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This week, as a "welcome back" to Patheos, I'll be sharing some recent ruminations around...

This Tuesday, you cannot vote for Republicans AND vote “for Life.” Republican policies and rhetoric...

This week has been a deadly one in America: A white male domestic terrorist whose...

Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed as the next Supreme Court Justice despite his long history of...

Trigger warning: Sexual Assault, Attempted Rape, Purity Culture  One night when I was in high...

It’s a strange, even surreal thing to look back from where I am now to...

ABLE IS PUBLISHING THEIR WAGES Editor's Note from Amy: Last week I received a Facebook...

I just watched a heartwarming video from NowThis in which a trans woman tells the...

Uffda. Explaining to a 7-year-old white boy why his Black neighbor friends can use the...

The poor have always been and will always be with us. Some laws have always...

It's been a while since my last post, mostly because each time I sit down...

The past week has not been great for Starbucks. Last Thursday, two black men were...

Most of us white people cannot even imagine what a body decimated by 20 bullet...

It's been a while. Much has transpired and sparked conversation about white terrorism, white supremacy,...

Seventeen people were slaughtered, many others injured, all survivors and neighbors indelibly traumatized yesterday at...

HERE IS THE TRUTH ABOUT WELFARE QUEENS LIKE ME: Collecting food stamps, unemployment checks, and...

There is a thing I say to myself and to others, six words of truth...

Content/Trigger Warning: This post discusses stories of spiritual and psychological abuse. Tonight on my run, I...

We need to talk about how woefully unable and unwilling are humans in general and...

On December 20th, I realized that Deconstruction is a process of losing and grieving foundational...

There was a long stretch there when I spoke directly to evangelicals about the moral...

On December 9th, Jamie O'Grady tweeted a heartbreaking video of Kimberly Jones’s son, middle schooler Keaton...

“I think [America] was great at the time when families were united — even though...

I caught myself recently for the fourth or fifth time in as many days sitting on...

Yesterday, I woke up to the news of the first live birth resulting from successful...

Today is my 36th birthday, and unlike any previous birthday, I find myself beginning the...

It's hard to watch a president give his 900th after-mass-shooting speech about the need for...

Right after Eli was born and all the trauma, a number of people advised me...

**Trigger warning: The following post involves the story of a child sex abuse survivor** You...

Husband and I have now been married for ten years. Over the past ten years,...