May 2014 - Reiter's Block

Trigger Warnings in Education: Some Reminiscences and Suggestions from a Survivor

May 23, 2014

The NY Times, the New Republic, and a slew of feminist blogs have recently been debating whether it’s appropriate for educators to put trigger warnings about potentially traumatic material on their syllabus. Not surprisingly, the mainstream media has taken the tack that students should expect to be challenged and disquieted by new ideas in the

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Unconventional Mother’s Day Blogaround

May 7, 2014

The girly pink explosion of sweetness that is Mother’s Day will soon be upon me again. Do I have a problem with that? I love this little guy, and I love pink. But when I think about being a mother, the images that come to mind are not sugary, soft, and girly. I channel the

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Becoming Church: My Field Trip to an Intentional Christian Community

May 5, 2014

In late April, I attended the Second Acts Conference in Washington, DC, an initiative of the intentional Christian community and social justice coalition Becoming Church. Becoming Church is an umbrella organization for small-group churches (a dozen people maximum) that follow the Church of the Saviour model of “journey inward/journey outward“. Grounded in their faith in

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