The Seventh-day Adventist denomination revealed its latest visual identity standards today at the General Conference’s spring meetings in Maryland. I’m impressed. The core font family, Advent Sans, is open source, based on Google font typography, and designed for more languages than those that use the characters A-Z. The twenty-year-old Bible-cross-flame symbol is unchanged and set on a […]
Lorde and Morrison on identity and action
Audre Lorde and Toni Morrison were born on the same birthdate, February 18: Morrison in 1931 and Lorde in 1934. Thanks to the good folks at Many Voices, I’ve been listening to Audre Lorde speaking to students at UCLA. The date of the lecture is unclear, but the video uploader places the session in the early […]
The stickiness of identity
When I first started talking with my family about sexuality and gender, I got a lot of push-back over how I described myself and how I didn’t describe myself. “Straight” or “heterosexual” were terms my relatives were willing to compute. They also understood “lesbian,” even if they refused to engage it. But “fluid”? “Bisexual”? They weren’t familiar with […]
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There are so many analytical tools for mapping personality traits and leadership modes. Myers-Briggs (MBTI), the Big Five, the Enneagram of Personality, astrology too: people use these and many other conceptual and analogical mapping systems to order and interpret patterns that they perceive as they look at their lives and their interactions with others. A separative […]
We’re not all alike, and that’s not a problem
We’re in this life together and substantive solidarity is important. We share one planet, and if we kick one another off the rock, there is nowhere else for us to go. But we’re not all alike. There are differences between social groups that can make social solidarity challenging, and there are also differences within social groups that […]
VIDEO: Reading With Different Ears: Amy-Jill Levine and Ethnocentrism
“While the New Testament may be seen as anti-Jewish, it need not be taken that way, because words inevitably mean different things to different readers. More problematic are those verses that on the surface appear quite benign, but when heard with different ears can be quite difficult. “[For example,] Galatians 3:28, which proclaims that in […]
