I never did get around to posting my Friday Favorites for this week, but each and every one of them (and then some!) are on this list!
Rachel Held Evans has been hosting the Mutuality 2012 synchroblog, and the articles have been AMAZING, to say the least. She’s included links to all 188 of them in this blog post. The work she must have put into the work of compiling them is astonishing. And if you add up the blood, sweat and tears of the contributers, the years of scholarship, the years of heartache, the bold cries for justice and the impassioned pleas for shalom–it is Simply. Amazing. (Cue my ECC peeps busting out in a resounding chorus of Stromberg’s “When Justice Rolls Down,” clapping on beats 1 and 3. 
) Think you can read through them all? Go!
On a similar note, I’m sharing a link to my friend Dr. Arloa Sutter’s Mother’s Day sermon about misogyny in the ancient world, how the early church combatted it, and surprising mommy methaphors for God in the Bible. Her explanation of the word “compassion” is amazing, and worth the price of admission for anyone who has ever birthed a baby. This is one of the things I love about hearing women speak–they catch things common to the female experience that men would be less likely to notice.
Happy Sunday, everyone!
Loved! Loved! Loved! Arloa’s Mother’s day message…read it some time ago. Loved the references to Jehovah El Shaddai, the great breasted one, the nurturer, strong one, supplier…
Wasn’t it great! The “compassion” part was what struck me the most, because I had never heard it. And the end–the invitation to come under God’s wing and rest–oh, my heart!
That is an impressive collection! And congratulations on making the list, too.
Also, I love when you post podcasts because I like to download them and listen to them when I walk Syrus. This one looks especially good. Do you know if there’s a way to download the blog post collection? I’d love to put them on an ereader, since I have trouble doing much “leisure” reading on the computer.
Hmm, I don’t know about downloading the blog posts–but it is an excellent idea! As far as I know they’re not downloadable in any one place. Does your Kindle have web access? I read online stuff on my Nook Color…
And, I couldn’t figure out how to get Arloa’s sermon to download from her blog, but if you follow her link to her church, and then go to their podcasts, you can download it.
Kinda tweaky, but it worked for me!