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Q Focus - Women & Calling
This past weekend in New York City, 200 women gathered to learn, connect and collaborate around the topic of women & calling... more specifically "how women can faithfully embrace the life, gifts and skills God has given them." I would love to have been there.
Q: Ideas
I have been a long time admirer of Q : Ideas and the posture they take in matters of faith. I appreciate their conversational approach on really important (and sometimes controversial) topics. Some of my favorite essays and videos are found in their archives (I am particularly fond of the social sector section).
The speakers
What immediately caught my attention was the phenomenal speaker line-up.
A few notes on five of the twelve speakers...
Kate Harris (top middle) - When I read Kate's essay Motherhood as a Vocation a few years ago, I wanted to share it with every mom that I knew. I was thrilled when I learned that she would be one of the speakers at the Laity Lodge Women's retreat I attended earlier this year. If I could, I would pre-order Kate's unwritten book... she has good things to say and I am thankful for the perspective she brings to the conversation on women and calling.
*** Update - Kate Harris DID write a book ***
*** Update - Kate Harris DID write a book ***
Shauna Niequist (bottom middle) - The night I finished reading Shauna's first book (Cold Tangerines) I took a picture. It was in 2009, before instagram (and my moderate obsession with cataloging every moment of my life). It changed the way I think about words and stories and I wanted to remember the impact it had on me. I sent her an (overly gushy) message about how much I loved her book and she sent me a kind response the next day. I am in the middle of cooking through her most resent book Bread and Wine - it is delicious.
Kathy Keller (top right) - Kathy Keller is a writer, editor, and co-founder of Redeemer Presbyterian Church (a church that has impacted my life from a far). She and her husband Tim wrote a marriage book that I love - The Meaning of Marriage. Her bio made me curious and eager to hear her thoughts - "she has often felt like a woman without a country, being called both a feminist and a complementarian, both ill-fitting labels. Having raised three sons in the City and answered two and half decades of confrontational questions regarding the role of women, Kathy finds the honest, aggressive engagement of ideas exhilarating."
Deidra Riggs (bottom right) Deidra Riggs is the managing editor for The High Calling - an online community that I became familiar with through Laity Lodge. Her topic (the role of rest) was the most interesting and applicable in this particular season of my life... having run myself ragged over the past few years. I spent 16 of the past 1095 days (three years) at Laity Lodge (family camp and retreats). I don't know where I would be if those 16 days were erased from my life. It is one of my favorite places to find rest and direction.
Rebekah Lyons (bottom left) Rebekah and her husband Gabe are the cofounders of Q Ideas - ideas for the common good. She is the author of a book revealing her own battles to overcome anxiety, depression, and consumer impulses. A year and a half ago (before this book was available and after I read this post - Why are the Women Fading) I sent Rebekah an overly gushy email (trend) - asking if she had plans to write a book... on a topic that isn't addressed often enough. She sent me a kind response letting me know that she was in the process of writing Freefall to Fly. I got it right before we left for New Zealand and haven't had a chance to read it yet - looking forward to it.
For $79, you can watch the event online... but unfortunately not in New Zealand.
Read more about "noteworthy".
Kathy Keller (top right) - Kathy Keller is a writer, editor, and co-founder of Redeemer Presbyterian Church (a church that has impacted my life from a far). She and her husband Tim wrote a marriage book that I love - The Meaning of Marriage. Her bio made me curious and eager to hear her thoughts - "she has often felt like a woman without a country, being called both a feminist and a complementarian, both ill-fitting labels. Having raised three sons in the City and answered two and half decades of confrontational questions regarding the role of women, Kathy finds the honest, aggressive engagement of ideas exhilarating."
Deidra Riggs (bottom right) Deidra Riggs is the managing editor for The High Calling - an online community that I became familiar with through Laity Lodge. Her topic (the role of rest) was the most interesting and applicable in this particular season of my life... having run myself ragged over the past few years. I spent 16 of the past 1095 days (three years) at Laity Lodge (family camp and retreats). I don't know where I would be if those 16 days were erased from my life. It is one of my favorite places to find rest and direction.
Rebekah Lyons (bottom left) Rebekah and her husband Gabe are the cofounders of Q Ideas - ideas for the common good. She is the author of a book revealing her own battles to overcome anxiety, depression, and consumer impulses. A year and a half ago (before this book was available and after I read this post - Why are the Women Fading) I sent Rebekah an overly gushy email (trend) - asking if she had plans to write a book... on a topic that isn't addressed often enough. She sent me a kind response letting me know that she was in the process of writing Freefall to Fly. I got it right before we left for New Zealand and haven't had a chance to read it yet - looking forward to it.
For $79, you can watch the event online... but unfortunately not in New Zealand.
Read more about "noteworthy".
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