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coming clean about the women in ministry issue
You guys, there’s this entire world out there that I’m just really realizing exists. I mean, I’m no stranger to gender disparity in the church (raised Catholic), but that there are all these other debates in other areas and words (“complementarian” being one of the big ones) that I’ve never heard before. Wow.
Watching this whole segment of the population play out these arguments is in itself fascinating, but it’s also been an incredible mental exercise. Because I mostly know how I feel about life’s Big Issues, but they’re playing with an entirely different set of rules and knowledge, which means finding my way to answers under their terms, not mine.
Really, the point of this post is to say I’ve spent a lot of time in true discussion with the Internet lately.
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A Mountain I’m Willing to Die On » Momastery
For an early-morning weep fest.
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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one. This openness is what every artist needs.
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Some people just don’t have passports that will allow them to access the beauty in ordinary places.
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At three-thirty that afternoon Max, Tom, and Sharon placed tabs under their tongues and sat down together in the living room to wait for the flash. Barbara stayed in the bedroom, smoking hash. During the next four hours a window banged once in Barbara’s room, and about five-thirty some children had a fight on the street. A curtain billowed in the afternoon wind. A cat scratched a beagle in Sharon’s lap. Except for the sitar music on the stereo there was no other sound or movement until seven-thirty, when Max said ‘Wow.’
Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”
I never get over the amazing simplicity of this paragraph or the example it sets for dedicated reporting.
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Don’t apologize for working. Writing is work. Banish the inner and outer critics who tell you that you should be doing something else: exercising, cleaning, cooking, researching, talking on the phone, playing with the dog, looking out the window, or reorganizing your library. Sit down and face the page or the screen without guilt—and with a sense of authority. That’s what Virginia Woolf really meant when she talked about an artist needing a room of one’s own.
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If I did not see light in the story, I could not tell it.
—Tiya Miles
Our interview with the public historian who is unearthing the “complex interrelationships between African American and Cherokee people in pre-colonial America” is in the final stages of production. Look for our interview next week.
~Trent Gilliss, senior editor
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Aside from the fact that Anastasia is not a Disney princess, I will say that she and Belle are my two favorite and, coincidentally, how I’m most likely to dress (if I were to actually look remotely fashionable when wearing clothes).
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I can’t believe my blog has gone this long without a baby penguin dressed as an important businessman on it.
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