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This Light of Mine.

It is not extinguishable. It cannot be held captive by your distorted view of the Divine. Its ownership cannot be assigned to you. It is now running from this room. It is fleeing this church, and it is coming home to the Church of My Body. It has lived through thousands of years of sinking, ...

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Lord or Lady: the Search for the Divine Gender.

Perhaps the tension between masculine and feminine attributes is more based on our own rocky gender relations in our fallen society than it is on any substantial theological conflict.

world

The New Nationalism: Though Hands Shake, Heaven Shuns the Agreement.

Leaders who oppose this road will be dethroned. They will hold their positions but lose their influence, being deemed dangerous stumps stopping the global gallop towards the new nationalism.

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This Is a Love Story Between a Buddhist and a Christian.

Ethics is the big overlap zone in the Venn Diagram of our marriage. Although we are altruists, we work in non-overlapping professional zones, and we are a part of non-overlapping worship communities. This separation of church and sangha, so to speak, insures that we live separate lives through ...

feminism

The Three Lost Verses of Amazing Grace: A Forgotten Hymn for the Wild Heathen.

The tribe of hooded ones cast their robes to the ground then, again sky-clad in the waxing moonlight, and invigorated by keen knowledge of their own divinity. Hand in hand, they began the ancient spiral dance, weaving around and through the standing stones with the graceful ease of every temple ...

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The Wild Mother Rides the Seven-Headed Beast: A Prophecy for the End of Days.

Every night, the silver moon would shine on more tired faces come to join us in our aimless pilgrimage; young mothers brought their babes, grey-haired elders brought their sage wisdom, awakened men brought their fierce support, and they all had packed the Holy Wild in their knapsacks.

Dear White People.

Saying sorry is more likely to reinvest white power with the sort of moral nobility a philanthropist acquires for spreading his wealth. A deeper sort of accountability is needed -- one that brings us to the edges of ourselves.

you & me

Healing From The Lie Of Purity.

I rose from the ashes of the underworld where I was banished to. I didn’t belong there, but many young girls lose themselves there, too ashamed to live on and face life. And that is why I speak today: for the families of the ones who didn’t survive, for those who did survive but lost joy in ...

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Dharma Is… : Curtain Walls, Rothko Paintings, And Butterflies.

When I stand alone on a hillcrest, watching the sun burn itself to sleep, and feel connection to something larger than my own story; when I breathe in Child’s Pose listening to Jeff Buckley’s 'Hallelujah' in my bedroom the night before yet 'another' eye surgery; when I sit on the gallery floor ...

troublemakers

Dear Society, My Body Freaking Rocks.

As much as my husband would like to plan out what I wear -- Princess Leia slave costume on the daily -- I do not let him decide what I wear or when I wear it. And society: you don’t get to decide either. No matter how much you try to guilt me otherwise...

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