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Captain Bringdown: Dismantling White Supremacy, the Broadway musical Hamilton edition
Hoo doggy. My young-adult son Sam and I have both been reading “Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of…
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John Brown and Moral Clarity
Y’all imagine my Quaker and nonviolent and abolitionist and history-nerd joy in learning that none other than W.E.B. Du Bois wrote a biography of…
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A really good question
“So… what’s to stop Joe Biden from having Seal Team Six kill Trump right now?”
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June 2024

In Praise of DIY
Y’all, I promised myself I would write the first draft of my next novel this summer. Which is another way of saying I am cheeks-deep (butt-cheeks or…
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A Year of Unruly Quaker
Beloveds,
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Hollywood War Machine
C/W: KKK mention and imagery.
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Voting for Biden? Question Mark?
Woowee, friends, we are talking a LOT about the upcoming U.S. presidential election in our house. Specifically, about whether we can stomach voting for…
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May 2024

Where are you gonna spend your hoots?
Last night I dreamt I was in the audience of a talk Rev. Dr. Barber was giving on MLK’s triune of systemic evils. To review, those evils are: racism
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More about campus protests
and about not feeling safe on campus
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Campus Protest Confession
Y’all, I need to come clean with you. I have not been living into my integrity. I have been feeling constrained and scared from sharing what I really…
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Showing up for folks other than your "own"
Is ... well ... it's kind of really really really important. Really.
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April 2024

Friday Night Lights, a Filthy Rotten System,
and bullshit gun charges
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