This Week on BROADSIDED – Faith and Social Justice with Lisa Sharon Harper
We live in challenging times, to say the least. How we, as a society choose to respond to those challenges depends, in large part, on the collective soul of the nation. This week on BROADSIDED, we are joined by Lisa Sharon Harper, from Sojourners, a Christian...
Not alone.
We cry. We scream. We binge. We purge. We fight. We break the skin. We cut. We bleed. We starve for love. We starve for beauty. We hide ourselves for shame We draw razors across our skin in search of feeling. We bleed for mercy and for the sake of being needy. We sit...
Do We Really ‘Support Our Troops’?
Today, BROADSIDED presented perhaps one of the most difficult programs ever - talking about the epidemic of Military Sexual Assault, Part II in the series. The original program aired August 11, 2011. We spoke of the issue in the abstract, fact and figures. While...
The Survivor Clause
The Survivor Clause The Survivor Clause. There's a reason we use the term "Survivor" for those who have endured rape or sexual abuse. I'm just starting to understand that, to accept it, and to acknowledge it. Funny enough, those are some of the foundational turning...
This Week on BROADSIDED – Rape In the Military, the Rest of the Story…
On August 11th of this year, we presented a one-hour program exposing the pervasive problem of sexual assault within the ranks of the United States military and the response we received from that show was overwhelming. We were contacted by military personnel from...
How to Recognize an Abusive Friendship
Abusive tendencies don’t just happen in intimate or romantic relationships. They can happen in friendships also. I would like to share a story with you. Jill met Anna when Anna began dating a longtime friend of hers. Anna and Jill soon became fast...
This Used To Be My Playground
I love the internet--having access to big ideas, stories, new possibilities. As Schoolhouse Rock taught me: “It’s great to learn 'cause knowledge is power.” I’ve been pleased to see some of the shows I grew up with making a comeback, including the recently released...
He Dared To Ripple My Pond
He Dared To Ripple My Pond There is an author from Limerick, Ireland named Louie Byrne who wrote some of the most amazing books, one of my favorites entitled, Dare You Ripple My Pond - The Autobiography of an Irish School Boy. I would encourage you to seek it out and...
My story
I'm going to be honest yet unemotional and refuse to go into deep detail.This isn't my usual style of writing so I apologise for any spelling/puncuation problems. SO that being said this WAS my life. My birth parents were together seven years before i was born, he...