March 2019 – Mary Elliott

Loved not Liked

I spent the day at a breathtakingly powerful seminar and workshop on racial justice. Ben McBride is a pastor and activist who spoke about his experience moving into the “kill zone” in Oakland with his wife and three children, his work training the Oakland Police Department on implicit racial bias, and joining thousands of protestors […]

Lent

This year for Lent I’m giving up online dating. This is not to be confused with giving up dating, which gives me bad PTSD flashbacks to my college years at the height of the Evangelical purity movement when I was surrounded by friends who “gave up dating for Lent so they could focus on God” […]