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Reflections on May 8th: Halfway Through.
I am not, by definition, a morning person; in fact, i find it something of a drudgery. However.When my alarm blared on at 7 am this morning, i awoke with an uncharacteristic jolt of kinetic energy. It...
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North Carolina, You Failed Us Today.
So the lousy, bigoted, harmful amendment passed. But don’t worry, Carolina. We’re going to cry into our bowls of Ben & Jerry’s marriage equality ice cream, mourn the loss of a step towards...
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Hate with Hate Won’t Work: Marriage Equality and Where We Go From Here.
I’m the first to admit i was infuriated and despondent in the wake of the (albeit expected) news of Amendment One’s passing. It was crushing because, more than anything else, i knew we hardly stood a...
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Love is Stronger than Hate.
Today i went to a protest calling for the repeal of Amendment One in Raleigh, the capitol of North Carolina. Though we were a small crowd, we were a mighty one – and we were enough to require a police...
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Why “Feminist” Theologies?
My coursework this semester has thus far been (a) curl-in-a-ball-of-anxiety overwhelmingly large in its stack of readings and paper-writings and (b) simultaneously the most exhilarating ride i’ve yet...
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Write Like Everything is at Stake: A Response to ‘The Pen is Mightier’ by...
Mahatma Gandhi once said, “Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.” It’s no secret i have a great intellectual love affair with the writings of the Mahatma. Plastered on the cover of my notebooks are...
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Talking Taboo: The Big Announcement!
I’m seated in the church pew, unsaid words pressing against my clamped teeth. I’m chewing instead of talking for any number of reasons; i’ve had this experience so often i can’t delineate which memory...
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Watching Mom Get Arrested: Reflections from Moral Monday.
I was ankle-deep in mud, my clammy hands in knots as i looked for her brown-haired head. The crowd was making itself a Red Sea, an aisle split down the middle of rainbow flags and Have Mercy placards....
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Jesus Loves Queer People! Reflections on the #UMassUnited Counter-Action to...
Almost a year ago, the amazing Rachel Held Evans wrote a piece on the CNN Belief Blog entitled “Why Millennials are Leaving the Church.” Of the many reasons she elucidates, she fundamentally argues...
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The Author’s Note: “Son of God”
I have a new published work out – a short story, entitled “Son of God” in Mount Holyoke College’s literary magazine, The Blackstick Review. An excerpt: “Son of God” “Of Zebulun, fifty thousand...
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A Sermon for Trinity Sunday
A few qualifiers: this sermon was delivered in a Methodist church on both Trinity Sunday and the Sunday following the grueling two weeks of General Conference – a once-every-four-years gathering of the...
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Trans-Figuration of the Lord
Matthew 17:1-9 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves.And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the...
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