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Fear and Silence: Gays, AIDS, and the Church, Part 2

  If you were a conservative Christian girl in the 90s, you probably know the phrase ‘screaming silver-blue eyes’.  The Christy Miller Series was almost mandatory reading for our little sub-culture generation.  And we tried to emulate this role model of holy femininity.  So when Christy journaled, we journaled, and when Christy wrote letters to…

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Did I Think About Staying?

give me the heart of an archeologist, that I may dig until I prove that I exist. a subterranean cathedral in my midst, where echoes come to rest. where echoes come to rest. is this where echoes come to rest? -Sleeping At Last   A year ago I said leaving Evangelicalism probably wasn’t the answer…

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If I Don’t See You As My Equal

(This is the third installment of a roving monthly synchroblog called “The Spirit of the Poor” that explore the intersections of economic justice, lifestyle change and spiritual wholeness.  Check out all the posts from last month here. This month we’re talking about Affirming the Humanity.  We’d love for you to join the conversation.  The link-up will be open…

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Freedom – It’s Not A Gift

What does it mean to live in a country, a world with people unlike us?  When we celebrate our freedom today, are we doing the word justice?  Are we doing people justice?  And when we cloak our freedom in the garb of Christianese, are we doing damage?

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Seeing Faces, Not Statistics

  The church was always cold.  It had a high ceiling and a low budget. The faded carpeted floor sloped gently to the stage at the front, making it difficult to use the round tables in the back. The old white church, complete with steeple, looked as if it had been plucked from a small…

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