General Spirituality
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On New Ways of Living
One of my personal mentors, Richard Rohr, OFM, once said something that had a truly powerful impact on my life and work. He pointed out that “We do not think ourselves into new ways of living; we live ourselves into new ways of thinking…” Far too often, I think we have been conditioned into believing
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Rejecting Institutional Religion Isn’t Difficult to Comprehend
Your Support of Patriarchal Manipulation Is What’s Hard to Understand One thing I’ve found over the years of serving as a spiritual teacher and author is that there is nothing that gets the panties of those involved in the leadership of institutional religion twisted into knots faster than confronting them with historical facts, scrutiny and
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Serving Our Community
Ensuring those in marginalised and underserved parts of our community get access and care Every month, I hear the stories of people who are struggling to find their way back from trauma, from abuse, from isolation and anxiety. They live in a world where they don’t feel included or accepted, but are still expected to
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Why Conservatives Vilify Us
Listening to a morbidly obese, petulant, racist — a convicted felon and sexual predator who is as incapable of empathy, intellectual curiosity and rational thought as he is preventing himself from shitting his foul diaper — ranting at the global community, gathered at the United Nations assembly yesterday was sickening. Donald J. Trump — the
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My response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk
…and the barrage of virtue-signaling going on in its wake Charlie Kirk once notably said, “Some gun deaths are unfortunately worth it to keep the Second Amendment.” I’m sure, like so many of his ilk, he thought his white privilege, his obnoxious White Christian Nationalist fascism and his unyielding support of the fetid orange and
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Opening Our Minds to Other Perspectives
Truly-Queer Resilience doesn’t need to invalidate others, just because they don’t understand us Writing in an article on the Queer AF website, Freddy McConnell recently noted of the impact the anti-trans ruling by the UK’s Supreme Court: “Our lives are this queasy clash of realities: the normalcy of our everyday vs the waking nightmare of staring,