Tag: Awkward

The Art of the Awkward 1:1

The 1:1 is a sacred space. It’s intimate. It’s dedicated to just you and the other person. It’s super high bandwidth for complex and uncertain content, especially emotions, hopes, and fears. It’s also the most inefficient way you can devise to disseminate non-controversial in...

Why Jesus Is Too Awkward For Many Christians

A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A social justice activist happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side on his way to...

The Awkward, Isolating Feeling of Being The Only Black Student in Class

What does it feel like to be the only Black student in class? Surely, many had this experience in the years after Brown v. Board of Education, a 1954 landmark Supreme Court case that ended the "separate but equal" mantra that White Americans used for nearly a century to maintain forma...