Friday Link Love
Some random stuff that caught my attention this week: I Believe in Child Labour, Sweatshops and Torture Peter Rollins is an amazingly complex thinker and communicator. But in this post he doesn’t do...
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A few things to enjoy/chew on: The Art of Jim Denevan Love the art Jim does in sand—some whimsical, some vaguely unsettling. ~ In Which I Am Part of the Insurgency (Emerging Mummy) There is a war on...
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A few fun/interesting things from the last few weeks: Social Networking in Its Oldest Form — BBC (video) A man in Canada has released several thousand bottles into the ocean, and received thousand of...
View ArticleIn Which I Get a Little Testy over the Gender Gap
Context: There is a stained glass ceiling in ministry. Granted it has holes in it, but the number of women who serve as heads of staff of large congregations is…small. Context, Part the Second: This is...
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Away we go! ~ “I am in a state of shock” — Flannery O’Connor A lit class in 1961 tries to understand “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” They, um, miss the mark. O’Connor responds in part: The meaning of a...
View ArticleFriday Link Love: Waves, High-School Heroes, and Embracing Limitations
Huzzah! ~ Wave Photographs by Kenji Croman — Colossal Obligatory Colossal Link: Many more at the link… ~ Cross Country Runner Saves Life, Finishes Race — KnoxNews The young man is a trained lifeguard....
View ArticleThank You for Asking… A Response to Larissa Kwong Abazia
Last week I wrote a guest post at Jan Edmiston’s blog. Today Jan shares her space again for a great post. Larissa Kwong Abazia writes about the sticky (and in some cases illegal) questions that search...
View ArticleLeaning In: A Post on International Women’s Day
Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook has a new book out for women leaders called Lean In. It’s featured on the cover of Time, and Andrew Sullivan has had some good discussion about it here, here and here. In...
View ArticleHow Men Can Help Women Lean In
I wrote a post Friday afternoon about Sheryl Sandberg’s new book Lean In and said in part: There is still a tremendous gender gap in ministry. By and large, women are the associate pastors and solo...
View ArticleFriday Link Love: Maurice Sendak, Bracket Madness, and What, Me Worry?
Bit of a weird assortment this week. Lots of links related to women and gender issues, probably because I’m still pondering Lean In, the Steubenville verdict, and the connections between them. But...
View ArticleThe Art and Craft of Not Being a Racist
Thanks to my friend Amy Hemphill for sharing this video, in which Jay Smooth turns a critical (side) eye to the Academy Awards. While this year’s presentation was the most “explicitly political” Oscars...
View ArticleThree Reasons Why “Because It’s 2015″ Is So Brilliant
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has put together the most diverse cabinet in his country’s history. Not only does the cabinet have gender parity, but it features two aboriginal politicians, two...
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