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Hillary: white lady to white lady | River Water
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Leaving church in search of the sacred. June 25, 2015. Hillary: white lady to white lady. We’re both nice white ladies, liberals who love the Children’s Defense Fund. When a friend suggest that I address you directly, I was hesitant. But after watching (a video of) the speech you shared in our community yesterday, I feel like we need to talk. Much has already been written by Black women that I trust about the failed rush to forgiveness. While spiritual warriors are often able to detangle themselves f...
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Leaving Church: Praying with My Feet | River Water
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Leaving church in search of the sacred. March 15, 2015. Leaving Church: Praying with My Feet. Enjoying the early morning quiet of a Sunday morning in an empty nest, I am aware of sadness for the losses. The gift of life’s second half is perspective, the curse is the pile of losses that make possible the view. My journey may have more or less than yours, but all of us have stories to tell. As I sit on this quiet Sunday morning drinking coffee, the sun now full in the sky, I see the path that is mine today.
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Archives for June 2015 | River Water
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Leaving church in search of the sacred. June 25, 2015. Hillary: white lady to white lady. We’re both nice white ladies, liberals who love the Children’s Defense Fund. When a friend suggest that I address you directly, I was hesitant. But after watching (a video of) the speech you shared in our community yesterday, I feel like we need to talk. Much has already been written by Black women that I trust about the failed rush to forgiveness. While spiritual warriors are often able to detangle themselves f...
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Leaving church in search of the sacred. Scroll down to content. April 12, 2015. White mothers, we need to talk…. When human lives are reduced to hashtags,. Every mother’s heart should weep. Every mother’s womb should convulse. But some mother’s son. Was on the other side of the hashtag. Cursing the dying man’s last breath. Pounding his skull into the pavement. As life left his body. And this is the problem for a mother’s soul:. Not which side are you on,. For mother’s are always on the side of life.
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Leaving church in search of the sacred. April 1, 2017. Rainbow Pride and the Power of Symbols. Hard as I push through the memories, I can’t find a single one from that era that links rainbows and gay pride. Unbeknownst to the youth in southern Michigan, Gilbert Baker was about to change all the rainbow symbolism for the coming generations. Admittedly the rainbow is kitsch. Growing up in southern Michigan in the 70s meant that there were few, if any, visible symbols to claim the not-mainstream path that i...
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Transitions | River Water
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Leaving church in search of the sacred. March 15, 2015. Leaving Church: Praying with My Feet. Enjoying the early morning quiet of a Sunday morning in an empty nest, I am aware of sadness for the losses. The gift of life’s second half is perspective, the curse is the pile of losses that make possible the view. My journey may have more or less than yours, but all of us have stories to tell. As I sit on this quiet Sunday morning drinking coffee, the sun now full in the sky, I see the path that is mine today.
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Beyond Church | River Water
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Leaving church in search of the sacred. Articles that consider our increasingly “spiritual but not religious” culture and the implications. March 19, 2017. Still Preaching, No Longer Nice. The dates have changed but the conversation is the same. Can we talk about the food at the pantries, for just a moment? Can we talk about the day-old bread, the yogurt at (or beyond) code date, the scarcity of meat, and the labor intensive bags of (unseasoned) rice? Now, what to do. March 19, 2017. March 19, 2017.
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white mothers, we need to talk… | River Water
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Leaving church in search of the sacred. April 12, 2015. White mothers, we need to talk…. When human lives are reduced to hashtags,. Every mother’s heart should weep. Every mother’s womb should convulse. But some mother’s son. Was on the other side of the hashtag. Cursing the dying man’s last breath. Pounding his skull into the pavement. As life left his body. And this is the problem for a mother’s soul:. Not which side are you on,. For mother’s are always on the side of life. Where you will find your son;.
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