What do progressive faith metaphors of a wide open table and a tent for everyone actually mean? If we take that call seriously, who are we compelled to let in and how does that break the “purity” of progressivism we often like to maintain? As a delegate to this year’s General Synod of the United… Continue reading UCC General Synod Resolution 8 and the Need for Church to not Mimic the World’s Polarization
Author: Taylor Ramage
Reclaiming By Erasing: A Guest Post By Lest I Know Your Weakness Author Taylor Ramage
FDAD: A Multi-World Fantasy WIP Update #3
Today (the day that I’m writing this, not the day this publishes) is a special day. I’ve reached a major milestone in this book and it’s exhilarating. 100,000 words. This is the longest continuous thing I’ve written (I actually passed that particular milestone about 15,000 words ago, but let me have this). I will finish… Continue reading FDAD: A Multi-World Fantasy WIP Update #3
Shoutout to Sapphic Book Club for Choosing Lest I Know Your Weakness for April’s Book of the Month
Reviews are so incredibly important to authors and asking for them is like pulling teeth. So I’m deeply grateful to the members of Sapphic Book Club who have left wonderful, honest, and fair reviews after selecting Lest I Know Your Weakness as their April book of the month. Of course, I need more. I always… Continue reading Shoutout to Sapphic Book Club for Choosing Lest I Know Your Weakness for April’s Book of the Month
FDAD: A Multi-world Fantasy WIP update #2
Well, more than a month has passed since my last update about this project, but that’s because I’ve had so much else going on in my life, most of it good. March was a lighter month for me in terms of word count and the first half of April has been the same. It’s definitely… Continue reading FDAD: A Multi-world Fantasy WIP update #2
Holy Week & Bethlehem, WV
Lent never fails to challenge me, even when my life is filled with blessings and I’m not in the mental place I’m usually in where I can truly sit in the solemnity of the season. I spent many years there, so perhaps my recent joys are God giving me a little break. For that, I’m… Continue reading Holy Week & Bethlehem, WV
Forgive Us Our Trespasses UMC response
Every time the major church denominations increase their corruption or marginalization of certain groups of people, all churches feel the fallout. The combination of harmful doctrine with a largely unchurched public means that to the average person, what happens in the Catholic church or the United Methodist Church might as well be true of the… Continue reading Forgive Us Our Trespasses UMC response
New Poem in Absolute Destiny Post-Apocalypse: An Utena Future Zine
Revolutionary Girl Utena leaves an impression that is simultaneously gutting and hopeful. Whether the ending is tragic or redemptive is, in some ways, left to the audience. Now, a portion of that audience has banded together to contribute art and writing to Absolute Destiny Post-Apocalypse: An Utena Future Zine. Guess whose poetry closes out… Continue reading New Poem in Absolute Destiny Post-Apocalypse: An Utena Future Zine
FDAD: A Multi-world Fantasy WIP update 1
If you follow me on Twitter, you might’ve seen me answering writing questions about my WIP and attempting to find gifs that summarize my characters for those get-to-know-you threads that people create. Well, this WIP’s codename FDAD. I will not tell you what it stands for. It’s a multiverse and, in many ways, my love… Continue reading FDAD: A Multi-world Fantasy WIP update 1
Lest I Know Your Weakness is Out Today!
Hello, friends! Today, Lest I Know Your Weakness is officially out in the world! Step into a Gothic, Victorian vampire romance reimagined through erasure poetry. Laura and Carmilla explore both the darkest and the most hopeful depths of their relationship. Will their fears overwhelm them? Or will they persevere in mutual vulnerability? I’m so excited… Continue reading Lest I Know Your Weakness is Out Today!