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A Few Words to Whites About Racism (and How to Help, Not Make Things Worse)
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Being Transgender Is Not a Sin: What Christians Must Learn from Leelah...
PHOTO: Leelah Alcorn posted this photo on Tumblr with this caption: “I don’t take many selfies because I hate how I look as a boy and I rarely get a chance to dress as a girl, so I’m only posting 5,...
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Infiltrating Injustice: With What Should We Fill the Racial Divide?
Today, A Deeper Story is running what is most likely my last post for the group site. At the end of February, we will stop publishing new material (though the archives will stay indefinitely). I’m not...
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What Does Wielding My White Privilege for Good Look Like?
I know that I am privileged. (This is a very interesting survey to explore how privileged you may be. I got a 64 out of 100.) I know that in spite of my concerted efforts to listen, learn, and look, I...
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Try a Little Empathy (on teaching children about poverty)
Bolivian children spend their days outside. Photo: ©2011 Matthew Paul Turner/World Vision My children were born into a life of stability, not poverty. We’ve had seasons where we had to watch our...
View ArticlePart 4 of How I Became a Liberal: We Don’t Get To Sit Back Just Because the...
It may seem like I’ve been rambling for the past three posts (part 1, part 2, part 3), but I took time to cover all that territory to make a very important point: I am neither ignorant of nor willfully...
View ArticleSyria: An Overview and a Call to (Non-Violent) Action
I decided to dive into a current event for this month’s post on A Deeper Story: the crisis involving Syria. It’s a long post, even for me, but it’s broken down into bullet points with many quotes from...
View ArticleIndependence: the False Gospel Destroying American Christianity
The second hardest life lesson I’ve had to confront is asking for help. The hardest one has been actually accepting the help. (Note: I haven’t mastered either one yet.) I’ve always been a capable...
View ArticleThe Achilles Heel of Complementarian Theology
Women are subordinate but not inferior. The weaker sex. Created equal in value while called to a role of lower (or no) authority. Evangelical Christians call these ideas about women (and men)...
View ArticleWhat’s a Female Christian White American To Do About Racism?
Plenty, and it Starts with Taking Racism Seriously The news has been dreadful for the past two weeks. (It’s been dreadful since the beginning of time, I know, but it’s finally overtaken our country’s...
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