Trying to follow

By way of the suggestions of Lynette, I thought it wise to take a concious look at my blog reader, and see what ethnicity and sex the authors of the blogs I subscribe to are.
I figured I would be sadly disappointed to find it dominated by white males, but it’s actually 50-50 in both sex and white/not-white.

That didn’t include my friends blogs (people I know personally) but after further research, those are split about 50-50 too.

I think it would be wise to lean a little more heavily away from white male dominated influences, so I’m going to try and still think through that a little.

I think I’m going to take a few picks from Lynette’s great list of female bloggers…

Note: This is a 35 minute video about the media’s portrayal of women. It’s a very important and interesting film that you should take the time to watch. I don’t think it needs much further commenting, only that I would strongly recommend that you watch it.
Note: Keep in mind that this is about the dehumanizing and objectifying way the media portrays women, so it shows plenty of examples of that, proceed with caution.

Update: Media Education Foundation is now on youtube
I still found the full video on Google Videos.

Ariah and Zach discuss Bible translations and whether Ariah should be reading through The Message as his Bible reading this year.

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Some of the Show Notes:

• Zach explains the types of translations
• Why The Message is not really The Bible
• How do we decide what is “Scripture?”
• Thoughts on the TNIV
• Should we be reading the Bible ONLY in Greek and Hebrew
• Should God be referred to as a “He.” or a “She?”
• The danger of putting “interpretation” into the translation.
• Why did God use the language that was used in the original text?

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