This weekend, Working Preacher posted a short interview excerpt from Bishop Yvette Flunder, minister at City of Refuge UCC in Oakland, CA, and movement mother in the global LGBTQ/SOGI Christian justice community. Flunder reflects on why she preaches the way she does: to “discourage people from spending all of their lives trying to pull to […]
Cloud of Witnesses
The latest issue of my discipline’s professional journal, Technical Communication, is online now and the cover‘s quite special. As editor Sam Dragga explains, the cover art lists all of the academics and practitioners who contributed to this month’s articles, including me. There’s a chapter in Hebrews that catalogues the exploits and experiences of several former or […]
Serving the micro by changing the macro
On the blog Ask A Manager, author Alison Green offers job-seekers and employees advice on interacting with their supervisors, managing relationships with colleagues, and developing their careers. A few weeks ago, Green responded to a question from someone who had forbidden an employee from taking time off to attend their graduation. The letter-writer had granted […]
QOTW: On Name-calling
If you’ve not been called the spawn of Satan, you’ve not made a difference yet. —My friend’s dad Keep working!