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2022-09-03T10:16:25-05:00

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Life and Human Dignity (Part 2 of 6)

Last updated on: September 3, 2022 at 10:16 am By Julie Nichols

In this blog today, I want to start sharing my publications about the topic of inclusion and neurodiversity in the institutional church and broader society. In addition to writing regularly for Patheos, I am a guest contributor for a smaller faith-based publisher called Faith-on-View and a new inclusive ministry in the Catholic Church called Outreach. I professionally define neurodiverse as anyone who does not fit the majority of the population on any spectrum of human psychology, including gender and sexuality... Read more

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2022-08-30T09:33:44-05:00

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Lives and Human Dignity—LBGTQIA+ people and their families (part 1 of 6)

Last updated on: August 30, 2022 at 9:33 am By Julie Nichols

Now that the loan forgiveness announcement has passed, I am going to move on to a topic I hold dear, the lives and human dignity of LBGTQIA+ people and their families. I confess that I didn’t understand the LBGTQIA+ experience as a heterosexual married conservative Catholic-Christian mother until my profession as a pediatric disability therapist in secular employment strongly encouraged me to do so. Since I am Catholic, the spiritual component was a significant part of both conflict and resolution... Read more

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2022-08-27T13:49:45-05:00

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Oppression Lifted for Some yet Hated by Others

Last updated on: August 27, 2022 at 1:49 pm By Julie Nichols

Yesterday, I wrote a piece called “The Hatred of Unconditional Love.” In my own quotes, “Not comprehending that some middle-aged and older people were as truly as angry as I thought they were about loan forgiveness, I made this post in quotes on my Facebook page with an Avatar megaphone.” “After earning two degrees plus 2 years of post-graduate credentialing, I am thrilled that others will have loan relief.” I innocently declared war. This is not the first time people... Read more

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2022-08-26T12:15:36-05:00

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The Hatred of Unconditional Love

Last updated on: August 26, 2022 at 12:15 pm By Julie Nichols

Last night and early today at 5:00 am, I wasn’t able to diminish my internal sorrow of what I witnessed when Joe Biden passed a historic student loan forgiveness act. As a mother who still has still one college child of multiples who all went to college, it profoundly puzzles me that people my age (50), and especially older, are fuming with anger that Millennials and Gen Z young people would have some much-needed and well-deserved financial relief from college... Read more

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2022-08-24T09:52:36-05:00

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Political Survival of “The Least of These”

Last updated on: August 24, 2022 at 9:52 am By Julie Nichols

After reading through some of the comments on most of my posts, I now realize that I haven’t devoted enough time to describe why I write the pieces I do. I apologize for this. I understand that some of my writings are indeed controversial and difficult to swallow at times. I believe it’s important to introduce myself and what I do again, not for the sake of accolades but for the sake of defending the lives and human... Read more

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2022-08-23T14:16:38-05:00

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Church, It’s Time to Self-Examine, Change, and Repent

Last updated on: August 23, 2022 at 2:16 pm By Julie Nichols

As I sipped on my morning coffee today, I located three website addresses among many which all support the statistics I’ve read, that there is a connection between the church’s leadership and either peace and restoration, or the opposite, the violence we’ve experience and witnessed throughout Trump’s presidency and beyond. Written by faith publishers themselves, I read accounts of active peace and service with decreases in domestic violence and decreases in other types of violence. I am especially impressed with... Read more

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2022-08-21T21:34:50-05:00

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Supremacy, Control, and Wounds from the Church

Last updated on: August 21, 2022 at 9:34 pm By Julie Nichols

I’ve been asking myself the question, what do Christians/Catholics do now? A better question is, what does 80% of America do about the 15%-20% of the Religious Right (mostly white) who are using their predatory brand of right-winged Christian Nationalism to force their will on others by suppressing, coercing, abusing, shaming, and even damming the other 80% of us to “do their will” instead of allowing God to do His. For all 50 years of my life, I have been... Read more

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2022-08-20T14:47:49-05:00

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The Seven Deadly Sins and Right-Winged Politics

Last updated on: August 20, 2022 at 2:47 pm By Julie Nichols

When I first started studying Catholic theology many years ago, The Seven Deadly Sins were of particular interest to me. St. Jerome, Tertullian, St. Basil the Great, St. Cyprian of Carthage, and even Martin Luther all spoke of some sins being worse than others. 1 John 5:16-17, John 19:11-12, Hebrews 10:26-29, and 2 Peter 2: 20-22 do the same. In Catholic theology, the Seven Deadly Sins are: Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath, and Sloth. But what... Read more

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2022-08-16T22:36:17-05:00

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Red or Blue, Which is More Pro-Life

Last updated on: August 16, 2022 at 10:36 pm By Julie Nichols

A year ago, I did something I thought I would never do. I officially changed my party affiliation to Democrat by voting in my first Democratic primary. I was asked, “Julie, how can you be a Catholic and do such a thing? It’s for the same reason 60% of the American Catholic Church, 76% of Hispanic Catholics/Christians, and 95% of Black Catholics/Christians are Democrats and don’t vote Republican, because we believe, especially at this point, that the current far-right... Read more

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2022-08-16T15:49:34-05:00

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Autism and Parkinson’s Disease, faith, love, and modern medicine

Last updated on: August 16, 2022 at 3:49 pm By Julie Nichols

This piece is a little different than what I normally share. Instead of speaking about politics and faith, I will speak about faith, healthcare, and family. Autism and Parkinson’s Disease My journey with Parkinson’s Disease and raising a son with Autism have both profoundly impacted and shaped not only faith but our family life for the better. Our youngest child Sam was diagnosed with Autism at nearly 3 years of age in 2003. He received 25-30 hours a week of... Read more

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