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Becki is Currently Reading

Becki is currently reading

Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times

by Elizabeth Oldfield

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Jan 25, 2026 03:48PM

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The Kids Who Aren't Okay: The Urgent Case for Reimagining Support, Belonging, and Hope in Schools

by Ross W. Greene

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Becki’s Notes & Highlights

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Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith by Sarah Bessey

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“about every five hundred years the empowered structures of institutionalized Christianity, whatever they may be at that time, become an intolerable carapace that must be shattered in order that renewal and new growth may occur.”

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Becki’s Quotes

“Sometimes the holiest work is not to pray them into the light, but instead to join them in the dark.”
― Sharon Brous, The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World

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“But if God love me, Celie, I don’t have to do all that. Unless I want to. There’s a lot of other things I can do that I speck God likes. Like what? I ast. Oh, she say. I can lay back and just admire stuff. Be happy. Have a good time.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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“When someone asked Maharaj-ji how to meditate, he said, “Meditate the way Christ meditated. . . . He lost himself in love.”
― Ram Dass, Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart

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“She said, ‘I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.”
― Irin Carmon, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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“The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity,” she said simply. “It is a decision she must make for herself. When government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices.”
― Irin Carmon, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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