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    American Exceptionalism,  Black Lives Matter,  justice,  racism

    Black and White; Truth and Lies

    June 13, 2025 /

    Some seventeen years ago now a man I didn’t much know but with whom I sparred asked a question of me that changed the course of my life: “You do know that I’m Black?”

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    Shadows on the Wall

    July 15, 2021
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    essays,  faith,  justice

    When Words Fail

    December 12, 2019 /

    I was in a conversation recently where this question came up: “How do we influence people to change their minds and do things differently?” This question is dear to me because it speaks to my own conversion experience—no, not a religious conversion. My conversion was the realignment of my behaviors, connections, and beliefs with the values I already held. I’ve told my story elsewhere, but will summarize it here: I used to be solidly white-centered, and now, not so much— but given the context of living in the Pacific Northwest ten years ago, this was a radical, life-altering change. I know—as does anyone who has lived in the spaces that are…

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