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July is BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month. In 2008, mental health communities began recognizing July as Bebe Moore...
5 Favorite Religion Books I Teach
Choosing favorite books in one’s field is like asking who your favorite friends are. Good books change my perspective and –...
Saving Ourselves: Shaping Change Workshop
No one is coming to save us! We have to save ourselves. Tananarive Due and I are talking about strategies for surviving...
Octavia Tried to Tell Us: Parable for Today’s Pandemic
In national quarantine and sheltering-in-place or is it "safer-at-home," all I could think about was that we were living in...
I’ve Been Quiet
I didn’t know I had a lisp. Not until I was 15 and a boy I liked teased me about it. Once he pointed it out, I stopped...
Cup of Tea Spiritual Practice
Spiritual Practices don't have to be as "holy" as we sometimes think. Here I talk about a great spiritual practice for...
Remember This Day
Remember this day. I told myself to remember this day. This was the day when it all ended. This was the day I was raped. It...
He Would Have Adored Her
He called too early in the morning. Every year on my birthday. My father called to tell me happy birthday. And to tell me...
We Die Daily
We die daily. This is what I told a student in the summer continuing education class I teach on Process Theology as...