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Thoughts on Gender

Thoughts on Gender

Over the course of the past year, participating in book clubs at my local library, one of the things that came up was video conferencing etiquette around pronouns. One of the moderators asked us to state our gender pronouns at the beginning of the call. I went with it that first time, but I felt really uncomfortable about it.

Three Unrelated Books

Three Unrelated Books

It’s that time again, where there are three books sitting next to my laptop, waiting to be shared, but they have nothing in common.

Come along! There is fiction, nonfiction, and beautifully illustrated science, coming right up.

How to be a Good Neighbor

How to be a Good Neighbor

Most people have heard the line from the Bible about loving your neighbor as yourself. If you don’t know the rest of the story, in the biblical context, everyone is your neighbor.

Here are three good books unified around a theme of neighbors and how we treat ours. These books contain big T truth – the Truth that comes through in any medium where there is space for it to dwell.

Light Reading

Light Reading

I’ve been posting about a lot of heavy books lately, because they are good and important. This post is a quick little pop-up advertisement for two books that are just for fun.

White Exceptionalism

White Exceptionalism

This month’s antiracism title was Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor, by Layla F. Saad.

The chapter was “You and White Exceptionalism,” and I might be its poster child.