Poem: Jealousy is a Carousel

by Elisa | Oct 28, 2019 | Community, Fully Alive, Identity, Safe Spaces

Jealousy is a carousel is a short poem about community, identity and overcoming insecurity to find joy.

Risk Aversion: The Role of Women in Christianity

by Elisa | Oct 27, 2019 | Being World Changers

What do you want to avoid most? As Christians trying to figure out the role of women, we might need to see egalitarian and complementarian perspectives as risk aversion.

*This used to be called the Five Steps To Being a World Changer which you can learn about here* Are there really just five steps to be a world changer, rising up to make a difference? No way! I am with you if your thinking that no one can really claim to distill a...

What is Lament and How It Helps Everyday People Make a Difference

by Elisa | Oct 11, 2019 | Being World Changers, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Mental Health, Refugees and Immigration, Safe Spaces, Seeking Justice

The first time I heard it, I asked the same question: What is lament? And why do people who care about justice use it? And the question that feels most important--what does it have to do with me? An everyday person who wants to make a difference in the world? The News...

Start Here If You Want To Help Your Kids Love Others, Live Justly and Make a Difference

by Elisa | Oct 9, 2019 | Busy Moms, Raising Kids, Ways to Make a Difference

For Parents Who Want to Help Their Kids Love Others, Live Justly and Make a Difference One of the things I am asked more than others is how to pass on values to your kids that help them make a difference in the world. So many of us want our kids to care for the poor,...

UnZombie: Loving Someone Out of the Darkness and Back to Life

by Elisa | Oct 2, 2019 | Family & Relationships, Life Purpose, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Recovery, Safe Spaces, Stuff of the Heart

What is it like to live with someone who is suicidal? As Suicide Prevention Awareness should go all year, this is a sneak peak into the unique relationship between my housemate and I as she was loved “out of the darkness” – raw and real look inside of our Safe Tribe

SMART Goals Challenge

by Elisa | Sep 23, 2019 | Leadership, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth, Productivity

SMART GOALS SMART goals aren't just a cool fad, but are actually an incredible way to help us live intentionally as rising leaders, busy parents, and people who are making a difference in the world. This week I am doing a SMART goal challenge on social media as I...

Your Secret Formula For Life-Change

by Elisa | Sep 22, 2019 | Discipleship Tools, Life Purpose, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth, Spiritual Discipleship, Uncategorized

What creates life-change? In this post, not only will I give you the secret formula for life-change, but I am also giving you an invitation to join me to help you become who you are meant to be and make the difference you are born to make. What Doesn't Change Lives:...

Intentionally Living With Baby Yeti

by Elisa | Sep 19, 2019 | Live Intentionally

Baby Yeti is making new appearances this year, as I do my own personal Life Mapping and get my Life Map done. Life Mapping is a way of intentionally living our stories worth living so we can be who we are meant to be and make the difference in the world we are born to...

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

Identity Crisis #3467 – My Messy Beautiful

The other day, my daughter was excitedly expressing her admiration of the teachers and helpers at her school. I usually resist the temptation to to ask my kids what they want to be when they grow up because at some point in my...

Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Mental Health, Recovery, Safe Spaces

What to Do With that Blasted Holy Discontent (I used to be a radical)

I used to be a radical. I used to be a radical–until I wasn’t. After high school, I...

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

How Politics Pushed Me To Only Buy Ethically Sourced Clothes

It might be hard to believe, but it has been two years since our last presidential election....

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

3 Tips to Be a Peacemaker

When the world is crazy or when we care about something a lot, how do we do advocacy well. Here are three tips to be peacemakers!

Human Trafficking, Sex Trafficking

Want to Bring Freedom to the Exploited (Right Now)?

Ready to do something about exploitation now? Help us find partners or volunteer for Blackout Trafficking!

Leadership

A New Year, They Said: A Poem for Changemakers in January

Its a New Year, and with it, demands for volunteering, ministry, activism, and more more more! This satirical poem addresses giving from fullness and restful changemaking

Spiritual Discipleship

When Our Best Yes Meets Humble Service: When Should Changemakers Clean Toilets?

Often Changemakers find themselves doing the faithful background service of doing things like changing toilets. How to we balance our "best yes" with humility?

Life Purpose, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth, Productivity

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