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I organized this hate crimes event because I’m a mom
Cross-posted from The Sin City Siren: Are you ready for the NOH8 in Las Vegas hate crimes event? I can’t believe it’s almost here! You can still RSVP here. And all this planning has me thinking about the first time I organized an event for Erin Davies and her “fag bug.” I spent most of […]
We need a little Christmas
December 21, 2012
In the movie Grosse Pointe Blank, there’s a conversation about the Buddhist concept of shakubuku, a philosophical argument designed to get you to challenge everything you have ever “known” to be true. A swift spiritual kick to the head that alters your reality forever. I think I’m a bit like John Cusack’s character here, “That […]
Surviving on one sandwich a day… in America
May 9, 2012
For a lot of people who have met me in the past decade or so, it might seem like I don’t know anything about poverty first-hand. After all, I’m a white, stay-at-home mom in the suburbs. It doesn’t get more stereotypically middle-class and conventional than that. But regular readers know I am anything but conventional. […]
Can I get an amen? A response to faith-based tyranny over rape survivors
July 21, 2011
I am so grateful for this post on the Faith, Grace and Hope blog by Pastor Julia of Eagle River, Alaska. In it, she takes to task a certain Pastor Ron Hamman (of Wasilla, Alaska — yes, my home town and that of someone… I just can’t remember the name of right now… you know […]
Part 5: Flashbacks
February 10, 2011
Even though I’ve already written about childbirth in this Exploring Feminist Motherhood series, there is one aspect I haven’t talked about yet — being the survivor of sexual violence. This is an aspect of my childbirth experience that even I don’t think I’ve fully processed, some 8 months later. But it is something that came […]
Stay at Home Daughters
December 27, 2010
I am officially really creeped out by this. Have you heard about the Stay at Home Daughters movement? The product of ultra-conservative, patriarchal religious groups, the idea behind SAHD is that, you guessed it, a daughter never leaves home! She just moves from her father’s house to her husband’s house! What? No chastity belt? Well, […]
Three Wise Women?
December 23, 2010
While this is certainly not a local story, I thought it an interesting topic as Christmas approaches this week. Rev. Benedict Thomas Viviano, a renowned Gospel of Matthew professor, Dominican friar and priest, has a new biblical theory that may change nativity scenes across the globe: there was one (or more) Wise Women among the […]
Compassionate Christian response to World AIDS Day
December 2, 2010
This post comes from Pastor Julia of Lutheran Church of Hope of Anchorage, Alaska. (Full disclosure: I have attended this church in the past.) I think it is refreshing to see this message about AIDS from a Christian leader. So often, the Christian community is defined by what happens in the Religious Right. I find […]
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