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Stephanie Siewert's avatar

“I woke up one day thinking that if I had to be wrong in one direction, I wanted to be wrong in the direction of love and inclusion.” Love and respect for the inherent worth and dignity of every being is my guiding star, too. Thank you for raising these vital questions. I’m grateful that we all have the capacity to grow and change and enlarge our perspective and circle of care. Tenderness, curiosity, honest conversations and deep listening play big parts in sparking change.

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Laura's avatar

Shout-out to a fellow church kid with incredibly BORING testimony! It really bothered me that I basically had nothing to say. And yet here we are now on the outside, more or less, where those I knew then would be horrified by my "fall from grace."

I'm obviously very late reading this. The election is over. It feels like the worst has happened, but there's no denying things are about to get much, much worse. Yet your piece about how minutes can change still refreshed me.

Onward and upward, I guess. May genuine relationships, gentle conversations, and fierce love ripple through this nation and the world. The darkness is great, and likely to grow darker, but the glimmers of light may yet grow stronger, for change is always possible.

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