A Label I’m Learning to Embrace
I’m not made in the image of a phone. But I do believe I’m made in the image of a loving God, who respects people as people, and objects as objects. And never shall the twain meet.
Tag Archives: identity
Power Reveals
In February 1st, 1933, two days after Hitler’s election as chancellor of Germany, a young theologian gave a radio address on the theme of leadership in Berlin. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was […]
Mirror Image
“Please help. Who am I?” Tomorrow I’m catching up with Sarah, and I care so much about her. If it plays out as it has every other time we’ve conversed […]
Tell Me A Story About Who I Am
Who am I? Who are you? Who are we? What is that makes “us” a “we?” Some combination of these questions is nearly always whirring around in the background of […]
Marilyn Monroe’s Dream
Marilyn Monroe had a disturbing dream in 1955. She recollects in fragmented sentences how her psychoanalyst and her acting teacher had her in an operation room, and started to open […]
Dancing Hula-Hula in Tahiti
In an 1867 play called Peer Gynt, Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen expresses what would become one of the fundamental dogmas of modern, and even more post-modern, humanism: “What should a man be? […]
The Gym and Pool Party Complex
Have you been to the gym or pool recently? It’s summertime here in the Northern Hemisphere, and my guess is that you or someone you know has spent time in […]
“Here Lived a Great Street Sweeper…”
I’ve got two questions I’m going to ask you. Here’s the first one: “So, what do you do?” This is one of those standard questions we get asked when we […]
Girls and Women
A recent New York Times piece, Cultural Studies: The Playground Gets Even Tougher, examines an increasing trend toward bullying among very young girls: kindergarteners and first-graders. The article looks at, among […]
Wondering Fair 