F the Fairytales: Thoughts on Critical Race Theory
I've never been a big fan of fairytales. Not even as a kid. Seems my 6-year-old Anna feels the same way. She started watching Rapunzel...
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Rebecca Branle
- May 25, 2021
- 3 min
One Year. Too Many Years.
It's been one year. But it's also been hundreds of years. One year ago we watched George Floyd breathe his last breath, calling for his...
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Rebecca Branle
- Apr 24, 2021
- 2 min
Hate Has No Home Here
I wonder what you thought your little gift would do. Did you think it would scare us, or that we'd read it and say, "Man, this fella has...
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Rebecca Branle
- Mar 24, 2021
- 3 min
If God is Love, God is for Gun Control
I think, deep down, we all know what's right. And if we wonder, finding the answer is easy. Regardless of the God we pray to, or if we...
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Rebecca Branle
- Mar 16, 2021
- 2 min
The People We Create
We lost a lot in the last four years. We lost our people. Not just to COVID. Not to death. But to cruelty, their own cruelty that came...
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Rebecca Branle
- Jan 12, 2021
- 3 min
Time to Cash Out
Money makes the world go round. And it makes small people sell their souls, and their country, for more. More money, more power, more...
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Rebecca Branle
- Jan 9, 2021
- 2 min
He Showed Us Who He Was
When someone shows you who they are, believe them. I think that's what's been driving me mad for the last 4 years. He showed us who he...
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Rebecca Branle
- Oct 27, 2020
- 7 min
47 Years Prove him Worthy of Being 46
Our lives are living records. Every day, with every interaction, we leave behind evidence of our character. That evidence acts as clues,...
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Rebecca Branle
- Oct 11, 2020
- 3 min
You Forgot the Guys
If we just got rid of men, we could eliminate abortion. Sounds crazy, right? But it's true. Men are a part of this equation.
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Rebecca Branle
- Sep 30, 2020
- 5 min
Friends, That's Not Jesus You're Worshipping. That's Donald Trump.
I'm tired. But I want to be kind and I want to leave the door open, with a welcome mat, and I want to remind you that you can still walk...
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Rebecca Branle
- Sep 24, 2020
- 2 min
The Thing About Our Hearts...
On Cannon Hinnant, a 5-year-old white child murdered by his black neighbor, and used by racists to denounce a movement: Know what’s...
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Rebecca Branle
- Sep 24, 2020
- 5 min
Spit and Shit
On Saturday, Anna and I were outside playing. Or, truthfully, I was trying to have a rare phone conversation and Anna was following me...
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Rebecca Branle
- Sep 24, 2020
- 2 min
On Breonna Taylor
I keep wanting to stomp my feet and scream, "You're not seeing her. They're not seeing her." Breonna Taylor was young and beautiful and...
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Rebecca Branle
- Jun 5, 2020
- 2 min
The Bully and the Bible
I hope you saw it. I hope you saw the protestors on their knees. Peacefully. Hands up. I hope you saw the horses charge. The tear gas...
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Rebecca Branle
- Apr 26, 2020
- 6 min
maybe we're wrong about strong
Maybe strong isn't stoic. Maybe it isn't the chin up, chest forward, all-business kind of business we've been conditioned to believe....
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