Archive - Growing Into Kinship

What, to us now, is the 4th of July?

Some food for thought from a few fave Black women authors

Jul 4 •

Liz Cooledge Jenkins

June 2025

May 2025

Permission to grieve the weird losses

Or, an elegy for the Honda Civic known as Mr. B

May 23 •

Liz Cooledge Jenkins

How do we learn to trust ourselves?

A few thoughts from a panel hosted by Lake Drive Books

May 17 •

Liz Cooledge Jenkins

Doom castles, Earth our Mother, and evangelicalism

(or, happy Mother's Day to Earth?)

May 10 •

Liz Cooledge Jenkins

Don't expect any answers, but...

I do have an announcement! (It's Book #2!)

May 2 •

Liz Cooledge Jenkins

April 2025

Cool new books: Church Camp by Cara Meredith

Your favorite “girl speaker” reflects on penal substitution, patriarchal God-talk, racial homogeneity, and more…and she’s funny, too

Apr 26 •

Liz Cooledge Jenkins

If you go to church today, I hope it's gloomy

Some reflections on Good Friday, cheery pastors, and the apocalypse we're living in

Apr 18 •

Liz Cooledge Jenkins

It's a dark time, but seeds sprout in darkness

(and we are seeds)

Apr 12 •

Liz Cooledge Jenkins

Spiritual vision is for everyone

an Indigenous antidote against authoritarianism—and against resignation

Apr 3 •

Liz Cooledge Jenkins

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