Obviously, I love this.

But it also frames a really significant Q: The difference btwn Xian writers writing out of institutions & salaried positions & those writing as primary source of income.
Lots to think about, but in my own experience, writing for salary presents unique challenges & has potential to make work more susceptible to whims of marketplace & consumer.
This doesn't have to be bad thing, but I think it's something we need to be more open about in Xian publishing. And it's particularly going to affect female authors who are less likely to be writing from an institution (church or academy).
Working outside institution also has a way of locking writers in a kind of sales silo, isolating them from the kind of community that's essential to developing & testing new ideas.
Please don't take any of this as complaint. I love being able to write, & I love being able to sell what I write. I do think, however, that we can imagine better ways & form more holistic communities around writers, particularly those who serve the church.
If you're a church of any significant size, you might think about potential of creating a writer in residency program. Something as basic as offering office space, access to shared theological library, & community w/ staff could really go a long way to supporting these gifts.

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8 Dec
Following up on previous threads:

Meredith is right about the ingenious design of menstruation. Which brings up another point about how life in modern west is often detached from basic realities of embodiment.
There is inherent tie btwn fertility & surrounding ecosystem. But in modern west, we tend to frame reproduction almost entirely a matter of choice & as an individual venture. We miss the degree to which fertility is also a MEASURE of an environment's ability to sustain life.
This means many things, but at most basic level, fertility rates across a community must be examined communally. We must ask why certain ecosystems, societies, & cultures produce certain rates.
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8 Dec
Speaking of art, I always assumed Joseph would have a kind of farmer's tan & that strange sinewy build that's the result of physical labor + basic food supply. No protein shakes in Nazareth.
Please indulge me for a moment:

It may surprise some folks, but ime, physical labor doesn't necessarily result in finely chisled bodies, sculpted like demi-gods.
It's a strange feature of modern western life that we don't understand this. Our vision of powerful, healthy bodies is result of careful attention to food & working specific muscle groups (leg day, core, arm day, etc.)
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7 Dec
When people argue that they are not personally responsible for the sins of a group (whether nation, church, or family), we should ask what they mean by "responsible for."
B/c there is a world of difference btwn

1) The individual is not personally guilty of specific sins w/in the group

and

2) The individual is responsible to understand, identify, acknowledge, resist, & rectify those sins that prevailing group dynamics permit & enable.
It seems to me that too many of us use the first as an excuse to not take responsibility for the second.
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7 Dec
If you're interested in thinking more about this kind of relationship, @ErikLokkesmoe's been championing this approach for a while now.
Also while I have a vested interest in writers, this approach extends to all the arts.
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1 Dec
Per previous thread about how marketplace is as odds w/ family:

To be clear, women have been asked to bear the weight of this problem alone for far too long.
There's a true tension btwn the home & marketplace, but simply expecting women to give full attention to the home (vs. other callings) doesn't challenge the problem in any meaningful way. It is a stopgap measure.
Not only does it fail to adequately honor the public gifts & capacities of female members of community, it also divides the members of the home from each other, making it easier to conquer.
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1 Dec
Wow, great piece from @gracyolmstead.

"We already lived in a rigged system—but it’s rigged in an anti- rather than a pro-family fashion."
A few practical observations from lived experience & prompted by this piece:

1) If you feel like family life & work life are squeezing you in impossible ways, you're not crazy or weak or lazy. In our society, they generally are.
2) B/c of this, the answers to your present stress isn't to simply work harder or hustle more. The game is rigged in a 100 different ways.
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