AIDS/HIV 101: Why Should I Care?

by Elisa | Dec 1, 2011 | Global Health

Why should we care about AIDS? I was trying to figure out when I started caring about AIDS. I think I knew someone with AIDS briefly, as a kid, before he passed on. I definitely didn't care about that person. But I've never really known someone with the disease. Most...

Art of Advocacy: Supporting the Causes of Others to be World Changers

by Elisa | Nov 22, 2011 | Art of Advocacy, Helping that Doesn't Hurt, Poverty, United States

Moving Beyond Expectations When I talk about sports, I sound like an idiot. I choose teams based on the colors I like, unless I have some sort of vague attachment to a team, like through extended family. Or that I lived in Spain. So, by plain luck, in the past twelve...

Art of Advocacy: Being Thankful When I’ve Never Been Without

by Elisa | Nov 15, 2011 | Art of Advocacy, Poverty, United States

The author of this guest post is Katie, who believes that she has experienced grace by knowing Jesus, trusting in Him as her ultimate hope. She is also a nurse and a mom who loves the orphaned, abandoned, and those looked down upon in our society. Being...

Inspiring: Breathing Life into Advocacy

by Elisa | Nov 10, 2011 | Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Art of Advocacy, Community, Spiritual Discipleship, United States

Breathing Life into Advocacy I’ve been thinking about the word “inspired” a lot recently, in thanks to the people who voted this into the Average Advocate’s new tag phrase. According to Merriam-Webster, one of the definitions of the verb inspire is “to breathe . . ....

Book Review: Fast Living

by Elisa | Nov 5, 2011 | Ethical Fashion, Fair Trade Products, Good Charities, Poverty, Women's Empowerment

This review is on the book Fast Living by Scott C. Todd (September 2011). This book was released along with the Live 58 Movement and 58: The Film. If you are interested in figuring out what these are, check out Average Advocate's review and explanation by clicking...

Average Consumer vs. Holiday Candy

by Elisa | Oct 31, 2011 | Art of Advocacy, Ethical Fashion, Fair Trade Products, Human Trafficking, Ways to Make a Difference

Where Does My Holiday Candy Come From? Should I consider buying Fair Trade or Slave-Free Candy? Chocolate. Candy. Halloween. Holidays. Lots of Candy. Now that I think about it, the only thing very constant about all holidays is candy. You might not go to grandma's for...

Art of Advocacy: Where You Are Planted

by Elisa | Oct 27, 2011 | Art of Advocacy, Good Charities, Spiritual Discipleship

Where You Are Planted Do you ever read about someone doing something so awesome, or extraordinary, and then think to yourself...what am I doing with my life? I felt that way when I read about Katie Davis. At the age of seventeen, she went to Uganda for a ten month...

Loving the Oppressor Pt.2 (Art of Advocacy)

by Elisa | Oct 24, 2011 | Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Art of Advocacy, Human Trafficking, Seeking Justice, Spiritual Discipleship

Last year I wrote the short post Loving the Oppressor, and I still haven't forgotten it. It revolutionized the way I see evil people. Little boys are so weird. They talk about poop. For fun. Who cares about poop? I was observing at a group of ten or so elementary aged...

Christians vs. Poverty: A Review of 58: The Film and its Movement

by Elisa | Oct 21, 2011 | Art of Advocacy, Good Charities, Human Trafficking, Poverty, Seeking Justice, Spiritual Discipleship, Ways to Make a Difference

The Documentary on Poverty: Step #1 is to get to it Have you ever been in a tornado warning zone? I didn't experience this much until I moved to the East Coast. The last time I was in a tornado warning I had assumed sirens would go off if there was a problem. After...

Adventure

Swamp Wisdom: An Ecclesiastes on Human Rights

Ever heard of ancient King Solomon? He was said to be the wisest of them all as he philosophized...

Busy Moms, Community, Family & Relationships, Raising Kids

Storm Chaser; Change Chaser: On Saying Goodbye

How Can Anyone Say Goodbye? I’m starting to feel all panicky that I am leaving all my...

Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Mental Health, Recovery, Safe Spaces

Understanding Terms for Poor Nations vs. Rich Nations

Terms of Poverty Whether in public political addresses or in pleas from non-profits, we have all heard some of these terms thrown around at some point or another. But just because we can infer their general meaning, I...

Ethical Fashion, Fair Trade Products, Giving Back, Socially Conscious Brands

Artisan Fair Trade Made Simple: Trades of Hope

Ready to learn how to do fair trade simply? Learn all about fair trade, rising up and Trades of Hope with Stephanie and Elisa

Children-in-Need, Clean Water, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Global Health, Good Charities, Helping that Doesn't Hurt, Human Rights, Poverty, Refugees and Immigration, Seeking Justice, United States

Considerations From A White Man

This is part of the series, Your Voice on Racism. Do you have a story to share? We need to hear...

Human Trafficking, Sex Trafficking

Understanding Foster Care As Changemakers

Have you ever thought "I wonder if we should foster?" or on the flip-side, "I could never foster?" Karly addresses all of this in our #JusticeDaily interview to give us understanding on foster care

Leadership

Responding to Injustice With Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn

Do our responses to social issues reflect trauma responses? If so, how can we help ourselves to help others better?

Spiritual Discipleship

We Can’t Escape Real Life While Changemaking

We can't escape real life while we are changemaking. The context matters. Let's be aware of these four elements as we create change.

Life Purpose, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth, Productivity

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