This isn’t the post I thought I’d write about this trip. I thought I’d tell you about how much fun I had, how incredible these women are, and how much growth I discovered in myself…
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Sometimes silence is the sound of someone learning. The sound of someone refraining from speaking impulsively and under pressure. The sound of someone observing, listening, watching.
You cannot listen if you are speaking.
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Bodily autonomy is perhaps the dearest value I hold. It is our most intimate freedom, one that I consider a most sacred and basic right.
It is from this perspective that I feel compelled to share an argument against vaccine mandates.
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My Instagram feed is shouting at me today with reasons to hate on billionaires who go to space, the latest of whom is Sir Richard Branson. Elon Musk has sent rockets to space since 2008 and Jeff Bezos is set for his own personal space launch next Monday, July 20th. Why don’t they invest that money into building communities for the unhoused? Insta-activists assert.
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Like many authors, artists, filmmakers, musicians, and others who have been excited to share the hard-earned fruits of their labor over the last year…
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It started off as a normal September afternoon. I was standing at my kitchen stove, one of those janky ones with coils for burners, and my friend Luke was sitting at the table next to me while I made us dinner.
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“Through the Negro spiritual, the slaves developed the patience to wait on the Lord.”
The above quote is from my eighth-grade Christian history book called America: Land I Love.
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My September escape to the desert with three of my best gals seems ages ago, and I yearn for the days of shared straws, overlapped limbs, and fresh guacamole.
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"What do you see?" he asked, halting in front of a fair booth and pointing to the sign hanging above.
GODISNOWHERE…
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The coronapocalypse is upon us. When we’re told to practice social distancing and prepare for self-quarantine, we’re faced with a catch-22…
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Sometimes it helps to see your story from the safe distance of a TV screen. If not your story in particular, the story of someone whose journey is so like yours that it transcends the differences of place and time - even of faith…
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Dear Pro-Choice Advocates,
I am one of you. I am also a former member of the Christian Right. As someone who has been on both sides of the abortion debate…
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I know I won’t change anyone’s mind with this post. When I was a Christian, nothing could have swayed me from my deeply held conviction that sex was for marriage…
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You’ve probably been told faith is a choice. I certainly was. As a curious child wondering why God never talked back to me, I was given the same reason many times by different people…
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Hello, my name is Alice and I’m an atheist.
Those words are hard to write. No, not to write. To share. I’ve been a closeted atheist for years…
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Only 11% of Americans say they’ve read the entire Bible. Fewer than 16% have read even half. These numbers are startling in a country where more than 70% of the population identifies as Christian…
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The Human Brain Project plans to replicate the human brain in a computer in ten years. MIT is working to give you a “socially intelligent robot partner.” RoboEarth is where robots will expand…
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I’m about to share some very personal information with you. It’s not going to be pretty, or feel good, or perhaps even make sense. It could be more prudent of me to…
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‘Manifestation’ seems to mean something different to everyone. For the purposes of this blog, I’m going to focus on the definition that seems most popular in my circles: telling the Universe what you desire…
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