May 2012
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baroquemirrors:
There are many things I haven’t done: I’ve never slipped out while my parents were asleep to throw rocks against a window in Morse code to puncture the silence of a summer night with the poetry of rattling stones. I’ve never composed the vandal’s verse on a bathroom wall a promise in #2 pencil scribbled in the stall one heart two names a ballad that ends with the word ‘forever.’...
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Poetry: Martin Espada, "Who Burns for the...
At sixteen, I worked after high school hours at a printing plant that manufactured legal pads: Yellow paper stacked seven feet high and leaning as I slipped cardboard between the pages, then brushed red glue up and down the stack. No gloves: fingertips required for the perfection of paper, smoothing the exact rectangle. Sluggish by 9 PM, the hands would slide along suddenly sharp paper, and...
April 2012
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“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to...”
– http://www.dressaday.com/2006/10/you-dont-have-to-be-pretty.html (via fuckyeahfeminists)
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“You either like me or you don’t. It took me Twenty-something years to learn how...”
– Daniel Franzese. (via cherrywhore)
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“According to the study, people who said they were a “born-again”...”
– U.S. News, “Being ‘Born-Again’ Linked to More Brain Atrophy: Study”
Interesting concluding hypotheses by the researchers:
The researchers suggested that stress over holding religious beliefs that fall outside of the mainstream may help explain the findings.
“One...
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Nathan Norris, "Why Generation Y is Causing the... →
Gen Y / millenials are flocking from their childhood suburban homes to urban areas. Why? Nathan Norris argues that we’re attracted to things we didn’t have growing up — specifically:
1. Adventure 2. Connectivity 3. Convenience 4. Car Independence
As a child of a first-ring suburb who now gladly identifies as an “urban girl” — I think he’s on to...
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“To be poor in the United States today is to be always at risk, the object of...”
– bell hooks (via wretchedoftheearth)
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“Women stick their necks out to say that something is fucked-up, hurtful,...”
– backleftlitz: “If Tegan and Sara Need Some Hard Dick, Hit Me Up!” - Sady Doyle
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“We are one in suffering. Some are wealthy, some bright; some athletic, some...”
– Nicholas Wolterstorff, Lament for a Son
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“Dear daughter-
You should know that you are hated.
I’m not sure why they...”
– Mur Lafferty, “Dear Daughter”
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“Four San Francisco teen-agers recently got the surprise of their young lives....”
– Time magazine, October 1973.
The article concludes:
Ray insists that his Draconian measures are necessary. “Middle America has always had a little tinge of homophobia,” he says. “But I’ve had it up to here. All this queer bashing has simply got to stop.”
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WatchRev. Dr. Karoline Lewis, preaching on Ruth 1:1-22.
Naomi helps us see, that so much of where we locate our worthiness is in expectation. So much of where we allocate dedication is only in obedience. So much of where we find acceptance is when others determine that we are acceptable. How often we go there, defining ourselves through the lens of another. Constructing our identity on the basis of...
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“Men who want to flirt with women have to realize: Women live in a state of...”
– Attention, Space Cadets: Do Not Proposition Women in the Elevator (via transformfeminism)
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The Guest House
calypsoscatastrophe:
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The...
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“It was during one of our long walks through a cemetery that I found the grave of...”
– “How to Beat Anxiety,” by Jenny Lawson (the Bloggess)
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Meg Jay, "The Downside of Cohabiting Before... →
Very interesting article. Not reflective of our cohabiting experience, but I think it is of some of our friends.
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“Instead, why not allow football players to major in, well, football? This is a...”
– Joe Nocera, “Football and Swahili”
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I’ve finished the first five chapters of House of Leaves (as part of the online book group at how-do-u-wurds).
I can’t say I’m enjoying it, specifically; I’m the kind of reader that devours a text the first time through (finishing the later Harry Potters within three or four solid hours of reading, for example). I like to get the lay of the land, quick and sloppy. To run...
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"New clergy, new churches: church planting as... →
Three years ago, Emily Scott had an idea. What if twentysomethings in Manhattan’s East Village got together every Sunday for an agape feast, just as the early Christians did? Scott knew that Gen Xers and millennial peers crave egalitarian participation in a close-knit community and tend to avoid anything that looks like an institution. What if a group of friends cooked and ate a meal...
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“Reading Matthew 26:6-13, Mark 14:3-9, and Luke 7:36-50, the parallels in the...”
– Mandy Brobst-Renaud, “The Problem with the Synoptic Problem”
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Another young life lost. →
When will it end?
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“Because sin is just the state of human brokenness in which what we say and do...”
– Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber, “Maundy Thursday at House for All Sinners and Saints”
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"While in St. Peter's, Rome" by John Graber
Pieta (click to listen)
I think the world is like the feet of the Pieta and shines out of the dark arches only when touched by hands that believe in it. I think that when the feet are worn away by touch, people will climb up the body of Christ until he’s worn onto a world of hands, a shining marble dust, and then the night’s white, worn pearl, river stone moon Mary will smile, and we’ll all be...
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thoughts on Seder
[[MORE]]I love knowing my roots. Christianity is nothing without Judaism. Truly a strange religion, in that way, to borrow so much from so many. How can I know what it means to say that Christ has come to save the world without knowing the Jewish story of God’s salvation and deliverance again and again and again? A teacher showing up and giving lessons about life is one thing, but...
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[[MORE]]I started crying in church today.
I’m really going to miss this place.
I am also going to be ridiculously blessed by the new church I’ll serve, where the solo pastor advised me:
I also worked at my home congregation and left for internship. This was a church that welcomed me in as a searching person, taught me about God’s grace, sparked my call and loved my family.
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