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Things I hate

Recently I’ve been tussling with gender. Nothing too insane, just the feelings of being a stick thin girl in “the city where no doctor needed, you might make a stallion.” I love myself. Intuitively I know when I’m not for someone. I am so expansive and flexible in the ways I can relate to folks

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My dog, Manny, a small chihuahua mix wrapped in a blanket next to a book on a couch looking up into the camera

Read a fucking book

I have seen so many posts about “bringing back reading comprehension.” I have a Master degree in Library and Information Science. I am a librarian. I’m sorry to say that reading comprehension has always been low. Black people were learning to read in secret so they could read the laws folks created to continue their

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I’m Doing a New Thing

  So I’m starting something completely different here on this blog. I’m sure my normal (sporadic) blogs about just the way I’m living will still pop up but I want to use this domain to create a space that I think is really missing, at least for me. A space for Christian Left(ish) folks. I

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You Can’t Hide

Recently I heard a sermon about stewardship. The sermon was a part of a series on the “Five Marks of a Disciple” the pastor said that without stewardship then the other marks (Spiritual Growth, Service, Small Groups and Sharing the Gospel) were all irrelevant. Of course when I think of stewardship I automatically think of

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Living in the Tension

Often I think about being in the tension between what I genuinely feel is right and what the truth tells me is right. I feel this most often when I am trying to do something new, something I feel called to, something that propels me forward. When I feel this, I usually start to turn

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