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April 2020

April 16, 2020

The Terrifying Call of Christ’s Resurrection

This week, as a "welcome back" to Patheos, I'll be sharing some recent ruminations around...

November 2018

November 05, 2018

Choose Life or Choose Republicans. You Can’t Have Both.

This Tuesday, you cannot vote for Republicans AND vote “for Life.” Republican policies and rhetoric...

October 2018

October 27, 2018

Living in the Hell of White Male Terrorism in America

This week has been a deadly one in America: A white male domestic terrorist whose...

October 06, 2018

Kingdom Building in the Age of Kavanaugh

Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed as the next Supreme Court Justice despite his long history of...

September 2018

September 28, 2018

When My High School Boyfriend Attempted to Rape Me, I Blamed Myself

Trigger warning: Sexual Assault, Attempted Rape, Purity Culture One night when I was in high...

September 07, 2018

Thirty-Seven (TL;DR: I’m in Seminary)

It’s a strange, even surreal thing to look back from where I am now to...

August 2018

August 09, 2018

ABLE is Publishing Their Wages and Thinks Every Brand Should Do the Same

ABLE IS PUBLISHING THEIR WAGES Editor's Note from Amy: Last week I received a Facebook...

August 03, 2018

When You Unwoman a Trans Woman, You Unwoman Me

I just watched a heartwarming video from NowThis in which a trans woman tells the...

July 2018

July 23, 2018

On Teaching White Sons Why They Can’t Say The N Word

Uffda. Explaining to a 7-year-old white boy why his Black neighbor friends can use the...

June 2018

June 28, 2018

The Promise of No Promised Land

The poor have always been and will always be with us. Some laws have always...

June 22, 2018

Police Brutality and Inhumanity in Service of White Convenience

It's been a while since my last post, mostly because each time I sit down...

April 2018

April 18, 2018

White Privilege is Getting Freebies for Loitering at Starbucks

The past week has not been great for Starbucks. Last Thursday, two black men were...

March 2018

March 29, 2018

The Lynching of Stephon Clark and Jesus Christ

Most of us white people cannot even imagine what a body decimated by 20 bullet...

March 23, 2018

White Supremacy is a White Construction for Modern White Abolitionists to Destroy

It's been a while. Much has transpired and sparked conversation about white terrorism, white supremacy,...

February 2018

February 17, 2018

God, We Love Our Guns

Seventeen people were slaughtered, many others injured, all survivors and neighbors indelibly traumatized yesterday at...

February 14, 2018

I Am the Welfare Queen Your President Condemns

HERE IS THE TRUTH ABOUT WELFARE QUEENS LIKE ME: Collecting food stamps, unemployment checks, and...

February 13, 2018

Six Ways To Be Love in an Economy of Hate

There is a thing I say to myself and to others, six words of truth...

January 2018

January 17, 2018

God Is Love And Will Torture You Forever

Content/Trigger Warning: This post discusses stories of spiritual and psychological abuse. Tonight on my run, I...

January 09, 2018

Good Grief, Cheap Grace

We need to talk about how woefully unable and unwilling are humans in general and...

December 2017

December 31, 2017

My First Christmas Without Jesus

On December 20th, I realized that Deconstruction is a process of losing and grieving foundational...

December 13, 2017

Good Riddance, Evangelicalism.

There was a long stretch there when I spoke directly to evangelicals about the moral...

December 12, 2017

An Open Letter To Keaton Jones and the Watching World

On December 9th, Jamie O'Grady tweeted a heartbreaking video of Kimberly Jones’s son, middle schooler Keaton...

December 08, 2017

Back When We Had Slaves, Unity, and Greatness

“I think [America] was great at the time when families were united — even though...

December 07, 2017

Carrying Light in Clenched Fists

I caught myself recently for the fourth or fifth time in as many days sitting on...

December 05, 2017

Who I Am and Choose To Be

Yesterday, I woke up to the news of the first live birth resulting from successful...

September 2017

September 06, 2017

Thirty-Six

Today is my 36th birthday, and unlike any previous birthday, I find myself beginning the...

June 2016

June 12, 2016

Mass Violence in America: This Is Who We Are and Choose To Be

It's hard to watch a president give his 900th after-mass-shooting speech about the need for...

June 01, 2016

When Trauma Comes to Visit (Write a New Song)

Right after Eli was born and all the trauma, a number of people advised me...

May 2016

May 13, 2016

No Longer Anonymous & Silent: Jessy shares her story of sexual abuse

**Trigger warning: The following post involves the story of a child sex abuse survivor** You...

March 2016

March 02, 2016

A Decade of Marriage Means I’m Qualified To Tell You These Things

Husband and I have now been married for ten years. Over the past ten years,...

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