This week on Facebook, we had several powerful conversations around Anne Graham Lotz's
words on gender equality and Boz Tchividjian's article about churches that support spousal abuse.
Reinforcing the frustration felt by all, the
words of Marina Parvin, from the Indigenous Mundas community in Bangladesh and representing the Asia Pacific Forum
on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) were read by Carmen Capriles of Bolivia to bleary - eyed delegates around 3:00 AM in the closing moments of the extended negotiating session, «I have travelled all the way from Bangladesh, leaving my home and family, hoping to see a commitment to an effective and equitable new agreement that is binding, ambitious and transformative; a commitment to uphold human rights,
gender equality, and the rights of future generations.»