The lead story on CNN.com right now is Jesus for President!
They are a bit too focused on the political end instead of the faith end, but it’s still cool.
Emily of Casa Chirilagua sent me a link to a great Washington Post article today.
It talks about how going green has become a new option of conspicuous consumption. It’s something I and my friends struggle with. One, Dawnille, also of Casa Chirilagua, is particularly interested in starting a business of fair trade clothing, but is working through how to do it successfully while not continuing the societal embrace of consumerism.
She sent me a wonderful website, the Story of Stuff. It does an excellent job of addressing the history of consumerism in our society and the problems of our extreme resource usage.
Another article about New Monasticism ran in the Boston Globe earlier this month, but I forgot to post it.
Ran across a wonderful article in the LA Times:
It is well worth checking out!
The September/October edition of Prism featured several articles about prostituted people. I just realized that they are available through their archive.
The cover story, Portrait of Exploitation is accompanied by a bunch of pictures of prostituted women taken over an extended period of time. The images depict a demise like I have never seen before. They are utterly shocking!
The articles in the issue include:
Portrait of Exploitation
by Laura Coulter
A compelling call for the church to follow Jesus’ example by embracing the victims behind the vice.
Sophia’s Circle
by Amy Durkee
Former prostitutes come together for a time of healing and renewal and in the process become part of a sisterhood network.
Prostitution: Pathway to Incarceration for American Females
by Lisa L. Thompson
As the female prison population increases at alarming rates, it’s time we understood prostitution’s role as gateway to the crimes that are putting women behind bars.
Traffic Stopper
Donna M. Hughes, a leading international researcher on sex trafficking, explains the relationship between sex trafficking and prostitution.
My friends at Ma Siss’s Place and Quincy Street Missional Church continue to be featured in the Boston Globe this morning and last.
Part 4: And who, now, will lead them?
My friends at Ma Siss’s Place and Quincy Street Missional Church continue to be featured in the Boston Globe this morning and last.
Part 2: A call to serve, and to lead
Part 3: A crisis year, a Christmas comeback
My friends at Ma Siss’s Place and Quincy Street Missional Church were featured on the front page of the Boston Globe this morning.
This first in four part series will continue the next three days (I will post a link each day) and features many pictures and some other multimedia.
“From a Dorchester Chop Shop, to a Place to Pray”
Last week’s issue of U.S. News and World Report featured a couple of articles that include Common Table.
The cover story ”A Return to Tradition” and “Mixing Jesus with Java: The Appeal of New Religious Communities.”
I just read The Church and the Incubator, a wonderful article on Wrecked for the Ordinary by Adrienne Ashby. Adrienne talks about a midwife in South Africa that has mothers of premature babies keep skin-to-skin contact with them instead of placing them in a mechanical, lonely, incubator. She then goes on to speak of Western churches as giant incubators and the need for human-to-human contact.
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