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    • Obliviously linked in.
    • Menstrual Man
    • TLC Biopic: Will you see it?
    • Acclaim/ abstain
    • Nothing compares to truth.
    • Shut it down.
    • "Brown", Black & White
    • I'm starting to miss those cicadas.
    • Please stop your proselytizing.
    • Throwback Thursday: Early 90s Fashion Edition
    • Please land your helicopters, parents.
    • Remembering 9-11.
    • How to twerk.
    • Miles of memes of Miley.
    • 'Tis they who endured.
    • Billy Ray, go get your daughter.
    • The Church of Apple
    • Life in pre-set.
    • Why do we wear clothes?
    • The terror of ambiguity.
    • "You are not Trayvon Martin"
    • WTH?!?
    • On the 4th.
    • It's a Barbie World.
    • The Real Mad Men
    • Unpatriotic, jerky fail.
    • Not so radical notions of Feminists.
    • On Paula Deen & the N-word.
    • America's Worst Charities
    • Their stories.
    • The Windowfarms Project
    • Retro Reports: From Crack Babies to Y2K
    • How MySpace lives on (in more than our memories).
    • An 11 Year Old & His 3D Printer
    • ME-llennials
    • Awww!
    • Gotta thank the Lord? Um, not so much.
    • Purity punditry.
    • Our government, at work.
    • Making me Blue.
    • Not "Today"
    • The Good Wife
    • Some more on gay marriage from Christian bloggers...
    • Equipped.
    • Speaking of Lecrae...
    • ... and on the other end of the Hip Hop spectrum...
    • It's a good thing God forgives.
    • The Bell is ringing.
    • Ways you can fight modern-day slavery
    • This is OK?!?
    • The snack trap.
    • Transforming Blight into Beauty
    • Slouching towards WWIII
    • Namaste.
    • Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
    • Oh, my, god. Becky, look at her butt.
    • Take me to another place.
    • Breaking news: Beyonce is sexy.
    • Uganda: Levitical laws and moonshine
    • Welcome to the jungle.
    • When praying the gay away won't take.
    • Who needs a back-up hard drive?
    • Stupid.
    • Freedom + love= justice.
    • Unintended consequences.
    • Behind the bars.
    • Women in combat.
    • Yet, more creepy monstrosity...
    • Here be monsters, indeed.
    • "One" bad poem and one good essay.
    • Lupe's looping anti-war rap; Rapper kills "F&L2" and his Twitter
    • Post script.
    • Imitation of life.
    • She's sexy and he knows it.
    • "The Notebook" Director Says Incest is Okay
    • On that crappy Youtube trailer, the violence across the Middle East & more.
    • If we have a war on women, this is Armageddon.
    • Ripping up the brown paper bag.
    • Vitriol & Va-jay-jays
    • "Mail Mary"- The Daily Show Takes on "Mother Teresa Stamp" Opposition
    • Forgetting Haiti
    • Honey Boo! Boooo!
    • Greetings from (soon-to-be-stormy) New Jersey
    • Surviving Sandy
    • Hurricane Sandy & Election Day
    • My E-addiction
    • The Pleasure Principle
    • Relax, Relate, Release
    • School's In
    • The Greatest Hip Hop Song of all time is...
    • Instascammed
    • Marty over the Mayans.
    • Why the world didn't end.
    • Are we in the matrix?
    • All I want for Christmas is...
    • Interviewing kids in a tragedy... for what?
    • True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.*
    • Be My Guest: Redefining Tolerance
    • To those who made us (briefly) look.
    • God made him do it, and other fails
    • Innocents Loss
    • You'll shoot your eye out, Kid
    • Do you remember the Black Bart Simpson
    • Of snips, snails and/or sugar and spice
    • Holidazed
    • Requiem for New Millennial Craptastic Trends
  • Religion & Politics
    • Sexy Gospel Body & Soul
    • It's that time of year again...
    • "And what I loved most, she had so much soul"
    • Yeezus!
    • St. Therese
    • Too much gruel.
    • NALT of the world.
    • Gag.
    • Shoot, darn, mudderflubber.
    • Kirk Cameron on The Problem of Evil
    • #DopeFrancis
    • Health, Illness & Faith
    • Make Me A Muslim?
    • To My Muslim Readers...
    • And they made God in their image.
    • Everything she knows about racism, she learned at church.
    • The Topsy-turvy media coverage of Reza Aslan
    • Albert Mohler on Pope Francis' "Who Am I to Judge"
    • Well, this is something.
    • "Interview" Fail: Fox News & Reza Aslan
    • Street Fighter: Pentecostal Church Edition
    • There's only one royal baby...
    • Getting "High".
    • Evangelical adoption nightmares.
    • Call 2 Fail.
    • Going on Gomorrah?
    • Skywiring for Jesus
    • Hank Hill on Christian Rock
    • She's Gay, but Catholic. And celibate.
    • Master of your domain.
    • Kirk Franklin Runs Afoul of Gay Rights Activists
    • Pesky Piskie Problems
    • Follow the Piper (on Twitter)?
    • Worse. Hermeneutics. Ever.
    • So you want to start a church?
    • Stuff Christians Say
    • A little more...
    • Out of bound(arie)s.
    • Tortured for Christ.
    • Offended by Christ?
    • Ahh, real monsters.
    • True or false.
    • Christians & tattoos.
    • What type of Christian are you?
    • Joe played me. So I played movies.
    • A train wreck.
    • Boycott Starbucks? Nah.
    • On Jeremiah 29:11
    • It's not over...
    • Marco Rubio & that modern day poet, Jay-Z.
    • Rob Bell comes out for Gay Marriage.
    • Harassed!
    • Hiding evil.
    • Jesus is not coming soon
    • Another view of gay civil unions... from Christians.
    • Buried in bulletins.
    • Church (and temple and mosque) hopping.
    • The Calling of Delight
    • Are megachurches going the way of CDs?
    • DJesus Uncrossed
    • Huh?
    • Galileo on God
    • In the Church of Scientology
    • Pope to resign at end of month
    • Saintly snark.
    • Entrap and escape
    • Kill shots.
    • Jesus? Please.
    • Revisionaries
    • Speaking of incarceration...
    • Should he have used the Koran?
    • What makes art religious?
    • That dang problem of evil.
    • Not Christian, yet Christ-like.
    • A little more about the Syrophoenician woman
    • Where are the men?
    • I walk the line.
    • The Next Christians
    • Are Black Pastors advising their flocks not to vote?
    • Feast of the Little Flower
    • Esther: Heroine or Harlot?
    • Christian Music suckage.
    • Pro-Dialogue
    • Pulpit Free
    • Trashing Dash
    • THE Debate of 2012
    • Keeping women in "our place".
    • All about elections. Okay, not "all".
    • No, there's no way anyone can see racism here.
    • The decline of the Black Church.
    • If There Was No Resurrection, We'd Have No Faith
    • Happy Palm Sunday
    • Want to know why I don't support either party?
    • All Souls & Sandy
    • The Crisis of Blue
    • Her Story: I Went on a Missions Trip to India
    • Waiting for His coming. Or Advent.
    • "Jesus is my Boyfriend" songs, or another post on Christian music
    • Footprints, drag marks, it's all good
    • Aiming at Heaven and getting Earth thrown in
    • Splits & Schisms
    • I am the Daria of Christians.
    • Be My Guest: The Poverty of The Prosperity Gospel
    • Five Things I Hate About Us: An Open Letter
  • Relationships
    • Speaking of Aja...
    • Who could ask for anything more?
    • Bad mom.
    • Kids? No thanks.
    • un-Holy Wedlease
    • Lifetime of Love
    • A healthy baby?
    • Christians aren't called to have amazing sex. (Sorry Mark Driscoll.)
    • The Baby Cage.
    • On Father's Day.
    • My Baby Love
    • "Do you trust me?"
    • A Permanent Love Affair
    • "My Little Miracle: Abby"
    • Living out a Christian marriage.
    • Purity and perfection.
    • A father-daughter dance... in prison.
    • Digging for roots.
    • Blog Repost: Single & Committed: The Ever Rising Phoenix
    • A Christ-Centered Proposal
    • Relationship meme fail.
    • Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda
    • Circles, Squares & Me
    • For Girls who Consider Divorce When the Rainbow is Not Shiny Enough
    • Get Hitched or Die Tryin'
    • Climbing out of the Bog.
    • What Happened to Miss Independent? She Became Mrs. De Freitas!
  • Some Saturday Stuff: November 9th.
  • Daddy-Daughter love.
  • Some Saturday Stuff: November 2nd.
  • I can't be your life lesson.
  • Somewhereinamerica
  • Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away.
  • On the fifth.
  • Kiss the sky.
  • Some Saturday Stuff- October 19th.
  • Highbow happy birthdays.
  • I'm okay!
  • Modern Art or Toddler Paintings?
  • Some Saturday Stuff: September 28th.
  • Keeping busy.
  • Some Saturday Stuff: September 14th.
  • My toilet mood and Orange is the new "Blue".
  • i left my heart in Virginia.
  • Some Saturday Stuff- August 31st.
  • The late, great Action Park.
  • Vacay in V-A.
  • I heart Lenny.
  • Some Saturday Stuff: August 24th.
  • This happened.
  • A weekend away.
  • Some Saturday Stuff: August 10th.
  • Some Saturday Stuff: August 3rd.
  • Creatives Space: Matt Appling
  • Some Saturday Stuff: July 27th.
  • Me and Bruce Wayne, Baby.
  • Clouds painted in the sky.
  • Happy Birthday, Zoe!
  • The De Freitas Family Art.
  • Some Saturday Stuff- July 20th.
  • Permapain.
  • Creatives Space: Ilaf S.
  • More Perfect.
  • Some Saturday Stuff- July 13th.
  • Ultra Real Art
  • Humph.
  • Some Saturday Stuff- July 6th
  • Stars, stripes and saints.
  • Creatives Space: Maria G.
  • Watch the throne.
  • Lonely games lost against you.
  • Amen and pass the lentils.
  • I like the sunrise. Even behind these clouds.
  • Some Saturday Stuff- June 29th.
  • All the world is a stage. Or canvas.
  • Zoe was here.
  • Creatives Space: April Joy
  • Happy Anniversary, K.
  • Brick City Blues
  • Some Saturday Stuff- June 22nd.
  • Creatives Space: Jamila Tazewell
  • Some Saturday Stuff- June 15th.
  • "life isn't always a fairytale."
  • "Long Hair", Don't Care
  • Some Saturday Stuff- June 8th
  • This is my confession: I'm a Preacher's Kid, too.
  • 11 AM, Tropicana, 6/6/08
  • Some Saturday Stuff- June 1st.
  • Painting.
  • Memorial Day Weekend
  • Some Saturday Stuff- May 25th.
  • Pelo Malo.
  • Some Coltrane & Rain.
  • Disqus Disgust
  • Holla Holla!
  • Six months.
  • Some Saturday Stuff- May 18th.
  • I am officially a hater.
  • This little light of mine.
  • Yucky!
  • Some Saturday Stuff- May 11th.
  • What dreams may come.
  • Procafinating.
  • Look at this photograph.
  • But they really exist!
  • Behind My Lens: MJ Mearns
  • She's got a bouquet.
  • Some Saturday Stuff- May 4th.
  • Snot and tears and heaving chest.
  • Where is the Love?
  • Praise Report: AJ is OK!
  • Welcome to the world, Dawson Tyler!
  • Reaping.
  • Some Saturday Stuff- April 27th.
  • True Life: Having a Newborn Changed My Hair Routine
  • A Servant's Heart
  • Prayer Request Update: Abigail Joy
  • Of surgeries and ads.
  • For the love of books.
  • Art does not need...
  • Prayer Request: Abigail Joy
  • "Ruthie Leming" & Lemon poppy seed muffins
  • Some Saturday Stuff- April 20th
  • Life with "Art"
  • Some Saturday stuff- April 13th.
  • And I...
  • Well, this is a first.
  • Sing about me.
  • Twenty Questions: Mad Men
  • Some Saturday stuff.
  • Music you should hear: Madeleine Peyroux
  • Death, no more
  • Easter Hope.
  • Sweet Communion
  • Overcoming the "Dark Knight"
  • Inorganic life.
  • History of Rap, as performed by Jimmy & Justin
  • I bind unto myself today.
  • Declaring God's Glory through Nature
  • That's right ladies: "saved through childbirth".
  • Harlem Shake: Peanuts edition.
  • Engraved on His palms...
  • Music you should hear: The Arrows
  • Healing art
  • Lenten Update #2
  • People (and episodes) stack so well.
  • Who do you say I am?
  • In ink.
  • How cool is Cory Booker?
  • 11:11 Perfection
  • Legalism? Nah, it's just liturgy.
  • NKOTB, BSB, NSYNC...ROTFL!
  • Lenten Update: #1
  • Pictures from Senegal
  • Poetic Motion
  • To my K...
  • Music you should hear: The xx
  • Mardi, puis Mercredi
  • The cure for Hipster!
  • Shouting in a Black church.
  • Lilies, Mary & the cross.
  • He's ruined me through and through.
  • Freezing floors bring gratitude.
  • Getting ready for Nemo & Carni-gras
  • Arts & Akoma Crafts.
  • Pain & Painting
  • The Enduring Wisdom of Wisdom
  • Her Story: Photo Teen
  • My birthday & imago dei.
  • I'm so BOLD
  • Before the ashes...
  • Fog & tea.
  • Like water for wisdom.
  • Music you should hear: Milo & Otis
  • All better!
  • So your man doesn't like your natural hair?
  • I'm seriously considering deactivating my Facebook.
  • i should've had the shot of rum, too.
  • I don't normally see talking bunnies and puppies, either.
  • Who's afraid of Zoe Lyne Hope?
  • Two months.
  • A chip off the block.
  • All the things left unsaid.
  • The historical scourge of pinball.
  • An addendum to the "pursuit".
  • The Pursuit of H̶a̶p̶p̶i̶n̶e̶s̶s̶ Meaning
  • Spilled Milk
  • I got a shout out!
  • On being a world explorer...
  • Zoe's First Tweet
  • If you came here from Mark Shea's blog...
  • Romancing the ordinary.
  • A totally awesome life lesson via "The Simpsons".
  • Romancing the extraordinary.
  • Welcome to East of Eden!
  • Haha!
  • Friday Funny
  • When the thorn remains.
  • Why are people such jerks?
  • This Is No Small Wonder
  • My increasing irrelevancy.
  • Mimicking the mainstream. Music as background patina
  • Author Interview: Angelica Perez
  • We survived Sandy.
  • Clark Kent, Blogger
  • Requiescat in pace, Beautiful Baby
  • Aren't sonograms amazing?
  • Invader Z(oe)
  • Deep roots.
  • No, our one year old daughter does not have sexy eyes.
  • A caffeinated toast to the world not ending.
  • Twilight & butterflies.
  • A closer look at the wounds of the Wet Bandits.
  • Merry Christmas from Linus (and me).
  • This Christmas.
  • My nose is big, uh-uh, I'm not ashamed.
  • "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage."
  • Walking Through The Valley of the Shadow
  • A Requiem Before The Sepia Stain
  • When the bough breaks...
  • Requiescat in pace, Brittany Jeffers
  • Your brain on video games
  • I fight sins not tragedies.
  • To sing a requiem and such rest to her.
  • What's the opposite of suckage?
  • A lived-through Saturday.
  • Circles, Squares & Z
  • Let it Be.
  • The Secret Life of B****es
  • The Naked Truth: Celebs Are Revealing Little More Than Themselves
  • It's Not Just Us Sistas- Part II
  • I Went to College for THIS?
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