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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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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"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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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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‘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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Told you it was about to get heavy.
I’d like to open this post with a parable from Neale Donald Walsch’s “Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue.” I just completed the trilogy, and while…
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Yesterday, I turned 27. (Yay!) As often happens for me around this time of year, I find myself contemplating the rabbit hole of astrology. I’ve never fully understood how…
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