Thank you to everyone who completed the survey from our very first round of Forward: A Book Club to Help Move the Conversation...Forward. Based on your responses to the survey, we're going to go deeper and read Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Here are the details, from …
Keeping the Conversation Going: A #ForwardFeature with Marilyn Yocum
I met Marilyn online first, and then in person at that retreat center I was talking about the other day. Since then, I've had the privilege of picking her up from the airport when she came to Nebraska for the little, bi-annual retreat I've been hosting here. I hold her in the highest …
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Year of Delight: A Book Club #ForwardFeature With Osheta Moore
Osheta Moore is the founder of Shalom in the City, a community for those who want to be peacemakers. She's got a new podcast in the works, so find and follow her now—that you won't miss a beat once that podcast goes live (all links are at the end of this post). I'm happy to feature Osheta here, …
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FORWARD: Guidelines for Our Book Club (with a Linkup Option)
We are one week away from the official, January 15th start of our new book club. Today, I thought I'd share some guidelines, to help give us focus in the weeks ahead. If you've got questions, this is the place to ask them. As we work through the book together, remember you can always come back here …
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In Which We Build a Book List Together, to Help Move the Conversation Forward
One of my suggestions for moving the conversation about racism forward—from going around in circles, to actually making progress, even if incremental—is to read books by writers from a different culture, race, or ethnicity from your own. When I made that suggestion, I almost added a list of …
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Growing Pains
When I was a little girl, I'd sometimes awake in the middle of the night with an aching pain in my legs. The pain was excruciating, and scary for my little girl self. I'd cry out in pain from my bed and my mom would be there in a jiffy. She held me, and soothed my worried little self, and she would …