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Date: 1st March 2011
re: "talk"
Sorry I couldn't be in Springfield to hear you last Saturday. Thank you for sharing your insights and your growth. I see you as "real" and becoming more so every day.
From Blog: More of a "Talk" than a "Sermon"
re: "talk"
Sorry I couldn't be in Springfield to hear you last Saturday. Thank you for sharing your insights and your growth. I see you as "real" and becoming more so every day.
From Blog: More of a "Talk" than a "Sermon"
Date: 15th February 2011
Your Blogs
Hello Aaron, I've faithfully read all your blogs and continue to be amazed at the thinking of one so young. It does give me hope and I pray there are more of you out there. Reading your previous blog, I was going to ask some questions that you answered in this blog. I had a classmate in Atchison that I visited with at our "Golden Grads" reunion last October who had deliberately decided to live in poverty for one year. We didn't get to discuss it much but he certainly didn't stay there and I'm sure had his "safety net." So how does anyone who is not in the same situation really relate? Or is that even possible? It seems to me that what we do and what we support from our own place in the equation is the real answer. How we are working to create a world not where everyone is wealthy but where noone is living in poverty, perhaps poor, but not starving, with shelter and the chance to realize a dream if they have one. And that has to come with those who do have that safety net, who do have some power, who do have compassion and love for the least of these. Can it be, will it ever happen, who knows but thank God there are those like you in the world who are giving their best to make it so. Hoping to hear you in Springfield soon. Shirley
From Blog: The Second of Two
Your Blogs
Hello Aaron, I've faithfully read all your blogs and continue to be amazed at the thinking of one so young. It does give me hope and I pray there are more of you out there. Reading your previous blog, I was going to ask some questions that you answered in this blog. I had a classmate in Atchison that I visited with at our "Golden Grads" reunion last October who had deliberately decided to live in poverty for one year. We didn't get to discuss it much but he certainly didn't stay there and I'm sure had his "safety net." So how does anyone who is not in the same situation really relate? Or is that even possible? It seems to me that what we do and what we support from our own place in the equation is the real answer. How we are working to create a world not where everyone is wealthy but where noone is living in poverty, perhaps poor, but not starving, with shelter and the chance to realize a dream if they have one. And that has to come with those who do have that safety net, who do have some power, who do have compassion and love for the least of these. Can it be, will it ever happen, who knows but thank God there are those like you in the world who are giving their best to make it so. Hoping to hear you in Springfield soon. Shirley
From Blog: The Second of Two
Date: 11th January 2011
Printing overlaps
Hi Aaron, Most of this I couldn't read because the letters were on top of each other. Perhaps it is my computer but if not it needs to be corrected as what I did read was important.Shirley
From Blog: The Meaning of Life.....well just excerpts from the book.
Printing overlaps
Hi Aaron, Most of this I couldn't read because the letters were on top of each other. Perhaps it is my computer but if not it needs to be corrected as what I did read was important.Shirley
From Blog: The Meaning of Life.....well just excerpts from the book.
Date: 26th October 2010
the lady in the robe
I particularly liked what I heard you say about listening and learning! Your blogs are so interesting and mature. I "hear" you growing up.
From Blog: Stories Formed in the "Now"
the lady in the robe
I particularly liked what I heard you say about listening and learning! Your blogs are so interesting and mature. I "hear" you growing up.
From Blog: Stories Formed in the "Now"
Date: 19th October 2010
Great Blogs
Hi Aaron, I've read all your blogs and am greatly impressed. They make me wish I were much younger, such roads are open for youth to travel these days. Your scope of understanding and ability to share is amazing.This particular blog is so uplifting about the goals of what is "true grace and faith." I, of course, am especially appreciative of the work that is being done on women's behalf as far as church service is concerned. I so agree with "mission without justice is not mission." If we are not getting at the underlying cause of injustice and working to name it and stop it we are actually accepting it no matter what we say or preach, perhaps it is an impossibility but that must not stop us, as Christians, from unending endeavor to do what is right and holy. Thank God for those of you who keep on keeping on. Blessings, Shirley
From Blog: Social Ecumenism at Work
Great Blogs
Hi Aaron, I've read all your blogs and am greatly impressed. They make me wish I were much younger, such roads are open for youth to travel these days. Your scope of understanding and ability to share is amazing.This particular blog is so uplifting about the goals of what is "true grace and faith." I, of course, am especially appreciative of the work that is being done on women's behalf as far as church service is concerned. I so agree with "mission without justice is not mission." If we are not getting at the underlying cause of injustice and working to name it and stop it we are actually accepting it no matter what we say or preach, perhaps it is an impossibility but that must not stop us, as Christians, from unending endeavor to do what is right and holy. Thank God for those of you who keep on keeping on. Blessings, Shirley
From Blog: Social Ecumenism at Work
Date: 19th September 2010
Working From Within
This is an interesting post in light of the last one about working from within the system.
From Blog: YAV Orientation
Working From Within
This is an interesting post in light of the last one about working from within the system.
From Blog: YAV Orientation
Date: 18th September 2010
Okay good deal! I'll go to the library today after our training and pick Freire up... if you're interested in popular education you could read bell hooks. She's a lady!
From Blog: Reading for the Year
Okay good deal! I'll go to the library today after our training and pick Freire up... if you're interested in popular education you could read bell hooks. She's a lady!
From Blog: Reading for the Year
Date: 12th September 2010
Ali! Start reading Freire now! I just picked it up from a BN the other day. I'm at 57 now, but I got assigned a lot more reading from my job here, so I'll move through it slowly. I'll email you my progress. I read Anzaldua's "Borderlands" a couple of years ago: given to me by my spanish prof. But you're right. I didn't realize that, so I'm curious to female authors. I'll do some asking around and looking....if you do the same. I hope all is well in Tucson
From Blog: Reading for the Year
Ali! Start reading Freire now! I just picked it up from a BN the other day. I'm at 57 now, but I got assigned a lot more reading from my job here, so I'll move through it slowly. I'll email you my progress. I read Anzaldua's "Borderlands" a couple of years ago: given to me by my spanish prof. But you're right. I didn't realize that, so I'm curious to female authors. I'll do some asking around and looking....if you do the same. I hope all is well in Tucson
From Blog: Reading for the Year
Date: 8th September 2010
HEY I'll read Freire with you, let me know right before you're going to start? That way I can get it from the library. I took this class on... well it was on whatever the professor felt like talking about basically, and what she usually felt like talking about was co-creation of curriculum and Freire. Now I have to say, your list is 100% male so far. How about throwing Gloria Anzaldua's "Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza" in there? It's complex and challenging and definitely a classic of borderlands literature... plus, you might even like it! I'd read that one with you too, in a heartbeat. let me know! ali
From Blog: Reading for the Year
HEY I'll read Freire with you, let me know right before you're going to start? That way I can get it from the library. I took this class on... well it was on whatever the professor felt like talking about basically, and what she usually felt like talking about was co-creation of curriculum and Freire. Now I have to say, your list is 100% male so far. How about throwing Gloria Anzaldua's "Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza" in there? It's complex and challenging and definitely a classic of borderlands literature... plus, you might even like it! I'd read that one with you too, in a heartbeat. let me know! ali
From Blog: Reading for the Year
Date: 4th September 2010
Eat some fantastic Mexican food for us and learn a little dancing. We miss you!!!! -- Louise and Nick
From Blog: A Welcome
Eat some fantastic Mexican food for us and learn a little dancing. We miss you!!!! -- Louise and Nick
From Blog: A Welcome
Date: 31st August 2010
Thoughtful analyses
Aaron, your analyses are thoughtful, sensitive, and caring. And Erudite, as well! I'm looking forward to reading more.
From Blog: YAV Orientation
Thoughtful analyses
Aaron, your analyses are thoughtful, sensitive, and caring. And Erudite, as well! I'm looking forward to reading more.
From Blog: YAV Orientation
Shirley
non-member comment
What a blog!
Hello Aaron, what deep thinking for someone your age. I checked out the web sites you mentioned and was really impressed with Brene Brown's talk on vulnerability. I have many thoughts about that and would love discussing them with you if a time ever comes. Also "being enough." Actually a hard transition to make. Also heard you are applying to Union Theology also. That, too, would be great! I believe that was Willian Sloan Coffin's school. I remember reading his book, "Once to Every Man and Nation," a great work. Keep sending those blogs, they are riviting. Shirley
From Blog: Egg-Shell Reality