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Queer Asian American Christianity: Refusal, Resistance, and Resurrection (Part 1)

by Bianca Mabute-Louie

Artwork: “Salvage” by Raychelle Duazo Introduction to the Series “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.” Jeremiah 2:13 (Italics added.) In Biblical contexts, cisterns were artificial reservoirs for the collection and storage of water. Throughout … Continue reading Queer Asian American Christianity: Refusal, Resistance, and Resurrection (Part 1) →

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7 Years Living As A Black Man

by Lawrence Richardson

I’ve always known that my gender was different from my assigned sex, and on June 29, 2010, after a period of prayer and discernment with medical staff and those closest to me, I began the process of transitioning from being a female bodied person to being a male bodied person.

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What to Do When You See Only White Speakers at a Christian Conference

by The Salt Collective

Name the White Elephant in the Room I don’t actually sit at my computer scouring the internet for examples of Christian conferences that feature almost all-white speaker line-ups. The examples actually fall into my inbox, and it’s rather tiresome, discouraging, embarrassing, and offensive. These conferences – from progressive to evangelical to conservative spaces – are … Continue reading What to Do When You See Only White Speakers at a Christian Conference →

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I Let Them Call Me N*gger: Unpacking My History of Internalized Racism

by Suzanne Munganga

When I was in high school, my white best friend referred to me as n*gger. Sometimes she called me nicknames like Suzie, Suz, “Z,” or my Congolese name, Nginda (she never did quite get the pronunciation right), but every so often, she unabashedly called me n*gger.  And I let her. Stories like these are sprinkled … Continue reading I Let Them Call Me N*gger: Unpacking My History of Internalized Racism →

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Love Letters from My White Boyfriends

by Suzanne Munganga

A List of Rose-Colored Microaggressions, Said With Love I was seventeen, and a stack of college brochures collected dust atop my bedroom vanity. I sat up against my headboard, eyeing them in the mirror—UCLA, UC Davis, Boston University, NYU.  “What if I just applied to an HBCU instead?” I said into the phone.  Historically Black … Continue reading Love Letters from My White Boyfriends →

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The Evangelical Social Construction of Virginity

by Brandi Miller

Virginity is not the secret of to healthy or good relationships. Evangelicals worship at the altar of purity and put resources, time, and theologizing into protecting it without teaching is people how to be Christians of sexual integrity and Christlikeness.

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