Friedman’s Theory of Differentiated Leadership Made Simple (by TheRealACUOnline)

Newtonian vs. Quantum views of how things work

http://steampunktheology.blogspot.com/2012/03/difference-engine.html#!/2012/03/difference-engine.html

Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices →

Loyal Apple consumers call on the company to reform its supply chain before the launch of the company’s highly anticipated iPhone 5.

The Real Lesson of the SOPA Blackout: The Internet Should Flex Its Muscles More Often - Technology - GOOD →

Turn outward, listen, fumble for love | Geez Magazine →

If you haven’t read Geez Magazine before I recommend it for anyone whose looking for a faith-oriented magazine that looks at social justice issues, among other things. This issue is about privilege and it’s really good. 

Iconocast Episode 14: Onleilove Alston →

In this episode, co-hosts Joanna and Mark talk to Onleilove Alston, a native Brooklynite and student at Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University School of Social Work. Onleilove has worked with and studied emerging intentional communities and brings some helpful insights to potential blindspots folks in such communities have about race. She is a regular contributor for Sojourner’s Magazine.

(via Iconocast Episode 15: Cornel West)

In this episode, co-hosts Eliacin and Mark speak with one of America’s most celebrated and controversial public intellectuals: Dr. Cornel West.

Dr. West is an African American philosopher, theologian, author, critic, actor, and civil rights activist. West currently serves as the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University, where he teaches in the Center for African American Studies and in the department of Religion. He is the author of a number of books including: Prophesy Deliverance! An Africo-American Revolutionary Christianity,Race Matters, The Future of Race, Democracy Matters, andHope on a Tightrope.

In the interview, we talk to Dr. West about being disinvited as a keynote to the CCDA conference, his relationship with Barack Obama, the rarity of social movements, the power of love, the difference between charity and justice, and much, much more.

Special thanks to Jarrod McKenna…who stayed up all night in Perth, Australia to be a part of this interview but (due to upsetting technical difficulties with Skype) was unable to participate (listen to the end of the podcast–at around 56:45) to find out more…

Iconocast Episode 30: James H. Cone →

In this episode, Mark and Nekeisha interview James Cone, who is considered by many to be the father of black liberation theology. Professor James H. Cone is the Charles A. Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary. Dr. Cone is an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He is the author of a number of books (including Black Theology and Black Power, God of the Oppressed, and Martin and Malcom and America). Dr. Cone has lectured at more than 1,000 universities and community organizations throughout the United States, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

Wangari Maathai and Planting the Future [OnBeing.org] →

A remarkable Kenyan woman and environmentalist speaks from experience about the links between ecology, human flourishing, war and peace, and democracy. And she shares her thoughts on where God resides.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a pioneer of culture and system change and his legacy is still challenging to the church to be people who hold a prophetic stance in the world. This collection of speeches offers insight into some of King’s work with Labor Unions and his desire to bring these groups in solidarity with the Civil Rights Movement.

(via ‘All Labor Has Dignity’: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Fight for Economic Justice - Joe Fassler - Entertainment - The Atlantic)