Girl Child Long Walk

Once upon a time, there was a girl who ventured out into the🌎daring to believe in her own #equality, in her own #freedom…#faith #GenderEquality #community

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Curious about why girls aren’t valued equally? About how patriarchy holds us all back from realizing our full potential? Join us on a 5-minute journey to re-see, re-learn, re-know a world free from humanity’s oldest oppression. #girlchildlongwalk https://t.co/YqLUIsBcvv

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Girl Child, who were you before the world told you who you should be?

Watch our short explainer video to understand the history and prevalence of patriarchy: https://t.co/7g09k00xTw

#GirlChild #GirlChildLongWalk #SilenceIsNotSpiritual #Patriarchy #GenderEquality

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Announcing our 3rd cohort of fellows: 15 passionate, brilliant, faith-inspired change agents from Africa, Europe, & the USA will collectively explore global perspectives & experiences at the intersection of faith, gender & religious patriarchy.

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The reading journey is at the heart of the #GirlChildLongWalk project and can be accessed in our app, the Hub. Not in the Hub? Sign up: https://t.co/BOtlNdQQH6

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We seek to reconcile gender contradictions that persist - both within culture & religions - to seek what is universally true and real.

What contradictions do you see in your own understanding? What might you do to help dismantle patriarchy within family, society, & the church?

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What contradictions do you see in your own understanding and what might you need to do to help dismantle patriarchy within family, society, and the church?

#GirlChild #GirlChildLongWalk #GenderEquality #Patriarchy #SilenceIsNotSpiritual #DismantleThePatriarchy

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Last fall Emily Nielsen Jones & Kazi Mghendi discussed The Girl Child and Her Long Walk to Freedom on the Breaking Down Patriarchy podcast. Listen to episode 35 of season 4 wherever you get your podcasts, or read the transcript: https://t.co/PEtlJBd3vA

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Last fall Emily Nielsen Jones & Kazi Mghendi were on the Breaking Down Patriarchy podcast to discuss The Girl Child and Her Long Walk to Freedom. Listen to episode 35 of season 4 wherever you get your podcasts, or read the transcript: https://t.co/PEtlJBd3vA

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#GenderEquity #GenderReconciliation #BetterWorld #GirlChild #ServantLeadership #ServantLeaders

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"We don't suddenly become servant leaders and the brokenness comes to an end. It's a life journey," said Michele Breene during a conversation with Jane Overstreet on the pathways to healing broken leaders—and how it can help us build a better world for the Girl Child:

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"Patriarchy lives deep in the cells of our world and is nothing short of an enduring pandemic." - from The Girl Child & Her Long Walk to Freedom ebook

#EndingPatriarchy #SilenceIsNotSpiritual #GenderEquality #GenderEquity

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Leslye Obiora, an immigrant to the USA from Nigeria, shared about realizing that she needed to roll up her sleeves & use what God had given her to be a "repairer" in her home country.

Watch the full Courageous Conversation: https://t.co/WLJzIlr5c3

#immigration #bridgebuilding

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Dr. Jackie Ogega shared about her experience growing up in rural Kenya and the lessons she learned from her years of real and imagined dialogues with her mother and her work in global development and peacebuilding. You can read the full story at https://t.co/dVNJ1nlfVN.

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In our Courageous Conversation on women's ambitions, Themrise Khan, shared about the ambitions of women in Pakistan and how they are limited by cultural restrictions.

Listen to the conversation: https://t.co/za2ryOhXQR

#Patriarchy #GenderEquality #GenderEqualityRegression

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"Change begins with each of us,
and even the smallest changes can reap big dividends..."
- Emily Nielsen Jones and Rev. Domnic Misolo, The Girl Child & Her Long Walk to Freedom: Putting Faith to Work through Love to Break Ancient Chains

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DAI's Jane Overstreet shares how "big boss, power-driven leadership" is a big problem and how healing broken leaders can help us build a better world for the Girl Child.

Watch the conversation: https://t.co/9c3jmHCDjE

#brokenleaders #servantleaders

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Emily Nielsen Jones & Imago Dei grantee partner, Jackline A. Odhiambo, explore how the theological & sociological drivers behind the “curse of Eve,” continue to have a shaming/blaming effect. Plus tools for tackling structural stigmatization of females. https://t.co/Wkcqf2Yaim

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Join us on Sunday for a Mother’s Day Liturgy. All are welcome—men too! RSVP if you would like to join on Sunday, May 11th at 9 AM ET

RSVP: https://t.co/GfJ1m3LnAG
#SacredFeminine #MothersDay #GlobalSolidarity

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"We should not be surprised at attempts to intentionally destroy or limit female hopes in upward strides for a better life. In fact, the most disposable human commodity—and these should be repulsive words to us—in the world today is the Girl Child, the little girl.”

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This quote from Robert Seiple, former president of World Vision, captures the unfiltered and tragic reality of why we are on this journey together:
“There is a rent in the fabric of our humanity... and the vulnerability of girls is most exposed...

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"From birth to the grave, throughout much of our allegedly “modern” world, violence marks the lives of those born girls. We should not be surprised when girls are used, at best, as human workhorses, and, at worst as human shields in time of war... "