The public junior high was nothing but a hotbed of sin. Or so my fundamentalist parent thought. So instead of moving on with my friends, in 6th grade I was inserted into a small church school, where everyone had grown up together. Being the outsider made for a rough year, so in 7th grade…
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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…
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…
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?
True Womanhood – Oppressing Women since Creation
3 years ago, I saw Andy Crouch, Skye Jethani, and Bethany Hoang, among others, talk in Chicago. It was part of the Lausanne Movement, an important part of evangelicalism, and justice was on the docket. I listened to a very pregnant Hoang talk about justice and the church and her work with IJM. Lately,…