... women from Liberia, whose completely peaceful protests managed to bring down a dictator, elect Africa’s first democratically elected female head of state, and bring stability to an entire country. The peaceful, yet persistent, “white T-shirt” protests of women organized by Leymah Gbowee, Tawakkul Karman, and now Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, brought true humanity into their world. I want to be a Jesus kind of human. Will you join me in getting the monkey off our backs?
... any longer. Gender barriers have come crashing down. There is still discrimination, but every year it declines bit by bit. Good. The same is certainly true in the secular world. The twenty-first century has seen the Harvard-educated Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf elected as President of Liberia, Africa’s first female president. Angela Merkel has been one of the longest serving chancellors of Germany. Michelle Bachelet was elected president of Chile, the first woman to lead a major Latin American country. Since ...
