God isn’t straight
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People love hearing coming out stories. People either assume that I met resistance from my family (I didn’t) or that I led a tortured childhood.
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Author Archives: Danielle Hilborn
But are they, y’know, gay?
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“Bless your heart” means so much more than its literal sentiment. On the surface it means just that, a blessing — but in reality, it is often used as a way to insult a person without technically speaking ill of them. That’s common in the South; there is always more
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For the Bible tells me so
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I was 7 years old, and same-sex intercourse was still illegal.
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Signs and wonders
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Sufjan Stevens takes the aspects of Christianity that hurt me the most — an unhealthy focus on death and brokenness — and confronts them.
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Bless her heart
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To borrow rhetoric from the Bible Belt itself: remove the plank from thine own eye first.
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Best roadtrip spots near Berkeley
Before we start, there’s an important thing you need to know about me: I am of the belief that anything can be a road trip. The road trip is in your heart, the rest is just details. Which is why I consider that time I missed my exit because I
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Coming out of my cage
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I am from Houston, Texas. At least, that is what I say on day one of discussion section whenever we go around making our introductions.
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