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REPORTAGE FROM MEDIUM.COM Wednesday, August 28, 2024, 6:12 am PDST
DATELINE: Wednesday, August 28, 2024, 6:12 am PDST
When I first found Medium.com, I thought I had found a pearl of great price. Finally, HERE WAS A PLACE where writers who loved creating original content were writing and engaging each other in reflection and conversation. Back then, 2020 as now 2024, it was about writing to make sense of what had been a tumultuous first two decades of my life as a PanAfrican American male Christianity-professing* non-practicing homosexual* born on a day when the US Congress was considering legislation to ship all PanAfrican Americans back to the continent of Africa on cruise ships. [See the New York Times archives for Wednesday, May 13, 1959, for the details- it was the day’s banner headline/featured story]
*[[ -Language that prevented my expulsion from Fuller Theological Seminary (1991-MA, with a concentration in Pastoral Care and Counseling and Graduate School of Psychology admitted 1991 as a probationary student in the first cohort of PhD MFT students they had ever had; earned my place sans probationary status by 1992 and made the career-path-ending decision to accept a teaching fellowship in Purdue University’s top-ranked PhD degree concentration in MFT. As if that was not…
