Sublime

Henry shifted the pastoral identity from learned, serious professional to your beloved uncle. The point was no longer to show your difference but to show your sameness—living at the very same speed.

Unless my spirituality is intersectional, it’s just oppression dressed in light.

Jews-by-choice also bring with them a unique passion for Judaism. Many speak of “falling in love” with Judaism for a variety of reasons: because it invites them to wrestle with God, because it identifies the home as a sanctuary, because Judaism is inseparable from a call to social justice. For born-Jews whose Jewish education and connection stopped

I’d spent my life waiting for people to reach their place of comfort with my disability so that they’d forget about it and then I could be seen. Of course, I’d succeeded only in erasing a part of myself.

story to paint womankind as “second in creation, and first to sin.” That tagline brands our culture—it’s our DNA, it informs our daily lives, it lives in our bodies.