by Alyssa Aldape | Oct 28, 2022 | Opinion
I was never an avid listener of Kanye West’s music, and I did not go out of my way to buy his albums. I’d listen to CDs made for me by friends that happened to have his songs “Graduation Day” or “Jesus Walks” on them. “Late Registration” came out the same year I was...
by Alyssa Aldape | Oct 14, 2022 | Opinion
My earliest lessons in what it means to be a Christian leftist were from Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber – two of Evangelical Christianity’s most important prophets for Christian children of the ’90s. If you are a millennial who grew up in, or tangentially...
by Alyssa Aldape | Sep 20, 2022 | Opinion
If Latinas had a nickel for each time we were described as spicy, or caliente, or as any type of object to be consumed, I believe we would go above and beyond closing the pay gap before the projected year 2206. Our bodies, like those of other women of color, have been...
by Alyssa Aldape | Aug 26, 2022 | Opinion
I attended seminary in the hopes of reconnecting to a faith that began to crumble around me. My Christianity informed by a historically white church and denomination did not fit quite right anymore. The rigid teachings began to crack under the pressure of curiosity,...
by Alyssa Aldape | Aug 19, 2022 | Opinion
Frederick Buechner’s words are like lightning bugs in the darkness of grief or in the shadows of the ordinary. They illuminate bits of divinity we might not have seen otherwise. His words give us permission to dive into what is unknown and, in the end, discover that...
