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Sara Sharpe
Nov 8, 20233 min read
Combatants for Peace
"It’s almost as if we in the room hadn't realized we’d been holding our breath – because the world has exploded and the culture war is...
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Sara Sharpe
Nov 6, 20233 min read
Israel/Palestine. Either/Or or Both/And? Author Glennon Doyle suggests the latter
FRIEND. It seems to me that our social media feeds have become, to put it bluntly, a toxic cesspool of incoherent rage. More than usual,...
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Sara Sharpe
Nov 5, 20232 min read
Friend, it's the stories that save us.
Dear one. News from the Middle East is heartbreaking. (As is news from Ukraine, Sudan, the DRC, Haiti…). Who can say or write anything...
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Sara Sharpe
Oct 12, 20231 min read
In light of the Hamas attack on Israel
Friend. Few issues carve the ideological and religious divide more deeply than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. How, then, to respond...
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Sara Sharpe
Jun 15, 20233 min read
Dear Activists, Politicians and News Pundits
Dear Friend, While I'm on this letter writing kick, I decided just this morning to write a letter to my fellow activists, our political...
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Sara Sharpe
May 18, 20233 min read
Letter 7: Dignified dissent was a thing, once upon a time
Dear Friend, In my first letter, I implied that things blew up between us when Trump was elected. The truth, however, is that we’d been...
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Sara Sharpe
May 15, 202310 min read
Letter 6: Abortion
Dear Friend: So. Roe has been overturned. As soon as the news dropped, the country erupted; in jubilation on the one hand, fear and...
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Sara Sharpe
May 15, 20234 min read
Letter 5: Yasmine, you'll always be beautiful to me
Dear Friend: I know, I know - so many serious issues to cover - but I must tell you: I got a chance, this past weekend, to put my...
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Sara Sharpe
May 15, 20233 min read
Letter 4: President Trump Pt. 1
Dear Friend: Because I can’t think of a way to stall any longer, it’s time to write about something serious. I may as well dive in the...
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Sara Sharpe
May 15, 20232 min read
Letter 3: Quicky Catch Up
Dear Friend, Before we go any further, perhaps some catching up is in order? I’m currently living in Chattanooga, TN, where I grew up,...
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Sara Sharpe
May 15, 20233 min read
Letter 2: Might as well start where we are
Dear Friend: At this point, it would seem, we agree on very little, at least within the political sphere. I can’t get to you, way over...
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Sara Sharpe
May 15, 20233 min read
Letter 1: Dear Friend. Can I still call you Friend?
Dear Conservative, Right-leaning friend: We haven’t talked in so long! I don’t have any good excuse as to why, really, except that, well,...
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