Tag: bigotry

  • Identity—being a people of love

    Identity—being a people of love

    Determining the “real me” is a way of articulating responsibility. But it can also be a way of avoiding having to take any responsibility at all.

  • Other People’s Clothes

    In the front load washer, I can see whites and darks and grays mixed together. The checked blue shirt, gym shorts with the single cinched drawstring, and the lacy number that may be a halter top. I look at your clothes like an alien species or as a xenophobe looks at their neighbor, considering him…

  • Restore the “Vagina”!

    Restore the “Vagina”!. Rachel Held Evans can’t write “vagina”? Oh! She can write it, but Thomas Nelson won’t publish it. Wait a second. Why not? Oh! Because some Christians might be offended by it. Wait a second. Why? I should have known. The human body is freeky and gross. That sort of makes sense. It’s…