Week’s Links

SDA

Women (Ordination+)

• Danish Union suspends all ministerial ordination until 2015 (ANN)
• Awaiting a GC Vote, the Danish Union Halts All Ordinations (Alexander Carpenter, Spectrum)
• Another Union Conference Takes a Stand for Ordination Without Gender Discrimination (Adventist Today)
• The Creation Order for Man-Woman Relationships: Genesis 1-2 (Richard M. Davidson, Memory, Meaning & Faith)
• Women’s Ordination and the Concept of Present Truth (David Penno, Memory, Meaning & Faith)
• Violence and Silence: Jackson Katz on Gender Violence at TEDxFiDiWomen (Landon Schnabel)

Environment

• CASSAVA BLIGHT: A BIG DEAL (Planet in Distress)
• STAPLE CROP CRITICAL TO THE DIET OF 300 MILLION AFRICANS IS IMPERILED – AND ITS NOT NEWS? (Planet in Distress)
• “PLANET IN DISTRESS” DVD IN THE WORKS (Planet in Distress)
• In China, renewable energy project tackles growing waste problem (ANN)

Human Rights

• Christians Equipped to Work for Liberty of Conscience for All (Karen Scott, ReligiousLiberty.TV)
• Annual report highlights worsening freedom of belief worldwide (Elizabeth Lechleitner, ANN)
• Drawing a Line Against Infanticide: Why the Trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell Matters (Michael Peabody, ReligiousLiberty.TV)

Racial Issues

• Race and Class in Viral Videos and Memes (Landon Schnabel)

Service, Compassion & Justice

• Summer Book Clubs Forming (ReconcileRestore)
• Church Chat: Building up overseas volunteers (Ansel Oliver, ANN)
• Sabbath Sermon: ‘Or the Resident Alien in Your Towns’: Sabbath and Justice in the Commandments—Sigve Tonstad (Spectrum)
• Call for Applications: ADRA Vice President for Programs (ADRA)

ADDITIONAL CHRISTIAN VOICES

• Bonga Amani (World Relief)
• Jim Martin :: What keeps some American churches from engaging justice? (AskQuestions.TV)
• Mark Driscoll: Gas-Guzzlers a Mark of Masculinity (Russ Pierson, John Roe, Sojourners)
• June is Torture Awareness Month — Toolkit (NRCAT)
• Senate Report on CIA Torture (NRCAT)
• Close Guantanamo (NRCAT)
• In the Image of God: Sex, Power, and ‘Masculine Christianity’ (Catherine Woodiwiss, Sojourners)
• Mennonite women in leadership: crucial for our future together (Tim Nafziger, Women in Leadership)
• Hyped up sexuality—a Christianized perversion (Sara Wenger Shenk, Practicing Reconciliation)
• Abercrombie And Fitch And Homelessness and You (Hugh Hollowell, Red Letter Christians)