Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category
This week
I anticipate being on the quiet side here this week. With the A Woman Inspired conference taking up most of my day, I’m going to focus my attention there. I’ll probably write thoughts about it at the end of the week. Please leave me your own links about the conference in the comments when I [...]
April 6, 2009
· 
Monica Brand · 
One Comment
Tags: blogkeeping, Compassion International, Lent, Twitter · Posted in: Blogging, Compassion International
Loyal commenter no. 3
And it’s Mel from A Voice for Moms. From her website: I challenge all of you to pray daily about how your voice, gifts and talents can best be used. Your voice and ministry may not be the same as mine but we all have gifts and talents that God will use if we allow [...]
March 27, 2009
· Monica Brand · 2 Comments
Tags: blogkeeping, blogs, friends · Posted in: Blogging
A different type of party post
Hello and welcome. I imagine a lot of you here today are new and most likely will never come back here again. That’s okay. I get it. There are now so many of us – women bloggers – that it’s tough to add one more feed to your bulging reader. (Believe me, I know! So [...]
March 20, 2009
· Monica Brand · 26 Comments
Tags: 5 Minutes for Mom · Posted in: Actions for social justice, Blogging, Uncategorized
I am a woman inspired
That was fun! It only took 25 times, with a slight editing tweak, to not sound like a complete doofus. (I think in the final cut, I sound only slightly goofy.) There’s nothing like putting your personality onto YouTube for all of cyberspace to see. I made this little tribute to my mom for the [...]
March 16, 2009
· Monica Brand · 13 Comments
Tags: encouragement, video, women · Posted in: Believing, Blogging, Internet culture, Women's issues
Don’t blog about Global Food Crisis Day
Don’t read the stats. Don’t look at the images of starving children. Don’t read books like this. Unless you want to mess with your head and heart and have your nice comfy worldview twisted around, shaken like a spiritual heartquake. I’m telling you – don’t get involved with Compassion International because these little ones suck [...]
March 11, 2009
· Monica Brand · 3 Comments
Tags: Compassion International, poverty · Posted in: Actions for social justice, Blogging, Compassion International
Reading, writing, thinking
So. I’m reading The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne. CauseWired by Tom Watson too. And writing my Ultimate Blog Party post, with the purpose to introduce new folks to what this little blog is about. Wow. Deep thoughts. These two books coming together in my head, plus thinking about the WHY of what I do [...]
February 21, 2009
· Monica Brand · No Comments
Tags: blogkeeping, books, non-fiction, Reading · Posted in: Actions for social justice, Believing, Blogging, Reading, Thinking
