Week’s Links [updated]

SDA:

• ADRA Responds to Hurricane Ingrid and Tropical Storm Manuel (DelaCruz, ADRA)
• U.S. President Discusses Imprisoned Pastor with Iranian President (ReligiousLiberty.TV)
• OPINION: Does Religion Make Civilization Possible? (ReligiousLiberty.TV)
• Drip, Drip, Drip… The Price Pressure on Food and the Squeezing of the Poor Continues (Planet in Distress)
• So Just Because You’re Gay, Do You Have to Act Gay? (Seibold, Faith in Context)
• First phase of comprehensive health ministry will promote future work (Oliver, ANN)
• ADRA Positioned and Prepared as Super Cyclone Phailin Makes Landfall (DelaCruz, ADRA)
• How to Demolish Your Own Good Reputation (Seibold, Faith in Context)

• “We Are Fundamentally Destabilizing Our Natural Systems” (Planet in Distress)
• ADRA Responds to Mekong Delta Flooding in Cambodia (DelaCruz, ADRA)
• The New Benjamin Still Trusts in God (Faith in Context)
• ADRA assisting flood victims in Mexico, Cambodia (ANN)
• Youth In Action: Exceeding Abundantly (NAPS)
• NAPS Kids, in nature (NAPS)
• Planet In Distress Weekend Seminar in Woodstock, Maine (Planet in Distress)
• Stone Church Willow of Glen (CA) Helps Families Save Rainwater for their Gardens, Drinking and Bathing (Amistad)
• Decade after HIV/AIDS ministry launched, major reduction of stigma, increased support (Oliver, ANN)
• The Christian Revolutionary Option (Part 1): Žižek’s Limitation (Ma, Interlocutors)
• Join the Adventist Peace Fellowship (Jesus, Adventism, and I)
• YOD 10 Colorado Disaster Relief (NAPS)
• NAPS Kids — Praise God (NAPS)
• Towards a Theology of Revolution: The Problems (Burdette, Interlocutors)
• Woman Nominated to be President of Southeastern California Conference (Dwyer, Spectrum)
• New audio player offers book collection to blinded veterans (Dabrowski & Burdick, ANN)
• New Pope Taking a Different Direction (Sahlin, Faith in Context)
• Let’s Talk About Syria (Byrd, Spectrum)
• NAPS Kids (NAPS)
• Build Your Own Peace Week (Blake, Spectrum)
• Ordination: The Ongoing Search for Understanding (Pearson, Spectrum)
• Money: Tool of Happiness (Liberal Adventist Pastor)
• The Christian’s Involvement in Human Governments and the Politics of War (Straub, ReligiousLiberty.TV)
• German Adventist hospital opens center to treat FGM victims (Cozzi, ANN)
• Syria: An Uncomfortable Issue for a Pacificist who Understands World Power (Sahlin, Faith in Context)
• 41 Faith Leaders Ask Congress to Vote No on Syria Strikes (Byrd, Spectrum)
• How Would An Attack on Syria Affect the Religious Liberty of the Syrian People? (Peabody, ReligiousLiberty.TV)
• For Taiwan’s people, Adventist seeks a better life (Kellner, ANN)
• Remembering 1963 and 2001 (Sahlin, AToday)
• Forum Discussion: Can Dialog With Other Faiths Help Adventists Overcome Internal Conflict and Strengthen Identity? (AToday)
• Adventist Church asks Nigeria to Not Schedule Elections on Days of Worship (AToday)
• Ministry Supporting Victims of Clergy Abuse Opens New Facility (AToday)
• U.S. Senate Chaplain, an Adventist Minister, Speaks Out on American Political Crisis (AToday)
• Washington DC Adventists Pray for U.S. Government Shutdown to End (AToday)
• Woman Pastor Nominated to be Conference President in California (AToday)
• Evangelicals Focus on a Theme Familiar to Adventists: The Bible and Democracy in America (AToday)

Added 10/20/13 — SDA (could be some duplication):

• An Economics of Enough (Ryan Bell, Adventist Peace Fellowship)
• The Elusive Quest for Reconciliation (Pearson, SDA Church)
• For real education reform, take a cue from the Adventists (Kido, Christian Science Monitor)
• Syria: An Uncomfortable Issue for a Pacificist who Understands World Power (Sahlin, Faith in Context)
• The Christian’s Involvement in Human Governments and the Politics of War (Straub, ReligiousLiberty.TV)
• Melvin Bray – Faith Forward
• Woman Nominated to be President of Southeastern California Conference (Dwyer, Spectrum)
• Watch His Conscience (Peabody, Liberty)
• Owning Creation (Dunbar, Adventist Review)
• Restore a Child Ministers to Orphans Around the World (Lorenz, Pacific Union Recorder)
• Slavery in America? (Eva, Pacific Union Recorder)
• Give Us This Day, Our Daily Senate Scolding (Peters, NY Times)
• Seventh-gay Adventist
• Seventh-gay Adventist – Kickstarter
• When A Redneck Loved A Queer (Cruz, Believe Out Loud)
• An Open Letter to Conservatives (Akers, Spectrum)
• How I Became An Adventist Ally (Akers, Believe Out Loud)
• Paradigm Shifts & Miracles: Seventh-Gay Adventists (Akers, Knight, Patheos)

ADDITIONAL CHRISTIAN VOICE

• Gangs in Central America (Hershberger Esh, MCC Latin America Advocacy Blog)
• Theology (and the Theological Academy) & Rape (and Rape Culture): A Miniature Memoir of Sorts (Daniels, Women in Theology)
• Victim Blaming, Depression and Restoration (Shenk, MCUSA Women in Leadership)
• Liberation theology finds new welcome in Pope Francis’ Vatican (Speciale, Religion News Service)
• Christians in Middle East: U.S. attack on Syria would be detrimental (Bailey, Religion News Service)
• Word and World
• Jesus in the temple: Our peacemaking needs to include other creatures. (Alexis-Baker, The Mennonite)
• A Chance for [ ]
• Show Hope
• What I Learned About Justice from a Mom with a Stroller (Richmond, Storyline)
• Malcolm Gladwell on His Return to Faith While Writing ‘David and Goliath’ (Bailey, Sojourners)
• Guest: Christianity calls for vegetarianism (Camosy, Seattle Times)
• Churches Don’t Feed People, People Feed People (Loskota, Religion Dispatches)
• Why Drive-By Charity is Ruining Your View of God (Thebarge, Storyline)
• The Quiet Gay-Rights Revolution in America’s Churches
• A shift among people of faith is moving public opinion (Ball, The Atlantic)
• How To Keep Malala from Being Appropriated: 5 points on Malala, Obama, and Jon Stewart (Safi, Religion News Service)
• A Letter From the Exiles (Young Anabaptist Radicals)