smatterings of stuff
Japan and other countries have put a travel warning out for the USA. Australia hasn't yet, but that's mostly because most Australians are Caucasian or white-passing.
TBH I wouldn't be so sure that my rights would be respected in the USA, even as an Australian citizen in the USA, simply because I'm Asian. And I'm not convinced that my Australian citizenship (by birth, to an Australian by birth) would even be respected by the Australian government simply because I'm not white or white-passing.
As it is, I'm a little nervous about travelling to Indonesia next year. The East Asians are not wholly favoured of the South East Asians (largely because the East Asian cultures have practised their own form of imperialism and colonialism on SE Asian countries), and most of the friends who've been successfully to Indonesia and Bali are white.
I might have been more blase about travel ten years ago, but the gaping wounds of our bigotries weren't so likely to spit infectious pus back then.
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NSW is trying to get abortion off the criminal code.
*sigh*
This is going about as well as expected.
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I learned last night that a previous minister of our church wouldn't let a couple get confirmed in their faith (a number of years ago) because they were living together but not married at the time. The couple is in my bible study and they said that in the country where they come from, they had to be confirmed in order to get married in a church (heavily Catholic country). Years later they're married now, not bitter about what the church did - more amused - and they serve in the church and are integrated parts of the community which is surely the grace of God at work in their lives.
Still, I sometimes wonder if we let our dogma get in the way of our love. We're more concerned about being 'correct Christians' than 'loving Christians'.
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Listening to Jen Hatmaker's 'For The Love' podcast this week, which features an interview with the two women from the 'Pantsuit Politics' podcast: Sarah (from the left) and Beth (from the right).
Extremely good value; I highly recommend.
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You've heard of the tea lady...now meet...the cake man!
TBH I wouldn't be so sure that my rights would be respected in the USA, even as an Australian citizen in the USA, simply because I'm Asian. And I'm not convinced that my Australian citizenship (by birth, to an Australian by birth) would even be respected by the Australian government simply because I'm not white or white-passing.
As it is, I'm a little nervous about travelling to Indonesia next year. The East Asians are not wholly favoured of the South East Asians (largely because the East Asian cultures have practised their own form of imperialism and colonialism on SE Asian countries), and most of the friends who've been successfully to Indonesia and Bali are white.
I might have been more blase about travel ten years ago, but the gaping wounds of our bigotries weren't so likely to spit infectious pus back then.
--
NSW is trying to get abortion off the criminal code.
*sigh*
This is going about as well as expected.
--
I learned last night that a previous minister of our church wouldn't let a couple get confirmed in their faith (a number of years ago) because they were living together but not married at the time. The couple is in my bible study and they said that in the country where they come from, they had to be confirmed in order to get married in a church (heavily Catholic country). Years later they're married now, not bitter about what the church did - more amused - and they serve in the church and are integrated parts of the community which is surely the grace of God at work in their lives.
Still, I sometimes wonder if we let our dogma get in the way of our love. We're more concerned about being 'correct Christians' than 'loving Christians'.
--
Listening to Jen Hatmaker's 'For The Love' podcast this week, which features an interview with the two women from the 'Pantsuit Politics' podcast: Sarah (from the left) and Beth (from the right).
Extremely good value; I highly recommend.
--
You've heard of the tea lady...now meet...the cake man!