Advent with blindness and crap detecting Week One, Annunciation

It's Advent which Quakers do not necessarily observe except the topic is in the air around RantWoman so it's part of the travel to exotic planet RantWoman package. RantWoman will aim to post one item vaguely connected to Advent item more or less every First Day. Also, it's Advent. it's ABOUT Jesus so things are going to get pretty Jesus-y, but Jesus-y in the way that, in RantWoman's experience, only Quakers can. 

Also, yes, RantWoman knows it's Wednesday already this week. RantWoman assumes God can cope so the rest of us get to cope too.

RantWoman promises some kind of visual motif, maybe a theme music video, and a controversial opinion or two. Bonus for references to physical or metaphorical blindness and of course for mention of the virgin birth. Also RantWoman is collecting articles about prayer in conjunction with a "Separate and Unequal is BS BUT RantWoman is getting clearer about a Quakers in the library" venture Resources have to do more than just mention prayer though.. .

Today's offerings do both mention blindness, and crap detecting.

Here is a wonderful  challenging piece about non-white people by Kenji Kuramitsu

Culture Blindness and the Bible  It even mentions the baby in he manger.

And here is the post from Eric Muhr that got us to the piece above.

Eric Muhr On Disenchantment and Change

"I pray that God will give us courage.

"I pray that God will strip us of unnecessary burdens, so we might freely enter that land he has prepared for us.

"I pray that God will teach us to value our critics, help us to recognize that our continued health depends on our willingness to take advice from subversives and crap-detectors.

"I pray that we will let God do all these things."

Don't just read the above. Now go read the whole post.

In Light and Faithfulness.

RantWoman.