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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About a month ago I packed my life and moved back to a home I never could claim, Detroit. I was physically born at the University of Michigan’s hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, about an hour from Detroit. I lived on the University of Michigan’s campus for the first five years of my life. I

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If It Ain’t About the Money

When I first heard the news about Joel Osteen’s church not housing people who were losing everything in Hurricane Harvey I didn’t expect it to be as big of a deal. I had never thought of Osteen as anything more than a motivational speaker. I can’t think of a single time I’ve listened to him

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Wherever you are, I hope you like this.

I made a new rabbi friend, recently and she told me that in Jewish tradition there is something about the first 30 days after someone dies. I’m not quite sure what exactly that is, but as 30 days gets closer I think it’s the overwhelming permanence of it. My friend is not going to come

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Nothing is Normal

Baltimore City Schools are at a deficit of about $130 million, the worst deficit they’ve seen so far (hopefully the worst they’ll ever see). There have been over 100 murders in Baltimore City in the year 2017, which is about a murder a day so far. The 45th POTUS has just successfully gutted the Affordable

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“DAMN.” KDot Did it Again

The election of the 45th president was nearly six months ago. I feel like I’m just coming up for air. The night of the election I drank more than I thought I could drink at once. After, I saw a Christian white woman on Facebook cheering for his election. Hungover, tired and overall very scared, I responded by saying

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