Angry enough to be free, safe enough to thrive
Safe enough to thrive I read Greta Thunberg’s UN address today and I’m glad I was looking at…
Marketing is broken. Can we fix it?
Why marketing feels icky To be honest, I would never have guessed that I’d end up with the…
So there’s this giant thank you card you should sign
I wasn’t always an optimist – quite the contrary. When I was 14, I wrote this poem about…
Half-time: the benefits of alcohol
I'm halfway through my commitment to match my charitable giving with my alcohol spending.
See how much I've paid for booze so far. And see which charities are going to be better off for it!
Making fashion ethical, and ethics fashionable
The 2017 Ethical Fashion Report is out today. I had the great privilege and pleasure of being part of Baptist World Aid's research team.
Read the report ... and read some of my reflections, about what I've learned and why ethics in fashion matters.
The cynical optimist
I’ve always been a cynic. From the time I was in primary school hearing about French nuclear testing in the Pacific, Aung San Suu Kyi being put under house arrest and the Monica Lewinsky scandal, I didn’t have much faith in people.
Strangely enough, this dark view of the world eventually led me to Jesus, my hope. So now I am this walking paradox, being both a cynic and an optimist.
Two weeks ago, I blogged about democracy and the need for greater participation. On Monday, a bunch of us put that into practice by meeting with over a hundred senators and members of parliament in one day.
Crazy Baptist Girl
Apparently among some of my classmates, I had a reputation as the Crazy Baptist Girl at school. After…
The hidden reason for poverty
Check out IJM President and Founder Gary Haugen’s TED talk on the hidden reason for poverty the world…