How Personality Tests Helped Me Become a World Changer
There is no way personality tests could predict my preference for coffee, and coffee served this way, every day, twice a day: Seven creams and four sugars mixed into fair trade french-pressed coffee in a swirly, hand-painted, world changer mug, with a spoon in the mug...
Don’t Know Where To Start? Here Are Your Weekly World-Changing Challenges
This past week I launched a group meant for you. At least, I think it might be. Its purpose is to give you weekly world-changing challenges. Average Advocate exists to coach people to be world changers, by giving them a place to start and bringing them down a...
400 Ordinary Hoodlums Who Changed the World
One of my spiritual mentors pointed out an interesting passage in scripture to me recently. It was a random Bible verse about 400 ordinary hoodlums that, when united, went on to change the world. (Note: I realize that not all of you are Jewish history buffs nor do you...
Why Knowing Who You Are is Essential to Finding Your Best Role as a World Changer
The second stage to becoming an ordinary world changer is "define," a stage all about knowing who you are. Just as knowing what we are passionate about is an element in discovering our calling, pin-pointing our personality types can also play a vital function in...
9 Ways To Help Syrian Refugees
I thought I'd compile a list of nine ways to help Syrian refugees to remind us not forget about our neighbors accross the ocean, as their situation is still demanding global attention. First, an Update on the Syrian Refugee Crisis Last Fall I wrote If...
Because You Were Meant to Make a Difference
Simply Because You Were Meant to Make a Difference . . . The only reason Average Advocate exists is because of our core belief that you are meant to make a difference. We believe that you are called to this. We believe that you are created for it....
Why Willie Kimani’s Murder Calls Us To Be Ninjas of Light (An Insider’s Perspective on IJM)
Thick darkness only exists in the absence of all light. In the same way, injustice only oppresses humanity because safety, security, fairness and all right things have been trampled. As noted earlier this week, in A Voice Cries, there is a lot of hurt,...
A Voice Cries (Poem): How World Changers Can React to Current Events in the USA
This is part of the series, Your Voice on Racism. Do you have a story to share? We need to hear it! Consider submitting it here! How should world changers react to current events in the USA? This is the way one world changer did, through the poem--A Voice...
Why Should We Seek Justice? International Justice Mission’s Model
I've mentioned International Justice Mission (IJM) many times, especially while fundraising for them through the annual Little Black Dress Project. But while writing something else for you it hit me that I probably have never actually dedicated a post to why seeking...
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PopularSwamp 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...
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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...
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Your Voice on Racism is a series of stories you write and share about your experiences with this injustice based on color of skin. Do you have store to share?
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LatestWhen Your Dreams Change
This picture always makes me smile, depicting some of my favorites from my teenage years: my...
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LatestWhen Your Dreams Change
This picture always makes me smile, depicting some of my favorites from my teenage years: my...
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LatestWhen Your Dreams Change
This picture always makes me smile, depicting some of my favorites from my teenage years: my...
I’m Every Woman: How Woman Are Uniquely Positioned To Change the World
Why does now matter for women? We have a unique positioning to make a difference for the world at large. Here’s why:
April Social Good Awareness, Advocacy, and Activism Days
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Five Steps To Begin Restful Changemaking
A Path for Restful Changemaking: I’m not shy about my story of burnout while having my life...
Social Justice For the Sensitive Soul – Justice Daily S3E6
Have you ever felt like you didn’t fit the model for classic activism? That you were too...
How To Be An Advocate When You Don’t Know Where You Stand: On Palestine/Israel
How do we engage in advocacy when we don’t know where we stand on a social issue? One of the...
Poem for Changemakers
Why do Changemakers burnout? This poem for Changemakers was written to help them see their value.



