Author: Turner Trotter
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You Were Lovely, My Epistle to 2022
“Happiness comes from living as you need to, as you want to. As your inner voice tells you to. Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be.” Shonda Rhimes Well we are officially 1 month into 2023 and I am super excited to tell y’all…
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The World Was Not Made For Me
“But then I think, how different would my life be if this world was made for me? …Would I still be encountering the happiness I am now, if I didn’t have to work my ass off to get here?”
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Why I’m Thankful for the Church I Grew Up In
Not because of the poor theology it provided, but for the community it left me with to this day. “The great struggle of the Christian life is to take God’s name for us, to believe we are beloved and to believe that is enough.” -Rachel Held Evans, “Searching for Sundays: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the…
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Thank God for Twitter
“The qualities that make Twitter seem insane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful.” Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Twelve years ago, I created my Twitter and it has been a crazy whirlwind. Let me tell you about it. Let us start this off with a story. I remember the day I…
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An Open Letter to my Younger Self
“It’s okay. It may not seem like it right now, but you are going to be fine. I know it’s scary, but don’t be afraid. You are who you are, and you should love that person, and I don’t want anyone to have to go through 22 years of their life afraid to accept that.” …
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How I Left Evangelicalism and Found God
My face when people tell me I’m not a real Christian… “The spiritual journey isn’t about being reunited with God, it’s about being reunited with ourselves; it’s not about getting back to God but coming to the awareness that God has always been right here, with us and in us.” Pastor Josh Scott “Dignified or…
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2020, A Year of Failed Expectations
I want a house with a crowded table And a place by the fire for everyone Let us take on the world while we’re young and able And bring us back together when the day is done The Highwomen These song lyrics from The Highwomen were sung at a Church I visited in February and…
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Election 2020, it is Finished
“Folks, I’m a proud Democrat, but I will govern as an American president. I’ll work as hard for those who didn’t vote for me as those who did.” -President-elect Joe Biden Let me start this off by saying I am excited. I am not excited that Biden won, I am excited Trump lost. A Trump…
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Dear Chick-fil-A, from a Queer Team Member
Chick-fil-A, please listen, learn, and be better. First off a little background around my Chick-fil-A career: I started when I was 14, and am now 22. When I started I was deeply in the closet and hadn’t even accepted the fact that I was gay. As I started to accept myself as gay I also…
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Hi, I’m Gay.
“No, this is not a phase or a coming of age” -Girl in Red Disclaimer: This is going to be messy and will probably feel like word vomit, that’s what it is, messy. Coming out is messy and hard and I am not going to sugarcoat it. That, for about 17 years was something…
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