I’m so thankful to have Brett sharing with us about his journey discussing and examining privilege! We’re doing it kind of interview style, and in two parts. We’d love to have you comment and ask questions/share what you think below. We seriously would love to have you join this conversation.
Category Archives: Social Justice
On Labels & Learning
I’m thrilled to welcome Brettfish to the blog space for the next little while to share his story of wrestling with the concept of privilege as a white South African guy. Brett is someone who is helping the white community in SA start to have conversations about race and privilege, and does a great job sharingContinue reading “On Labels & Learning”
Hospitality Series: Home
Most people who have lived on the streets are already highly aware of what is going wrong and have had multiple diagnoses assigned to them since childhood. These diagnoses, however helpful at times, can never serve as an inner home. The diagnosis isn’t always a safe place, and it certainly isn’t an identity.
Hospitality series: On Welcoming Muslims
This is a new guest post in the Hospitality Series. This one is on welcoming our Muslim neighbors, and comes from my friend Rachel. I love how she reminds us of the importance of putting aside fear to welcome those who are different, and her honesty in sharing from her own experiences. Definitely worth a read-throughContinue reading “Hospitality series: On Welcoming Muslims”
The Middlemarch Social Justice Advocate
She’s religious, but not fake– she genuinely believes in her high ideals. And she’s always on some social justice crusade. As her sister says about her, “Dodo’s only happy when she’s making plans.”
A second book to help you on your journey (and, so what can I DO??)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utmiJUmW8oI If you read Daniel Carroll’s book, you’re probably pretty convinced that as followers of Jesus we need to be showing hospitality and welcome to immigrants. Maybe even if they are here without paperwork. But then, there are probably one-thousand other questions you have: Does helping undocumented immigrants (‘illegal immigrants’) mean that I am breakingContinue reading “A second book to help you on your journey (and, so what can I DO??)”
Christians at the border: The First book to help you on your journey
Sometimes, you need more than a blog post to figure something out. So in the next two posts, here are two books that can really help you on your journey of digging deeper into what it means to welcome the stranger, and how you can do it practically. Both of these books are fromContinue reading “Christians at the border: The First book to help you on your journey”
Hospitality: Giving more than spare change
Meet Greg Jewell, our first guest poster in the hospitality series! My husband and I got to know Greg and Roxanne Jewell while we were in South Africa. Their South-African-American marriage and dramas with visas were things that connected us, along with their love for children. Greg has graciously agreed to share about the work heContinue reading “Hospitality: Giving more than spare change”
On the price of Pet Canaries
Sometimes, things are just too much. There’s enough suffering as it is, and now there’s babies washed up on beaches, too. There’s friends who are hurting, there’s children who are being abused, there’s police violence, there’s people suffering from HIV, there’s so much heaviness. How do you cope? You, college student wondering about debt, you,Continue reading “On the price of Pet Canaries”
When your neighbor is a stranger: Hospitality Series
I felt so homeless as we trudged through yet another small town in northern Spain on El Camino. Since we had left South Africa at the end of March, we had been walking across Spain, and once we landed it would be another several months of hopping between family and friends before we settled in TexasContinue reading “When your neighbor is a stranger: Hospitality Series”
Stephanie Ebert 