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

Posted 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...

Inspiring: Breathing Life into Advocacy

Posted 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...

Book Review: Fast Living

Posted 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...

Average Consumer vs. Holiday Candy

Posted 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...

Art of Advocacy: Where You Are Planted

Posted 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...