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Be a light

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"Be a Light" copyright 2025 by Emily Bowen. All Rights Reserved. I grew up in the Adventist church in the 1990’s. I turned five a few months after that decade started and was old enough to remember some of the more hurtful rhetoric pushed by “devout” Christians, but still young enough to be impressionable.  I had Ellen G. White and last day events shoved down my throat for the next 35 years. Of course it didn’t stop with just those topics. I was told that the Pope and Catholics were the “little horn” found in prophecy. That they would bring about the Sunday law and persecute devout Adventists. I was told that democrats were socialist and communists. I was told that gays were the most sinful of all. I was told a lot of stuff by those within our church that were tasked with teaching us about the love of Jesus.  The thing is, as I got older, I started meeting the sinful “undesirables” that my church had warned me about. And I learned that they weren’t anything like what I was to...
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Creative Trauma: Patriarchy Within the Workplace

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Photo credit: Better Homes and Gardens I am learning to thrive through the trauma.  I graduated from college in May of 2009. Our country was still in the process of stabilizing itself after the devastating market crash in 2008. I had student loans to pay off, so finding a job was my first priority. And there were not a lot of them to choose from. I took the first job that I was offered. Even though it was a student position, had zero benefits, and paid me $10/hr. I didn’t care, it was a job and it helped pay my bills.  And it was a great job, apart from the lack of benefits and terrible pay. I spent my days cataloging original artwork for the Review and Herald Publishing Association (may it rest in peace). I was getting to photograph all the artwork that many of us remember from The Bible Stories, Uncle Arthur’s Bedtime Stories, My Bible Friends , and all the other books and magazines that we had grown up reading. When I started working there, the art vault was in serious disa...
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