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The world is burning
This weekend sucked ash. Amid numerous forest fires around Colorado, a new one started right near my apartment. The Calwood fire was...
Beth Elliot
Oct 19, 20202 min read


Older. Wiser? Maybe, but definitely happier.
It was my birthday this week. In our family we celebrate birthdays for as many days as we are old, so I get 49 days of birthday...
Beth Elliot
Oct 17, 20201 min read


Week Five
I just want to state that today I feel 80% female and 20% squiggle. (Trans 101) Schulman points out that the “false privatization of...
Beth Elliot
Oct 14, 20203 min read


Week Four
I share the perspective that oppression “designates the disadvantage and injustice some people suffer not because of a tyrannical...
Beth Elliot
Oct 7, 20203 min read


Anchorite
In seminary, we have been reading about Julian of Norwich. Her brush with death and subsequent ability to turn that into a lens of...
Beth Elliot
Oct 5, 20201 min read


Reserved for Crackpots
I have several concerns about attending seminary. First, I am not Christian. I have not picked up a bible since taking a humanities...
Beth Elliot
Sep 30, 20201 min read


Week Three
The term “intersectionality” was coined by professor Kimberlé Crenshaw (Links to an external site.). Intersectionality recognizes that...
Beth Elliot
Sep 30, 20203 min read


Week Two
Community, for me, is based in covenant. Covenant, in this case, comes from the more secular perspective, using the Latin meaning "come...
Beth Elliot
Sep 23, 20203 min read


Screw your courage to the sticking place
The spring and summer have been a flurry of protests with all new places and faces. I am expanding my courage with experiences like...
Beth Elliot
Sep 16, 20201 min read


Covenant
There is not much that I have not done during my time as Director of Congregational Life at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder....
Beth Elliot
Sep 16, 20202 min read


Week One
NOTE: entries that are labeled by Week # are based in the weekly materials, discussions, and written assignments from the course,...
Beth Elliot
Sep 16, 20202 min read


A new beginning...
This year had been filled with massive change. After losing the love of my life, I left behind my lovely life in New Mexico. My daughter...
Beth Elliot
Sep 1, 20202 min read
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