Several years after being baptized at the age of 14, I prayerfully chose a small Christian college to pursue my degree. There, I began to struggle with my faith. Try as I might, I couldn’t unquestioningly accept my college culture’s indoctrination. I couldn’t successfully initiate conversation or debate when I encountered a doctrinal point in…
Month: October 2019
Where I’m from
I came across this NPR poetry project recently and decided to undertake it with my students when the time came to write poetry. NPR’s collaborative poem effort was inspired by this gem by George Ella Lyon, after which I modeled my own version in order to demonstrate for my students what they’d be doing. I…