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...

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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

June Social Good Awareness, Advocacy, and Activism Days

Want to make doing good easier? Create awareness? Take advantage of the resources out there during the month through June’s themes and advocacy days. Instead of reinventing the wheel, we simply join in with what is already...

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

Book For Parents Raising Socially Conscious Kids: And Social Justice For All

For years I’ve considered writing a book to help parents raising global citizens and...

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

What Is Mutual Aid? Why Community Care Is How We Learn to Love

What mutual aid really means, why it matters more than charity, and how community care during a hysterectomy reminded me how we learn to love.

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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