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I used to care about a lot of things. More than I want to admit. Opinions of strangers, judgments from people I barely knew, the little social niceties that slowly felt like chains. I thought being ...

For a long time, I believed well-being would arrive all at once—after things “settled,” after life became quieter, after the past stopped knocking. But life doesn’t work like that. For many of us, ...

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Why I’m finally going MAGA. ~ Waylon, founder of Elephant. Jesus says it’s high-time I’ll go where I’m wanted: the conservative movement. As I’ve written, lately, or hinted at—well if you can’t beat ...

People hear the phrase “spiritual warfare” and assume I am talking about something symbolic, theatrical, or supernatural in the most cartoonish sense. I am not. I am talking about the practical and ...

And sure, that sounds nice. But I’ve come to realize something: I prefer high-maintenance people. Not the dramatic, unreasonable, everything-is-a-crisis kind. But the ones who know themselves—and who ...

In this forthcoming series, Sexual Literacy and the Shadows We Refuse to Name, I explore the concept of Sexual Literacy and Sexual Intelligence (SQ) and aim to reposition sexuality from something ...

I came to a sad realisation watching Louis Theroux’s “Inside the Manosphere” documentary on Netflix, and that is: none of it surprised me. I’ve been saying for quite some time that we have a massive, ...

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