Longing for What’s No Longer Yours After spending three years in my last apartment, I moved this past weekend. I spent the last few weeks in my old place excitedly daydreaming and planning. Planning on switching out fixtures, on simplifying my furniture, and streamlining my future orders. Yet there were…

I thought I’d had enough with churchy people but was chided when stating this because I am, in fact, a churchy person having been a part of religious bodies my entire life. Only, the genre of churchy I’m done with has some specifics. Hashtag-You-to-Heaven Churchy Folk I won’t debate that…

What I’ve gleaned five seasons later — The Importance of Healthy Love Stories In a world where romantic fantasy overwhelms, Insecure underlines the truth of accepting the process of love rather than romanticizing an idyllic, idolized ending. From the series we learn that healthy love stories do look like breakups. They look like changed plans and minds. …

Through a Simple Yet Transformative Habit — In the same way we become better speakers by listening, better runners by walking, and better leaders by following, the key to improving our writing rests in our reading life. As soon as I started working in a library I realized how much I didn’t read. Watching my Librarian co-workers…

God so loves that He allows us to choose — Sometime after the beginning, YHWH took a rib from Adam and used it to fashion Eve and that holy surgery never happened again. It was an exclusive, new-people-on-Earth-only event. But finding someone who completes you is so universally craved and felt that people began to call their partners their missing…

Maverick City and the Trend of “Uncut” Worship Experiences — At first listen to Maverick City Worship I thought, finally. A worship experience that feels real. That’s why, years back, when a pastor & worship leader mentioned that Mav City’s production choices didn’t sit well with him I scrunched my face up. …

Here I am, cringing in a repressed Evangelical memory I was fifteen when I got “married” to Christ. The thought alone brings a sour taste to my mouth. My church adopted a “True Love Will Wait” course spanning several weeks with topics including the mechanics of sex, where exactly pee…

A Christian Perspective on Anxiety, Worry, and Fear This peice was originally edited & recited at Awaken Chicago Church in Chicago, Illinois on November 7th, 2021. Being from Miami, Florida I am no stranger to hurricane season. The season typically starts off with tropical storms that ramp up in severity…

Stop assuming we’re always upset about something It doesn’t sit right with me that Black women so often have to seem happy, jovial, and humming some tune about Pharaoh letting the Israelites go. It perpetuates a lie and racist social expectation that Black women have got two acceptable modes: making…