stands as the single most contested issue in the history of biblical interpretation in the United States. What did slavery mean in the biblical world, and how did biblical authors respond to it?

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Open Letter to Hospital Compliance Officers: Questions to Ask as Standards Enter Pilot Phase

Louis Provenzano | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Language Access, Interpretation, Medical Interpreter, Interpreter Training, Politics News, Asl, Limited English Proficiency, Hard-of-Hearing, Patient Care, Health, Joint Commission, Patients, Contractor, Hospitals, American Sign Language, Government, Language Barrier, Language, Patient-Centered Communication, Healthcare Provider, Dialect, Translation, Deaf, Healthcare, Sign Language, Spanish, Home News
Louis Provenzano

New and revised Joint Commission requirements for language and interpretation standards took effect this month on a year-long pilot basis for healthca...

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State of Oregon First to Adopt National Certification for Medical Interpreters

Louis Provenzano | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Language Access, Interpretation, Russian, National Board of Certification for Medical Interpreters, Oregon Office of Multicultural Health & Services, Vietnamese, Interpreters, Oregon, Limited English Proficiency, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Lep, Language Barrier, International Medical Interpreter Association, English, Language, Patients, Multicultural, Health, Korean, Medical Interpreters, Healthcare, Imia, Cmi, Politics News
Louis Provenzano

The National Board of Certification for Medical Interpreters announced today that the State of Oregon has become the first state in the nation to offi...

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Census Bureau Survey Draws Attention to Need for More Proactive Multicultural Approach

Louis Provenzano | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: French, Washington, West Coast, Immigration, Thailand, Arabic, Denver, Farsi, Limited English Proficient, Chicago, American Community Survey, East Coast, u.s. Census Bureau, Korean, Swahili, Hispanic, Spanish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Newborns, East Africa, Survey, Languages, Syracuse, Interpretation, Mandarin, Language, Burma, Lep, Legal Immigration, Immigrant, Census Bureau, D.C., Northern Virginia, Oromo, Amharic, Cantonese, Politics News
Louis Provenzano

The release this past week of the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) makes it clear that America's ethnic makeup is changing much quicker...

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Open Letter to Congress: Two Employee Misclassification Bills Deserve Support

Louis Provenzano | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Taxes, Language Line, 911, Internal Revenue Service, Department of Labor, Employee Misclassification, Congress, Limited English Proficient, Taxpayers, Interpretation, Government, Jim McDermott, Language, John Kerry, Bills, Employee Misclassification Prevention Act, Health Care, Government Accountability Office, Politics News
Louis Provenzano

Two bills recently introduced in Congress take on the issue of employee misclassification which puts companies that properly classify their workers at...

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Hospitals Must Overcome Language Barriers to Save Lives, Cut Costs

Louis Provenzano | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Patient-Centered Communication, Language, Limited English Proficiency, Health, Language Barrier, Medical Error, Hospitals, Language Access, Medical Interpreter, Spanish, Patients, Joint Commission, Translation, Patient Care, Interpretation, Politics News
Louis Provenzano

More than 60 million people - about one in five legal U.S. residents - speak a language other than English at home, and it's not all Spanish, with mor...

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Translating For Dollars

David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: U.S. Government, Private Military Contractor, Translation, Interpretation, Business News
David Isenberg

In my Sep. 14 post I wrote about what I considered to be false accusations against Mission Essential Personnel, which provides translators and interp...

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The Bible and Human 'Dominion' Over Animals: Superiority or Responsibility?

Kristin M. Swenson, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Animal Intelligence, Cats, Hebrew, Time Magazine, Bible, Genesis, Animals, Translation, Old Testament, Hebrew Bible, Interpretation, Dogs, Religion News
Kristin M. Swenson, Ph.D.

Part of the story of God's creating the universe in seven days involves creating a cosmos that God made to be good. Human beings must maintain an order that allows each thing to be and do all of what it is and does, animals included.

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Göbekli Tepe Complex of Interpretation

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Semantics, Religion, Fact, Hypothesis-Confirmation Bias, Epistemology, Not-Knowing, Knowing, Fiction, Göbekli Tepe, K. Schmidt, Archeology, Contextualizing, Interpretation, World News
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

Context It's been said that history is written by victors. What hasn't been said - because it is rather self-evident - is that history is written in ...

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Jung's Journal Provides Insight In To Dreams

Psychology Today | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Jung, Dreams, Dreaming, Freud, Analysis, Insomnia, Sleep Study, Psychology, Carl Jung, Psychoanalysis, Fatigue, Interpretation, Exhaustion, Sleep, Healthy Living News

Jung describes visions and voyages into the desert, dreams and his frustration at an inability to interpret them....

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Health Care: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Dialogue, Fundamentalism, Culture War, Health Care Plan, Compromise, Immigrants, Poor, Health Care Provider, Abortion, Values, Health Care Coverage, Insurance Plan, Contraception, Poverty Reduction, Justice, Pro-Life Democrats, Member of Congress, Health Care, Status Quo, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Health Insurance Reform, Religion, Pregnancies, Democracy, Abortion Reduction, Culture Wars, Subsidies, Public Option, Tax Dollars, Common Ground, Medicaid, Families, Federal Subsidies, Stereotype, Healthcare, Interpretation, Moral Values, Agendas, Progressive, Culture Warrior, Women, Application, Health Plan, Principle, Segregation, Faith Community, Schip, Abortion Debate, Moral Imperative, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Religious Community, Rhetoric, Politics News
Jim Wallis

We've recently seen the abortion rhetoric really heat up to ridiculous proportions. Those with opposing views are being stereotyped and demonized. And facts are taking a back seat to sound bytes.

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