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An Open Letter to Pastors, Chaplains, and Lay Leaders: Please Help Our Women | peaceandcrackers

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A theological perspective with a side of feminism. An Open Letter to Pastors, Chaplains, and Lay Leaders: Please Help Our Women. Asymp; Leave a comment. Sexuality in the OT. This post references miscarriage and early infant loss. It is my hope to bring about conversations that will enable healing and empowerment for women throughout their experiences, but if these topics are particularly painful for you, this post may be difficult. Love and light to you. Together we formed the communities of the Holy Spi...

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A Conclusion- Day 30 #500wordsaday | One Girl's Attempt to Make it Through Life

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One Girl's Attempt to Make it Through Life. Life and other interesting anecdotes. Laquo; South Carolina- Day 28 #500wordsaday. A Conclusion- Day 30 #500wordsaday. My final post in a 30-day writing challenge. See Kale and Cigarettes. For details and check out the Facebook Group. A Hormonal Woman’s Stream of Conscious:. And go sit/lay on the couch. So writing a cohesive, coherent, interesting last post for this challenge, well, it won’t be happening. Today my husband was warning me of the side effects of t...

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A theological perspective with a side of feminism. Change Only Starts When We Show Up. In On the Difficult Topic of Race. Asymp; Leave a comment. So many of us are asking what we can do to make things better? What can we do to change the current situation, make the killings stop, help our communities be safer? Mother Emanuel, photographed by Theresa Moxley, edited in A Color Story. Standing on sacred ground: the sidewalk at City Gallery. Why, we simply have to begin showing up. White people, when was...

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Turning Guilt into Compassion: My Story of No Maternity Leave - The Good Mother Project

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Turning Guilt into Compassion: My Story of No Maternity Leave. Turning Guilt into Compassion: My Story of No Maternity Leave 3. This entry was posted in Moms Helping Moms. And tagged maternal health advocacy. May 11, 2015. By Good Mother Project. The day after my two-week postpartum check-up I went back to work. Colleagues would email me weeks or even months later to ask when my maternity leave was up, and I’d confess hesitantly, I never went on it. There were no policies in place to protect or support me.

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Why We Are Still Talking | peaceandcrackers

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A theological perspective with a side of feminism. Why We Are Still Talking. In Let's Talk About Surviving. Asymp; Leave a comment. Photo credit: Theresa Moxley, Spring 2014. Ok, so I’m seeing and hearing a lot around the interwebs about why Black people are dwelling on the past, and why they don’t just get over it already. It is also very anti-Christ. I’ve heard those words myself whenever I speak about my experience as a survivor of domestic abuse. I can’t compare the two situations, bu...Whenever I re...

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Reality Vs. Distraction | peaceandcrackers

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A theological perspective with a side of feminism. Reality Vs. Distraction. Asymp; Leave a comment. Reality Vs. Distraction. So needless to say, the South is deeply embroiled. As the Confederate flag came down in South Carolina last week, now all the traditional symbols of Confederate power are being questioned. Groups across the entire region are petitioning to have statues removed, even digging up graves of Confederate soldiers. To me the flag is an easy symbol, right? So religion and this flag become ...

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When Your Husband Has Been Laid Off - Why Girls Are Weird

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Krysten’s Book Lists. Krysten’s Book Lists. When Your Husband Has Been Laid Off. August 10, 2015. In February when Iz and I found out that there was a possibility that he could be laid off we tried to prepare ourselves. Unfortunately it’s hard to prepare yourself for something that A) is only a maybe and B) you’re sure won’t actually happen. As the day got closer we both convinced ourselves that there was no way he would be laid off. So when it happened it was such a shock to both of us. I was frustrated...

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Sandra Bland Was Taking Control | peaceandcrackers

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A theological perspective with a side of feminism. Sandra Bland Was Taking Control. In Women in the Media. Asymp; Leave a comment. Women in the media. Sandra Bland Was Taking Control. My immediate response is, Actually, every one of us would have responded the same way, if we are truly honest with ourselves, because every one of us would have been deeply offended by his attitude towards her. Many white people have shown instances where they have been equally hostile towards a police officer, and were...