- Resources for Christian Living and Learning
- Special Topic: It's About Time
- Current Issues News items of
interest to women and men who care about gender equality,
compassion, and justice.
- Expanding Our Horizons Websites to
aid in understanding people of various backgrounds and faiths
in different areas around the globe.
Introduction
Welcome to another edition of Web Explorations for Christian
Feminists. We're glad you stopped by and hope you'll come back
often. Just a reminder: Since the links in Web Explorations take
you to sites outside eewc.com, please keep in mind that EEWC
cannot be responsible for their content. Nor does the inclusion of
a link mean that it represents the views or official position of
EEWC. Rather, the links will simply direct you to sites that I
think you'll find interesting, informative, challenging,
inspiring, or just worth knowing about. I hope you'll enjoy
exploring them.
Part 1. Resources for Christian Living
and Learning
Explore Faith
This excellent site helps its viewers do exactly what its name
says: explore faith. It offers an abundance of resources for
devotional practice, biblical and theological information,
articles, book and movie reviews, and even a nice selection of
e-cards with spiritual themes.
Journaling
about our prayer life
Helpful questions to strengthen our prayer life through
journaling. From the "Oasis" section of the Explore
Faith website.
The Geranium
Farm: Down to Earth Support for Living
Daily messages and other useful material from Barbara Cawthorne
Crafton, an Episcopal priest, spiritual director, and author.
Joan
Chittister on mixing politics and religion
Watch an online video of the November 12, 2004 PBS broadcast of
NOW, as Bill Moyers and Benedictine sister Joan Chittister discuss
religion and politics. Joan Chittister is much loved by EEWC
members, having been a speaker at our 2000 conference in Chicago.
She was also profiled in an EEWC
Update article (Spring, 1998)
And
He Shall Be Called. . .
Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister's thoughts about the new pope's
choice of the name Benedict.
(For more thoughts related to the death of Pope John
Paul II , the election of Pope Benedict XVI and the role of women
in the church, read the commentary
by EEWC's own Anne Eggebroten on Women's E-news (you may
have to sign in on that site, but it's free). Look for articles on
the Women's Ordination
Conference website, too. They also have some great
cartoons calling for equality for women in the church.)
Part 2. Special Topic: It's About TIme
The
Time Bind: Thoughts on Life's Most Important Investment
Unitarian minister Richard Gilbert ponders the ways we humans
struggle over time, its meaning, and its use.
Time
pressures and creativity Do time pressures help or hinder our
creativity?
Business consultant Jeffrey Govendo reports on what one study has
shown.
Presenters
have a different concept of time than most.
If you've ever had a deadline to meet (and who of us hasn't?), you
might find that time seems to take on a completely different
quality. That's especially true if you have a presentation to
prepare and give, as Tad Simon humorously points out.
The
Time Crunch: Mending Our Lives
Patty Wipfler provides some helpful advice for overworked,
time-stressed parents. (from the Parent Leadership
Institute).
How
Do I Know If I'm a Workaholic?
Some thoughts to help us determine whether or not we might be.
(From Workaholics Anoymous)
Workaholics
Anonymous "Tools of Recovery"
Types of Work
Addicts
One person's personal experience that led to the conclusion that
perfectionism and procrastination are also signs of workaholism.
Evaluating
a To-Do List (by a member of Workaholics Anonymous)
This page may help in deciding about all the "must do"
pressures that so often stress us.
Taking the
Pressure Out of Deadlines
Does our perception of time change when we have a deadline?
Email pressures and distractions
A 2005 study has shown the detrimental effect the distractions of
email and other communications technology may have on our
concentration, our work, our time, and our lives in general (if we
let it). Here are some reports and analyses based on that study
and other observations.
"Infomania"
worse than marijuana
From BBC News, April 22, 2005
E-mails
"hurt IQ more than pot"
From CNN, April 22, 2005
Emails
"pose threat to IQ"
The Guardian, April 22, 2005
Web
guru fights info pollution
"Ultimately, time is a non-renewable resource. Once that
day is gone, it is never coming back.," says Jakob Nielsen
who was interviewed for this article on email distractions and
how to stop them from eating up both senders' and recipients'
time. Helpful analysis. From BBC News, Oct. 13, 2003
But
Is it possible to we relax about email? This author thinks
so and tells how he handles it.
From "No information overload just yet," BBC News,
March 4, 2005.
The Official U.S. Time
Since we're talking about time in general, here's a useful site
for providing accurate time to the very second, day or night, in
any U.S. time zone.
Time and Date
This site will tell you what time it is at any given moment in any
place in the world, city by city. The site has many other
features, too. One of my favorites is the calendar-generating tool
through which you can make your own custom-made calendars for any
year (or combination of months in that year) with just the click
of the mouse. If you need a calendar for next year or for five
years or 25 years from now, just make one!
A Walk through Time
Ever wonder how time has been measured over history? You'll find
the answers here. Source: National Institute of Standards and
Technology
Part 3: Current Issues
News items of interest to women and men who care about gender
equality, compassion, and justice.
India's
promotion of one-girl families
BBC News, March 9, 2005
Chinese
given perks to have girls
BBC News, Aug. 12, 2004
More
women than men died in tsunami and effects on remaining women
The Guardian, March 26, 2005
The
last of the footbinding survivors in China
The Guardian, March 21, 2005
Woman
stoned to death after accusations of adultery
BBC News, April 23, 2005
Poverty-stricken
Peruvian teenage offers her virginity to pay mother's medical
bills
BBC News, April 25, 2005
Part 4: Expanding Our Horizons
Websites to aid in understanding people of various backgrounds
and faiths in different areas around the globe.
Moms
and Babies around the World (from BBC News, April 6, 2005)
In its efforts "to reduce the numbers of women and babies who
die in childbirth," the World Health Organization (WHO) is
following six women in different parts of the world as they
experience pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. The women live in
Bolivia, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Laos, and UK. You can also read
about them in the section on "Great
Expectations" on the WHO website.
Muslim refusnik
This is author Irshad Manji's website about her writings and
efforts for the liberal reformation of Islam. She was honored by
Ms magazine as "a feminist for the 21st century," and
was given an Oprah Winfrey Chutzpah Award for her "audacity,
nerve, boldness and conviction."
Woman
leads US Muslims to Prayer
When a Virginia Commonwealth University professor of Islamic
studies led a congregation of both women and men in prayer, Muslim
leaders accused her of violating the teachings of Islam. BBC News,
March 18, 2005
Storm
over Indian Women's Mosque
India's Muslim women want a place of their own to meet and pray
and find their voice. BBC News, January 27, 2004
Contributions
of Jewish women to music and women to Jewish Music
From the Jewish Music Web Center
Africa's
women speak out
BBC News asked four of Africa's most prominent female
personalities to talk about the role of women on their continent.
(BBC News, March 26, 2005)
That's all for this time. Enjoy your exploring.
Your Web Explorations Guide,
Letha Dawson Scanzoni
© 2005 Evangelical and Ecumenical
Women's Caucus
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