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Friday Notes, April 26, 2024
Dear Friends — Gender was a hard topic. Then it was an easier topic. Now it’s a really hard topic. Gender was a hard topic in the non-profit world and…
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Friday Notes, April 19, 2024
Dear Friends — I’ve been worrying about the relationship between decolonization (good!) and violating international human rights laws (bad!). I’m not…
Apr 19
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Friday Notes, April 12, 2024
Dear Friends — I was today years old when I learned that Division I women’s basketball teams are permitted to practice against men, and often do so to…
Apr 12
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Friday Notes, March 15, 2024
Dear Friends — One of the jobs of parents is to build a child’s inner reserves to get through the hard times. I thought about that six weeks ago, when…
Mar 17
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February 2024
Friday Notes, February 23, 2024
Dear Friends — The elements of meaningful atonement are: own, apologize, repair — and don’t do it again. That is, take responsibility for the breadth of…
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Friday Notes, February 16, 2024
Dear Friends — I learned a new phrase this week: “Umntu ngumtu ngabantu.” The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu explained its meaning this way: In our…
Feb 17
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Friday Notes, February 9, 2024
Dear Friends — According to social and behavioral scientists, there are four ways a father affects a daughter’s worldview, and one way a daughter…
Feb 9
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January 2024
Friday Notes, January 26, 2024
Dear Friends — So far this year, energy I might have put into weekly notes has been pulled into recovering from a cold (or the flu?), getting 2024…
Jan 26
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Friday Notes, December 15, 2023
Dear Friends — So we can all spend some time away from screens for a couple of weeks, this is the last post of 2023. For a head start in the right…
Dec 16, 2023
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Friday Notes, December 8, 2023
Dear friends — Sunday, December 10 is the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which has been endorsed at least in part by 192…
Dec 9, 2023
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Friday Notes, December 1, 2023
Dear Friends — If you work in or around the field of global development, you are thinking about “localization.” You might be thinking about localization…
Dec 1, 2023
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November 2023
Friday Notes, November 17, 2023
Dear Friends — Can we talk about “hierarchy” for just a moment? Every once in a while I hear a complaint about organizational hierarchy, and tiny little…
Nov 17, 2023
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