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Welcome new follows. I am a womanist biblical scholar by training, public theologian & activist by necessity, Episcopal priest w/ a foot in the Black Church, sci-fi/fantasy & vampire geek, author, professor, public commentator on politics film & TV, cat companion & plant killer.
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I knew the El Paso shooter was a white man when they started talking about how the brain isn’t fully formed at 21. Because they treat black children like adults at 9, 10, 11, and 12.
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Be wary of a theology that says God intervenes to save one person but not another, but not the children at Sandy Hook or the children at Uvalde.
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I'm tired of dishonest arguments.
Nobody took out student loans expecting the federal government to bail them out.
People took out student loans because education has been priced out of reach.
People took out student loans believing they would be able to pay them back.
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A Ghanaian born yellow rose of Texas, Annette Addo-Yobo, crowned as Miss Texas. The laments of the haters are drowned in a sea of applause.
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@Gr33nFairy
@UnvirtuousAbbey
Actually, it’s a perfect example of Bible belt values. They will play the movie and make money off of it but make a public protest of piety about the name.
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Now that you know about Juneteenth, learn about reconstruction. Learn about the intentional criminalization of free blackness: About social, economic & legal measures forcing the newly freed back on plantations to work for a pittance that would be clawed back for housing & food.
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When we talk about the ubiquity and normalization of whiteness, 45 years for a chocolate Band-Aid…
It's taken me 45 trips around the sun, but for the first time in my life I know what it feels like to have a "band-aid" in my own skin tone. You can barely even spot it in the first image. For real I'm holding back tears.
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Look at that belly!
This is Louis. He just had a big dinner. Ready for bed now. Hoping you could tuck him in. 13/10 yes sir right away Louis
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Please pray for Charlie Cytron-Walker and the Congregation Beth Israel during this hostage situation at the shul in Colleville. They are wonderful people and I have davened with them. Rav. Charlie is a good man. He shows up for black lives and muslim lives. Just pray.
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It’s called privilege and not giving AF about anyone else.
Parents who don't vaccinate kids tend to be affluent, better educated, experts say.
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Let’s not forget the man who suggested gynecological exams be performed by having women swallow tiny cameras, who when corrected was surprised to hear that the digestive tract is separate from women’s reproductive organs. It was news to him as he made laws about our bodies.
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People took out student loans expecting to be able to afford housing.
People took out student loans in an economy that no longer exists.
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To whom it may concern: the documentaries on Hillsong and the Duggar family are not attacks on Christianity, evangelical Christianity or homeschooling. They do illustrate common repeating tendencies and trajectories. It's not an attack if it's true. Get your house in order.
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People took out student loans not knowing that healthcare insurance would eat up their check and still leave them with nearly insurmountable deductibles.
People took out student loans not expecting their payments to balloon up to mortgage payments.
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If this white man on
@CNN
doesn’t stop calling Serena and Coco “articulate - even off the court!” and “intelligent” like that’s a surprise then they need to take him off the air.
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Anti-Semitism is baked into the bones of Christianity and we must continually acknowledge it, reputdiate it, and repent of it. We must call it out on the lips and at the pens of writers, thinkers, theologians, scholars, pastors, and saints.
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Now’s a good time for Christians to rethink missions trip to reservations & anywhere else. We need to listen, not lead. Our repentance and reparations should not be dependent on our presence or performance. Under resourced people should not be object lessons for privileged teens.
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Every time someone says that kids need to be in school for nutrition and safety from abusive homes I want to ask are we going to address those problems or nah?
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Look at that little face. And those paws.
This is Boise. He’s wondering if you’ve seen the vet. Has successfully avoided them for the last hour and a half. 13/10 would help him hide
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Can’t let a sister have some shine. This goes along way towards helping “rehabilitate“ his image.
JUST IN: Bernie Sanders to deliver his own response to Trump's State of the Union address
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400 years of white male abuse of black girls and women is written in this image.
http://t.co/YfMYkOXqXR
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This is not justice. Once again the poor, black, and brown are disproportionately affected.
Louisiana can't afford to pay for jailhouse lawyers, so inmates are just pleading guilty
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Man mansplains The Handmaid‘s Tale to Margaret Atwood.
This is better than the time that dude tried to mansplain space to a female astronaut.
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Christian folk remember your privilege when scheduling meetings. Use an inclusive calendar. Don't schedule meetings on Yom Kippur or during the Jewish High Holidays. Letting an employee take off is important but no substitute for thoughtful inclusive planning.
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I don’t have to support any of Kamala Harris‘s former policies to be concerned about a white man jumping up into her face. His freedom to disrespect a black woman in a way that was physically threatening should concern us all.
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I don’t hate you. I just wish you would consider even a remedial theological education before attempting to speak for God. God can and does use the things that happened to us to transform us. But God who creates from nothing does not require trauma to make us who we will be.
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We have a domestic terrorism problem that is of no interest to our justice department or the executive branch of government.
The 21-year-old gunman who took over a SunTrust Bank in Florida made five women lie down on the floor before shooting them in the head. Police said there's no indication the gunman intended to rob the bank, nor is he connected to the victims.
#flapol
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They are already trying to frame
#AtatianaJefferson
for her own murder. They keep saying that there was a gun in the home. That is not illegal in Texas. But they will use it to justify the officer’s s fear.
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I am afraid for my country but I recognize my Muslim friends are afraid for their lives and the lives of their children.
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Let's be clear. The children they're talking about are migrant children. Brown children. Her 14 year old will not be working in a meat freezer. Her 16-year-old will not be working in a slaughterhouse. They are doing everything possible to get slavery back on the books.
Arkansas Gov. Sanders signs measure rolling back child labor protections
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The 14th amendment is apparently more of a suggestion while the second amendment was carved in stone on Mount Sinai.
EXCLUSIVE: President Trump plans to sign an executive order that would remove the right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born on U.S. soil.
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Tell me how the Northeast is a liberal paradise and how liberals are not racist.
Vermont's only black female lawmaker withdraws re-election bid after receiving racist threats:
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Today was not a “dark day.“ Today was a white day. One of the whitest days in American history.
#AmericanCoup
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This is important. We’ve come along way from a president who wouldn’t say HIV or AIDS.
This is the first time a presidential election victory speech has specifically mentioned the word "transgender" and made a commitment to us.
Joe Biden has got our back.
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Theologians are not biblical
scholars. A degree in
theology is not a degree in
biblical studies.
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The biblical writers have more imagination than their readers.
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SOTU isn’t cancelled. He can write a letter. He can give it from the Oval.
He can give it at the house.
He can tell it to a mouse.
He can give it in a hat.
He can show it to a cat.
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It is not an exaggeration to say this administration is killing people.
Transgender woman deported from US murdered in El Salvador
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👏🏾White 👏🏾peo👏🏾ple, 👏🏾please 👏🏾stop try👏🏾ing 👏🏾to 👏🏾clap 👏🏾your 👏🏾tweets 👏🏾if 👏🏾you 👏🏾don’t 👏🏾have 👏🏾the 👏🏾rhy👏🏾thm 👏🏾for 👏🏾it. 👏🏾We 👏🏾don’t 👏🏾clap 👏🏾af👏🏾ter 👏🏾e👏🏾ve👏🏾ry 👏🏾word.👏🏾☕️
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Y'all do know there was no New Testament or Bible in Jesus's time? The Hebrew Bible was still in formation.
#biblicalilliteracy
ain't cute.
.I think Christians should accept and adopt Jesus' view of the Bible. He regarded it as absolutely true and authoritative, in every word.
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She's weird. She keeps reading the bills and then casting her vote based on what's in the best interest of the people she represents.
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The imaginary left in your head is a construct. The actual "left" is a multi cultural, multinational, multi ethnic and multi religious community including Christians. Ain't nobody mad about Christian quarterbacks.
The Super Bowl will feature two openly CHRISTIAN Quarterbacks!!! The Left is losing their minds over it!!?!
I say PRAISE GOD!!!
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Stop calling these 13 and 14-year-old girls women.
Jane also filed a sworn declaration from Tiffany, who says Epstein employed her starting in 1991 “to get attractive adolescent women to attend these parties.”
Tiffany corroborates Jane’s story and claims to have “personally witnessed” the four encounters between Jane and Trump.
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Let me be an internet pastor for a moment: Listen to your body. Is it hurting? Shaking? Breath deeply. Go for a walk. Meditate. Write. Journal. Color. Paint. Cry. Pray. Soothe yourself with non-harmful coping mechanisms. Reach to folk if you're alone and that's hard for you.
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@Chilis
as a veteran I'm horrified by the treatment of one of our heroes. We're waiting for you to address this as publicly as the offense.
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My dad doesn’t have a birth certificate because they weren’t even counting Negroids in his part of Texas.
“Negroid” is on my parents’ birth certificates and they aren’t 60 yet.
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Mayor Pete’s faith is so important because so many people are being told that God hates them for who they are, or that they are not who they know themselves to be. It is not just his faith in God that matters. But the faith of the church in him and in his marriage.
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Even Texas said Nah son.
Y'all keep thinking that Florida is going to have then RNC.
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There were no evangelicals before the 20th century. I know a good Divinity School where you could learn some Christian history.
Tonight’s WH dinner is a celebration of the contribution of evangelicals to America. Without evangelicals there’d have been no American Revolution, no Abolitionist Movement, no Civil Rights movement, no Reagan Revolution. Honored to have been invited. God bless America.
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Here’s why I call it
#ReproductiveSlavery
: A man can rape a woman or a girl and legally force her to give birth and then in many cases sue for joint custody or visitation and insert himself into her life for the next 18 years. Abusive partners will do this.
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Hearing that the Waffle House terrorist was on Secret Service radar for breaking into White House grounds-and he had that rifle with him-reminds me of how many second chances these white boys get while what we get is murdered.
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Maybe Jesus wept because he knew he was going to bring Lazarus back into this broken world. Preacher at my great aunt ME’s funeral.
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Always timely. Now more than ever. Jose, Maria, y el niño.
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Get ready, get ready, get ready! (We're not quite ready for pre-orders. We just want to make you salivate.) May I introduce you to the Queen of Sheba?
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For sweet black baby Jesus‘s sake. The left is not discovering or rediscovering faith. It has always looked and functioned differently on us. And that includes the progressive portions of the black church. Your binaries don’t work because binaries don’t work.
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The site of Africans fleeing the United States for safe harbor in Canada has got me all twisted up inside. And the ancestors are weeping.
Here's Canadian Mounties greeting refugees from Somalia who walked across the border into Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS photo by Paul Chiasson
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We know better than to trust white women.
Having 71% of women in the United States pissed off at him does not bode well for Trump's future.
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Screaming! Just ran into
@rgay
at my hotel for lecture at Yale tomorrow. I was able to tell her how much I appreciate her work before I ran away. I never want to bother famous people.
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I’m glad that folk are discovering Black theology and Womanist biblical scholarship, but children, we been doing this for forty years or more.
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They were never "Bible believing." They weren't "literally following the Bible" because they don't know what it says. It's always been a white social club using the name of Jesus for political ends from slavery to segregation to abortion to Trxmp.
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They skipped the “thou shall not steal“ exhibit at their Bible museum.
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Really tired of folk presenting Buttigieg as the great white (male) hope of the Democratic Party while pretending that’s not why they’re ignoring the experience and policies of Castro, Harris, and Warren.
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I will never, ever understand anti-VAX nurses. 27% of hospital staff is huge. Why the resistance is nurses and other staff but not doctors raises the question the nature of nursing education and how the day to day doesn’t seem to reinforce the science aspect of the training.
"Lewis County General Hospital will stop delivering babies after September 24 because too many maternity unit workers have resigned over COVID vaccination mandates...165 hospital employees have yet to be vaccinated; that’s 27 percent of the workforce."
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I have come to appreciate Advent so much more without the light/dark binary. Rather, I see darkness as the generative space in which light is conceived and from which it is born. Both holy, both life-giving.
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White supremacists are responsible for the vast majority of terrorism related deaths in the United States and Canada. Period.
Here is Alexandre Bissonnette, French-Canadian alt-right/white supremacist terrorist who murdered six Muslim worshippers.
#QuebecShooting
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I pray:
Peace for the dead
Healing for the injured
Comfort for the grieving
Strength for the helpers
Justice and mercy for those who hurt and harm
Transformation for this often wretched world
Amen
JUST IN: Death toll rises to 190 after a series of explosions at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, according to an official with the Sri Lankan health ministry.
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Jesus said, “if your eye offends you, pluck it out.“ Even when not read literally, it places the onus on the viewer not the person they’re looking at.
Ladies, a priest I know was forced on Sunday to ask a woman at Mass to cover her shoulders. Please help the priest to protect the purity of the men at holy Mass by choosing to dress modestly. The alternative is awkward for all involved. Thank you.
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Pay Charlotte all the money.
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There really is no excuse to be this biblically illiterate.
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This is amazing. Beautiful.
Amazing time-lapse footage of a day in the life of a pair of pot plants. Plants are so much more active than we usually imagine! We don't notice, though, because they move in slow motion (or, from the plant's point of view, we move in crazy fast motion).
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Every seminary and divinity school needs a required course in Judaism. The lack thereof is active perpetuation of willful ignorance about a tradition and, more importantly, people, to which and to whom we have and continue to do significant harm.
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For many women those bags were gifts marking a significant achievement like a graduation and no different than receiving a good briefcase as they start their professional careers. For others it was a significant purchase from a first paycheck. Not worthy of ridicule.
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@hopefulskeptic1
Another false argument. Medical school, law school and other professional schools don't have discount options. Grad degrees are where the bulk of debt is. Teachers and social workers don't make enough to pay off state colleges.
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And this is a month after they begin serious shut down and stay at home protocols. Where will we be in a month. Consider also that this region is very small compared to the mass that is America.
BREAKING: Italy reported 793 deaths, the highest daily death toll for the country yet, marking nearly a 20% increase from Friday.
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White Christians can you just not colonize. Not Judaism, not yoga, not Native American spirituality. Just go back into your own ancestral caves to seek enlightenment.
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Sometimes you need to say it your damn self.
"Men liked to put me down as the best woman painter...I'm one of the best painters" - Georgia O'Keeffe
#womensart
(image by A. Stieglitz,1929)
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In this article about a female clergyperson being harassed the New York Times refuses to address her as Rev. but addresses her two male clergy colleagues by that title.
She Led a Famed Progressive Church. Then She Said She Was Harassed.
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Things that shouldn't need to be said to call-yourself-Christian twitter:
Jesus didn't write the Bible.
Jesus didn't write the Hebrew Bible.
(Or Greek First Testament.)
Jesus didn't write the New Testament.
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White fragility says these poor pastors had no idea they were being manipulated by the big bad president. Please, they signed up to worship at the feet of that idol. White supremacist Christianity is not being hoodwinked. It is celebrating its power, privilege, and access.
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I’m not normally in favor of dressing up animals but I might just make an exception for this cat.
When a cat is more stylish than you
📸 a_street_cat_named_benson | IG
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This is why I could appreciate but not celebrate the verdict even not knowing that she had been murdered. I knew that some black mother’s child would be.
Paula Bryant tells me her 16 year-old daughter Ma’Khia Bryant was an honor roll student and a sweet child. Ma’Khia was shot and killed by a
@ColumbusPolice
on Legion Lane at 4:30p today.
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In 2014/2015 I went to High Holiday services at Congregation Beth Israel. I was surprised Rabbi Charlie's Yom Kippur sermon was on Black Lives Matter b/c I looked around there were only 2 black Jews & me. His commitment for justice isn't limited to who is in his congregation.
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Some of us talk, teach, and preach about anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism regularly. But that doesn’t happen in enough spaces. And, we who are Christian are not doing enough to address the texts and language in our Scriptures that are, or heard as, anti-Semitic.
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"And the Word became flesh and took up residence among us." If the incarnation is true, then it is the greatest, most daring act of immigration in all of history: God crossing the border between heaven and earth, considered illegal by the imperial authorities. William P. Brown
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Folk who have a low view of Mary seem to have a low view of women.
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"Bible believing Christian" is shorthand for a specific subset of Christians and their interpretive practices. It does not mean they are literal readers no matter what they say -unless the VP thinks the world has four corners, sits on pillars and the hearing impaired have demons.
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Holding onto every bit of the good news. Every bit.
A massive congratulations to Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, the first Muslim women ever elected to Congress! ❤️✊🏾
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My ancestors did not escape and break the yoke of slavery so I could be enslaved in this generation because I am a woman.
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A beautiful image. Try to remember that God who triumphed over death created humans with memory, reason, & skill, including aptitude for physics & chemistry. It wasn’t hot enough to destroy the cross. Lovely, but neither magic nor miraculous. It can be explained by science.
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