There’s a running gag on social media. Something terrible in the world happens or society slaps minoritized people with yet another unnecessary restriction, and folks respond with something like “Where’s the spaceship; get me out of here!” It happened again today, when Popular Science published a story about congregating humpback whales near South Africa. “So […]
Organizing ourselves out of jobs
Faith should open doors, not close them.” –Liz Welch Last fall, I spent a few days in Utah with some of the most engaged social organizers I’ve ever met. As we talked about issues like religious freedom, I couldn’t help but imagine how different the national and international conversation on religious freedom might be if […]
News: The Record Keeper’s Now Dead
“There are no secrets.” And now there is no Record Keeper. The Adventist News Network and other Adventist sources report today that the General Conference will not release The Record Keeper project: The Record Keeper is dead. The GC’s April 11 press release states that the project is “suspended” and “similar creative outreach projects” might be possible in future. Back in January I […]
Quote of the Week: Jobs
If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you. —Steve Jobs
Seventh-day Adventist Creativity Takes a Hit: Save The Record Keeper
UPDATE: The Record Keeper‘s official Facebook page has posted a statement from the General Conference Communications Director Williams Costa: The GC is “stepping back” from the series’ planned February 2014 release date; no new release date has been announced. Read the GC’s statement (Friday, January 24). See also this extended feature on The Record Keeper: […]
Designing Anew
I’m endlessly fascinated by how minority groups absorb majority standards as a measure of value, even when those standards press the minority to pervert its native expression and don’t elicit the best of what the minority group could bring to the common table. I was heading to a work dinner with my favorite person yesterday […]
