My Year Without An Easter: A Testimony
We've become much more open about a lot of things over the years. I remember how my mother kept her diagnosis a secret from her best friend, because cancer was somehow regarded as shameful. Mental illness has long carried a similar stigma...
It’s the tension I find within myself: A Testimony
To choose to leave the safety of my apartment and bed to enter the world, in all the unknowns and often chaos.
I could have used a community mental health center: A Testimony
I also believe that it is here in the church that we can continue to break down some of the stigma surrounding mental illness.
a sermon on risk and call
Samuel is called by name. Right now, the turn into summer reminds me so strongly that we are in Pride Month – a month of born out of a protest, when trans women of color and drag queens and butches refused to lay down for the police yet again, but instead boldly took space at the Stonewall Inn, saying, “here we are”, in our queerness, in our community. By calling Samuel directly, God affirms the value and importance of our naming’s.
Holy Scandal
Oftentimes, the Season After Pentecost, the longest season in the church year, stretches through the summer months without much fanfare....