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Hey, remember that time when I sat through a 3{1/2}-hour Pentecostal church service in Uganda?
I'm fairly sure I will never again in my life write such a sentence, so I tried my darnedest to be as present as I possibly could straightaway this morning. We were told next to nothing about what this church service would be like except that it was a 3{1/2}-hour Pentecostal church service.
That description alone made me feel dreadfully out of place, so my sole goal was to be in the moment. I was determined to not let that pesky gay Jew part of me interfere.
Although I largely failed in this task, I would argue that there were a few moments today when I felt like I was there.
If you are hearing the voice of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and only bearing witness to his words and only his incredible words, you are doing it wrong. That's not the message he preached. Instead, you need to strain to hear the voices that are not being amplified.
We all knew there would be a gay moment IN the recent GOP Presidential Debate Games Night. We just weren't sure who would be the culprit in this round of Clue: Family Values Edition. Would it be Marco Rubio in the conservatory with the knife-edged Religious Freedom Protection Act?
I had it in mind that I would start this entry with a dreadfully funny witticism about feeling like a missionary because our entire group wore matching polo shirts today, which pretty much encompasses the totality of what I know about missionaries. And although I seem to have started with a reference to the witticism, I have not, and will not, give it its full due because to do so would make me a complete tool given the rest of...
