by theRevCK | Jul 31, 2022 | Current Events & Culture
My friend choked on the words as she leaned in to repeat them across appetizer plates and pint glasses dripping with condensation. “Eww. Why do you have a mustache?” Hamburger Mary’s had been loud with music and our laughter a moment ago, but I saw my friend’s...
by theRevCK | Sep 30, 2021 | Current Events & Culture, Reflection, Well...
I have unofficially studied the body my entire life: from childhood observations of my mother’s midwife visits to rural Amish and Mennonite families to a youthful fascination with the surgical nursing magazines that arrived at our home. Half of my family works mending...
by theRevCK | May 30, 2020 | Current Events & Culture, Reflection
Consider this a big hairy asterisk and caveat to my previous love note to the hallowed 4th Estate. The media have never done black people any favors. Reading James Cone’s The Cross and the Lynching Tree earlier this year, the journalist in me cringed as Cone...
by theRevCK | Apr 11, 2020 | Current Events & Culture, Reflection
The first time I got laid off, I ran to a bathroom to cry. I am quoted in a trade magazine sniveling something about, “but I really thought we were doing good work, producing something valuable.” (For the record, the image of me crying in the ladies room was exactly...
by theRevCK | Mar 28, 2020 | Current Events & Culture, Reflection, Well...
It’s impossible – in the middle of a pandemic – not to notice how often the sacred texts of my religion reference healing. In the stories and psalms of my prayers these past few weeks, I can’t avoid words of healing: One psalm sings of the One who “heals all our...
by theRevCK | Aug 11, 2018 | Current Events & Culture, Reflection
Journalists are equal parts cynic and rabid patriot. Most own a well-worn pocket Constitution. Ask them. I bet they’ll be able to tell you right where it sits on a shelf or in a drawer. They’ll have the First Amendment memorized and are liable to recite it...
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