I wrote this on the darkest day of the year. Because if this season is “about” anything, it’s about that.
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What Mary Knew
"Mary, Did You Know?" keeps playing on the radio.
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You Are Not a Worm
Despite all the theological reasons given for how much you suck, you're way more okay than you feel.
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Not Peace, but a Sword
Growing up Christian meant toddling into the idea that Jesus is a friend, that God so loved the world, that we are brothers and sisters and children of one Creator. I never had the chance to wonder about humanity’s worth or our place in the universe. We were here to be loved and to love. Christianity, like a mother, brought me into the world and she raised me in what she believed was true. But along with that idea came a lot of weird shit. There was a period I only wore long skirts and could not listen to any music with a drum beat without begging for forgiveness. What…