Everyday Practices of Peace for the Homeless: My Conversation with Alice...
I’m so thankful for my friend, Alice Colegrove. For nearly twenty years, Alice has worked on initiatives to help youth and young adults exit homelessness. She has worked on the issue of homelessness...
View ArticleThat Time We Walked Out of A Church Service
Two years ago we were on vacation over 4th of July weekend and visited a church that sadly combined patriotism and love of country with worship of Jesus. We got up a left because we are convinced that...
View ArticlePodcast Episode #21 with The Justice Pirate
Today’s guest is one of my favorite women, Victoria Tiedemann. She and I only know each other from online— we’re both Anabaptist women bloggers who love fashion and justice…were were bound to meet and...
View ArticleHow PostPartum Depression Let Me Be My Most Authentic Self: A Reflection of...
Yesterday, I wrote for the SheLoves Red Couch a discussion post on “Too Heavy A Yoke” by Chanequa Walker-Barnes. I wrote about how I never saw my mama cry and the first time I did, it shocked me. She...
View ArticleDay 2 of Subversive Joy: Even More Undignified Than This
From Pinterest This afternoon, I post my our dance party video to the Instagram and y’all…I struggled to re-watch it. When I looked at the video, I didn’t see my daughter and I having fun, I didn’t...
View ArticleShalom Steps For When You See Racial Profiling
This has been a poignant week around race for me. I worked on the chapter for “Shalom Sistas” about body image and embracing my identity as a black woman and watched the documentary 13th by Ava...
View ArticleShalom Steps When You’re Heartbroken About the Election
I’m sitting in a dark room listening to Yo Yo Ma and crying over the election. I didn’t realize I was so invested in it— but I do. I have biracial kids, y’all. They look at and read the things I’ve...
View ArticleI Will Resist: A Mother’s Day Story
Let me tell you the tale of an Overwhelmed Mother who had a baby before she was ready, another one after a hurricane, and one more within the same calendar year. Let me tell you that one day while her...
View ArticleEpisode 36: Shalom in the Home
Today I sit down with my co-host Jerusalem to talk about FOMO, Benedictine Monastic traditions, learning to love the life you have, and husband who are weary of our BIG ideas. She just released her...
View ArticleEpisode #38: Shalom Book Club
On today’s episode, Osheta and Cara talk to their favorite literary matchmaker, Anne Bogel, the mind behind the What Should I Read Next podcast and Modernmrsdarcy.com. She has a created a fabulous...
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