Jennifer Szweda Jordan-Media

04/25/2025

Are you a writer trying to get into your groove? Start tonight! London Writers' Salon is hosting a 24-hour sprint. Come for one hour or all that remain until tomorrow afternoon.

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09/06/2024

Experienced a Pittsburgh writer’s dream tonight… Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company produced August Wilson’s play “Radio Golf” in the backyard of his home! Gorgeous night.

07/19/2024

For all you writers ✍️ and creators out there. Words of wisdom from Carl Sagan shared at today's Writers Hour London Writers' Salon

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”

– Cosmos

07/15/2024

Just bought a piece of wall art for my home dining room. It reflects a story that greatly resonates with me. It happens just after Jesus' Resurrection. Two people are walking to a place called Emmaus and very involved in their discussion about the challenging news of the Resurrection. Jesus shows up and walks with him and dines with them. And then... departs just as they realize it's Christ. It reminds me to be aware that whoever I'm walking with, having difficult conversations with, or eating with, Christ is there. If I'm not paying attention, I might miss the grace of the moment.

The icon is called The Road to Emmaus, prayed into being by Sr. Marie-Paul Farran, OSB in Jerusalem. Sold by Conception Abbey Altar and Home altarandhome.org/

07/13/2024

Love sharing goodies from a visit to one spiritual home Villa Maria Education and Spirituality Center Sisters of the Humility of Mary with residents of another spiritual home, Emmaus Community of Pittsburgh.

04/29/2024

Well, Hallelujah! A young man with performed front and center in this Gospel choir. This Calvin University group kicked off the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing Festival I attended recently.

There was no mention about how 'special' this group was to include him. It was just inclusion that should be--and I think is-- becoming more common. Can I get an Amen?

More posts coming about this wonderful event.

04/26/2024

I knew I was going to see one accomplished woman I know graduate Point Park University today, but I got a trifecta!

Claire Lindsey graduated Summa Cum Laude and as an honors student. She worked for All-Abilities Media three of her four years. AND All-Abilities veteran Anna King Skeels was named the outstanding graduating senior. (Also Summa Cum Laude and honors).

Finally, the leader of the incubator for All-Abilities Media, the Center for Media Innovation at Point Park University’s Dr. Andy Conte, received the university’s first distinguished teaching award for part-time faculty. He’s taught journalism at Point Park for 20 years!

04/26/2024

It’s a huge blessing to celebrate two young adults who made All-Abilities Media thrive! Look for pics of them later, but I wanted to get at least one with my hair and makeup in place.

04/22/2024

I got to meet one of my role models recently!

Amy Julia Becker writes often about her adult daughter who has Down syndrome and faith. Her podcast and website are newly rebranded as “Reimagining the Good Life: Disability, Faith and Culture.” And you might call her a “crossover artist” in this sphere. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times and Christianity Today. Her latest book is "To Be Made Well: an Invitation to Wholeness, Healing, and Hope." I heard her speak at the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing's biennial festival/confab.

More Amy Julia at https://amyjuliabecker.com/

04/11/2024

We can be 99% alike and structure our world around the 1% of differences. Paraphrasing Chanequa Walker-Barnes at the Festival of Faith and Writing.



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