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Trey Tirpak

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Beauty and Hot Dogs

There are very few academic quotes that I think about regularly—sorry, professors. However, there’s one that almost haunts me. It comes from Hans Urs von

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Queer Promises

All I could say to myself was, “Why would people want to prevent others from making promises to God and others?” In 2020, a “certificate

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I Am a Derry Girl!

Since school is back in, it’s got me thinking about young students who have been growing up these past few years and what they’ve endured:

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Hope For A Post-Institutionalist

I used to call myself an institutionalist, and did so quite proudly. The belief that institutional systems and structures—norms and mores—ultimately provide protections, sustain decency,

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Beauty’s Mysterious Vengeance

I live through an odd phenomenon every year: Pride month and the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America (RCA) happening simultaneously. As someone

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