Sometimes Church Looks Like: Sunday School Breakfast

Two hard boiled eggs…..

Sometimes Church Looks Like: Creating Space for Hard, Holy Conversations New Year’s Eve 2024, I said it out loud:

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D.C. churches respond to federal show of force D.C. churches unite against heightened federal policing, defending vulnerable neighbors and calling for justice over fear-based governance.

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D.C. churches unite against heightened federal policing, defending vulnerable neighbors and calling for justice over fear-based governance.

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Sometimes Church looks like: The Embodiment of Empathy and Presence Disclaimer: This reflection deals with youth suicide and mental health.

It stripped away any illusion that love is abstract. It dismantled the version of faith that offers tidy answers in moments of unbearable pain. It taught us that survival is often quiet, slow, and communal.

Blue Christmas

Sometimes Church Looks Like: Love without boundaries

And in this season of waiting, longing, and becoming, Advent love reminds us that nothing, no grief, no fear, no system, no power, can separate us from the love of God. And once you have met that love, really met it, you cannot help but live it out loud.

Sometimes Church Looks Like.... Joy Blooms in Dry Places

Joy meets us in dry places…

Sippin and trippin sipping coffee

Sippin and trippin

Stumbling and Wrestling with Peace ADVENT WEEK 2- Peace

Sometimes church looks like…..

Week 2 of Advent

Sometimes Church Looks Like… Civic Duty

“Politics was supposed to be a shared responsibility — a way of protecting the collective good. Now it too often looks like the exploitation of the very people we’re called to represent.”

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Sometimes Church Looks Like… Loving, Losing, and Letting Go A story of love, friendship, and connection

Love in any form, forms us.

Collard Greens I was born on a Tuesday

A birthday poem!!!!

Hello 50!

Sometimes Church Looks Like Choosing, Honoring, and Living A meditation on freedom, ambiguity, and loving God and neighbor beyond the lines

Choosing, Honoring and Living…. May it be so!

Sometimes Church Looks Like: Many identities, many intersections, many........

…..And another one!

Sometimes Church Looks Like: Permission to Mourn Differently

Sometimes Church Looks Like: Permission to Mourn Differently

Sometimes Church Looks Like: Why Moaning Is Holy, and Silence Is Not

Instead of crashing out I just write about!!!!

Sometimes Church Looks Like: Being Curious Enough to Get Free

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Sometimes Church Looks Like Protecting the Most Vulnerable Today It's Black Women: Tomorrow it may be you.

He’s coming for us but our magic will never lose.

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Sometimes Church Looks Like Declaring War It's time to choose a side.

See you on the other side of freedom.

Sometimes Church Looks Like: Getting Free from “I’m Sorry” On Black womanhood, time, and the audacity to stop apologizing for existing.

Writing and living, living and writing. And all the in between. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

A new Substack is up.

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Writing is life. ❤️❤️❤️

On sacred, trembling ground: Charleston and the spirit of womanist leadership - The Presbyterian Outlook Over 100 attendees from all denominations gathered for the Katie Geneva Cannon Center for Womanist Leadership Biennial Conference in Charleston, South Carolina. This year's conference honored the…

On sacred, trembling ground: Charleston and the spirit of womanist leadership

Over 100 attendees from all denominations gathered for the Katie Geneva Cannon Center for Womanist Leadership Biennial Conference in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Sometimes Church Looks Like ✂️ Braid My Hair: Where Legacy, Liberation, and Love Meet at the Root

Braid my hair.

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Sometimes Church Looks Like Road Trips, Lent Ends, Renewal Begins

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I just need my guy to surpass Strom’s 1957 filibuster. That’s how petty I am.

Go, Cory, Go!

I called Zora for him…

“If you are silent about your pain, they will kill you and say you enjoyed it!” Zora Neal Hurston

The framework has been written. And now an elderflower spritzer

Imagine being in a Black body and being told all your life to stay busy, to work, work, work.

Only to go to the text and learn a new thing. A new perspective. A new understanding.

Don’t believe me. Just go learn for yourself.

Rest and growth. Rest. Grow. Bear fruit. Repeat.

Listening is where love begins. ❤️

Mr. Fred Rogers

1. So…. I got my nails done yesterday
2. My nail tech is like my biggest fan
3. She loves hearing where I just came from.

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Fall dates are available….