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Continue reading →: Revolutionary Love (Part III)
In Parts I and II of this series, I’ve reflected on the meaning of Jesus’ exhortation to love as he did and what commitments this requires in the context of our communities. Now I want to explore what is probably the hardest of the Scriptural ideas about love to understand:…
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Continue reading →: Here we are again
Let’s start the year off right! Forget (most) everything you’ve read on this blog. It’s a new year, we’re in the middle of a pandemic, I’ve changed religions, political affiliations, and started (and stopped) writing for online blogs, joined and left political parties, made friends who are now family, and…
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Continue reading →: Birthday Reflections (Soft Relaunch)
Dear friends and comrades, Create, Don’t Kill is a blog I’ve attempted to maintain for a little over two years now. You can see through browsing the archives that I’ve been more successful at some times than at others. This past year has marked some important changes in my life,…
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Continue reading →: Queer Space Communism
One of my favourite franchise is Star Trek, a futuristic saga that tackles a variety of social issues such as racism, queerphobia, misogyny, war, etc… through allegory, time travel, and my favourite, depicting a society that no longer faces these issues at large. Unfortunately one of the weaker areas of…
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Continue reading →: Neither Broken Nor Crushed
This very succinctly explains my changing views on violence and pacifism, at the right time, in the right place. I am also reminded of Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) Rules of War: O people! I charge you with these rules; learn them well…for your guidance in the battlefield! *Permission to fight is…
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Continue reading →: Repost: Patheos Censoring Writers
The following is a repost from Gods & Radicals, a Pagan Anti-Capitalist Website. Originally found here. [repost] Read This Before Patheos Deletes it. The following is a repost of an essay deleted by Patheos Pagan detailing the changes they’ve made and their intention to censor their writers. The essay was…
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Continue reading →: “Which Chains”
This is a poem I wrote for Trans Day of Remembrance 2016, and also partially in response to the presidential election.
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Continue reading →: Learning and Serving through Interfaith Work
The following is derived from a blog post I wrote for my CFV internship this past winter-spring. The original is posted on their website, here. — This past Jan-April I had the pleasure to serve as the Interfaith Intern for the Center for Faith and Vocation at Butler University. For me…