An Unexpected Lesson from Little Bill (1)
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If you haven’t read Linda Leigh Hargrove’s funny and thoughtful post about her recent reconciliation epiphany, please check it out. It concerns Little Bill, the gently instructive animated series from Bill Cosby that I used to watch all the time when my kids were younger. (I think one of the more bittersweet byproducts of our kids growing up is that we don’t get to watch certain TV shows anymore; I can’t tell you how much ...
My Struggle with New Monasticism (1)
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[Read all posts in this conversation on New Monastics and race.] I am grateful to Jason and Vonetta Storbakken for sparking this conversation and for all those who have responded. For about four years now, my husband and I have continually struggled with an ever-strengthening call to New Monastic life. Perhaps, then, the best way for [...]
God's Politics - Jim Wallis blog, faith blog, religion, christian, christianity, politics, values (4)
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In August 2006, before having ever heard the term "new monasticism," my husband, Jason, and I founded Radical Living, an intentional community in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. When I (Vonetta) was 12 years old, I emigrated from Guyana to Bed-Stuy, one of the poorest and most violent neighborhoods in New York City. I witnessed firsthand urban decay -- and renewal -- as well as the devastating effects of the crack epidemic. Some ...
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Mark said:
Excellent challenge about an issue that seems to be in the forefront these days.
Owning the table - need for new concepts and metaphors (1)
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I’ve been fortunate to facilitate and participate in diversity workshops and anti-racism training in which people have been brutally honest. There have been tears, strong words have been exchanged and people have asked for forgiveness and help to overcome their racism. This kind of openness does not happen easily at these kind of workshops and gathering. Many lack the language and nerve to do the hard work it take to uproot racism. We rather deal ...
Highlights from the Hierarchy for WYD (1)
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Shorter Cardinal Pell: If you agree to a candlelight dinner then you’re just asking for it, aren’t you? How could sex later be rape? [link] Shorter Cardinal Pell: It’s totally OK to tell a clerical abuse complainant that they’re the only one to ever accuse that priest while writing the same day to another complainant against the same priest. [link] Shorter Tony Abbott: My Mate The Cardinal dealt with this case totally honourably, honest, he ...
Them and Us — The Truth (1)
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After a bit of a blockbuster about clergy bullying, with some very interesting comment, something profoundly relevant caught my eye yesterday at our senior staff Eucharist. We were in Christ Church Cathedral, using the millennium Altar commemorating George Bell, Bishop of Chichester, supporter of resistance against Hitler and courageous opponent of saturation bombing during World War II.The Altar is from a single huge oak, blackened. Renewed humanity is hewn out of, and emerges from, a ...
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I start with a rather reactionary title that will not make many people happy as they fought against Apartheid or knew people that died during the anti-Apartheid struggle. My point is not that Apartheid should have been allowed to continue, but that the violent means to combat Apartheid was sure folly. Apartheid was [...]Shared by Midd (20)Contribute comment
