Welcome to our dazzle of stripe-less zebras! Here we tell stories of belonging—finding it, losing it, making it, leaving the places you don’t belong, and ultimately being at home with your true self.

Will Selber is a retired Air Force officer who served multiple combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since retiring, he has worked to bring his Afghan colleagues to the US and help both them and returning American veterans adapt to life here. We talk about war and its aftermath and why “coming home is the hardest part.”

To support American and Afghan veterans, subscribe to Will’s substack or donate to Will’s organization Afghan American Veterans Alliance.

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Welcome to our dazzle of stripe-less zebras! Here we tell stories of belonging—finding it, losing it, making it, leaving the places you don’t belong, and ultimately being at home with your true self.

Author Cara Meredith and I talk about reckoning with and departing from white evangelicalism, a place she found community and a career for many years. She is the author of two beautiful books. The Color of Life: A Journey Toward Love and Racial Justice is about her coming to grips with race in America through her love for her husband, the son of civil rights icon James Meredith. And her new book, Church Camp: Bad Skits, Cry Night, and How White Evangelicalism Betrayed a Generation, is a excavation of the culture and theology of of evangelicalism through the programmatic week of the church camps that Cara spent decades attending, as a camper and a staffer.

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Welcome to our dazzle of stripe-less zebras! Here we tell stories of belonging—finding it, losing it, making it, leaving the places you don’t belong, and ultimately being at home with your true self.

My friend Robin Lowenthal went to college to become a journalist, but couldn’t shake a feeling of wanting to be more useful in the world. So at the age of 30, she completely started over, going back school to become a medical doctor. She’s worked all over the world and currently works for Indian Health Services for the Navajo Nation. Here’s her story of departing from your original plan and following your gut.

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Welcome to our dazzle of stripe-less zebras! Here we tell stories of belonging—finding it, losing it, making it, leaving the places you don’t belong, and ultimately being at home with your true self.

Here I talk to two of my personal heroes, siblings Richard Darr and Dianne Darr Couts. They endured horrific abuse from their parents’ fellow evangelical missionaries growing up in what is now Mali in the 1950s and 1960s. They have since become advocates for missionary kids, relentlessly exposing mission field abuse and pressing mission organizations to reckon with it. They tell their compelling stories, and then we talk about how white evangelical theology helps explain how this culture continues to foster and ignore abuse—and why so many white evangelicals support an abusive President of the United States.

To learn more, you can read Dianne’s memoir,

Watch the documentary All God’s Children about Mamou Academy,

And learn more about/support MK Safety Net.

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Welcome to my new podcast! Here we tell stories of belonging—finding it, losing it, making it—leaving the places you don’t belong, and ultimately being at home with your true self.

You’re going to be fascinated and inspired by my first guest, Katsiaryna Shmatsina, a Belarusian journalist who was forced to flee her country in 2020 under threat of arrest. She was subsequently tried in absentia and without evidence for trying to overthrow the government. She shares what it was like growing up in an authoritarian regime, becoming a dissident, and living a life without country. This lady is definitely a Zebra Without Stripes, her own amazing person who has forged community on the move around cherished ideals and the courage to fight for them.

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