Posted in Books, Resources, Social Justice, Women, tagged gender injustice, prayer on July 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Guide to prayer addressing global issues of gender-based injustice. I just started this this morning, and it is powerful and very difficult to read… It goes through issues such as abortion, child prositution, domestic violence, eating disorders, female laborers, incest, and pornagraphy. (Like I said, difficult to read!)
Posted in Globalization, Magazines, tagged photography on July 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Cultures On The Edge is an online magazine published quarterly by a team of experienced web entrepreneurs, along with world-renown author Wade Davis and professional photographer Chris Rainier. Together we have molded our skills to present a dynamic online magazine that hopes to support cultural diversity through education. We are dedicated to open dialogue [...]
Posted in Articles, Biracial Children, Culture/Race Relations, tagged multiracial on July 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Article in USA Today from June, 2008
Posted in Bible Studies, Books, Social Justice, Spiritual Formation, tagged bible studies, habakuk, injustice on July 14, 2008 | No Comments »
I just started this study on Habakuk by my favorite author, Jan Johnson. It’s about how Habakuk dealt with all the injustice and wickedness he saw. Jan Johnson draws some great parallels regarding how to live in a world full of violence, injustice, and chaos. It’s a free download!
From the intro:
“What’s this world coming to?” [...]
Posted in Books, Children's Books, tagged Children's Books, multicultural books on July 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Read children’s books online at ICDL. This site allows you to search for books by country and includes books from many cultures. I even found about 10 books that you can read online from SRI LANKA!!! (This NEVER happens outside of Sri Lanka itself…) Definitely a must-visit for those with children…
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Perspectives, tagged book review, Spiritual Disciplines on July 12, 2008 | No Comments »
(In addition to cross-cultural relationships, another side interest of mine is spiritual formation. I wrote this for some other sites and thought I’d include it here.)
By Tricia McCary Rhodes, 2008. Intervarsity Press.
While I’m an enthusiastic fan of the spiritual formation movement, one of my hang-ups with it is the lack of space in my [...]
Posted in Articles, Social Justice, tagged global poverty on July 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Check out this remarkable story about a family who sold their home to help alleviate global poverty. Here is their website.
Posted in Biracial Children, Books, Culture/Race Relations, Transracial Adoption, tagged adoption, Books, race on July 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Linda posted her book info on a comment on TLB… She’s a fiction writer who’s authored two books, The Making of Isaac Hunt and Loving Cee Cee Johnson. They look like compelling reads - if you’re a fan of fiction, check out her books here.
Posted in Culture/Race Relations, Magazines, Publications, tagged racism, racial reconciliation on July 6, 2008 | No Comments »
A newspaper insert, RiseUP is a new publication seeking to bring honest dialog about racial matters.
From the publisher:
Why RiseUp? The mission of RiseUp is to engage all races and ethnicities in an ongoing conversation about how we can better understand each other, and build stronger communities, cities, nations and a better world. Each week, important [...]
Posted in Books, Church, Cross-Cultural Church, Culture/Race Relations, Mosaic, Perspectives, Websites, tagged Race relations, evangelicals on July 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Reconciliation Blog is maintained by author Edward Gilbreath. I just read his book, Reconciliation Blues, (and will soon post a review). It was an excellent, compelling, and honest perspective on race relations in the evangelical church.
