Structures of Interaction

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Rabah:                    I mean tonight …

Steph:                     Yes to all of the above. It’s … what do I want? I want to talk about whiteness and white fuckery, but I also want to talk about… What were we just talking about? We were just talking about … scheduling? About, Oh, coming up with dialogue, right?

Rabah:                    We were?

Steph:                     Yes. … Read more...

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Rev. Lindsey Peterson:

Welcome everyone.

Welcome everyone to Queer Faith. Welcome all of you.

Thank you so much for coming out tonight and for creating this Queer Faith community together. How many of you have been to Queer Faith before? And for how many of you is this your first time at Queer Faith? Great. That’s a good mix.… Read more...

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Steph: This is an excerpt from Permanent Record by Edward Snowden, beginning on page 175.

It was only later, long after I’d forgotten about the missing Inspector General report, that the classified version came skimming across my desktop, as if in proof of that old maxim that the best way to find something is to stop looking for it. … Read more...

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This is the preface to The Sacred Pipe, Black Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux.

Black Elk first became known to a wide range of readers in 1932 through John G. Neihardt’s Black Elk Speaks: The Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux. Neihardt’s poetic and sympathetic treatment of … Read more...

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Lindsey:

The image that I want you to let hang out there in the back of your mind as I preach from the Scripture is “the one who prostrates himself at Jesus.” So the image of down, of down, all the way down. Step on my coat. The image of all the way down. Then get up, go, your … Read more...

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The System.

I’m going to press pause here for a moment to explain something about my politics at age 22. I didn’t have any. Instead, like most young people, I had solid convictions that I refused to accept weren’t truly mine, but rather a contradictory cluster of inherited principles. My mind was a mashup of the values I was … Read more...

Interview with Daniela, Part 2 of 2.

Peace Rally, Thursday, October 3rd from 5:30-6:30 PM, at Donahue School

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Steph:                     Okay. So I’m going to read you this quote and then we’ll talk about it together. But it’s a quote by Edward Snowden. You know who Edward Snowden is?

Daniela:                No.

Steph:                     Edward Snowden is one of the most famous … Read more...

Interview with Daniela, Part 1 of 2.

Peace Rally, Thursday, October 3rd from 5:30-6:30 PM, at Donahue School

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Steph:                     Okay. We’re sitting in here on a Saturday afternoon at the Fiesta Cafe, downtown Holyoke. Is this downtown?

Daniela:                Yeah.

Steph:                     This is downtown.

Daniela:                Yeah.

Steph:                     Yeah. And you’re on the Student Advisory Council for the Holyoke High Schools?… Read more...

Part 3 of 3.

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Rev L Peterson:                  There’s a finiteness. It’s very clear in this Scripture from Luke today. There’s this reality of our actions and our inactions today yielding a future that has a finiteness to it, right? The rich man in this passage told by the gospel of Luke or the gospel of Polly who does an … Read more...

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Sam:                         I low key forgot what we were talking about.

Steph:                     So-

Lindsey:                 You forgot?

Sam:                         I low key forgot.

Steph:                     Low key-

Lindsey:                 You were like-

Steph:                     He low key forgot.

Lindsey:                 Low key.

Sam:                         Oh that’s one of our-

Lindsey:                 What’s a low key forget?

Sam:                         Grammar differences. Oh.

Steph:                     Well that means he sort of remembers … Read more...