Reimagining Belonging by Julie Rodgers

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It has been too long and I’ve missed y’all. Writing here has felt like one of the few safe and nourishing places for me in my time online. We all opted…
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The last restaurant I worked at was a new oyster bar run by the group that owned several of Chicago’s most popular establishments. There’s a special…
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“I don’t want to raise good kids,” I remember the pastor saying. “I want to raise WARRIORS for Christ.” The pastor was in the middle of a rant about how…
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On Sunday, I gave Prince and Toby Kitty Xanax, loaded them into carriers, and road-tripped with them to New York, where we moved into a cute little…
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Hello and happy holiday week to each of you! I’m having a lot of fun exploring the possibilities of friendship and I’m thankful to get to share this…
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In my last newsletter, I asked if there might be a better way to structure our lives and loves—one that doesn’t revolve around the nuclear family. Queer…
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I’ve written before about the problems with our mainstream love story. The one where we graduate college, find “the one,” get married, buy a home, have…
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On a Zoom with queer folks last week, we chatted about the never-ending task of accepting other people’s disapproval of us. It started with our…
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The hardest part of writing a memoir, by far, is knowing you’re writing about other human beings who may or may not still be alive. You must consider…
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Happy October! I don’t know what your summer was like, but I’m feeling very proud and relieved to have simply made it through. The changing season…
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On the Southern Baptist Convention and the context in which we were formed
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We’re jumping back into your questions this week and I could not be more pumped about it. This is part of a series of family chats, where people from…
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