The recent events in Egypt have given rise to many questions about the Middle East and the Arab world. My friend, Chris Medearis, has travelled extensively in the Middle East and lived in Lebanon for 12 years. I love this brief glimpse of her experiences with women in the Middle East.
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Websites I check regularly:
- Shauna Niequist: Meet my daughter - writer, speaker, Henry's mom.
- Aaron Niequist: Meet my son-in-law - songwriter, worship leader, teacher, Henry's dad.
- International Justice Mission: IJM effectively fights sex trafficking and slavery.
- Holy Land Trust: An organization devoted to justice and peace, started by my friend, Sami Awad, a Palestinian Christian.
- Sojourners: A great organization focused on issues of social justice. I continue to learn from this great organization!
- Trade as One: Buying fair trade seems like a no-brainer for me.
- Willow Creek Community Church's Compassion and Justice Ministries: These stories always inspire me.
- World Relief Next: This has great information about the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- World Relief: This organization helps churches throughout the world respond to poverty and need in their communities.
My summer re-read list:
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
- Lilith, George MacDonald
- Centering Prayer in Daily Life and Ministry, Edited by Gustave Reininger
- A Christianity Worth Believing, Doug Pagitt
- The Divine Conspiracy, Dallas Willard
- Dancing to the Heartbeat of Redemption, Joy Sawyer
- New and Selected Poems, Mary Oliver
- Half the Sky, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
- The House of Belonging, David Whyte
- Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, Roger Thurow & Scott Kilman
- The Wisdom of the Enneagram, Don Riso and Russ Hudson
New books waiting to be read:
- A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz
- Mandate to Difference, Walter Brueggemann
- The Wretched of the Earth, Franz Fanon
- The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew—Three Women Search for Understanding, Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, Priscilla Warner
- Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
- Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Sabbath, Abraham Joshua Heschel
- Jesus’ Plan for a New World: The Sermon on the Mount, Richard Rohr
- Finding Beauty in a Broken world, Terry Tempest Williams
- Social Justice Handbook, Mae Cannon
Favorite Books on Writing
- Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
- Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg
- Creative Nonfiction, Philip Gerard
Favorite Gift Books I’ve Received:
- The Other Side of War: Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope, Zainab Salbi
- Women of Words: A Personal Introduction to Thirty-five Important Writers, Janet Bukovinsky Teacher
- Women Empowered, Inspiring Change in the Emerging World, Phil Borges
- What Matters: The World’s Preeminent Photojournalists and Thinkers Depict Essential
- Issues of our Time, David Elliot Cohen
- Women Who Light the Dark, Paola Gianturco
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