She started the project in response to the pressure on Christian women to live up to an ideal of biblical womanhood. This intrigued her because the bible includes both the “Proverbs 31 woman who rises before dawn each day to make breakfast, and Jael who drove a tent peg through her enemies’ [temple].”
Marisa Egerstrom, an Episcopalian, Ph.D. candidate studying American religious history at Harvard University, a member of the Boston-based group Protest Chaplains, and has been involved in the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York and Boston writes at
“We are dancing. This is the thing that we have been saying, progress has been made in Liberia. We’ve come through 14 years of war and we have come to sustained peace. ~Bushuben Keita
Deliver me, O LORD, from evildoers;* protect me from the violent, Who devise evil in their hearts* and stir up strife all day long. They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent;* adder’s poison is under their lips. Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked;* protect me from the violent, who are …
Episcopal Café greets his 80th Birthday. Many happy returns to a person who makes us all proud to be Anglicans/Episcopalians. From Africa Media Online:
As the Mishna tells us, “It is not our responsibility to finish the task, but we may not refrain from starting it.” It may be that we will never eradicate homophobia – or Islamophobia, or transphobia, or anti-Semitism – in our lifetimes; the task itself often feels overwhelming. But that is no excuse, for silence is not an option. ~Noah Baron
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