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This post is the fifth in an ongoing series. Click here for the index page. Growing up in a religious environment, you learn the art of reading between the lines. Whether it's interpreting a passage in a text, the teachings of a community, or the life of a religious leader, you develop an attention to …
Continue reading "Sometimes the Little Things Mean a Lot"
This is the fourth post in an ongoing series. Click here for the index page. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. -Karl Marx I was brought up in a religious household - Evangelical, to be specific, although that term seems to …
This is the third post in a series. Click here to go to the index page. It's a tremendous truism to say that you find out who your real friends are in times of hardship. A better way I've seen this put by a friend of mine is that people suck during a crisis. It …
This is the second post in a series. To read the first part, click here. As my partner was in the throes of her brain trauma at the hospital, I found myself frequently imagining, wishing, and perhaps even praying, that one day I would go to sleep and wake up the next morning to discover …
When it first arrives, there's a sickly combination of not knowing what to expect and telling yourself there's hope. The sickly part of it is that without knowing what's going on, or what to expect, you don't really know what reason there is to hold out hope except the cold, helpless fact that there are …
