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Of the Fourth of July, a Messy America, and Hope

July 5, 2017 / Kiersti Giron / community, growing, history, Mark Charles, seasons
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  Growing up, I loved celebrating the Fourth of July. Most years, my family would head to a nearby large, grassy park late afternoon. We’d watch the small-town parade of veterans and boy scouts and antique cars and children on streamer-bedecked tricycles. One year we even entered ourselves and rode on a “covered wagon” built […]

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American History, Declaration of Independence, Fourth of July

In Honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day

January 18, 2016 / Kiersti Giron / black history, Mark Charles, Martin Luther King Jr., racial reconciliation, Selma
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A re-post from last year’s “Stories that Need to Be Told: Selma, #BlackLivesMatter, and a Truth Commission,” posted January 21, 2015 (though with an update at the bottom) in honor of this MLK day. With all the heartache and death and division that’s continued to tear our country this year…and yet also many efforts toward […]

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Martin Luther King Jr., Selma

Stories that Need to Be Told: Selma, #BlackStoriesMatter, and a Truth Commission

January 21, 2015 / Kiersti Giron / 5 Small Loaves, black history, faith, Freedom Riders, history, Mark Charles, Martin Luther King Jr., movies, racial reconciliation, Selma, Uncategorized
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    Stories.   They matter, because God uses them to reflect His truth and reach our hearts. And because He Himself is the most masterful Storywriter of all. I loved some of the comments and insights you readers shared on this topic here last week!   But sometimes stories also matter because they need […]

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5 Ways to Honor Native American Heritage Month (Whether you have before or not!)

November 13, 2014 / Kiersti Giron / 5 Small Loaves, Burning Sky, history, Mark Charles, Native Americans, racial reconciliation
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  Do you celebrate Native American Heritage Month?  I haven’t become very aware of it until the past few years. And though I’ve been learning more about the stories and heritage of the host peoples of our land year-round, I haven’t usually done anything much different during November. But this year, I had several ideas […]

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God’s Guidance and 5 Small Loaves

July 16, 2014 / Kiersti Giron / 5 Small Loaves, ACFW, community, Diné, Dinétah, faith, God's faithfulness, growing, Mark Charles, Native Americans, racial reconciliation, trust
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    I sat on the carpet in their living room, with these friends in their home on the Navajo Nation, and shared my heart.   Last September, I’d just come from the ACFW conference in Indianapolis and then stopped to visit friends in New Mexico and Arizona. While staying with Mark Charles and his […]

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A Long Talk to Freedom: The Power of Conversation for Racial Reconciliation

May 15, 2014 / Kiersti Giron / black history, community, Mark Charles, Nelson Mandela, racial reconciliation
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  Continuing the conversation from last week’s “Friendship as a Key to Racial Reconciliation.”   A few months ago, I saw the Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom movie with my dad. What a powerful story of a courageous and hugely influential man. But one thing that struck me from the movie’s title was that Nelson […]

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On Columbus Day

October 12, 2013 / Kiersti Giron / Columbus Day Native American perspective, Diné, history, Mark Charles, racial reconciliation, seasons
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Hello, friends.I’m generally only going to be posting on Tuesdays now as a regular thing. But today, I wanted to just re-share a couple of posts from years back, both sharing a little bit different perspective on Columbus Day than many of us have.Some of you may have read and watched these in years past. […]

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Another Perspective on Columbus Day.

October 12, 2012 / Kiersti Giron / Columbus Day, Diné, Mark Charles, Native Americans, racial reconciliation, seasons
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Last year I posted that I didn’t know what to think of Columbus Day anymore.This year I wanted to share this short video, made by a Navajo man seeking to further reconciliation and understanding between the native and immigrant peoples of our land today.  And again this Columbus Day I want to say it: thank […]

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Thoughts on Columbus Day

October 11, 2011 / Kiersti Giron / Columbus Day, Diné, faith, Mark Charles, Native Americans, racial reconciliation
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I don’t know quite what to think of Columbus Day anymore. Not that I’ve ever exactly celebrated it. The closest to even acknowledging the day—other than it being a government holiday—that I can remember is through the Cupie Doll paper dolls I had somewhere around first grade. The little boy and girl figures had coordinated […]

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