Hopeless

I have some not-so-polite things to pray today, God, starting with: You suck. . Also: You’re falling down on the job. . Where is your balm to the brokenhearted when pain is looped publicly on video for voyeurism and ratings? . Is there no more freedom your...

We Never Meant to Love You

Though we pressed our bibles to your hands and promised you life in the deep chilly river we never meant to love you and prayed Christ would forgive you for not being like us, not even at the threat of death. Though we survived by your blood and thrived on your...

Exorcising Racism

Would that demons could be sweet-talked into release, that the perfect petition correct niceties best biblical treatise purest sacrifice would send them fleeing over the cliffs. Then the President would sing, then Bree would climb freely, then the sweet by-and-by...

Black History Month Is Personal

My seven-year-old daughter wants to know why there are only two African American students in her first grade class. She is one of the two. “Is it because of slavery?” she asks me from the back seat of the car. “Because I was thinking that lots of Black people died...

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