Category: Awareness
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Message From a Frustrated Former Pastor (Concerning Pauline Interpretations and Other Stuff)
Since I don’t go to a particular church right now, I sometimes visit different churches or listen to messages from different folks online. Today I came across a guy online giving a message out of 1 Corinthians. Sadly he was using it to “put women in their place” and talk about “weak men” who support…
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Counting It All As Loss: The Faithful Choice of Carlton D. Pearson
Ever since it was announced that Bishop Carlton Pearson was ill, people have been commenting on the implications of his legacy in the Christian Church. There have been debates and panel discussions, Youtube personalities have been throwing out vitriolic commentaries and random people were wishing ill of him as if it was earning them some…
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My 6 y/o’s Song for the World – Questions of Life
My little one is a force. Yesterday she decided that she wanted to make a song for the world and that I needed to “put it all over the internet today!” Being in a sensitive and tender space right now grieving my friend, I am trying to be mindful about not wasting opportunities to do…
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Grief is a Midwife
Grief is a midwife, giving birth to who we’d never be without loss’ seed.Realizing that you’ll never again be who you used to be makes room for who you are becomingSo let yourself weep. Be emptied of who you’ve beenBecause someone wiser, more capable, and more honest is waiting to emergeEverything you held back, waiting…
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A Miscarriage of the Nations: Where are the Founding Mothers?
“Women are the true architects of peace. Their strength, resilience, and wisdom have the power to transform societies and build a more peaceful world.” – Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, MBE, Founder and Executive Director of the International Civil Society Action Network. Yes. This title is provocative. But, we are in perilous times and sometimes you have…
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How Do We Live When Paradise Burns?
Just a week before the fires that devastated Lahaina, and ultimately Maui, all of Hawaii, and the world, I said goodbye to the banyan tree at the heart of that place that has become almost sacred to me. I literally spoke to it in my heart and thanked it for enduring as long as it…
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History is Not a Competition
We are often led to believe that everything in our society is a competition. But some things aren’t. And history is one of them.
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Diversity and the Rightness of Being Wrong
Doing the Right Thing the Wrong Way Did you know that by doing the right thing the wrong way, you could do a lot more harm than good? You don’t have to look any further than the many tone deaf ad campaigns that somehow still make it out in the world and see that if…
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Introducing: The Communion Podcast – Episode 1 – Death
Death. Death has been tripping me out lately. On the one year anniversary of me stepping out of the pulpit, two people that I was close to at my former church died. One was in his 80s. The other in her 90s. But then today, I found out that a friend who was only 38…
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Faith: Acting Like You’ll Live Forever, But Being Willing To Die Today
Faith Though I’ve spoken at lengthI haven’t said a wordAnd all this nothing that I’m sayingIs nothing but absurdI speak with liesSo that you might hear the truthI display for you illusionThat you might have proof Do you know that this life, as most of us engage it, is mostly illusion? Yes. In fact, most…
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