Throughout history, women in every part of the world have made great strides, sometimes in spite of a significant lack of equality. With the help of women such as Lucretia Mott, Rosa Parks, and Marsha P. Johnson, the gap in equality in areas such as gender, race, and sexual orientation has become more and more narrow. Currently, we are very fortunate that these women and so many more have made these strides, but we still have a long way to go - and part of it comes from the way we approach feminism even among each other as women.
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Cuando reflexiono sobre los últimos doce meses, pregunto: "¿Qué pasó? ¿Qué es diferente? ¿Qué ha cambiado? " No puedo evitar comenzar con la persona que me mira en el espejo cada mañana. He cambiado. Soy realmente mayor. Aprendí una palabra nueva: akedia. Descrita por primera vez por el monje del desierto del siglo IV John Cassian como "letargo o apatía", en el siglo quinto, akediase había convertido en "pereza", reduciendo los ocho pecados capitales a siete y, bajo el gobierno benedictino, sujeta a castigo. ¡Dios mío! Me ha resultado difícil escribir, mi pensamiento a menudo confuso, las emociones con demasiada frecuencia desenfrenadas con aparentemente pocos recursos para restringirlas, para aprovecharlas para algún bien. Hay tanto de qué enfadarse, de qué lamentarse. Eventualmente, a medida que avanzaba la pandemia con todos sus horrores, los artículos y podcasts comenzaron a presionarme: el libro de Kathleen Norris de 2008, Acedia and Me; un podcast con Peter Toohey, profesor de clásicos en la Universidad de Calgary.
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Gail here on behalf of your Board of Directors of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, Bautistas por la Paz, bringing you Advent greetings, a brief year end reflection and an announcement. I don’t know about you but this whole year has felt like the season of Advent. A waiting in the dark for light to be birthed once again. So from this year-long preparation, what do we want to remember from it?
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“Normal” is not our destination. This virus has irrevocably severed our future from our past. And what arrives is up to us.
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Embracing a world where peace, equity and justice prevail is to provide a stronghold amidst the tremors and earthquakes that bring death, despair and injustice in our communities. How we face these tremors will define our witness and our legacy for those following in our footprints.
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Originally from South Dakota, Jodi Spargur lives in Vancouver, BC (a city on the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations). Jodi has an MDiv degree from Regent College in Vancouver and currently runs Healing at the Wounding Place, a movement seeking to catalyze justice and healing between church and Indigenous peoples.
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