Chocolate-Chip Zucchini Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

Growing up in the South means backyard gardens throughout the poorest and poshest of neighborhoods.  In Virginia, that especially means backyard tomatoes on any scrap of land you can find, but it also means backyard summer squash, because squash – yellow crookneck, zucchini, patty-pan, or heirloom globe – is easy. It’s easy for everyone, that is, except me.

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Love Trumps Doctrine

For you “love the sinner, hate the sin” kind of Christians, let me remind you what love looks like.  Love looks like welcome.  It looks like hands-on care.  It looks like kindness without expectation of return.  You cannot love people and at the same time keep them at arms’ length.  Love requires vulnerability and openness.  Love gets messy and isn’t always comfortable.  Love can only manifest in relationship. Love does not and will never look like exclusion.

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