Putting Smart Women in New Media

December 16, 2009

Thoughts On God – the video series and book – Coming Soon (which means probably about two years from now)

I have to put something up here. After my last post about obedient women, my Facebook page is getting taken over by friends debating whether or not Mother Theresa believed in God.

I came up with an idea for yet another book on Monday. I’ve been playing with video ideas with the youth minister at my church – take a look at http://www.youtube.com/user/LisaSchaefer to watch what I called “Tim Foley’s Thoughts On God.” I’m behind the camera, trying to make him say funny things. I think the result is so cute that I’d like us to do a series, maybe several, of these.

The two clips that I’ve posted on YouTube so far came from Tim and I sitting around in his office and I pulled out my camera when he started saying interesting things. He rambled for about a half hour before I put the camera away. Based on the footage we took, we both have some ideas of how to refine the process so we could develop a consistent video series.

All the other video series that I’ve created or am in the process of creating have a book to go with the series, each chapter representing a video episode. I suggested the idea to him. The amazing thing is, he’s open to the idea.

December 14, 2009

Obedient Women Never Make History

Last night I was playing Responsible Adult again for the church teen group. One of the male Responsible Adults was telling one of the girls that the virtue of obedience is very important. Earlier in the evening he commended one of the boys for having the courage to question. The sad thing is, the male Responsible Adult probably thinks he wasn’t discriminating.

Yet another entry about church. So tell me readers, do you think church organizations are more sexist than the rest of society?

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