I’m John Young, one of the directors of a non-denominational pro-European-American advocacy organization called European Americans United. My purpose here is not to recruit, in fact, I specifically wish to avoid that for reasons you’ll see shortly.
We are an ethics-driven organization. As such, we tend to attract conscientious people as members. Every one of our members is exceptional in some positive way, and every one of them is valuable as a member of our community.
But everyone can run into troubles in life. Marital issues, money problems, employment issues—you name it. Everybody knows that, as a profession, psychological counseling is a disaster. The last bastion of counseling that actually has values associated with it is—the ministry. Ministers can undertake counseling for many life issues outside of mental illness.
I am therefore seeking to open up a dialog with a Christian minister of any standard denomination with a Kinist bent. Our membership is about 60% Christian. I am also, via other avenues, seeking to open a dialog with an Asatru Godi because about 25% of our members are Asatruar of various stripes.
The objective of this dialog would be to establish a third-party confidential counselor (or counselors) who would be on-call for our Christian members to discuss values, ethics, their faith, and problems they may be having. We (another director and I) have discussed that EAU would be willing to make an offering in exchange for this service and provide the minister (or ministerial pool) with funding for a pager.
An important condition of this is that the minister(s) who participate cannot—cannot—be members of EAU but would have to sign a non-disclosure agreement similar to what our members sign relative to revealing the identity of our members. The reason they can’t be members is for the same reason employers engage third-party Employee Assistance Program providers. It doubly ensures the confidentiality of the member so there can be no potential backlash from anyone in the organization, and also breaks the chain of liability.
If there are any bona-fide ministers with a Kinist mindset on the board who would be interested in this program, I would be pleased to correspond, call you, etc.
As a separate issue—completely unrelated to the first—I am interested in interviewing a knowledgeable and articulate (and hopefully convincing!) Kinist for an upcoming Podcast. I do a Podcast for EAU called “Western Voices” that explores big-picture issues. We are an ethics-driven organization, so values are very important to us. As you know, religion is an important framework for ethics and values, and I’d like to give a Kinist representative an opportunity to speak to our audience. I could email questions in advance, etc. The interview would be recorded from a conference call in such a way that the actual identity of the interviewee could be kept confidential. Many of our members are Christian, and the unique Kinist perspective could be useful to them.
If there is a good spokesman/spokeswoman for Kinism who would be interested in such an interview, please let me know.
Thank you very much, and very kindly, for your time and attention.
Very truly,
John Young
