Young Adult and Campus Ministries
UNCSW 2010: A Prayerful Week of Learning
My favorite encounter each day is the interaction with other people from other countries. Sometimes good and sometimes maybe not so good. But the encounters in and of themselves is what teaches us, as a group, so much about ourselves as individuals and also Americans. As an episcopal young adult delegate from Alabama the favorite […]
UNCSW 2010: A Place and a Voice
by Garrett Braaf, Diocese of Southeast Florida So I arrive in the morning of February 26. As I got settled into my room, a question suddenly hit me like a freight train: WHY IN THE WORLD AM I HERE? A wave of fear and disappointment swept over me as I pondered my answer. I knew […]
UNCSW 2010: Facing the Body
by Andrea Bardelmeier, Diocese of New Jersey Wednesday, March 03, 2010- Our fifth full day at UNSCSW. I woke up from a Tylenol PM induced sleep this morning after spending some much needed down time yesterday evening after a great day. Several of us had attended a key note address by Sarine Jones, the President […]
UNCSW 2010: Go Out and Set the World on Fire
As I’m writing this, I’m listening to Peter Gabriel’s song “Biko”. The lyrics describe my feelings about the UN CSW well: “You can blow out the candle, but you can’t blow out the fire. Once the flames begin to catch, the wind just blows them higher.” I love these words because they emphasize the importance […]
UNCSW 2010: Darse Cuenta
by Karen Longenecker, Diocese of San Diego The last blog I wrote about was rather obscure. I talked about the body and how one day equality will be an erotic experience. I don’t know yet if I totally know what that means but in true divine style, the next day brought more clarity to me. […]
UNCSW 2010: Amani Iwe Nawe
by Brede Eschliman, Diocese of Connecticut The best part of my day (other than the meeting the presiding bishop, which was incredible) was an unexpected conversation. We had a debriefing and dinner with Ecumenical Women, and we were supposed to discuss advocacy points in small groups while eating. The small group I was in was […]
UNCSW 2010: The Difference that Christ Makes
by Ruth Lindsay, Diocese of Arizona I have been involved in secular activism for quite a few years. Passionately political and ardently feminist, I have struggled throughout my young adulthood to live out my values and give back to a world that has given so generously to me. But passionate commitment was never enough to […]
Why Serve 2010: Called into Holy Conflict
Jabriel Ballentine is a member of the Diocese of the Virgin Islands, residing in Washington, D.C.. In the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. One God. Amen. Recently about fifty of us youth gathered in Sewanee, TN to explore our call to serve. It was an invaluable experience […]
Why Serve 2010: A Place From Which to Serve
Ernesto Pasalo, or JaR, is a student in the Diocese of Hawaii. “But now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, so that all nations might believe and obey him” Romans 16:26 As we sat in the van on the way to our conference for “people of […]
Why Serve 2010: Episcopal Polity 101
Brian Romero is a student in the Diocese of Long Island. Why Serve? Or how to serve? These were the questions young adults were asking themselves as they traveled to Sewanee, Tennessee. They continued to ask them throughout the course of the Why Serve Conference hosted by the University of the South. During the four […]
