I’m among the million or so people who have seen NFL player Benjamin Watson’s Facebook post about Ferguson, but in…
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“If you had a little girl right now, how would you discipline her?” a friend asked me recently. “I don’t…
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This inconsistency between black identity and Christianity’s role in the oppression of black people is something I think all black…
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At the Emancipation Day parade in Trinidad, something happened that I didn’t expect: Jesus showed up. The truck we had…
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I hate when I think of a snappy comeback three weeks after a discussion ends. That’s happening right now, as…
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Despite the photos I’m posting on Facebook and Twitter, this trip isn’t all, or even 10%, about the beach. It’s…
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I write about my life of “existing in many spaces at once, holding multiple identities and not quite serving…
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I wrote my first post/essay of the day at about 2:00 in the afternoon on yet another day that I told…
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Last week I had the privilege of attending Freedom Dreams Freedom Now, a conference sponsored by the Social Justice Initiative at…
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I saw a lot of men up in arms on social media yesterday over a New Jersey Superior Court judge’s…
I passed on the Grammy Awards last Sunday to go see 12 Years a Slave. When I got home from…
While my parents were teaching me to be the best student I could be, my Christian faith taught me to…
I’m a little late on looking back, but I wrote 67 posts in 2013. Here’s my top 10 list of…
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I said I wouldn’t write about this because I knew I wouldn’t download the album until after Christmas and my…
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In “The Comfort of a Sweet, Black, Dreadlocked Jesus,” I recalled the image of Jesus Christ as depicted in a painting…
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What makes me a feminist? I’ve been thinking about this question since my feminism history class last night. We were…
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I watched a video on Facebook today of a little who might have been four or five years old mimicking…
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I could probably blog for a year on all the issues brought up in this interview   with 19-year-old London art…
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No, not Mellie, even though I am writing this after Scandal. At a housewarming party last week for a…
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April, the only character on Grey’s Anatomy who identifies as Christian and the only one who has conflicts about…
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A note about today’s post: I have a bi-weekly column on National Catholic Reporter, and I plan to use these…
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I’ve made a commitment to #BlogLikeCrazy this month, an action I believe is necessary but also for real for real…
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Is entertainment always glorification? I ponder this question almost every Thursday night as social media lights up with #gladiator hashtags…
My first thought after reading Gina Messina-Dysert’s  post, “Feminism vs. Humanism: Continuing to claim a feminist identityâ€Â was, “Guess she missed that…
Coming this Monday, September 23rd, I join National Catholic Reporter as a regular online columnist. My column is called, “At…
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