Sunday Funday November and December, Part 3
Sunday Funday started when I realized I needed to have specific ways to be encouraged in my heart language while in Brazil—especially spiritually encouraged. And so I signed up for a lot of really great blogs/email subscriptions, and all week when they arrived, I put them into a special folder to read on Sunday. I called my little retreat of reading “Sunday Funday.”
I have continued enjoying these times, and when I find something particularly stricking, I save it on my phone on a separate tab. I currently have 56 tabs open, from things I was like “OOOOOOO, I want to share THAT link.”
I don’t think I will share all 56 links. But it is theraputic to look through them all again, and post the best ones for you below.
Missionary/Christian life things: Surrending Comfort (Velvet Ashes) why we feel we have nothing to offer (Ann Voskamp), a Global Nobad’s guide to peace in unrest (Sarita Hartz), the hidden cost of constant transition (the culture blend) White saviors help people, so why is that a problem (Craig Greenfield), Fear not little hummingbird (Velvet Ashes), Nine tips for living well in a season of grief (Michele Phoenix), This is the shift that urgently needs to take place in missions (Craig Greenfield) a Response to Longing (Velvet Ashes) What 2020 Needs (Ann Voskamp) a hug from 20 years ago (velvet Ashes)
Amy Medina (she is one of my favorite bloggers, who also has recently transitioned from serving overseas to living in the USA and working as support staff from here. Her writing is on FIRE). Christians, Diversity is Not a Bad Word, my problem goes much deeper than Racism, I get to vote, but this still is not my country, I never thought I would miss spiders, this is why I buy used stuff, I am guilty of Cancel Culture, the Pandemic can help us to identify with the World’s poor, Imagine you had to write a Christmas letter like a Missionary, you are not allowed to think we are poor
Politics with The Dispatch (we have had an election since my last real Sunday Funday): Are Teachers Unions overplaying their hands?, The Spiritual Blessing of Political Homelessness, May God bless President Biden, Trump made people feel Brave again
The Random: The promise that tested my parents until the end (GQ), Failing grades spike in Virginia’s largest school system as online learning gap emerges nationwide (the Washington Post), It’s only fake-believe: how to deal with conspiracy theorist (the Guardian)
So Beth Moore and Dolly Parton are amazing: Beth Moore’s condemnation of Trumpism is a Watershed Moment
