![]() ![]() ![]() She currently serves as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Constructive Theology at Meadville Lombard Theological School (MLTS). Lightsey is the first out African American ordained queer lesbian elder in the United Methodist Church as of August, 2015. Elder status is the highest order one can attain in the United Methodist Church. Lightsey is a womanist theologian, and an ordained elder in the Northern Illinois Conference of the United Methodist Church. Lightsey, and a Queer Theology Bible Podcast interview with Lightsey. This review combines both a book review of Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology by Rev. Lightsey explores the impact of oppression against Black LBGTQ women and introduces her reader to queer theology. Using a womanist methodological approach, Rev. Podcast Review – Queer Theology Bible Podcast – Intersections with Rev. Historic Gathering of First Black UU Clergy Women.Congregational Research & Archival Project.Spiritual Care in an Age of #BlackLivesMatter. ![]() Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology.Communities of Resistance and Solidarity.The Call to Care: Essays by UU Chaplains. ![]()
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Or in other words, a plan that will never work.Ĭatalina Martín, finally, not single. ![]() ![]() Instead, the city itself is the first character we meet, as its high-living, free-wheeling, pocket-padding denizens drag themselves onto the trolley system for another day of work. Amberlough as a city does not (thankfully) map onto New York or London or Paris. While the setting–the troubled confederacy of Gedda–may be fantastical, the reader will immediately recognize the characters’ lifestyles and the looming threat of fascism as highly reminiscent of the 1930s. AMBERLOUGH ( Amazon) is a remarkably self-assured debut, as Donnelly carves an unique space for herself in the fantasy world. Sleek! Provocative! Captivating! This is due in large part to Lara Elena Donnelly’s prose, which gives the alternate world setting an immediate and richly textured sense of place. ![]() AMBERLOUGH is the kind of novel that makes you want to throw adjectives at it. ![]() ![]() There was not even water - drinking water, nothing.Īnd it was a cold, horrible winter in 1939. They closed beaches with barbed wire and just dumped people there. They placed them in improvised concentration camps. And France didn't know what to do with them. And when the fascist armies of Franco were surrounding Barcelona, half a million people walked to their border with France, asking for asylum. Why did you want to start there?ĪLLENDE: Well, because this is the story of the 2,200 refugees - Spanish refugees - that went to Chile. This novel starts in Spain, nearing the end of the Spanish Civil War on the side of the losing Republicans. 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As readers and writers we all know the importance of a character’s name. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wake up, but my eyes are closed Man, the world is spinning, but I’m scared to go I am scared to go, cause then I know I’ll show That I have no idea what I’m doing, I just wing it all I wing it all man, how is it morning again? I feel like it was only a minute ago when I put down my pen A minute ago when I finished saying amen And waved goodbye to the dusk saying, “I’ll see you again” But now dawn, aw nah, here we are I would say good morning, but is that what you are? I once loved you with all of my heart But now this draining repetition has gone too far And now my alarm is buzzing and I’m slowly getting up “Because that’s what you do when you’re a student,” you get up And I’m a Christian, so here’s another day to show God’s love Here goes another day to try to rise above. ![]() ![]() Earlier he served as Undersecretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs and president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. ![]() Volcker worked in the United States Federal Government for almost thirty years, culminating in two terms as chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1979-1987. Yet he first found his model for competent and ethical governance in his father, the town manager of Teaneck, NJ, who instilled Volcker's dedication to absolute integrity and his "three verities" of stable prices, sound finance, and good government. He vibrantly illustrates the crises he managed alongside the world's leading politicians, central bankers, and financiers. Told with wit, humor, and down-to-earth erudition, the narrative of Volcker's career illuminates the changes that have taken place in American life, government, and the economy since World War II. ![]() That extraordinary feat was just one pivotal episode in a decades-long career serving six presidents. ![]() The extraordinary life story of the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, whose absolute integrity provides the inspiration we need as our constitutional system and political tradition are being tested to the breaking point.Īs chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987), Paul Volcker slayed the inflation dragon that was consuming the American economy and restored the world's faith in central bankers. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was going on a bunch of dates set up by Grim Dating, but turning away all her dates before they even got through the entire meal. ![]() The Story: It turns out that there is a good reason that a match couldn’t be found for Ashley. 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