Currents July 2021
I recently went on a rafting trip with youth from my church. When all of the planning and preparation for the trip was happening, I never thought to ask about…
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Choose to Change
Occasionally we run across something on social media that captures the very essence and application of our monthly tenet. You might call it media magic. Here is such a post…
Clean Your Glasses
If you’re always the first to see the dirt, perhaps you ought to clean your glasses. – Abigail Van Buren. This quote on a newspaper clipping from the popular Dear…
December 2019 Board Message
Simple Abundance by Lisa Bjornberg What do you think of when you hear the word abundance? Does it bring to mind the symbolic cornucopia of overflowing fruits and vegetables? Do…
A Mother Heart: Voices From CSW – Caroline Hoglund, Women of Sweden and Haro, Part 1
When everyone around you is telling you that your children will be better off with someone else, when your community and your culture and your government encourage and even incentivize…
A Thousand Points of Light: Voices from CSW – Betty Abah, CEE-HOPE
Imagine a neighborhood floating on water, where roads look like rivers, and where children play on vast bridges and verandas and rafts. Imagine a community where you take a boat…
Opportunity Cost
The theory of opportunity cost was one of the ideas that struck me the most in the high school economics class I took 20 years ago. It is something that…
My Choices: Opportunities Inherited from Women in the Past
As humans, we are faced with making choices every single day. They’re often simple: what should we eat for breakfast, what should we wear, should we put on makeup or…