Author Archives: Andrea Morisette Grazzini

The Distress, the Kingdom, the Endurance: Encountering Racial Realities

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Memorial Day: Digging Up Bodies and Buried History

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Memorial Day, 2015  It might surprise Americans that Memorial Day was likely started by emancipated enslaved people. It was May 1865, and they were grateful for soldiers who’d sacrificed their lives. The newly free citizens spent two weeks carefully digging up the bodies of 257 Union soldiers who […]

Changing the Field Where Feminists Play

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  Also published in MinnPost. By Andrea Morisette Grazzini An ad I saw recently showed how girls’ confidence plummets after age ten. It felt like a punch in the gut. I had just been discussing with a colleague how feminists seem to be failing girls. Admittedly […]

NRA, Trump love Guns & Hate like Pimps love Women

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By Andrea Morisette Grazzini Updated: June 12, 2016 Related: Leave No Child Dead Dick Metcalf inadvertently turned in his gun-prostitute license when he penned a reasoned view on the gun debate. It left the weapons lords and their traffickers pissed. And left Metcalf out of a job. So […]

A Radically Shameless Holiday

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  Also published at WetheP, Inc. By Andrea Morisette Grazzini, with Rev. Fr. Michael J. O’Connell Hipster pastor Roger Wolsey, a Huffington Post-published United Methodist, preached ‘holiday’ trivia on his Facebook recently, slipping in that the word translates from ‘holy.’ As for Catholics like me, […]

The Leadership Legacy of a Citizen Businessman

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Reprinted from: WetheP’s blog. By Andrea Morisette Grazzini My Grandfather began building his life legacy when he set aside his individualistic dream in order to support the family construction company his immigrant father started. Over time he would become a servant-leader to colleagues, community and the […]

Cross-Partisans Against Co-Dependence

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Yes, Syria is complicated. All the more reason we should not further complicate it with petty partisanship. A bittersweet byproduct of the Syrian complications is that they are producing bipartisan balance. Debates are getting closer to truly democratic, rather than just politically strategic. For this […]

Dr. King Dreamed That All Would Lead

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By Andrea Morisette Grazzini Copyright, August 28, 2013 It wasn’t his charisma Dr. Martin Luther King Jr wanted us to remember. It wasn’t his courage. It wasn’t even his character. These were not the messages Dr. King wanted the Civil Rights movement to leave with our […]

Polite Assaults, Unspoken and Unseen.

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Behind the bombings, kidnapped women and ever more American children dying in firearms accidents that so steadily, searingly are imprinting on our American psyches, are uncountable, if unseen, acts of common good. Though still far too few. “No More Hurting People” There was the peace-activist […]

Passion Play: Will ‘We the People’ be Ashamed or be Saviors?

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By Andrea Morisette Grazzini The symbolism of anguished mothers standing with President Barack Obama the day before Good Friday should resonate with all good people of faith. Obama’s call for American citizens to protect children, issued on a video featuring the President surrounded by women […]

Action, Not Talk, is Needed to End Gun Violence

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After the unspeakable massacre of twenty children in Connecticut, some people seem to think that just speaking about it will solve the situation that led to such devastation. Barack Obama has called for a national conversation on guns. As has nearly every public leader and […]