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July 2014

July 04, 2014
Editor's Note: This will be my last post on Patheos. I am grateful for the...

June 2014

June 26, 2014
I knew of Jelani Greenidge long before I met him. We were friends in Social...
June 24, 2014
Can you see the holiness of a place beyond the "No Trespass" sign? That moment...
June 18, 2014
  I am on the road this week. I have a couple of book events...
June 11, 2014
I have been intentionally silent.  Instead of blogging, I have spent time listening to the...

May 2014

May 30, 2014
Let’s get something clear, okay? Hatred is not a mental illness. It is a soul...
May 29, 2014
  I have been sitting here in silence. Silence broken by birds chirping, dogs barking...
May 22, 2014
  When I went to Vietnam the one thing that disturbed me was the way...
May 22, 2014
         Wild dogwoods were in bloom when Mama’s Aunt Cil died in...
May 21, 2014
    The funeral service was held Wednesday morning, August 3, 1966, at McCloud Baptist...
May 20, 2014
I had a dentist appointment in Tri-Cities yesterday afternoon. It was one of those appointments...
May 17, 2014
Today (Saturday, May 17) is my father's birthday. Had he lived we would be celebrating...
May 16, 2014
  I awoke with a start early. Just popped up eyes wide open. I used...
May 13, 2014
    Writing about the pros and cons of abortion always makes me feel like...
May 13, 2014
      The kindly looking fellow in the light blue shirt pulled me aside...
May 11, 2014
  I am not getting my mother anything for Mother’s Day, the boy proclaimed. I...
May 08, 2014
  When The Redhead called to tell me that her cancer was back and had...
May 03, 2014
Rutgers. Pleeeeassseee. Have you no academic integrity? No sense of tolerance? No love, joy or...
May 01, 2014
  There I was, waiting for my order at Starbucks, minding my very own business...

April 2014

April 28, 2014
    Racist Rant of Donald Sterling  Non-Racist My Nigga. One of Billboard's Top Rap...
April 24, 2014
A prayer of David If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I...
April 23, 2014
Editor's Note: Rebekah Sanderlin is a journalist, a military wife and a dear friend. She...
April 21, 2014
  There I was, all decked out in my red suede shoes and glossy pink...
April 16, 2014
  I dreamed of my grandmother’s hands. It was an odd dream since Granny Leona has...
April 15, 2014
Resurrections are on my mind this week. Yours, too? Specifically, I've been doing a lot...
April 07, 2014
  Ten years ago, I joined my father's medic for a cross-country trip, via motorcycle....
April 07, 2014
  My daughter and her family are preparing to move to a new community after...
April 05, 2014
Not a direct precipitating factor. That's the official word out of Fort Hood. Lt. General...

March 2014

March 30, 2014
In late February, four short weeks ago now, a letter arrived in my inbox.   I...
March 27, 2014
I was in Nashville when the text message arrived: "Have you kept up with what's...
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