The principles for managing great community conversations are about the same as the principles for managing great relationships: mutual respect, equity, integrity, freedom from violence or abuse, and a bias toward care and common growth. Last spring I worked with Daneen Akers and Stephen Eyer, co-directors of the narrative film Seventh-Gay Adventists, on a new […]
The Under-told Western Hemisphere Black History Boat Tour
This casual essay, which began as a series of tweets posted over 3 hours on July 4, 2015, focuses on the English, Caribbean, and mainland U.S. components of the Western Hemisphere’s story: these are the parts that intersect with my lineage. There is much, much more to be told, particularly of the Black Africans that White Spanish […]
Reader Review #04
Posts tagged “Reader Review” include a few top articles from my weekly reading. Their topics may vary, but their quality and provocation quotient won’t. Enjoy. When spirituality gets corporatized: The commercial dharma Tricycle Mag: Protesters crash Google talk on corporate mindfulness at Wisdom 2.0 conference (Alex Caring-Lobel) Alex’ sharp critique of corporate spirituality—Buddhist-ish instruction of mindfulness to […]
Review: Torn And Not Mended
This review originally appeared at the Hillhurst Review on April 8, 2013. Lee, Justin. (2012). Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate New York: Jericho Books. It all started with the kid in high school who called me “God Boy.” Justin Lee, co-founder, director, and public face of the Gay Christian Network, has been […]
