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Week 8 Reflections
Week 8 is the last week of the "I Am" statements!

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Lent 2020 Book Discussion
This year's book is, "Mudhouse Sabbath" by Lauren F. Winner.

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What If You Resolved to Let Something Go Rather Than Add Something This New Year?
On New Year’s Day, just as I was debating possible New Year’s resolutions, I received an email that inspired me to toss most of my ideas...

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A Walk to the Future
We are living under unprecedented levels of division, trauma, and declining levels of mental health. In my dozen plus years of being a...

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Week 2 Reflections
Week 2 reflections from GBC 2020 on the "I Ams"

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Regarding Relationships: When Saving Your Life Means Letting Go
A few years ago during this Epiphany-tide, I set off on a solo pilgrimage and spiritual retreat. I was going through a season of death...

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Eating Off Fine China
We have a problem in the Western world, an addiction to busyness. One job isn’t enough, we must have a “side hustle,” our kids must be...

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Holding On to Dead Leaves
For the month of January, we will be thinking about what it means to rest, feel renewal, and let things fall away. I find this especially...

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When I Learned I Was White
April tells stories of when she learned, as a child, that being white was also a thing - and wonders, with Tomi, about the lies of whiteness

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Cross-Pollinating, Beekeeping, Spirituality, and Community
This special episode comes from the feed of the podcast Coffee Hour at the Commons. The Rev. Dr. Hillary is the Rector...

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Have Questions? Yoga Philosophy Has Answers
We are all students in life and hopefully always will be. Some of you, like me, are yoga teachers and may even be teaching yoga philosophy..

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American African
In "American African" Tomi talks about the power and function of accents and how they were important to telling Tomi not only who she was...

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Creating Seismic Life Shifts with Yoga Philosophy
I first found my way onto a yoga mat during a very discontented time. In an odd way, I felt like I was trapped in someone else’s life...

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I May Leave the Church but I'll Never Leave Amy Grant
In this episode we are joined by guest Dr. Lou Himes, a psychologist who specializes in gender identity...

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Harp, Banjo, Gender, and Spirit
What do you think of when you think of the harp? Let me guess - angels. In this episode, April unpacks what it meant for her to be raised...

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Foreign, or Nyctophobia in Twelve Parts
In "Foreign or Nyctophobia in Twelve Parts" Tomi tells a story about "being scared of the dark." A routine walk around her neighborhood...

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Prosperity Gospel in the Hospital Room
“I am blessed! I am so blessed! I have joy in my heart! We have to shame the enemy, shame the devil!” A middle-aged African-American woman..

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Dear Honorable Senators
Dear Honorable Senators, on behalf of The Hive, a wellness and spirituality community that supports women as we grow in our faith and well

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you can’t color your sister
Poem by Oluwatomisin Oredein my nephew told my sister that his unborn sister will be white. told, not asked. I was on the phone with...

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